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Monday, July 14, 2025

07/14 Links Pt2: The Anti-Semitism Nexus; The BBC has proven itself to be institutionally blind to anti-Semitism; Congressmen raise questions about US funding to anti-Netanyahu protest groups

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: The Anti-Semitism Nexus
Well said. Albanese has declared war on the democratic West on behalf of the world’s most repressive and violent regimes, and she has a particular obsession with whipping up anti-Semitism all over the world. Albanese is a truly abominable figure in global politics.

She is also, like most delusional anti-Semites, whiny and self-pitying in the extreme. “I have been tormented for years,” she posted over the weekend, each desperate utterance merely proving that she is every bit the malign martyr-poseur she is accused of being.

For those interested in a rundown of Albanese’s greatest Jew-baiting hits, I wrote about her sordid career in January. But at the moment what strikes me about the Trump administration’s decision to sanction Albanese is what it reveals about her enabling institutions. After all, if sanctions are going to prevent her from working with certain organizations or people, it helps to know who was aiding her crusade along the way.

And you will probably not be shocked to see that among those institutions are Columbia and Harvard University. UN Watch obtained disclosure forms from 2023 and 2024 showing the schools made “in kind” contributions to Albanese’s efforts to buff Hamas’s reputation even after Oct. 7, 2023. These contributions came in the form of four research assistants in 2023 and “two rounds of interns/research assistants” in 2024 from Columbia alone.

That might not sound like much but it is a good indication of how elite universities became part of a nexus of “Globalize the Intifada” activism. As Albanese intensified her anti-Zionist campaign in the wake of those massacres, American institutions of higher learning were there to help her. It is one of the many ways these universities contributed to a dangerous atmosphere for Jews all over the world.

Albanese happened to have visited Columbia for a speech about a year after the Hamas attacks. Here is how a news report on her lecture opened:

“Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, shrugged when Columbia University student Eden Yadegar asked her if all Israelis were legitimate targets.

“When another student asked Albanese if she condemns the rape and kidnapping that occurred during the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack, the majority of the audience laughed, Yadegar told the Times of Israel.”

The anti-Semitic rot always runs deeper than it looks—even when it looks alarmingly deep to begin with.
Anti-Semitism Is Un-American
With numerous signs of rising anti-Semitism in the U.S., Jack Miller and Wilfred M. McClay argue that hating Jews is not only wrong, but fundamentally contrary to the American ethos.

America has, indeed, been an incomparably wonderful land for Jewish people, a land in which they have been able to flourish and achieve according to their own abilities and their own hard work. It also is equally true that America owes a profound and incalculable debt to those Jews who helped foster principles upon which much of the American experiment in democratic self-government was erected. Jewish Americans have helped our nation find cures for many of the worst illnesses, helped it become an economic and cultural juggernaut, and helped enrich our legal tradition. The Jewish people have contributed in ways large and small to the soul of America, both its making and improving.

Fortunately, the vast majority of Americans are not anti-Semitic, and see anti-Semitism as a grave threat. They believe in that vision in our Declaration of Independence and want to work to get us ever closer, as we previously had been doing, to realizing it in full.

The Founders adopted the Exodus story as a symbolic expression of America’s quest for liberty against the tyranny of worldly kings who counted themselves above the law. In that way, as in so many other ways, the American story and the Jewish story have been intertwined—and to negate one is to negate them both. We can’t let that happen if we are to continue as the land of the free.
Federal report warns of rise in antisemitic incidents against children in schools
A six-year-old child’s teacher told her she was “half human” because one of her parents was Jewish - one of nearly 800 antisemitic incidents in the Ontario elementary and high school system since 2023 reported to a federally commissioned survey.

Others included a 13-year-old girl being swarmed several times a day by classmates who raised their hands in a Nazi salute even as she begged them to stop, and Jewish children told by their teachers they were baby-killers for supporting Israel in its war with the militant group Hamas.

The stories relayed by Jewish families in a report for the Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism reflect the rise in antisemitic incidents reported to municipal police nationwide since Hamas militants in Gaza attacked Israel in October, 2023. The ensuing war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions more.

Antisemitism on university campuses has been explored by parliamentary committees, but the scope of the issue in the K-12 school system has received less attention at the federal level, in part because the schools are provincial responsibilities.

Envoy Deborah Lyons decided to embark on a probe after hearing numerous anecdotes from Jewish parents and organizations about the situation facing younger children. The final report was published Monday.

“Jewish students deserve what every Canadian child deserves: to feel safe, valued, and included in their classrooms,” Ms. Lyons said in a statement.

“This is not the reality today – and it must change.”

The survey focused on Ontario, home to approximately 30,000 Jewish children, the largest such population in Canada, according to University of Toronto sociology professor Robert Brym. He conducted the study, sending surveys to Jewish families via community organizations between January and April.

Of the 599 Jewish parents who responded, many reported incidents with no direct connection to the war, including the one reported by the family of the six-year-old.

“More than 40 per cent of responses involve Holocaust denial, assertions of excessive Jewish wealth or power, or blanket condemnation of Jews – the kind of accusations and denunciations that began to be expunged from the Canadian vocabulary and mindset in the 1960s and were, one would have thought, nearly totally forgotten by the second decade of the 21st century,” the report says.

Most of the respondents to the survey reported incidents with a connection to the ongoing conflict.

Among the examples: children being told by teachers or fellow students that they personally were responsible for the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza, with one grade nine boy told he was a baby killer.




