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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

09/30 Links Pt2: The UN’s descent into Jew-hatred and irrelevance; Ships in Greta Thunberg's Flotilla 'Secretly Owned By Hamas,'; I Visited Gaza. The GHF Food Aid Surprised Me

From Ian:

Gil Troy: The UN’s descent into Jew-hatred and irrelevance
The history of the UN
Back in 1945, the Western world celebrated the UN’s founding. By defending “human rights,” the forum would avoid a third world war and another mass slaughter – especially against the Jews. Those high hopes help explain Americans’ deep disappointment when the UN betrayed America and democracy, not just the Jews.

Thirty years later, in 1975, America was reeling from the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam loss. Exploiting America’s weakness – and many developing countries’ fury over Vietnam – the Soviet Union hijacked the UN. Suddenly, it became the Third World dictators’ debating society. Tyrants used the kind of democratic rights their citizens never enjoyed to assert their anti-American power.

The Soviet Union allied with the Palestinians and the Arab countries to push General Assembly Resolution 3379, calling Zionism “racism.” Targeting one form of nationalism, Jewish nationalism, in this forum of nationalisms fused anti-Americanism with antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The Cuban representative told African delegates that “Zionism, capitalism, and American imperialism are all faces of the same monster.”

The PLO’s Farouk Kaddoumi praised the delegates for hearing the “voice of the victim,” a phrase capturing the new glorification of “the oppressed” defying the “oppressors.” Saudi Arabia’s UN ambassador, Jamil Baroody, derided the Jews’ penchant for “money changing.”

Many Americans gave up on the UN, reflecting their post-World War II protectiveness toward Jews and Israel. America’s UN ambassador, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, recognized this biased assault on Jewish nationalism meaning Zionism as targeting America by targeting its ally. Moynihan scoffed that this unfair attack on a “member nation” undermines “the integrity of that whole body of moral and legal precepts which we know as human rights.”

“The terrible lie that has been told here today will have terrible consequences,” Moynihan thundered presciently on November 10. “Not only will people begin to say… that the United Nations is a place where lies are told but… it will strip from racism the precise and abhorrent meaning that it still precariously holds today.”

Most Americans, from Left to Right, black and white, deemed the resolution antisemitic, “aimed more at Jews than at the concept of Zionism itself.” Support for Israel soared to a margin of eight to one.

In 1991, the UN repealed the resolution – but the big lie lingered.

Claims of anti-Israel bias
The Soviets and Palestinians built an institutional launchpad for 3379’s ideological assault. General Assembly Resolution 3376 established a Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.

This bureaucratized the ongoing attempt to criminalize Israel. UN Watch statistics show, for example, that from 2015 through 2023, the General Assembly adopted 154 anti-Israel resolutions and only 71 – overall – against any other countries.

Today’s anti-Israel obsession is again exposing the UN’s structural and ideological failures. To claim “Israel committed genocide in Gaza,” the UN Independent International Commission on Inquiry diluted the meaning of “genocide” from “intentional,” systematic mass slaughter, to mean thousands caught in the crossfire of war. And having rewarded the PLO during its terror tear of the 1970s through the Olympics, airports, and synagogues, the UN now rewards Hamas’s barbarism.

In 1975 Moynihan lamented: “A great evil has been loosed upon the world.” A lifelong liberal, Moynihan believed that words matter, that international law requires consistency, and that totalitarian countries and terrorist groups holding democratic Israel to standards they violated mocked sacred terms like “human rights,” turning them into political battering rams.

Tragically, this General Assembly session vindicated Moynihan, further diminishing the UN’s already cratering credibility.
Should Israel fear UN resolutions?
The U.N. General Assembly voted this month to endorse a scheme that French Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont said “lays out a single roadmap to deliver the two-state solution.”

Why? Because many world leaders apparently want to punish Israeli voters for keeping Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader they preferred, and his coalition, in office.

But does the U.N. vote really matter at all? Keep in mind that this resolution will have no practical impact since the world body has no way to enforce it. The real purpose of the resolution is to intimidate Israel and its supporters to make more concessions, and not to eradicate Hamas, as has been an official war aim of the Israeli government ever since the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Should we take this vote seriously? And should Netanyahu, who is himself a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations?

