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Monday, October 20, 2025

10/20 Links Pt2: Hamas hands over body of hostage Tal Haimi, slain defending his kibbutz; Macron Occupies a Jewish Family Home in Baghdad; Ireland has fallen to the cult of Israelophobia

From Ian:

Macron Occupies a Jewish Family Home in Baghdad
France appropriated the home of a displaced Jewish family and has used it as its embassy in Iraq for 50 years without paying the family a single euro in rent. Now, instead of returning the property to its rightful owners, or compensating them for its continuing occupation by the emissaries of the Quai d’Orsay, the government of Emmanuel Macron has apparently determined to continue dragging the family through the courts and belaboring them with technical questions like whether they voluntarily surrendered property ownership when they fled Iraq in the 1950s.

The family has launched a lawsuit in the French courts, asking for a trial to decide the ownership of a house whose desirable location, ornate balconies, carved columns, cornice entries, grand mirrors and marble mantels give it an estimated market value of more than $22 million. After rejecting an offer to mediate, France now argues, citing lack of jurisdiction, that any trial should instead take place in Iraqi courts, which are ill-disposed to rule against a diplomatic ally and in favor of a Jewish family that was chased out of the county a half-century earlier.

The descendants of the original owners, who today live in Montreal, reject the French argument. “France is using our house, so France can choose to pay for the house it’s using,” said Philip Khazzam, the grandson and grand-nephew of original house owners Ezra and Khedouri Lawee. “Instead, it pretends to have no authority and hides behind Iraq.”

Khazzam added that France is paying its rent to Iraq at a low rate. “They know they’re getting a sweet deal,” he said, adding that paying market rates for its lavish embassy would cost France much more.

The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs’ defense brief argues that by fleeing Iraq the Lawee brothers technically lost ownership of their house. Copied link

When asked for comment on questions relating to the property and Khazzam’s accusations, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs responded that “the case is before the courts, so we cannot comment.”

Last month, Khazzam traveled to New York to personally ask the French president for the back rent that he believes he is owed. He planned to approach Macron when the president was visiting the French Cultural Center on Fifth Avenue but never got close enough to ask his question.

Iraqis began attacking Jewish property under King Faisal I in the ’30s and ’40s following Iraq’s independence from the British. 1941 was among the worst years for such attacks. Following a failed pro-Nazi coup in June, Iraqi riots exploded into a pogrom known as the Farhud that killed, raped, robbed and looted the properties of thousands of Baghdad Jews.

Farhud—a word which loosely translates to “devour” or “gobble” in Arabic—launched what would become a mass exodus of Jews from Iraq, as the storied 2,500-year-old Jewish community fled increasingly restrictive discriminatory laws accompanied by terrifying and repeated outbreaks of mass violence and state-sponsored show trials. It marked the beginning of the end for Iraq’s thriving Jewish population, who in many cases traced their lineage back to 587 BCE when Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II conquered the Kingdom of Judah and enslaved and exiled much of its Jewish population.

More on the Jews of Iraq
Conditions for Iraqi Jews became especially acute after the creation of Israel, during the period known as “denationalization” in 1950-51. New laws stripping Iraqi Jews of their nationality and their property accompanied a bombing campaign aimed at local synagogues and Jewish businesses.

Ezra and Khedouri Lawee were among the thousands of Jews who fled Iraq during this time. The Jewish Iraqi brothers had built and owned a beautiful house—nicknamed Beit Lawee, or House of Lawee—which was eventually seized by Saddam Hussein after he came to power in 1970, two decades after they had left the country. Records show Khedouri traveled to London and New York before settling in Montreal. His brother Ezra also settled in Montreal, after stopping along the way in Israel, Egypt, and New York.

Responding to lawyers representing the Lawee descendants, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs’ defense brief argues that by fleeing Iraq the Lawee brothers technically lost ownership of their house under a set of discriminatory laws from 1951 whose very aim was to strip Iraqi Jews of their property.
Anti-Semitism has infected the NHS
Britain’s National Health Service has become a hotbed of anti-Semitism. It seems nearly every week brings a new case of an NHS doctor expressing foul views about Jews. Worse, these views seem to be expressed with impunity. The problem is now so serious that the health secretary, Wes Streeting, has vowed to overhaul the UK’s medical regulator to ‘root out the evil of racism’ from the NHS.

