Wednesday, July 30, 2025

07/30 Links Pt2: Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies; The BBC's pyramid of propaganda; Arrests over Adass Israel synagogue firebombing; Palo Alto buys Israeli firm CyberArk for $25B

From Ian:

Eitan Fischberger: Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies
Mohammed’s isn’t the only recent case of babies afflicted with terrible illnesses being exploited to promote a false narrative that Israel is intentionally starving Gazan children. Cogat, the Israeli military unit that coordinates humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territories, tweeted Monday about a viral photo of a different child, Osama al-Raqab. Like Mohammed, Osama looked emaciated, and critics claimed that he too was starving due to Israel’s actions. These critics include Dr. Muneer Alboursh, director of the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, who tweeted that Israel was trying to “mislead public opinion by claiming that he was suffering from other illnesses, not hunger” and that “what is happening is not propaganda, but a real famine.”

Yet according to Cogat—and previously confirmed by the boy’s mother to the Associated Press—Osama actually suffers from cystic fibrosis. On June 12, Israel coordinated his evacuation to Italy, along with his mother and brother, so he could receive medical treatment. “Tragic images rightfully stir strong emotions,” the Cogat post said. “But when they’re misused to fuel hatred and lies, they do more harm than good.”

That harm was clear to me in Gaza, where I stood surrounded by nearly 600 trucks worth of food, water and diapers, all ready to be delivered. The U.N. refused to do the job, saying it couldn’t operate safely with Israeli protection. Instead it asked that security be provided by the “Gaza Blue Police”—a euphemism for Hamas’s internal security forces. This is the same group the U.N. has repeatedly accused of stealing aid, including in October 2023, only weeks after the Hamas-led massacre.

In addition to rejecting IDF protection, the U.N. has declined to cooperate with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, despite its backing by the U.S. The result is that food meant for children like Mohammed is left to rot. Put simply, the U.N. would rather work with Hamas than the Israelis or the Americans.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has coordinated and facilitated the entry into Gaza of more than 1.86 million tons of humanitarian assistance, more than 78% of which has been food. The population of Gaza is about 2.1 million. The only comparable effort in modern history is the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, during which the Allies delivered 2.3 million tons of supplies to 2.5 million West Berliners over 15 months. Even then, the aid was going to an allied population. “There is no historical precedent for a military providing the level of direct aid to an enemy population that Israel has provided to Gaza,” writes John Spencer of the Modern War Institute at West Point.

But these facts rarely break through the noise. Instead, the world sees a photo of a suffering child, assumes what news editors want them to assume, and then shares it without asking questions. The context is stripped away. There is real suffering in Gaza. But when that suffering is exploited for propaganda, and when humanitarian systems are paralyzed by politics and ideology, it is the most vulnerable—like young Mohammed al-Mutawaaq—who pay the price.
The Desperation of Jew-Haters By Abe Greenwald
Via Commentary Newsletter, sign up here. It is their desperation that gives the liars away and reveals the full sweep of their Jew-hatred. The very fact that the New York Times and other major news outlets are taking sick kids and claiming them as victims of a Jewish starvation plot is precisely what confirms that there is no starvation plot.

Think about how eager the Times must be to obtain a legitimate image of a single Gazan who’s been irrefutably starved by Israel. If there were one such image available on the planet, the paper would pay any amount to any party to have it. It would literally be the easiest image in the world to get universally broadcast. This is how we know none exists.

So the Times et al., in their desperate hatred of Israel, committed an unprecedented breach of journalistic ethics. Having no legitimate photograph of starved Gazans, they decided to use photographs of children with wasting and deforming diseases and write about them as if they were being starved by Israel.

If such a transgression were committed in service of any cause other than the demonization of the Jewish state, those responsible would be fired and never work in journalism again. But when media organizations are exposed for lying about Israel, they just tweak the lie and move on.

The Times was busted for misrepresenting a sick child as a starvation victim, so it issued the following statement about the boy in question: “We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation.”

The paper doesn’t identify the “pre-existing health problem” because it would probably explain the boy’s seemingly malnourished condition without any need to bring fake starvation into the story. So the Times is continuing to lie by omission.

Before October 7, 2023, staged and misleading images of supposedly suffering Gazans were commonplace on “pro-Palestinian” social media and in some Middle Eastern news organizations. What we used to laugh off as “Pallywood” is now just the news.

We must now wonder what further schemes the West’s desperate Jew-haters will import next.
Why the New York Times Gaza correction fell short and why it matters
The Times knows this principle. In its own handbook the paper states that “we must be forthright and timely in acknowledging our errors.” Timely the paper was; forthright it was not. Hiding the fix on a niche corporate account suggests an internal calculation that public contrition can be performed in half-measures without harming brand prestige. Readers are expected to accept that a buried note absolves the original sin, yet most will never encounter the update and therefore will never adjust their understanding of the story.

Why does this matter? Because modern conflicts are fought as fiercely on the battlefield of public opinion as on any physical front. Images and captions shape policy debates, affect humanitarian fund-raising, and influence diplomatic negotiations. One photo of an apparently starving child can become a moral cudgel yielding headlines, sound-bites and even votes in international forums. When that image is later revealed to be only half the story, the damage is already entrenched.

Critics of Western media often accuse legacy outlets of carrying innate biases against Israel. I prefer to judge case by case, yet the Times handed its detractors a gift. By omitting critical medical context in the first place and then opting for a low-profile correction, the newspaper reinforced suspicions that it privileges narratives of Israeli culpability and is reluctant to broadcast any fact that complicates that frame. At minimum it signalled that accuracy can take second place to virality.

The lesson is stark. In the age of instant amplification any news organization that wishes to retain public trust must match the scale of its corrections to the scale of its initial reach. That means posting revisions on every platform where the original appeared, pinning them prominently, and explaining in clear language how the mistake occurred. Anything less looks like damage control instead of accountability.

The New York Times insists that truth matters. I agree. Truth, however, does not merely require acknowledgement; it demands amplification equal to the falsehood it replaces. Until the paper is willing to raise its voice for corrections as loudly as it does for dramatic headlines, its credibility will remain under justified scrutiny.