In a dismissive remark in March 1955, David Ben-Gurion, then Israel’s defense minister, employed the Hebrew acronym “Um” for the United Nations and added a pejorative, “Um-Shmum.” He used the Yiddish idiom to convey casual dismissal during a cabinet debate regarding his plan to take the Gaza Strip from Egypt in response to increasing cross-border terrorist attacks on Israel. He understood that the Jewish state had to act to safeguard its national security, regardless of whether that made the Jewish state unpopular at the United Nations.

That’s why in his time, Ben-Gurion took such steps as the construction of Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona; the capture and trial of top Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann (condemned by the U.N. Security Council in its Resolution 138 on June 1960, which targeted Israel for a violation of Argentina’s sovereignty by Israel for seizing Eichmann who Argentina had been harboring); and the imposition of strict security measures on Arabs within Israel’s borders.

Ben-Gurion also recognized the inherent moral weakness of the United Nations. Every country—no matter how oppressive or bellicose—has the same voting power in the U.N. General Assembly as an enlightened, peaceful and democratic state. One country, one vote.
I Visited Gaza. The Food Aid Surprised Me.
I recently returned from Gaza, where I witnessed the humanitarian catastrophe that has resulted from Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The main provider of food assistance in Gaza today arguably is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an organization backed by the U.S. and Israel. GHF has faced harsh criticism for its work in Gaza. I arrived in Gaza a skeptic of GHF but left an advocate. Simply put, the common portrayal of this organization radically distorts reality.

I observed GHF's relief operations firsthand. While no textbook exists for a war zone such as Gaza, where terrorist combatants hide among civilians, I saw GHF using unconventional means to successfully deliver food to civilians on a staggering scale under nearly impossible circumstances. It wasn't perfect, but it was good.

Many of GHF's staff are former military personnel. They travel in armored vehicles, maintain security protocols and are provided needed access by the Israel Defense Forces. I see this as realistic. Relative to most other aid distributions around the world, GHF's job is especially dangerous, requiring tenacity and elaborate planning from people who know how to conduct themselves calmly in a volatile setting. I watched GHF teams, along with their Palestinian staffs, manage huge crowds with total professionalism.

There is no way to revert, as the UN has suggested, to the distribution systems used for humanitarian aid in Gaza before the Oct. 7 slaughter. UNRWA is no longer allowed to operate in Gaza after Israel found that many of its staff were members of Hamas and/or participants in the Oct. 7 attack. GHF is putting food into the hands of hungry people and has distributed more than 167 million meals to date. The people of Gaza would be better served by the UN coordinating with GHF to expand the delivery of humanitarian assistance effectively.
Palestinian men, UNRWA workers using aid to sexually exploit Gazan women
Some of the women interviewed by AP described being propositioned multiple times by different aid workers.

A 37-year-old mother of four told AP that she was approached twice, once by the head of a shelter who offered her food and accommodation if she would “go together somewhere together." Understanding the request was sexual, she refused.

Another mother of four complained of an aid worker offering to only give her children nutritional supplements if she married him. After refusing and blocking him, the aid worker began harassing her with calls from different numbers and made vulgar comments.

“I felt completely humiliated,” she said. “I had to go and ask for help for my children. If I didn’t do it, who would?”

Five of the women who shared their stories with AP denied engaging in sexual interactions with the men, but local psychologists warned that many women had. Four local psychologists also told AP that dozens of women had told them of sexual exploitation and several had become pregnant as a result of the abuse.

AP's findings follow a June 2024 report by the Global Protection Cluster (GPC), a group of NGOs and UN agencies based in Geneva, alleging sexual abuse of vulnerable populations by aid workers in Gaza.

Alleged misconduct by aid workers included violence, exploitation and abuse, trafficking, and forced prostitution, GPC stated in its report. 'Prefer to keep the focus' on Israel “Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip and the restrictions on humanitarian aid are what’s forcing women to resort to this,” said Amal Syam, director of the Women’s Affairs Center.

Israel and the United States have expanded efforts to see aid enter the Gaza Strip and bypass Hamas, as the terror group has repeatedly been accused of stealing resources as a means of wealth.

The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has received notable pushback from groups like the United Nations, though, despite authorities regularly pointing to the UN’s own inadequacy in delivering aid to the Gaza Strip.

Israel has shared footage of UN aid piling up on the Gaza border, and the group has admitted to having trucks filled with resources robbed at gunpoint.

