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Thursday, October 16, 2025

10/16 Links Pt2: Enough is enough. We must clamp down on universities now; Maccabi Tel Aviv fans banned from Aston Villa match over ‘safety’

From Ian:

Warner Bros. Discovery Speaks Out Against Israeli Film Boycott: ‘Our Policies Prohibit Discrimination of Any Kind’
Warner Bros. Discovery has responded to a legal letter regarding calls for a boycott of Israeli film institutions, acknowledging such a pledge would likely violate its internal policies.

“Warner Bros. Discovery is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful environment for its employees, collaborators, and other stakeholders,” a spokesperson for WBD told Variety.

“Our policies prohibit discrimination of any kind, including discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or ancestry. We believe a boycott of Israeli film institutions violates our policies. While we respect the rights of individuals and groups to express their views and advocate for causes, we will continue to align our business practices with the requirements of our policies and the law.”

Last month a plethora of industry figures including Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardem signed a pledge organized by Film Workers for Palestine vowing to avoid working with Israeli film institutions “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” Examples of “complicity” suggested by Film Workers for Palestine include “whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.”

In its FAQ section, Film Workers for Palestine clarifies that Israeli citizens of Palestinian heritage would not be subject to the same boycott as Israeli citizens of other heritage, with a different set of “context sensitive” guidelines applied instead.

However law associations on both sides of the Atlantic have warned the boycott is likely to violate equality laws. As Variety reported exclusively last week, the group U.K. Lawyers for Israel has warned studios, agencies and unions that the pledge breaches the Equality Act 2010 making it “highly likely to be a litigation risk.” This could also have a knock-on effect on insurance and film finance.
Brendan O'Neill: Get your hands off the Holocaust, Mehdi Hasan
The most striking part of Hasan’s tweet is where he says ‘One of the ways’ in which Gaza feels worse than the Holocaust…. So post-war jokes are not the only thing that make Gaza worse? What else does, Mehdi? It’s not the numbers, that’s for sure. The estimated death toll for the two-year war in Gaza is 70,000, a great many of which will be Hamas militants. That’s far lower than the toll for other recent wars – Yemen, Syria, Sudan – which are rarely called genocides.

But here’s the thing: at the height of their Jew-killing frenzy, in 1944, the Nazis were exterminating 6,000 human beings a day at Auschwitz II in Birkenau. Men, women, children, the elderly, the disabled: gassed, burnt, vaporised. More in 12 days than in two years of war in Gaza. It is a grotesque insult against memory, against truth itself, even to say the word Gaza in the same sentence as the word Holocaust. Hasan must know this? He went to Oxford FFS. Actually, maybe that explains it.

The numbers are only one part of the story. There’s intention, too. The wild clamour of the keffiyeh mob and their enablers in the NGO world to have the Gaza war branded a ‘genocide’ wilfully overlooks that Israel’s aim was not to destroy the Palestinian people but to destroy Hamas. There was a time when progressives would have considered it noble for a Jewish army to take the fight to a fascist militia that had raped and massacred its people. How do the ‘genocide’ nuts explain that the war is winding down – we hope – now that the hostages have been returned and there’s a peace deal that says Hamas must disarm? Do you know when the Holocaust would have ended had the Allied forces not intervened? When there was not one Jew left on Earth.

Hasan is back-pedalling. He says his tweet was ‘clumsily’ worded. He’s telling those who accuse him of Holocaust relativism to ‘go fuck yourself’. Defensive much? The fact is he gave voice to an untruth that has spread like a pox in educated circles – that Gaza is a genocide, not unlike that genocide. NGOs gleefully peddle this calumny. Pompous columnists rattle it off. You see it on every soulless march against Israel, with placards calling Israel the New Nazis and likening Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto.