Mandy Patinkin Shills for Hamas: Says Gaza War to Defend Israel ‘Hurts Jews’
Mandy Patinkin, the entertainer best known as Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner’s hit The Princess Bride, is saying exactly what Hamas wants Western elites to say, blaming the Gaza war on Jews while ignoring the hostages.

Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization that began the war on October 7, 2023, murdering 1,200 Israelis and taking over 250 hostages, aims to use propaganda to discourage Israel and the West from fighting back.

Accordingly, it frequently publishes propaganda blaming the Israeli government for continuing to fight, often featuring hostages saying (under duress) that Israel is endangering them.

Patinkin has taken that line a step further, blaming Jews worldwide — as antisemitic conspiracy theorists often do in their assertions of Jewish control — for Israel’s war. He claims the war is bad for Israel, and bad for the Jews.


David Collier: The lies of the CfMM – the Muslim Council’s attack dog
These findings align with other research into the CfMM’s ideological framing. A recent and extensive report by the respected Westminster think tank Policy Exchange described the CfMM as a ‘bad-faith‘ actor, whose purpose was to ‘take control of the narrative’ about Islam. Policy Exchange argued that the Centre’s critique was ‘part of a campaign to give legal and official force’ to the concept of Islamophobia. It accused the CfMM of attempting to suppress legitimate reporting, and described the organisation as ‘a threat to free speech.’

Yet the amateurish and error-ridden nature of the CfMM’s BBC report also raises serious questions about those who chose to promote it. Outlets such as Novara Media, Middle East Eye, the National (Scotland), and the Canary, offered glowing praise. Former BBC journalist Karishma Patel, who routinely attacks the BBC from the outside, described the CfMM’s deeply flawed report as ‘damning.’ Scottish historian William Dalrymple, told his 1.2 million followers on X that it was ‘an important analysis’. Owen Jones, also with a million followers on the platform, sat on a CfMM panel and fully endorsed its message.

Since even a cursory glance exposes the CfMM report as inaccurate propaganda which manipulates data to skew reader sentiment, it is an embarrassing misstep for all those who endorsed it so eagerly.

This blind support shows a deep problem in our society being spread from the heart of the anti-Israel movement. Truth and accuracy have become irrelevant, giving way to the constant drumbeat of narrative warfare. The BBC is not being attacked because it is inaccurate – but because it refuses to adopt the tone and priorities of a pro-Palestinian activist. In this worldview, anything short of open hostility towards Israel is framed as betrayal.

The CfMM functions openly as a political enforcer for the Muslim Council of Britain. It raises a troubling question: why Richard Burgess, the BBC’s Director of News Content, chose to appear on a panel at the CfMM launch. Why would the BBC lend credibility to a toxic organisation engaged in such ideologically driven and misleading media attacks?

Conclusion
If the goal is genuine media accountability, we need watchdogs committed to truth – not sinister political actors dressing up propaganda as analysis.

The CfMM’s true critique is not that the BBC is inaccurate, but that it refuses to adopt the CfMM’s political narrative. The report frames the BBC’s neutrality as complicity, accusing it of failing to call Israel’s actions genocide, failing to mention apartheid, and failing to constantly contextualise all events with occupation. This is not a demand for fairness – it is a demand for alignment.

The CfMM BBC report is not a neutral audit of media coverage. It is a political document dressed in the language of data. Its conclusions rely on a series of distortions: equating context with focus, using per-death metrics that distort proportionality, redefining impartiality as bias, and promoting emotionally charged language as journalistic duty. True media accountability requires more than statistical sleight of hand. It requires intellectual integrity and methodological transparency, neither of which are present in the CfMM report.

This report can be download as a PDF.
The BBC has proven itself to be institutionally blind to anti-Semitism
What must be understood is that the debacle of this documentary is not an isolated incident. It forms part of a consistent pattern of systemic bias at the BBC when it comes to Israel. It is symptomatic of a repeated institutional blindness to hatred of Jews both in the BBC’s output and its treatment of Jewish employees.

We have reached a critical juncture with this disastrous documentary on Gaza being followed by the failures that led to violent anti-Semitic rhetoric being broadcast to the nation by the BBC from Glastonbury. The open Jew-hate broadcast that weekend led Britain’s Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis to describe it as “a time of national shame” which brought “confidence in our national broadcaster’s ability to treat antisemitism seriously to a new low”.

So this is where we have got to with the BBC: the Jewish community’s leader being crystal-clear that its leaders are not only failing to deal with anti-Semitism, but the problem is getting worse rather than better.

In these circumstances, we should not be surprised that Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes recently said that the BBC’s failings are starting to “erode public trust and confidence”, or that Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy demanded answers about its Glastonbury coverage and its “catastrophic” failings on anti-Semitism.

Whenever racism against Jews at the BBC is exposed, the corporation issues a statement saying that there is no place for anti-Semitism at the organisation. These statements have become utterly meaningless. We know they have no substance to them because nothing has changed.

Words are not enough. Only action matters – direct, unapologetic steps by the corporation’s leaders to deal with issues of anti-Semitism at the BBC. Twenty months after the October 7 attacks, there is still no sign of this. The BBC is becoming defined by editorial failings on issues of racism and institutional cowardice. The Jewish community deserves better.
No.10 calls for BBC to take ‘swift action’ after Gaza documentary rebuke
Downing Street has called for the BBC to take “swift action” after a review found that a Gaza documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas official breached one of the corporation’s editorial guidelines on accuracy.

“The BBC must ensure that such errors are never repeated and the public rightly expect the highest standards from the BBC and the corporation must learn and take swift action from the report’s findings,” the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said on Monday.

