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Friday, September 12, 2025

09/12 Links Pt1: From Munich to Tehran to Doha: Israel’s unbroken doctrine of justice; Je Suis Charlie

From Ian:

From Munich to Tehran to Doha: Israel’s unbroken doctrine of justice
Critics call these killings vengeance. That is a fundamental misunderstanding. Israel’s targeted operations are not revenge; they are justice, deterrence and self-preservation.

Justice, because the blood of murdered Jews cannot be brushed aside with a U.N. resolution or a “peace process” that drags on indefinitely. Deterrence, because future terrorists must learn that planning atrocities against Jews means that they will spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulder. And self-preservation, because allowing terror leaders to live freely and plot the next massacre is to invite repetition of Oct. 7.

The world often prefers Israel to “move on.” After Munich, the International Olympic Committee didn’t even pause the Games for long. Today, the international community demands ceasefires and concessions, as if Hamas were a legitimate negotiating partner rather than the butchers of men, women, children and babies. In both eras, Israel answered with action, not platitudes.

It is also worth remembering who these terror leaders are. The Munich plotters were not impoverished freedom fighters; they were operatives of a well-funded, politically connected terror machine. Likewise, those Hamas leaders who reside in Tehran and Doha are not struggling refugees; they live in opulence while ordinary Gazans languish under their misrule. Their deaths do not deprive their people of leadership; they liberate them from tyrants who profit from endless war.

The principle behind Israel’s campaign is both ancient and modern. The Bible teaches, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justice?” Israel has taken that imperative into its national security doctrine. The long arm of justice, whether carried out by Mossad agents in the 1970s or Israeli operatives today, tells the world that Jewish lives are not cheap, Jewish dignity is not expendable, and Jewish sovereignty has meaning.

When the Munich terrorists struck in 1972, they aimed to humiliate Israel on the world stage. Instead, they birthed a doctrine of deterrence that outlived them all. When Hamas struck on Oct. 7, they sought to terrorize Israelis into paralysis. Instead, they reawakened Israel’s determination to ensure that Jewish blood is never spilled without consequence.

From Munich to Tehran, from 1972 to today, Israel has demonstrated that the Jewish people will not rely on others to secure justice. If the international community cannot—or will not—prevent the murder of Jews, then Israel will act alone. That is not vengeance. It is the meaning of sovereignty.

The names change—Munich, Black September, Hamas, Tehran, Doha—but the principle remains constant: If you slaughter Jews, your day of reckoning will come.
NYPost Editorial: Hamas in Qatar was fair game — and Israel’s strike there can hasten an end to the Gaza war
Israel took a big step toward ending the war in Gaza with Tuesday’s strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar.

It wasn’t immediately clear if any top terror bosses met their maker, but the strike left no doubt for any who survived: Israel is coming for them.

If the hostages in Gaza aren’t returned and Hamas fighters don’t disarm, the terror kingpins’ days are numbered. No matter where they hide.

Early reports suggested Israel took out a leader or three, but Hamas denied any were among five people it said died.

Either way, the attack had huge value: Hamas’ chiefs thought they had safe refuge in Qatar — far from the fighting and squalor in Gaza.

They lived lives of luxury in five-star hotels, reportedly sitting on an $11 billion stash, even as Gaza civilians suffered.

They could turn down cease-fire deals with no fear of personal consequences, especially since Qatar is a US ally.

Now any who survived must know that fear.

“The days when the heads of terror enjoyed immunity anywhere are over,” warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hear, hear.
Family of Raphael Lemkin, who coined term ‘genocide,’ fights to have his name removed from ‘anti-Israel’ institute
Raphael Lemkin served as a columnist for the Zionist World journal. He decried the forsaking of Hebrew as a “sin we have committed against our linguistic patrimony.” And Lemkin declared in 1927 that the “task of the Jewish people is … [to become] a permanent national majority in its own national home.”

And yet despite Lemkin’s Zionist bona fides, 10 days after the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, on Oct. 17, 2023, the institute named for the Polish-born Jewish lawyer accused the State of Israel of carrying out a “genocide” against Palestinians — the very term that Lemkin coined in 1943 and helped draft into law with the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Though it initially said that the Hamas atrocities had “genocidal dimensions,” the organization has since walked back this designation, referring to the massacres as an “unprecedented military operation” and denouncing those who say that Israel’s war against Hamas is a justified response to the Oct. 7 attacks.

Now, members of Lemkin’s family, with assistance from the European Jewish Association, are trying to get the Pennsylvania-based Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention to stop using his name, calling it deceptive and disparaging.

