Stop funding the fight against antisemitism and build Israel instead
There is also a symbolic dimension. Campaigning against antisemitism can inadvertently reinforce an image of Jews and Israel as perpetually embattled, defined by their enemies rather than their achievements. This defensive posture echoes post-Holocaust narratives of victimhood, which critics argue can undermine confidence and agency.Seth Frantzman: The legacy of September 11: The danger of terrorist groups undermining US strength
By contrast, Israel’s story is one of extraordinary strength. The global military analysis site Global Firepower ranks Israel as the 15th most powerful military in the world, backed by a $30.5 billion defense budget. Beyond raw strength, Israel has become a global hub of innovation.
European Security & Defence notes it is among the world’s top ten defense exporters, while the OECD records Israel as the leading nation in research and development spending as a share of GDP. Its startup ecosystem is valued at more than $250 billion, ranking it fourth globally, according to Strategy International.
This narrative of resilience and ingenuity is often overshadowed by reactive battles against hostile rhetoric.
If boycotts and international criticism pose real challenges, they also highlight a different strategic choice: to invest inward rather than outward. By channeling resources into infrastructure, research, and education, Israel can strengthen its long-term position regardless of external hostility.
Israel is already a world leader in science, medicine, military technology, cybersecurity and many other areas. Investing in growing Israel’s strength can convince the world that boycotts are self-destructive and alliances are mutually beneficial. Success on the ground—economic, cultural, and technological—may ultimately do more to shape global perceptions than any anti-hate campaign.
In the short run, ignoring antisemitism will not be easy. Hostile rhetoric may continue, and some communities may feel abandoned without dedicated advocacy. Yet over time, resilience may be better demonstrated by thriving despite hostility, rather than by fighting to silence it.
Perhaps the most powerful response to hatred is not defense but success. By focusing on building a future of strength, innovation and resilience, Israel and its supporters can tell a story not of victimhood but of vitality. In the long run, that may prove to be the most convincing rebuttal of all.
Today we look back in memory, but for many of us, the memories are of what came after. The US invaded Afghanistan and stayed for twenty years. By the end, an American born on 9/11 could have been serving in that war.Phyllis Chesler: It's 9/11 Again
The Biden administration’s withdrawal from Kabul was reminiscent of the withdrawal from South Vietnam - chaotic and humiliating. The Taliban, hosted for years by US ally Qatar, quickly retook Afghanistan. The US-backed government collapsed overnight. Billions of dollars and two decades of work evaporated.
Questions remain: Where did all the money go? What was the point of all the death and sacrifice? Why was a US ally hosting the Taliban, who were fighting the US? And why was Bin Laden found hiding in Pakistan, a US partner, in 2011, living next to Pakistan’s version of West Point?
The US invasion of Iraq brought similar questions. Iraq soon became an Iranian sphere of influence, with militias targeting American forces. By June 2014, two Iraqi divisions collapsed in Mosul as ISIS advanced, and the entire Iraqi army disintegrated. American-trained units disappeared, leaving thousands of US-made vehicles for ISIS - just as the Taliban would do in 2021.
In the end, ISIS was defeated by a US-led coalition, but the cost was high. The Middle East now balances ties with Washington by also courting China, Russia, and other powers. Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel was, in part, predicated on its belief that the US-led world order was collapsing. It killed more than 1,000 people, including Americans, and assumed Washington would not respond forcefully.
Indeed, little was done by the Biden administration to secure the release of Americans held in Gaza. It took until January 2025 for the Trump administration to declare that enough was enough.
Even now, the Gaza war continues. The shadow of 9/11 still looms, and there is still no clarity about what comes next.
I will never forget 9/11. It is seared into my memory. I am still always "back there." How could I forget so many civilian murders, so many victims of Ground Zero-related cancers, so many bereft families, so much ash, such a distinctive smell, how many police officers and firemen were lost as they attempted their heroic rescues. How empty my skyline was!
Most Americans were so shocked. But why? Islamist terrorist Jihadists had attempted to bomb the World Trade Center before. Why were our memories so imperfect? Why didn't we understand that this was a Jihad attack on both America and Israel. Bin Laden himself said so.
To remind us, once more, about what happened on 9/11, I am republishing the beginning of my 2003 book, The New Antisemitism.