I can’t read Hasan’s mind. I have no idea why he parrots this myth. But I have my suspicions about why the broader ‘pro-Palestine’ movement does. Howard Jacobson says the reason Israel’s haters always reach for the Holocaust, despite there being ‘thousands of years of pitiless warfare’ they could reference instead, is ‘to wound Jews’, ‘to punish them with their own grief’. To my mind, it’s something worse than Holocaust relativism. It’s Holocaust inversion, where the Jews are reframed as the perpetrators rather than the victims of the greatest crime in history, all to the end of washing away the historic guilt of privileged woke Westerners. Now that the war in Gaza has stopped, please, can this war on truth stop, too?
Holocaust Museum director rebukes Gazans identifying as ‘holocaust survivors’
Those who say that Gazans are “holocaust survivors,” having endured Israel’s defensive war against the Hamas terror organization, are to be “widely condemned,” according to Sara Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“Falsely comparing the Holocaust to Israel’s response to Hamas’s terrorist attack is an outrageous weaponization of the genocide of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, who systematically murdered six million Jews,” Bloomfield told JNS. “It’s antisemitic, inaccurate, highly offensive and must be widely condemned.”

One social media account has received 3.2 million views for a post claiming to be a “holocaust survivor” of war in Gaza. Another post from a “survivor of the Gaza holocaust” garnered 525,000 views, and a post from an artist wearing a keffiyeh, referring to “my survival from this holocaust,” received 40,000 views.

Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who created a media company called Zeteo, wrote in a since-deleted social media post that “one of the ways in which the Gaza genocide is worse than a lot of previous genocides—Rwanda, even the Holocaust—is that you didn’t have Hutus or Nazis mocking the genocide after it was over. They were shunned, deradicalized, prosecuted.”

Deborah Camiel, senior vice president of communications at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told JNS that Hasan “based his outrageous comment comparing the Oct. 7 war to the Holocaust on the canard that Israel’s military response to Hamas atrocities was a genocide.”

That claim is a “tired inversion widely used by antisemites, who try at every opportunity, no matter how inexact or intellectually lazy the comparison is, to portray Jews as Nazis,” Camiel said. “Israel’s war of self-defense was not against the Palestinian people but the vicious terrorist group Hamas.”

“As Hasan well knows, Hamas, itself a group with a genocidal charter, embeds itself among Palestinian civilians, in private homes, mosques, schools and hospitals, purposefully exposing them to terrible harm,” the Wiesenthal Center spokeswoman told JNS. “It is clear today that most of the world agrees that it is this maniacal jihadist group that should be shunned, eradicated and prosecuted.”


Seth Mandel: The Anti-Semitism Is the Point
The New York Times profile of Zohran Mamdani reminds us that his obsession with anti-Zionism remains unhealthy in the extreme. But it also reveals that his brand of “pro-Palestinian” activism has nothing to do with Palestinians; it’s all about the Jews.

The same goes for the Young Republicans whose private chats showed some of them chasing clout by one-upping each other’s racism and anti-Semitism. Whatever cover story the anti-Israel contingent on the right tells itself, it has nothing to do with geopolitics. It’s all about the Jews.

After the war in Gaza, this trend will either intensify and normalize a new level of Jew-hatred in political discourse, or it will retreat into pretend criticisms of “Israeli policy” and hide behind “America first” tropes. Whichever is the case, the essential driving force will be the same. We’d do well to keep that in mind.

In Mamdani’s case, his insistence on arresting Banjamiin Netanyahu—a declaration of lawlessness that should disqualify him for office even if it weren’t also a declaration of his own bigotry—it getting renewed attention because he also declined to say Hamas should disarm. “I don’t have opinions about the future of Hamas,” the New York mayoral frontrunner said on Fox.

To Mamdani, all that matters is that the Jewish state is punished and its supporters are kept out of the liberal coalition. “Whenever you are at peace with the making of an exception, you make it easier to make another exception,” he told the Times; the exception he’s referring to is support for Israel. This was by way of explaining why his position on the conflict should be a litmus test for participation in respectable left-of-center politics.

The author of the profile, Astead Herndon, then asked others on the left if they shared Mamdani’s predilection to compromise on virtually anything except the virulence of his anti-Zionism:
“⁠Arresting Netanyahu is also not a primary goal of Mamdani’s leftist base. When I asked Gustavo Gordillo, who leads the New York City chapter of the D.S.A., about what he sees as Mamdani’s nonnegotiable campaign promises, he named the affordability agenda. I asked Murad Awawdeh, who leads the New York Immigrant Coalition and knows Mamdani from the Muslim Democratic Club, if arresting Netanyahu was important to him as a Palestinian. He said no.”

So the Democratic Socialists of America, a thoroughly anti-Semitic organization that has ridden a wave of Jew-hatred back to semi-relevance, thinks there are more important things than hating Israel. Crucially, a key Palestinian-American figure in the progressive activist movement said that, as a Palestinian, arresting Netanyahu isn’t important.