“The Lemkin Institute, through its very name, as well as its marketing and other materials, represents itself as an embodiment of Mr. Lemkin’s ideology. In reality, the Lemkin Institute’s policies, positions, activities and publications are anathema to Mr. Lemkin’s belief system,” the EJA legal team wrote in a letter to Gov. Josh Shapiro and the Pennsylvania Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations.

“The Lemkin Institute is not authorized by Raphael Lemkin’s family, his estate, or any custodian of his legacy to rely upon his name for any purpose. The European Jewish Association and Mr. Lemkin’s family are outraged by the Lemkin Institute’s use of Mr. Lemkin’s name, especially in the context of the Lemkin Institute’s anti-Israel agenda,” the attorneys wrote.


UN General Assembly adopts ‘one-sided declaration’ in push towards Palestinian state
The U.N. General Assembly voted on Sept. 12 to adopt the so-called New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine, which outlines the implementation of a two-state solution and the path towards recognition of a Palestinian state.

The margin of the vote was 142-10, with 12 abstentions. Israel and the United States opposed the measure, as did Argentina, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay and Tonga.

“This one-sided declaration will not be remembered as a step toward peace, only as another hollow gesture that weakens this assembly’s credibility,” stated Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.

“This is not diplomacy,” he said. “It is theater.”

Danon accused the General Assembly of “trying to force through the back door what cannot stand at the negotiating table.”

The declaration was first published in late July during a conference led by France and Saudi Arabia intended to expand recognition of a Palestinian state.

While the document marks the first time the Arab League and its member states condemned Hamas and expressed that the terror group must no longer govern the Gaza Strip, it also condemns “the attacks by Israel against civilians in Gaza and civilian infrastructure” that have “resulted in a devastating humanitarian catastrophe and protection crisis.”

The declaration states that the war must end and Hamas must disarm and submit to the Palestinian Authority, which will run the Palestinian state. France and Saudi Arabia, the co-chairs of the U.N. event in July, signed the declaration, as did Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Norway, Qatar, Senegal, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the League of Arab States.
Petition opposing Palestinian state recognition posted by Parliament, after JC reveals delay
Less than 24 hours after the JC revealed that parliament had stalled for over three weeks on listing a petition opposing UK recognition of a Palestinian state, it has been uploaded to the parliamentary site.

Pro-Israel campaign group Stop The Hate launched its petition titled: "The UK Government should not unilaterally recognise a Palestinian State" on 20 August. Despite Parliament aiming to upload new additions to the parliamentary petitions' website within two weeks of their launch, after over three weeks it was still nowhere to be seen.

When the JC approached Parliament yesterday, a spokesperson blamed the absence of the petition on it being a "busy period".

They said: "Although we aim to process petitions within 10 working days it might take longer during very busy periods and high numbers of petition submissions. We seek to review petitions as efficiently and quickly as possible."

Today, the petition has been uploaded, giving supporters the opportunity to sign it, before the deadline of 12 March 2026.

It reads: "We urge the UK not to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state before a negotiated peace. We believe the UK should support direct talks, conditioned on Hamas releasing hostages, disarming, and leaving Gaza; and the PA (Palestinian Authority) ending ‘Pay to Slay’, removing extremist content from schools, and recognising Israel.

"We believe unilateral recognition rewards terrorism, betrays the hostages including those with UK ties, and damages peace efforts. We consider that lasting peace must come through direct negotiation, not unilaterally imposed statehood.


In rare move, US signs onto Security Council statement that criticizes Israel
The United States made a rare decision on Thursday when it joined 14 U.N. Security Council member states in a press statement decrying Israel.

Council members expressed “their condemnation of the recent strikes in Doha, the territory of a key mediator” and “deep regret at the loss of civilian life.” The statement didn’t mention Israel.

The members “underscored the importance of de-escalation and expressed their solidarity with Qatar,” they stated. “They underlined their support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar, in line with the principles of the charter of the United Nations.”

The Security Council held a meeting on Thursday about the strikes. Qatar Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani flew in for the session.

Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, stated that “the strike targeted Hamas leaders who, for years, have planned and directed attacks against Israel, many times making these directives from their luxury confines in Doha.”

“The men targeted were not legitimate politicians, diplomats or representatives,” he said. “They were the masterminds of terror.”

Dorothy Shea, acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told the council that “unilateral bombing inside Qatar, a sovereign nation working very hard and bravely taking risks alongside the United States to broker peace, does not advance Israel’s or America’s goals.”

