Monday, September 15, 2025

09/15 Links Pt1: Elliott Abrams on Why There Will Never Be a Palestinian State; Rubio: No Gazan future if Hamas ‘barbaric animals’ remain; The bourgeois death cult of Bob Vylan

From Ian:

Elliott Abrams on Why There Will Never Be Palestinian State
Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a friend of the Washington Free Beacon. He has served in senior foreign policy roles in three Republican administrations focusing on the Middle East, Latin America, and the U.S.-Israel relationship. Through it all, he has been a relentless advocate for American interests and a proud and unyielding Zionist.

Earlier this month, he published an essay in Mosaic magazine headlined, "There Never Will Be a Palestinian State. So What’s Next?" We wanted to ask him a few questions about it, and recommend you read the whole thing.

The upshot of your piece is that the Palestinian leadership doesn’t actually want a state. You’ve worked on Middle East diplomacy for a long time. When did you come to this conclusion?

After they rejected [former Israeli prime minister Ehud] Olmert’s 2008 offer. I hated his offer, which would have abandoned Jerusalem, and thought it would never get cabinet or Knesset approval. But even that offer was rejected by the Palestinians.

What took you so long?

I never dealt with [former Palestinian Authority president Yasser] Arafat, but I thought things might work out much better when he was dead. He died in late 2004, and nothing changed, so I drew conclusions.

You say you came to the conclusion there would never be a Palestinian state in 2008. But you wrote this piece in 2025, 17 years later. Why the delay?

I have been saying it; that article was not the first time. I told the Obama transition team in late 2008 that [current PA president Mahmoud] Abbas would never, never say yes to anything. But I admit I’ve been clearer as the years have gone by. That’s because the sickness in Palestinian society has I think become clearer and clearer.

You say Palestinian leaders don’t want a state. What’s the strongest evidence for your view?

Partition into two states is an old idea, going back to the British a century ago and then the UN resolution in 1947. Though it would have created a tiny Israel, the Zionists accepted it; they desperately wanted a state. The Palestinians have always said no—after World War I, after World War II, then to Clinton and Bush and Obama. Instead they have always chosen war and terrorism. Their goal has been destroying Israel, not building a state of their own.

French president Emmanuel Macron, British prime minister Keir Starmer, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney recently recognized a Palestinian state. You argue that this never would have happened absent the October 7 attacks. Why?

The October 7th attacks aroused a kind of blood lust in many Muslim populations and among many left-wing groups. They have cheered Hamas on, and they call Israel’s war against Hamas "genocide." These politicians—Macron, Carney, Starmer, and Albanese—are catering to domestic audiences, giving them the rhetoric they want. This recognition of a Palestinian state that does not exist is pure theater, and does not help one single Palestinian. It comes in reaction to this unbelievably brutal attack on Israel, and assault on Israel for defending itself.
Recognizing a Palestinian state: The consequences of doing it before peace
Unprecedented Arab League move
Recognizing a Palestinian state under these conditions is not only premature, it is perilous. To their credit, some European and Arab leaders have called on Hamas to give up power and lay down its arms, and urged reforms to the PA. In the case of the Arab League, this was an unprecedented and welcome change in rhetoric.

However, actions speak louder than words.

According to two veteran Palestinian negotiators, “the Palestinians’ readiness to take the negotiating path to its logical conclusions was restrained by a perception that they were winning the moral and psychological high ground. The paradoxical effect was to make it harder to progress toward an agreement with Israel because it seemed that other influential parties might do the job.”

The international community should not reward Palestinian leaders for rejecting peace deals, massacring Israelis, promoting hate, stealing international aid, and doing nothing to prepare their people for coexistence with Israel.

If they can do all that damage and still have the UK, France, and others recognize their state, what incentive will they have to change course, let alone make peace?

It is no surprise that Hamas celebrated and claimed credit. The choice to advance such recognition on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, a sacred moment of reflection and renewal for the Jewish people, adds insult to injury.

