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Friday, September 05, 2025

09/05 Links Pt2: IAGS: Academic Fraud and Complicity in Propaganda Warfare; The CBS Meltdown Over Bari Weiss; Spanish FM backs banning Israeli cyclists; 53 years since the Munich massacre

From Ian:

Statement Condemning the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) for Academic Fraud and Complicity in Propaganda Warfare
The resolution’s accusation of genocide by Israel is a baseless fabrication, unsupported by evidence and a shameful misuse of the term “genocide.” The following facts dismantle this fraud:

1. Humanitarian Realities: Gaza’s population has grown since the conflict began. Israel facilitates substantial aid, including increased caloric supplies and polio vaccinations, actions fundamentally incompatible with genocidal intent.

2. Israel’s Civilian Protections: Israel issues evacuation warnings before military operations, a practice antithetical to genocide. Conversely, Hamas, which initiated this war and holds hostages, could end the conflict instantly by releasing them but refuses to negotiate.

3. Fabricated Narratives: Allegations of starvation rely on manipulated images. Active markets and restaurants in Gaza contradict claims of systemic deprivation.

4. Complicity of International Actors: Many humanitarian agencies fail to denounce Hamas’s terrorism or advocate for peace, instead amplifying anti-Israel narratives that perpetuate a cycle of violence for political ends.

Categorical Evidence Against Genocide Accusations: The claim that Israel’s actions constitute genocide is not only false but impossible under the legal and factual circumstances, as demonstrated by the following:

- Absence of Genocidal Intent: Genocide requires specific intent to destroy a group “as such” (1948 Genocide Convention). Israel’s actions target Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, not Palestinians as a group. Military operations focus on combatants, with documented efforts to minimize civilian harm, such as precision strikes and warnings.

- Population Growth and Aid: Gaza’s population has increased, and Israel has facilitated massive humanitarian aid, including 1.5 million tons of supplies since October 2023, contradicting claims of intent to destroy. Conditions of life are not calculated to cause physical destruction but are impacted by Hamas’s diversion of aid.

- Hamas’s Role in Prolonging Conflict: Hamas’s refusal to release hostages and its use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes (e.g., tunnels under hospitals) drives the conflict’s intensity. Israel’s response is a legitimate act of self-defense, not a genocidal campaign.

By being deliberately deceived into endorsing this propaganda, IAGS has abandoned its scholarly mission and become an active combatant in the information war. A small faction of activists has manipulated the organization, exploiting its pay-to-join structure to push a false narrative. The consequences are catastrophic: IAGS has destroyed its own credibility, reduced itself to an absurdity, and disgraced the field of genocide studies.

I demand the immediate retraction of this fraudulent resolution and the expulsion of every signatory who endorsed it. These individuals, having exploited a vulnerable organization for propaganda, must be held accountable for this academic travesty. The damage to IAGS’s reputation and the broader field of genocide studies is profound and irreparable.
Palestinian statehood recognition now betrays Labour’s better traditions
The Labour Party has a complex history with Israel. The post-war Labour government neither intended to recognise the Jewish state nor support its UN membership, abstaining from the UN Partition vote in 1947. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told his US counterpart that Britain was “unanimous” in opposing a Jewish state, calling the Balfour Declaration an “unfortunate error.”

After the vote, Bevin condemned President Truman’s recognition of Israel, insisting borders not be recognised and the arms embargo maintained. Labour systematically tried to sabotage the UN Partition Resolution, such as offering “wholehearted support” for the Bernadotte Plan, which would have removed 60% of the Jewish state. They were among the few to abstain from the 1949 vote admitting Israel to the UN.

Yet Labour giants like Nye Bevan and Richard Crossman celebrated the new state. Harold Wilson, the only modern prime minister to win four general elections, continued this legacy throughout the 1960s and 70s, expressing reverence for “social democrats who made the desert flower.”

However, Soviet bloc support for Israel reversed from the late 1960s, with extreme anti-Zionist propaganda infecting the far-left, including then-outsiders Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway.

Tony Blair’s leadership saw Labour reaffirm close ties with Israel as a fellow democracy surrounded by hostile actors, clinging to liberal values in an anti-democratic region plagued by extremism.

Today, Starmer’s Labour holds little influence with Israel. Foreign Minister David Lammy allegedly couldn’t secure a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister during his visit. When two Labour MPs were barred from Israel for calling for sanctions, 70 colleagues were reduced to a protest photoshoot.

After hostile diplomatic gestures, Sir Keir dramatically announced UK recognition of a Palestinian state — presumably for cynical electoral reasons, after feeling squeezed by vocal anti-Israel backbenchers and independents who make Gaza their core policy offering.

But pandering to extremists for whom Labour can never be extreme enough is unacceptable when voices of reason are so desperately needed. The government cannot explain the borders it will recognise and has no clear idea how the Palestinian Authority can exercise governance. It seemingly hasn’t noticed that the PA relies on aid, is deeply unpopular, corrupt, has lost control of West Bank areas to Iran-backed terror groups, pays salaries to convicted terrorists, and glorifies violence and racism to children.
Lammy replaced by Cooper as Foreign Secretary
David Lammy has been replaced as Foreign Secretary by former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in a major cabinet reshuffle.

In another surprise move Shabana Mahmood becomes the new Home Secretary.

Tottenham MP Lammy – who has been a divisive figure within the community for his stance on the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and moves to recognise a Palestinian state – has been appointed Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.

In her role Home Secretary Cooper had proscribed the Palestine Action group, and had worked with police chief over incidents of antisemitism at pro-Palestine demos.

Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary, CST Fundraising Dinner 2025. (C) Blake Ezra Photography

She has also been a regularly attendee at the Community Security Trust’s annual dinners, along with her husband Ed Balls.

Lammy had been scheduled to fly out to the Gulf imminently to meet senior officials in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the next few days to try to build a consensus around a framework for lasting peace in the region.

His role as Deputy PM will still offer Lammy the chance to use his diplomatic skills.

Cooper will now also be handed a central role over the imminent move by the UK to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly on September 23.

But Cooper has received criticism of the failure to get a grip on the small boats crisis.


Jonathan Tobin: There’s no constitutional protection for violating Jewish students’ civil rights
It was a good week for Harvard University and the rest of the academic establishment. On Wednesday, Allison Burroughs, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled in Harvard’s favor in its lawsuit, which seeks to overturn the Trump administration’s efforts to strip the venerable institution of its federal funding because it violated the civil rights of Jewish students.

The ruling was celebrated across the political left by the anti-Trump “resistance,” especially throughout academia. There, especially, President Donald Trump’s campaign to hold colleges and universities accountable for their toleration and encouragement of antisemitism since the Hamas-led Palestinian attacks on Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, has spread fear and dismay.

Even Harvard knows this is but one step in what is almost certainly a case bound for the U.S. Supreme Court. Nevertheless, the forces opposing the administration’s effort to roll back the tide of Jew-hatred in education view Burroughs’ opinion as a “rallying cry,” in the words of a New York Times article cheering the decision.

If nothing else, it will stiffen resistance at Harvard and other schools not to replicate Columbia University’s decision to settle with Washington and to sign an agreement requiring it to take steps to change its policies and behavior.

Encouraging the antisemites
Harvard’s good week also comes at the start of the fall semester, a time when the pro-Hamas movement was already expected to resume its campaign of incitement against Jews and supporters of Israel. The court’s action might incline leaders at some schools to recalibrate their willingness to act to protect Jewish students to avoid incurring the wrath of the Trump administration and putting their federal funding at risk.

It’s clear that even if her ruling is reversed, Burroughs will have a serious impact on those seeking to keep the peace on college campuses. She has now only encouraged those seeking to enable institutions to evade their responsibility to prevent pro-Hamas mobs from running amok, as they often did in the past two years since Oct. 7.

As much as anything else, the court ruling illustrates the stark divide in American society on Jew-hatred and its causes.
David Collier: Two Tier Policing: Jews Stopped from Protesting Outside the BBC
One Rule For Us, Another For Them
And then came the real kicker. Organisers discovered that just ten days later, on 17 September, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) would be holding a much larger demonstration – starting outside the BBC on Portland Place. The very thing denied to the Jewish community was granted to a group that routinely marches through neighbourhoods chanting inflammatory slogans.

This event is not alone. Portland Place is a frequent gathering place for those who wave a Palestinian flag. This does not just mean a short stopping point. I have been there to experience it myself several times. It can mean 60-90 minutes of gathering and chanting as they practice the ‘river to the sea’ chants that they will proudly sing through London’s streets.

And if you think that is bad? We recently saw the pro-Hezbollah and Iranian proxy, the Islamic Human Rights Commission end their 2025 Al Quds Day rally outside of the BBC’s HQ. This was just six months ago:

How were a gathering of antisemites and pro-Iranian extremists permitted to erect a stage outside Portland Place – and hold numerous speeches there – while Britain’s March Against Antisemitism had to fight every step of the way, to secure far fewer rights?

When challenged by the BBC over permissions granted to the anti-Israel groups, the police replied that ‘every event is assessed on its own merits,’ and tried to defend their actions by claiming they had not yet finalised arrangements with PSC. The permission granted to the Iranian proxy IHRC in March blows that incoherent argument out of the water.

They are treating the Jewish community differently and making up excuses as they go along.

Three serious concerns
This episode highlights three fundamental problems:
1. Flimsy excuses – Vague references to parking and safety, coupled with a mysterious ‘business community’ objection, simply do not withstand scrutiny. The eventual permission for a 15-minute stop exposes how hollow these reasons were.
2. Lack of transparency – Organisers were stonewalled when they asked for specifics. Who exactly in the ‘business community’ objected? Why were their concerns prioritised over a community’s right to protest? No answers were given.
3. Two-tier policing – Jewish concerns are consistently brushed aside, while groups hostile to the Jewish community are indulged. Under Section 12(1)(a) of the Public Order Act, police have powers where a procession may cause ‘serious disruption to the life of the community.’ Yet PSC and IHRC marches are waved through, while a Jewish march outside the BBC is treated as a threat to parking bays.

The bigger picture
This is not just about one march. It is about whether Britain’s Jewish community is treated with fairness and respect by its own police force. The events of the past few weeks suggest otherwise.

On Sunday, thousands will march against antisemitism. But they will also march to demand a simple principle – that in Britain, the rights of the Jewish community are not second-class rights.
Met police tried to block Britain’s March Against Antisemitism from BBC’s vicinity
The Metropolitan Police initially tried to block Sunday’s march against antisemitism from using a route passing by the BBC, Jewish News understands, with the Met subsequently allowing the route but with a further attempt to prevent the march from stopping in the vicinity of the national broadcaster.

According to correspondence shared with Jewish News, the police initially offered the Campaign Against Antisemitism, which is organising Britain’s March Against Antisemitism, a variety of different routes, none of which went near Portland Place, where the BBC’s London headquarters are situated.

