Monday, November 10, 2025

11/11 Links Pt2: Isaac Herzog: The truth about Zionism; How the BBC became the propaganda arm of Hamas; Elie Tahari Fashion Show in Miami Honoring Female IDF Soldiers

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: What Happened to Jewish Patients At a Brooklyn Hospital in 1927?
There’s a particular story of Jewish fear in the modern era that has stuck with me ever since I read about it. After the post-October 7 revelations of the mistreatment of Jewish patients in British hospitals, this account of an Israeli mother-to-be’s anxiety over giving birth in London cannot be dismissed. Neither can it be resolved—there is no way to ensure that what has happened won’t continue happening, and for this expectant mother that means putting her child’s life in the hands of people she cannot trust.

In some ways, Jewish medical fears are mundane, as she writes: “I worry if I should disclose my ethnicity when I arrive at hospital, and will I be free to speak in Hebrew? I feel comfortable talking English, but in situations where I’m not in control and am in pain, my default is my mother tongue… No woman should have to go through the labor with these thoughts in her head.”

And in other ways, those fears are impossible to fully disentangle from the 20th century’s horrors, which included unspeakably grotesque medical persecution.

But either way, those fears aren’t new. Even the more mundane questions of basic care and treatment in a hospital have been around, in the West, for a century.

Right here in America, in fact.

As I was reading professor Pamela Nadell’s new book, Antisemitism, An American Tradition, over the weekend, I stumbled on one line: “Jewish doctors were not the only ones targeted. Brooklyn’s Rabbi Louis Gross knew that Jewish patients encountered prejudice, discrimination, and ill-treatment when they sought medical care there.”

The “there” was Kings County Hospital about a hundred years ago. Nadell’s book, a worthy and timely addition to the literature on American anti-Semitism, is an overview of the country’s history and so the concentration in each era is on representative examples.
History will judge Ireland for extending hand to terror, granting Hamas moral legitimacy
IRELAND, A small country once symbolizing the struggle for freedom and independence, has in many ways become a state unable to recognize Israel’s right to those same values. Instead of condemning terror, it echoes the Palestinian victim narrative and strengthens the diplomatic mechanisms seeking to undermine Israel’s legitimacy in the international arena.

The Jewish pain, the shock of the massacre, and the abduction of children and infants simply do not register in the Irish consciousness. The left-leaning media, politically involved churches, and biased human rights organizations together create a mindset in which Israel is always perceived as the aggressor. Ireland no longer looks at facts but at images shaped by ideology.

The irony is that Ireland, which preaches morality and peace to the world, shows tolerance toward an organization that commits massacres, rape, and executions. A country that sanctifies human rights ignores the rape of Jewish women, the destruction of entire communities, and the abduction of the elderly. Irish history should have taught it a lesson about the justification of the struggle for life and freedom, but it chooses to side with those who destroy them.

Ireland conducts a two-faced policy toward Israel. In the past, it fought against the British Empire; now, it tries to atone for its historical trauma through crude distortion, transferring the blame for “imperialism” to a small state in the Middle East. This is the politics of guilt, not of justice.

Indeed, there are other voices in Ireland – journalists, public figures, and academics who understand that October 7 changed reality and that Hamas is not a liberation movement but an arm of Iran. These voices are pushed aside, silenced publicly, and attacked on social media. This atmosphere of fear weakens any substantive debate and turns Irish discourse into black and white, where Israel is always guilty and Palestinians are always victims.

Israel does not seek anyone’s mercy, but it is entitled to justice and integrity. When a Western country like Ireland joins the political and legal offensive against Israel, it strengthens Hamas and encourages continued violence. This is not only a betrayal of Western values; it is a direct blow to the global fight against terror.

Instead of standing with the victims, Ireland stands with the perpetrators of murder. Instead of demanding the release of hostages, it demands the conviction of the victims. Instead of defending the only democracy in the Middle East, it prefers the warm embrace of Islamist dictatorships.

History will judge Ireland – a country that chooses to turn a blind eye to the massacre of Jews, remain silent in the face of rape and murder, and grant legitimacy to terrorists in the name of human rights. Ireland has lost its moral right to preach about justice. Israel will continue to defend its citizens, act according to international law, and bring its sons home from captivity.

Ireland can choose whether to stand on the right side of history or remain a nation that prefers comfort and hypocrisy over truth and justice. Its choice will define not only its relationship with Israel but also its conscience as a Western country that claims to be moral.
Ireland’s soccer governing body overwhelmingly backs call for UEFA to ban Israel
Members of Irish soccer’s governing body voted overwhelmingly on Saturday for its board to request that UEFA immediately suspend Israel from European competitions, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) said.

A resolution passed by the FAI members cited alleged violations by Israel’s Football Association of two provisions of UEFA statutes: its failure to implement and enforce an effective anti-racism policy and the playing by Israeli clubs in Palestinian territories without the consent of the Palestinian Football Association.

