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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

08/20 Links Pt1: TRIGGERnometry: Asking Benjamin Netanyahu The Tough Questions; Trump admin imposes sanctions on four ICC officials; The Moral Collapse of Megyn Kelly

From Ian:

Israel’s High Court of injustice and the Red Cross
Israel’s High Court of Justice has once again revealed its misplaced priorities. And that’s putting it delicately.

In a hearing on Monday about National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s policy to bar Red Cross visits to Nukhba terrorists in Israeli prisons until the organization gains access to the hostages in Gaza, the judges made their outrage clear. But their fury was not aimed at Hamas or the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which has utterly abandoned its humanitarian mission. Instead, it was directed at their own government and prison authorities.

The ex parte session was spurred by a petition on behalf of the terrorists. It was submitted by the usual left-wing “suspects”: the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Physicians for Human Rights, HaMoked (the Center for the Defense of the Individual) and Gisha.

These NGOs pulled a typical fast one. They first acknowledged that “Hamas doesn’t provide information about those it holds in captivity, and refuses to allow Red Cross visits to the hostages … in Gaza [among whom] are those who were murdered in Hamas captivity.”

They then went on to get to the crux of their foul maneuver to equate victim and perpetrator, by stating that “Israel’s obligations toward those it holds do not change because of Hamas’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

As if Israel’s “holding” of mass murderers is comparable to Hamas’s “holding” of innocent captives.

Not surprisingly, Justice Yitzhak Amit, the self-anointed president of the Supreme Court, agrees with this twisted logic. But the reasoning that he proffered during the hearing went beyond woke politics to focus on his personal reputation and that of his hallowed perch in the international arena.

“Right now, what’s … being publicized abroad [is] that there is starvation, that dozens of prisoners are dying, that it’s basically the Israeli Guantรกnamo,” he bellowed, banging on his table. “And you’re putting us, the court, at the forefront, on the front line.”

His colleague, Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, fretted about families of terrorists not knowing what’s become of their loved ones. You know, being a sensitive woman and all.

She went as far as to bemoan that each incarcerated individual has been reduced to nothing more than an anonymous title of “prisoner X.”

Though like the petitioners, she conceded that the Oct. 7 terrorists indeed “committed heinous acts,” she expressed horror that their families have no clue where they are. “Even in the harshest times, there was never such a situation,” she asserted. “A writ of habeas corpus requires that information be provided, and there was always compliance. Suddenly, zero information is being conveyed.”

Boo-hoo for the parents who raised their kids to boast about killing Jews with their bare hands.
Trump admin revokes security clearance for 37 intelligence professionals
Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. director of national intelligence, announced the revocation of security clearances on Tuesday of 37 current and former intelligence officials, “who have abused the public trust by politicizing and manipulating intelligence, leaking classified intelligence without authorization and/or committing intentional egregious violations of tradecraft standards.”

“Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right,” Gabbard wrote. Members of the intelligence community who “put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold.”

The list includes several individuals with ties to Israel affairs, including Maher Bitar, a former White House coordinator for intelligence and defense policy at the U.S. National Security Council under the Biden administration.

Bitar was a leader of Students for Justice in Palestine and worked for UNRWA, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which Israel has said is deeply infiltrated by Hamas.

Bitar is currently chief counsel and national security adviser to Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a staunch opponent of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Andrew Miller, former deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs for the U.S. State Department, also had his security clearance stripped. He previously served as a senior policy advisor to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under the Biden administration, covering the Middle East and North Africa, counterterrorism, political-military affairs and intelligence. He was also director for Egypt and Israel military issues on the National Security Council during the Obama administration.

Since his departure from the State Department, Miller has become a vocal critic of U.S.-Israel policy. He’s currently a senior fellow in the National Security and International Policy department at the Center for American Progress.
Germany charges Russian national with plan to attack Israel embassy in Berlin
German prosecutors have charged a Russian national they suspect of planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin and of trying to join the Islamic State terrorist organization, they said on Wednesday.