One volunteer, named only as Syam, who works for the Women’s Affairs Center, said that Palestinian women preferred to focus only on Israel. “Most of us prefer to keep the focus on the violence and violations committed by the Israeli occupation,” she said.




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Wafa al Bass
In 2005 a female Palestinian suicide bomber caught at the Israeli checkpoint. She tried to get to a hospital to kill as many Jews as possible. In the checkpoint, when the explosive belt did not explode, she burst into tears and cried out to Allah.


Seth Frantzman: Gaza-bound flotilla 200 miles from coast of Israel
Flotilla to potentially arrive on Yom Kippur
David Adler, one of the activists on the flotilla, wrote on Tuesday about his feelings as the flotilla entered what he called the “red zone,” where it expected to be intercepted. He said it is likely that the flotilla will arrive on Yom Kippur.

“I believe that the timing of our flotilla is not coincidental. On the contrary, I believe it is a blessing that we are approaching interception at the onset of Yom Kippur, our annual day of atonement, which calls on us to reflect on our sins and what can be done to repair them in the spirit of tikkun olam,” he wrote.

He says he is one of the few Jews on the flotilla. “I joined this flotilla just like any other delegate, to defend humanity before it is too late. But on Yom Kippur, I am reminded that I am also here because my Jewish heritage demands it,” he said.

“If Israeli forces intercept us on Yom Kippur, then let them see what true atonement looks like. Not fasting in comfort while starving their neighbors. Not praying in safety while dropping bombs over their heads. Atonement means action,” he added.

The Foreign Ministry shared on Tuesday that “official Hamas documents found in the Gaza Strip, now revealed for the first time, prove Hamas’s direct involvement in the funding and execution of the ‘Sumud’ flotilla to Gaza.”

Israel has said the flotilla could dock in Ashkelon to transfer aid, and also has suggested it go to a third country. Italy has suggested a similar approach to resolve this crisis. Israel has accused the flotilla in the past of ties to Hamas. Activists on the flotilla say they are peaceful.

The flotilla entered areas 200 miles from Israel as US President Donald Trump pushed for an end to the war in Gaza and a peace deal. It is unclear if this has changed the intentions of the flotilla. Currently, it appears they have not changed course.
Gaza flotilla rebuffs calls to stop, as Israel readies for complex interception
IDF spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said last week that the Navy was ready to intercept the boats, although he noted that it would be a greater challenge than past flotilla attempts due to the number of vessels.

Due to the large number of vessels, the Navy is expected to board the boats, detain the activists, and bring them to one large Navy ship, and from there, bring them to Ashdod Port to be deported from the country. Some of the activists’ vessels may be towed to Ashdod Port as well, though military sources said they expect that some may be sunk at sea by the Navy.

Hebrew media reported Tuesday that some 600 police officers were taking part in the effort to take the participants, once they are brought to Ashdod Port, to a facility in southern Israel during Yom Kippur, and to then deport those who agree to be deported on Thursday evening.

Those who refuse will be dealt with by Interior Ministry staff using a special tribunal to be formed within the Ketziot jail, according to Channel 12.

The report added that around eight ambulances were set to be ready near the coast in case flotilla participants require medical attention, and that several hospitals have been put on high alert.

Haaretz reported that Israeli security officials had recommended that the government reach diplomatic understandings with the flotilla organizers rather than a military intervention, and believe the leaders didn’t adequately explore this option. The report also said the organizers had rejected all the offers presented to them.

Israel and Egypt have imposed varying degrees of blockade on Gaza since the Hamas terror group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007 in a violent coup.

Israel said it was necessary to limit Hamas’s ability to smuggle in arms. Critics of the blockade said it amounted to collective punishment of Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians.

Israel has come under huge international pressure over its war in Gaza. The war started on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Dozens of Ships in Greta Thunberg's Flotilla 'Secretly Owned By Hamas,' Israeli Foreign Ministry Says
Newly discovered documents connect Hamas to two key organizers of Greta Thunberg's Global Sumud Flotilla and reveal that dozens of the fleet's boats are owned by the terror group, Israel's Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday.

One document released by the agency showed a list of operatives in the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA), an Israeli-designated terror group that counts Hamas terrorists and flotilla leaders among its members. It included Saif Abu Kashk, the CEO of Cyber Neptune, which Israel's Foreign Ministry called a Hamas front company in Spain that "owns dozens of the ships participating in the 'Sumud' flotilla."

