Wednesday, August 27, 2025

08/27 Links Pt1: The U.N.’s long war against Israel; How the UN Engaged in Data Fraud to Undermine U.S. Humanitarian Aid; When hospitals become battlefields

From Ian:

Clifford D. May: The U.N.’s long war against Israel
Given this history, I thought the U.N.’s demonization of Israel had gone as far as it could go.

I was wrong.

Last week, the U.N.-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) released a “report” declaring “with reasonable evidence” that famine now exists in parts of Gaza. It goes without saying – actually it’s being incessantly repeated – that Israelis are to blame.

To make these claims, the IPC manipulated its methodology, adjusted its criteria, and reinterpreted the legal definition of genocide utilizing dubious data from the Gaza Health Ministry – i.e., Hamas – and discarding data provided by Israel.

What’s more, one of the authors of the report, Andrew Seal, had already begun accusing Israel of genocide on the second day of the October 2023 counterattacks against Hamas.

No one denies that, amid a war that has dragged on for almost two years, Gazans are suffering terrible hardships, including food insecurity and, in some cases, malnutrition.

But the incontrovertible facts are these: Hamas started this war and refuses to end it; Hamas takes no responsibility for the people it has ruled and is determined to continue to rule; Hamas refuses to release hostages abducted from Israel and whom it is torturing – even though doing so would almost certainly lead to a ceasefire.

One more fact: Since May, more than 10,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza, with eight out of ten bringing food. This has resulted in wider availability of essential foods at reduced prices in Gaza markets.

The U.N. is making distribution of this aid more difficult by demanding that UNRWA be in charge despite UNRWA letting Hamas take a cut both to feed its leaders in the tunnels and resell for cash to pay its troops on the streets above.

The UN adamantly refuses to work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an American/Israeli project delivering free food directly to Gazans with Hamas excluded.

Much of the media have been helping weaponize public opinion against Israel. Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova revealed in The Free Press this month that even before the IPC designation, at least a dozen “viral images of starvation” published by The New York Times, NPR, CNN, and other major news outlets were in fact photos of children with “significant health problems” such as cerebral palsy – not famine victims.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee observed on X: “Hostages ARE starving, Hamas is getting fat, & the UN declares famine while 92% of THEIR food is stolen to be sold by Hamas. Meanwhile UN food sits rotting in sun. The UN should declare itself corrupt & incompetent.”

Which raises a question: Why are American taxpayers still spending roughly $13 billion a year on the most globalist of institutions which for half a century has been waging a disinformation war – including bogus charges of racism, apartheid, genocide, and intentional starvation – against the only democracy in the Middle East which also is America’s most reliable ally in the world?

Memo to President Trump: Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Author of UN-Backed Gaza Famine Report Peddled Anti-Semitic Tropes, Conspiracy Theories, and Terrorist Apologia
An author of a U.N.-backed report that accused Israel of creating "famine" in Gaza is a longtime anti-Israel radical who has defended Hamas, claimed Jewish politicians have a "conflict of interest" on Middle Eastern issues, and supported boycotts targeting the Jewish state.

Andrew Seal, who serves on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) famine review committee and helped write the IPC’s highly publicized report published earlier this month, has a history of incendiary rhetoric that includes comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and accusing the Jewish state of having killed its own people on Oct. 7, 2023.

The report, which declared the situation in Gaza a "famine" and called for an immediate Israeli "ceasefire," said the "time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading."

Numerous mainstream media outlets picked up the IPC’s claims without disclosing Seal’s history of attacking Israel and defending Hamas terrorists or noting the possibility that his beliefs could have influenced the IPC report. Newspapers and networks like the New York Times, NPR, CNN, and ABC News relied on the IPC report to claim Israeli policies have led to mass starvation, with the Times stating that "months of severe aid restrictions imposed by Israel on the territory" have caused a famine "across most of Gaza."

Just one month after the Oct. 7 massacres, Seal defended a statement from Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad in which the terrorist promised to repeat the attacks "again and again." Seal said he believed Hamad’s comments were reasonable because Israel was "currently committing genocide."

"You can’t ignore the fact that one side is currently committing genocide and the other isn’t," Seal wrote. "And, do you realistically expect a political leader of occupied & oppressed people to say they will stop fighting in absence of an alternative? Let’s be real."