The reason Mamdani holds his positions is that he doesn’t care about Palestinians. As a Good Progressive, arresting Netanyahu is important to him. He isn’t Palestinian, and his Palestinian-activist friends are less obsessed with Netanyahu than Mamdani is. And why doesn’t Mamdani care if Hamas disarms? For the same reason. Hamas has spent the time since the ceasefire began executing dozens of Gazans who belong to clans or families that oppose the terror group. Hamas is currently carrying out a Khmer Rouge-like ideological cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Mamdani can’t be bothered to pretend to care.

For what do Palestinians have to do with Mamdani’s position on Gaza, after all? They are a non-factor.

Mamdani has “Jews on the brain.” That’s all this ever was, and he has mostly stopped even trying to hide it.
Why Mamdani Couldn’t Lose By Abe Greenwald
Via Commentary Newsletter, sign up here. There’s been plenty written about Mamdani’s impressive political talent, and it’s all true. But one’s talents must align with the times if they are to bear fruit. Mamdani announced his campaign in October 2024, a year after Hamas attacked Israel and, more critically, a year into anti-Zionism’s total capture of the activist left. A lifelong anti-Israel activist, he knew this was his moment.

It was the moment for all Jew-haters and anti-Zionists to come out of hiding, speak up, and be praised. All relevant terms—Zionist, intifada, colonizer, indigeneity, terrorism, genocide, famine, war crime—would be redefined at the institutional level. The bigots who spoke the old language of hatred could rely on the media to translate them into the new jargon of justice. Nothing short of lawless physical violence would be disqualifying for office. And even that’s questionable on the left, as the inhumane violence of Hamas is the very thing that made them into leftist heroes.

So Mamdani will glide into office on the tailwinds of a two-year hate storm. In that environment, drawing attention to his ugly actions and associations is akin to saying he’s the right man for the moment—for this perverse and sorrowful moment.

But it won’t last much longer. Israel won; Hamas lost. As the latter continues to turn its guns on Gazans, its Western fanbase will grow ever more quiet. The anti-Israel protesters were always wicked, but now they’ve been exposed as fools for the losing side. Israel will continue to prosper while its enemies rot. The U.S.-Israel alliance has grown much stronger over these years. And both countries have every intention of expanding the Abraham Accords to include more Muslim countries. Mamdani’s term will last four years, but his moment will have been a blip. Meanwhile, an age of triumph for America and Israel is getting started. And, like those who supported the social-justice manias of 2020, much of the anti-Israel mob will come to deny they were ever part of the frenzy. But they were, and, yes, they’ve stuck us with Mamdani.


NYPost Editorial: How a Mayor Mamdani’s Israel hate would twist the entire city
The would-be mayor is a longtime, fervent advocate for the “Boycott Divestment Sanctions” movement against Israel; in Albany, he’s pushed a bill to strip pro-Israel charities of their tax status.

When he gets to City Hall, going after Israel and local Israel-related entities will be low-hanging fruit .

Here’s the thing: A lot of Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky “affordability” agenda is out of reach. He may be able to freeze some rents for a year or two, but he can’t raise most taxes on the rich or boost the minimum wage to $30.

What Mamdani will be able to do is mess with Israel and anyone who won’t boycott it.

He can order every city agency to review its contracts and supply chains and “de-Zionize” them.

Heck, Mamdani has already called for a boycott of Cornell Tech — the graduate center on Roosevelt Island seen as a lynchpin of growing Silicon Alley — because it’s a partnership with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, one of the world’s premier tech universities.

He vows to withdraw whatever “municipal subsidies” go to Cornell Tech, with no concern for how it might harm the city’s economic future.

It gets much worse: Mamdani has signaled that he’ll let lefty protests run wild.

It’s not just that he’s vowed to disband the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, which handles counter-terrorism and riots, among other duties: He’s also declared that “First Amendment activity” will get wide latitude.

In other words, cops will have to sit on their hands rather than head off wildcat demonstrations, traffic sit-ins and hostile marches into Jewish neighborhoods.

Will he make the NYPD stand back, Portland-style, as Antifa attacks federal courthouses?