Phyllis Chesler: Just another day
Daily, I mourned the death of reason in the West and the re-emergence of Jew-hatred on a level starting to challenge the German Nazi era.

I mourned all those Israeli civilians who were killed and sorrowed over all those who were wounded, maimed and traumatized, and although resilient and well attended to, were nevertheless living in hell. They were also always on my mind. Every single day.

Never far from my mind were all those Israelis who had to flee their communities, fields and homes, and rushed to shelters, their lives upended, their peril utterly invisible to the world.

Every day, I cried out against the defamation of Jewish Israel, both by Islamists and by educated leftists, the “woke” progressives. The same blood-stained Europe that collaborated in the murder of 6 million Jews has continued its collaboration, this time as part of a red-green Alliance. After blaming the State of Israel for this war, they are now getting ready to unilaterally recognize a “Palestinian state” on Israel’s border.

And no, I do not agree that the Jews and Israel are being treated as a scapegoat for the crimes and sins committed by their persecutors. I do not believe that such hatred is due to envy or even to anger over the high moral standards our Torah teaches. I believe that Jew-hatred is entirely due to brainwashing, pure and simple.

But as the prophet tells us: Nachamu, nachamu ami. “Be comforted, my people.” The support of most Israelis for each other is nothing less than inspiring, even spectacular. Israel’s trauma-related and wound-related treatment is in a class of its own. The support that Jews and Christians in the West have extended, as well as that from a handful of Muslims and ex-Muslims, is a major comfort.

The large number of Israelis who attend the ongoing funerals of soldiers, especially lone soldiers, inspires me, even as I weep.

Yes, Jews are supposed to mourn the loss of both ancient Temples at the hands of Babylon and then of Rome; the expulsion of the Jews from England and then from Spain—events said to have happened on Tisha B’Av, the Ninth of Av.

This year, I will again listen to Eicha (Lamentations) being chanted. I will remember these earlier tragedies that befell the Jewish people on this day in the backdrop of another particularly grueling and perhaps apocalyptic time.

Tisha B’Av is just another day.
Melanie Phillips: The BBC's pyramid of propaganda
Through its reputation as the world’s most trusted and influential broadcaster, the BBC has become the principal engine for the demonisation of Israel and the onslaught against Jews in Britain and the west.

It spares no effort to demonise and delegitimise Israel by presenting it falsely as an aggressor rather than the target of genocidal violence that it actually is, and as being guilty of crimes of which it is not only innocent but the victim.

Almost every day, the BBC displays a pathological obsession with Israel at the expense of other world conflicts. Almost every day, it spews an unstoppable geyser of lies, distortions, decontextualisation, selective reporting, double standards, loaded questions and wild imbalance of interviewees to present Israel, the sole democracy in the Middle East, as the world’s premier rogue state.

There is scarcely a false claim of an alleged Israeli atrocity that it doesn’t uncritically repeat. It trots out as honest witnesses an endless procession of interviewees and sources in Gaza who repeatedly turn out to sympathise with or even be be affiliated to Islamist terrorist groups. Subjecting pro-Israel interviewees to barked aggression and interruptions, it treats their opponents with kid gloves and even fawning admiration.

Obviously, this is the product of the hysterical anti-Israel group-think within the liberal intelligentsia from which BBC staff are overwhelmingly drawn. Now, however, we learn that it’s actually overt BBC policy to substitute propaganda for objective reporting when it comes to Gaza.

In the Spectator, Jonathan Sacerdoti reveals a leaked email in which a BBC executive editor instructs journalistic staff to blame Israel and the Americans for the food crisis in Gaza and gloss over the role of Hamas.
New York Times stunningly rolls back claims about viral photo of starving Gaza boy
The New York Times appended a story it published last week containing a shocking image of a child purportedly suffering from starvation in Gaza with an editor’s note Tuesday.

The note informs readers that Mohammed Zakaria al Mutawaq — the Gazan boy “diagnosed with severe malnutrition” and pictured in the article — also suffers from “pre-existing health problems.”

“We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition,” a spokesperson for the outlet said in a statement.

“We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems,” the spokesperson continued.

“This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation.”

The stark images of little Mohammed — shown with a gaunt face and his spine protruding from his back as his mother held him — went viral last week, with many using him as the poster child for starvation in the Palestinian enclave amid Israel’s war against Hamas.

Days after the New York Times published images of Mohammed, pro-Israel group HonestReporting noted on July 27 that the boy’s older brother, Joud, is standing in the background, appearing in far better condition.


Vandals spray paint NYT building, write 'NYT Lies, Gaza dies'
Vandals spray-painted the New York Times building in New York City on Wednesday, as shown in images seen by The Jerusalem Post.

The spray paint message read "NYT LIES, GAZA DIES."

The vandalism occurred after the NYT amended its article about starvation in Gaza on Tuesday to include that a child featured in the story and on its front page, Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, had a preexisting medical condition affecting his appearance.

"We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems,” the NYT shared in a statement on X/Twitter.

The amendment followed a request from the Israeli Consulate General in New York, and after the photo of Mutawaq with his brother spread across social media, The Jerusalem Post previously reported.

The consulate informed the NYT of Mutawaq’s medical condition, according to Israeli media, citing Israeli sources.

“It’s unfortunate that the international media repeatedly falls for Hamas propaganda. First they publish, then they verify, if at all,” Israeli Consul General in New York Ofir Akunis stated.

Mixed reactions on the NYT's amendment
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett expressed outrage regarding the NYT on X, writing, "This is simply unbelievable. After generating a tsunami of hate towards Israel with that terrifying picture, the NYT now quietly admits that the boy has preexisting conditions."

He further criticized, "NYT, you knew that Hamas uses babies with preexisting illnesses. We’ve been saying this for months now. You knew exactly what this picture would cause. This is a blood libel in 2025. Have you no shame?"


When antisemitism moves from a rest stop assault to an ovation in parliament
Just days after a Jewish father and his 6-year-old son were assaulted by a mob at a Milan-area rest stop simply for wearing kippot, the Italian Parliament rolled out the red carpet for Francesca Albanese—the U.N. “expert” whom the United States has declared persona non grata over her repeated antisemitic rhetoric.