In another post on X, Seal claimed there was "no evidence" Hamas committed sexual violence against Israeli women, describing footage of the Oct. 7 attacks as "propaganda."
Andrew Fox: When hospitals become battlefields
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior IDF commanders have already suggested that something went wrong. The IDF has promised to ‘examine several gaps’ in the strike, including who authorised it. Netanyahu was far more emphatic. He said Israel ‘deeply regrets the tragic mishap’ that led to the strike, and promised a ‘thorough investigation’. The IDF owes Israelis, Palestinians and the international community a clear and transparent explanation.

What happened at the Nasser Hospital encapsulates the tragic reality of the Gaza war. It also highlights the sadistic logic used by Hamas to protract the war at all costs. It has embedded fighters, weapons and command centres in hospitals, schools and mosques. In doing so, it gains a cruel advantage: if Israel refrains from striking, Hamas benefits militarily. But if Israel does strike, Hamas benefits politically, as images of civilian casualties dominate headlines worldwide. Israel, meanwhile, is forced to make decisions in an environment where the normal distinctions between civilian and military sites can be impossible to discern. In such circumstances, mistakes are inevitable. Yet each one becomes a source of global outrage, with Israel pinned as the callous perpetrator of an alleged war crime, long before the facts are established.

The Nasser Hospital strike is, in many ways, a distillation of the insoluble moral and strategic problems of the war in Gaza. It shows how boundaries between civilian and combatant are deliberately erased, how international law is abused for the benefit of terrorists, and how Israel is condemned for fighting an enemy that hides behind the sick and wounded.

The world should demand answers about Monday’s strike – but it should also demand accountability from those who have deliberately turned hospitals into battlefields. Of course, that would mean admitting that this war is far more complex than the standard narrative allows.
When hospitals become battlefields: The strain on Israeli soldiers
International law does not demand perfect outcomes in war. It demands distinction, proportionality and feasible precautions. The Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (Art. 57) states that attackers must take “all feasible precautions” to avoid civilian harm—but feasible means “that which is practicable or practically possible, taking into account all circumstances ruling at the time.” Scholars like Yoram Dinstein emphasize that commanders are not required to sacrifice their soldiers’ lives for marginal reductions in collateral damage.

Comparable practices exist elsewhere: “U.S. Joint Publication 3-60” on targeting notes that collateral damage estimation must always be balanced against “force protection and mission accomplishment.” NATO’s doctrine on urban operations similarly acknowledges that standoff firepower may be necessary in asymmetric conflicts where insurgents exploit civilian structures.

Here, the target was a legitimate military objective; at least seven of the dead were confirmed combatants, including participants in Oct. 7; and feasible alternatives that posed less risk to civilians would have required unacceptable risks to IDF soldiers.

No ethical system requires troops to walk into the jaws of a tunnel war to shave down collateral damage that the enemy itself engineered. When Hamas embeds cameras, launchers and fighters in and around medical centers, it is Hamas that erases the line between combatant and civilian.

The tragedy at Nasser Hospital was not born of reckless IDF firepower but of Hamas’s calculated tactic of using civilian cover to wage war. The IDF is left balancing the impossible: protect its soldiers, fulfill its ethical code and fight an enemy that thrives on turning hospitals and homes into battlefields.

Seven of the dead were not innocents. They were armed actors in a brutal conflict, some with blood from Oct. 7 already on their hands. That does not erase the grief of the other lives lost, though it does shift the moral calculus.

The hard truth of Khan Yunis is this: There is no surgical way to fight an enemy that tunnels beneath your feet and hides behind patients’ walls. The burden on IDF soldiers is immense, and the responsibility for civilian casualties rests first and foremost with those who made hospitals into fortresses.


Trump holds Gaza policy meeting with Blair and Kushner, White House official says
US President Donald Trump was presiding over a policy meeting on the Gaza war on Wednesday with input from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Trump Middle East envoy Jared Kushner, a senior White House official said.

Trump, top White House officials, Blair, and Kushner were discussing all aspects of the Gaza issue, including escalating food aid deliveries, the hostage crisis, post-war plans, and more, the official told Reuters.

The official described the session as "simply a policy meeting," the type frequently held by Trump and his team.

Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, was a key White House adviser in Trump's first term on Middle East issues. Blair, who was prime minister during the 2003 Iraq war, has also been active on Middle East issues.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff previewed the meeting in an appearance on Fox News' "Special Reporting with Bret Baier" on Tuesday.

Plans for a ceasefire in Gaza
Trump had promised a quick end to the war in Gaza during last year's presidential campaign, but a resolution has been elusive seven months into his second term.

Trump's term began with a ceasefire that lasted two months. Since then, Israel has returned to war with Hamas. Multiple rounds of hostage talks have failed to yield results.

“President Trump has been clear that he wants the war to end, and he wants peace and prosperity for everyone in the region. The White House has nothing additional to share on the meeting at this time," a second White House official said.
'There will not be a Palestinian state,' Sa'ar says after meeting with Marco Rubio
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, when asked by reporters in Washington what the plan was for a Palestinian state, said that there would not be one.

Sa'ar made the comment to reporters following a Wednesday meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington that the foreign minister described as "very good."

The pair discussed key issues in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as the importance of countering Iran’s malign influence. They did not take questions from the press ahead of the meeting.

Sa'ar is also slated to meet with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, whom he hosted in Israel in May following the murder of two employees at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

Rubio also met with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi on Wednesday.

In a press statement, the State Department said that the two discussed global nuclear safety, including at Ukrainian nuclear facilities, and IAEA efforts to conduct monitoring and verification activities in Iran.

Grossi announced yesterday that IAEA inspectors were back in Iran for the first time since the 12-day war in June.


How the UN’s Famine Authority Engaged in Data Fraud to Undermine U.S. Humanitarian Aid
A Sabotage of American Legitimacy
In Gaza, U.S. leadership has taken the form of a new, evidence-based model of humanitarian aid and, in this context, these systemic, unsubstantiated accusations take on the appearance of a coordinated attempt to delegitimize a rival approach.

The UN famine authority based its mortality estimates on Hamas-controlled data. It failed to disclose forecasting errors. It buried evidence of U.S. progress. It downgraded one region and inflated another, despite similar conditions.

Even within the UN famine authority’s global record, Gaza stands out. In NCRI’s independent audit of their forecast accuracy across eight countries, Gaza was the worst overprojection NCRI could detect in the records on their website. 80 percent of subregions were misclassified at a higher level than what actually occurred. That fact was never disclosed publicly. It had to be reconstructed from raw data.

The Truth Is the First Casualty
Every decision made by the UN famine authority in this process, every model they selected, every figure they buried, every area they excluded, had the effect of obscuring evidence that U.S.-backed aid programs were showing positive results.

This was not a transparent application of data science. The choices made functioned less as neutral analysis and more as narrative shaping.

The UN famine authority’s report seemingly attempted to obscure evidence that U.S.-backed aid programs were delivering food more effectively, contributing to improved nutrition outcomes, reduced violence, and greater predictability in distribution.

If a small data science organization based in New Jersey can identify systemic irregularities at the core of the UN famine authority’s assessments, there is strong reason to call for a deeper, independent investigation. Congress, the State Department, and external watchdogs should review how the UN and its affiliates produced findings that diverged from their own data and thresholds, and why contradictory evidence was excluded or downplayed.

The implications go beyond Gaza. If a UN agency can misclassify famine through methodological or reporting failures, confidence in global humanitarian assessments is at risk. An investigation is essential to safeguard the integrity of humanitarian science and restore trust in international reporting.

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) is a nonpartisan research institute leading the field of cybersocial science a discipline that studies how technology, psychology, and society interact in the age of algorithmic influence.
Israel’s foreign ministry decries IPC food security entity’s ‘deeply flawed’ report
The director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry penned a scathing letter to an executive at the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification over the latter’s determination of an ongoing “famine” in Gaza.

Eden Bar Tal wrote to IPC global program manager Jose Lopez of Israel’s “utter denunciation” of the IPC report issued last Friday, calling it “deeply flawed, unprofessional and gravely missing the standards expected from an international body entrusted with such a serious responsibility.”

The letter largely criticizes the IPC’s extrapolation of varied data to draw assumptions that the death toll due to malnutrition had reached famine levels, even as the IPC acknowledges that it doesn’t have the hard figures to show that.