Even if Mamdani doesn’t explicitly call for antisemitic pogroms, the violent agitators in his base already feel emboldened, as the city has seen in recent days.

Everyone voting for “affordability” may discover they’ve instead bought the city four years of riots.
Seth Mandel: Fail, Britannia
A century ago, the British response to Arab violence against Jews was to reward it: the Hebron massacre of 1929 resulted in the authorities of the British Mandate agreeing to limit the presence of Jews in the Jewish homeland.

Apparently, nothing has changed.

Officials in Birmingham have banned fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s soccer team from attending the team’s November 6 match against Aston Villa—because, the local police have said, anti-Semites have threatened violence against Jewish attendees. One option, of course, would be to protect the Jews from that violence, but the police have apparently dismissed that possibility.

Three events contributed to the implementation of this “no Jews at this soccer match” rule. One is what took place last year in Amsterdam, where the fans of an Israeli team were hunted throughout the night by anti-Semites with the help of the city’s taxi network and a police force willing to stand down. It was, in other words, a good old-fashioned European pogrom.

The second was the murderous attack on Jews at a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur. This was a test of the UK government’s commitment to providing peace and security to its citizens. Were there weak spots? Were those weaknesses addressed after the fact? Yes to the first, no to the second.

And third, those seeking to do violence to Jewish soccer fans announced their intention to attack on the night of the match. “When the Tel Aviv fans come to Birmingham in a few weeks, we will not show them mercy,” proclaimed a Muslim preacher in Birmingham.

After the Manchester attack, Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted Britain would do what was necessary to keep Jews safe. Now Starmer is left to grumble that banning Jewish fans “is the wrong decision.”
Outrage after Maccabi Tel Aviv fans banned from Aston Villa match over ‘safety’
A decision to block Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending attend their side's Europa League match with Aston Villa on safety grounds has prompted outrage.

West Midlands Police said the decision was made partly because of what happened during the Israeli side’s match against Ajax in Amsterdam last year, when its fans were hunted and beaten by locals.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer criticised the move, saying "we will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets" and that the role of police was "to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation".

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch branded the decision a "national disgrace" and suggested Sir Keir should act to reverse it.

She wrote on X that Starmer should "guarantee that Jewish fans can walk into any football stadium in this country".

"If not, it sends a horrendous and shameful message: there are parts of Britain where Jews simply cannot go."

The Jewish Leadership Council blasted the move, saying it was "perverse that away fans should be banned from a football match because West Midlands Police can't guarantee their safety".

It added: "Aston Villa should face the consequences of this decision and the match should be played behind closed doors."


Jake Wallis Simons: Enough is enough. We must clamp down on universities now
In the wake of the arrest of Samuel “Young Adolf” Williams, the unhinged Oxford University student who was filmed leading bloodthirsty chants in the street, we should all think long and hard about what has been going wrong with our universities, and what we can do about it.

I’ll come to what has been going wrong in a moment. But first, let’s focus on what must be done. As shocking as his behaviour was, Williams is not unusual. The radicalisation of our universities accelerated during the mass hysteria over Black Lives Matter in 2020 and has multiplied manyfold over the two years since October 7.

It has now reached epidemic proportions. These days, it is impossible to find a British university that isn’t blighted by Palestine fanaticism, and which doesn’t have a correspondingly shameful story to tell about the bullying of its Jewish students.

Graduation ceremonies are disrupted; Gaza encampments disrupt university life; noisy rallies swarm through university towns; even makeshift checkpoints have been set up outside libraries. Jews have been taunted, ostracised, mocked and marginalised.

This is not just about the Jews. It is about the integrity and respectability of our academic institutions, which are descending into hotbeds of radical activism that bode ill for the future health of society. Enough is enough.

In his 1945 classic The Open Society And Its Enemies, Karl Popper warned: “If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” Recent years have only confirmed the truth of his words. With the weakling and centrist fundamentalist authorities making no efforts to quell the contagion, there is a real danger that we are heading for serious violence. That is the obvious conclusion. How long can the pot go on boiling before it boils over?
Police remove firearms from the family home of an Oxford University student who was arrested for 'inciting racial hatred' after he led chants of 'put the Zios in the ground'
Firearms and ammunition were seized at the family home of Oxford University student and anti-Israeli 'hate' protester Sam Williams today.