Albanese, whose record includes grotesque claims that Israeli soldiers deliberately shoot children in the head and genitals, was warmly welcomed on July 29 by members of Italy’s left-wing political bloc.

Her appearance wasn’t a debate; it was an anointment. For her admirers, she’s not a researcher or legal scholar; she’s a movement— a standard-bearer for the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish agenda cloaked in the language of “human rights.”

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has been at war—on the battlefield and in the court of global opinion. From Hamas and Iran to Qatar and Turkey and their backers in Moscow and Beijing, Israel’s enemies are betting that the tide of anti-Israel sentiment will break the Jewish state.

Francesca Albanese, who serves as the U.N.’s special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, is part of that campaign. Her notoriety and platform have grown in tandem with the surge in antisemitism across Europe and beyond.

In her new U.N. report presented to the Italian Parliament, Albanese refers to “genocide” 57 times in just 38 pages—a staggering claim that deliberately ignores the reality of Hamas’s human shield strategy and Israel’s unprecedented efforts to protect civilians, even amid urban warfare.

She makes no mention of the tunnels beneath Gaza or the hostages still held within them. Instead, she echoes Hamas leaders who describe Palestinians as a “people of martyrs” and portrays Israel—a state founded by a millennia-old indigenous people—as a colonial oppressor.

The consequences of her rhetoric are not theoretical. Macron is now pushing Palestinian statehood at the U.N. European institutions are moving to cut Israel out of key scientific partnerships. The message is clear: Jews who once couldn’t defend themselves are no more welcome when they can.


The Church of Taybeh
Yet having himself visited Taybeh, Huckabee had already seen with his own eyes that there was no damage to the archaeological site of the ancient church. So how did he become such an easy mark for a campaign that was explicitly designed to panic him into abandoning his allies, and America’s allies? The answer, in part, is the American context in which this latest op is playing out, and how radically that context has been altered by the mainstreaming of Middle East sectarianism in American political discourse. That unfortunate development can be traced back most directly to 2014, when some on the American right began fostering an identity of shared victimhood with Middle East Christians, and then using them as a wedge against Jews and evangelical Israel-supporters at home.

Grifters and predators—sometimes known as “influencers”—many of them following the lead of Tucker Carlson, have now flooded the American public sphere with this foreign form of toxic waste. Specifically and purposefully, they have gone after evangelicals, a reliable constituency of President Trump’s, targeting them with shaming and shunning campaigns similar to the current one around Taybeh and the Holy Family church. The objective of these campaigns being to fracture the president’s evangelical base, in an attempt to peel away popular support for Trump’s foreign policy, which they hope to replace with their own policies—which, not coincidentally, are more or less identical to those of Barack Obama. Whereas the president has remained unflappable, casually dismissing these campaigns, others within his party, or even his administration, do not have the same backbone and clarity.

In turn, aligning the mainline Churches with the Arab cause, against the Jews and American evangelicals is a longstanding Palestinian effort—one which other regional dictators have also attempted, in different iterations. Famously, in 2001, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who had just inherited his dead father’s seat, and was being promoted in Paris and Washington as a young, Westernized reformer, hosted Pope John Paul II during the late prelate’s historic visit to Damascus. In a manner reminiscent of the current campaign, Assad took the opportunity to enlist the pope against the Jews: “We see them attacking sacred Christian and Muslim places in Palestine … They try to kill the principle of religions in the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ. … We expect you to stand by [the Palestinians, Lebanese, and Syrians] against the oppressors so that they can regain what was unjustly taken from them.”

A particular area of congruence between Palestinian propaganda campaigns directed toward Christians—whose themes of betrayal, Christ-killing, desecration of holy places, the murder of children, etc. are often crudely antisemitic—and the interests of the Catholic Church has long been control over Jerusalem. Jewish sovereignty over Jerusalem poses a political challenge to the Church that some Catholics are also inclined to read as theological. As a result, the Vatican has long advocated for an international status for the city, and opposed President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and his subsequent move of the U.S. Embassy there. In 2018, Pope Francis called for maintaining “the status quo of Jerusalem,” referring to it as “a city for all peoples … whose status quo demands to be respected as decided by the international community and repeatedly requested by the Christian communities of the Holy Land.”

With Israel having fought successful wars against Iran and Hezbollah, and now poised to take the remainder of Gaza, it is no surprise that the Vatican has again moved to assert its primacy against the specter of renewed Israeli dominance. The Church is positioning itself as the champion of the mainline churches in the Holy Land and of Palestinian Christians, over and against those American Christians who support Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem—which is to say, President Trump’s policy. The Vatican’s decision therefore continues the position of the late Pope Francis, perhaps best captured in the image of him praying, in December of last year, before a Nativity scene with the infant Jesus wrapped in a kaffiyeh. Those looking for an end to the Church’s recent habit of fanning the flames in the Holy Land while attempting to disrupt the U.S.-Israeli alliance are likely to be disappointed.
Princeton Student Accused of Assault at Pro-Palestine Protest Sues for ‘Incredible Betrayal’
On Wednesday, Piegaro filed a lawsuit against Princeton and Strother in a federal court in New Jersey, alleging violations of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, use of excessive force, wrongful imprisonment, fabrication of evidence, and more. While the suit doesn’t allege discrimination under Title IV of the Higher Education Act, Piegaro told us that “it was very obvious that I was treated differently from the other students who were arrested the same day that had a different outcome.”

Misdemeanor charges against 13 pro-Palestine protesters accused of trespassing were eventually dismissed, with a judge ordering the students to do community service and write an apology letter to Princeton. A prosecutor said that Princeton officials “did not desire these folks to have permanent records, criminal records, as a result of this.”

Piegaro’s lawsuit is among dozens filed by Jewish students since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, led to the eruption of anti-Israel protests at colleges and universities across the United States. Part of what makes his allegations unusual is the central role of Strother, who is responsible for student safety at Princeton. Piegaro, who graduated in May, alleged that a student was initially told that the investigation “likely would not lead to any disciplinary action” because of inconsistencies by witnesses.