Bar Tal accused the IPC of “reaching a predetermined conclusion in order to support Hamas propaganda and the fake ‘starvation’ campaign,” by using “made-up data,” as well as cherry-picking statistics that supported the conclusion while ignoring or hiding data that might refute it.

Bar Tal stated that the IPC was using some of the same flawed methodologies that led to wildly inaccurate projections of famine by the IPC throughout the war, and that the United Nations-aligned entity continued to exclude Israel from the data collection and analysis process, even as it qualifies as a local government in the matter.

Bar Tal said the IPC report goes beyond miscalculations.

“It crosses a line, leaving the impression that the IPC chose to forego its principles and follow politically-motivated calls to declare famine, even if the official criteria have not been met,” he said.

Israel is calling for the IPC to “fully retract the report and its conclusions” until a review of the IPC’s methodologies and its adherence to established protocols is complete, Bar Tal said.
Israel MFA: LIVE: DG Eden Bar Tal addresses international media, exposing new information on the IPC report



Most Americans see famine in Gaza, blame Hamas; 18-24-year-olds back Hamas over Israel in war
Most Americans believe there is a famine in Gaza, but hold the Hamas terror group responsible, according to an August Harvard/Harris poll conducted as reports of the crisis led news in the US.

The survey found that 69% of respondents believed accusations that there is a famine in Gaza. More Democrats — 78% — believed the accusations than the 65% of Republicans and Independents.

A majority of 61% held Hamas responsible for the famine. Democrats were split over which side was responsible, while 74% of Republicans and 60% of Independents blamed the terror group.

A slight majority of younger respondents blamed Israel, but most respondents over the age of 25 held Hamas responsible.

Respondents were split over whether criticism of Israel in the war is motivated more by antisemitism or more by concern for Palestinians.

There was also an even divide over whether Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Younger voters and Democrats were more likely to believe that Israel is guilty of genocide.

Sixty percent of respondents supported providing both offensive and defensive military aid to Israel.

A majority, 60%, of young Americans aged 18-24 supported Hamas over Israel in the conflict. Some previous editions of the monthly survey also found that a majority of the age group favored Hamas. All other demographic groups favored Israel. Support for Israel decreased three points since July. Advertisement

Overall, 26% of Americans favored Hamas over Israel.

Most respondents — 58% — said Israel should only make a deal to release the Israeli hostages if Hamas leaves Gaza.

The poll, released on Monday, queried 2,025 registered US voters on August 20-21 and had a margin of error of 2.2 points.


A Rare Window of Opportunity To Crush Iran
Tehran’s support extends beyond exports. Iranian engineers helped Moscow establish domestic drone manufacturing in Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic Zone, while Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah operatives trained Russian forces to operate the systems.

Debris recovered in Ukraine throughout 2024 shows Tehran is still supplying cutting-edge components, using the war as a live testbed for its drone innovations.

In return, Russia has transferred advanced military technology to Iran, including helicopters, radar systems, and likely Su-35 fighter jets and S-400 air defense systems. Moscow is also sharing nuclear and space expertise—an alarming development as Tehran continues to pursue its nuclear ambitions.

This cooperation, formalized by a 20-year strategic partnership signed in 2023, has deepened the geopolitical alignment of Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China—what U.S. lawmakers now call the “New Axis of Evil.” China provides critical dual-use technologies, Iran’s oil exports to China generate billions to fund war efforts, and North Korea has shipped Russia millions of artillery shells and even personnel, receiving missile technology in return.

If unchecked, this network could soon integrate Iranian missile guidance systems into Russian weapons or jointly develop anti-ship and long-range strike capabilities.

With Iranian missile stockpiles depleted by Israeli strikes in 2025, Moscow is poised to help Tehran replenish them, creating a pipeline of weaponry for future Russian offensives.

The Window for Action
The European Union has sanctioned several Iranian entities, but the most powerful tool—the UN “Snapback Mechanism” embedded in the 2015 nuclear deal—remains unused. This mechanism, set to expire on October 18, would allow France and the UK to reimpose UN-level sanctions, including an arms embargo, ballistic missile restrictions, asset freezes, and, most importantly, measures targeting Iran’s oil exports.