On September 11, 2001, at about 11 a.m., I walked over to my computer and typed the sentence: “Now we are all Israelis.” Always, it begins with the Jews. Afterwards, Osama bin Laden called the assault on America “‘blessed attacks’ against the infidel…the new Christian-Jewish crusade.” He explained that the Twin Towers had fallen because of American support for Israel.
War and a new kind of antisemitism had been declared. I had no choice but to write this book: The New Anti-Semitism.
Defending Israel with David Harris- Melanie Phillips
David speaks with British journalist, author, broadcaster and Times of London columnist Melanie Phillips.
"The concept of 'Kill the Jews' or 'Fight the Jews' must be eliminated."
— Center for Peace Communications (@PeaceComCenter) September 11, 2025
Gazans slam Hamas for brainwashing children and demand education for peace.
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/oXcQFv9XXw
'Allah will burn them': What pro-Palestinian students and allies say when they think no one is watching
In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, a group of Jewish students at Western University infiltrated two private group chats, belonging to Palestinian students and their allies in the London, Ont., community.UKFLI: London hospital chief acts to prevent political symbols at work
The students’ discoveries shine a light on what some opponents of Israel are saying to one another when they think no one’s watching. What they found in the chat histories is unsettling: a stream of Hitler memes, pro-Hamas videos and antisemitic cartoons. More alarming is the advice group chat members give each other on escaping detection. There are even tips on bringing knives to peaceful protests.
National Post has reviewed the chat histories supplied by the Jewish students. The Post has granted their request for anonymity, given the uptick of violence toward Jews on campuses. Even the principal lawyer advising them did not want to be identified for this story, fearful the publication of his name could provoke retribution.
The Post reached out to the Palestinian Cultural Club (PCC), a university-affiliated group that ran one of the group chats. The Post also reached out to the administrators of the second chat, requesting an interview to discuss the antisemitic nature of many posts.
“The allegations put forward are currently before a rigorous independent process where we are fully cooperating with all legal processes,” a spokesperson for the club responded over Instagram. “We will be fully rebutting the fallacious claims made that the PCC in any way facilitated or was involved in the spreading of hate.”
While the spokesperson declined to comment further on the case, he warned that any “spurious allegations made that the PCC supports hate, or supports anti-Semitism, is false, malicious, and defamatory. We will defend ourselves in court against such spurious allegations if they are made.”
The group instructed the Post to communicate with them via their legal counsel moving forward but declined to provide a lawyer’s contact information after multiple requests.
The group chat for Western’s Palestinian Cultural Club wasn’t always intensely political. In its text history there are innocuous links to Zoom events, reminders to apply for leadership positions and good-hearted Eid Mubarak greetings shared during Ramadan.
But the tenor changed on Oct. 7, 2023, the day thousands of Hamas fighters invaded southern Israel, triggering a war still being fought today that has shaken up the Middle East.
“Everyone this is a time where we all stand united!” was one of the first references to the attack in the group chat, posted in all capital letters. A wave of heart emojis and Palestinian flags followed.
In the coming days, as reports emerged of Israelis being burned alive, beheaded and sexually assaulted, group chat members exchanged messages about attending rallies to support Palestine and protest Israel’s unfolding military response in Gaza.
It didn’t take long for group members to see a risk in discussing these subjects on a channel tied to the university. Several expressed concern for their academic careers if the content became public. A few worried about Canary Mission, a website that identifies and tracks anti-Israel activists.
A London hospital has taken decisive action following a complaint of harassment of a Jewish couple during the birth of their child.
The nurse on duty was wearing several obvious pro-Palestinian symbols, including a watermelon lanyard, a Palestinian flag on her wrist-watch, a Palestinian themed, heart shaped badge and an inverted triangle badge with a keffiyeh pattern.
David Probert, the Chief Executive of University College London Hospital (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust and also Deputy Chief Executive of NHS England has responded to the complaint by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) to confirm that he has taken action to ensure that staff do not breach the uniform code by wearing political symbols at work. He has
Sincerely apologised for the distress caused to the couple
Circulated a Trust-wide reminder to all staff regarding adherence to the uniform policy
Convened a meeting with senior nursing staff to review the incident and discuss appropriate measures including implementing a monitoring plan
Personally reiterated the importance of compliance with UCLH’s uniform guidelines during a recent virtual all-staff briefing
Conducted an investigation which revealed that the individual involved was a student on placement. UCLH requires all students to comply with its uniform policy and has engaged with the university to ensure that this requirement is clearly communicated and upheld
All staff have been reminded that wearing political symbols is prohibited under the uniform policy. Any staff member who chooses to wear political symbols will be in violation of this policy, and appropriate action will be taken.