European leaders have said that their moves are a response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and violence in the West Bank, aimed at pressuring the Israeli government and giving the Palestinian people hope for the future amid their suffering. Israel is subject to criticism and accountability like any democracy. That includes from within, as Israelis struggle with impossible dilemmas in the aftermath of October 7.

The key is ending Hamas
Yet the key to a better future for Palestinians, where they can govern themselves and build thriving communities alongside Israel, is ending Hamas’ reign of terror and, at a minimum, dramatically reforming the PA. No matter what statements they make, Western leaders are unwilling and unable to remove Hamas from power in Gaza.

As long as they remain in control, recognizing Palestinian statehood will strengthen the very extremists who are obstructing peace. In practice, this will not help Israelis or Palestinians, and may make a terrible situation even worse.

As rabbis, we approach this moment with both moral urgency and deep historical awareness. To recognize a Palestinian state with Hamas still entrenched in Gaza – and with the PA promoting violence through its “pay-for-slay” program – is to turn a blind eye to truth and to justice. It would be to sanctify corruption, to reward terror, and to abandon the very principles of peace that the world claims to uphold.

Our tradition teaches us to “Choose life,” to affirm paths that protect the innocent and cultivate dignity for all.

Premature recognition of a Palestinian state does the opposite: It empowers those who glorify death.

We call on the nations of the world to show moral clarity, to reject political expediency, and to stand instead with integrity, truth, and the possibility of genuine peace.
Australia's Fantasy of Social Cohesion
As early as 1974, the Islamist agenda to dominate Western nations was disclosed by Algeria's Houari Boumedienne in his speech to the United Nations: "One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory."

Australia's decision to recognize a fictitious Palestinian state, along with France, Britain and Canada, totally contravenes the current requirements of international law for nations.

The Australian government apparently believes that Islamophobia adversely affects social cohesion. What it has yet to comprehend is that the concept of Islamophobia is a two-edged sword, sometimes employed to suppress genuine criticism of some of the tenets of Islam, but also to neutralize any criticism of the religion before it can even begin.

"Hamas is not just at war with Israel. It is at war with Jews, Christians, and the very foundations of civilization itself.... This is not politics, this is a religious war. Its purpose is to replace Judaism and Christianity with radical Islam. If the world does not understand this, everyone will pay the price."— Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef.

"The hardest decision any leader has to make is to thwart a danger before it fully materializes." — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Europe's weak leaders have failed in this regard, resulting in a catastrophic social crisis for their nations. The question is whether or not Australia will follow a similar course of submission, a recipe for losing the West.


What They Fear Most: The World vs. Jewish Sovereignty
France, Britain, and Saudi Arabia: Midwives of a World Without Israel

The Chants That Tell the Truth
Stand in the crowd at any so-called “pro-Palestinian” rally in the West, and you will not hear the language of compromise. You will not hear about borders, coexistence, or peace. What you will hear is the raw confession of intent:
“We don’t want two states, we want ’48.”
“We don’t want no two states, we want all of it.”

This is not sloganeering about settlements or checkpoints. It is the plain admission that being “pro-Palestinian” in this context is synonymous with being anti-Israel. The demand is not for partition, it is for elimination. To join these chants is not to advocate for peace but to advocate for the erasure of Jewish sovereignty, the dismantling of the one and only Jewish state on earth.

The Cynical Architects: France, England, and Saudi Arabia
And yet, while these truths are screamed from megaphones, the diplomatic salons of Paris, London, and Riyadh dress them up in suits and signatures. France, England, and Saudi Arabia, the triumvirate behind the UN’s so-called “New York Declaration on Palestine”, pretend they are shepherds of peace. In reality, they are midwives to destruction. This declaration proposes recognition of a Palestinian state:
Without negotiation.
Without Israeli consent.
Without security guarantees.
While deliberately ignoring the Palestinian Authority’s grotesque “pay-to-slay” policy, a system that literally incentivizes the murder of Jews.