A senior BBC News executive admitted that the corporation “failed” to ask the right questions regarding the documentary Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone.

This comes after a report looking into the documentary, which was removed from BBC iPlayer in February after it emerged that the child narrator was the son of a Hamas official, found that it breached BBC editorial guidelines on accuracy.

Speaking on BBC’s World At One, Deborah Turness, chief executive of BBC News said: “Our current affairs teams, day in, day out, week in, week out, are creating and pushing out incredibly controversial, difficult, complex documentaries. We have really good, best in class systems in place, but in this we failed, and we must put in place new processes which will enable us to continue with our courageous journalism with confidence.”

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said she is “pleased” that the BBC has acknowledged “catastrophic” failures.
BBC staff who had authority to cut Bob Vylan livestream ‘were at Glastonbury’
Hundreds of BBC staff were working for the broadcaster at Glastonbury with individuals who had the authority to cut the Bob Vylan livestream present during the controversial performance, the BBC director-general has said.

It comes after the frontman of the punk rap duo, Bob Vylan, led crowds in chants of “death, death to the IDF (Israeli Military Force)” during their set at the Somerset music festival.

Police have since launched an investigation into the group with the BBC issuing an apology for the livestream and promising to no longer broadcast live acts they deem “high risk”.

In a letter responding to questions sent by Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, chairwoman of the Culture Media and Sport Committee, the director-general of the BBC, Tim Davie said: “Cutting the livestream was an option open to those on the ground on the day.

“There were 550 personnel working for the BBC at Glastonbury. Of these 328 were working for BBC Studios (camera crew, rigging, technical and production roles), 35 providing coverage for BBC News, and 187 other BBC public service, working across a wide range of roles, including technical crew, producers, presenters, engineers, runners, commissioners and compliance staff.”

He added: “There were failures in our coverage which led to offensive content being broadcast live. I deeply regret that such deplorable behaviour appeared on the BBC and want to apologise to our viewers and listeners and in particular the Jewish community.

“In considering what to learn from this, my immediate priority was to take swift actions, as detailed above, to mitigate against anything similar happening in the future.

“At the same time we are taking actions to ensure there is proper accountability for those found to be responsible for the failings in the live broadcast; and we are urgently reviewing our guidelines to see if any further measures are needed.”
Masorti apologises for ‘respect and curiosity’ response to ‘Death to the IDF’ chant
Masorti Judaism is understood to have issued an apology after its weekly newsletter appeared to imply that supporting the chant ‘death to the IDF’ was a view worthy of being listened to “with respect and curiosity”.

The denomination’s newsletter, sent out on Friday, included the lines that said: “In our communities, people hold deeply opposing views on Zionism, antisemitism, and even on provocative statements like calls for the ‘death of the IDF’. Masorti Judaism has many communities and many people with different ways of seeing the world.

“We don’t demand agreement; we want us to stay in relationship with one another, even when we profoundly disagree. It’s about creating space to listen to other voices with respect and curiosity, while also speaking up clearly for what we believe in. No one person has more entitlement to their views than another.”

A few hours later, the email was followed up by a letter from Masorti leaders, stating that in its latest newsletter “a bit of copy was published which can be misunderstood. We attempted to describe the reality of our current moment — where we are often debating what the limits of free speech are. When a musical act chants for the death of our soldiers from the stage of Glastonbury however, our opinions on that should not be up for debate.”

The letter went on to state: “We sought to use an example of the free speech debates we face, and chose poorly. The wording of this particular post was ambiguous, and allowed it to be read differently to its intention. We want to be clear: calling for the death of Israeli soldiers is not free speech, it is hate speech. It is incitement and it is dangerous – to the IDF and to Jews here in the UK.”

This is not the movement’s first brush with controversy in the last 21 months. In May 2023, Jewish News reported that Rabbi Lara Haft Yom-Tov, a community rabbi at the movement’s flagship New North London Synagogue, had described Israeli politicians as “war criminals who have forced Palestinian families to flee their homes”.
The ‘Palestinian’ Jesus and the new deicide
The ubiquitous propaganda that Jesus was “Palestinian” is simultaneously laughably absurd and deadly serious. It is repeated by influencers, activists, even elected officials and clergy—without irony and with substantial passion and intent. And it is no innocent misreading of ancient history. It is a deliberate inversion, weaponized to justify violence and erase a people—Jesus’ people, the Jews.

Let us start with the facts. Jesus was a Jew. He was born to Jewish parents, lived in Judea, worshipped in the Jewish Temple and was crucified by the Roman Empire under its occupation of the Jewish homeland.

Not only was Jesus not a “Palestinian,” the term “Palestine” did not even exist during his lifetime. It was invented by the Romans nearly a century after his death—when, in 135 CE, they renamed Judea as “Palaestina” after crushing the Jewish Bar Kochba revolt. The Roman goal was to humiliate the rebellious Jews by erasing the name of their homeland and replacing it with that of the Jews’ ancient enemies, the Philistines.

Arabs would not arrive in Judea/Palaestina until 600 years after Jesus’ life, during the 7th-century Islamic conquests. And “Palestinian” would not be used to describe non-Jewish residents of the region until 2000 years after Jesus, most of those residents having arrived from across the Middle East and North Africa during the preceding decades, looking for work from the nascent Jewish revival in the land.

So, no—Jesus was not a Palestinian. Unless, of course, “Palestinian” is simply a Roman slur for “Jew.” In that case, Jesus was a Palestinian—and so are today’s Jews: the indigenous people of the Land of Israel.