“The individual was making a very clear and conscious statement about her political beliefs,” the husband of the woman giving birth told UKLFI. “It is a very uncomfortable position to be in, when those who are entrusted with your family’s health and wellbeing hold views that are so blatantly hostile to the Jewish people.”
UKLFI’s letter had explained that UCLH was likely to have breached Section 29 of the Equality Act, because the conduct of the nurse probably amounted to harassment as defined in the Act, by creating a hostile and intimidating atmosphere for Jewish and Israeli patients.
Over half of the British public admit that they do not know what Zionism means.
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) September 11, 2025
Yet, one of the most common manifestations of contemporary antisemitism specifically targets “Zionists”.
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the same right to self-determination afforded to all… pic.twitter.com/LzefMSAAbh
Man arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and arson after fire at MP’s office
A man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and arson after a major fire wrecked a Labour MP’s constituency office.
Police attended the blaze at Washington and Gateshead South MP Sharon Hodgson’s office at Vermont House in Concord, Washington, Tyne and Wear, in the early hours of Thursday.
Aerial images show the roof in one corner has been destroyed and much of the building has been damaged.
Graffiti on a wall read: “328 days blood on your hands” – believed to be a reference to the number of days since Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed.
A Northumbria Police spokesperson said: “Emergency services attended and no-one is reported to have been injured in the incident.
“A man in his 20s has subsequently been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and arson. He remains in police custody at this time.”
A spokesperson for Ms Hodgson said: “We will not be commenting or speculating while there is an ongoing police investigation, what we are clear on is there is no place for this kind of violence in our society.
“Sharon will not be deterred and will continue to support her constituents in Washington and Gateshead South as she does day in, day out.”
Why were Israeli establishments left off Time Out’s list of best Middle Eastern restaurants?The “peaceful pro-Palestine activists” are burning down our MPs offices in memory of Yahya Sinwar - the Hamas mastermind of the October 7 massacre.
— Joo🎗️ (@JoosyJew) September 11, 2025
Have you had enough yet? pic.twitter.com/X7TVmwKmfF
If I were commissioned by Time Out to compile a list of the 20 best Middle Eastern restaurants in London I’d be spoilt for choice to narrow it to just 20, but there’s no doubt that some of the many outstanding Israeli restaurants we have in this city would be on there. Coal Office, Palomar, Carmel, Claro, Oren, Barbary, Delamina, Honey & Co, Ottolenghi to name a few.Columbia, Barnard college rank last in US campus free speech survey
Now imagine I didn’t include any Palestinian restaurants. Not one. Imagine the backlash. Imagine that even getting past the editor.
And yet a supper club host by the name Suzie Bakos has produced a list of 20 best Middle Eastern Restaurants in London and not one Israeli or Jewish-owned establishment is featured. Syrian, Kurdish Lebanese and Palestinian. But no Israeli. Not even Ottolenghi whose founder is, after all, credited with bringing Middle Eastern food to this country.
Josh Katz, who owns Carmel in Queen’s Park, Berber and Q in Hackney and the Shawarma Bar in Exmouth Market says: “Any number of Israeli restaurants could feature in a best of London list never mind best of Middle Eastern. This seems to me a pointed and deliberate boycott.”
In the piece the writer says: “From the smoky, spice-laden grills of Baghdad to the honey-soaked pastries of Beirut, the Middle East is a region where food is a love language – something I learned early, born in Iraq and raised in London in a household where food was at the centre of everything. Today… I cook those flavours while seeking them out across the city: Syrian breakfasts, Kurdish brunches, Palestinian dinner parties and late-night Lebanese bites. London serves the Middle East with both soul and heart, and these are the 20 restaurants doing it best.”
Ms Bakos is essentially touring the Middle East in food terms – and notably sidestepping Israel.
Columbia University and its affiliate Barnard College, both epicenters of anti-Israel protest activity following the start of the Gaza war, ranked last in an annual survey of free speech on US campuses.University of Michigan Prof Bankrolled by Gates Foundation Celebrates Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a nonpartisan advocacy group for free speech protections, released the report on college free speech rankings on Tuesday.