A report in The Times cites the case of Rahmeh Aladwan, a trainee doctor from Manchester. In September, she faced the Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service (MPTS) for describing the Royal Free Hospital in north London as a ‘Jewish supremacy cesspit’. She also said that the Holocaust was a ‘fabricated victim narrative’ and described the terrorists who carried out the 7 October 2023 pogrom as ‘martyrs’ who were repelling ‘foreign Jews’. According to The Times, she was even filmed making a ‘throat-slit gesture’ towards a group of Jews.

Shockingly, the MPTS didn’t see what the fuss was all about. It dismissed the complaint made by the General Medical Council (GMC) against Aladwan, declaring her fit to practise because she posed no ‘real risk to patients’. Her lawyer successfully argued that, as a Palestinian and ‘direct victim of genocide and dispossession’, she was merely ‘exercising her freedom of speech to oppose crimes by Israel, including those identified by the UN’. She was the real victim here, in other words.

This was a bridge too far for Streeting. In response to the MPTS’s decision, he promised to overhaul the GMC, which he said he had ‘no faith’ in. Alarmingly, he added that medical regulators are ‘completely failing to protect Jewish patients’. His most significant proposal so far has been to make sure that doctors accused of misconduct are stripped of their right to practise while under investigation. At Streeting’s instance, Aladwan will face another hearing at the MPTS later this month.

Indeed, it may be shaping up to be a busy few months for the medical tribunal. That is because Aladwan is far from alone: there have been more than 500 complaints of anti-Semitism, made against 123 separate doctors, since 7 October 2023.

One case that stands out amid this vast catalogue of hatred is that of Manoj Sen, who until recently was a surgeon at Northwick Park Hospital in north London. In a series of social-media posts, Sen referred to a Jewish man as ‘Jew boy’, ‘circumcised vermin’ and ‘Untermenschen’ – a phrase used extensively by the Nazis, meaning subhuman. Sen’s defence – that alcoholism was to blame for his ‘injudicious’ statements – was to no avail, and he was struck from the medical register last month. Evidently, there are limits to playing the victim card. Even at the MPTS.

It gets worse. Ellen Kriesels, a consultant paediatrician at London’s Whittington Hospital, was due to treat a disabled Jewish child in June last year. However, the young boy’s family objected to the doctor’s pro-Palestinian lanyard. Further investigation of her beliefs – boastfully articulated on her public X account – revealed what can only be described as a profoundly disturbed mind. On X, Kriesels said that ‘virtually every Jew has some feelings of supremacy’, which she attributed to their ‘Zionist upbringing’. She opined that ‘secular Jews are very much part of all this evil and they certainly have feelings of supremacy’. ‘World Jewry’, she claimed, had been ‘complicit or silent’ in the ‘slaughtering [of] Palestinians’.
Jewish Onliner's Table of Anti-Israel Lies
Since October 2023, an unprecedented wave of disinformation targeting Israel has flooded social media platforms, spreading faster than fact-checkers can respond and reaching millions of users worldwide before verification can occur.

This non-exhaustive, continuously-updating list examines the most viral and damaging false narratives that have circulated about Israel since the war began. By debunking each claim with verifiable evidence, expert analysis, and credible sources, we aim to restore clarity to a landscape deliberately obscured by those who profit from confusion and conflict.

The lies documented here are not mere mistakes or misunderstandings, they are calculated attempts to manipulate public perception through emotional manipulation and selective presentation of facts. Understanding how these falsehoods spread and why they gained traction is essential for anyone seeking to navigate the current information environment and distinguish between legitimate criticism and deliberate deception.


Hamas hands over body of hostage Tal Haimi, slain defending his kibbutz on Oct. 7
Hamas on Monday night handed over to Israel the body of hostage Tal Haimi. Haimi, 41, was killed while defending Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7, 2023, and his body was taken to Gaza.

He and other members of the rapid response team battled the invading terrorists at the entrance to the kibbutz until he was shot dead. He was initially considered missing before authorities said he had likely been taken. In December 2023, Tal’s family was informed based on intelligence that he had been killed on October 7 and his body taken hostage. His family held a funeral, but awaited his body.