Prosecutors believe the accused, identified only as Akhmad E. in line with German privacy rules, obtained instructions from the Internet on how to make explosives, but the plan failed as he could not get the components he needed.

“From the beginning of February, he planned to carry out an attack in Germany, for example on the Israeli embassy in Berlin,” said federal prosecutors in a statement.

He has been detained since his arrest at Berlin airport in February. Prosecutors suspect he was on the way to Pakistan for military training with ISIS and that he funded the trip by selling expensive smartphones that he obtained by signing up for mobile phone plans.

He is also accused of translating propaganda into Russian and Chechen for IS, said the statement.

Prosecutors charged him on August 7 with preparing and incitement to commit a serious act of violence endangering the state and, as a minor, of trying to join a terrorist group abroad.


TRIGGERnometry: Asking Benjamin Netanyahu The Tough Questions
Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel. He answers Konstantin's and Francis' questions on the Israel/Gaza War.

00:00 Introduction
02:13 Benjamin Netanyahu's Experience Of October 7th
06:05 What Do We Now Know That We Didn't On October 7th?
08:11 How Did Your Intelligence Services Not See This Coming?
12:57 Was Israel Allowing Qatar To Give Money To Hamas?
16:14 Keir Starmer's Comments And The UK Recognising Palestine As A State
19:36 Will Israel Be Trapped In A 'Forever War' Through Its Current Actions?
26:47 The Inflammatory Comments By Israeli Government Ministers
31:33 The Views Of The Younger Generations Towards Israel
35:01 What Does The Future Of Gaza Look Like?
37:15 What's The One Thing We're Not Talking About In Western Civilisation That We Should Be?


The E1 battle: Why Israel can’t bow to Macron’s Palestinian fantasy
Israel’s recent approval of 3,401 housing units in the strategic E1 corridor has unleashed the usual chorus of outrage from world leaders and Palestinian statehood advocates. Chief among them is French President Emmanuel Macron, who is pushing to force a United Nations General Assembly vote on Palestinian statehood in September.

For Macron, it’s a grand gesture—a pacifist fantasy that pretends a Palestinian state is the antidote to war. But for Israel, it’s an existential threat.

The E1 corridor, connecting Jerusalem to the city of Ma’ale Adumim, is a vital buffer against the encirclement of Israel’s capital by a hostile Palestinian entity stretching from Ramallah to Bethlehem. Without it, Jerusalem risks becoming isolated and vulnerable, as it was between 1948 and 1967, when Jews were barred from the Western Wall.

This is why Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich pushed the plan forward. Detractors dismiss him as a hardline minority voice. Yet the truth is that his stance reflects a sober reality: Israel cannot trade its survival for international applause.

The Palestinian leadership has never renounced its jihadist vision. It never condemned the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. It continues its “pay-for-slay” policy that rewards terrorism. And now it proudly declares that thanks to Oct. 7, it is winning the war of opinion.

Macron and his allies—Australia, Canada and others—are effectively rewarding Hamas by pressing for Palestinian statehood at the U.N.

Israel has been here before. The Arab League’s “three no’s” after the Six-Day War left no room for compromise. Every Israeli offer of peace has been met with terrorism, from Arafat’s rejectionism to Abbas’s intransigence. The so-called “Green Line” was never a border, merely an armistice line, and today it is being used as a weapon against Israel’s legitimacy.

E1 is more than a housing plan. It is a shield for Jerusalem and a message to Israel’s enemies: this nation will not be divided or surrounded again.
Jerusalem United: Why E1 Is the Death of Delusion, Not Peace
A Plan Frozen for Decades, Thawed by Resolve
E1 is not new. It has sat on planning tables since the 1990s, repeatedly frozen whenever a U.S. Secretary of State or a European envoy waved a finger. Israeli leaders feared international backlash more than they feared leaving their capital vulnerable. But after years of hesitation, the August 6 objections hearing cleared the path, and today Israel finally pulled the trigger. Infrastructure work could begin within months. This is the culmination of a struggle between political cowardice and strategic necessity. Necessity just won.