Previous sanctions of this scale devastated Iran’s economy, halving its oil exports, collapsing the rial, and driving inflation above 40%. Reimposing them could cripple Tehran’s ability to finance drone production and undercut Russia’s war machine.

Failing to act would embolden this emerging authoritarian bloc, further destabilizing the global order. A decisive response would save Ukrainian lives, weaken Russia’s aggression, and limit Iran’s ambitions. The alliance between Moscow and Tehran is not just a regional challenge—it is a global threat that demands immediate Western action.
Why Israel has failed to stop Houthis, and when it might change
Along with attempts to increase Israeli intelligence’s penetration and understanding of the Houthis, once President Donald Trump won the US election in November 2024, and especially once he ordered an intensification of attacks on the Houthis when he took office in early 2025, Israeli efforts on the terror group paused in a lot of ways.

Only in spring of this year, after Trump cut a side deal with the Houthis, leaving Israel to hang in the wind, did Israeli efforts return to full throttle. In other words, in many ways, Israel has still been working on decoding the Houthis for less than a year, whereas typically major penetrations and sabotage are drawn out over years or longer.

In that sense, Israeli defense sources have said that Israel will need to scrape the Houthis off the Jewish state gradually, bit by bit.

At the same time, there is confidence among those sources that Israeli intelligence is starting to make progress and that a significant ability to harm the Houthis could improve in the future, although Israel has not clearly confirmed killing Houthi leaders, and there have not even been any reports about such efforts in recent months.

As defense sources put it, breakthroughs could take longer than Israeli leaders would like but shorter than many experts expect. While a significant additional period of time of the Houthis firing missiles at Israel sounds intolerable, the scenario probably will not play out that way.

Rather, if Trump is right, then the Gaza portion of the current war will end in the next four months or less, at which time the Houthis will stop firing.

What will be different is that even then, Israeli intelligence will not stop working on penetrating the Houthis.

Instead, learning from the complete surprise the terror group has achieved against Israel in the current war, Israel’s intelligence will doubtlessly continue its infiltration efforts. This could mean that if the Houthis stir trouble again in Israel, Jerusalem will be able to give a quick order for a much more damaging retaliation.

Alternatively, the Houthis may have fired at Israel enough times that the Jewish state may retaliate once it has achieved sufficient infiltration of the group, even if, at that point, the Iranian proxy is not specifically firing at it. This would be a more aggressive and risky move, but would be consistent with Israel’s current forward-leaning approach to deterring its foreseeable adversaries.
Israeli forces arrest Fatah terrorist in Hebron raid after years on the run
Israeli security forces have arrested a Fatah terrorist wanted for years in connection with a shooting in the South Hebron Hills, the Israel Police announced Wednesday.

Undercover officers of the police’s Gideonim unit (Unit 33), working in coordination with Israel Defense Forces troops and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), arrested the gunman inside a Hebron bank during a counter-terrorism raid in Judea, according to police.

“The unit’s fighters, in a tactical operation and with the help of special means, acted decisively and arrested him inside a bank branch before he could escape or harm them,” according to the statement.

The suspect—a member of the Tanzim terror militias, which maintain close ties with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction—was transferred to Israel Security Agency custody.
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Operational footage: Israel Police’s Gideonim Unit, with support from the IDF and ISA, arrested an armed Tanzim terrorist suspected of carrying out a shooting attack in southern Hebron.

Former IDF Spokesman Conricus: Israel Prepared to Simultaneously Fight Ground War, Narrative War
As a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces, Jonathan Conricus from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies knows about the raging warfare surrounding Israel, both on the battlefield and in the constant struggle for the narrative in the global media conflict.

Conricus spoke with CBN News about Israel's planned invasion to destroy Hamas in Gaza City, the risks the IDF takes not to harm civilians during perilous urban warfare against an enemy that willingly sacrifices its own people, and the prospects for ending the Hamas threat to Israelis.


'A significant source of knowledge': IDF kills Hamas's head of General Security Apparatus in Gaza
The Israeli Air Force last Friday struck and killed Mahmoud al-Aswad, who served as Hamas's General Security Apparatus leader in the Gaza Strip, the military announced the following Wednesday.

Aswad operated as the terrorist organization's general security leader for Western Gaza, with the military describing him as a "significant source of knowledge" for Hamas.

