Thursday, October 09, 2025

10/09 Links Pt2: America's Debt to Israel; From 7/7 to Manchester 2025 – the story they refuse to tell; The Hamas death cult has taken over campus

From Ian:

America's Debt to Israel
Two years after Hamas's Oct. 7 atrocities, the U.S. should be grateful to Israel. The Jewish state has begun to degrade America's enemies one by one. Hamas, an Iran-allied Islamist outfit dedicated to killing Jews, no longer exists as a military force. The Israel Defense Forces and Mossad took apart Hizbullah, the most lethal of Iran's terrorist proxies, which has killed many Americans including 241 in the 1983 Beirut bombings.

The Sunni-slaughtering, drug-running Assad dynasty in Damascus - robbed of Hizbullah's help as well as Iranian and Russian troops - collapsed. And in a stunning 12-day aerial duel, Israel badly damaged the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, killing scores of its generals and atomic scientists. Israel's success convinced President Trump to send the B-2 bombers that ensured that Iran's most deeply buried uranium-enrichment site went offline.

Will Washington have the understanding and intestinal fortitude to stand by an ally that has repeatedly enhanced America's influence throughout the Middle East and beyond?

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the CIA, is a resident scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
How Disgraceful Anti-Israel NGOs Set UN Agenda
A full-page ad in the Sept. 27 issue of the Globe and Mail, sponsored by the NGO Medecins sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders (MSF), tots up the many calamities Gazans have endured in the two-year Hamas-Israel war. The ad speaks of civilian hunger, but not of plentiful aid stolen by Hamas. It does not mention Hamas at all - or the hostages taken, or any other cause of the war.

And hanging overall the false accusation that it is Israel that is committing genocide. Genocide requires intent, demonstrably not the case in Israel's defensive war, but which perfectly describes the motivation behind Hamas's rabid pogrom on October 7. Those reading the ad won't register the absence of objectivity of today's MSF as a politicized, biased and untrustworthy source of information.

MSF has not only lied about proven Hamas entrenchment in Gaza hospitals ("we have seen no evidence that the hospital buildings or the compounds are being used by Hamas as a military base") but admitted - following Oct. 7, mind - giving funding to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health.

"Non-governmental organizations" are supposed to be made up of altruistic civic-minded groups that provide expertise independent of the narrow self-interest of political bodies. It is on that ground that they are invited to participate in UN activities. But now retired, anti-democratic Marxist activists have executed the equivalent of a corporate hostile takeover of now corrupted NGOs like MSF, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty.

The superpower NGOs are accountable to nobody, yet in large part they are setting the UN's agenda on Israel. Then, when the UN executes the agenda they have promoted, they endorse it as if it were a coincidence.
The Hamas death cult has taken over campus
Ever keen to remind us of their moral bankruptcy, the keffiyeh cult’s student wing was out en masse yesterday. In the UK and beyond, hundreds of thousands of ‘pro-Palestine’ students walked out of lecture halls and flooded the streets, marking the two-year anniversary of the 7 October pogrom. Not to mourn it, of course, but to demand more death and destruction, by calling for the annihilation of Israel.

Around a dozen British universities held Palestine rallies to coincide with 7 October – often despite the pleas of university administrators to reschedule. Several of London’s top institutions, including King’s College London, LSE, UCL and SOAS, marched through the city centre with flags and placards. Further north, students in Sheffield, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde were also on the march. In Glasgow, protesters cosplayed as jihadists. Outside Edinburgh’s student library, the crowds yelled ‘shame’ – a quality painfully lacking among their own ranks. The supposed aim of these demos, as organisers for the Manchester University protest explained on Instagram, was to protest two years of ‘genocide, forced starvation, murder, ethnic cleansing, imprisonment, torture and settler colonialism’.

It is impossible to underestimate the cruelty of staging this spectacle on 7 October. Two years ago yesterday, a tsunami of armed men surged over Israel’s southern border to enact an hours-long campaign of slaughter, sexual violence and ritualistic humiliation. There are 365 days in a year, yet the pro-Palestine sect deliberately chose to beat their drums on this particular day, the day most painful to Jews. Worse, these students have made clear, they see this genocidal pogrom not as a tragedy, but as a valiant act of resistance. ‘Honour our resistance. Honour our martyrs’, read an Instagram post from the Glasgow University Justice for Palestine Society. It invited students to ‘celebrate the glorious Al-Aqsa flood’ – the name given by Hamas to the 7 October massacre. To dismiss this as well-meaning ignorance would be far too generous now.