But France and Britain are not amateurs here. Their fingerprints are smudged across a century of betrayal. From the duplicity of Sykes-Picot to the callous evasions of the Mandate era, they repeatedly reduced Jewish survival to a footnote of imperial cartography. Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, has spent eight decades funding rejectionism while refusing to absorb even a fraction of the refugees it claims to champion. These powers know exactly what they are doing. They are not building two states. They are attempting to engineer two Arab states at the expense of the one Jewish state.

The UN General Assembly’s decision on two states with a “right of return” is, in effect, a decision for two Arab states. For anyone who mistakenly thought this was a vision of peace, a true achievement, or Arab and global unity around a positive vision—well, it isn’t. There is

The “Right of Return”: A Demographic Weapon
At the heart of this UN maneuver lies a poison pill deceptively wrapped in humanitarian language: the so-called “right of return.”

It is not a right. It is not law. It is not even precedent. It is a weapon.

Article 39 of the declaration cynically “reiterates” this invented right, despite the fact that international law contains no such provision. Even Resolution 194, the document most often misquoted, speaks of a negotiated settlement, not an automatic influx. And yet by inserting this clause, the entire resolution collapses into its true purpose: to force millions of descendants of 1948 refugees into Israel proper, erasing its Jewish majority and transforming it overnight into yet another Arab state.

This is not humanitarianism. It is demographic warfare.
All Nations Are NOT Equal, It's Time To Think Beyond The U.N.
Instead Of Funding Dictatorships Through The U.N., Free Nations Should Unite Under A New Global Body That Actually Defends Democracy And Human Rights. The United Nations has not united the nations. Instead, it has handed an equal voice to some of the world’s worst oppressors, leaders who jail dissenters, torture their own people, subjugate women, and pass laws designed to dehumanize entire communities. Far from restraining these regimes, the UN has become their stage, a place where dictators and despots launder their reputations, gain a veneer of legitimacy, and redirect global outrage onto the very democracies that still embody freedom, equality, and openness.

The flaw is not accidental, it is structural. The @UN
was created by democracies and is still largely funded by them, but its “one state, one vote” principle elevates non-democratic nations onto equal footing. It allows the worst violators of human rights to masquerade as guardians of international law. While UN resolutions could, in theory, be wielded against these regimes, in practice they rarely are. Instead, they are weaponized against Israel, against the United States, and against other democratic states that uphold the values the UN was supposed to protect.

This is the core defect: the UN is built on the fiction that all nations are equal. They are not. Free societies are not morally or legally equivalent to police states. Democracies should not be judged by the same standards as tyrannies, nor should they subsidize an institution that platforms tyrants.

It is time to imagine a new global body, one that reserves membership for nations that genuinely adhere to democracy and uphold human rights. Democracies should not provide a stage, a voice, or international honors to those who commit atrocities and use the UN flag as a shield. If the world’s democracies are footing the bill, then the platform should belong to democracies, not to rogue and authoritarian regimes.

Why America Should Divest from the United Nations
When the United Nations was founded in 1945, the world stood at a crossroads. The horrors of two world wars demanded a new system of global governance that could keep the peace, uphold universal law, and ensure even small states had a voice in international affairs. The UN was designed to succeed where the League of Nations had failed. It was to be the guardian of peace, the champion of human rights, and the stage where justice spoke louder than power.

Seventy-nine years later, that vision is shattered. The UN has not become a guardian of peace but a tool for dictators, autocrats, and rogue regimes to launder their propaganda into the language of law. It has not restrained aggression; it has legitimized it. And tragically, the nations that fund and host the UN, first and foremost the United States, are subsidizing their own delegitimization.
‘Zionist animals’: Anti-Israel activists plan to ‘flood’ UN General Assembly with protest
Anti-Israel activist groups are set to hold mass protests outside the United Nations building in New York as the General Assembly gathers this month, with smaller daily protests and events scheduled leading up to the attendance of the forum by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.