The strike was conducted following IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) intelligence.

Additionally, IDF soldiers operated in Jabalya and the outskirts of Gaza City, dismantling terrorist infrastructure and killing Hamas personnel, amid the upcoming operation to take over Gaza City. In the northern city, the IDF's Givati Brigade under the 162nd Division struck a terror cell and located a weapons storage facility, the military added.

Also in Khan Yunis, a maritime weapons storage facility and a repair site were struck by the IAF.

Additionally, the night before Wednesday's operation saw the establishment of the IDF's 607th Engineering Battalion, which the military stated was "established following the lessons learned following October 7," and that they "began operating for the first time in the Gaza Strip under the command of the Givati Brigade Combat Team."


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One detail the media skipped from the Nasser Hospital strike
Mohammed Fayeq — aka Abu Mostafa — was injured, likely targeted.

The same Hamas-linked cameraman who joined the October 7 invasion and proudly filmed the attacks.

Let’s look at who he really is

Mohammed Fayeq was embedded with Hamas terrorists during the October 7 massacre. In this exposé by @HonestReporting

Mohammed is seen accompanying the terrorists and filming lynchings of Jews.

These are his own images — and he proudly took them.




Israel conducts landing on former air defense base in southwest Damascus
IDF soldiers parachuted from four helicopters to a military post near Kiswa, south of Damascus, a Syrian military source told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.

Dozens of soldiers carrying search equipment carried out the operation, which lasted over two hours.

There were no reports of clashes between the IDF and the Syrian military during the operation.

This comes after reports broadcast by state-run Al Ekhbariya TV cited two Syrian army sources claiming that Israel launched a series of strikes on a former army barracks in Kiswa.

Iran had used the air defense base during the rule of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Locations of earlier strikes - in the Kiswa region and the strategic Jabal Manea hilltop - were also among the most significant military outposts used by pro-Iranian terror groups during the Assad era.

A non-final estimate from Syria's Shams TV claimed that nine soldiers were killed and others wounded in Israeli airstrikes on the Kiswa area in the Damascus countryside.

Israel has stepped up incursions into southern Syria, and the latest strikes coincided with security talks between Damascus and its long-time adversary aimed at reducing tensions.


Episode 38: What will it take to defeat Hamas? With Prof. John Spencer
Twenty-three months after the October 7 attack, Hamas is massively degraded in Gaza. At a terrible cost to Gaza itself, and after losing hundreds of IDF soldiers on the battlefield, Israel has managed to shatter its battalions and kill nearly all its pre-war command hierarchy.

Yet, as with all guerrilla groups, the bar for Hamas to remain a strategic actor is very low. It can still disrupt aid distribution at a large scale, still launch guerrilla attacks out of tunnels, still even launch the occasional rocket at Israeli towns. Hamas also continues to refuse any demand, including from the Arab League, to disarm and surrender its claim to power in the post-war Gaza Strip.

On the cusp of what is shaping up as Israel's most significant military offensive to date against the terror group, the incursion into Gaza City - the largest pre-war city in the Strip - we turn to Prof. John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute, to ask if this long-delayed denial of Hamas's last major bastion and sanctuary in Gaza might finally bring this painful war to an end.


IDF PodCast: Women in Combat: An IDF Commander’s Story
In this Women’s Equality Day episode of Mission Brief, we sit down with Staff Sergeant T, a lone soldier who joined the IDF’s Field Intelligence Corps as a commander in the 595 battalion, after she moved from Cleveland to Israel in 2022. She shares her journey from moving to Israel to becoming a combat commander on Israel’s northern border. We dive into her experiences in training, the challenges of leading soldiers 24/7, and what it means to be a woman in a combat role. With honesty and pride, she reflects on the values that guide her, the importance of her mission, and the strength of women serving on the frontlines.


Why Jewish "Allyship" Backfired: The Truth About Post-October 7th Antisemitism
In this deep-dive interview, Mark Oppenheimer speaks with human rights attorney Brooke Goldstein about the rise of antisemitism and strategic litigation. Goldstein shares a case about Jewish therapists being fired for discussing Jewish trauma. She argues that antisemitism is a civil rights issue, not a political one, and that legal action is a vital tool for achieving systemic change. The interview also touches on the role of foreign funding, with Goldstein alleging that Qatar's funding of American universities has led to a rise in antisemitism. She makes a clear distinction between protected free speech and unlawful actions on campus, which she says are used to intimidate the Jewish community.