‘I think freedom will be achieved when the Israelis go back to where they were born’, said a Muslim student in London in an interview on LBC, sounding almost nonchalant. When asked if she understood ‘why Jewish students might feel uncomfortable’ with that view, she was nonplussed. ‘I mean, I understand… but I don’t think that their feelings are valid.’

How emboldened must a young person be to say these things on camera, with her university lanyard hanging around her neck? What does it say about the climate on our campuses? These are the same students who are told constantly to watch their words, that campus is a safe space for minorities and the marginalised. Every minority, it seems, except Jews.

Haya Adam, the president of the SOAS’s Palestine Society (who was expelled back in August following a harassment claim), said she thought yesterday’s actions ‘went brilliantly’, and that ‘anyone with any ounce of humanity’ should have joined in. One wonders if Adam saw the same displays of ugliness that the rest of us did. Her appeal to ‘humanity’ is particularly baffling, given that these rallies not only took place on 7 October, but less than a week after two British Jews were killed during an Islamist terror attack.


Comedy Cellar: Has the War in Israel Become a War on Jews? | Bret Stephens, Coleman Hughes & Michael Moynihan
Two years after October 7th, the Comedy Cellar hosts Bret Stephens (New York Times), Coleman Hughes (The Free Press), and Michael Moynihan (The Fifth Column) for a discussion of how the Hamas war against Israel ignited something larger — and perhaps more enduring.

The panel explores:
How sympathy for Israel inverted almost overnight into hostility toward Jews.
The emergence of “October 8th Jews” and the new sense of isolation in America.
The Plight of the Long Suffering Palestinians
Double Standards
The rise of conspiratorial right-wing rhetoric and the failure of moderates to confront it.


David Collier: From 7/7 to Manchester 2025 – the story they refuse to tell
The names, dates, and convictions are all public. The pattern speaks for itself.

We allow extremists in from war-torn Libya, they blow up the Manchester Arena. From Somalia, they murder a sitting MP. From Syria, they murder Jews outside a synagogue.

These nations, and others like them, are sectarian backwaters full of repression, extremism, division and violence. Yet UK authorities do almost no due diligence before allowing hundreds of thousands to enter each year. It is a suicidal policy – born of false beliefs, left-wing idealism and wilful ignorance.

But that is not the whole story. We also let known Islamic terrorists out of jail – men who have already plotted Islamic terror attacks – and within weeks they have killed on our streets. Our schools have abandoned any sense of national pride or identity – leaving a vacuum – that allows some of the extremists we welcome to pass the hate they brought with them on to their children, here on British soil. And why don’t we push back? Because of failed ideas that give respect where it is neither earned nor due.

And as this continues, we pretend everything is fine. Our borders remain open, with record numbers crossing each year.

During this same period, there were just three deadly far-right attacks (Mohammed Saleem, Jo Cox, Makram Ali) and one of those was a foreign national who had been in the UK less than a week (Pavlo Lapshyn). Yet to ‘balance things up’ our authorities behave – supported by certain media outlets that cannot stop lying to us – as if the threats are equal.

Worse still, the government is now working to introduce a formal definition of ‘Islamophobia’ – something so dangerously misplaced that even writing what you have just read could, one day, be treated as hate speech. It is a back-door to the re-imposition of blasphemy law and a tool to silence those who speak out against suicidal policies.

This is a perfect storm that will only lead to further bloodshed.

It is time to start telling the truth.


Joshua Namm: Antisemitism: I Hate To Be A Downer, But….
Donning a keffiyeh is EXACTLY the same as donning a Nazi armband. Of course, none of them were so much as glanced at. Meaning, it is now normal for people in the United States to publicly embrace the symbol of the people who have been murdering Jews for more than a century. Peace and love, man.

I also took a hike in an area of the Hollywood Hills near me called “Runyon Canyon.” It is usually fairly peaceful, but a few weeks ago, these two lowly creatures sick people were walking around like this, as though it was normal. Because now it is normal. I gave them my usual look of (hopefully) pure, undiluted, hatred. Everyone else was either indifferent, or seemed to really like these two Islamist scumbags, as was the case of one youngish, blonde woman (definitely NOT Middle Eastern), who was flirting hard with them – because jihad is sexy now in some quarters.