The report measured free speech on 257 campuses, based on surveys of 68,510 students, and covers the 2024-2025 academic year.
Barnard placed last, in 257th place, and Columbia was second to last. The two campuses are across the street from each other and student activities, including protests, are intertwined.
Columbia’s low ranking was due to investigations, classroom disruptions and suspensions last year, mostly related to anti-Israel activism.
Student perceptions also played a role. While Columbia scored highly for political tolerance, there was also a high level of discomfort expressing ideas and self-censorship, and a low level of administrative support.
A majority, 63% of students, said they self-censored every month; 74% said shouting down a speaker on campus was acceptable; and 26% said using violence to stop someone from speaking on campus was acceptable, at least in rare cases.
There were four liberal students for every conservative student on campus, the survey said.
A University of Michigan professor whose research has been funded by the Gates Foundation and Harvard University defended the assassination of Charlie Kirk, asserting the conservative activist spread hate speech and "should not be mourned or celebrated."
Charles H.F. Davis III, who teaches at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, called Kirk’s killing a "solution" to what he asserted are the "violent conditions and violent rhetoric spewed by empowered people that create them."
"Charlie Kirk is not a martyr," Davis wrote. Kirk, a 31-year-old husband and father of two, was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday during a nationwide campus tour for Kirk’s group, Turning Point USA.
According to Davis, he has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in research funding from the Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Spencer Foundation, the National Academy of Education, and the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity.
A spokeswoman for the University of Michigan said the school does not take a position on Davis's comments.
"In accordance with the university's Institutional Neutrality policy, the university does not take positions on matters not directly connected to university governance. Faculty members are free to speak and debate issues of the day; but, to be clear, those individual expressions do not represent the views of the university," Kay Jarvis, the director of the university's office of public affairs, told the Washington Free Beacon.
Davis, who teaches courses on "Anti-Racism" at the University of Michigan, has worked at the school since 2020. He founded the Campus Abolition Research Lab that same year to "disrupt and dismantle the carceral university" and create "police-free futures." That initiative came under scrutiny in 2023 after two shootings and five sex crimes occurred at the school, the Free Beacon reported.
Anti-Israel protesters set up an illegal encampment at The University of New Mexico.
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 9, 2025
They demanded the university cut ties with companies connected to Israel. pic.twitter.com/C9HlPgE98s
UNM Prof. Jennifer Tucker, led a faculty union initiative supporting the pro-Hamas encampment on campus. pic.twitter.com/5TleiRaudg
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 9, 2025
BREAKING: Assistant Dean of Students at MTSU has been FIRED effective immediately following vile comments celebrating Charlie’s death. https://t.co/kus1M9qShe pic.twitter.com/X6WK7dazXY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 11, 2025
🚨 After Charlie Kirk was shot, Calla Walsh praised the attack: “Thoughts and prayers for the bullet.”
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 11, 2025
She’s not just some online troll. Calla is the founder of a domestic terrorist group called Palestine Action U.S. She supports Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. She called hostage… pic.twitter.com/nJcsK8Pi81
Calla is the founder of a domestic terrorist group called Palestine Action U.S.
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 11, 2025
She supports Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
She called hostage posters “propaganda” and urged people to tear them down. pic.twitter.com/uzbPGcwdUG
Calla Walsh is glorifying violence and using it to justify silencing speech. This has no place on campus or anywhere in America.
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 11, 2025
📢 Share this. Expose her. pic.twitter.com/SQbNs2p9UN
We exposed Dr. Aroup Prakash Chatterjee for his antisemitic attacks and for denying the horrific acts committed by Hamas on October 7. He was reported to the General Medical Council. Since September 3, 2025, he has sent us over 45 messages on X, most of which are antisemitic.… pic.twitter.com/qWdXTzuyLd
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) September 11, 2025
‘F__k the Jews’_ Not Antisemitic, Says NY Times
SEPT. 8 UPDATE:
New York Times Corrects
After CAMERA's outreach to editors, the New York Times corrected the passage that falsely exonerated anti-Israel demonstrators. See below for a detailed update.
The recent surge in antisemitic incidents in Australia began almost immediately after Hamas’s massacre. On Oct 9, 2023, at a demonstration in front of the Sydney Opera House, a crowd chanted “F**k the Jews!”