During one of the daily protests against Israel, activists heckled Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon on Sunday as he walked in the vicinity of the international forum.

“Zionism is terrorism. All you guys are terrorists committing ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza and Palestine. Shame on you, Zionist animals,” a heckler yelled at Danon, according to a video posted on X/Twitter by Within Our Lifetime. “You’re committing a Holocaust now against the Palestinian people.”

The protesters were at the UN under the auspices of Within Our Lifetime’s daily protests. The week ahead of the UN meeting is set to hold a series of events. WOL announced on Saturday that the week of assembling from Monday until Friday is set to feature lectures, dances, and anti-Zionist Shabbat services.

Within Our Lifetime is further set to “flood the UN General Assembly for Gaza” with a march next Tuesday, it announced on X on August 26. The anti-Israel group lambasted the UN for watching and debating while refusing to take action against a supposed genocide in Gaza.
Farage: There’s a competition on the left to be the most beastly to Israel
The UK should be “deeply critical” friends of Israel “for some of the things they’ve done” Nigel Farage has said, while insisting there is a competition on the political left to be most critical of the Jewish state.

Speaking at the press conference held to announce the defection of former Tory MP Danny Kruger to Reform UK, Farae said:”We’ve always been a great ally of Israel. It doesn’t mean we support every single thing they do, far from it.

“But it seems to me that criticism of Israel, criticism of the Israeli army, criticism of Zionism – quite where that merges with outright antisemitism is perhaps a bigger intellectual debate than we can have right here right now – but it does seem to me that all the pressure is heading in that direction.”

Farage was asked about the decision by The Royal College of Defence Studies in the UK to not accept students from Israel’s IDF, in response to the continuation of the Gaza war.He then added:”There’s almost a competition between the Greens, the Liberal Democrats, Labour, whatever Jeremy [Corbyn] is going to call his outfit – almost a competition, who can be the most beastly [to Israel] …”

The Reform leader also told journalists there are an “awful lot of Jewish people scared to go out on the streets, given the situation we’re in.”

“So look, we should be critical friends of Israel, you might say deeply critical for some of the things they’ve done, but they’re in a very, very tight spot.”
Spain cancels major arms deal with Israel amid Gaza backlash
The Spanish government has canceled a contract worth nearly 700 million euros ($825 million) for Israeli-designed rocket launchers, according to an official document seen Monday by AFP.

The move comes after Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced last week that his government would “consolidate in law” a ban on military equipment sales or purchases with Israel over its offensive in Gaza.

The contract, awarded to a consortium of Spanish companies in October 2023, involved the purchase of 12 SILAM rocket launcher systems, derived from the PULS platform made by Israeli firm Elbit Systems, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Military Balance.

The SILAM launch system can fire a variety of rockets up to a range of 300 kilometers (some 186 miles).

Elbit would have received 150 million euros ($176.3 million), the Globes outlet reported.

The cancellation, first reported by local media and Haaretz, was formalized on Spain’s official public contracts platform on September 9.

The day before, Sanchez unveiled measures aimed at stopping what his leftist government called “the genocide in Gaza.”

They included approval of a decree imposing a ban on military equipment sales or purchases with Israel due to its military offensive in Gaza, launched after the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023.


Alongside Rubio, Netanyahu claims Qatar strike succeeded because it sent a ‘message’
Speaking alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to acknowledge that Israel did not kill Hamas leaders in its strike in Qatar last week, while putting a positive spin on the outcome.

“It didn’t fail, because it had one central message and we considered it before we launched it, and that is, you can hide, you can run, but we’ll get you,” he said at a Jerusalem press conference.

Israel targeted Hamas leaders last Tuesday in strikes in the Qatari capital that were said to kill five non-leading members of the terror group and a Qatari security officer. Israel’s security establishment was said to believe that the attack failed to take out Hamas’s top brass.