But that’s not what the modern narrative means. It is a campaign echoed in international bodies like UNESCO, designating ancient Jewish sites—such as the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem—as “Muslim heritage sites.”

It is reinforced by media outlets and Middle East Studies departments that erase millennia of Jewish history by referring to these locations by their Arabic names or framing Jewish presence as an “encroachment” or “occupation.” The same impulse that transforms the most iconic Jew in history into a “Palestinian” also seeks to sever Jews from their ancestral homeland, rewrite scripture and archaeology and retroactively de-Judaize Judaism’s holiest places.
Congressmen raise questions about US funding to anti-Netanyahu protest groups
The chairmen of the House Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committees issued a trio of letters last week demanding answers about U.S. funding that may have gone to anti-Netanyahu protest groups.

Reps. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) warned Blue and White Future, the Abraham Initiatives and the Tides Network that they failed to properly disclose information about U.S. government funding that they may have received.

“On March 26, 2025, the committees requested documents relating to funds that Blue and White Future reportedly received from non-governmental organizations that were originally disbursed by the U.S. Agency for International Development and State Department during the Biden-Harris administration,” the congressmen wrote.

“These reports are deeply troubling, particularly in light of the Biden-Harris administration’s prior efforts to weaken the relationship between the United States and Israel,” they stated.

“As noted in our initial letter, public media reporting revealed that Blue and White Future received approximately $4 million from the Middle East Peace Dialogue Network in 2023,” they stated. “Blue and White future also received approximately $18 million from PEF Israel Endowment funds in the same year.”

The committees “requested that Blue and White Future provide records concerning its relationship with both of those entities, which Blue and White Future did not produce,” they added.

Jordan and Mast demanded that the groups turn over the relevant documentation by the end of the day on July 14. (JNS sought comment from both House committees.)

Blue and White Future and the Abraham Initiatives are charities that were at the forefront of organizing weekly demonstrations against the Netanyahu government’s proposed judicial reforms in 2023.

The Tides Network is a U.S.-based donor-advised fund that distributes money to left-wing causes and groups, including Code Pink, IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace.


In images on social media, Kentucky church shooter dons keffiyeh
Social-media accounts tied to the suspect in the deadly church shooting on Sunday in Lexington, Ky., which killed two and injured three, showed him wearing a keffiyeh-style scarf, the New York Post reported.

Police said that Guy House, 47, was searching for the mother of his children when he barged into Richmond Road Baptist Church. After discovering that his intended target was not there, he shouted, “Well, someone’s gonna have to die, then” before opening fire, according to witnesses.

He was shot by law enforcement and pronounced dead at the scene.

“More details emerge from Saturday’s mass shooting in Lexington, Ky.: Gunman Guy House-often seen wearing a keffiyeh (now widely viewed as a symbol of violence post-10/7) shot a state trooper, carjacked a vehicle and stormed Richmond Road Baptist Church,” wrote the organization Stop Antisemitism on social media. “He also murdered two women and wounded three others before being neutralized by police.”


Canadian indigenous leaders call to cancel Kneecap gigs over support for Hamas, Hezbollah
A group of Canadian indigenous leaders is urging the cancellation of shows featuring the Irish hip-hop group Kneecap.

“Kneecap has outwardly supported antisemitism, genocide and the indiscriminate murder of civilians,” reads a letter signed by nine indigenous leaders in Canada, according to a report Saturday in the National Post. “Allowing them to play in Canada would be a stain on our country’s reputation.”

The Belfast-based trio have been staunch supporters of the Palestinians and vocal critics of Israel.

Kneecap member Mo Chara was charged with a terrorism offense in the U.K. last month for allegedly waving the flag of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah at a concert last year, leading to a string of performance cancellations. The rapper, who wore a keffiyeh to court, has been released on bail.

Kneecap has four October shows planned for Canada—two each in Toronto and Vancouver. All four shows are sold out.
Zohran Mamdani’s father calls suicide bombers ‘soldiers,’ intifada ‘meaningful’
The father of New York City mayoral runner Zohran Mamdani sits on the board of anti-Israel organization The Gaza Tribunal and once wrote that suicide bombers should be considered soldiers. This was first revealed by Fox News on Saturday.

Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University, is one of The Gaza Tribunal’s 29-member advisory policy council, alongside former British Labour Party MP Jeremy Corbyn. The organization aims to “awaken civil society to its responsibility and opportunity to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza” by “exerting civil society pressure on governments to act.”

The Gaza Tribunal, like Zohran Mamdani, advocates for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. His father signed a letter in support of Columbia’s BDS movement in 2016 when it officially formed as a group, and called for divestment from Israeli holdings.

Additionally, extracts from Mahmood Mamdani’s 2004 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim have made the rounds this week, reflecting his clear sympathy with suicide bombers. “Suicide bombing needs to be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism,” he wrote. Additionally, he said in his book that “We need to recognize the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier.”

Billionaire Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of hedge fund company Pershing Square Capital Management, tweeted, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” in response to the extracts of statements by Mamdani’s father.
Radical college group Mamdani co-founded wanted justice for convicted terrorist deported from US
The Bowdoin College chapter of radical group Students for Justice in Palestine, co-founded by socialist NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, went to bat for a terrorist convicted of deadly bombings in Israel — and was then later booted out of the US for immigration fraud.

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 70, was convicted for a pair of bombings in Israel she helped execute in 1969 — one at a Supersol supermarket that killed two college students and a second at the British Consulate in the country.