That is the picture at the top of this article, and this is the America I now live in.

Worse: even after we lost more than 1,000 additional precious Jewish lives in the war, and terrorist attacks over that same period, Hamas still exists. It’s debatable whether Israel should have bombed Gaza into some form of pulverized nothingness on 10/8. It is not debatable that it is a moral outrage that there are people in Israel that would end this war before Hamas is destroyed.

In my opinion, it is also a moral outrage that the Netanyahu government has allowed both Hamas to survive in any form, and the war to go on for this long. Because it became obvious immediately after the attacks of 10/7 that world was NOT going to be on our side, and that the evil union of Islamists and the left in waging what has been deemed the “uni-cause” was already so well developed that it was more than obvious that they would continue to exploit ANY of Israel’s actions as fuel for its “victimhood” narrative.

Meaning: they would use each day of this conflict to gain support, globally, in their war against not just Israel, but every last Jew on this planet.

And, you know what?

It’s been working, and working more effectively than most of us ever imagined.

So what are we doing about it? Basically, nothing apparently. We continue to sit there and take the attacks on our fellow Jews in the streets, the constant imagery of Palestinian and Hamas flags waved in the streets of every single Western city, the relentless murders of Jews in Israel, recently an attack in Jerusalem, in which five more of our people died needlessly, while a still functioning Hamas celebrated, and on and on and on.

This has to stop. But, given our lack of unity, our attitude of inevitableness about all of this, the world’s usual moral blindness, and the relentless campaign of hate by our foes – I don’t have a lot of confidence that this will get better, much less end, any time soon. Who knows what price we will ultimately pay for our attitude of passive acceptance of even the least of this.
Jewish advocates warn France entering ‘new phase’ of antisemitism
French Jews are increasingly weighing leaving their country as advocacy groups warn antisemitism in France is morphing into widespread discrimination.

A combination of factors has led to antisemitism being normalized in new ways, particularly in work and educational arenas, according to data and numerous interviews conducted by the Washington Examiner. Escalating political instability, which is weakening institutions, and the rise of a radicalized antisemitic Islamist faction in French society are contributing factors that are leading Jews to alter their behavior as a self-protection mechanism, hide their ethnic and religious identities, limit activities in the public arena, and even consider leaving their homes altogether, human rights organizations and Jewish advocacy organizations reported.

The Jewish Agency for Israel, which handles “Aliyah” applications, or requests from Jews to immigrate to Israel, has seen a surge of inquiries from France. There was a 400% increase in Aliyah applications from France last year, according to the agency’s analysis. That number compares to a 70% increase from the United States and Canada.

The total proportion of French Jews considering leaving their country stands at 52%, according to Fondapol and AJC Paris’s 2024 survey of antisemitism in France. An analysis conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, or FRA, also concluded last year that more than half of respondents had either emigrated or considered emigration in the five years prior to the survey. Of those, 41% said they considered doing so because they don’t feel safe living in their country as a Jew, and 32% stated concerns about not being able to live an openly Jewish life.

“People are not just curious but genuinely considering aliyah,” Shay Felber, deputy director-general of the Jewish Agency, told the Jerusalem Post, adding that rising interest is matched by increasing rates of actual immigration.

“In France, we’ve doubled the number of immigrants compared to last year, reaching over 2,000 this year compared to 1,000 last year,” he said.

Over the summer, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington CEO Gil Preuss accompanied a group of over 100 such emigres from Paris to Israel. Preuss said during an interview that he heard from French Jews, such as a university student union leader, that they are becoming increasingly isolated. It’s a “guilty by association” ideology that has led to a broader trickle-down effect of wider discrimination, he said, explaining that residents who might not necessarily harbor antisemitic views are feeling increasingly pressured by anti-Zionist factions not to befriend Jews or frequent Jewish events due to accusations they are “pro-Zionist.”

His worries come as France is home to the third-largest Jewish population in the world, making human rights trends in the country a leading indicator of attitudes toward Jews in Europe.
Bari Weiss ‘vocal’ in CBS News meetings on coverage of Israel-Hamas: ‘Making her presence known’
After spending most of her first week on the job quietly observing, CBS News’ new editor in chief Bari Weiss spoke up at the network’s Thursday editors’ meeting — and the topic was the Israel-Hamas peace deal, The Post has learned.