The Predictable Backlash
The EU, the UN, and the same activist press outlets that spent the last year laundering Hamas talking points are predictably shrieking about “apartheid roads” and “death of the two-state solution.” They never cared about Israeli civilians burned alive in their homes, raped in their bedrooms, or dragged into Gaza on October 7. But they want the world outraged over Jews building houses near their capital.

Let’s call this out for what it is: not concern for Palestinians, but hostility to Jewish sovereignty.

Security First, Peace Later
If peace ever comes, it will be built on clarity, not delusion. That clarity begins with a united, defensible Jerusalem. E1 provides the territorial continuity Israel needs, and it does so while allowing Palestinian movement around it. Israel is not obstructing peace, it is removing ambiguity. Without E1, the capital remains a narrow waistline, exposed to the very kind of infiltration and terror we have seen countless times before. With E1, Israel locks down its capital. That is not “provocative”, it is responsible statecraft.

The Bottom Line
E1 is not the end of peace. It is the end of illusions. Israel will not gamble its capital for the sake of foreign talking points. Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim are now inseparably linked. That connection strengthens the capital, reinforces Israel’s security, and affirms the most basic truth: the Jewish people are home, and we are here to stay.


Censored tweet:
Today I saw the murder weapon that killed and beheaded Sri Lankan national Sujit Nisanka on October 7. Today I got a cold reminder why the State of Israel cannot and will not live next to this murderous society.

Poll shows most Americans back Palestine recognition, view Israeli campaign as excessive
A 58-percent majority of Americans believe that every country in the United Nations should recognize Palestine as a nation, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday, reflecting Israel’s increasingly precarious international position after 22 months of a grueling and destructive war in Gaza.

Some 33% of respondents did not agree that UN members should recognize a Palestinian state and 9% did not answer.

The six-day poll, which closed on Monday, was taken within weeks of three countries — close US allies Canada, Britain and France — announcing they intended to recognize the State of Palestine. This ratcheted up pressure on Israel as the UN and aid groups warned of spreading starvation in Gaza.

Britain, Canada, Australia and several of their European allies said last week that the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn Palestinian enclave has reached “unimaginable levels,” as aid groups warned that Gazans were on the verge of famine.

The UN human rights office said on Tuesday that Israel was not letting enough supplies into the Gaza Strip to avert widespread starvation.

The UN last week warned that starvation and malnutrition in the Palestinian territory are at their highest levels since the war began with the Hamas-led massacre on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

A larger majority of the Reuters/Ipsos poll respondents, 65%, said the US should take action in Gaza to help people facing starvation, with 28% disagreeing. The number disagreeing included 41% of US President Donald Trump’s Republicans.
Trump Admin Sanctions Four Top International Criminal Court Members for Targeting US, Israeli Officials
The Trump administration sanctioned four members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday over their efforts to "investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute nationals of the United States or Israel, without the consent of either nation," the State Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.

The sanctions target two ICC judges and two deputy prosecutors, all of whom are involved in cases against American military members and Israeli officials. They include Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, French judge Nicolas Guillou, Fijian deputy prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan, and Senegalese deputy prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang.

"The United States has been clear and steadfast in our opposition to the ICC’s politicization, abuse of power, disregard for our national sovereignty, and illegitimate judicial overreach," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement provided to the Free Beacon. "The Court is a national security threat that has been an instrument for lawfare against the United States and our close ally Israel."

Prost authorized the ICC’s ongoing investigation into American military members who served in Afghanistan, while Guillou signed off on arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant. Both Khan and Niang will be sanctioned for "continuing to support illegitimate ICC actions against Israel, including upholding the ICC’s arrest warrants," according to the State Department.

"It remains the policy of the United States Government to take whatever actions we deem necessary to protect our troops, our sovereignty, and our allies from the ICC’s illegitimate and baseless actions," Rubio added. "I urge countries that still support the ICC, many of whose freedom was purchased at the price of great American sacrifices, to resist the claims of this bankrupt institution."