Odeh helped carry out the heinous crimes under the flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a US-designated terror group.

The Palestinian-Jordanian radical was sentenced to life in prison in Israel after she was convicted in 1970, but was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner exchange.

Odeh then arrived in the US from Jordan on an immigrant visa in 1994 and became a citizen in 2004.

The terrorist was ordered deported in 2017 for lying about her involvement in the bombings on both her visa and US citizenship application.

Still, in 2014, the year Mamdani graduated from Bowdoin College, SJP shared an article about her case from The Hill on Facebook, and crowed, “Justice for Rasmea Odeh!”

A Facebook account linked to Mamdani also “liked” the statement, which was viewed by The Post.

The upstart socialist helped launch the Bowdoin chapter of SJP during his time at the elite college.

The same group in 2013 also invited radical Lebanese-American speaker, As’ad AbuKhalil, to address the student body.

AbuKhalil has sensationally called Israel a bigger terror threat than Iran and boasted he was greatly influenced by a Palestinian leader with the nickname the “godfather of Middle Eastern terrorism.”
Mamdani Loses Working Class Voters 65% to 28%
The Mamdani campaign sells its candidate as a man who is going to fight for the working class by making everything free. But this is a campaign that runs off a young hipster and the Muslim settler population.

The latest poll shows Mamdani winning 40% of the vote and in a divided field, that is enough for him to win.

But who’s actually voting for him?

57% of college graduates would vote for Mamdani. Only 28% of non-college grads would.

Stunning numbers.

Mamdani is at 57% to 41% among college graduates, but at 28% to 65% among non-college grads. He loses the working class resoundingly.


Academic Center Within Georgetown's Prestigious School of Foreign Service Has Long History of Terror-Supporting Leaders
An academic center at Georgetown University that sits within its prestigious School of Foreign Service has a history of fostering support for Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other Islamist groups, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), founded in 1993, has hosted scholars sympathetic to Islamism since its inception. John Esposito, the center’s founder and a professor of religion and international affairs and of Islamic studies at Georgetown, has long defended terrorist groups and collaborated with jihadist figures.

As the Free Beacon reported in June, approximately 25 percent of all graduates from the ACMCU—which operates within the School of Foreign Service—enter government positions around the world after receiving their degrees. The ACMCU’s history appears likely to draw congressional scrutiny during a Tuesday morning House Education and Workforce Committee hearing featuring Georgetown interim president Robert Groves, as does the funding it has received from the Muslim Brotherhood-linked International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT).

The IIIT, the Free Beacon reported, had a relationship with the now-defunct SAAR Foundation, which ceased operations after the FBI raided its offices on suspicion of terrorism financing. Georgetown acknowledged that the IIIT "contributed $1 million or more to Georgetown" in 2017 when the university invited the organization’s leadership to its 1789 Society for large donors.

Esposito’s scholarly and professional history includes many instances of either the defense of or support for terror groups and figures. When asked whether Hamas was a terrorist organization during a 2000 interview with the Middle East Affairs Journal, for instance, Esposito hedged.

"One can’t make a clear statement about Hamas," he said. "One has to distinguish between Hamas in general and the action of its military wing, and then one has also to talk about specific actions. Some actions by the military wing of Hamas can be seen as acts of resistance, but other actions are acts of retaliation, particularly when they target civilians."

Esposito had more charitable words for Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a late Islamic scholar and intellectual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood whom the Clinton administration banned from entering the United States.


An AIJAC letter the Sydney Morning Herald refused to publish
In “Five Minutes with Fitz” (July 6) Melissa Parke says Iran was cooperating with nuclear inspectors prior to Israel’s strikes, and US intelligence and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assessed Iran wasn’t developing a nuclear weapon.

In fact, on June 12, the IAEA declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for consistently failing to provide information. It only said it had no proof Iran was developing nuclear weapons, not that Iran wasn’t, and also said that no country has enriched uranium to Iran’s high level without developing nuclear weapons.

US assessments subsequent to the one Parke cited also found Iran was developing a nuclear weapon.

Israel’s strike was legal, contrary to her claims, both because there was an imminent threat and because Israel was already in armed conflict with Iran, which was attacking Israel through its proxies and directly.

Parke also claims the International Court of Justice said it’s plausible Israel is committing genocide. However, the Court’s then President Joan Donoghue told the BBC the Court only determined that the Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide.
Gaza documentary breached BBC editorial guidelines of accuracy, review finds
The BBC’s investigation into the screening of a highly controversial Gaza documentary has found that the Corporation only breached one of its editorial guidelines, despite widespread criticism of the flaws which led to the programme being broadcast.

The BBC pulled the Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone documentary after it was revealed that the programme’s principal child narrator, Abdullah, was the son of a prominent Hamas official, the organisation’s Deputy Minister for Agriculture. The BBC said that Al-Yazouri’s narration was scripted.

The investigation published today, which was carried out by the BBC’s own director of editorial complaints and reviews, Peter Johnston, found that the Corporation had only breached one of its editorial guidelines on accuracy, by failing to disclose information about the child narrator’s father’s position. The report placed much of the blame on the independent production company which produced the documentary, HOYO Films, saying that it “is the party with most responsibility for this failure”, but that the BBC “does also share some responsibility”. It confirmed that “at the time that the programme was first broadcast, the critical information regarding the narrator’s father’s position was known by three members of the Production Company, but not anyone within the BBC”. However, it stated that HOYO films had not intentionally misled the BBC, saying that “the Production Company has been consistently transparent that, notwithstanding their belief that the father’s position was a civilian or technocratic one, as opposed to a political or military position in Hamas, they made a mistake and should have informed the BBC about it.”