"Thus, these ships are secretly owned by Hamas," the ministry added.

The second was a letter from Ismail Haniyeh—the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 massacre, who Israel assassinated last year—sent to the head of the PCPA, urging unity between the two groups. It was sent in 2021, the same year Israel accused the PCPA of operating as a wing of Hamas and designated it as a terrorist organization.

The revelations are just the latest to rock Thunberg's flotilla. It had already faced delays and a mysterious fire when several participants last week publicly blasted organizers after a "queer activist" joined their cause. Thunberg herself dropped from the steering committee, though it's unclear whether she was ousted or left on her own accord.

The PCPA, formed in 2018, "functions as Hamas' representative body abroad, operating de facto as Hamas' embassies," according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. "The organization operates under the pretense of civilian cover and is responsible, on behalf of Hamas, for mobilizing actions against Israel, including violent demonstrations, marches against Israel, and demonstration and provocation flotillas."

The newly exposed list of PCPA members also includes Zaher Birawi, who chairs the group's United Kingdom branch and has organized flotilla missions to Gaza over the past 15 years. He's also been pictured alongside Haniyeh, and Israel in 2013 identified him as a Hamas operative working in Europe. The Jewish state also accused his nonprofit, EuroPal Forum, of having ties to Hamas and designated it as a terror group in 2021.


Italian navy frigate to quit shepherding Gaza aid flotilla as it approaches coast
Italy’s navy will stop following the international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza once it gets within 150 nautical miles (278 km) of the shore, the Italian defense ministry said on Tuesday.

The Global Sumud Flotilla, consisting of more than 40 civilian boats carrying parliamentarians, lawyers and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, aims to break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian enclave.

Once the convoy reaches the 150 nautical miles limit, the Italian frigate accompanying it will stop, “as communicated several times in recent days,” the ministry said in a statement.

The ship, Alpino (F-594), will issue two warnings to activists, with the second and final one foreseen at around 00:00 GMT, when the flotilla is expected to get within the stated distance, the statement added.

Earlier on Tuesday, an Italian spokeswoman for the flotilla, Maria Elena Delia, said that activists had been informed about the government’s plans to have the navy ship stop and turn back to avoid “a diplomatic incident” with Israel.

She said the flotilla had no intention of heeding Italy’s warnings not to get closer to the shore.


It’s a disgrace Labour runs Britain, says Israel
Israel said it was a “disgrace” that Labour runs Britain after party members voted to accuse the country of genocide in Gaza.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government claimed that Labour “stands with Hamas” following a ballot of activists at the party conference in Liverpool on Monday.

Labour members defied Sir Keir Starmer by voting in favour of a motion calling on the Prime Minister to accept the findings of a recent UN report which said Israel was committing genocide, as well as urging him to back a full arms embargo.

The Government’s position remains that Israel’s actions during its war on Hamas do not amount to genocide.

In response to the vote, the Israeli foreign ministry said: “While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump are working tirelessly in Washington to end the war in Gaza, the Labour Party chooses to embrace Hamas and fully adopt its lies, including the fake genocide campaign.

“The world stands with the US and Israel in their efforts to end the war. Labour stands with Hamas. It is a disgrace for Britain that this is the party in power.”

Relations between the British and Israeli governments have soured after Sir Keir recognised Palestinian statehood.

The Prime Minister had said in July that he would recognise Palestine as a state if Israel did not meet a number of conditions, including an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a commitment to a two-state solution.

These conditions were rejected by Mr Netanyahu’s administration, prompting Sir Keir to recognise Palestine on the eve of the UN General Assembly summit.

Israel responded by saying that the decision taken by the British Government, as well as those of France, Canada and Australia, did nothing more than reward Hamas.
True friends never remain silent: Why J Street is wrong about the Democratic Party
It’s obvious that Nadav Tamir, executive director of J Street-Israel, hasn’t checked in lately with the US Democratic Party to see the great shift in their move against Israel and Jews, because, if he did, he might not have characterized them as “our true friends in the US” in a Jerusalem Post article (September 25).

Even before the tragic events of October 7, 2023, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, better known as “The Squad,” was already trash-talking Israel, as they played to their growing Muslim constituencies who supported that position and rewarded them with their votes.

Once the massacre happened, things took a turn against Israel and Jews, simply by their ethnic association. Jews were cast as oppressors, white supremacists, and those who victimized people of color – a definition that was strategically broadened to include Palestinians.