“That said, it is inappropriate for any member to use this to question Israel’s commitment to bringing their hostages home,” she said.


From expulsion to charges of genocide: Spain’s animosity toward Jews endures
Spain’s Jewish population is small, around 50,000, but nearly 20 per cent of Spaniards are believed to have Jewish ancestry. Yet ignorance and prejudice about Jews runs deep. When classmates learned I was Jewish, their questions drew on centuries of antisemitism – from medieval myths (“Do you have horns?” “Didn’t you kill Jesus?”) to the gutter caricatures of Der Stรผrmer (‘Do all Jews have big noses?’).”

High school brought a new group of boys whose antisemitism escalated. For three years, they threw Nazi salutes, yelled “Heil Hitler,” scrawled swastikas, and told me to go gas myself – all while denying the Holocaust.

When I tried to explain that members of my family had been killed in the Holocaust, they laughed and called me a liar. Nobody defended me – not friends, not teachers. Once, after I complained to the director, he brought one of the perpetrators into his office with me and told us to “talk it out”. I was stunned. How do you “talk it out” with someone who wants you dead?

Looking back at my countless hours of history classes, I realize now that both the Inquisition and the Holocaust were barely mentioned. In 2013, just as I started school in Spain, the centre-right Partido Popular proposed making Holocaust education mandatory. The proposal never passed, and schools seemed relieved – free to go on skipping over this deeply uncomfortable chapter of history.

In my final year of high school, a major Auschwitz exhibition arrived in Madrid, featuring harrowing photos, personal objects from concentration camps inmates, and even a train car that had transported Jews to their deaths. My mother, along with Madrid’s small reform Jewish community, worked tirelessly to publicize it.

Naively, I suggested to my history teacher that our class should go. We were studying the world wars at the time, yet somehow the Holocaust had been omitted almost entirely. Though she expressed interest, nothing came of it, and we never went.

I left Spain in 2018, but I return often to visit my mother, who chose to make her home there. The magic of Madrid still moves me to tears, though sometimes they aren’t tears of joy, they are tears of sadness, for an antisemitism that has only grown.

If a country that once expelled its Jews fails to teach its children that history, the murder of six million in the Holocaust, and even the basics of Judaism and Jewish civilisation, how can the adults they become be expected to understand the conflict in Israel, the Jewish people’s deep roots in the region, or the danger of leaving antisemitism unchallenged? A nation that refuses to teach Jewish history fosters ignorance – and allows an old animosity toward Jews to endure.


With flotilla in spotlight, Israel seeks way to thwart activists without going overboard
Israel’s evolving flotilla doctrine
Israel’s approach to flotilla missions has been largely shaped by the fallout from the Mavi Marmara incident over 15 years ago, according to Chorev.

In May 2010, Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish vessel leading a flotilla of ships trying to break the blockade, which has been in place since Hamas’s 2007 takeover of the Strip, to block arms from reaching the terror group. Activists violently resisted, setting off a chaotic melee in which 10 activists were killed, sparking international outrage and a prolonged diplomatic rift with Turkey.

Although Israel ultimately seized the ship and upheld the blockade, the political and public relations costs were steep. UN investigations were split — one body accused Israel of grave rights violations, while another panel deemed the blockade legal but criticized the IDF’s “excessive” force. Israel eventually apologized and paid compensation.

The episode underscored the risks of what experts call hybrid warfare, in which seemingly low-level confrontations are leveraged for political and media gain. Since then, Israeli naval doctrine has shifted: flotilla operations are now framed less as combat missions and more as policing operations, aimed at enforcing the blockade while minimizing confrontation and international fallout.

The handling of the Madleen in June offers a case in point. Israeli authorities were transparent about their activities to intercept the ship, and had statements and footage at the ready, keeping activists from being able to control the media narrative.

Troops treated the detainees with kid gloves, offering them sandwiches and water, and the incident was soon largely forgotten, helped by the outbreak of war with Iran days later.

Israel has also attempted to undermine the flotilla’s claimed raison d’รชtre by regularly offering to transfer the humanitarian supplies being carried by the intercepted vessels to Gaza by land via regular channels.

Despite these adjustments, Chorev argued Israel still has room to innovate. He pointed to groups like Greenpeace, which have successfully disrupted oil tankers and commercial fishing boats through direct but nonlethal tactics.