The review found no other breaches of the editorial guidelines, including any breaches of impartiality, and no evidence that outside interests “inappropriately impacted on the programme”. It added: “that careful consideration of the requirements of due impartiality was undertaken in this project given the highly contested nature of the subject matter.”

The review also recommended that the BBC’s previous default position, which was to translate the word “Yahud/Yahudi” when said by Palestinians as “Israeli/Israelis”, should be reversed, with the word now translated as “Jew/Jews”. This recommendation has come despite the continued claim, as mentioned in the report, that “the evidence suggests people in Gaza often use the word ‘Yahud’ when referring to the actions of the IDF, the Israeli state or Israeli citizens”, and that in the context of this programme, “translating a contributor’s words to give the impression they meant to refer to Jewish people generally would therefore also risk misleading audiences.”


Dutch mosque severs ties with imam after he visits Israel
A mosque in the Dutch city of Alkmaar severs ties with an imam after he joins a delegation visiting Israel.

Youssef Masbeh is currently visiting Israel on a tour for Europe-based Muslim community leaders organized by ELNET, an organization that promotes ties between the Jewish state and Europe.

On Monday, the group met with President Isaac Herzog at the President’s Residence.

When Masbeh introduced himself to Herzog, he took the opportunity to sing a special chant in Arabic, offering a reinterpretation of the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. Masbeh also invited his colleagues and the other participants to join him in singing and dancing.

“The mosque’s position is clear and unequivocal. Once again, there is no place for the imam within the mosque. The board bears no responsibility whatsoever for his statements or actions outside the mosque. There is no longer any formal or substantive relationship between him and Mosque Bilal Alkmaar,” reads a statement published on the mosque’s website in Dutch, Arabic, and English.

While the statement does not mention Masbeh by name, a spokesperson for ELNET confirmed to The Times of Israel that it refers to the imam.

A video of a lecture by Masbeh was also taken down from the mosque’s YouTube channel.


Cardiff mosque charity warned after sharing Hamas-glorifying video
A British mosque has been formally warned by the Charity Commission after an investigation found it shared a video appearing to glorify Hamas and justify the group’s 7 October attack on Israel.

The Al-Manar Centre Trust, which operates a mosque in Cardiff, was found to have committed misconduct and mismanagement when its chair posted the video on the charity’s social media account in November 2023 without reviewing the full content. The Commission concluded the video gave a “positive image” of Hamas, which is banned in the UK as a terrorist organisation.

According to the inquiry, the footage “attempts to downplay or justify” Hamas’s assault, in which around 1,200 people were murdered and more than 250 taken hostage. It added that the post was likely to lead an ordinary member of the public to infer the charity supported or glorified terrorism.

The chair of trustees, who was solely responsible for managing the charity’s social media at the time, told the Commission he had listened only to the audio before sharing the post, believing it aligned with the trust’s objectives of Islamic education and religious harmony.

The regulator described this approach as “wholly inadequate”, stating the narration alone should have raised red flags.

“There is no excuse for failing to properly review content before it is shared by a charity,” said Joshua Farbridge, Head of Compliance Visits and Inspections at the Charity Commission. “A charity’s reputation can be severely damaged in an instant through reckless use of social media.”

He added: “Our swift intervention, which included an official warning and a legal order requiring specific action to be taken, underscores the Commission’s firm commitment to ensuring charities are not misused in supporting or glorifying terrorism.”


Israeli military strikes tanks in southern Syria
The Israel Defense Forces attacked several tanks in the area between Al-Mazra’a and Sami’ in southern Syria’s as-Suwayda Governorate on Monday, the military said.

No further details were initially given.

IDF activity in Syria has spiked in recent weeks, with the latest ground operation taking place a week ago.

Israeli soldiers detained a terrorist cell in southern Syria operated by the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the military said on July 7.

Following intelligence obtained through interrogations conducted by the IDF’s Human Intelligence Unit 504, the 3rd “Alexandroni” Reserve Infantry Brigade carried out an overnight operation and arrested the cell in the Tel Kudne area.

The Israeli military is continuing operations in Syrian territory, including near the summit of Mount Hermon, as discussions of a potential diplomatic détente between Jerusalem and the new regime in Damascus gain traction.

Also last week, IDF troops completed a large-scale exercise on the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon summit that simulated a defensive response to an Oct. 7-style attack from Syria.


Massive Clashes Between Druze and Muslim Bedouin Tribes Leave Dozens Dead in Syria
At least 30 people were killed over the weekend in clashes between Druze militia and Sunni Muslim Bedouin tribes in the southern Syrian province of Sweida.

The Syrian Interior Ministry reported over 100 injuries in addition to the deaths.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) cited its sources inside Syria to provide a much worse casualty estimate of 89 dead, including 14 members of the Syrian government’s security force.

The fighting reportedly began on Friday when armed Bedouins seized a young Druze vegetable vendor on the highway between Sweida and the capital city of Damascus. The area where the kidnapping occurred is a predominantly Bedouin neighborhood in the majority-Druze city of Sweida.

The Druze are one of Syria’s numerous ethnic and religious minorites. About half of the world’s one million Druze live in Syria, while most of the rest live in Lebanon and Israel.

The Druze feared persecution after the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in December, so Israel offered them protection, striking extremist groups allegedly preparing to attack Syrian Druze communities and warning Syria’s junta government to keep its troops away from Druze neighborhoods in the Golan Heights.