Weiss — the scrappy, 41-year-old journalist who was tapped to lead CBS News’ coverage starting Monday — had been relatively quiet during the network’s 9 a.m. daily editorial meetings this week, but on Thursday morning she was “making her presence known,” a source said.

“She was vocal on the bookings for the Israel-Hamas ceasefire,” the source said, directing people to get in touch with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the architects of the president’s plan to end the war in Gaza.

The person said that Weiss was particularly interested in working with the booking staff about interviewing Kushner, Witkoff and others in the administration who helped broker the release of dozens of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.

Jenna Gibson, the executive editorial producer of CBS News, introduced herself to Weiss at the meeting and said she was working with CBS Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan, who also hosts “Face The Nation,” to make sure Kushner and others would speak to the network about the deal.

“This is the first time she [Bari] really got involved [in the editorial meeting],” the source said of Weiss.
Hillary Clinton to Bestow Award on Journalist Who Equated Israel With Nazis and Accused Jewish Critics of Seeking ‘Money and Power’
When media publisher Maria Ressa delivered a commencement speech at Harvard University in 2024, she said her pro-Israel critics were after "money and power," prompting a rabbi affiliated with the university to walk off the dais. Now, Hillary Clinton is giving her namesake award to Ressa, the CEO of Rappler, who ran an editorial equating Israel with Nazi Germany.

Clinton herself is scheduled to bestow the award on Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, at Georgetown University next Tuesday.

Ressa made headlines in May 2024 when Harvard University invited her to speak at its commencement ceremony, and the Washington Free Beacon reported she had published an editorial arguing Israel’s war against Hamas was comparable to the Holocaust.

"It is with great irony that the race that for centuries, suffered oppression, even genocide at the hands of Adolf Hitler, is the same race that is now depriving the Palestinians of this same dream," the editorial read. "According to [sociologist Randy] David, ‘Yesterday’s oppressed have become today’s oppressors.’"

Ressa and Rappler lied about the contents of the editorial after the Free Beacon reported on the comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany, accusing the Free Beacon of peddling "propaganda." Rappler’s executive editor, Glenda M. Gloria, told Time magazine the Free Beacon had misrepresented the editorial and failed to provide an "accurate translation" from its original Tagalog. But a second translation commissioned by the Free Beacon from Anna Katarina Rodriguez, former executive director of the Commission on Filipino Language, confirmed the accuracy of the original.

On stage at Harvard, Ressa used the occasion to savage her critics. "Because I accepted your invitation to be here today, I was attacked online and called anti-Semitic by money and power because they want money and power," she said.

Her remarks prompted a university rabbi to walk out of the commencement and the school’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias to denounce her words, writing Ressa’s comments "echo traditional conspiracy theories about Jews, money, and power" and served as an example of the "ease with which ‘anti-Zionism’ slips into what is effectively antisemitism."

"Why did a renowned humanitarian ad-lib seemingly antisemitic remarks against her Jewish critics at a highly scripted Harvard graduation ceremony?" asked the task force. "We do not know. ... [V]isible political opposition to Israelis may make it easier for a speaker to slip into political opposition to Jews and say hostile things about the Jewish people who had attacked her."
Rosie O’Donnell, Cynthia Nixon, Elliot Page to Host Virtual Screening of ‘Gaza: Journalists Under Fire’
Rosie O’Donnell, Cynthia Nixon, and Elliot Page will be hosting a virtual screening of Gaza: Journalists Under Fire – a documentary alleging that Israel intentionally targeted journalists covering the Gaza conflict.

The virtual screening will be held at Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula in Carmel, California, on Thursday.

“At its heart, Gaza: Journalists Under Fire is the deeply personal story of heroic Palestinian journalists who risk – and too often lose – their lives to show us the reality on the ground. In all my years of making films, the response to this documentary has been among the strongest we’ve ever seen,” the invite says.

Conversations will be hosted with the documentary’s director, Robert Greenwald, Cynthia Nixon, Rosie O’Donnell, and Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page).

A video promoting the film featured the celebrities specifically inviting members of the queer community to participate in the virtual screening.

“This is a screening that is open to everybody, but we’ve particularly gone out to queer people to join us,” Cynthia Nixon could be heard saying in the video.