In one 1996 incident, Greenpeace protesters in Seattle dived underwater and wrapped chains around the propellers of three fishing vessels to prevent them from leaving port. Chorev suggested that adopting similar methods in open water could leave future flotillas “sitting ducks” unable to reach Israel’s blockade.

The hypocrisy of flotillas
Chorev argued that the latest flotilla is “part of a global trend” of anti-Israel activism, which has grown significantly since the start of the Gaza war, especially in Europe, where countries are increasingly mulling or enacting arms embargos and trade sanctions.

The flotilla set sail from Barcelona, with most of its participants hailing from European nations — a fact Chorev said underscores the hypocrisy at the heart of anti-Israel campaigns. While activists portray their voyage as a humanitarian mission, he argued that Europe itself has struggled to uphold humanitarian principles much closer to home, a fact he believes Israel can exploit to score points against how the flotillas are seen.

“We can show them that they are not so tolerant of accepting immigrants coming from North Africa to Italy and Spain,” he noted.

For years, tens of thousands of refugees and migrants from North Africa have risked the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to reach Europe, fleeing poverty, conflict, and instability. Many attempt to land in southern Italy or Spain, but are often met by patrols from national navies or the EU’s border security agency, Frontex. Thousands have drowned at sea, while others have been intercepted and turned back before reaching European shores.

“Speaking about Israel… trying to show us how to behave — they should look at what is happening to people from North Africa trying to immigrate to Europe, where there is zero tolerance,” Chorev said. “It’s a double standard.”
Two wounded in terrorist stabbing at Kibbutz Tzuba hotel
Two men were wounded in a terrorist stabbing at a hotel in Kibbutz Tzuba in the Judean Hills west of Jerusalem on Friday, police and first responders said. Both victims were guests of the hotel.

United Hatzalah said its paramedics provided “initial medical treatment” to the wounded, one of whom suffered “penetrating injuries to his upper torso.”

The Magen David Adom emergency service said its paramedics treated the two victims and evacuated them to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem, describing them as “a 60-year-old male in serious condition and a 23-year-old male in moderate condition.”

The Israel Police said the assailant, a 42-year-old Arab resident of Shuafat in northeastern Jerusalem who worked at the hotel through a manpower company, was arrested by an off-duty police officer.

“To minimize the risk to remaining civilians, I subdued the terrorist using only physical force, not gunfire,” the officer said. “With the help of some others, we managed to pin him to the ground and put him in handcuffs.”

The assailant, who was working as a dishwasher at the hotel, apparently used a kitchen knife in the attack, a police spokesman said. He said three other people were also arrested for suspected involvement.

Witnesses said that the stabbing suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” and that he “wanted to die.” Two men who participated in subduing him said, “We tied him up with belts.”


Netanyahu discusses plan for ‘voluntary emigration’ of Gazans starting next month
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in a meeting Thursday with senior defense officials and cabinet ministers, the office of one of the attendees told The Times of Israel.

A Defense Ministry plan discussed at the meeting would allow Gazans who choose to leave the Strip to do so by air and by sea starting in October, according to Hebrew media reports. The plan is set to be talked over with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his visit to Israel next week, Channel 12 reported.

Defense sources cited by Channel 13 said Israel was in talks with several African nations about receiving the displaced Gazans, but no agreement has been reached. Channel 12 reported last month that Israel was holding such talks with South Sudan, Libya, Uganda and Somaliland.

During the meeting on Thursday, however, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich expressed skepticism about the prospect that any country would agree to take in Gazans, and said the displacement plan was not worth the investment if they would be back home within a year, according to Channel 12.

Netanyahu reportedly responded that Israel wouldn’t spend much money on the plan, but should move it forward.

“Do it,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was said to have urged. “It’s the mission of the hour.”

Science and Technology Minister Gila Gamliel reportedly argued that Israel should push Egypt to take in the Gazans — an idea that country has vehemently opposed. “You try,” Netanyahu was said to have dismissively responded.


Lebanon says one killed in Israeli strike on southern town
Lebanon said that one person was killed Friday in an Israeli strike on the country’s south near the border, the latest deadly raid this week.

“An Israeli enemy strike on the town of Aitaroun killed one person,” the country’s Health Ministry said in a statement, without specifying if the individual was a civilian or combatant.

The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately comment on the strike.

Under a November 27 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, weapons in Lebanon were to be held only by the state, and the IDF was permitted to act against imminent threats by the terror group.

Israel has since carried out hundreds of attacks on Hezbollah personnel or assets, the vast majority of them in southern Lebanon, though it has also taken action deeper inside the country, including in the Beqaa valley, a stronghold of the Iran-backed group.