The CAA made clear that the march was called in the wake of deeply disturbing scenes from Glastonbury broadcast by the BBC, stating that “preventing us from demonstrating at the BBC frustrates the purpose of our protest”. After the organisation brought legal representatives to its meetings, the police decided to allow the march in the vicinity of the broadcaster. However, according to correspondence sent by CAA to the police, a meeting with the police to discuss the march itself saw the police describe the possibility of the procession pausing outside the BBC for 15 minutes for speeches to be made as a “red line”, and that the Met would likely impose a condition to prohibit such a pause in the procession.

“You said that the basis for imposing such a condition was that local businesses had raised concerns about disruption caused by repeated protests in that area”, said the letter from CAA’s chair, Gideon Falter, to a senior police officer.

“You did not identify which local businesses had raised such concerns. As far as we can see, the only businesses in the immediate vicinity of the proposed 15-minute pause outside the BBC are the BBC itself, All Souls church and the Langham Hotel.

“We find it difficult to understand how the Police have reached the conclusion that a march of several thousand people past those businesses would not require the imposition of a condition, whereas a 15-minute pause in that location would trigger the need for a condition. We would be grateful if you could please set out the basis for the Police’s ‘red line’ regarding the proposed 15-minute pause.”

Jewish News understands that the police have subsequently permitted the 15-minute pause in the procession to take place. CAA has told Jewish News that it understands that neither All Souls Church or the Langham Hotel had registered any protest in relation to the march.
Jewish history exhibition considered too ‘risky’ to open
A museum in Bournemouth has been hit with criticism after it postponed a Jewish art exhibition over "potential risks".

The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, which is run by the local council, had been set to open the Waves of Change: Jewish Life in Bournemouth 1880 – 2020 exhibition on November 25.

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council documents stated: "The museum is hosting an exhibition on the Jewish community of Bournemouth which is part of a project funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund and researched by the Jewish Communities of Bournemouth to record their history for future generations."

The display had been set to run for four months until March 2026.

However the council decided to postpone it, saying: “In planning all exhibitions, we carefully assess any potential risks.

“We recognise this is a sensitive time and due to requirements related to this event, the museum has decided to postpone the exhibition and is working with the organisers to reschedule it for a later date.”

Anti-racism group Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) responded saying: “When British institutions cower to threats from a mob over the rights of law-abiding communities to share their stories and celebrate their positive contribution to British life, what has happened to British values?

"The council and museum must urgently explain themselves [...] There is no guarantee that this exhibit will go ahead at a later date.”
Jew-hatred an ‘existential threat to democracy,’ Australian envoy says at mayors summit
Some 250 mayors and other local officials and community leaders from across Australia gathered in Gold Coast, Queensland, from Sept. 3 to 5 for the Australian Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism.

Addressing attendees, Australian special envoy for antisemitism Jillian Segal said that Jew-hatred is an “existential threat to democracy.”

Segal said that Jew-hatred “was not ‘creeping in’ to Australian communities but was ‘well and truly with us,'”ABC News (Australia) reported.

“This threatens not just the Jews,” the envoy said, “but it absolutely tears at our social cohesion, and it tears at our democracy and the future for our children and our country.”

Tom Tate, the Gold Coast mayor, led the event, which organizers said is “the first of its kind” in the country, and a “local led-initiative, which is part of a global movement spanning North America, Latin America and Europe.”

Sacha Roytman, CEO of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, which hosted the event, stated that “recent arson attacks on Australian soil show the Jewish community are not safe and when hate emerges, the first line of defence are the people who live and breathe their communities.”

Speakers included deputy Australian prime minister Richard Marles, Australian human rights commissioner Lorraine Finlay and Israeli special envoy to combat Jew-hatred Michal Cotler-Wunsh.

At the event, Zann Maxwell, deputy mayor of Sydney, read aloud a statement from the owner of a Jewish bakery in Darlinghurst that was targeted: “If you’re coming after me, it’r not an Israel problem. It’s a Jewish problem, and we have a word for that: ‘antisemitism.'”
Ruthie Blum: The hypocrisy of Israel’s limousine leftists
Talk about a hypocrisy two-fer. Dual marketing for elite haberdashers and Michelin-star-seekers, whose clientele are far more likely to spend their nights out discussing intermittent fasting than forced hunger; you know, such as that suffered by the hostages at the hands of Hamas.

That’s not the half of it. The luxury clothing brand, founded in 1987 by Sybil Goldfainer and run today with her daughter, Romi Kaminer Goldfainer, boasts that it’s about women standing tall against injustice.

Yeah, right. It’s more like phony activism geared to the size-zero set. Which is comme il faut (French for “as it should be”) for “progressive” business prowess.

It’s revealing that the target consumers are those who vilify the government as a fashion statement. These are the crème-de-la crème of shoppers, not the bulk of an overall patriotic society.

The Goldfainer girls and their comrades have created a glossy illusion of righteousness at Israel’s expense. That’s commerce for you.

Nor is the timing coincidental. In the Instagram age, particularly during a war, protest equals promotion. Every billboard is a business deal. It’s thus that the supposed “starvation” of Gazans has become material for affluent Israelis to wear their bleeding hearts on the sleeves of their glamorous garments.

This is limousine leftism at its finest. But it’s nothing new. For decades, Israel’s cultural aristocracy has confused performance with principle—equating selfies with sacrifice and hashtags with heroism.

Ironically, this is why neither the Goldfainers nor their culinary counterparts are likely to experience boycotts. On the contrary, they know their customers.

This doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t expose them as the shams they are: touting moral superiority, while profiting from Israel’s delicate predicament and lying about the culprit behind the Gazans’ plight. From now on, we should rename Comme Il Faut and call it, more aptly, “Comme Il Faux.”
Netanyahu calls violent protesters ‘fascist militias’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu harshly condemned violent protesters against his government on Wednesday after they started fires in Jerusalem, saying they were “just like fascist militias.”