After his arrest, Piegaro was put in a holding cell before he was transported to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with broken ribs and a concussion, the lawsuit alleged.

But after Princeton heard Strother’s side of the story, Piegaro was put on disciplinary probation for nine months, banned from campus, and kicked out of his housing, according to the suit. Two days after Piegaro’s acquittal, Strother was one of six Princeton staff members awarded the President’s Achievement Award. “Even in these most challenging situations,” Princeton associate dean of undergraduate students Jarrett Fisher wrote, “I’ve observed Ken demonstrate the most incredible degree of patience, grace, and diplomacy.” Princeton has said that it had no comment on the charges filed against Piegaro. Michael Hotchkiss, Assistant Vice President for Communications, told The Free Press that “The University believes the complaint to be entirely without merit and plans to mount a vigorous defense. We look forward to a fair trial and expect our position to be fully vindicated.”

The video shot by Piegaro shows him appearing to follow Weiss, Strother, and another faculty member up the stairs at the pro-Palestine rally. Loud drumming and chanting can be heard in the background. Piegaro asked Strother, “What’s your name, sir? And position here?” Strother appears to stretch out his arm, and Piegaro says, “Don’t touch me.” The video then abruptly cuts off.

The next video of the scene shows Piegaro curled on the ground, grabbing his ribs. Strother calls over a uniformed officer to put Piegaro, then a junior at Princeton, in handcuffs. The Free Press reviewed a copy of the video, which was provided by Piegaro.

After his arrest, Piegaro was put in a holding cell before he was transported to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with broken ribs and a concussion, the lawsuit alleged. After being discharged, he was taken back to the Princeton public safety headquarters, photographed, and fingerprinted.

Piegaro’s lawsuit seeks punitive damages and demands that Princeton clear his name and his disciplinary record. The lawsuit also asks the court to “declare that Piegaro’s assault, arrest, detention, and prosecution were unreasonable and unlawful” and that Princeton “is liable for the unlawful actions of its employees.”

Piegaro told us that the criminal proceedings cost him over $135,000 in legal fees. “My first paychecks at my first job are going to legal fees. They are more than my first-year salary,” he said.

What happened to him at Princeton was an “incredible betrayal,” Piegaro told The Free Press. “I was excited to go back to university after the Army, and I thought it should be a place where the truth mattered and people operated in good faith. And I think that this whole experience just really demonstrated that that’s not the case at Princeton, that they don’t care about the truth, and they don’t operate in good faith.”
Bipartisan Reps. Foxx, Gottheimer reintroduce anti-BDS bill
Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) reintroduced legislation to bar universities from boycotting Israel.

The “Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act” would prohibit federal funds from going to any college that “participates in a nonexpressive commercial boycott” as part of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the Jewish state.

“The antisemitic rot that has corroded college campuses must be eradicated. Enough is enough,” Foxx stated on Wednesday.

“The safety and security of Jewish students, faculty and staff should never be threatened under any circumstances,” she said. “If an institution of higher education chooses to capitulate to the caustic BDS movement, there will be consequences, starting with this bipartisan legislation.”

Anti-Israel activists on college campuses frequently demand that their universities divest from Israel-linked companies and impose an academic boycott on Israeli institutions.

That movement has been countered in some states by legislation and by some universities. In July, the University of California, Los Angeles barred its subsidiary entities, including student governments, from participating in boycotts of countries.

Gottheimer said that the aims of the BDS movement are ultimately to target Jews.
Zohran Mamdani’s pro-Palestinian positions drove 83% of his new voters in the NY primary, poll show
Zohran Mamdani’s advocacy for Palestinians was a motivating factor for most of the New Yorkers who voted for him in the mayoral primary, new polling from a progressive research group suggests.

Most voters who showed up for Mamdani were inspired by his campaign to lower costs and tax the wealthy, according to the poll conducted by Data for Progress and released by the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project on Tuesday. But their third-most motivating issue was “his support for Palestinian rights,” which drove 62% of his voters.

New Yorkers who never voted before, a surge of tens of thousands of people, were especially motivated by Mamdani’s pro-Palestinian beliefs — 83% said it drove them to the voting booth.

Mamdani, who is running to be New York’s first Muslim mayor and has said that Palestinian rights are central to his identity, sharply criticized Israel’s offensive in Gaza during the primary race. When drilled repeatedly by journalists and opponents, he said that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians and that he supported the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

As mayor, Mamdani said he would have Benjamin Netanyahu arrested upon setting foot in New York, citing the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister. His refusal to condemn the pro-Palestinian protest slogan “globalize the intifada” — a position he has since softened — drew allegations of antisemitism.

It turns out that many primary voters were on his side, according to the poll commissioned by IMEU Policy Project, a pro-Palestinian advocacy nonprofit. It found that 78% agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, 79% support restricting weapons shipments to Israel and 63% say that Netanyahu should be arrested if he visits New York.
California Dem congressman blames Israel for aid truckloads UN hasn’t delivered
Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) stated on Tuesday, “It is long past time to end the Gaza conflict, with the return of all hostages and the end of military operations.”

“But an active war zone is no excuse for not doing everything possible to prevent the unnecessary suffering confronting Palestinians, who are caught in the crossfire between Israel and Hamas,” the congressman said.

Peters noted Israel’s announcement this week about “multiple air drops and aid convoys, humanitarian pauses in fighting and the designation of secure routes for the wider dissemination of assistance provides renewed hope.”

“But hundreds of truckloads of aid are currently sitting at the Gaza border waiting to be distributed. This is unacceptable,” he said.

The congressman said that there “must be immediate action to deliver the desperately needed humanitarian aid to the starving” and that “now is the time for the Israeli government, the United Nations, the Trump administration, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and all who have the responsibility and ability, together to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”

Israel has said repeatedly that it cleared the truckloads of aid to enter Gaza, but that the United Nations hasn’t retrieved them inside Gaza and delivered them. The congressman’s statement didn’t say which side of the Gaza border the aid sits on. He also didn’t say whether or not the global body had delivered it.

“Hamas must not interfere with or weaponize the delivery of this aid,” the congressman said. “There is no justification for delay.”

Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, posted images of the trucks in Gaza on July 24. “Here are photos of U.N. trucks and enough food to feed all of Gaza, but it sits rotting,” he stated. “The United Nations is a tool of Hamas. U.S.-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is actually delivering food for free and safely. U.N. food is either looted by Hamas or rots in the sun.”
Jewish broadcaster sues Roger Waters over ‘genocidal’ slurs and incitement
A Canadian Jewish broadcaster is suing Roger Waters and political activist Yves Engler for defamation and harassment in a major civil lawsuit filed before the Superior Court of Quebec, accusing them of orchestrating a prolonged hate campaign that sparked a flood of rape and death threats.

Dahlia Kurtz, a prominent media personality with a podcast audience of over 40 million, alleges the pair caused “severe reputational injury, threats to her personal safety, and widespread harm to her mental health and professional standing” through an online campaign of incitement that has lasted more than a year.

According to the court filing dated 24 July 2025, the campaign began in March 2024 when Kurtz posted footage of a protest with the caption: “Holocaust. They are calling for another Holocaust.” Engler responded by repeatedly branding her a “genocidal maniac,” “Jewish supremacist,” “compulsive liar,” and “racist genocide promoter” in more than 100 posts across platforms including X, TikTok, and YouTube.



Waters later joined the fray in February 2025, calling Kurtz a “sick puppet in support of genocide” who “should be locked up in a looney bin”. His video, the suit says, was viewed more than 546,000 times across social media.

The claim states: “Defendants published these reckless and defamatory allegations intentionally, in full knowledge of the fact that the allegations contained therein were false and had no basis whatsoever.”
Leap of faith: Why we must speak out
The same day our Progressive Judaism open letter on Israel and Gaza was published – written to speak with compassion and moral clarity into a moment of heartbreak – I sat in the theatre watching Giant.

It is a bold, uncomfortable play. Set in 1983, it imagines Roald Dahl being confronted over his antisemitism by two Jewish colleagues, publisher Tom Maschler and sales executive Jessie Stone. Neither wants the conversation. Both try to separate their Jewishness from the argument. But Dahl refuses to let them. He drags their identity into the centre, forcing them to answer for it. Watching this unfold, many of us saw how little has changed.

This is what happens when Jewish presence is made contingent on being unthreatening, uncomplicated, detached. When we are expected to be non-political, as if being visibly, communally Jewish is not already made political by the world around us. We are told not to be “too Jewish”. But our presence is politicised before we even speak.

Later that day, we learnt that two Jewish comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, had their shows pulled from the Edinburgh Fringe. Not because of anything they said. Because they are Jewish. The venue cited “staff discomfort”.

This discomfort is rarely loud. It arrives as pressure, to disavow, disclaim, to explain ourselves before we are allowed to speak. The silence we are talking about is not just censorship. It is exhaustion. The weight of constantly proving we belong.

The play offers no resolution. Dahl does not apologise. The Jewish characters receive no justice or understanding. Their words hang unanswered. The audience is left in the discomfort. This is not a play about the past. It is a play about now.

Because the most uncomfortable truth is how timeless it all feels. Jewish identity made suspect. Jewish grief selectively acknowledged. Jewish voice pushed to the edge.
Baddiel: Double standards in treatment of cancelled Jewish comedians
David Baddiel has weighed into the controversy surrounding the treatment of two Jewish comedians whose shows were cancelled by an Edinburgh Fringe festival venue over safety claims.

As reported by Jewish News, Rachel Creeger and Phillip Simon were abruptly told last Friday that their bookings, at a theatre they had used for many years, had been removed citing staff feeling “unsafe” with the additional security measures in place due to concerns over threats to Jewish acts.

In a post to his Instagram social media account on Wednesday, fellow comedian Baddiel, author of Jews Don’t Count, stated: “It is hard to escape the feeling that there is a double standard at play with how Simon and Creeger have been treated.”

David Baddiel, screenshot: InstagramHe added that the duo are “just two British Jewish comedians doing shows from their British, Jewish perspective. Not shows supportive, or even about, the state of Israel.”

He suggested that the decision by the Whistle Binkies music venue “due to a conflict 4,000 miles away (or because of a fear of protests related to that conflict)” are expressive only of “a reflex conflation of British Jews with Israel.”

Baddiel makes the point that should a venue pull a performance by comedian and TV presenter Romesh Ranganathan “because of an assumption that, as someone of Hindu heritage, he represents the anti-Muslim policies of the Modi Government, that would be straightforwardly seen as racist. But somehow with Jews, not so much.”

The Scottish Government spokesperson responded to a request from Jewish News for comment saying that “There is no place in Scotland’s civic and cultural life for any form of hatred, antisemitism or islamophobia.
Robert Reich Exploits the Holocaust to Bash Israel for Defending Jews
Left-wing ideologue Robert Reich is exploiting the Holocaust to attack Israel for defending Jews from Hamas terrorists, accusing Israel of “betraying” the victims of WWI because of false reports of starvation in Gaza.

As Breitbart News has noted, reports of conditions in Gaza are being exaggerated by fake news in the mainstream media, who have presented Palestinian children with other medical issues as if they are starving.

Far more humanitarian aid has entered Gaza since the war began than before Hamas — acting as the de facto government in Gaza — launched an unprovoked mass terror attack on neighboring Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering 1200 people and taking 250 hostages. Israel has responded by attacking Hamas and negotiating for the release of hostages, some 50 of whom (20 living) remain, and which Hamas has refused to set free.

Reich, echoing the anti-Israel dogma that has rapidly taken over the Democratic Party, attacked Israel — but went further, posting an image of Holocaust victims in a concentration camp, along with an article from the far-left Israeli newspaper Haaretz, titled “Silence in the Face of Gaza’s Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims.” (Haaretz has drifted so far to the left that it is widely seen as an anti-Israel platform.)

He ignored several glaring problems with the analogy between Gazans and Jewish Holocaust victims: the Jews did not attack Germany; Jews were not holding German hostages; and so on. He also ignores the fact that Israel has surged humanitarian aid to Gaza, something Nazi Germany never did for Jews.