The strike elicited fury from Arab governments, including those with full diplomatic ties with Israel. On Monday, the leaders of Arab and Islamic states berated Israel in Doha at an emergency gathering in the wake of the attack.

US President Donald Trump has also expressed his displeasure, while tempering his public statements. He told reporters on Sunday that Israel must be “very, very careful” about how it handles Qatar, which he called a “great ally.”

Trump sounded similar notes shortly after the attack, when he posted on social media that the strike “does not advance Israel or America’s goals,” though he said that eliminating Hamas is a “worthy goal.


No Gazan future if Hamas ‘barbaric animals’ remain, Rubio says in Israel
Gazans deserve a better future but eliminating the “barbaric animals” of Hamas is a prerequisite to that future, Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state and national security advisor, told reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the latter’s office in Jerusalem.

Rubio spoke to journalists on Monday before attending the opening of “pilgrimage road” at the City of David that he called “one of the most important archeological sites in the planet” that has “deep meaning to so many people in the United States.”

“It’s an honor to be here and be a part of that,” he said.

Rubio also visited the Western Wall with Netanyahu and Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, and placed a note inside.

In response to a question from one journalist, Rubio said that he doesn’t know anyone “who would not rather see a negotiated settlement in which Hamas agrees to no longer be a terrorist group, lay down their arms, free the hostages.”

“By the way, not just the hostages that they’re holding from Israel but frankly the people of Gaza that they’re also holding hostage as human shields,” he said. “That would be the ideal outcome and one we would all like to see. It’s one that’s been worked on, but I think we have to be prepared for the fact that savage terrorists don’t normally agree to things like that, but we’ll continue to pursue that route.”

Netanyahu told reporters that Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was recently killed at age 31 was a year older than the prime minister’s brother, Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed in Entebbe.

“Some of these people come once in a century, but it’s their legacy that has to live on,” Netanyahu said.


IDF invasion of Gaza City erupts as Palestinians report tanks in heart of the Strip
The IDF invasion of Gaza City erupted late Monday night, The Jerusalem Post can confirm.

Palestinian reports said that IDF tanks had entered the heart of the city in scenes and levels of war not seen in northern Gaza in possibly two years.

After weeks of increasing air force strikes on Gaza City, including bringing down an increasing number of tall multi-story buildings, it seems the IDF has finally reached the tipping point for a larger scale ground invasion.

As of earlier Monday, an estimated more than 300,000 Gazans had fled Gaza City going southward, but around 700,000 remained.

The IDF was hoping that, like in Rafah, most of the Gazan civilians would flee once Israeli ground forces truly started to penetrate the city.

IDF tanks enter heart of Gaza City
The invasion of Gaza City is controversial globally and also within the defense establishment, with most security officials, including IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir opposing the move.

However, Zamir has declined to resign after being ordered to go forward with the invasion by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seemingly rationalizing that he can moderate the attack and its impact on Israeli hostages, Israeli soldiers, and Palestinian civilians.

Netanyahu has said that invading Gaza City will further defeat Hamas beyond the heavy defeats the terror group has suffered over two years.


IDF using ‘unconventional weapons’ to make Gaza City ‘unlivable,’ says UN’s Albanese
The top UN expert on Palestinian rights, Francesca Albanese, said Israel was trying to make Gaza City unlivable in its assault on the enclave’s largest urban area, and was endangering the lives of Israeli hostages.

“Israel is bombing using unconventional weapons… it is trying to forcibly evacuate Palestinians. Why? This is the last piece of Gaza that needs to be rendered unlivable before advancing the ethnic cleansing of that piece of land,” Albanese told reporters in Geneva.

She did not clarify what she meant by “unconventional weapons.”

The Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN rejected Albanese’s comments.

“Her numerous statements have showcased her willingness to go to extreme lengths in (the) delegitimization of the State of Israel,” the Mission said in a statement.

“According to her, Hamas doesn’t embed itself in civilian infrastructure, doesn’t cynically use civilians as human shields, and generally doesn’t really exist,” it added.