Two uniformed officers arrived at the quiet cul-de-sac in Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, around lunchtime.

They were followed by a single female forensics officer who arrived in a separate police van and entered the property wearing a face mask.

A short time later a male officer was pictured as he brought out clear plastic bags containing what appeared to be shotgun cartridges.

He then carried out several boxes labelled High Pheasant cartridges - a type of hunting ammunition - and placed them in the boot of a marked police car.

Minutes later the officer returned with what appeared to be several rifles or shotguns in cases or bags which were also placed in the boot.

There is no suggestion any of the weapons were not legally owned. The family home is close to woodland and countryside.

Balliol College 'PPE' student Mr Williams sparked a backlash after the Daily Mail revealed he had whipped up a crowd at a pro-Palestine rally on Saturday in a chant interpreted by some as calling for the death of Jews.
Nicole Lampert: Antisemitism Sends People Mad
It has been both fascinating and disturbing seeing how antisemitism turns people who were once seemingly sane, completely bonkers.

A year after I warned famous British footballer and television presenter Gary Lineker that his social media use seemed increasingly antisemitic, he found himself out of a job after one Instagram post depicting Zionists as rats went too far even for the BBC.

David Miller was once a respected Professor at one of Britain’s top universities, but now he sees Zionist plots everywhere – even at an interfaith soup-making event.

When I was looking at the long propaganda war against Zionism, I asked Israeli expert Einat Wilf why the Soviets, who are behind so many of the slogans about Israel that we see today, had spent so much time and energy forcing this branch of antisemitism on the world.

‘Because they learned that antisemitism turns societies mad,’ she responded. I didn’t fully grasp what she meant until I attended a feminist event called FiLiA over the weekend. Even today, the arguments over antisemitism at the conference are all over social media, turning former friends against each other, and a wave of accusations and denunciations.

I’m not schooled in the various waves of feminism; I haven’t read all the deep thinkers, but I, having experienced both misogyny and sexual assault, am instinctively a feminist, which, to me, is someone who believes in equal rights and protection for women.

I was invited to speak at a fringe event at FiLiA, which this year hosted 2500 delegates, because, since the October 7 massacre, it had failed to call out the sexual violence of those attacks. FiLiA’s background is on the left, but I was told it was trying to hold a middle ground on the divisive Israel-Gaza conflict by not mentioning it.

There was, I was told, due to be a rival fringe event for anti-Israel people at the same time as my fringe event.

FiLia’s apparent attempt at neutrality lasted about five minutes. At the opening plenary of the event, Rahila Gupta, chair of the Southall Black Sisters — which in the past has attacked the “ideological weaponisation” of sexual violence used by Hamas on 7 October 2023 — insisted that sisters needed to be united but a few sentences later said she couldn’t be silent on the ‘genocide’ in Gaza. She then led the room in a cry of “Free Palestine” even though, according to FiLiA sources, she had been explicitly told not to mention the war.

Several Jewish women left the room in tears alongside angry allies such as feminist Julia Long, who explained on GB News afterwards how she walked out because the event was so one-sided and had omitted discussion of the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas.

Within the arena itself, Jewish feminists described how they were made to feel unwelcome. One, Susie Nelhans, described to me how she had previously faced down anti-Israel activists on demonstrations, but that being attacked for her identity in the supposedly safe space of a feminist conference was far more painful.


How antisemitism became normal at British universities
October 7, 2025: Two Years On.
In the wake of the Manchester terror attack that left two Jews dead on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, the anti-Israel crowd at King’s still chose to go ahead with their hateful march on the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israeli civilians. Despite pleas from the government, students refused to move their protest planned for October 7th.

For the second time, masked protesters occupied Kings’ Strand Campus, filling the air with calls for “intifada,” as Jewish students mourned the loss of those in Israel and those in Manchester. This time, such calls felt personal for many students, as the “intifada” had now reached England. As I watched the protest unfold, I couldn’t believe that so many students – many of whom were intelligent King’s students – chose to march on the anniversary of October 7th, in clear defiance of the government’s demands, following the Manchester synagogue murders. At that moment, I felt like I was in an alternate reality. I thought, is this the beginning of the end for British Jewry?