Although it’s true that all Democrats didn’t express those sentiments, we also didn’t hear a loud outcry from any in that party who may have been offended and disagreed with the malicious accusations. That’s when innocent Jewish students on American campuses and everyday Jews who felt marginalized and threatened by the angry voices in the party, probably no longer saw the Democrats as their true friends.

Who could blame them? Because when your most loyal constituents are being falsely maligned, it’s definitely not the time to remain silent. The problem is that as hostility grows, it tends to silence others who are intimidated to go against the tide and speak out. Even prominent Jewish Democrats failed to take a stand.

Voices from the Democratic Party
Did we hear anything from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer condemning the constant attacks and protests by Palestinian agitators, who partnered with woke ideologues? Where were New York Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman? Why did Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro only speak out when his home was targeted in an arson attack?

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman seemed to be the only loud voice to bravely condemn those attacking Israel’s right to defend herself, dispelling the ridiculous claims of genocide being thrown around. But that merely earned him scorn from his fellow party members, who started to cast doubt on his fitness to hold office.

Absurdly, J Street’s Tamir cites the growing polarization of the two political parties that has led to violent acts, but somehow links it all to US President Donald Trump, whom he claims is seeking retribution, while failing to explain the bizarre connection.
Mamdani’s perverse need to destroy the Jewish state is driving his campaign
For anyone with doubts, Vanity Fair’s new profile of Zohran Mamdani makes it explicit: His campaign is driven by, perhaps more than anything, an overriding hatred of the Jewish state. And a perverse need to destroy it.

Writer James Pogue reports that Palestine is Mamdani’s “formative issue” — and a big part of his success.

“The Palestinian issue has helped draw Muslim candidates and voters into left-wing politics,” writes Pogue.

Palestine is “rapidly becoming, like Vietnam before it, the key issue for a wider antiestablishment left-wing movement.”

Mamdani himself claims the issue reveals “hypocrisies” about “universality” and “equal rights.”

“It is genocide” that has “ripped at the very fabric of so much of what so many thought about this world.”

True, the candidate has pushed socialist policies — free buses, free childcare, etc. — and that’s all part of his “equality” beat.

But it all comes back to Israel, which he claims he’d support if it wasn’t specifically a Jewish state.

Of course, that would defeat the whole purpose of the country.

Pogue is right that Mamdani’s hostility toward Israel is drawing supporters, as a shameful anti-Israel sentiment grows.


Spain blocks American ships carrying weapons for Israel
American ships loaded with arms for Israel were blocked from transiting through the Rota (Cádiz) and Morón de la Frontera (Seville) bases, the Spanish El Pais newspaper reported Monday.

“Rota and Moron are not a backdoor,” a source was quoted by the paper as saying. "Rota and Morón are bases under Spanish sovereignty, under the command of a Spanish military officer, and everything that happens there must be authorized by the Spanish authorities," a source was quoted by the paper as saying.

The Spanish government, which has called Israel’s military actions a genocide, says it stopped exporting arms to Israel as of Oct.2, 2023, and has recognized a Palestinian state in May 2024. The move comes as Madrid continues to cancel arms contracts with Israeli companies.

The two American bases in southern Spain are officially shared by the two allies, but Washington often uses them as a hub for troops, weapons, fuel, and supplies bound further east. The bases were also used by 15 American KC-135 tanker aircraft during the war between Israel and Iran in June as the US flew its bombers towards Iranian targets ahead of Operation Midnight Hammer.

But, according to the 1988 Madrid-Washington military cooperation agreement regarding the base, America must obtain authorisation from the local administration to transfer “ammunition and explosives” to third countries.


Israel says Reebok sought to remove its logo from soccer team jerseys; company denies
Israel’s national soccer association on Tuesday accused global sportswear brand Reebok of initiating — and later canceling — a demand to remove its logo from the jerseys and kits of the national soccer team, prompting a denial from the company.

Reebok allegedly asked its local equipment supplier, MSG Group, to pull its logo from the kits and uniforms of the Israeli squad, according to a statement by the Israel Football Association (IFA).

“We regret that the Reebok company has chosen to succumb to boycott threats that were completely irrelevant. There are clear laws against boycotts, and we will examine all legal options available to us,” the IFA said, adding its emblem and the Israeli flag would continue to be proudly displayed on all national team uniforms.