The sanctions are meant "to impose tangible and significant consequences on those directly engaged in the ICC’s transgressions against the United States and Israel," according to a fact sheet assembled by the Treasury Department, which enforces sanctions. Americans, including financial institutions, are now prohibited from conducting transactions with the four ICC members and any property held inside the country will be blocked.
Netanyahu hails US sanctions on ICC officials over Israel arrest warrants
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed sweeping US sanctions on four senior figures at the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling it “a decisive action for truth and justice.”

The measures, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday, target two judges and two deputy prosecutors accused by Washington of pursuing “illegitimate and baseless” cases against Israel. The sanctions freeze any assets held in the United States and bar the officials from the American financial system.

Those designated include French judge Nicolas Guillou, who presided over the pre-trial panel that authorised arrest warrants for Netanyahu, former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader Ibrahim al-Masri last November. The other officials are deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji and Mame Mandiaye Niang of Senegal, alongside Canadian judge Kimberly Prost.

The latest sanctions follow a similar American step three months ago, when four ICC judges were blacklisted for what the State Department described as attempts to target the US and Israel.

Speaking after the announcement, Netanyahu said the sanctions “expose the false smear campaign against the State of Israel and the IDF” and praised Washington for standing “on the side of our soldiers and our people.”

The ICC, which insists it operates independently under international law, has not yet issued a response to the new measures.


Panama deserves sanctions, not the Security Council presidency
This month, Panama holds the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council — a position that confers moral authority, policy influence and global prestige as the representative “face” of the Council. But given Panama’s longstanding and conscious role in undermining sanctions on Iran, this honor is deeply wrong and misguided.

In fact, Panama should not be elevated — it should be sanctioned. A country that enables Iran’s sanctions evasion should not be rewarded with the symbolic leadership of the very body charged with upholding those sanctions.

Despite its protestations, Panama is neither a champion of the rules-based international order nor a true ally to the U.S. Panama’s acquiescence to Chinese “Belt and Road Initiative” ambitions in controlling the Panama Canal is only the latest sign of Panamanian duplicity that place it squarely at odds with the values and objectives of the council.

For years, Panama has allowed its flag — akin to a passport for ships — to be used by vessels transporting illicit Iranian oil, the key revenue stream for a regime that continues to defy international nuclear restrictions.

Panama is not ignorant or unaware of this problem. In January 2024, a bipartisan group of 31 U.S. Senators led by Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) urged the Panama Maritime Authority to “cooperate with the United States and conduct investigations into a significant number of ships registered in Panama which are alleged to transport Iranian oil in violation of U.S. sanctions…” They sought Panama’s explicit commitment to investigate some “189 Panamanian-flagged vessels of concern,” constituting “nearly half” of all the vessels aiding Iran.

Two months later, then-Special Envoy to Iran Abram Paley visited Panama “to ensure that the vessel registry is not abused by entities seeking to evade our sanctions on Iran. … Iran and its affiliated groups are trying to evade sanctions here in Panama, they are trying to abuse the flag registration of ships.”

According to analysis by our organization, United Against Nuclear Iran, of the 542 foreign-flagged vessels that have carried in excess of $200 billion worth of Iranian oil since 2020 (mainly to China), some 289 have at one stage or another flown the 100-year old Bandera de Panama. As of this week, we identify 116 vessels currently flying the Panamanian flag that are implicated in carrying Iranian oil.
Eugene Kontorovich: Trump doesn’t have to quit UNESCO again because we never lawfully rejoined
President Trump recently announced that the United States was quitting the United Nations Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the third time. This is good news – UNESCO has championed gender ideology in education, discriminatory DEI policies, and the entire litany of woke doctrines. It has also worked to erase Jewish history in the Holy Land.

But the administration did not need to bother with formally withdrawing from the treaty — from a constitutional perspective, the U.S. hasn’t been a member at least since Trump first quit it in 2017.