The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that Haimi was handed over, shortly after the casket arrived at the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification.

“The Government of Israel shares in the profound grief of the Haimi family and of all the families of the fallen hostages,” the PMO said.

Tal is survived by his wife, Ela, and their four children, Nir, Einav, Udi and Lotan. Lotan was born in May 2024, seven months after Tal was killed.

“Tal was brought home after 745 days,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum says. “Tal loved taking his family on nature trips and camping in the outdoors, was an enthusiastic tools hobbyist, and always knew how to find a solution to any problem that arose.

“On the morning of October 7, he went out to fight against dozens of terrorists in a battle at the gate of Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak. Tal and the rest of the quick-response team fought with extraordinary bravery for several hours, and during the battle, Tal fell and was abducted into Gaza.”


Israeli singer opens Madison Square Garden show with patriotic video
Israeli-American singer Omer Adam opened his sold-out concert at the Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday night with a special tribute video to the Israel Defense Forces, the hostages returning from Gaza and U.S. President Donald Trump.

The footage began with documented scenes from the Hamas-led attacks on Israel’s south on Oct. 7, 2023, followed by Israeli troops entering the Gaza Strip and raising the Israeli flag within the ruins of the Palestinian territory.

The video included the emotional returns of the abductees, as they were embraced by their families in Israel.

It ended with excerpts from Trump’s historic address to the Knesset last week, in which he said that “the State of Israel is stronger and will live and thrive forever.”

Adam celebrated his 32nd birthday at the prestigious venue, according to Israel’s broadcaster Channel 12 News.

“This one’s for all of us. Thank you for the love, always. See you at the Garden! God-willingly. Am Yisrael Chai,” Adam wrote on his Instagram ahead of the show.

Adam’s music fuses elements of Mizrahi music (Mideast and North African music) with Western pop and has been one of Israel’s most famous and successful singers in recent years.


Seth Mandel: Phantom Menace
Actors’ opinions on the Middle East are rarely interesting, but there are occasional exceptions. Denise Gough, a fairly generic actress from Ireland, had recently tried to pull a Hannah Einbinder—say something sufficiently bizarre about the Jews so that someone who isn’t related to her might remember her name. Gough has appeared in a Disney Star Wars series and, so, has taken to using a Star Wars analogy to convince people that the Jewish state is a uniquely evil force.

Gough says she doesn’t understand the analogy—she heard it from a friend with a stronger grasp of intergalactic space fables—but she gets the crux of it, which involves shooting Israel:
“Apparently the Death Star has a place in it that if you shoot through that specific place in the Death Star, you explode the entire Death Star, okay? And so somebody said Palestine is that place. And the construction of the Death Star is like all of it—Sudan, Congo, all of it everywhere, Nigeria now, everywhere. If we can free Palestine, it explodes everything.”

One can only imagine Gough trying to describe the concept of an Achilles’ heel.

I should note that for this conversation Gough is in costume—not a Star Wars costume but a Palestinian costume, a designer keffiyeh from an Instagram influencer.

Gough is promoting the idea that the Jews are responsible for all the remaining injustice in the world. Destroying the Death Star of David would liberate Congo, in her portrayal. Gough’s understanding of geopolitics is what things would look like if Carmen Sandiego worked for the NKVD.

Why is this interesting? Because Gough is describing the progressive obsession with Israel as a form of primitive religious fanaticism. And it is accurate.


A reexamination of a failed attempt in Ireland to help Jewish people persecuted in World War II
The year 1938 was key in the targeting of Jewish people by the Italian state, following Hitler’s triumphal tour of Italy in May 1938. In July a new anti-Jewish racial policy was announced and in early September the first of the draconian racial laws were promulgated, ejecting Jewish children and teachers from the nation’s schools and ordering all foreign Jews to leave the country.

Professor Kertzer’s lecture focused on the role Ireland played as Pope Pius XI and his then secretary of state, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, frantically sought ways of responding positively to the growing chorus of pleas coming into them as government campaigns of persecution of Europe’s Jews were mounting.

“What becomes clear from a reading of the pleas that were coming in to the pope and the Vatican secretariat of state in the wake of Italy’s new racial laws is how much attention the man who took on responsibility for organizing a response, Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, paid to the possibility that Ireland could offer assistance that was not to be found elsewhere in Europe.”