Netanyahu, who rarely draws parallels between his political detractors and fascists, delivered the rebuke in a video message shortly after protesters started a fire that consumed an automobile on Harlap Street near the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem.

Police arrested two individuals, an 83-year-old man and another man, on suspicion of starting the fire. On Wednesday, thousands of protesters again convened for rallies against Netanyahu in Jerusalem, calling on him to stop the war with Hamas in Gaza and resign.

“They said they would surround my house, the Prime Minister’s Residence, with a ring of fire. Just like fascist militias. So they lit a fire on Harlap Street, right around the corner, and this fire also set fire to a car,” Netanyahu said in the video.

He added that protest in a democracy is legitimate, but that he is the focus of “funded, organized, political demonstrations against the government, which have broken every boundary.”

Addressing the violent protesters, he said: “You talk and act exactly like fascists.”

“What’s happening here is simple—there is no enforcement, and when there is no enforcement, there is escalation,” Netanyahu said. “And indeed, they started by breaking through checkpoints and then trying to break through fences, and then they shot a flare that almost burned a security guard to death near my home” in Caesarea.
Suspect to remain in custody over fires started near PM’s home during hostage protest
A 60-year-old man arrested on suspicion of setting fire to several trash bins during a hostage protest in Jerusalem will remain in detention for another five days, police announced Thursday morning.

Officers brought Amos Doron, a resident of Ramat Gan and lieutenant colonel in the reserves, to the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, where he was ordered to remain in police custody until September 8.

Doron was arrested the day before over fires started near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in the upscale Rehavia neighborhood, which destroyed a car and forced residents to evacuate their homes.

Police presented the presiding judge with footage of Doron at the scene of the incident, claiming he was in disguise when he set the fire, according to the Kan public broadcaster.

Doron reportedly denied the allegations against him but admitted that he was in Jerusalem at the time the fire started, stating he traveled to the capital for personal matters unrelated to the protest movement.

At around the same time as the blaze in Rehavia, another masked activist set fire to a pile of tires near the Prime Minister’s Office in the capital’s Givat Ram neighborhood.

Police arrested an 83-year-old man on suspicion of causing the blazes, but released him to house arrest after searching his home and finding no incriminating evidence.

No injuries were reported in either incident.
Poll shows Greeks back ties with Israel, despite virulent demonstrations
Against the backdrop of the global diplomatic storm against Israel following the renewed fighting in Gaza, voices on the Greek left are also calling to scale back the country’s strategic partnership with Israel, particularly in the fields of security, economy and energy.

However, the results of a recent survey, while not scientific, suggest that while a vocal minority on the Greek left has tried to amplify pro-Palestinian positions, sometimes with media backing, most Greeks side with the center-right government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which has championed closer ties with Israel in defense and diplomacy.

The online survey, conducted by the Greek news site News Break, examined public support for maintaining the strategic partnership.

The question was phrased unambiguously: Do you agree with continuing the strategic partnership between Greece and Israel?

Seventy-seven percent answered yes, calling Israel a natural ally of Greece. Just 21% opposed the partnership, citing Israel’s alleged violations of international law in Gaza. Another 2% said they had no opinion. A total of 5,616 people participated.

The partnership is also seen in Athens as a counterweight to Turkey, regarded by many Greeks as the country’s biggest threat.
Norway extends its Israel divestment campaign to the United States
Since the Hamas pogrom in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Norway has divested from more than 20 Israeli companies and banks, including telecom group Bezeq, Bank Leumi and Bank Hapoalim. In tandem with these government-directed moves, antisemitism has surged in Norway. The country’s tiny Jewish community of 1,500 has endured threats and vandalism, with 69% of Norwegian Jews reporting incidents impacting them personally.

Norway’s interventions are also becoming more vindictive. To give the most recent example, Israel’s national soccer team is due to play Norway in a World Cup qualifier on Oct. 11; the Norwegian authorities have told the Israelis that they may arrive only one day before the match, while proceeds from ticket sales will go to Palestinian organizations. “It would be nice if some of the money went toward condemning the Oct. 7 massacre or toward the release of 50 hostages,” the Israel Football Association stated in response. “Please ensure the funds are not transferred to terrorist organizations or for illegitimate purposes.”

The question remains as to whether Norway—by casting its divestment net wider than just Israel—will have bitten off more than it can chew. The U.S. State Department has already expressed its disgust at the divestment from Caterpillar, while Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has warned that Washington may respond with tariffs and visa revocations.

With its vast wealth and miniscule population of under 6 million, Norway may feel that it has the right to morally police the world. But that hubris is no match for America’s clout. By targeting companies that employ thousands of American workers, Oslo has hit a raw nerve.

Should the Caterpillar decision be followed by a wider divestment campaign aimed at the hundreds of American companies that conduct daily business with Israel and even locate some of their infrastructure there, Norway can expect to be punished with heavy tariffs. Washington also can—and should—reverse the visa-free travel Norwegian citizens enjoy under the U.S. government’s 90-day stay visa waiver scheme. Additionally, America can sanction individual Norwegian politicians who push antisemitism and promote Hamas terrorism, as it has already done with Francesca Albanese, the U.N.’s special rapporteur for Palestinian rights.