Several witnesses also reported hearing “Gas the Jews,” though a widely circulated video claiming to capture that chant was apparently miscaptioned — the menacing crowd, an Australian investigation found, was actually shouting, “Where’s the Jews?” If the latter alternative isn’t particularly comforting coming from the F-the-Jews crowd, rest easy. The New York Times assures that none of the chants that evening were antisemitic.
As Times reporter Victoria Kim recounted last week,
The demonstration led to accusations that the crowd had yelled anti-Jewish slurs, stirring up months of controversy, until local officials later concluded based on forensic video analysis that they were unfounded.
Unfounded. Never mind that the newspaper’s own link, for those bothering to click, leads to an Australian report that (unlike the New York Times) accurately lays out the facts:
[New South Wales] Police say forensic analysis has found no evidence the phrase "gas the Jews" was chanted in videos circulating online from a pro-Palestinian rally at the Sydney Opera House in October.
However, police said they also obtained statements from several individuals who attended the protest who said they heard the phrase, but investigators could not attribute these statements to a specific individual.
On October 9, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied at the landmark, which was lit blue and white in solidarity with Israel following the Hamas attacks on the Jewish state.
Protesters waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans like "f… the Jews", "free Palestine" and "shame Israel".
Crowds chanted “F*** the Jews” in Sydney.
— CAMERAorg (@CAMERAorg) September 10, 2025
🚨But @nytimes called reports of antisemitic slurs “UNFOUNDED” - until CAMERA forced a correction.
As much as they try, the media can't make antisemitism disappear. pic.twitter.com/35qduwqHGt
In @guardian's warped world, it's never the Hamas terrorists who crossed every red line when they butchered and raped their way across southern Israel.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 11, 2025
Instead, Hamas leaders are "negotiators" while Israel is led by a "rogue government."
Just sick. pic.twitter.com/MjrUOpr0nN
This headline wasn’t an accident. The language is so tortured. Someone spent time trying to formulate this. https://t.co/b4AFHltAxi
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 10, 2025
Financial Times gives three cheers for Al Jazeera
Last week we posted about a Financial Times (FT) article by their Middle East editor so one-sided and driven by anti-Israel bias that it could have been published at the Guardian. The piece in question uncritically promoted a resolution by the ‘International Genocide Scholars Association’ (IGSA) accusing Israel of genocide that was widely mocked for the error-ridden, decidedly unscholarly resolution text, the absence of transparency about those who voted in favor, and for the IGSA’s non-existent standards for registration.
The latest example of the ‘prestigious’ London-based outlet’s slouch towards anti-Israel advocacy – a trend which became especially pronounced soon after the Oct. 7th massacre – can be seen in an article written by Mehul Srivastava in London and Heba Saleh in Cairo, “The Palestinian journalists risking death to report on Israel’s offensive“, Sept. 6.
The agenda of Srivastava and Saleh is clear in the opening sentence:
Shortly after Israel assassinated Anas al-Sharif, one of Al Jazeera’s best-known Gaza correspondents, his newly-appointed successor Nour Khaled had to make a grim choice.
It’s not until the 16th paragraph when the FT reporters even note Israel’s ‘accusation’ that Anas al-Sharif was a terrorist. But, even then, it’s dismissed as an unsupported accusation, despite the fact that, as our colleague David Litman noted, even CNN and the BBC acknowledged that Al-Sharif previously worked “for a Hamas media team in the [Gaza] Strip”, a role which makes him a terror promoter, not an independent reporter.
Further, as another colleague, Tamar Sternthal, demonstrated, Al-Sharif also repeatedly glorified Hamas and expressed support for extremism.
Deeply depressing cartoon in the Times. The man on the left started a brutal war against his neighbour in the pursuit of expansionist goals. The man on the right leads a democracy that was attacked by jihadis after his country had withdrawn from their territory two decades ago. pic.twitter.com/Nf8vnos8Iu
— Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) September 11, 2025
Recently, Hulileh announced that he had received an offer from the US to serve as Governor of Gaza after the war.
— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) September 11, 2025
Hamas-Linked Activist Malak Fadda Accused of Fraud After Leaving Gaza with Millions
— ME24 - Middle East 24 (@MiddleEast_24) September 11, 2025
Malak Fadda, a Hamas-linked activist promoted by Al Jazeera, once appeared on international media urging donations and claiming that Palestinians in Gaza were “resilient, having children, and… pic.twitter.com/AKxUKUuT3i
"They say there is no evacuation, that the people are steadfast. They're lying."
— Imshin (@imshin) September 11, 2025
Heavy traffic leaving Gaza City for South Gaza Strip.
Timestamp: 9 hours ago#TheGazaYouDontSee
Link in 1st comment pic.twitter.com/MnOTCciV2R
🚨A considerable amount of food left behind by the “starving Gazans” … pic.twitter.com/Znt50iMHhu
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) September 11, 2025
Selling UN aid parcels in Gaza.
— Imshin (@imshin) September 11, 2025
1st video, the going price appears to be 100 shekels for a box.
2nd video boxes are being loaded onto tuktuks for transportation (to sell?)
This does not look official - just individuals and small gangs.
Timestamps: 17-19 hours ago… pic.twitter.com/PY0kKjsz0z
A clip that says it all…
— GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) September 11, 2025
Palestinians spray bullets upward, then brag about their Nutella.
Those clips of pristine AK rounds and light wounds — blamed on the IDF?
Likely just from slowed bullets after their own reckless fire. pic.twitter.com/BrO25UahUn
Birthday party at Happy Chocolate Café, Khan Younes Mawasi, South Gaza Strip. Shared on the café's Instagram stories last night.#TheGazaYouDontSee
— Imshin (@imshin) September 11, 2025
Link in 1st comment https://t.co/N62tqQFR3f pic.twitter.com/eddHJTLeU6
Black Forest Cakes have opened a new branch on al-Wahda St. Gaza City, Nero Building (timestamp: 1 hour ago).
— Imshin (@imshin) September 11, 2025
Prices:
Small cake 40 shekels ($12), two layers.
Medium cake 80 shekels ($24), enough for up to 8 people.
Large cake 150 shekels ($45), enough for up to 15 people.… pic.twitter.com/eLHBG3qJaZ
Will Israel now be blamed for the Gazan obesity epidemic? pic.twitter.com/XmhdF48cpv
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) September 11, 2025
Thirteen years old, bare hands, he stood to shield his family.
— 🎗️ Abu Baklava ابو بقلاوة 🇸🇨🇮🇱 (@abu_baklava2) September 10, 2025
They killed the boy, he began a legend.
The Druze soul does not die.#Druze #Suwayda https://t.co/vgNOuzqMZz
Iran says deal with IAEA does not yet guarantee inspectors access to nuclear sites
Iran on Wednesday stressed that it had not yet agreed to allow UN inspectors access to its nuclear sites, after the International Atomic Energy Agency touted a deal reached with Tehran that it said included “all facilities and installations” in the Islamic Republic.Iran's Araghchi says uranium stockpile 'inaccessible' amid negotiations with IAEA
Iran agreed to a deal with the IAEA on Tuesday for a new cooperation framework, after it suspended cooperation following its war with Israel in June. The 12-day war saw Israeli and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, which the IAEA has not been able to access since.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said Wednesday that the document “provides for a clear understanding of the procedures for inspections.”
It “includes all facilities and installations in Iran, and it also contemplates the required reporting on all the attacked facilities, including the nuclear material present at those,” Grossi told the Vienna-based agency’s Board of Governors meeting.
But Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi underlined that the agreement itself “does not create access” for IAEA inspectors.
Araghchi said in an interview aired Wednesday that “currently no access is given to the IAEA inspectors, apart from the Bushehr nuclear plant.” He added that “based on the reports that Iran will provide later, the type of access should be negotiated in due course.”
Araghchi said the IAEA’s board of governors meeting on Wednesday would be crucial for how cooperation with the IAEA develops.
While Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, Western countries accuse the government of seeking an atomic weapon — a claim Tehran has denied.
Tehran’s suspension of cooperation saw the IAEA’s inspectors leave Iran, before a team briefly returned last month to oversee the replacement of fuel at the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is under the rubble of the attacked nuclear sites and it has now become inaccessible, according to reports by AFP.
“All of our material is under the rubble of the bombed facilities," said Araghchi during a television interview, while adding that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was currently examining the sites.