Reich’s post falls into a category of Holocaust denial, which consists of minimizing the Holocaust by blaming Jews.
How to prepare for a Piers Morgan interview
In recent weeks, it seems a new competition has emerged in Israel: Who will be the next to appear on Piers Morgan Uncensored?

A growing list of Israeli interviewees have lined up to face the well-known British broadcaster, hoping to “represent Israel” and push back against hostile questions.

Still, let’s be honest: Anyone stepping into that interview without serious preparation is more likely to harm the cause than help it.

The intentions are usually good: media exposure, a moral stand, even a desire to confront a journalist perceived as blatantly anti-Israel.

Yet Piers Morgan is not a neutral interviewer. Often, he seems to accept the Palestinian narrative as a given, and at times he has amplified antisemitic tropes under the guise of legitimate criticism.

Which is why an interview with him is not really an interview. It’s a battlefield of narratives and you don’t step onto a battlefield without proper preparation, not if you want to win.

So, how should one prepare?


UCLA Agrees To Pay Millions, Enter Into Consent Decree To Settle Discrimination Suit From Jewish Students
UCLA agreed to pay more than $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Jewish students who said the university allowed anti-Semitic discrimination during the spring 2024 anti-Israel encampments, which included a "Jew Exclusion Zone."

Just hours after the settlement was inked, the Justice Department announced that it found UCLA violated federal civil rights law by failing to "respond to complaints of severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment and abuse that Jewish and Israeli students faced on its campus from October 7, 2023, to the present."

In June 2024, Yitzchok Frankel, then a second-year UCLA law student, filed a lawsuit alleging he was "harassed and blocked from approaching the encampment by antisemitic activists, all with the assistance of UCLA security." He was later joined by two additional Jewish students and a medical school professor, and the Justice Department's notice of violation on Tuesday also pointed to findings in the Frankel suit.

Under the settlement, UCLA will contribute over $2.3 million to eight Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and Hillel at UCLA, while another $320,000 will go toward UCLA’s Initiative to Combat Antisemitism. It will also dole out $50,000 to each of the plaintiffs and pay $3.6 million of their legal fees.

In addition to the payments, UCLA will also enter a consent judgment that prohibits it from "knowingly allowing or facilitating the exclusion of Jewish students, faculty, and/or staff"—including discrimination based on one’s "religious beliefs concerning the Jewish state of Israel"—from university programs or spaces. The agreement will be in effect for 15 years.


Harvard Trains Rising CCP Elites Through Partnership With Top Chinese Department, Congressional Investigation Finds
A congressional investigation has uncovered new ties between Harvard University and the Chinese Communist Party, including the school's years-long role in training rising CCP elites, three top Republicans revealed Wednesday.

Reps. John Moolenaar (Mich.), Tim Walberg (Mich.), and Elise Stefanik (N.Y.)—who chair the Select Committee on the CCP, the Committee on Education and Workforce, and House Republican Leadership, respectively—told Harvard president Alan Garber in a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that whistleblowers detailed the Ivy League university's partnerships with CCP entities, which have been in place for at least a decade.

One such partnership is a collaboration between the Harvard Kennedy School and the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy Pudong. That institution is controlled by the Central Organization Department, one of the most powerful bodies within the CCP. It oversees the "Xi Jinping Thought" training program for party elites and controls placement in key CCP leadership roles.

The letter also notes that a high-ranking member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2016 said that some Chinese "party and government cadres" are sent to the Harvard Kennedy School as part of the Organization Department's "education and training."

Moolenaar said the discoveries raise "serious concerns."

"Harvard's formal partnership with the Chinese Communist Party-controlled school to train their future leaders raises serious concerns about the CCP's influence in American institutions," he told the Free Beacon. "Chairman Tim Walberg, Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, and I are committed to uncovering the full extent of these relationships to ensure transparency and protect our national interests."

The revelation comes as Harvard weighs spending up to $500 million to settle its ongoing dispute with the White House over allegations of campus anti-Semitism and DEI initiatives. But a potential settlement wouldn't help Harvard overcome ongoing congressional investigations.

In April, a Free Beacon report exposed Harvard's training of members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a U.S.-sanctioned paramilitary group implicated in the CCP's genocide of Uyghur Muslims. That prompted GOP leaders to threaten Harvard's tax-exempt status, citing its partnerships with entities involved in human rights abuses and potential violations of U.S. sanctions.
University of Wisconsin–Madison suspends SJP chapter following protest
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter after the group was “found in violation of multiple rules” after an April protest.

The SJP chapter announced its suspension on social media on Sunday. In its statement, the group wrote that the decision was made in response to the chapter’s protest of a speaking appearance by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in April.

John Lucas, officer of strategic communication for the university, told JNS that “following a conduct investigation and hearing, Students for Justice in Palestine of UW-Madison has been found in violation of multiple rules” as a result of “a disruption” at the event involving Thomas-Greenfield, linked to a rally advertised and co-sponsored by SJP.”

Lucas added that, “on July 15, SJP received notice of a disciplinary suspension until Jan. 15, 2026, followed by disciplinary probation through May 15, 2026.”

SJP is currently appealing the decision, according to Lucas.

The Registered Student Organization Hearing Committee found the SJP chapter in violation of five university policies, which included “amplified sound within an impermissible distance,” impairing the university’s “orderly conduct and processes,” and leafleting policies, according to a copy of the committee’s report obtained by The Badger Herald.

The chapter was already under a 10-month “disciplinary probation for actions related to the illegal encampment” in the spring of 2024.
‘Egregious, persistent’ Jew-hatred at Baltimore public schools, federal complaint
Jewish students in the Baltimore public school system, which has an enrollment of more than 75,000 students across 160 schools and programs, have experience “egregious and persistent discrimination and harassment” by teachers and fellow students, according to a new federal complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education.

The complaint, which alleges that Baltimore schools violated the rights of Jewish students under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, accuses the public school system of having “knowingly allowed its schools to become hostile environments for Jewish students, while neglecting to address numerous incidents of antisemitic harassment, bullying and discrimination,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.