Nearly 20 years ago, best-selling Norwegian children’s author Jostein Gaarder penned a viciously antisemitic article defaming Judaism as an inherently violent religion and denying the State of Israel’s right to exist. Those sentiments have now infected large swathes of the country’s governing class. The time for patient discussions is over. If Norway really wants to take on the United States as well as Israel, it might quickly rue the day it did so.
Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America say they will expel members who oppose boycotting Israel
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) party, of which Zohran Mamdani is a prominent member, has doubled down on its extremism — supporting armed struggle against Israel and threatening to expel members who do not comply with its hard-line dictates against the Jewish state, The Post has learned.

The DSA adopted the new resolutions “For a Fighting Anti-Zionist DSA,” at its biannual national conference in Chicago last month, according to documents viewed by The Post.

As a member of the party, mayoral candidate Mamdani could face pressure from its leadership body to adhere to its stance — which could dramatically affect his campaign.

Members, including lawmakers backed by the party, now face expulsion if they oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel or work with lobbyists affiliated with pro-Israel groups, such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), among others, the documents say.

Members can even be expelled if they support Israel’s right to defend itself, according to the DSA literature.

The resolution “unequivocally affirms” the principals set forth by the Palestinian National Council in 1977 — known as “al-Thawabit” — that emphasizes escalating armed struggle and “resistance by any means necessary,” according to the documents.

“This resolution draws a clear internal red line and signals intensifying ideological rigidity, intolerance, and radicalism around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within the DSA,” said a recent report from the Network Contagion Research Institute, a nonprofit that tracks extremism.

“These developments warrant close monitoring, both for their implications on NYC’s electoral landscape and their potential role in mainstreaming antisemitic or extremist ideological frameworks within US political discourse.”
The New Yorker trashed for inviting ‘pro-9/11 radical’ who called Israelis ‘inbred’ to speak at festival
The New Yorker magazine is being ripped for inviting controversial lefty influencer Hasan Piker to headline an upcoming event — despite his vile history of calling Israelis “inbred” and that America “deserved 9/11.”

Piker, a popular left-wing Twitch streamer, is slated to participate in a New Yorker Festival roundtable event — titled the “New Political Arena” — next month.

But news of the progressive darling’s appearance on the lineup has sparked outrage — with many blasting the mag for giving a “pro-9/11 radical” a platform to potentially spew hate and peddle antisemitism.

The 33-year-old New Jersey-born streamer has also downplayed the sexual assault of women on October 7, declaring it “doesn’t matter if rapes happened.”

“The New Yorker’s decision to platform Hasan Piker is the latest example of mainstream media normalizing his brand of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Piker’s toxic and extreme rhetoric opposing Zionism and the Jewish state normalizes antisemitism, reinforces bigotry, and launders terror – and it has no place at a conference devoted to prominent influencers,” the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement on X.

Piker, who has millions of followers, has been repeatedly condemned for his controversial remarks.

In addition to saying America “deserved” the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he’s repeated assertions that Israel is committing “genocide” in its war against Hamas.

He was also temporarily booted from Twitch after he suggested that the killing of two Israeli Embassy diplomats in Washington, DC earlier this year looked like it could be a “false flag” operation.

“Not only has Piker inexplicably compared the Houthis to Holocaust victim Anne Frank, he’s labeled Hezbollah as a ‘successful… resistance group,’ stated that “America deserved 9/11,’ and that ‘it doesn’t matter if rapes happened on October 7th’,” the League said.

“These extreme statements, and others, should permanently disqualify him from appearing at any major media festival.”
Jazz musician cancelled for supporting 50 remaining hostages in Gaza at festival: 'I'm not a politician'
Berlin swing musician David Hermlin says he is facing cancellation after being excluded from some of Europe’s leading jazz festivals and accused of intimidation at a meeting organized by a pro-Palestinian group.

The 25-year-old told Fox News Digital that his only actions were asking two questions and wearing a yellow pin in solidarity with hostages still held in Gaza.

"I didn’t harass or intimidate anyone. I merely asked two questions I thought were legitimate," Hermlin said.

Known on social media as "Daveetheewave," Hermlin has built a reputation not just for his music but for his image. He dresses in authentic 1930s fashion, complete with slicked-back hair, vintage microphone, and a charcoal gray suit that looks plucked from a Fred Astaire film.

The look fits the sound. He sings classics like "Let’s Fall in Love" backed by his own big band, The Swing Dance Orchestra, that re-creates the golden era of swing down to the last detail. His yellow ribbon pin, worn neatly on the lapel of that tailored suit, stood out at this year’s festival and became a flashpoint in the controversy.

Hermlin’s experience raises questions about free speech in the entertainment world. He frames his case as part of a broader historical pattern of exclusion.

"What kind of a world is this now that before I can play at a festival, I have to make a political statement? It’s a music festival, not a political festival," he said.

The Herräng Dance Camp in Sweden is considered one of the world’s most recognized swing festivals. At this year’s gathering, a group called Jazz with Palestine held an open meeting. Hermlin was performing as a drummer with another ensemble, not his own orchestra.

He later learned that organizers not only excluded him from that group’s jam sessions but also made it clear they would not consider booking his personal projects, like The Swing Dance Orchestra.
Northwestern's Contract With Qatar Forbids School From Criticizing Regime
Northwestern University's contract with Hamas-allied Qatar, where the school operates a satellite campus, includes a clause that effectively forbids students and faculty from criticizing the Qatari regime, a House Committee on Education and Workforce interview with soon-to-be-former Northwestern University president Michael Schill revealed.

The interview, which includes an extensive discussion of Northwestern's contract with the regime-controlled Qatar Foundation, reveals the speech limitations to which universities submit when they operate in the Gulf state.