“Gay people who know about oppression stood up and tried to stop this horrible tragedy of almost two years now,” Rosie O’Donnell said.
The Young American Woman Who Fights For Our Enemies
“Glory to all the martyrs. Glory to the Axis of Resistance. May we witness victory in our lifetimes,” a young American woman told her Iranian hosts in a clip circulated in July. “Marg bar Âmrikâ. Marg bar Israel”—in English: “Death to America, Death to Israel.”

The woman’s name is Calla Walsh, and her journey to that stage in Tehran is a strange one. The child of professors, Walsh, now 21, took an interest in politics in high school. Her campaigns for prominent figures like Boston city councilor Julia Mejia and Senator Ed Markey once earned her praise in Boston magazine as part of the “Gen Z” takeover of Boston politics. Four years later, Walsh’s latest campaign is in Lebanon, where she effectively serves as a mouthpiece for the Axis of Resistance. She now considers the label “terrorist” a “badge of honor.” Walsh did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

While Walsh’s story has its own unique aspects, she represents a new kind of foot soldier in a fifth-generation war playing out across an increasingly multipolar and digital world. Once a young talent and asset to the Democratic Party, she now agitates against American interests. What measures can the government take to prevent American citizens from becoming weapons of foreign regimes?

Walsh admits that she experienced a “pretty rapid radicalization” since becoming politically active in high school. She was the youngest delegate at the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Convention in 2021, but she left the organization that year over its “Zionism.” Walsh no longer engages in electoral campaigns—though she did write in Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar in the 2024 presidential election. Instead, she now believes in “community organizing, direct action, [and] internationalism as forms of struggle.”

This belief stems in part from her experiences during the George Floyd riots—an “uprising,” in Walsh’s words—which she describes as deeply transformative: “being in the streets then was truly the most radicalizing thing that ever happened to me, and that changed my politics. I was in the streets realizing, ‘Oh, we have to fight the police. Like, we have to overthrow this illegitimate government that is occupying this land that we live on.’”

After October 7, 2023, Walsh helped found Palestine Action US, sometimes shortened to Pal Action US. The group was modeled after Palestine Action UK, which the British government recently designated a terrorist organization due to its sabotage campaigns targeting defense contractors and military sites. Palestine Action US has since been renamed Unity of Fields. After roughly six weeks of direct action, Walsh and her comrades in the “Merrimack 4” were charged with rioting, sabotage, burglary, and conspiracy for doing nearly $100,000 worth of damage to an Israeli-owned defense contractor’s facility in New Hampshire. The group faced up to nearly 40 years in prison.
London-based TV channel Al-Hiwar broadcasts Hamas support, CST claims
Community Security Trust has asked for an Arabic-language UK TV channel to be investigated due to reported Hamas support and antisemitism.

The London-based channel, Al-Hiwar, is licensed by OFCOM (the British regulator) and has 1.85 million subscribers on YouTube. It professes to be a "voice for Arabs abroad, a bridge of communication between Arabs and other peoples and cultures, and a platform for promoting the values of tolerance, democracy, and respect for freedoms and human rights”. Its chairman and editor-in-chief is British Palestinian academic and activist Azzam al-Tamimi who has formally claimed “he would blow himself up in a strike against Israel, were he allowed back in the country”

After analysing 120 videos since February 2024, CST concluded that Al-Hiwar repeatedly broadcast support for Hamas, which is a proscribed terror group in the UK.

For example, the channel referred to Hamas's attacks as "a historic turning point, a qualitative development," adding "even the most pessimistic in the Occupying Entity could not have imagined that the Resistance would kill and capture dozens… Today’s scenes of the Resistance may increase the pride and honour of this nation because it can defend its borders, its lands, and its holy sites.”

"Al-Aqsa Flood [Hamas's name for the massacres] is the strongest and greatest period of time that the nation is going through," one broadcast stated.
‘Dangerous’ for Wikipedia to present Gaza ‘genocide’ as fact, Jewish groups say
Wikipedia, one of the most viewed sites on the internet, has hosted a page on “Gaza genocide” since July 3, 2024. Since Sept. 22, Wikipedia has linked to the “Gaza genocide” article, which accused Israel of war crimes, in an “in the news” section on its main page, which millions of people view daily.

The American Jewish Committee told JNS that Wikipedia is “elevating reckless and biased charges of genocide as fact,” and given how many genocide scholars disagree with that statement, the crowd-sourced encyclopedia “showcases how dangerous this can be.”