When Biden sought to rejoin the Paris-based agency in 2023, he neglected to seek authorization from Congress. No one made a big deal of it then, but it means that, for domestic law purposes, the U.S. never actually rejoined.

This is an important point with implications for numerous international organizations, especially as the administration sets out on an agenda of U.N. reform. Membership in international organizations was not supposed to be a political revolving door. Congress authorizes membership at the outset. After the U.S. leaves, a whole new congressional authorization must be obtained by any president wishing to rejoin.

Under the Constitution, the president can only bring the country into a treaty with the “consent” of two-thirds of the Senate. That is a substantial hurdle, and deliberately so: Commitments to foreign countries can be harder to pull out of than domestic ones. They can become a way of imposing obligations on the country that are then out of reach of the democratic process. In the 20th century, presidents have often relied on the approval of a majority of both Houses instead, a dubious practice but now widely followed.

When the U.S. first joined UNESCO in 1946 (and the World Health Organization in 1948), President Truman was acting pursuant a law passed by both Houses authorizing him to do so.

But Congress did not reauthorize Biden’s reentry to UNESCO. Instead, he treated the 1946 authorization as a lifetime membership, when in fact it was only a one-time pass. If the U.S. quit a treaty that the Senate had ratified — say the NATO treaty — then a decision to rejoin would be subject to a new requirement of advice and consent. Congressional authorization is a stand-in for Senate ratification and should be subject to the same rules.


Israel procures two new additional refueling aircraft for the IDF from Boeing
Israel Defense Ministry (IMOD) Director General, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram instructed the IMOD Mission to the US to sign the contract with the American government to procure two refueling aircraft for the Israeli Air Force, manufactured by Boeing, once approval of the Israel Defense Procurement Ministerial Committee is obtained.

This is a follow-on contract with the US Government for procuring two advanced refueling aircraft in addition to four previously purchased KC-46 aircraft. This will expand the IDF’s new refueling fleet to six aircraft. The new aircraft will be equipped with Israeli systems and adapted to the Israeli Air Force's (IAF) operational requirements.

The contract’s scope is estimated at approximately half a billion dollars and is funded through US aid. It represents a significant milestone in the extensive force buildup that the IMOD is conducting for the IDF.

They will replace the IAF’s fleet of Re’em Boeing 707 tankers, with the first two deliveries expected in 2026 and an additional two aircraft at a later date.

Israel ordered the aircraft from Boeing in a deal worth approximately $930 million with the US government that allows the IAF to purchase up to eight tankers to replace its Re’em (Boeing 707) tanker aircraft, many of which are over 60 years old.

IMOD Director General, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram said that “the fifth and sixth refueling aircraft will strengthen the IAF - the IDF's long-range strategic arm - enabling it to reach distant theaters with greater force and scope. We will continue to work together to strengthen the IDF in the current campaign and toward future challenges.”
Katz calls up 60,000 reservists as IDF gears up for Gaza City conquest
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday authorized the call-up of 60,000 reservists and extended service orders for an additional 20,000 during a visit to Southern Command.

Joined by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, he was briefed on operational plans to capture Gaza City and create the conditions for ending the war as part of the next phase of “Gideon’s Chariots.”

Katz praised the army’s readiness on both military and civilian fronts.

“We are now calling our heroic soldiers in the reserves, the career army, and the regular forces to the flag, in order to bring about the release of the hostages, the defeat of Hamas, and the end of the war under the conditions set by Israel,” Katz stated.

“I instruct you to use all tools and all strength to strike the enemy until its defeat, and to protect the IDF soldiers. This is the top consideration; anyone with complaints should address them to me,” the minister continued.

Southern Command Chief, Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, presented Katz with a comprehensive briefing; while Deputy Commander of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. (res.) Yossi Bachar and other commanders provided additional briefings.