In the August 5 interview, committee staffers introduced "a portion from Northwestern's agreement with the Qatar Foundation," the nonprofit organization chaired by the emir of Qatar's mother. The foundation bankrolls the presence of Northwestern and other American universities in the Gulf state. The agreement includes a clause stipulating that "NU, NU-Q, and their respective employees, students, faculty, families, contractors and agents, shall be subject to the applicable laws and regulations of the State of Qatar, and shall respect the cultural, religious and social customs of the State of Qatar."

Qatar's penal code criminalizes criticism of its government and flag and bans the posting of online content that the Qatari regime deems harmful. A Jordanian media manager for Qatar's 2022 World Cup was sentenced to five years in prison after voicing concern over the regime's treatment of migrant workers. A Northwestern Qatar student, meanwhile, was "arrested over a tweet," according to the House interview.

Asked during that interview whether Northwestern Qatar operates "in accordance with all Qatari laws," Schill responded, "I believe it has to." Asked whether that "includes Qatari censorship laws," Schill said, "I don't know the answer to that as a legal matter." He also said he had "no idea" whether Qatar "would allow a Northwestern faculty member or student to publicly criticize the regime."
House education panel releases interview with Northwestern president
The House Education and Workforce Committee released the transcript of its interview with Michael Schill, president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., after Schill announced his resignation on Thursday.

The Trump administration froze $790 million in federal funds from the private university in April over the university’s handling of Jew-hatred.

In the Aug. 5 interview, committee members pressed Schill about the university’s response to the anti-Israel encampment at the school in spring 2024. The House panel redacted the names of those asked questions.

Asked about protesters surrounding a Jewish student at the encampment and shouting “shame” repeatedly, Schill said he couldn’t recall such an incident, per the transcript.

Schill acknowledged that there was an alleged assault of a Jewish student at the encampment, but he wasn’t sure if the allegation “was ever substantiated in our discipline and investigation,” per the transcript.

The Northwestern president was shown a chart stating that no students were disciplined for their conduct in the encampment and asked to clarify his May 2024 congressional testimony that “discipline has been meted out to many of the students.”

Schill said that he was likely “conflating investigation and discipline” and that the testimony was a month after the encampment.

Asked why no students were disciplined after he testified before Congress that the encampment was “the major antisemitic event on our campus,” Schill said he was referring to a poster at the encampment depicting him “with horns and blood” and an image of a Star of David “with an X through it.” (Schill is Jewish.)

The university was unable to determine who was behind those images, he said.


The CBS Meltdown Over Bari Weiss
They are in full panic over The Free Press because it occasionally publishes stories that treat Israel with fairness. And on this point, they are not wrong. The reason The Free Press appears “pro-Israel” is not because it operates as propaganda, but because virtually every other major outlet covers Israel with suspicion, hostility, and contempt. The mainstream press runs Hamas casualty figures as though they were verified fact, it frames Israel as the aggressor, and it downplays or outright ignores Hamas atrocities. In such a climate, even the smallest gesture of balance such as quoting an Israeli statement, reporting evidence of Hamas tunnels beneath hospitals, or acknowledging Israel’s right to self-defense is immediately branded “Zionist propaganda.” This is how distorted the discourse has become. These activists insist the entire media establishment is controlled by Jews. Their grievance with The Free Press is not that it lies, but that it refuses to lie in unison with everyone else.

Now look at CBS. Reports say staffers are “apoplectic” over Weiss’s possible appointment, with some even threatening to resign.

You would think Hamas itself had been invited to the editorial board. Instead, it is Bari Weiss, whose supposed crime is overseeing a newsroom that sometimes treats Israel with fairness. If CBS really were the “Zionist propaganda machine” these critics claim it to be, why would its own journalists be in open revolt over Weiss? The fact that they are proves the opposite. It exposes how entrenched the hostility toward Israel already is inside elite newsrooms, and how intolerant they are of even a hint of dissent from that narrative.

Bret Stephens put it clearly over twenty years ago: “Moral clarity is a term that doesn't get much traction these days, least of all among journalists, who prefer ‘objectivity’ and ‘balance.’ Yet good journalism is more than about separating fact from opinion and being fair. Good journalism is about fine analysis and making distinctions, and this applies as much to moral distinctions as to any others. Because too many reporters today refuse to make moral distinctions, we are left with a journalism whose narrative and analytical failings have become ever more glaring.”

That is the real story. The loudest voices rage that the media is too “pro-Israel,” while CBS staffers panic at the possibility of one editor who might not reflexively toe the anti-Israel line. Taken together, the picture is unmistakable. The press is not sympathetic to Israel. If anything, it is so steeped in anti-Israel bias that the mere appearance of fairness is treated as heresy.


State Media, Terror Ties: How Turkey's Anadolu Agency Targets Americans
Promotion of Anti-American and Anti-Western Narratives
AA distributes content in English targeting American audiences which presents the United States in negative terms, emphasizing themes of systemic racism and oppression while amplifying divisive social issues. Articles blame the U.S. for "genocide, displacement, seclusion, removal and ongoing oppression and intergenerational trauma" of Native Americans, accuse the U.S. of genocide in multiple regions, and promote the narrative of “institutional racism” as a potential strategy of stoking social tensions rather than providing balanced international news coverage.

Influence on Americans and Lack of Transparency
AA maintains a presence at four U.S. locations and has a sizeable following on social media: 570k on Facebook, 226k on YouTube, 99.6k on Instagram, 236.8k on TikTok, and 245k on X.

Despite AA’s status as a state-controlled media outlet, it has not registered under FARA in the United States. Aside for YouTube, its accounts generally lack required "state-controlled media" labeling, making them less transparent than other state media.

Allegations of Staged Gaza Photographs
Concerns about Anadolu Agency's Gaza coverage gained international attention through a major investigation in August 2025 that raised serious questions about the agency's photojournalistic practices and editorial standards.