The resolution was backed by 74 votes, with seven opposed and two abstentions, the FAI said in a statement.

A spokesperson for UEFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

UEFA considered holding a vote early last month on whether to suspend Israel from European competitions over the war in Gaza, a source told Reuters at the time. That did not happen after a US-brokered ceasefire took effect on October 10.

The Irish resolution follows calls in September from the heads of the Turkish and Norwegian soccer governing bodies for Israel to be suspended from international competition.
Jake Wallis Simons: How the BBC became the propaganda arm of Hamas
Funny how it was the Trump thing that cost BBC director-general Tim Davie and his head of news, Deborah Turness, their jobs. Of course, doctoring footage of The Donald’s ‘January 6’ speech, to make it appear as if he had explicitly incited the Capitol riot, was remarkably egregious and brazen, a prime example of the BBC deciding not to bother with the mask for once. But what about its relentless bias – also exposed by that recent internal memo leaked to the Telegraph – against Jews and Israel?

In a way, that is the more serious problem. All over the world, antipathy towards the Jewish minority and their national home is simply the tip of a spear of hostility towards the West and everything it stands for.

When activists in London, New York, Toronto, Barcelona, Paris and everywhere else march to ‘globalise the intifada’, what they are saying is that they wish to overturn the democracies they live in. In fact, sometimes they say it out loud: in July, for example, a young woman with a cut-glass accent demonstrating in London for Palestine Action finished her video message with, ‘As always, I cannot wait for the West to fall’.

In its relentless bias against Israel, the BBC has been effectively lending its corporate heft to that same message. With every misleading piece of reporting sent out into the world, public opinion is hardened against the Jews. As has been the case for thousands of years, anti-Semitism is based on lies. The modern loathing of Israel is no exception.


Isaac Herzog: The truth about Zionism
Fifty years ago today, on Nov. 10, 1975, my father, Chaim Herzog, then Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations and later the country’s sixth president, stood before the U.N. General Assembly to respond to the infamous resolution declaring that “Zionism is a form of racism.”

In front of a hostile hall, he affirmed: “Zionism is nothing more—and nothing less—than the Jewish people’s sense of origin and destination in the land linked eternally with its name.”

He declared that it was not Zionism or the State of Israel that stood on trial that day, but the United Nations itself.

And in one of the most stirring and enduring moments in the history of that body, he tore his copy of the resolution in two, right there at the podium.

He had felt, he later told me, that he was speaking not only as Israel’s ambassador, but on behalf of the past and future generations of a persecuted and maligned people. The resolution, as he saw it, was not just another U.N. political maneuver.

It was a direct assault on the Jewish people’s identity, history, and fundamental right to self-determination—a form of organized political bullying meant to silence a voice and to demoralize a people. The pitch he had chosen was simply equal matching; a visceral, if still rational, meeting of the vitriol being lodged against our people.

It was a speech that was widely regarded as one of the finest and most effective in history. But while the resolution itself was later revoked, the specter of the sentiment that fueled it still reverberates—the lingering accusation, whispered or shouted in different forms—that Zionism is somehow a moral stain, an illegitimate aspiration.

It has been audible, sometimes softly, sometimes piercingly, across the decades since—and, once again, in our own time. It was immediately there, implicit in the language of many, on Oct. 7, 2023. And over the past two years of devastating war against Hamas in Gaza, the old chorus has decidedly returned: Israel, by defending itself, by existing, is already guilty.

The tools and rhetoric may have evolved since 1975, but the core impulse remains: to deny the Jewish people the moral right to self-determination, to cast the very existence of our state as a transgression, and to portray Israel as a racist entity undeserving of security or peace.

Yet as my father insisted then—and as we must continue to insist now — the truth flies in the face of these accusations.

Zionism is not racism. It is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people; a return to an indigenous homeland after millennia of persecution. In its redress of a historical injustice, in its desire to restore dignity to a people, it is an expression of the same universal yearnings for equality, freedom, and dignity that have animated all struggles for justice.


Greatest Speech Ever Delivered at U.N. * Moynihan on Zionism is Racism, 1975

Antizionism is Not Antisemitism
That the antizionist movement can claim Jews among its supporters, does nothing whatsoever to rehabilitate it. Even Nazi Germany tokenized Jewish antisemites in the Association of German National Jews, just as the Yevsektsiya pledged allegiance to Lenin. Tokenized Jews benefit from the status quo and recoil at having their comfort unsettled by “troublesome” Jews who call out persecution.

How do we stop antizionism? Recognize how it is like all forms of Jew-hatred before it: an eliminationist hate movement that still depends on the ancient cycle of libel. Expose how it cloaks its evil in a false consciousness and the politics of the era.

But also recognize what is new: antizionism is an oppression pretending to be anti-oppression. It invokes the language of decolonization and liberation as it murders and persecutes Jews. It is racism for anti-racists, reformatted against an entire nation: Israel. It persecutes Palestinians viciously–consistently choosing libel and war over coexistence. The price is thousands of dead Palestinians, destroyed infrastructure, and generations raised in trauma. Its goal is not a better life for Palestinians but the end of Israel. We need you to see through this trick.