A common stake
I write this as a university student who believes that sharp, good-faith disagreements about the Middle East belong at a British university. But there is a bright line between argument and intimidation. Cross it, and the losers are not only Jewish students. They are first-years who avoid seminars because a corridor feels hostile; speakers who decline invitations; administrators who retreat into silence; and, ultimately, a public that loses faith in the university as a place of learning rather than theatre.

Intimidation is a tactic of extremism, and extremism is a threat to everyone. If King’s, and other institutions, can reassert that basic truth with clarity and fairness, we may yet recover a campus where difficult ideas are tested in the open, without fear. That is not a partisan aim. It is a civic one.
Ro Khanna distances himself after posting documentary clip featuring antisemitic influencer
California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna came under fire Thursday after he shared a documentary clip featuring comments by antisemitic influencer Ian Carroll.

The documentary, titled “Investigating Israeli Influence on US Politics” and made by the popular YouTuber Tommy G, takes aim at AIPAC and what it says is Israel’s influence over American policy. Khanna appears in the documentary as an example of a Democratic lawmaker who rejects the pro-Israel lobby.

The documentary features a wide range of voices, including Republican lawmakers and an IDF reservist who offer a pro-Israel perspective; a doctor who volunteered in Gaza; and Medea Benjamin, the founder of the anti-war group Code Pink.

It has also drawn criticism for favorably citing Carroll, a conspiracy theorist who claims that a “modern Jewish mafia” controls America, that Israel was behind 9/11 and that Israel conspired to kill conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. Speaking to podcaster Joe Rogan earlier this year, Carroll said Israel was founded by the “the Jewish mob” and that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was “a Jewish organization of Jewish people working on behalf of Israel and other groups.”

“Ian Carroll is one of the internet’s top conspiracy analysts,” Tommy G says in the documentary. “His critics label him an antisemite spreading false information about Israel, but to others, he is a fearless journalist that speaks on what some perceive as an extremely strong Zionist pressure on our government.”

Khanna posted a clip of the documentary on Thursday to make the point that he has not accepted money from AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby. In the clip, Carroll claims that “93 out of 100 US senators were taking money from a group that represents a foreign government and foreign interests in order to operate our government on behalf of someone else,” referring to AIPAC and Israel.


Irish court orders police to reconsider probing Airbnb over West Bank settlements
Ireland’s High Court on Thursday struck down a decision by the Irish police not to investigate the legality of Airbnb operations in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, rejecting the argument that it did not have jurisdiction.

The ruling does not automatically trigger an investigation by police in Ireland, where Airbnb has its Europe and Middle East headquarters, but it obliges the Irish police to consider the matter afresh, the court heard.

The case was brought by Irish-Palestinian non-governmental organization Sadaka, which asked police to investigate whether Airbnb had broken Irish law by operating in the settlements. It argued that the police decision not to investigate due to jurisdiction issues was “legally erroneous and irrational.”

A lawyer representing the Irish police, Remy Farrell, conceded the case on Thursday and said the matter would be “considered afresh” by the respondents.

Airbnb did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

The company allows listings throughout the West Bank but takes no profits from this activity in the region, the company said in a 2019 statement, in which it said it had never boycotted Israel or Israeli businesses.

More than 150 businesses, including Airbnb and rivals Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor, are operating in Israeli West Bank settlements deemed illegal by the UN, a report by the organization’s human rights office showed in September.

Online travel companies like Airbnb and Booking.com have long faced pressure from Palestinian officials, anti-Israel activists and human rights groups to end their listings there.
Yale student govt fails to pass resolution against $1 million donation to pro-Israel group
A resolution denouncing Yale University for distributing $1 million through a donor-advised fund to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces failed in the student government on Sunday.

The resolution, which JNS viewed, stated that the university should issue a statement taking accountability for the November 2023 donation and pledge to reject future donor-advised distributions that “provide support to organizations implicated in genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing or other human-rights violations.”

The Yale College Council Senate voted 12-12 on the resolution with three abstentions, according to the Yale Daily News, a student paper.

Elijah Wiesel, a second-year student at Yale who is Jewish, told JNS that “anyone who voted in favor of the YCC resolution is so blinded by hatred for Israel that they didn’t understand what actually happened” as the donation was made through a donor-advised fund and not from tuition or student fees.

Wiesel said the council should “stick to petitioning for menu changes and bringing artists for spring fling.”