German newspaper Bild published a widely read investigation that accused AA photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha of staging Hamas propaganda. Fteiha's work, distributed through Anadolu and picked up by major international media outlets including CNN, BBC, and German publications, was characterized as serving Hamas propaganda goals by generating sympathy in the West and anger toward Israel.

The investigation quoted historian and photography expert Gerhard Paul, who told the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "In southern Gaza, Hamas exercises complete control over image production." Soon after the Bild investigation was published, several European news agencies cut ties with Fteiha.

Conclusion
The evidence presented reveals that Anadolu Agency has evolved far beyond its original mandate as Turkey's state news service into a sophisticated propaganda apparatus that poses significant concerns for Western democratic societies. Under state control, AA has cultivated relationships with designated terrorist organizations, employed personnel with terror connections, and weaponized journalism to advance Turkey's geopolitical and ideological objectives.

Perhaps most troubling is AA's deliberate targeting of American audiences through substantial social media platforms that lack proper state-media transparency labeling, creating a direct vector for Turkish government propaganda to influence U.S. public opinion while masquerading as legitimate journalism. Combined with AA's documented promotion of anti-American narratives and its staff's active participation in terrorist propaganda operations, these findings suggest a coordinated effort to undermine Western interests and democratic values that requires U.S. policymakers and social media platforms to recognize AA not as a conventional news organization but as an arm of Turkish state influence operations requiring appropriate regulatory oversight and transparency measures.


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Hands down one of the most antisemitic images I've ever seen printed in any newspaper anywhere:
The top headline and image in Egypt's Al-Youm Al-Sabea this morning


White House weighing travel restrictions on Iran’s delegation to UN General Assembly
The White House could impose travel and other restrictions on Iranian and other delegations to the United Nations General Assembly this month, according to an internal US State Department memo seen by The Associated Press.

Restrictions on the delegations from Iran, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Brazil would follow the White House’s denial of visas to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation to the confab, where several Western nations have pledged to recognize Palestinian statehood.

The potential restrictions, which are still under discussion and could change, would severely limit the delegations’ ability to travel outside New York City.

The movements of Iranian diplomats are already limited inside New York, but one proposal being floated would bar them from shopping at big, members-only wholesale stores like Costco and Sam’s Club without first receiving the express permission of the US State Department.

Such stores have been a favorite of Iranian diplomats posted to and visiting New York because they are able to buy large quantities of products not available in their economically isolated country for relatively cheap prices and send them home.

It was not immediately clear if or when the proposed shopping ban for Iran would take effect, but the memo said the State Department also was looking at drafting rules that would allow it to impose terms and conditions on memberships in wholesale clubs by all foreign diplomats in the US.

Tensions between Iran and the United States have spiked after US President Donald Trump ordered US bombers to attack key Iranian nuclear sites during the 12-day Israel-Iran war in June. The war put a halt to US-Iran nuclear talks that began in April.

While Iran, whose leaders are sworn to destroy Israel, has publicly denied seeking nuclear arms, it has amassed uranium enriched to a degree with no civilian usage, and rejected Trump’s demands that it halt enrichment activities.


A Firm That Handles Logistics for the US Pharmaceutical Industry Stands Accused of Hiding Its Holocaust Profiteering. Its Refusal To Come Clean Could Jeopardize the Supply Chain.
A legal watchdog group has petitioned the Trump administration to investigate an international firm that allegedly concealed its ties to Nazi Germany in its business dealings in the United States, potentially misleading American investors and violating consumer protection laws. That firm plays a major role in the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain.

Kuehne+Nagel International AG—a German-founded company now based in Switzerland that provides transportation and logistics services to some of the most prominent corporations in the world—may have committed securities fraud by failing to fully disclose its ties to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, according to the Lawfare Project, a global network of legal professionals aiding the Jewish community.

Kuehne+Nagel handles logistics for some of the United States' largest pharmaceutical firms, including Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Moderna, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, and Sinovac. Long before it became a major player in the U.S. market, Kuehne+Nagel "expelled its Jewish partner under Nazi persecution and profited by transporting looted Jewish property from occupied Europe," the Lawfare Project wrote in its letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi. "This profiteering formed a cornerstone of the company’s post-war wealth."

The legal group formally petitioned the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission to initiate parallel probes into Kuehne+Nagel over "Holocaust profiteering, tainted assets, and consumer protection," according to a copy of the Aug. 28 letters obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. A third missive addressed to New Jersey attorney general Matthew Platkin raises similar legal concerns in the Garden State, where Kuehne+Nagel’s U.S. operations are based.

Kuehne+Nagel’s failure to fully disclose its sordid past exposes the company to potential civil and federal litigation that could disrupt its work as a central logistics cog in America’s pharmaceutical supply chain, according to current and former Trump administration officials who spoke to the Free Beacon. Should Kuehne+Nagel find itself on the receiving end of lawsuits, the resulting fallout could throw the entire pharmaceutical industry into disarray.


Spanish FM backs banning Israeli cyclists after anti-Israel protesters disrupt race
Spain’s foreign minister said he would support expelling Israel-Premier Tech from the Vuelta a España after the Israeli cycling team was targeted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators who disrupted the race.

In addition to the incident at the Vuelta a España, a Spanish chess tournament this week reportedly forbade Israeli players from competing under their national flag, before reversing their decision, underscoring the growing international hostility to Israel over the ongoing war in Gaza against Hamas.

The Palestinian cause is backed by many Spaniards, including its left-wing government, which recognized a Palestinian state last year.