The Irish effort on behalf of converted Jews was organised through the efforts of the Irish branch of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, brokered by the nuncio in Dublin and the Society’s president, Joseph Glynn.

However, when Cardinal Pacelli ascended to the papacy, the Irish plan was beginning to collapse.

Part of the problem, Professor Kertzer highlighted, was the unfavourable way in which this initiative was greeted in Ireland.

According to the then Nuncio in Dublin, Msgr Paschal Robinson, various associations and the people in general were, “full of prejudices against the Jews, not only deny the material contribution on which the Committee counted on a great deal, but do not understand how one can look for employment in Ireland for foreigners while there are so many unemployed Irish and indeed so much poverty of many Irish families.”

Shortly afterwards, the Nuncio reported to deputy secretary of state, Cardinal Tardini, that the Irish Committee, which Cardinal Pacelli had been so hopeful about, could be relied on no more. “After all the hopes that Pacelli had placed in it, it had in the end helped few people.”
Brendan O'Neill: Ireland has fallen to the cult of Israelophobia
It is difficult to overstate the extent to which Ireland has been consumed by the religious fervour of Israelophobia. The Palestine flag flies everywhere. You won’t go two blocks in Dublin without passing a smug arse in a keffiyeh. Connolly herself is frequently surrounded by fawning cultists from the keffiyeh classes – the nuns of this new religion, in their culturally appropriated shrouds, whose brainless chants of ‘Free Palestine!’ are basically a modern equivalent of when Ireland’s priests of old would bark at the masses to bow down to God.

The Dublin elites are fixated on Gaza to a demented degree. They yap about it constantly in the Dáil. They are hell-bent on seeing that dastardly Jewish nation be arraigned for ‘genocide’ – so much so that the Irish government proposed that the International Court of Justice ‘broaden its interpretation of what constitutes the commission of a genocide’ in order that Israel might finally be found guilty of that crime. This is an Orwellian crusade of imperious demonisation where everything – truth, decency, even the basic meaning of words – is gleefully flung on the bonfire of convicting the Jewish State of evil. No wonder Israel closed its embassy in Dublin.

Israel has become a Satan substitute for post-Catholic Ireland – the new devil against which godless moralists measure their decency. And if Connolly wins, this fervour will be all but institutionalised: Israelophobia as the new state religion. Of course the gurning theatre kids of Kneecap who once hollered ‘Up Hamas’ have given her their Guardianista blessing. A president who doesn’t understand biology, doesn’t care about working-class concerns over immigration and doesn’t seem to know that no amount of ‘history’ can excuse the rape and murder of Jews – good luck, Ireland.
Ireland is about to make its most shameful decision yet
Ms Connolly is in tune with younger people on Israel as a purveyor of genocide; on Hamas as freedom fighters; on Palestinians as the most oppressed people ever; on the wickedness of capitalism and the West in general; and on the pre-eminence of trans rights.

They don’t appear to care that Ms Connolly visited Syria on taxpayers’ money, when it was under the brutal rule of Assad, and that she opposed sanctions against it. Her suggestion that Germany spending more on defence reminded her of the 1930s didn’t bother them, and there is little hope that the need for Ireland to spend heavily on defending the country against Russian threats to undersea cables cuts the mustard.

A frightened, respectable Ireland has begun to challenge the tide. The Irish Taoiseach, Micheál Martin of Fianna Fail, has announced that he will support Humphreys. And a growing number of worried people from all mainstream parties are coming on board, but it may be too late.

Although Mr Higgins – who could get away with it because of his age, his gravitas and his reputation as a man of letters – tested the rules, Irish presidents are required to be politically impartial and keep their noses out of politics.

But Harris may be right when he says: “In spite of her holding domestic and foreign policy positions that run counter to our national interest, a mindless mob seems intent on landing us with Connolly as president.”


Israeli academic branded ‘terrorist’ by pro-Palestine students
An Israeli academic has been branded a “terrorist” by pro-Palestine students.

The students called for Michael Ben-Gad, a professor of economics at City University, to be sacked for serving in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) from 1982-1985.