"The BBC Should Know What The Truth Is" | Broadcaster Accused Of Pro-Hamas Documentary Coverage
The BBC featured a report showing the emotional reaction of Aida Abu al-Rub, the sister of Palestinian prisoner Murad Abu al-Rub, ahead of his expected release under the Gaza ceasefire deal. The coverage focused on her anticipation and tears over the reunion with her brother after years apart, but did not initially mention that Murad was serving four life sentences for his role in the 2006 Kedumim suicide bombing, which killed four Israelis.

Murad was set to be among nearly 2,000 Palestinians released as part of the prisoner exchange and hostage return agreement brokered by Israel and Hamas, which included individuals convicted of serious terrorism and murder offences. While the report highlighted his sister’s emotional story, it omitted the details of his conviction and the severity of his crimes, prompting criticism.

Campaign Against Antisemitism has condemned the BBC for failing to distinguish between terrorists and victims, arguing that the coverage humanised individuals responsible for murder and terrorism while neglecting the impact on Israeli hostages and communities. The BBC stated that it had clarified Murad’s four life sentences and that the interview was intended to show the effect of the prisoner releases on families and communities.


‘To the gas chamber’: Young Republicans members exposed for antisemitic, racist chat
Prominent members of the Young Republicans, a US political organization, trafficked in antisemitism and racism in a private group chat, Politico reported on Tuesday.

The leaked chat shows group members joking about killing people in gas chambers and a “Hitler aesthetic,” among other white supremacist references.

One group member said a subset of the organization would “vote for the most right-wing person” to lead the national group. “Great. I love Hitler,” responded Peter Giunta, a former leader of the New York State Young Republicans, according to the report.

One message from Giunta included a reference to a “fat stinky Jew,” the report said. Another read, “Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.” Messages from other members also contained references to gas chambers, a suggestion that Jews were dishonest, jokes about rape and other racist and homophobic slurs.

Politico said the Telegram chats, obtained in a 2,900-page leak to the US-based publication, included messages sent between January and August from Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. Many of the anti-Jewish and other racist statements appeared to be jokes.

But the chats expose the insider discourse of some up-and-coming Republican activists, and have led people to be fired or have a job offer pulled, along with condemnations from prominent officials on both sides of the aisle. US Vice President JD Vance, however, has downplayed the controversy, and US President Donald Trump did not comment.

New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, who is expected to run for governor and who has taken center-stage at congressional hearings on campus antisemitism, said she was “absolutely appalled” by the comments in the chat, calling them “heinous, antisemitic, racist and unacceptable.”

Prior to the Politico exposé, she had lauded Giunta for his “tremendous leadership” of the New York State Young Republicans.
Teens call to ‘kill every last Jew,’ planned to dress as Hitler, Holocaust victims on Halloween in hateful Snapchats
Four New Jersey teen girls allegedly pledged to “kill every last” Jew and dress up as Adolf Hitler and Holocaust victims for Halloween.

The despicable messages from the Manalapan High School students were posted to Snapchat over the weekend and then shared on Instagram.

“i da just realized the only people we actually don’t lol is jews,” one message read.

“kill every last one,” another girl responded.

Other parts of the typo-laden exchange included references to gas chambers and “hitler type shiii.”

“if ___ says one more work [sic] to me that pisses me off i’m sending her the tiktok of the gas chamber thing,” and “i filled my vape w the gas from the holocaust so i’m smoking all dead opps.”

The four female students weren’t finished, vile screenshots of the exchange showed.

“we’re all being little kids form the holocaust for halloween,” one wrote, while another answered, “we have to do it” and “ur hitler tho.”

The kids, believed to be freshman, apparently found the messages funny — captioning the exchanges with “i’m actually pissing myself” and “the conversations we have bro.”

Freehold Regional High School District Superintendent Nicole Hazel condemned the messages.


Man arrested, accused of hate crime for allegedly assaulting 71-year-old Jew in Seattle
The Seattle Police Department is investigating Anthony Lambinus for the alleged hate crime of assaulting an unnamed 71-year-old Jewish man in Seattle, Wash., on Monday, according to a redacted police report that the department shared with JNS.

Lambinus, who was born in 1987, allegedly called the Jewish man a “Zionist pig,” according to the victim. A witness told police officers that Lambinus was “standing over” the victim, who lay on the sidewalk, and was “punching him in the face.”