With 70,000 reservists currently serving, the influx of 60,000 additional soldiers will raise the total to 130,00 active reservists on duty. Mobilization is scheduled for early September, some two weeks after the call-up orders, which began on Wednesday. The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday approved Katz’s request to extend emergency reservist mobilization until Sept. 4. It passed with eight in favor and seven against, with ultra-Orthodox Knesset members abstaining.
IDF says troops repelled rare large-scale attack in south Gaza; 10 gunmen killed
A cell of at least 18 Hamas operatives attempted to raid an Israel Defense Forces encampment in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, according to a military probe of the unusual incident.

Three soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously, in the attack, the IDF said.

The military assessed that the Hamas gunmen sought to kidnap troops.

According to a military probe, the attack began at around 9 a.m., with the operatives emerging from a tunnel in the south of Khan Younis and opening fire with machine guns and RPGs while approaching the army encampment.

Some of the gunmen managed to breach the encampment, where they exchanged fire with troops of the Kfir Brigade.

At least ten of the operatives were killed by the troops and in airstrikes directed by the forces, while eight managed to flee back into the tunnel, according to the army probe.

The IDF released footage showing the airstrikes and efforts by troops to repel the attack. IDF troops repel a Hamas attack on an army encampment in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, August 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

“The troops identified more than 15 terrorists who emerged from a tunnel and opened fire, including RPG fire, at the forces,” IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said in a press conference.

“In the same incident, several terrorists entered a building where our forces were residing, and the terrorists were eliminated. We are investigating how this occurred, and will draw the necessary conclusions,” Defrin said.


“We’re on the Verge of A Hostage Deal That Will Change EVERYTHING in Gaza..."
In this week’s episode, we dive into the tense developments surrounding the Israel–Hamas hostage situation. With only a few dozen hostages remaining, families are protesting against a partial release, demanding that no one be left behind. Meanwhile, leftist protesters are calling to end the war, unintentionally playing into Hamas’s trap. On top of that, antisemitism is rising abroad, with disturbing reports from Australia showing how the conflict is fueling attacks on Jewish communities. One thing is certain: there’s no going back. Israel is preparing to decisively finish Hamas, and the choices made now will define the outcome of the war and the fate of those hostages.


BBC admits Gazan woman who ‘starved to death’ had cancer
The BBC has acknowledged that a young woman from Gaza it initially reported as having died from malnutrition was, in fact, undergoing treatment for cancer.

At the weekend, the broadcaster said that 20-year-old Marah Abu Zuhri had passed away after being flown to Italy for medical care, describing her at the time as “severely emaciated”.

Soon after, Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) stated that she had been battling leukaemia.

The report prompted accusations that the BBC had spread “shocking misinformation”. The article was amended on Sunday to include details of her illness.

Responding to the criticism, the corporation explained: “We were not initially aware that Marah Abu Zuhri was being treated for leukaemia. In line with usual editorial practice, we added this to the story after the Israeli authorities put the information into the public domain, in what the hospital has described as ‘a very complex clinical picture’. We have amended the original headline and tweet and added an explanatory note.”


Britain’s politics has been fractured by islamism and extremism
British politics is entering a dangerous new phase. A breakaway party led by left-wing radicals and Islamist allies threatens to split Labour’s vote — just as Reform UK could fracture the Conservatives. The result? A volatile election landscape where extremism creeps closer to the mainstream.

⚖️ The risk of new extremist parties destabilising Labour and the Conservatives
๐Ÿ—ณ️ Why Britain’s political centre ground is collapsing
✡️ How antisemitism and Islamist alliances threaten British democracy
๐ŸŒ The futility of Britain lecturing Israel on Gaza and Palestinian statehood
๐Ÿ”ฅ Why Labour’s recognition of Palestine backfired — empowering Hamas instead of peace


travelingisrael.com: The World Proves Black Lives Don’t Matter — Here’s the Ugly Truth.
Black lives don’t matter. Not in Sudan, not in Congo, not in Yemen. The deadliest war in the world is happening right now in Sudan, with up to 190,000 dead and millions starving under siege in El-Fasher. And yet… the media is silent. No headlines. No protests. No outrage.