The nonprofit “previously raised concerns that Wikipedia is an information hub that is controlled by anonymous editors, who have their own biases, in a world in which fact and truth are now too easily distorted,” an AJC spokeswoman, who declined to be named, told JNS.

Vlad Khaykin, North America executive vice president of social impact and partnerships at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told JNS that Wikipedia has become an “echo chamber for propaganda” by stating in a neutral voice that there is “ongoing genocide” in Gaza.

“For decades, some of the world’s most despotic regimes and their enablers have waged a propaganda campaign to weaponize international law, and the genocide convention specifically, against Israel and its allies,” he said.

“That campaign has now insinuated itself into Wikipedia, transforming what ought to be a repository of human knowledge into, at least in this instance, an echo chamber for propaganda,” Khaykin told JNS.

Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that Wikipedia “continues to be a bigoted, anti-Israel, anti-Jewish outlet and remains a thoroughly unreliable source for information.”

Prior to Sept. 21, the “Gaza genocide” article attributed what it said was Israel’s war crimes to human rights groups and academics. On Sept. 21, Wikipedia removed that attribution and instead stated the claims as fact, following a discussion on the matter since July 30 came to a vote. By a margin of more than 2:1, Wikipedia voters said that it was a matter of fact that Israel commits “genocide.”

“When it comes to so grave a matter as genocide, the world’s most consulted reference source has a special obligation to resist becoming a megaphone for disinformation,” Khaykin, of the Wiesenthal Center, told JNS.

“History shows that when one side in a conflict accuses the other of genocide, it often signals not the guilt of the accused but the genocidal intentions of the accuser,” he said.
Spanish parliament approves arms embargo on Israel
Spanish lawmakers on Wednesday approved the enshrinement in law of an arms embargo on Israel that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez introduced to end what he called “the genocide in Gaza.”

Parliament backed the decree announced in September by Sanchez, one of the most virulent critics among world leaders of Israel’s devastating two-year war in the coastal Palestinian territory.

Israel vehemently denies committing genocide in Gaza, where it has been fighting Hamas since the terror group’s October 7, 2023 assault on southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people and saw another 251 taken hostage.

The embargo was passed with 178 votes in favor and 169 against.

The support of far-left party Podemos, which has four MPs and had criticized the decree, helped swing the vote the leftist minority coalition’s way after days of speculation about their lawmakers’ position.

The government says it had already banned buying weapons from or selling them to Israel since the start of the war, sparked by the unprecedented Hamas terror onslaught on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.

But Sanchez announced last month a decree to “consolidate in law” the embargo as part of the country’s “total embargo” on Israel that it announced last month. Protesters take part in a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Madrid on October 4, 2025. ((Thomas COEX / AFP)

As part of those efforts, Spanish news outlet El País reported last month that Madrid may even declare Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other ministers personae non grata, though that was not part of the law that was enshrined Wednesday.


UN Watch: Turkey’s UN Rep Tries to Silence Hillel Neuer Exposing Erdogan’s Repression
At the United Nations Human Rights Council, Hillel Neuer took the floor to expose President Erdogan’s persecution of journalists, activists, and dissidents. Moments later, the Turkish delegation interrupted — desperate to stop the truth from being heard. Watch what happened.


Newsom signs bills against ‘hate in all its forms,’ including antisemitism
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed companion state Senate and Assembly bills that counter “hate, antisemitism and discrimination in schools,” the Democratic governor’s office said on Oct. 7—the two-year anniversary of Hamas’s attack.

AB715 and SB48 “create new accountability systems, require stronger responses to antisemitism, harassment and discrimination” and “support every student in learning in a school free from fear or prejudice,” the governor’s office stated.

“California is taking action to confront hate in all its forms,” Newsom stated. “At a time when antisemitism and bigotry are rising nationwide and globally, these laws make clear: our schools must be places of learning, not hate.”

The governor opted to sign the bill nearly a month after it passed the state legislature. (JNS sought comment from the governor’s office.)

The Assembly bill creates a new state civil rights office and an “antisemitism prevention coordinator,” who will “develop training, resources and enforcement strategies for K-12 schools,” Newsom’s office said. “It also requires districts to investigate and take corrective action when discriminatory content is used in classrooms or professional development.”