“After I concluded my investigation, I determined Anthony assaulted the victim due to his perception of the victim being Jewish,” the unnamed officer who filed the report stated. “The victim believed he was targeted because he is Jewish.”

The victim told officers that Lambinus confronted him for tearing down a “Gaza sign” and that the alleged attacker headbutted him and knocked him to the ground. (The police report refers to both torn “Gaza posters” and a torn “Gaza poster.”)

The victim said that he pepper-sprayed Lambinus, feeling threatened. The witness told police that the attacker appeared to stop when the pepper spray took effect.

Lambinus told officers that he and the 71-year-old had walked into each other accidentally while arguing and that the victim had followed him. When he turned to confront the victim, the latter pepper-sprayed him, according to the accused attacker, who claimed he swung his fists “blindly” to defend himself once pepper-sprayed.

The witness told police that he saw Lambinus punching the victim. Per the police report, the victim suffered a bloody mouth and swollen lips, and Lambinus received a laceration above his forehead. Both declined medical attention.
Restaurant owner ‘sold business to fund gun attack on Jewish community’, court told
A former restaurant owner sold his seaside business to buy assault rifles and ammunition for a terrorist attack targeting Jewish people in Manchester, a court has heard.

Prosecutors at Preston Crown Court said Walid Saadaoui, 38, used proceeds from the sale of the Albatross Restaurant in Great Yarmouth to fund the purchase of firearms and ammunition as part of an Islamic State-inspired plot.

According to Sky News, Saadaoui, who later moved to Wigan, allegedly arranged to buy four AK-47 rifles, two handguns and 1,200 rounds of ammunition to carry out a mass shooting on Jewish targets in the city. He was arrested in a Bolton hotel car park while taking delivery of some of the weapons – from an undercover police officer posing as a supplier.

Prosecutor Kelly Brocklehurst told jurors that Saadaoui began posting extremist content on Facebook in late 2022, using ten different accounts to share propaganda supporting the so-called Islamic State.

Saadaoui’s online posts reportedly included statements such as: “We will fight until death, even if souls have perished and blood has been shed.” Another, shared in June 2023, read: “Should you be martyred or die in the cause of Allah, then his forgiveness and mercy are far better than whatever wealth those who stay behind accumulated.”

He also shared an image of a Koran beside an AK-47 rifle with the caption:
“A book that guides and a sword that delivers victory.” Other posts allegedly offered “security advice” for would-be attackers, encouraging followers to hide their identities with VPNs, disable phone tracking and “burn apostates’ properties”.

Ms Brocklehurst said Saadaoui withdrew around £70,000 in cash as he prepared for the planned attack, adding that his focus after moving north had been “on planning his terrorist attacks”.


Winston Marshall:L The Hidden Truth of Islamic Conquest, Slavery & Jihad | Dr Andrew Bostom
In this episode of The Winston Marshall Show, I sit down with Dr. Andrew Bostom, scholar of Islamic history and author of The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, for a sweeping conversation about the true history of jihad and the rise of Islamic antisemitism.

Bostom explains how the origins of jihad trace back to Muhammad’s early campaigns in Medina, where religious mission turned to imperial conquest. Drawing from original Islamic sources — he reveals how violence, slavery, and subjugation became sacralised through theology, shaping centuries of conquest from Persia and India to the Middle East and North Africa.

We explore the massacres of Jews and Christians, the destruction of Hindu and Buddhist civilisations. The system that humiliated non-Muslims under Islamic rule. Bostom also discusses the connection between early Islamic teachings and modern antisemitism, from the Hadith quoted in Hamas’s charter to Nazi alliances in the 20th century.


Unpacked: The Secret Origins of Ashkenazi Jews
Some claim Ashkenazi Jews descend not from ancient Israel but from a lost Turkic kingdom called Khazaria. It’s a story recycled to erase Jewish identity and delegitimize Israel.

But history, language, and DNA all point elsewhere. Ashkenazi Jews trace back through Europe to ancient Israel, not Khazaria. The theory is myth. The people are real.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 What is Khazar theory?
01:28 Mainstream origin story of Ashkenazi Jewry
02:02 What was Khazaria?
04:29 The dangers of Khazar theory
05:49 Origins of Khazar theory
07:00 Can Khazar theory be true?
10:28 Are Ashkenazi Jews real Jews?






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