Why does the world rage about Gaza, but ignore Sudan? Why do millions march against Israel, but nobody marches for starving African children?

This is the ugly truth: in practice, Black lives don’t matter. And the world is obsessed with Jews. Watch, share, and leave your thoughts in the comments.




‘Pat Buchanan in a New Guise’: Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Slams Tucker Carlson Over Anti-Israel Stance
A senior aide to US President Donald Trump on Tuesday repudiated controversial political commentator Tucker Carlson for promoting what he described as an isolationist foreign policy that’s hostile to Israel, suggesting that Carlson is “repackaging” the ideology of infamous paleoconservative intellectual Pat Buchanan.

Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the White House National Security Council, made the comments while appearing for an event at the Hudson Institute, a prominent think tank in Washington, DC.

Moderator Michael Doran, a Hudson senior fellow and Middle East expert, asked Gorka to address the growth of anti-Israel, antisemitic sentiment on right-wing podcasts and social media.

“This wing of isolationism is nothing new. We had this 100 years ago, and this is just a poor, substandard repackaging of neo-Buchananite isolationism,” Gorka said in response.

“The Tucker right wing is basically, you know, Pat Buchanan in a new guise. It is actually a shallower version. Pat is far smarter than this version of isolationism,” Gorka continued.

Carlson, a right-wing podcaster and former Fox News host, has repeatedly argued on his podcast that the US should withdraw from costly foreign entanglements and focus on domestic issues. That perspective has led him to sharply criticize US support for Israel, which he has framed as an unnecessary drain on American resources and a distraction from pressing challenges at home.

Carlson has often warned that Washington’s commitments to its allies, particularly in the Middle East, risk dragging the United States into wars that he believes serve little purpose for the average American family. His rhetoric has placed him at odds with more traditional conservatives who view support for Israel as central to US foreign policy.


Marjorie Taylor Greene Meets Megyn Kelly: 90-Minutes Of Misinformation by MTG
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s repeated misrepresentations aren’t mere political quibbles—they expose a worrisome inability to comprehend even the simplest legislation. Exemplified by her frenzy on HR 867. The bill clarified existing anti-boycott laws in a single page to protect American businesses from international organizations like the UN, yet MTG and others amplified false claims of free speech restrictions, based on Iranian and Hamas-linked propaganda.

MTG claims she only cares about “protecting Americans”—but that protection just doesn’t seem to include American Jews. On June 10, 2025, during the vote on H.Res. 481, a bipartisan, near-unanimous resolution condemning rising antisemitic violence, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene voted “present,” joining Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Apparently, burning Jews alive in Colorado or murdering them in the streets of D.C. doesn’t concern her nearly as much as manufactured outrage and foreign propaganda.

Even more startling, she voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 (H.R. 6090)—a modest, bipartisan bill to protect Jewish students on campus by requiring the Education Department to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. The bill passed the House 320–91 on May 1, 2024. This wasn’t a matter of political disagreement—it was a failure of duty.

When asked why she voted no, MTG claimed the legislation “could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jews handed Jesus over to Herod to be crucified.” This is completely false. The bill does not criminalize belief, faith, or Scripture; it simply provides a working definition of antisemitism to guide the Department of Education in enforcing existing civil rights protections. No Christian—or member of any faith—would face “conviction” under the bill. Greene’s framing was not based on the text of the legislation but on propaganda and online misinformation about it—she and her staff seem incapable of reading and understanding the bills before them, relying instead on social media talking points.

Taxpayers fund their salaries, their offices, and their staff, yet basic comprehension of the laws they vote on seems beyond them. Instead of reading the text, verifying facts, or consulting experts, they either willfully or ignorantly spread falsehoods, parroting propaganda from foreign media, fringe outlets, and activist groups. Our democracy depends on informed lawmaking, but when representatives cannot grasp the legislation in front of them and spread lies instead, the credibility of Congress, the integrity of our legal system, and even national security are all undermined.