Roughly a million Bedouins live in Syria, organized into nomadic clans. Like the bulk of the Syrian population, they are Sunni Muslims, whereas the Assad dynasty was ruled by members of a Shiite sect called the Alawites. The Bedouin lifestyle of herding camels, sheep, and goats across the steppes of Syria was severely impacted by the long and brutal Syrian civil war.

Druze militia retaliated for the merchant’s abduction over the weekend and the violence quickly escalated and spread across the province. Local media reported that bands of Bedouin tribesmen attacked villages outside the city of Sweida. Several of the fatalities were said to be women and children.


Silence is complicity on Iran, Argentina’s envoy says at AMIA bombing memorial
Declaring that silence is complicity and that justice will be served, Argentina’s Ambassador to Israel on Monday drew a direct line between the Iranian-orchestrated bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires more than three decades ago and the Islamic Republic’s history of violence against the Jewish state.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran, which orchestrated the AMIA bombing, continues to attack Israel today. This is not a local conflict—it’s a global struggle between life and death, between light and darkness. The enemies are the same and so is the pain,” Ambassador Axel Wahnish said at a ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem marking the 31st anniversary of the attack.

Eighty-five people were killed and more than 300 wounded on July 18, 1994, in the bombing at the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina) Jewish community center, the deadliest terrorist attack in the country’s history.

Last month, an Argentine judge ordered that the seven Iranians and three Lebanese citizens accused of involvement in the attack in Buenos Aires face trial in absentia.

The long-delayed legal action was enabled by a bill pushed through the Argentine National Congress earlier this year by Argentine President Javier Milei that authorizes trials in absentia for fugitives who have long sought to evade justice.

“This is a turning point after years of impunity. Justice will be served—even if the perpetrators refuse to appear,” the ambassador said.

“While much of the Western world remains silent in the face of Iranian terror, our president has made it clear that silence is complicity. He has chosen to stand firmly on the right side of history,” he added.

“The people of Israel, the Knesset, and the entire Jewish nation stand with the victims of AMIA and their families,” said Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, who hosted the inaugural event. “President Milei is the greatest friend Israel has ever had in Argentina. We are not alone.”
Iran threatens consequences if UN sanctions are restored
Reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program will receive an “appropriate and proportionate response,” the Iranian regime warned on Monday.

Snapback sanctions would allow the international body to quickly reinstate penalties on the Islamic Republic for violations of the 2015 nuclear deal.

“The threat to use the snapback mechanism lacks legal and political basis and will be met with an appropriate and proportionate response from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Reuters quoted Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei as saying at a press conference.

Baghaei spoke a day after Saudi state-owned international Arabic news channel Al Arabiya reported that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had submitted a request to the U.N. to trigger the snapback mechanism on Tuesday.

However, the German Federal Foreign Office told JNS on Monday that Germany has not submitted such a request.

Berlin is a signatory to the agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), along with China, France, Russia, the U.K. and the European Union. The United States withdrew in 2018 during President Donald Trump’s first term, opting instead for a unilateral “maximum pressure” campaign.

U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, adopted on July 20, 2015, prepared for the removal of sanctions against Iran. The snapback mechanism allows any country that signed the agreement to automatically reinstate sanctions in the event of a serious violation by the Iranian regime, revoking all relief granted as part of the JCPOA.


Toronto man charged with urinating on ‘place of worship,’ shouting antisemitic slurs
Domenic Buchanan of Toronto was arrested on Friday and charged with mischief relating to religious property and mischief interference with property for allegedly urinating on the steps of a “place of worship” and shouting antisemitic slurs on June 4, the Toronto Police Service stated.

The 22-year-old is slated to appear in court at the Ontario Court of Justice on Aug. 19.

Police said that it is investigating the incident as a “suspected hate-motivated” crime.

The department didn’t say what kind of house of worship the man allegedly targeted. There are several synagogues and churches near the identified site, the intersection of Woodbine Avenue and Queen Street East in Toronto.

Richard Robertson, director of research and advocacy at B’nai Brith Canada, told the Toronto Sun, “How low has our society sunk, that an individual feels it is justifiable to defile a Jewish house of worship by urinating on it while screaming hateful slurs?”

“This disgusting and shameful antisemitic act is representative of the current state of affairs in Canada. The unchecked incitement and division festering across the country have created an environment where even the most heinous of acts are permitted to occur,” he told the paper. “Our leaders must act now to prevent the further degradation of our country’s morals and values.”


Citizen’s arrest unfolds outside busy Melbourne shopping centre with man stabbed after alleged attacker yells 'Allah Akbar'
A man has been rushed to hospital after allegedly being stabbed during an altercation outside Moonee Ponds Central in Melbourne’s northwest.

Emergency services were called to Homer St, in the vicinity of Moonee Ponds Central, about 4.35pm on Monday following reports of an altercation.

Police were informed of two men arguing with each other, when one of them pulled out a knife and stabbed the other.

The victim suffered minor injuries to his chest and neck.

He was rushed to Royal Melbourne Hospital for further treatment.

The alleged offender was taken down by two civilians before he was taken into custody by police at the scene.

He is currently assisting police with their inquiries.

Video footage obtained by 7News revealed the man taken into custody was repeatedly yelling “Allah Akbar”.


The silent Indian hero who created fake companies to save Jews from the Holocaust
In 1938, Germany had annexed Austria and antisemitism across central Europe was rising. The Nazis were preparing to execute one of the biggest genocides in history.