John Spencer – There is no genocide in gaza
John Spencer is an award-winning scholar and internationally recognized national security and military analyst, specializing in war, strategy, tactics, and related subjects. Considered one of the world’s leading experts on urban warfare, he served as an advisor to the top four-star general and other senior leaders in the U.S. Army as part of strategic research groups from the Pentagon to the United States Military Academy.


Call me Back Podcast: What Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur REALLY mean - with Rachel Goldberg-Polin
The High Holidays are approaching. Rosh HaShana begins a week from today, on Monday, September 22, and Yom Kippur follows soon after. To do some Jewish learning in preparation for these holidays, Dan welcomed back Rachel Goldberg-Polin, who helped Call me Back listeners navigate Pesach and Sukkot this past year.


Erin Molan: "Don’t Free My Son If It Means Freeing Terrorists”— Father of Hamas Hostage Eitan Mor
Tzvika Mor, father of Hamas hostage Eitan Mor, takes a stand unlike any other hostage family. While most demand prisoner swaps, Tzvika says his son must not be freed if it means releasing terrorists back onto the streets.

He believes the total defeat of Hamas — not a temporary trade — is the only way to honor his son and protect Israel’s future. His words will shake you.




DISGUSTING! Candace Owens points finger at Israel, Jewish donors after Charlie Kirk tragedy
Watch this urgent conversation on the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the unthinkable wave of antisemitic conspiracy theories and morbid celebration that has followed. Hosted by Israel innovation envoy Fleur Hassan-Nahoum and featuring co-host Shoshana Keats-Jaskel, founder of Chochmat Nashim; Sandra Hagee Parker, head of the CUFI Action Center; and Iranian human rights activist Lili Mu, this episode confronts the dark realities of modern-day political hatred and media distortion.

What does it say about the state of the West when so many react to a political murder by blaming the Mossad and cheering the death of a Christian Zionist? Why are pro-Hamas mobs the loudest voices on campus and in the streets? And is Britain, of all places, finally waking up? With raw firsthand accounts from London, Jerusalem and America, the hosts dissect the disturbing reaction to Kirk’s death, expose the hypocrisy of progressive "as-a-Jews" and connect the dots between Islamist ideology, radical left indoctrination and Western self-loathing.

Lili Moo then offers chilling insight from the frontlines of Iranian resistance, explaining how the West is being ideologically colonized while women like Mahsa Amini are martyred for basic freedoms. Sandra Hagee Parker shares how the Christian pro-Israel movement is being galvanized, not defeated. And Shoshana Keats-Jaskoll reflects on resilience, parenting in an age of radicalization and the moral imperative to know what you're defending before it's gone.

Chapters
00:00 The Assassination of Charlie Kirk and Its Implications
08:40 The Role of Conspiracy Theories in Political Discourse
15:12 Christian Perspectives on the Murder of Charlie Kirk
20:20 The Fight for Free Speech and Human Rights
26:36 The Importance of Understanding Values and Freedom
34:46 Scumbags of the Week: Media and Political Figures
40:07 Heroes: Remembering the Brave and the Fallen


DINESH D'SOUZA wages WAR on the 'WICKED' (Live from Jerusalem)
JNS CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman sits down with bestselling author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza to discuss his provocative new documentary “The Dragon’s Prophecy.” The film draws powerful parallels between the Oct. 7, 2023 war and ancient biblical conflicts, suggesting that Hamas’s tactics echo those of the Philistines and that the modern war on Israel may be a revival of age-old battles between good and evil.

D’Souza, known for films like “2016: Obama’s America” and “2000 Mules,” explains why this new project departs from his previous work and explores biblical archaeology, prophecy and the spiritual dimensions of Israel’s struggle. He and Traiman examine why radical Islam sees Israel not just as a military threat but as a moral and civilizational one: a liberal, Western outpost in the heart of the Middle East.