Meanwhile, MTG abused Meghan Kelly who gave her more than an hour-long platform to amplify these distortions—enabling her to spread unchecked misinformation. I respect Kelly as an interviewer, but in this case she needs to understand how her platform was used by an elected representative who can’t even read a one-page bill before launching into a full Twitter-fueled rant. The result wasn’t debate or scrutiny—it was the legitimization of propaganda and falsehoods broadcast to millions.
The Moral Collapse of Megyn Kelly
This is worse than simply giving someone airtime. It is legitimization. By refusing to challenge Greene’s claims, Kelly made them sound like reasonable positions instead of recycled conspiracies. She replaced journalism with indulgence, letting Greene launder paranoia into something that looked like analysis.

Kelly knows exactly what she is doing. She is a trained lawyer and veteran journalist who understands the difference between policy criticism and antisemitic tropes. Yet she blurred that line on purpose because doing so serves her interests. “Some fraction of [my friends] will say like, well, why would you [have] an MTG? She’s definitely gone anti-Israel. And I don’t care whether you’re anti-Israel or not. Anti-Israel people are welcome here.” By framing the objection as hostility to “anti-Israel” voices, Kelly built another straw man. The criticism is not that she hosted someone with a different view. The criticism is that she allowed Greene’s antisemitic conspiracy theories to go virtually unchallenged. That is not courage. That is surrender, the willingness to treat bigotry as respectable commentary so long as it generates clicks.

The tragedy is that real debates about U.S. foreign policy do exist, about the scale of aid, the balance of alliances, and the search for long-term peace. But those debates demand serious participants. They demand people who can tell the difference between policy critique and conspiracy theory. Greene is not such a person. By treating her arguments as credible, Kelly ensured that none of those serious questions would be approached.

The result was a conversation that drags down public discourse and normalizes the notion that Jewish “control” explains American politics. This kind of talk does not stay confined to fringe corners of the internet. It bleeds into mainstream conversation, where the line between fact and conspiracy grows thinner.

Kelly was once a journalist who asked tough questions and held the powerful accountable. Now she is a performer chasing attention, a provocateur mistaking viral heat for truth. She praises herself for courage while giving space to the ugliest conspiracy theories in American politics. Her collapse shows the emptiness of a media culture where attention, not accuracy, has become the currency.

Her conversation with Greene was not journalism. It was entertainment pretending to be inquiry, evasion pretending to be independence. It was a surrender of judgment to the algorithms of outrage. Megyn Kelly has not discovered courage. She has discovered a business model, and it is built on the rubble of truth.


Paul Weller sues accountant firm for 'discriminating against him' after it stopped working with him 'for saying Israel is committing genocide in Gaza'
Paul Weller is suing his former accountancy firm for discrimination after they ceased working with him for saying Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza.

The Jam frontman, 67, filed the discrimination suit against Harris and Trotter after the business cut ties with him after 30 years in March, according to a pre-action letter.

A WhatsApp message from a partner at the firm said the musician's political beliefs regarding Israel, Palestine, and Gaza were 'well known', but the firm was 'offended at the assertions that Israel is committing any type of genocide', the letter claims.

While the partner acknowledged that 'everyone is entitled to their own views', they claimed the musician was 'alleging such anti-Israel views' that the firm 'with Jewish roots and many Jewish partners' could no longer work with Mr Weller.

Lawyers representing the musician alleged by ending their services, the accountants discriminated against the singer's protected philosophical beliefs including that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and Palestine should be recognised as a nation state.

'I've always spoken out against injustice, whether it's apartheid, ethnic cleansing, or genocide. What's happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza is a humanitarian catastrophe,' Weller said.

'I believe they have the right to self-determination, dignity, and protection under international law, and I believe Israel is committing genocide against them. That must be called out.

'Silencing those who speak this truth is not just censorship - it's complicity.

'I'm taking legal action not just for myself, but to help ensure that others are not similarly punished for expressing their beliefs about the rights of the Palestinian people.'




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