Sneak Peak: Inside Call me Back
Last week, on Inside Call me Back, Nadav and Dan had a conversation prompted by an especially insightful listener question that wound up generating lots of feedback from the “insiders.” The topic was, what do Israelis and diaspora Jews misunderstand about one another? It was an example of the types of discussions we strive for at Inside Call me Back: unfiltered, challenging, and often unresolved while still illuminating.

On today’s bonus episode, we’re giving the general Call me Back audience a taste of what goes on at our members-only edition of the podcast. If you want more of this content, where we bring you into the kind of conversations we have when the cameras stop rolling, subscribe at inside.arkmedia.org.


travelingisrael.com: Tucker Carlson – Loves Jesus but Hates Jews?
Tucker Carlson calls himself a Christian, but when it comes to Israel and the Jews, his obsession looks very different. Why does he ignore every other case in the world and focus only on the Jews? In this video, I break down his arguments, expose the double standards, and show what really drives his constant attacks on Israel.




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Governor Gavin Newsom claims he saw a video of Hamas beheading Israelis:

Protesters occupy Microsoft’s office, demand it cut ties with Israel; 7 arrested
Police arrested seven people on Tuesday after protesters occupied the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, as part of continued protests over the company’s alleged ties to the Israel Defense Forces during the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, organizers said.

Current and former Microsoft employees were among those arrested, said the protest group No Azure for Apartheid.

Azure is Microsoft’s primary cloud computing platform, and Microsoft has said it is reviewing a report in British newspaper The Guardian this month that the IDF used it to store phone call data obtained through the mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

The protesters could be seen huddled together on a Twitch livestream as officers moved in to arrest them. The video showed another group assembled outside.

During a media briefing, Smith said two of those arrested were Microsoft employees.

Eighteen people were arrested in a similar protest in a plaza at the headquarters last week. The group has been protesting the company for months. Microsoft in May fired an employee who interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella, and in April it fired two others who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration.

The group’s demands include that the company cut ties with Israel and pay reparations to Palestinians.

“There are many things we can’t do to change the world, but we will do what we can and what we should,” Smith told reporters at a media briefing following Tuesday’s arrests. “That starts with ensuring that our human rights principles and contractual terms of service are upheld everywhere, by all of our customers around the world.”

Earlier this year, The Associated Press revealed previously unreported details about Microsoft’s close partnership with the Israeli Defense Ministry, which uses Azure to transcribe, translate and process intelligence gathered through mass surveillance. The AP reported that the data can be cross-checked with Israel’s in-house, AI-enabled systems to help select targets.

Following the AP’s report, Microsoft said a review found no evidence that its Azure platform and artificial intelligence technologies were used to target or harm people in Gaza. Microsoft did not share a copy of that review, but the company said it would share factual findings from the further review prompted by The Guardian’s report when complete.

In the statement Tuesday, the protest groups said the disruptions were “to protest Microsoft’s active role in the genocide of Palestinians.”


Trump demands Soros be charged with corruption for backing ‘violent protests’
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that billionaire financier and major Democratic donor George Soros and his son should be charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, but offered no evidence to support the allegations.

Trump has embarked on a campaign of threats and lawsuits against political adversaries, news organizations and law firms, using a mix of litigation, executive power and his influence in what allies describe as an effort to hold the powerful accountable and opponents call a chilling assault on dissent.

Soros, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, has long been considered a villain by Trump and his conservative base. His philanthropic organization, Open Society Foundations, is one of the world’s largest funders of causes including human rights, government transparency, public health and education.

“George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we’re watching you!”

Trump did not provide evidence of wrongdoing by Soros or his son to support his allegations. He did not name which of Soros’s sons he was targeting, although he was likely referring to Alexander Soros, who took over running the Open Society Foundations from his father in 2023.

A spokesperson for Open Society Foundations denounced Trump’s comments.

“These accusations are outrageous and false. The Open Society Foundations do not support or fund Violent Protests,” the spokesperson said. “Our mission is to advance human rights, justice, and democratic principles at home and around the world.”




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