The conversation also confronts growing antisemitism in both left- and right-wing circles in the U.S., the ideological betrayal of Israel by figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and the disturbing rise in conspiracy theories that target Jews. D’Souza connects these trends to broader civilizational decline in the West and the abandonment of Judeo-Christian values, arguing that Jews and Christians must recognize the spiritual war they are both fighting.

They also reflect on the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk and the urgent need to restore sanity, morality and historical truth to public discourse.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Dinesh D'Souza and His Work
01:14 The Dragon's Prophecy: A New Perspective on Israel
04:04 Hamas and the Philistines: Historical Parallels
05:58 The Alliance of Radical Islam and the Secular Left
09:00 Shifts in American Political Support for Israel
11:11 Understanding October 7th: A Historical Context
13:30 The Nature of Anti-Semitism and Criticism of Israel
15:40 The Role of Influencers in Shaping Opinions on Israel
18:50 Political Violence and Ideological Extremism
21:59 The Cultural War in America and Its Implications
24:31 The Spiritual Dimension of the Conflict
27:32 Conclusion and Call to Action


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KAN addresses calls for Israel to withdraw from Eurovision
Golan Yochpaz, the CEO of KAN, Israel’s public broadcaster, pushed back Monday against statements by a growing number of European broadcasters, government officials, and performers threatening they will refuse to participate in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if Israel takes part, because of the war in Gaza.

At an event launching Kan’s new slate of programs in Tel Aviv, Yochpaz said, “There is no reason why Israel should not continue to be a significant part of this cultural event, which must under no circumstances become political.”

He was responding to official announcements by the Netherlands, Ireland, and Slovenia saying that they will boycott Eurovision if there is an Israeli contestant in 2026. Spain has hinted that it would follow suit, and the BBC reported Monday that Spain’s Culture Minister, Ernest Urtasun, said, "We have to make sure that Israel does not take part in the next Eurovision."

Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, called recently for Israel to be banned from international sports competitions because of the war in Gaza.

Iceland’s cultural representatives have also suggested that they will refuse to participate if an Israeli competes in the upcoming Eurovision contest, and Belgium’s broadcaster has said it supports the idea of an Israeli withdrawal.

Ynet Global reported Sunday that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organization that runs Eurovision, is trying to negotiate a compromise. “Unofficial proposals have been conveyed to Israeli representatives that include a temporary withdrawal from the competition or a performance under a neutral flag,” EBU sources told the website.

Ynet Global added that the EBU "has not made any proposals to Kan regarding participation in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The consultation with the wider EBU membership is ongoing and no decisions will be made until the process concludes.”


NYPost Editorial: Hollywood’s latest Hamas stooge’s anti-Israel rant made her the Emmy’s ‘biggest loser’
When the biggest raves come from a Hamas-linked media, maybe even a Hollywood starlet can realize her message isn’t quite as morally triumphant as she imagined.

Ending her Emmy acceptance speech with “free Palestine” won Hannah Einbinder cheers inside the Peacock Theater, since it was the usual impeccably progressive La-La Land crowd.

But the “you go girl” coverage by the Hamas and Islamic Jihad-linked Quds News Network should have given her at least some doubt, particularly since the outlet blurred her chest and bare shoulders to preserve fundamentalist moral purity.

The bumbling QNN censors also blurred the “red hand” pin displaying her support for Palestinians — even though it commemorates the slaughter of two Israeli soldiers who simply took a wrong turn and wound up lynched, indeed disemboweled.

Not that all the entertainment-industry fools who proudly wear the pin have bothered to check: It’s a symbol of resistance, is all they know or care, without a thought in the world for what the “resisters” want.

“Hannah Einbinder explains that her decision to say ‘Free Palestine’ during her Emmys acceptance speech came from her belief that, as a Jewish person, she has a responsibility to distinguish Judaism and Jewish culture from the ethnonationalist project of the Israeli state,” Quds News tweeted, accurately enough, of her post-ceremony explanations.