Israel’s attacks on Iranian facilities during Operation Rising Lion aimed at the centers in Natanz and Isfahan, while an extra attack by the United States using B2 stealth bombers reportedly damaged the Fordow center.
The comments by Araghchi represent the first ones made by any Iranian official on the uranium situation, although they also come as the regime is currently negotiating with the IAEA to reinstate nuclear inspections.
Iran, IAEA give mixed message about nuclear inspections
The latest announcement from Iran and the IAEA confirmed that an agreement had been reached between the two parties. However, both parties provided conflicting reports about the state of inspections and who would be responsible for conducting them.
First, it was IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi who presented the deal to the IAEA Board of Governors as an agreement that had restored "complete" access for the IAEA to all nuclear sites within the Islamic Republic.
The IAEA's Grossi said in a statement on Wednesday that the "technical document" agreed provided for "a clear understanding of the procedures for inspection, notifications, and implementation..."
"These include all facilities and installations in Iran and also contemplate the required reporting on all the attacked facilities, including the nuclear material present at those."
However, soon after Grossi gave his optimistic statements, Araghchi demurred, saying that the deal does not guarantee the UN nuclear inspectors' access to Iranian nuclear sites and that Tehran wants further talks on how inspections are carried out.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: New Agreement with IAEA Does Not Allow Inspector Access to Iran’s Nuclear Facilities, Except for the Bushehr Plant in Order to Replace the Fuel pic.twitter.com/PgP1LavRmN
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 11, 2025
Jewish couple attacked by gang in Venice
pair of Jewish tourists, an American man and his Israeli wife, were attacked by a dozen-strong group of North African men in Venice on the night of between Sunday and Monday, local newspapers reported on Thursday.Lineker alludes to antisemitism row in TV awards acceptance speech
The attack began shortly after midnight in the area of Venice's Santa Fosca church when the group noticed that the man's clothes suggested he was Jewish, according to the reports.
The couple tried to get away after the group started insulting them and shouting 'Free Palestine.' But the gang surrounded them, and intimidated them by simulating sex acts.
A member of the group used a Rottweiler dog to scare the couple and a 31-year-old Tunisian then slapped the Jewish man in the face, having put out his hand pretending to want to shake hands.
At the end of the attack, the woman suffered an injury to her ankle by a bottle that had been smashed on the group, the reports said.
Gary Lineker used his acceptance speech at this year’s National Television Awards to allude to the circumstances of his departure from the BBC – which took place after he shared a video with antisemitic tropes – saying “perhaps it’s OK sometimes for us to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice.”
Lineker, who presented BBC’s Match of the Day for more than a quarter-century, won Best TV Presenter at the annual awards last night, all of which are voted for by the British public. The 64-year-old left his 26-year career at the BBC early following a video he shared purporting to explain Zionism which featured a depiction of a rat, historically an antisemitic insult. Lineker later apologised for sharing the video, saying he stood “against all forms of racism”.
However, the Zionism video was merely one in a line of highly controversial posts shared by the pundit, who has become a vocal backer of the Palestinian cause. These included sharing an interview with the head of the extremist Neturei Karta group, as well as one where a so-called “anti-racist campaigner” nodded approvingly as someone said that “I’m Jewish and I never thought I’d feel the amount of disgust and rage I felt at my own community over the last year and a half, but especially the last few months that amount of pathetic manipulative self-victimisation boggles my mind.”
Lineker accepted his award to rapturous applause from the audience, saying “it’s not lost on me why I might have won this award. The audience response transformed into frenetic cheering when Lineker went on to say “I think it demonstrates that perhaps it’s OK to use your platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice
In the grand scheme of everything bad going on in the world this is unimportant.
— Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) September 11, 2025
But Gary Lineker winning the best presenter award after being fired for an antisemitic social media post hurts. Especially when he then uses his speech to make out that he’s a good guy.… pic.twitter.com/nQ6mS6NQq7
In every generation there are Jews with a pathological need to believe that the Jewish part of themselves is evil and has to be smashed. Tragically, they’ve always been in the forefront of genocidal movements to smash the Jewish people altogether.
— Melanie Phillips (@MelanieLatest) September 10, 2025
In a more civilised world,… https://t.co/hn1jlat2ud
UFC star Bryce Mitchell goes on antisemitic tirade blaming Israel for 9/11 and proclaims “Israel hates Jesus Christ”.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) September 11, 2025
This lunatic needs to be let go from your roster @danawhite pic.twitter.com/HDNWtjWA6y
‘Hitler was right’ says owner of trendy London barbershop
A British-Albanian co-owner of a London barbershop chain has encouraged Muslims worldwide to emulate the actions of Adolf Hitler.