The state Senate bill “complements that effort by creating four statewide discrimination prevention coordinators—focused on religious, racial, ethnic, gender and LGBTQ discrimination—to provide resources and training to prevent and consistently address bias and discrimination in schools,” the governor’s office stated.
Husband of yellow ribbon cutting PhD student blames ‘Israeli Mossad’ for media storm
The husband of the PhD student furiously condemned for her vandalising of yellow hostage ribbons has claimed that Israeli intelligence agency Mossad are ‘probably’ behind attacks on them, saying they have been “stranded to be killed”.

As revealed by online investigators @GnasherJew, Mo’min Swaitat took to Instagram on Thursday to reach out to supporters of he and his 36-year old self proclaimed ‘Palestinian-Jewish’ wife, activist Nadia Yahlom.

As revealed by Jewish News, she was interviewed under caution by Metropolitan Police on Wednesday after footage of her deliberately cutting ribbons recalling the plight of Israel’s hostages in Muswell Hill went viral.

Her actions and declaration that the ribbons are “condoning genocide” were met with widespread and nationwide revulsion. Yahlom has since deleted her Facebook and Instagram accounts.

Swaitat, a Palestinian actor, film maker and activist born in the West Bank, who moved to London in 2011, also closed his Facebook account and made his Instagram private, both of which had referred to Israel as the “military colonial settler state”.

In the new post, he said: “If I’m not responding to emails or messages I just want to let you know that me and Nadia have been attacked by a group of extremist group [sic] probably working for the Israeli Mossad in our neighbourhood in north London. We have been attacked and stranded to be killed etc. This now has been investigated by the police. I will soon be able to respond to your messages, emails, etc”.

He adds: “There will be a statement release in response to the video and comments that have been circulating in mainstream media across social media and other platforms, about Nadia and myself, by an organised group of people. Just working to get Palestinian sound archive account back.”


Revealed: Obscene posts of BBC Arabic contributor who blamed UK Jews for Manchester attack
A contributor to BBC Arabic who used an appearance on the channel to blame the UK Jewish community for the terror attack committed against it has been found to have praised Hamas and made antisemitic statements about Jews.

Dr Makram Khoury-Machool, a Palestinian academic based in the UK, said in an appearance on BBC Arabic’s ‘The World This Evening’ show: “The Jewish community and the British government cannot treat such an incident in Britain as though it fell from the sky, and suddenly the perpetrator carried out the attack and assaulted a Jewish synagogue.”

As reported by the Daily Mail, Khoury-Machool, the founding director of the Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies – which is not affiliated to Cambridge University – went on to claim: “When we listen to the Jewish leadership, they either support the Israeli occupation, and most of them do – it is not possible for a British Jewish leader to endorse Netanyahu’s crimes and not expect there to be reactions on the British street.”

Now the CAMERA media watchdog has revealed that Khoury-Machool, who has appeared on BBC Arabic more than a dozen times since 7 October 2023, praised what he described as “Palestinian […] courage, relentless heroism and sacrifice in their road for liberation” on the day itself, as Hamas fighters murdered 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages. Three days later, well before any Israeli troops entered Gaza, he would state: “The Israeli Jewish brain because of a few thousands [sic] Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza…decided to inflict a Holocaust on 2.3m Palestinians. Is this your “Jewish” morality?”


Police arrest suspect in several incidents of antisemitic vandalism in Washington state
Police in Washington state arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with more than a dozen separate incidents of antisemitic and hate-motivated graffiti in the city of Issaquah.

Multiple locations—including public trails, tunnels and underpasses—were defaced with swastikas, antisemitic messages and other hateful symbols and slurs, according to a statement from the city. The first of these incidents was discovered in December 2024.

“Hate has no home in Issaquah,” the city stated. “We remain firmly committed to protecting every member of our community and ensuring our public spaces are safe, respectful and inclusive for all, regardless of race, religion, background or identity.”

“This arrest marks an important step toward accountability and healing,” the statement read.
Doctor who was ‘regretful enough rats were not liquidated at Auschwitz” struck off UK medical register
A retired doctor who made a series of antisemitic comments, including describing a Jewish man as “circumcised vermin” and stating that he was “regretful enough rats were not liquidated at Auschwitz”, has been struck off the UK medical register.