“We are convinced that a braver and more honest sponsor will be found in the near future,” the association said.

Hours later, the association said Reebok had backtracked from the demand following a conversation between IFA President Moshe Zuares, Reebok and the MGS Group.

“Reebok reversed its decision and the Israel national team’s uniforms in international matches will continue to feature the company’s logo as it has been up to now,” the IFA said.

The move allegedly came after the IFA threatened legal action and accused Reebok of succumbing to boycott threats.

Reebok subsequently denied ever making the demand.


Harvard President Blamed Jewish Student for His Own Assault, Text Message Shows
Harvard University president Alan Garber blamed a Jewish student for his own assault during an anti-Israel protest, accusing him in a text message of filming in a way that "appears provocative," the House Education and Workforce Committee revealed Monday.

The text was included in a letter that Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Tim Walberg (Mich.)—who chair House Republican Leadership, and the House Education and Workforce Committee, respectively—sent Garber demanding information surrounding incidents that "may contribute to a hostile antisemitic environment on campus." They pointed to his texts urging Harvard Business School dean Srikant Datar not to send a community message after Yoav Segev, an Israeli Jewish student, was shoved and accosted at an October 2023 "die-in" protest.

"Another complication is that, although [the Israeli student] was technically within his rights … [t]he way he was taking videos appears provocative," Garber told Datar. Garber's remark echoes those of the student activists who argued Segev provoked the students. Harvard's Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee issued a statement in the wake of the event stating Segev had stepped over protesters who were "laying in a vulnerable position."

According to the congressional letter, Datar later sent an email conveying Garber’s advice, arguing if the school sends out a community message, "MENA [Middle Eastern and North African] students … will be very upset by it."

Harvard was hit with a double whammy on Monday between the congressional letter and an announcement from the Trump administration that it was beginning the process to suspend and debar the university after determining the school "violated Title VI by acting with deliberate indifference toward discrimination and harassment against Jewish and Israeli students on its campus since October 7, 2023." The move could terminate Harvard’s federal funding and prohibit it from receiving future financial assistance.
Federal agency moves to have Harvard barred from doing business with US government
The civil-rights office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Monday that it is referring Harvard University to the federal agency’s office that bars entities from doing business with the federal government.

The Office for Civil Rights’ “referral of Harvard for formal administrative proceedings reflects OCR’s commitment to safeguard both taxpayer investments and the broader public interest,” stated Paula Stannard, director of the office.

“Congress has empowered federal agencies to pursue Title VI compliance through formal enforcement mechanisms, including the termination of funding or denial of future federal financial assistance, when voluntary compliance cannot be achieved,” Stannard said. (Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on shared ancestry, including religion.)

The office “has notified Harvard of its right to a formal administrative hearing, where an HHS administrative law judge will make an impartial determination on whether Harvard violated Title VI by acting with deliberate indifference towards antisemitic student-on-student harassment,” Stannard said.

Harvard has 20 days to tell the department if it wants to have a hearing. (JNS sought comment from Harvard.)

“Both suspension and debarment have a government-wide effect,” the federal agency said. “An entity, or part of an entity, that is debarred by any federal agency (including HHS) is excluded from entering into a procurement or nonprocurement transaction with other federal agencies.”
Hundreds of Northwestern Students Refuse To Watch Anti-Semitism Training Video
Hundreds of students at Northwestern University refused to watch an anti-Semitism training video that the school made mandatory amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on campus anti-Semitism.

At least 300 of Northwestern's 22,000 students boycotted the training, leading the university to bar them from registering for fall classes, the Forward reported. Northwestern, which also requires students to watch anti-bias training on Muslims, told students in a March email that the new anti-Semitism training "will adhere to federal policy," including Trump's January executive order "Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism."

The 17-minute video, which the Jewish United Fund produced specifically for Northwestern, aims to teach students about "who Jews are, how Jews understand themselves, and how anti-Semitism has morphed throughout time." The training defines anti-Zionism, which has gained popularity among radical anti-Israel protesters, as "the opposition to the Jewish right of self-determination," warning that anti-Zionism "takes many forms, most of which are anti-Semitic because they work against Jewish human rights."

The video also presents four quotes from anti-Israel activists alongside four from Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. "The fact that you can't tell the difference is terrifying," the narrator says. "The thing is, to most Jewish people, they feel the same because they are the same."