Ermal Merdani, who is also a former contestant on Big Brother Albania, is registered as a Person with Significant Control of The Axe Club barbers in Dalston Junction, a trendy chain of men’s hairdressers with two other sites across the city.
But on Tuesday, commenting on a CNN article about Israel’s targeted strike against Hamas senior leadership in Doha, Merdani appeared to encourage Muslims worldwide to carry out another Holocaust in posts uncovered by online counter-antisemitism activist Gnasher Jew.
Merdani, who has 12,000 followers on Facebook, wrote on the platform: “Why Muslim world stay quiet? Make same what Adolf Hitler make 80 years ago is so simple what [sic]”
The 37-year-old also posted on a Reuters video last month, saying: “So simple Adolf Hitler was right. 85 years ago this true (sic)”
On its website, The Axe Club says its core value and motto is “everyone is royalty”.
“We pride ourselves on treating each and every client with integrity, always providing five-star service. Rest assured, we will always go out of the way to ensure your expectations are met,” it said.
Merdani was a finalist on Big Brother Albania season 5 in 2012 and, as recently as last year, was still being interviewed by Albanian media about his reflections on the current season of the show. He is originally from Memaliaj, Albania but later moved to the capital, Tirana.
A spokesperson for the Axe Club said: “We would like to make it clear that our company does not condone, support, or align with any form of antisemitism, hate speech, or discriminatory behaviour.
Excrement smeared on the doors of a synagogue and Jewish children’s nursery in Golders Green.
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) September 11, 2025
This is the eighth such attack locally in just over a week.
These repeated incidents are leaving British Jews anxious and vulnerable in their own neighbourhoods, not to mention… https://t.co/pNArs8DuZL
Philadelphia - Leeroy Hayes, 33 of NJ, has been arrested in connection with the antisemitic vandalism of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History not once but TWICE.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) September 11, 2025
Hayes is charged with ethnic intimidation, criminal mischief & possession of an instrument of… pic.twitter.com/EAOVmbgcle
Always remember the palestinians celebrated 9/11
— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) September 11, 2025
Today we have the pro-pals celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk pic.twitter.com/GEybcrSnzk
After September 11, the Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat threatened to kill journalists for filming celebrations of the World Trade Center attack. pic.twitter.com/h3edJqdhRU
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) September 11, 2025
One picture says it all: In an old photograph, the nephews of arch-Hamas terrorist Yahya Sinwar are shown celebrating the 9/11 attacks—evidence of the hatred and indoctrination he passed down even within his own family. Sinwar, who was eliminated by the IDF in October 2024, was… pic.twitter.com/5zk0LgglcW
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) September 11, 2025
Twenty four years have passed since the 9/11 terror attack, that shocked the entire world and left nearly three thousand Americans dead.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) September 11, 2025
The 9/11 Living Memorial in Jerusalem is the only monument that was erected outside the United States with all the victims’ names. It… pic.twitter.com/2jc3RxxvHC
"In America, we take blows, but we never buckle. We bleed, but we do not bow. We defy the fear, endure the flames, and emerge from every hardship. Stronger, prouder, and greater than ever before."
— Department of State (@StateDept) September 11, 2025
- President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/aSXilWMRA2
Nearly 3,000 men, women and children lost their lives on September 11th, 2001.
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) September 11, 2025
We remember their names. We mourn the lives that could have been. 🕯️ pic.twitter.com/bMWmh7O1Sx
Tonight in Israel the Knesset is illuminated in US colors as a sign of Israel's solidarity with the victims of 9/11 and in memory of Charlie Kirk. 🇺🇸🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/yrwSpw83zz
— Manhattan Mingle (@ManhattanMingle) September 11, 2025
9-11 occurred on a Tuesday. I wrote "Tuesday" as a plea to not forget the lessons of 9-11 after playing Superman at the Concert for NY. Twenty years later?...I'll leave it up to you...🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/kL9riTOagO
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) September 11, 2025
"He's an Anti-Zionist Too!" cartoon book (December 2024) PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism (February 2022) |
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