Earlier this month, Lebanon’s cabinet approved a plan to disarm the terror group, whose ministers and other Shi’ites in the government walked out on the meeting. Details of the disarmament plan remain secret.
IDF says Houthi missile successfully intercepted; no reports of injuries or damage
The Israel Defense Forces says air defenses successfully downed the ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels that triggered sirens in Tel Aviv and other communities across central Israel.

There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the interception debris.


Free Press Editorial: Je Suis Charlie
Kirk was murdered while doing something that we have been trying to do at The Free Press from the very beginning: Invite debate.

We have a different project, and practice a different rhetorical style from Kirk. But we proudly caucus with Kirk on the idea that free expression is at the heart of the American experiment. And as Kirk said, “When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts.”

We believe that most Americans want to return to an America where honest debates and open conversations are the norm. Where words and opinions are not viewed as an invitation to violence. Where people understand what a profound privilege it is to live in a democracy—a system in which we can live peacefully alongside those we disagree with, knowing that we live in a society where those differences are resolved with words, not bullets.

Someone in the newsroom said that this shattering event feels like the aftermath of another Charlie: Charlie Hebdo. It was a decade ago that Islamists burst into the offices of the satirical Paris newspaper and murdered 12 people who worked there.

In its aftermath there were a lot of spineless statements from people distancing themselves from the brave journalists who put out that magazine: “I didn’t agree with them but . . .” We’re hearing the same thing now about Charlie Kirk.

No.

Whether you agree with him or not is completely, utterly, totally beside the point. We won’t do it. Je suis Charlie.
Melanie Phillips: A shocking watershed for America
Political hatred and violence aren’t confined to the left. The huge difference from the right, though, is the way they respond to acts of violence by their own side.

Mainstream conservatives react with visceral horror to right-wing violence. Within the extreme right-wing echo chamber, violent acts are typically followed by the spinning of conspiracy theories (“the Mossad killed Charlie Kirk”) and other nonsensical and bigoted falsehoods.

But the left uniquely turns the political murder of its foes into a moral project to be celebrated, promoted and incentivised.

That’s why most political violence is associated with progressive causes: Antifa, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion, Palestine Action. All these and more make common cause with radical Islamists in their shared agenda to bring down the West, destroy white capitalist society and exterminate Israel.

It’s why countless Muslims have also been celebrating Kirk’s murder on social media with posts saying, “He was an enemy of Islam and deserved it” or “This is justice for supporting Israel.”

It’s why the October 7 attacks produced celebration and jubilation. It’s why almost half of Britain thinks the Israelis are as bad as the Nazis.

In this climate, reason gets you nowhere. And as we have now seen so graphically demonstrated, reason can actually get you murdered.

This is what Israel and the Jews of the diaspora are now up against. It’s a moral, intellectual and spiritual crisis in the West which threatens its disintegration altogether as a culture.

The forces of evil have been unleashed. They have to be defeated. May Charlie Kirk’s memory be a blessing, and may his devastating murder be the watershed that finally opens the West’s shuttered eyes.
Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s Widow: ‘This Movement Will Not Die. I Refuse to Let It Happen’
Erika vowed never to let Charlie’s movement die.

She warned the evil doers who assassinated her husband that they’ve unleashed something that the country has never witnessed:
“They should all know this. If you THOUGHT that my husband’s mission was powerful before? You have NO IDEA. You have no idea what you’ve just unleashed across this entire country, and this world. You have no idea the fire you’ve ignited within this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.”

“The evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no IDEA what they have done. They killed Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and of God’s merciful love.”

“The movement will NOT DIE. I refuse to let that happen.”

“All of us will refuse to let that happen. No one will ever forget my husband’s name, and I will make sure of it. It will become stronger, bolder, louder, and greater than ever.”


Douglas Murray: Charlie Kirk’s death must remind us, and those with despicable responses to it, that life is not a computer game
For while the right tends to believe that the left is simply wrong, large portions of the left in this country believe that their opponents are not just “wrong” but “evil.”

Charlie was one of a number of prominent American conservatives who suffered from this mismatch in attitudes.

When he said that there are only two biological sexes, his opponents accused him not of having a different view from themselves but of trying to eradicate an entire community.

When he defended the traditional Christian idea of marriage they said that he was engaging in “hate” against all gay people.

And when he said that race might be a factor in a killing like that of a beautiful young Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, they suggested that was evilly trying to whip up hatred and violence against all black Americans.

None of these, or a hundred other things, said about Charlie were true.