It was this year when a man from 3,500 miles away, who was completely uninvolved with Europe, happened to bump into a young couple in an Austrian hospital. This chance encounter led to the lives of 14 Jews being saved.

Kundan Lal Gupta, then 46, from Punjab, India, was suffering from diabetes and haemorrhoids and heard about a specialist in Austria. He travelled to the country to be treated and there, in hospital, he met a young Jewish couple named Lucy and Alfred Wachsler.

The couple told him about the rising levels of antisemitism in the region while in Germany and how difficult life was becoming for Jews under Nazi rule. Gupta, unable to turn his back on the innocent Austrian Jews, had a plan to get them out before it was too late.

At that stage, Jewish people were allowed to leave the country with their families providing they had a work visa for a job in another country.

Being a successful businessman back in India, Gupta came up with a plan. He would set up companies with the specific purpose of providing work to the Austrian Jews. This meant that not only could he get them the visa they so desperately needed but would also give them a livelihood when they arrived.

If he could not create a suitable company for them, he decided to simply make one up. He would offer jobs that did not even exist, in businesses that were made up. He made sure to fill out all the paperwork so that officials would not find out it was purely a ploy to get them out the country.

Over the course of a few months, he placed newspaper adverts looking for skilled workers willing to relocate to India. Several respondents came in and Gupta offered each of them a job, real or not.


The Israeli hostage held for 4,000 days in Gaza
Monday represented 4,000 days since Hamas terrorists abducted the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin, an IDF officer killed in action in Gaza’s Rafah City during 2014’s “Operation Protective Edge.”

The military classifies Goldin as an “IDF casualty whose burial place remains unknown,” as his family maintains their campaign for the return of his remains amid ongoing negotiations concerning hostages captured during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of southern Israel.

In January, the body of Oron Shaul, another IDF soldier killed and abducted during “Operation Protective Edge,” was recovered before the ceasefire agreement signed with Hamas earlier this year.

Goldin was killed near Rafah on Aug. 1, 2014, moments after a 72-hour ceasefire was announced—an agreement Hamas immediately violated through rocket and mortar attacks targeting Gaza border communities. Also killed in the same Hamas assault were Maj. Benaya Sarel and Staff Sgt. Liel Gidoni.

“Throughout nine and a half years, we have consistently warned that leadership willing to abandon fallen soldiers will inevitably abandon wounded personnel and living hostages,” said Hadar’s father, Simcha Goldin on Monday. “This represents our current reality. We have transformed into a society that abandons its own, and I hold Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for this situation, as he has maintained his position during this entire period. I similarly hold Naftali Bennett accountable, who served as prime minister for one complete year during this timeframe.”
‘Dirty hands that stole everything I was’
The Knesset Subcommittee on Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy convened Monday to discuss the publication of the Dinah Project report on sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas terrorists, who employed systematic rape and sexual violence as deliberate weapons of war from the Oct. 7 massacre onward.

Ilana Gritzewsky, a former hostage and the partner of kidnapped soldier Matan Zangauker, delivered harrowing testimony about her 55 days in Gazan captivity.

“I am a woman who was kidnapped, who survived, and who came back to be the voice for those still in hell, for those who were murdered and will never have a voice, and for those who are still too afraid. And I will not be silent. I am one of those people who now appear in charts and headlines, but on my body those marks are etched,” she told lawmakers.

“When I arrived in Israel 16 years ago, I was a teenager. I came here out of Zionism, out of love for this country, for this people. For a country built on solidarity, mutual responsibility and one simple promise: that if you fall, someone will lift you up. If you are taken, someone will bring you back. And if you’re trampled, someone will fight for you,” the Israeli-Mexican said.

“But today, after everything I’ve endured, after everything we are going through, I ask you, where is that promise? Where is that someone? Because for 647 days, no one has brought my Matan home, nor anyone else left behind,” Gritzewsky said.

“I was held captive for 55 days, 55 days of hell that words cannot describe. Pain without end, humiliation with no bottom, fear that burns from the inside. My body took the blows, but my soul was crushed,” she continued.

“I remember the gun pressed to my head. I remember them laughing as they pulled me, dragged me by the hair. I remember the dirty hands that stole everything I was. I became property, a hostage they could touch whenever they pleased, leave me in my underwear and bra whenever it suited them.”
SHATTERING report confirms ATROCITIES of Oct. 7
On this powerful episode of The Quad, host Emily Schrader is joined by an all-star panel This episode tackles one of the most horrific and underreported aspects of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks: the weaponization of sexual violence as a deliberate strategy of terror.

Host Emily Schrader is joined by an all-star panel: Ateret Shmuel, co-founder of Indigenous Bridges; Daniel Ryan Spalding, comedian and activist; and Zina Rahamilova, Israeli journalist and human rights advocate. Together, they break down the newly released Dinah Project report, which confirms that rape, mutilation and gender-based atrocities were not incidental, but coordinated war crimes.

The episode examines firsthand testimonies and forensic evidence that detail a shocking pattern of rape, genital mutilation and other forms of dehumanization committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. With many victims murdered or too traumatized to testify, the panel explores the legal challenge of prosecuting war crimes posthumously and the urgent need for new international frameworks to address mass atrocities when survivors cannot speak for themselves.

They also address the global silence and complicity of major feminist, LGBTQ, Indigenous and human rights organizations, many of which have either ignored the crimes or justified them due to ideological bias. The panel unpacks the deep failures of the United Nations, including credible reports that UN personnel directly participated in Hamas’s atrocities or aided its infrastructure.






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