According to Northwestern, "students are not required to agree with the training modules," only to watch them, the Forward reported.


Two senior staffers at anti-Israel Sydney radio station that sacked Jewish radio host for refusing to support Hamas resign from their roles
Two senior staff members from a Sydney community radio station that sacked a Jewish host after she refused to support Hamas have resigned from their roles.

Media regulator Australian Communications Media Authority (ACMA) on Monday published its findings that the heavily taxpayer-funded station breached the Broadcasting Services Act in its treatment of Nicole.

But in an astonishing move, the station used its public acknowledgment of the findings to lash out at the “attempted silencing” over the “genocide” in Gaza – and make what a Jewish community leader has called a “flippant and insulting” reference to Nicole’s discriminatory treatment on Facebook.

Sky News has confirmed Radio Skid Row manager Manu Monteiro and sponsorship co-ordinator Ilhan Abdi resigned following our reports which exposed their treatment of Nicole during a formal meeting.

Nicole, who did not want her last name used for safety reasons, told Sky News in an exclusive interview in December she had been hauled into the meeting with Mr Monteiro and Ms Abdi just before Christmas, after she covered a Palestinian flag sticker with a music record before her program’s guests came into the Marrickville studio, in Sydney’s inner-west.

She said she was told if she wanted to remain at the station, she would need to support Hamas, attend pro-Palestinian rallies and actively support the station’s view Israel had “no right to exist” and Jews no right to live in Israel.

When she cried while disclosing her family’s experience in the Holocaust and the recent explosion in antisemitic attacks in Australia, she said Ms Abdi laughed and mocked her for her “white woman tears”.

The regulator found the station had twice breached community participation rules in relation to Nicole’s dismissal and that its own policies and procedures “did not restrict participation on political or cultural grounds.”


WWE hit with Israeli backlash after ‘Invasion’ show announced for October 7
Leading professional wrestling company WWE has come under criticism from Israeli fans after scheduling an event titled “Invasion” for October 7.

The show will see the climax of a storyline in which stars from partner promotion TNA “invade” NXT, WWE’s developmental show for up-and-coming performers.

The name references the original Invasion event in 2001, in which WWE, then known as the WWF, was similarly “invaded” by major names from WCW and ECW – former rival companies which the WWF had recently bought out behind the scenes.

However, some Israeli fans have claimed that the decision to schedule the show for October 7, the second anniversary of the Hamas incursion which killed 1,200 people, is “insensitive”.

An article in Israel Hayom claimed: “The choice of the name and the date – a day when Israel commemorates the memory of the massacre from October 7, 2023 – is viewed as extreme insensitivity.

"The term Invasion, on such a sensitive date, which directly recalls the infiltration of Hamas terrorists into the southern communities and the mass killings of Israelis and Americans, raises questions about who in the organisation is responsible for this preposterous decision.”

One fan also pointed out that the show’s logo, which features the title with a pronounced red letter V and was used for the 2001 iteration, unintentionally resembles the downward-facing red triangle used as a Hamas symbol.

They wrote on X: “So the WWE has an event called “Invasion” being broadcast on October 7th and the logo is a red downward triangle?

"That’s either a very unfortunate coincidence, or someone in the marketing team needs to get fired.

"And yes I looked into it and back in 2001 they used the name and V logo once, so it could be a very unfortunate coincidence but at the same time… no one caught that?”
X is among most effective tools for spreading antisemitism in history, research finds
X/Twitter has become one of the most effective tools for spreading antisemitism in history, a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) has revealed.

The two organizations conducted a year-long investigation into antisemitic content on X using AI tools, specifically OpenAI’s GPT-4. They unveiled systemic failures in content moderation, as well as platform amplification of antisemitic conspiracy theories, and the rise of influential, often monetized, accounts spreading anti-Jewish hate to a large audience.

The research identified 679,584 antisemitic posts between February 1, 2024, and January 31, 2025, which combined were viewed 193 million times.

Of the total antisemitic posts, 59% related to conspiracy theories, which the CCDH and the JCPA split into three categories: Jewish control or power conspiracies, Jewish satanic conspiracies, and Holocaust denial. These posts also accounted for 73% of all likes.

The research report noted that online conspiracy theories should not be taken in isolation, as they can have a tangible impact in the real world. The FBI has, for example, warned that antisemitism is a “persistent driver” of violent extremism, with many attackers referencing the tropes in manifestos or online interactions.