But with enough repetition and enough dehumanization of him, you will always find someone who will take that “argument” to its own illogical conclusion.

If you say for long enough that someone is guilty of “literally killing people” then in a large country with a lot of excitable people you will eventually find someone is willing to take the shot.

Sometimes that person will be someone who believes that they are inserting themselves into the history books.

That by their act of violence they are going to change the course of history. A vigil for Charlie Kirk following a fatal shooting. 13

Or — in the case of too many attempted and actual political assassinations in this country — you will find someone who believes that they can enact the fantasy scenario of going back in time and killing Hitler.

People who think that are delusional of course — and badly, badly misinformed about their opponents. But there are many deluded people around.

That could be seen yesterday in the aftermath of Kirk´s murder.

If contributors on CNN and MSNBC were bad, it was nothing compared to the slew of online hateful rejoicing and “LOL”-ing and mem-ing about Kirk’s fate.

It is so easy for these people not to look into Charlie’s eyes, or the eyes of the young wife and children that he leaves behind.

It is so much easier to treat it all like a computer game.

This is real life.

And the stakes are sometimes so wildly high and dangerous that we need to remind ourselves of that.

Charlie Kirk believed in face-to-face dialogue. He died not just doing it, but demonstrating it and embodying it.

If any good can come from this terrible act it should be that many more of us in American do it too.


Bethany Mandel: Honor Charlie Kirk by hearing his family manifesto
What then is the greatest tribute we can offer to Kirk? It is not simply just to mourn him or defend him against unfair attacks. The best tribute is to live out the truth he proclaimed.

Get married, build a life with someone you honor and cherish, have children, and raise them with courage and conviction. Create a home that is filled with love, laughter, and purpose. Choose faithfulness over fleeting pleasures and permanence over passing thrills. That is how you leave a legacy.

Kirk understood that marriage and family require courage. They ask us to put another person before ourselves, commit even when difficult, and persevere when the world tells us to quit. But that very sacrifice makes it so beautiful and so countercultural in an age that worships only the self. Defy the culture of oblivion and despair and choose love, covenant, and courage.

Some will continue to caricature Kirk’s words and dismiss them as outdated or even dangerous. But millions of people know deep down that he was right.

The most courageous thing a generation can do is embrace marriage and family, plant roots, and leave behind something lasting. That is the legacy Kirk lived for and left behind.


Charlie Kirk's Suspected Assassin Arrested, Identified as 22-Year-Old Utah Resident Tyler Robinson
Authorities have arrested Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin: Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident.

President Donald Trump teased the arrest during a Friday appearance on Fox & Friends, saying, "I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him." Trump said that the suspect's father reported his son to "a minister who was involved with law enforcement."

Utah governor Spencer Cox confirmed Robinson's identity and his arrest during a press briefing later Friday morning.

"We got him," he said. "On the evening of September 11, a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted [police] with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he committed the incident."

A family member told investigators Robinson had become "more political in recent years," Cox said. At a dinner, Robinson brought up his contempt for Kirk and accused him of "spreading hate." Bullets found in Robinson's rifle were engraved with political messages, including one that read "Hey fascist! Catch!" echoing a line Democrats have routinely aimed at Trump and other MAGA conservatives like Kirk.

Cox said Thursday night that the state was preparing to pursue the death penalty.

According to CNN, the suspect confessed to his father, who called authorities and held him until they arrived. Sources told Fox News that late Thursday, police "walked in" Robinson near St. George, Utah—more than three hours from Orem, where Kirk was shot.

Before Friday morning, the outlook for catching Kirk's assassin seemed uncertain. Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said Thursday that investigators had "good video footage" of the suspect, but didn't plan to release it immediately.

"We are working through some technologies and some ways to identify this individual," Mason said. If those efforts failed, he added, authorities would release the video to get help from the public in identifying the shooter.


Netanyahu pans ‘insane’ conspiracy theories blaming Israel for Charlie Kirk killing
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday addressed widespread internet conspiracy theories that Israel was behind the deadly shooting of pro-Israel conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, telling a US outlet that the accusation was “insane.”

Allegations spread on X in the hours after the shooting in Utah on Wednesday, fueled by past allegations of antisemitism against Kirk, his recent comments tying Mossad to the Jeffrey Epstein case, and the rapid response to his death by Israeli politicians.

“That’s insane,” Netanyahu told Newsmax host Greta Van Susteren, adding sarcastically, “Israel also changes the orbit of the moon, Israel pushes the sun.”