Manoj Sen, who previously worked as a colorectal surgeon at Northwich Park hospital in North London, made the comments, which included the infamous Nazi quote “Die Juden sind unsere Ungluck” (“the Jews are our misfortune”), on Facebook three days after the 7 October 2023 mass terror attacks by Hamas. Sen also told the Jewish man the comments were addressed to, identified as “Mr A” that he was “Jewish c*nt” and “Jewboy” and wrote that “he belongs in the flames of a crematorium.”

Sen was subsequently arrested and issued with a caution for “racially/religiously aggravated harassment/alarm/distress by words/writing” and for “sending a communication/article of an indecent/offensive nature.” In November 2023, Jewish News reported that Northwick Park hospital had parted ways with Sen, saying: “Mr Sen is no longer an employee of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. We do not tolerate hate speech or discrimination of any kind and take immediate action when such behaviour is brought to our attention.”

Despite Sen retiring in the interim, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service suspended his license to practice during the 28 day appeal period; he has now been officially struck off the UK medical register.

The tribunal chair, Gillian Temple-Bone, said, “The tribunal considered that his comments demonstrated a deep rooted hostility which raised a real concern about his ability to provide equality of care to all members of the public.”
Perth doctor harassing Zionist medics, three sources tell 'Post'
A nephrologist at Royal Perth Hospital in Australia has been repeatedly harassing both Jewish medical professionals and non-Jewish Zionist medical professionals via online trolling, three doctors told The Jerusalem Post.

Sharon Stoliar, a former midwife and president of the Maternity Consumer Network, spoke to the Post about Dr Omar Azzam, whom she accused of "online harassment, racial vilification and bullying."

Stoliar is not Jewish herself, but is married to an Israeli man and is publicly pro-Israel. Despite having made two formal complaints about Dr Azzam and requesting his suspension, she said no observable actions have been taken, and his behaviour has continued unchecked.

Stoliar's first formal complaint was on March 5, 2025, when she reported that Dr Azzam had used his Instagram accounts, @omarazzam2003 and subsequently @thoroughlyentertained, to make derogatory comments towards her, such as offering her "two neurons to take the number up to a total of five," suggesting she is unintelligent. At the time of the first complaint, his comments online and on the platforms of her organization were not related to her pro-Israel views or Jewish family.

Nevertheless, she argued that his actions violated the Good Medical Practice: A Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia (sections 5.2 and 5.4), the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, and the Racial Vilification Act 1996, and provided evidence and demanded a full investigation.
Deranged leftist spewing anti-ICE and Jewish hatred 'threatened to blow up Supreme Court justices with 200 explosives'
A New Jersey man found with over 200 homemade explosives threatened to blow up a Catholic church in Washington, D.C. where Supreme Court justices were set to attend a mass on Sunday, court records show.

Police were able to thwart the attack and said the man, identified as Louis Geri from Vineland, had modified bottle rockets and Molotov cocktails that were 'fully functional'.

He was also discovered to have writings that expressed 'significant animosity' toward the Catholic church, Jews, Supreme Court justices, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ICE facilities, according to police.

None of the nine members of the Supreme Court attended the service at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle due to security concerns, reported the Catholic Standard, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.

As seen in pictures, Geri allegedly set up a green tent on the steps of the church ahead of the Red Mass, an annual service that honors those in the legal profession and marks the start of the new Supreme Court term.

Officers with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department tasked with clearing the entire block for the event confronted Geri, 41, and told him to move his tent, according to an affidavit.

In response, Geri refused and allegedly said: 'You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives.'

After an officer called over a sergeant with the bomb squad, Geri said he was aware of the Red Mass before issuing another threat, according to court records.


Mural depicting Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas raised in front of Qatar consulate in Milan
A mural depicting Shiri Bibas, with her sons Kfir and Ariel, by artist aleXsandro Palombo commemorating the victims of October 7 was created in front of Qatar's consulate in Milan this week.

This is the first official commemoration done with city approval, after officials rejected a proposal to light up Palazzo Marino (Milan City Hall) in orange to commemorate the murdered Israelis in February.

The mural uses a black background and a strong orange to depict the children's hair, while Shiri Bibas can be seen holding her sons.

“The artwork serves as a testimony: it documents a historical event, denounces violence, and calls for public reflection,” a spokesperson for the artist said.

Palombo had previously created a mural in Milan dedicated to the massacre of civilians at the Nova festival, portraying the young survivor Vlada Patapov fleeing the attack for the first anniversary of the massacre last year. The piece was vandalized just hours later.




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