Prof Ben-Gad has now vowed to continue lecturing after a poster of him was daubed “terrorist” and placed around campus last week.

City Action for Palestine demanded the termination of the professor’s contract, an apology to the community and “to consider such fundamental matters when hiring in future”.

The group added: “Shame on City for … allowing a terrorist to be near and teach Arab and Muslim students despite being an active participant in murdering their people”.

The State of Israel requires every male citizen over the age of 18 who is Jewish, Druze or Circassian to serve a minimum of 32 months while women are expected to serve for a minimum of 24 months.

Prof Ben-Gad has worked at the British university since 2008, taking on the role of head of department from 2010 to 2013.

“We will not be silenced. We will not allow evil to roam free on our campus”, the group said in a post on social media, adding: “Until Liberation & Return”.

The group highlights the professor’s time studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1988 as cause for concern, as well as his time working as an economist at the Bank of Israel between 1987 and 1989.

“Six years working in a genocidal society”, the group said of the academic’s position as lecturer at the University of Haifa from 2001 to 2007.

A petition has been launched to “sack Michael Ben-Gad immediately”.

Prof Ben-Gad told The Telegraph the university brought in extra security for his lecture on Monday “in case they came in to disrupt”.


ABC News Fails to Acknowledge Interviewee is Hamas Spokesperson
In Gaza, every public institution falls under the direct supervision of Hamas-affiliated terrorists. From journalists to the health ministry and civil defense, Hamas has embedded itself in every aspect of life.

In yet another textbook example of terrorists embedded in Gaza’s institutions, the IDF revealed in June 2025 that the “Gaza Civil Spokesperson,” Mahmoud Bassal, is an active Hamas operative. His words are frequently echoed throughout the media, shaping and distorting the narrative of Israel’s war against Hamas – often without attribution to his Hamas affiliation.

ABC News took that one step further, interviewing Bassal as an emergency responder searching for missing Gazan civilians. Not once did it cross the interviewers’ minds to do the most basic due diligence a journalist can – a background check on those being interviewed.

ABC News has a responsibility to acknowledge the affiliation of an interviewee, particularly if it is relevant to the story they are covering. This would have been the case had ABC noted that those searching in the rubble were members of Gaza’s Civil Defense: a Hamas front organization. But ABC didn’t even do that.


Seth Frantzman: Palestinian Fatah movement elects new leaders in Lebanon
The Palestinian Fatah movement, the most powerful in the Palestinian Authority-run West Bank, has held a conference in Lebanon to elect new leadership. This matters because Fatah plays a key role among Palestinians in Lebanon. It also matters because PA head Mahmoud Abbas has been seeking to work closely with the new leadership in Lebanon of President Joseph Aoun.

Fatah, for instance, was influential in getting its factions to disarm and hand over weapons to the government this year. The Fatah elections in Lebanon thus have something to say about the future of Fatah in general and possibly its role in Gaza.

According to the Palestinian Yaffa News network, the conference for the elections convened on October 19 in Lebanon. It was the seventh conference of its kind, the report said. It took place at the Palestinian Embassy in Beirut.

“Fatah in Lebanon renewed its commitment and allegiance to the leader of the Palestinian cause, President Mahmoud Abbas,” the report said. Yasser Abbas, the son of Mahmoud Abbas, attended as his father’s representative.

Also in attendance were both the Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad Al-Asaad and Samir Al-Rifai, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and a representative for it in Syria. A number of other Fatah officials were present, including Raed Al-Lawzi, Ramez Damasheqieh, Fathi Abu Al-Ardat, Amina Jibril, Hassan Faraj, as well as former ambassadors Khaled Aref and Nazmi Al-Hazouri.
Hamas Commandeers Schools and Hospitals To Interrogate Its Gazan Opponents
Hamas militants are reestablishing bases inside hospitals and schools, using civilian infrastructure to interrogate Gazans the terror group accuses of collaborating with Israel, according to Palestinian media reports.

"Hamas's internal security forces have begun summoning opponents from schools, tents, and hospitals controlled by Hamas members for interrogation," the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) official Arabic mouthpiece, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, reported over the weekend.

Hamas is notorious for its use of U.N.-run schools and hospitals as military outposts and arms storage depots, a practice meant to maximize civilian casualties and engender international outrage against Israel. While the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) neutralized many of these locations during its two-year war in Gaza, the recently inked ceasefire has afforded Hamas an opportunity to reassert control.