“They have no limits. When you hate Jews, when you hate the Jewish state, you’re willing to say anything and promote all these absurd, absurd rumors,” he said.

‘And by the way, they’re willing to kill us all the time. Over the centuries, especially in the horrific Middle Ages, the worst things were said about Jews that you could possibly believe. We were poisoning the wells, we were drinking the blood of Christian children.’

“That continued, actually, up to the Holocaust. The Nazis said the same thing. You know, we’re carrying vermin, we’re spreading disease. And people believed it. And every time they believed it, this was a prelude to a greater and greater massacre,” he said.


Charlie Kirk Assassination Is ‘Chickens Coming Home To Roost,’ NAACP Leader Who Serves on Massachusetts Hate Crimes Task Force Says
A pastor who serves on the Massachusetts Task Force on Hate Crimes and leads a local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter said Charlie Kirk’s assassination was "chickens coming home to roost," and used a racial pejorative to describe black supporters of the slain conservative activist.

Talbert Swan, who in addition to his role on the task force is also the president of the Springfield NAACP, lashed out Friday at the outpouring of condolences for Kirk, who was assassinated at Utah Valley University on Wednesday while speaking on a nationwide campus tour for his organization, Turning Point USA. Authorities arrested 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, and said bullet casings from the rifle he used in the attack contained messages associated with the far left.

"Charlie Kirk’s entire brand was built on racism, division, and lies about black people. He denied that systemic racism existed. He attacked diversity, equity, and inclusion," Swan said on his YouTube show, The Black Love Experience. "He was on a journey to spread hate from the time he was a teenager," said Swan.

Swan, pastor of Spring of Hope Church Of God In Christ, was especially hostile toward black supporters of Kirk.

"I’m troubled by the number of black people who are all over the internet who are mourning a white supremacist who thought you were less than human," said Swan. "I didn’t realize we had as many coons as we have."

Swan insisted he was "not going to celebrate" Kirk’s death, but then said "you’re not going to gaslight us into mourning him either."

"All these black preachers who are saying, ‘This isn’t about chickens coming home to roost’—yes it is," he said. "It absolutely is."

Those are striking remarks for a member of the Massachusetts Task Force on Hate Crimes, which advises the state’s governor on "issues relating to the prevalence, deterrence, and prevention of hate crimes." Former Gov. Charlie Baker (R.) appointed Swan to the task force in 2022. Gov. Maura Healey (D.) appointed Swan to a similar state commission in 2018, when she served as attorney general.


New York Times Attributes Anti-Semitic Statement to Charlie Kirk That He Was Actually Critiquing
Just a day after an assassin killed Charlie Kirk at a speaking event on a college campus, the New York Times published a story in which the paper quoted a segment on Kirk’s podcast to brand him an anti-Semite. The Times corrected the story hours later after realizing the supposed "quote" was actually another person’s social media post Kirk had read—and disputed—on his show.

"An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast," the Times admitted. "He was quoting a statement from a post on social media and went on to critique it. It was not his own statement."

That post, which Elon Musk replied to in agreement, said, "Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them."

"Half of this tweet is true, half of it, I don't like," Kirk said before reading the post for his audience.

Kirk took issue with the "generalizations" in the post, clarifying many liberal Jewish organizations—not the Jewish people as a whole—"went all in on the BLM-type narrative." Those groups, and liberals more broadly, "were okay with critical race theory, diversity, equity, inclusion," he said. But he also noted, in the aftermath of Oct. 7, many of those same prominent Jewish individuals and organizations had begun to reconsider their advocacy and partnerships with progressive institutions.

The Thursday Times story was not the first time the paper had falsely claimed the words of an X post Kirk read on his show were his own, and it was not the first time the paper had attempted to smear the late conservative activist as an anti-Semite.

But an outpouring of reactions from Jews praising Kirk for his stand against anti-Semitism contradict the Times’s claim, as do Kirk’s own words.

As the Washington Free Beacon recounted on Wednesday, Kirk cautioned fellow Christians against antipathy toward Jews.

"I reject wholeheartedly this narrative, Christians who turn their back on Israel," he said at a 2023 event. "It says in Genesis and Romans and First Thessalonians, Paul said, you will bless the Jews. If you bless Israel, you will be blessed, if you scorn Israel, you will be scorned."

Several moments from the last few months of Kirk’s life further disprove the Times smear.