“We commend the brave parents and children who came forward to share their experiences in Baltimore schools,” stated Dan Shallman, a partner at Covington & Burling, which is representing ADL pro bono.

“We are committed to seeking all legal remedies available to ensure a learning environment free from the type of hate and discrimination we allege in the complaint,” Shallman said.

Per the complaint, Jew-hatred has gotten worse in the public system since Oct. 7, and Jewish students have faced “relentless harassment, including a teacher directing Nazi salutes at the sole Jewish student in his classroom, threats from classmates that ‘6 million was not enough’ and comments including ‘all Jews should die.'”

The Baltimore district also still employs a teacher, who it knows told students he would “go all Nazi” and who “personally directed Nazi salutes towards a Jewish student,” according to the complaint, which notes that the teacher directed three Nazi salutes at the student in a single class.
UKLFI: Bristol University fails to prevent repeated Open Day disruptions
The University of Bristol has failed to prevent Open Day disruptions, despite commitments that is would do so, following similar incidents last year.

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) have written to the University following a disruptive anti-Israel protest during a recent Open Day, expressing serious concern over the University’s failure to prevent a repeat of similar incidents that occurred last year. Despite UKLFI’s previous warnings and commitments from the University to review its protocols, this latest disruption raises serious questions about whether adequate action was taken.

During the Open Day for potential applicants to Bristol University and their parents, a group of current students, some masked and carrying banners, entered the lecture theatre, took over the podium, and delivered a political message for approximately three minutes of the scheduled thirty-minute talk. The protesters urged “Free Palestine” and demanded that the University sever ties with companies allegedly linked to the arming of Israel. The incident was deeply shocking and distressing for a number of attendees.

One of the parents, present with her daughter said: “It was shocking and upsetting for us”.

This incident mirrors similar disruptions that occurred during last year’s Open Days, which were the subject of previous correspondence between UKLFI and the University. UKLFI had highlighted the serious impact of those protests, including the harassment of attendees through the creation of an intimidating, hostile, and offensive environment for Jewish, Israeli and Zionist audience members. The conduct appeared to contravene the Equality Act 2010 and may also have constituted criminal offences under the Public Order Act 1986 and the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, in addition to contravening the University’s own policies on acceptable behaviour and freedom of speech.

In its response last year, the University had stated that it would review its security and protest protocols and seek input from relevant community organisations to inform that process. It also reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining a safe and inclusive campus for all. However, the recurrence of similar conduct at this year’s Open Day suggests that the University failed to implement effective preventative measures. UKLFI has warned that this raises serious concerns as to whether the University has meaningfully engaged with the issue and is complying with its legal obligations.


Hundreds of protestors demand accountability from LBC over ‘blood libel’ broadcast
Demonstrators outside LBC’s central London headquarters last night chanted ‘Shame!’ in protest at presenter James O’Brien, whose show broadcast unchallenged antisemitic claims on 22 July.

More than 250 members of Britain’s Jewish community and allies gathered at the Leicester Square building to demand accountability following the broadcaster’s failure to address what organisers described as a “modern blood libel” airing on national radio.

Speakers at the event organised by advocacy groups Stop the Hate and We Believe in Israel, included Alex Hearn from Labour Friends of Israel, Reverend Hayley Ace, Reverend Tim Gutmann from Christians Against Antisemitism and broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti.

The protest followed LBC presenter James O’Brien’s reading of a message from a listener claiming Jewish children are taught that “one Jewish life is worth thousands of Arab lives” and that “Arabs are cockroaches to be crushed” at non-existent “Shabbat schools.”

The claims, which echo medieval antisemitic tropes, were aired unchallenged during a discussion about Gaza on 22 July.

O’Brien’s subsequent 55-second apology the following day, after widespread condemnation from every major British Jewish organisation including the Board of Deputies, Jewish Leadership Council, and CST, was described by the protest organisers as “inadequate and insincere.”

The demonstration comes amid record levels of antisemitic incidents in the UK, with Jewish schools and synagogues requiring heightened security. Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner Jonathan Ash-Edwards has called for O’Brien’s suspension, stating: “This is not a question of free speech—it is a question of broadcasting standards and judgement.”


Hezbollah chief rejects disarmament as pressure on Lebanon grows
Calls for the Iran-aligned terrorist group's disarmament served only Israel, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on Wednesday, as the United States ramps up pressure for steps to remove its arsenal.

"Those who call for submitting arms practically demand submitting them to Israel... We will not submit to Israel," Qassem said in a televised address.

Hezbollah emerged badly damaged from a war with Israel last year that eliminated most of the group's leadership, killed thousands of its fighters, and left tens of thousands of its supporters displaced from their destroyed homes.

The US is now pushing Lebanon to issue a formal cabinet decision committing to disarm Hezbollah before talks can resume on a halt to Israeli military operations in the country, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Hezbollah has publicly refused to hand over its arsenal in full, but has privately weighed scaling it back.

Prioritizing Israel over Lebanon
"Those who call for disarmament on a domestic, global, or Arab level serve the Israeli project," Qassem said.

He also said the US was demanding the removal of Hezbollah's missiles and drones because they "scare" Israel, accusing US Envoy Thomas Barrack of calling for disarmament for the sake of Israel and not Lebanon's own security.

"Israel will not be able to defeat us and it will not be able to take Lebanon hostage," he added.


Man arrested over Adass Israel synagogue firebombing
A 21-year-old Werribee man has been arrested over the firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue in what police are treating as a politically motivated attack.

The man will be interviewed in relation to offences of arson, conduct endangering life and theft of a motor vehicle, Victoria Police said.

Authorities allege the man is one of three individuals who broke into the synagogue in Melbourne’s south-east and set the fire in the early hours of December 6.

The blaze ripped through the building, forcing several people to flee to safety through a back door and destroying the synagogue.

The arrest comes after a 20-year-old Williamstown man was charged earlier this month for allegedly stealing a car which was then used to drive to the synagogue on December 6.

The investigation has been carried out by the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team, which includes Victoria Police, the Australian Federal Police and ASIO.

The JCTT is treating the arson as politically motivated and say further arrests and charges are expected soon.

Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Krissy Barrett said the “complex” investigation has extended overseas.

“Our investigation is not limited to Australia. It involves exploring criminals offshore, and we suspect these criminals worked with criminal associates in Victoria to carry out the arson attack. The motivation is still being assessed, and we will make further comments at an appropriate time about that.”


Man who threatened to plant a bomb in ‘every synagogue in Toronto’ sentenced to house arrest
A man convicted for making comments threatening the Jewish communities and synagogues of Toronto has been sentenced to 60 days of house arrest, the Canadian Jewish News reports.

Waissudin Akbari, married with two children, made the comments on March 4, 2024, to a salesperson at a local car dealership whom he believed would be sympathetic to his plans.

According to court documents, Afghanistan-born Akbari told the salesperson he would “plant a bomb in every synagogue in Toronto and blow them up to kill as many Jews as possible.”

Police found no evidence that he had taken any steps to follow through on his comments.

Akbari also received the maximum three years of probation, along with a 10-year ban on weapons, mandatory antisemitism education and gambling addiction counselling.

In his sentencing decision on July 28th, Justice Edward Prutschi said: “It is important to be clear about what Mr. Akbari is and is not being sentenced for. He is not being sentenced for taking any material steps to act on the threats he made. Mr. Akbari’s guilt is based on empty threats he communicated to a stranger, mistakenly assuming [he] would be sympathetic to Akbari’s own warped and hateful worldview.”

He added: “That is not to say that the threats were harmless. Mr. Akbari’s threats were clearly motivated by bias, prejudice and hate towards Israelis and Jews.”

B’nai Brith Canada said: ” Waisuddin Akbari made these threats to a stranger, expressing his desire to target Jewish places of worship and murder as many Jews as possible. ​ The community impact statements, submitted by B’nai Brith Canada and others, were cited by the judge at sentencing. The Court acknowledged that these threats were not harmless or abstract. They reflected a hateful worldview, targeted both Jewish lives and institutions, and deepened the fear under which Canadian Jews are currently forced to live.


Palo Alto Networks acquires Israeli firm CyberArk for $25 billion
American cyber giant Palo Alto Networks has reached an agreement to acquire Israeli firm CyberArk for $25 billion, marking the second-largest exit ever for an Israeli company, the company announced on Wednesday.

Under the terms of the agreement, CyberArk shareholders will receive $45 in cash and 2.2005 shares of Palo Alto Networks common stock for each CyberArk share.

The U.S. company said this strategic combination will mark its formal entry into identity security, establishing it as a core pillar of the company’s multi-platform strategy.

Identity security refers to the set of technologies, policies, and practices designed to protect digital identities and control access to information within an organization’s systems and data.

Combining CyberArk’s leadership in Identity Security and Privileged Access Management with Palo Alto Networks’ comprehensive AI-powered security platforms “will extend privileged identity protection to all identity types, including human, machine and the new wave of autonomous AI agents,” the American firm noted.

Palo Alto Networks specializes in network and computer security, protecting companies from external breaches. CyberArk specializes in securing access and passwords within organizations. According to both, the combination of their capabilities is expected to create a comprehensive “security envelope,” with Palo Alto guarding organizations externally and CyberArk maintaining internal order.
What do Stephen Fry, David Baddiel and Theodor Herzl have in common?
Anyone who has ever driven up Israel’s coastal road from Tel Aviv, heading north, will be familiar with the water tower featuring a cut-out metal sculpture of Theodor Herzl, whose looming figure stands at the entrance to the city named in his honour, Herzliyah.

But beside the numerous Herzl Streets and Herzl Boulevards which are familiar throughout the country, Herzl himself is a somewhat unknown figure, whose role in the founding of the Jewish state has become more opaque with the passage of time.

One man, however, has been determined that Herzl should not remain obscure. Taking as his mantra Herzl’s much-quoted slogan, “If you will it, it is no dream”, Sir Bernard Zissman, now a scarcely believable 90 years old, first wrote a well-received book, Herzl’s Journey.

Now Sir Bernard, a former Lord Mayor of his home city of Birmingham, has spent 17 long years in bringing Herzl’s story to the screen, and a remarkable documentary — Theodor Herzl, The Man Behind Israel — was given an exclusive showing at Bafta earlier this month.

Giving a voice to Herzl with excerpts from his copious writing was Sir Stephen Fry, infusing his words with just the right level of barely suppressed passion and frustration. The directors are Dominic Howlett and James Dann.

But the undoubted star of the event was perhaps an improbable choice to front the documentary — the writer and presenter David Baddiel, whose uncompromising choice of social media description — “Jew” — tells you much about him and also, one suspects, would have entertained Herzl himself.

Baddiel, of course, has made no secret of his feeling that as a British Jew, he has little or no relationship with Israel. Despite that, the author of Jews Don’t Count confessed to curiosity about Theodor Herzl. Pre-screening, he told the film-makers, Window Zebra Media: “As a British Jew, I’ve grown up with a complex relationship to Israel — one shaped by politics, identity and history.

“But Herzl’s story is something different. It’s about the raw idea of safety — of home — for a people who had neither. As it is cited in the documentary, ‘this man changed the world’ and I wanted to help tell that story, not to take sides, but to understand the man at its centre.”
Rare First Temple-era seal impression found in Jerusalem
A rare First Temple-era seal impression (bulla) bearing a Hebrew inscription was unearthed three weeks ago by the Temple Mount Sifting Project, Hebrew media reported on Wednesday.

A bulla is an inscribed clay, soft metal, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation.

Based on the shape of the letters, the bulla is dated from the second half of the 7th century BCE to the beginning of the 6th century BCE.

The well-preserved clay seal was found by archeologist Mordechai Erlich, outlet Ynet reported. Epigrapher Anat Mendel-Geberovich and Zachi Dvira deciphered the letters as reading, “Yed[a‛]yah (son of) Asayahu,” which is understood to mean “Belonging to Yed[a‛]yah (son of) Asayahu.” Presumably this person was the owner of the seal.

According to markings on the back of the item, it appears to be a seal impression that secured some types of storage vessel, making sure that only authorized personnel could open them.




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