Antisemitic abuse made up the remaining 41% of the sample. This included anti-Jewish character attacks such as “Jews are traitors”; the dehumanization of Jews, such as comparisons to rats or snakes; and anti-Jewish violent speech, such as “Jews must be eradicated.”
Italy poll: 15% say attacks on Jews ‘justifiable’
About 15% of Italians believe that physical assaults on Jewish people are “entirely or fairly justifiable,” according to a new survey released on Tuesday, amid ongoing protests against Israel’s nearly two-year-old war with Hamas in Gaza.

The SWG poll, conducted between Sept. 24-26 among 800 adults, also found that 18% consider antisemitic graffiti acceptable, while around 20% said it was reasonable to attack pro-Israel professors and for businesses to refuse Israeli customers.

Reuters reported that the findings come as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government faces pressure from demonstrators demanding recognition of Palestinian statehood.

Italy has not followed other G7 nations in that step, though Meloni said she would back certain sanctions against Israel at the U.N. General Assembly in a speech on Wednesday, in which she attacked Israel for violating “humanitarian norms” leading to the “slaughter of civilians.”

Italy carries historical scars from the 1938 antisemitic racial laws enacted under fascism, and current legislation punishes hate crimes. The SWG poll noted that 85% of respondents said attacking Jews is “not very or not at all justifiable.”


Israeli tech records $71B in M&As in 2025 despite fewer funding rounds
Israel’s tech sector saw record-breaking merger and acquisition activity in 2025 even as private funding slowed, according to Startup Nation Central’s Q3 report based on Finder data.

Private capital raised in the third quarter totaled $2.4 billion, down 38% from Q2 when excluding Safe Superintelligence’s $2 billion round. The number of deals shrank to 141, a 24% drop from the previous quarter and 38% year over year.

Despite the slowdown,the median round size climbed to $10.5 million, a record high and 50% above last year, signaling investors are concentrating on fewer but larger bets.

M&A activity told a different story. Q3 logged $31.8 billion across 31 transactions, led by Palo Alto Networks’ $25 billion purchase of CyberArk, the second-largest acquisition in Israeli history. Other significant deals included the $2 billion takeover of

Verint Systems. Cybersecurity dominated exits, accounting for 58% of value, with acquisitions of Aim Security for $350 million and Findings for $305 million.

Israeli start-ups gain big in 2025
Across the first three quarters of 2025, Israeli startups raised $11.9 billion in private funding, up 13% from last year, despite a 22% decline in deal count. M&A activity soared to $71 billion, nearly five times 2024 levels, fueled by the CyberArk deal and

Wiz’s $32 billion sale. IPOs also gained momentum, with eToro raising $700 million on Nasdaq and Via Transportation $493 million on the NYSE.

“Q3 2025 highlighted a market in transition,” said Avi Hasson, CEO of Startup Nation Central. “We are seeing fewer rounds, but at record sizes, while global buyers are making bold bets on Israeli tech, especially in cybersecurity.”
‘Never would have imagined,’ freed hostage says of NJ street named in his honor
Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage who was freed in May after 584 days in Hamas captivity, was honored Monday with a street named for him in the borough in which he grew up.

“To have a road named here in the place I call home is something I never would have imagined,” Alexander said during a ceremony before the street sign was unveiled. “Every time I see this road, I will remember not just the struggle but the love and unity that brought me back home.”

Alexander, who was accompanied by family, community members and local officials, was born in Israel and grew up in Tenafly, N.J., where he graduated from high school. He returned to Israel and enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces. Hamas terrorists captured the dual U.S.-Israeli citizen during the Oct. 7 attacks.

“A year and a half in captivity was the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through, but I never felt completely alone,” Alexander said at the event. “I know my family and my town and so many people were fighting for me, keeping my name alive and pushing for my return. That gave me strength.”

When he was freed, Alexander was believed to be the last American hostage captured by Hamas still alive. Hamas is thought to be holding the bodies of four other Americans—Omer Neutra, Itay Chen, Gadi Haggai and Judi Weinstein Haggai—as well as dozens of others captured on Oct. 7.

“You are an example of strength and commitment, and Tenafly is proud to have you and your family as members of our community,” Mark Zinna, mayor of Tenafly, told Alexander.




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