Politico Turns to Anti-Semitic Streamer, Who Has Said America Deserved 9/11, To Bash Charlie Kirk on 9/11
After an assassin fatally shot prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Politico turned to far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who has said that "America deserved 9/11," to attack Kirk in an interview on the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

"I don't think [Kirk] was ever debating for the purpose of finding the truth or from a position of intellectual curiosity," Piker told Politico on Thursday. The streamer, whose videos have millions of viewers on Twitch and YouTube, has a long history of anti-America and anti-Israel rhetoric, saying that "America deserved 9/11" and denying the atrocities that Hamas committed during its Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.

"For Charlie, I think the format was more so to just humiliate his ideological opponents," Piker went on. "And he was very successful at doing propaganda of this sort, by going to college campuses and listening to what people had to say, and then giving them the right-wing talking points on the matter. Getting a couple dunks in the process."

Piker suggested in the Politico interview that Kirk's political advocacy was to blame for his own murder.

"The rhetoric that came from Charlie was understandably seen by many people as also being inherently violent," Piker said of Kirk's support for the Second Amendment, adding, "I think when people see that, they fight fire with fire, if you will. In their minds, they think it's fine."

Piker also recently made news when the New Yorker invited him to its annual festival, leading a rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League, which said the invitation "normalizes antisemitism, reinforces bigotry, and launders terror."


Commentary PodCast: Anti-Semitism: Canary in the Coalmine
The changes in American society that will result from the assassination of Charlie Kirk have already been experienced by America's Jews and the ways we've had to change our lives in the wake of the explosion of anti-Semitic violence over the past decade.


Jake Wallis Simons: How the West betrayed itself | The Brendan O’Neill Show
Jake Wallis Simons – author of ‘Never Again?’ – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Jake and Brendan discuss how we learned the wrong lessons from Nazi Germany, the poisonous influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, and what Britain must learn from Israel.


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Ask Haviv Anything: Episode 42: Why is Egypt so scared to open its border with Gaza? with Mariam Wahba
Events move fast in the Middle East. This episode was recorded before the Israeli strike in Qatar. We believed this episode was an important one because the world should be paying more attention to the deteriorating situation in Egypt.

The attack on Hamas leaders in Doha did indeed grab the headlines. It's a dramatic development Haviv addressed in a Free Press livestream and that we plan to address in an episode already under development.

But the original point behind this episode stands. Everyone is talking about Gaza, Qatar, Israel, Iran. Meanwhile, Egypt, the most populous Arab state, the launching pad for most of the radical Islamist ideologies that have upended the Middle East in recent decades, has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and social implosion. Emirati bailouts, growing international concern and Egyptian officials suddenly talking openly about war with Israel are all signals of this fragility.

To make sense of this vital but under-discussed powder-keg - and to find out why Egypt continues to refuse to let Gazan civilians escape the war by waiting it out in safety in Sinai - we turned to Mariam Wahba, an Egypt expert (and Egyptian Coptic Christian herself) at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington.


The Three Lies ๐Ÿช‚ ๐Ÿคธ Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
As the war in Gaza rages on, the lies and propaganda surrounding the war with Israel just get more intense and more insane. No, there is no genocide in Gaza, Israel is not starving the Gazans, there is no ethnic cleansing and certainly no intentional killing of journalists. As the lies get more outrageous, the sheeple get sucked into them more and more.

In this live conversation, military expert Andrew Fox and A Paratrooper And A Yogi Walk Into A Bar cohost, Shana Meyerson, discuss someo of the most ridiculous lies of the last week and the truth behind them. As always, an episode of facts among a world drowning in lies.


Tom Cotton Eviscerates Al Jazeera Reporter Roaming Senate Halls: 'What Do You Say About Working for a Terrorist Sympathizing Network?'
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) repeatedly slapped down an Al Jazeera reporter badgering him with questions about the situation in Gaza, then laughed when he found out where the journalist worked.

The reporter asked Cotton as they walked through the Senate halls why he supports the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund given that the United Nations has said more than 1,000 have died receiving resources.

"You believe the U.N.? Give me a break," Cotton said. "They run interference for Palestinian terrorists."

The Al Jazeera reporter then asked Cotton if he was challenging the determination from "the world's leading experts" that Gaza was facing a famine.

"The world's leading experts on famine are left-wing clowns who are anti-Semites and anti-Zionists," Cotton replied.

The author of a U.N.-backed report accusing Israel of causing a famine in Gaza, Andrew Seal, has peddled anti-Semitic tropes and terrorist apologia, compared Israel to Nazi Germany, and accused the Jewish state of killing its own people on Oct. 7, the Washington Free Beacon has reported.


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