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said Thursday that he would “understand and be in favor” of removing Israel-Premier Tech from the Vuelta a España, but stressed the government does not claim to have the power to do so.

“We have to send a message to Israel and the Israeli society that Europe and Israel can only have normal relations when human rights are respected,” Albares said in response to a journalist’s question.

Spain is a long-time critic of Israel’s policies toward Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Speaking in the Spanish parliament in May, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called Israel a “genocidal state,” drawing a furious rebuke from Jerusalem.

Wednesday’s protest in the northern city of Bilbao saw chaotic scenes, with a crowd pushing against temporary metal barriers along the final kilometers of the course with police and security personnel holding them back. Many protestors carried Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian signs.

“The management and especially the riders are afraid. They are exposed on their bikes and we don’t know what might happen,” said Eric Van Lancker, one of Israel-Premier Tech’s two sporting directors.

Italian rider Simone Petilli, who rides for the Intermarche-Circus-Wanty team, crashed Tuesday after encountering one protest.

“We are afraid. We are being subjected to insults and all kinds of verbal attacks, it’s hard,” the team’s other sporting director, Spaniard Oscar Guerrero, told Onda Cero radio.

The team has enhanced security protection during races and has long asked its riders not to wear jerseys bearing the word “Israel” while training to avoid being targeted.
PM to Israeli cycling team after Spain protests: ‘Great job for not giving in to hate’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sends a message of support to the Israeli cycling team after pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a race in Spain and demanded that the Israeli team be ejected from the competition.

“Great job to Sylvan [Adams] and Israel’s cycling team for not giving in to hate and intimidation. You make Israel proud!” the message on X reads.

Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said yesterday that he would support the expulsion of Israel Premier Tech from the Spanish Vuelta cycling race.


David Schaecter, Holocaust survivor and advocate who founded Miami memorial, dies at 96
David Schaecter, a Holocaust survivor who helmed the Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA and established the Holocaust memorial in Miami Beach, has died at 96.

His foundation announced Schaecter’s death Thursday, months after he delivered an address to the Senate Special Committee on Aging on April 30 about rising antisemitism in the United States.

“I am here to remind everyone that there are still thousands of survivors alive today who are in desperate need, and who cannot be forgotten,” Schaecter told the Senate committee. “Thank you for having this hearing on antisemitism. It has been a problem and is still a problem.”

Schaecter’s foundation, created in 2000, often took a more aggressive stance than other Jewish organizations in pursuing restitution of goods looted during the Holocaust. His advocacy was responsible for the cancellation of an auction of jewelry linked to Nazi plunder in August 2023 by Christie’s auction house.

In a 2002 article in the Sh’ma journal, Schaecter also took aim at the Claims Conference for what he said was failing to use restitution funds allocated by other countries to meet the needs of survivors — a critique rejected by the organization, which at the time had negotiated $50 billion for survivors.

“How can plans for a ‘Jewish People’s Fund’ go forward while survivors languish on waiting lists for the health care they deserve, especially after all they have endured?” wrote Schaecter. “How dare these institutions presume to spend ‘restituted’ funds for their favored ‘philanthropic’ projects into the next century, using money claimed from the most terrorized victims of the past century?”

He was still pressing the case last year when the Claims Conference announced an increase of $114 million in support for Holocaust survivors following negotiations with the German federal government. He told JNS at the time that he was “angry beyond words” that the organization had not secured more, including to cover the costs of home care for elderly survivors.

Schaecter was born in a small town in Slovakia in 1929. In 1940, his father was taken by the government and never seen again. When he was 11 years old, Schaecter was taken with his family on a train to Auschwitz, where he was separated from his mother and two sisters, who also did not survive.

Schaecter worked at Auschwitz with his brother, Yaakov, for two years, cleaning the train cars that they arrived in.

“I can still smell and taste the filth and the chemicals we had to use. The Nazis were not selective about who they beat or who they killed. Yaakov would take the beatings meant for me, and he shared his food with me, and did small things to help me survive,” Schaecter told the Senate committee about his experience.

In 1943, when he was 13, Schaecter and his brother were transported to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where his brother fell ill and was killed by the Nazis.
On this Day: 53 years since the Munich massacre
On this day in history, Palestinian terrorists, affiliated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, killed 11 members of Israel's delegation to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.

On the morning of September 5, Black September terrorists infiltrated the apartments of the Israeli athletes by scaling a chain-link fence while carrying duffel bags loaded with grenades and assault rifles.

The terrorists took 11 athletes and coaches hostage between two apartments, and started a 24-hour-long standoff with West German police officers.

Terrorists initially shot Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano, leaving nine hostages in Black September's hands for 24 hours.

The remaining nine were killed in a standoff rescue operation between police and the terrorists at Fuerstenfeldbruck airport near Munich. West German police killed five Black September terrorists in the shootout.

Black September demanded that in return for the athletes and coaches, 236 prisoners incarcerated in Israel would be released and safely transported to Egypt.

Three terrorists were captured but freed in October in exchange for hostages aboard a hijacked German airliner.

However, the rescue mission failed, resulting in the death of the nine hostages.

Subsequently, prime minister Golda Meir authorized Operation Wrath of God, in which everybody suspected of planning or participating in the Munich massacre was tracked down and eliminated.

In a Friday statement, the Foreign Ministry drew parallels between the hostages held by Black September in Munich for 20 hours to the hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas.

“53 years later, history repeats itself: 48 Israelis are still held hostage in Hamas’ dungeons - by another Palestinian terror group,” the statement on X/Twitter read.

“From Munich to Gaza, the message is clear: terror targets Israelis simply for being Israeli.”




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