"Hamas is working to restore its pre-war status, and its reoccupation of hospitals and other civilian sites fit that pattern," Joe Truzman, a senior research analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Washington Free Beacon. "The IDF is unlikely to move against Hamas since Israel’s leadership is determined to avoid actions that could unravel the ceasefire."

As the Israeli research group Palestinian Media Watch wrote on Monday alongside its translation of the Arabic-language reports, "Hamas is taking advantage of Israel’s constraints to rebuild its terror infrastructures and rule across the Gaza Strip."

Hamas has conducted a series of bloody raids on opposition groups and Gazan factions that oppose its militant rule, aiming to send a warning message to the millions of civilians still living in the coastal territory. The operations fly in the face of President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan, which requires Hamas to disarm.


Ayatollah takes aim at Trump’s claims that Iran won June war
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Israel during a speech in Tehran on Monday, calling his Knesset address “empty words” and “buffoonery.”

Trump addressed the Knesset on Oct. 13, thanking the Israeli military for its role in destroying Iran’s nuclear program as part of “Operation Rising Lion” in mid-June, saying that if Tehran had built the bomb, there would not have been a deal with Hamas.

“The U.S. president tried to give hope and boost the morale of the disappointed Zionists in Occupied Palestine. … This is my analysis of the U.S. president’s trip,” Khamenei said at a meeting with winners of international scientific Olympiads and sports champions, the semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported.

Khamenei also treated the brief war as an Iranian victory, despite Israel successfully striking several nuclear sites in the country, as well as heavily bombed Iran’s anti-aircraft defenses and missile stockpiles.

“In the 12-day war, they were slapped so hard that they couldn’t believe it, didn’t expect it and became disheartened,” the Iranian stated of the Israelis.

Likely referring to a June 15 attack by Iran on the Weizmann Institute of Sciene in the city of Rehovot, Khamenei said that “the Zionists did not expect that an Iranian missile, crafted by the hands of Iranian youth, could, with its flames of fire, turn some of their sensitive research centers into ashes.”

Israel’s attack on Iran targeted its main nuclear sites. However, Iran’s enriched nuclear stockpile, which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimated at 440 kilograms in a leaked June report, may have largely survived.

Rafael Grossi, head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, who is running for the office of U.N. Secretary-General, told Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Oct. 18, “According to our information, the majority of this uranium is still in the nuclear facilities in Isfahan and Fordow, and partly also in Natanz.”

Although the three facilities were “massively damaged,” the uranium stored at the sites appears to have been largely unharmed, he said. The IAEA estimates that Iran still has around 400 kilograms, Grossi told the Swiss paper.
Inspections deal with UN nuclear agency ‘null, void,’ Iran says
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said on Monday that the Islamic Republic had cancelled its inspection agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’s nuclear watchdog.

Speaking to reporters at a press conference in Iraq, Ali Larijani said that his country had followed through on the Iranian foreign minister’s threat to break off cooperation with the IAEA if nuclear snapback sanctions were reimposed.

“Our foreign minister announced after the Cairo meeting that if the trigger mechanism is activated, the negotiations will be considered null and void,” Larijani said, per the Islamic Republic News Agency. “If the agency has a request in this regard, it should submit it to the secretariat of the supreme national security council so that it can be reviewed.”

In September, Iran and the IAEA agreed at a meeting in Cairo to resume nuclear inspections in Iran, including at sites that the United States and Israel bombed during the 12-day war in June.

Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, said that agreement would be cancelled if France, Germany and the United Kingdom completed snapback sanctions against Iran at the U.N. Security Council under resolution 2231, which formalized the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal.


Anti-Israel groups to protest South African Holocaust museum, pressure to label Gaza war 'genocide'
South African anti-Israel groups are set to protest at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC) on Monday and Friday to demand the museum recognize the situation in Gaza as a genocide and adopt Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions policies.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign Gauteng shared an advertisement for the protest on Thursday, asserting that the JHGC was engaging in genocide denialism and that its "silence" was complicity.