But Hamas and its fellow jihadis enforce barbaric rules for women, impose the death penalty on any gays they discover and of course proudly GoPro taped their rape, torture and slaughter of innocent Israeli civilians.

Hollywood’s young stars have forgotten Oct. 7 and plainly haven’t a clue as to which historic horrors triggered the founding of Israel — horrors that could teach them what “genocide” truly means.
Hen Mazzig: No, Hannah, That Wasn’t Brave
Hannah should know there is no such thing as a “good Jew” who can launder antisemitism. The “good Jews” trope — the ones who sign boycott pledges or reassure progressives that this isn’t about hatred — are always used as cover. They are never enough. And at the end of the day, the people demanding “good Jews” don’t actually believe there is anything good about being Jewish.

That is why Einbinder’s words sting so deeply. She is not just a comedian with a platform — she is a Jewish comedian. When she singles out Israel, the one Jewish state in the world, home to half of global Jewry, she is telling millions of us that the single most unifying part of our identity is illegitimate.

But the truth is that according to a Pew Research survey in 2021 more than 80 percent of American Jews say they are pro-Israel. Add to that the half of the world’s Jews who live in Israel, and it becomes clear: Zionism is not a fringe ideology. It is the consensus of the Jewish people — the belief that we have a right to live freely and safely in our ancestral homeland after centuries of exile and persecution.

To oppose Zionism is not merely to challenge a government policy. It is to challenge Jewish existence as a free people. You can criticize Netanyahu and his government’s actions and policies — I know I have, and still hold this truth.

Words have consequences. When celebrities make it trendy to vilify Israel, it fuels the climate that leads to Jewish schools under police guard, synagogues set on fire and children beaten on their way to class.

True bravery would have been using that Emmy stage to call for the release of the 48 hostages still held in Gaza and end of the war. True courage would have meant calling for peace, for coexistence, for the humanity of both Israelis and Palestinians, even if it risked boos instead of applause.

Hannah Einbinder had a rare moment when the world was listening. She could have built a bridge. Instead, she burned one.


Brendan O'Neill: The bourgeois death cult of Bob Vylan
This is the hilarious thing about Bob Vylan: they’re the squarest motherfuckers in showbiz. They make the tea-cosied theatre kids of Kneecap look like dangerous radicals. They don’t smoke or drink. They ‘advocate for healthy lifestyles’, including the consumption of ‘plant-based wholefoods’. Robinson-Foster went on his first ‘pro-Palestine’ demo when he was 15, ‘escorted by a friend’s mum’. I’m dying. They rap about how much they hate ‘Brexit-voting Top Gear fans’. It’s more Sandi Toksvig than Sid Vicious. Instead of going to a Bob Vylan gig you could just go into a Whole Foods and eavesdrop on the blue-haired girls spending daddy’s allowance on kale – totally same vibe.

Bob Vylan are basically Guardianistas with guitars. They’re an episode of The News Agents put through a feedback amp. They’re Rory Stewart with dreadlocks. ‘I heard you want your country back. Ha, shut the fuck up!’, they wailed at Glasto, thrilling the assembled entitled arses with a hit of Remoanerism, hands down the most elitist ideology of our time. That taunting of Britain’s riff raff who ‘want their country back’, for the titillation of a sea of EU-loving poshos, is Bob Vylan summed up. ‘Death to the IDF’, they yelped, when the only thing they’ve ever killed is punk rock.

Here’s the thing: that the cult of nihilism now washes over the conformist middle classes reveals what a worrying moment we are living through. ‘Where they burn books, they will in the end burn people’, said Heinrich Heine. Yes, and where privileged youths will cheer the cancellation of ideas, they will in the end cheer the cancellation of life. Let’s give the final word to a proper punk, Johnny Rotten, who knows a fascist when he sees one: ‘Hamas are basically just Jew exterminators, that’s their only real purpose.’ Wait, you don’t want people to be killed by fascists? Fancy that. Rock on, John.




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