"It is an injustice and insult to all victims of genocide that the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre has remained silent on the genocide being committed against Palestinians," PSC said in a collaborative Instagram post with South African Jews for a Free Palestine, Palestine Solidarity Alliance, and South African BDS Coalition.

A mid-October letter to the JHGC, published by anti-Israel on social media, detailed the demands of over a dozen anti-Israel groups. The groups demanded that the center define and oppose the "genocide in Gaza," recognize Israeli "apartheid and settler colonialism," support the prosecution of South Africans serving in the Israel Defense Forces, call for the closure of the Israeli embassy, and endorse BDS.

The letter argued that the center could not claim to be a neutral body because it issued a statement on October 7 condemning the Hamas-led massacre in Israel.

"If the Centre is to be credible, its mission must evolve. It cannot remain a museum of remembrance while genocides continue in real time," read the letter. "A Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Memory that refuses to act in this moment betrays the very purpose of its existence."

The letter argued that the lessons of the Holocaust should be universal, and not focus on Jewry because this could supposedly be used to justify "the destruction of any group perceived as a threat to Jewish safety."
NY man who stabbed Israeli, shouted ‘Free Palestine’ sentenced to 5 years
An attacker who shouted “Free Palestine” and stabbed a Jewish-Israeli man in New York City last year was sentenced to five years in prison earlier this month.

Vincent Sumpter pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was sentenced on October 8, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office told The Times of Israel on Monday.

Sumpter, who was 22 at the time of the attack, stabbed his victim in August 2024 in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, the home base of the Chabad Hasidic movement.

The attack took place near 770 Eastern Parkway, Chabad’s revered world headquarters.

Sumpter was initially charged with eight felonies including assault as a hate crime for the incident, according to an arrest report at the time.

Police said Sumpter shouted “Free Palestine” and “Do you want to die” before the stabbing.

Video released by Crown Heights Shmira, a neighborhood watch group, showed two Hasidic men in a confrontation with the attacker on a sidewalk. The assailant then thrusts his arm several times at the chest of one of the Jewish men, who staggers backward, the footage showed. The video did not include any recorded audio.


Ex-wife of Manchester terrorist reveals that he raped her
The ex-wife of Jihad Al-Shamie, the terrorist responsible for the Yom Kippur attack on Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, has shared new details of the abuse she suffered during their relationship.

Elizabeth Davis, a 46-year-old nursing assistant, revealed how she was coerced into marrying Al-Shamie and how he became increasingly abusive as their relationship went on.

The mother of five, who converted to Islam after her two previous partners died in quick succession, told the Daily Mail: “Sometimes he was nice to me and other times he was very controlling.”

Davis described their wedding – which he sprung on her after she’d repeatedly declined his proposals – as “weird”, saying she’d felt “pressured” into it.

"It was an Islamic wedding and he was saying to me ‘all you have to do is say, yes, yes’ that's it,” she said. “They were chanting all of these things off at me, in Arabic, which I couldn't understand. And then that was it – we were Islamically married in his living room.”
Ex-councillor charged with race hatred after posts
A former North Yorkshire councillor has been charged in connection with allegedly antisemitic posts on social media.

Pat Marsh has been charged with displaying threatening, abusive or insulting written material with intent to or likely to stir up racial hatred in relation to posts made in January and February last year.

The 77-year-old, who represented the Stray, Woodlands and Hookstone division in Harrogate, resigned after members of the public reported the posts shared on X.

Ms Marsh, who previously denied the comments were antisemitic, was also suspended from the Liberal Democrats before she later resigned her role.

The former councillor is due to appear at Harrogate Magistrates' Court on 6 November.


Israel's first Druze judge Fares Falah dead at 93
Retired judge Fares Falah, the first Israeli judge of Druze origin, passed away at 93 on Sunday.

He was appointed to the judiciary in 1969 before later being appointed Deputy President of the Acre Magistrate Court.

Deputy Prime Minister, Justice Minister, Interior Minister Yariv Levin and the Acre Municipality expressed their condolences to Falah's son, Judge Zaid Falah, and to all his family member and friends on Monday.

Falah was born in the West Galilee town of Sammui, according to the government website.

After graduating high school in 1953, he worked as a teacher in Carmel for three years. In 1961, he completed his law degree at the Haifa Hebrew University branch.




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