Fight the cycle of libel in the media, at work, and at school. Fighting for human rights starts with disrupting the antizionist libels that inevitably lead to horrific violence against Jews and Palestinians alike.
'Sick fascination': Online antisemitism is the 'new pornography,' author warns
Online antisemitism is "the new pornography," author Mary Eberstadt warned at a 60th anniversary celebration of "Nostra Aetate," where Catholic and Jewish leaders reflected on the declaration's lasting impact on interfaith reconciliation and the need to confront Jew hatred.

On Tuesday, The Philos Project and the Saint John Paul II National Shrine organized an event marking the Second Vatican Council's "Nostra Aetate" declaration, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1965 and serves as a "Declaration on the Relation of the Church to non-christian religions."

The declaration condemned antisemitism, repudiating the charge of collective Jewish guilt for the death of Christ, and it affirmed the spiritual connection between Christianity and Judaism, as well as God's enduring covenant with the Jewish people.

Eberstadt, author of Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics and senior research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute, addressed the impact of the Hamas-led terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. She stated that the attack, followed by Israel launching military operations in Gaza, has "unleashed antisemitic warfare in critical corners of the West," including on college campuses and on social media.

"Antisemitic trolling attracts attention for the same reason that car accidents attract rubbernecking, because of sick fascination," the author said about online antisemitism during the panel, "My Brother's Keeper: Christians and the New Antisemitism."

"It's not a good look for anyone, but especially for Catholics," she continued. "To those young Catholics who are building the church of tomorrow, look away."

The author, who holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center, didn't mention names, but she warned of influencers who "wave the Christian flag and cynically exploit Jew hatred to increase their followers."
Dave Rich: The BBC: Converging errors aren't mistakes
Twenty-five years ago, the Holocaust denier David Irving lost a famous libel trial against Deborah Lipstadt, who he sued for libel because she had called him a Holocaust denier. The trial went on for weeks and examined in forensic detail all of Irving’s historical writings, highlighting numerous errors of fact, interpretation, omission and attribution. Irving argued that these errors were just the normal stuff of historical writing: all historians make mistakes, after all. But the judge disagreed, for one important reason: because all these “errors” pointed in the same direction, namely to exonerate Hitler. “This convergence”, he ruled, “is a cogent reason for supposing that the evidence has been deliberately slanted.”

This legal ruling is worth bearing in mind when reading the 21-page Prescott Report that has detonated within the BBC, leading to the resignation of the Director General, Tim Davie, and the CEO of News Deborah Turness. The report covers a range of topics: the BBC’s coverage of the US Presidential election, alleged ethnic discrimination in employment, racial diversity, sex and gender, immigration, and, of course, Israel and Gaza. The errors are numerous. The misleading editing of Donald Trump’s speech has grabbed the most headlines, and deservedly so, but the entire report is a litany of jaw-dropping editorial and journalistic failings. In itself, this might not be such a big deal: the BBC is a mammoth of a media organisation, and across all of its TV channels, radio stations, podcasts and other content, it would not be hard to find mistakes. But - as with Irving - the errors highlighted in the Prescott Report all point in the same ideological direction, whatever the subject matter. And it is that convergence that is most damning, because it suggests that these errors are not random, but a product of an internal culture of bias and a particular political mindset.

Remember that Michael Prescott, the author of this report, was appointed by the BBC as an independent adviser to assist with oversight of its editorial output. He, in turn, relied on reports written by an experienced BBC journalist, David Grossman. Neither of them have a political agenda or an axe to grind: this is not a hatchet-job cobbled together by external enemies of the BBC. And just to be clear, I don’t have an anti-BBC agenda either. The BBC has serious failings in this area, but it has brilliant qualities in others, and remains a unique, trusted media brand. I wouldn’t support the end of public funding for the BBC, and I also think other media organisations get away with the same, or worse, failings, without attracting anything like the same degree of criticism. We would be worse off without it.

Now that the report is public, the BBC’s perma-critics will use it for their own political purposes. But that should not be used as an excuse to deflect from the deep, systemic flaws it has finally exposed. Eight of the 21 pages of the report address the BBC’s coverage of the war in Israel and Gaza; taken together, they confirm the worst allegations of institutional bias that have been heard over the past two years. BBC Arabic is a particular focus, based on an internal review by Grossman of five months’ worth of coverage, from May to October 2024. He found that stories on the BBC Arabic website repeatedly downplayed or ignored Israeli suffering, and minimised or ignored terrorism and other crimes by Hamas and Hizbollah. These all pointed in an anti-Israel direction: presumably if Grossman’s review had found examples of slanted reporting pointing the opposite way, he would have included them. That does not appear to be the case. The Telegraph has since reported that BBC Arabic had to make 215 corrections in two years to its coverage of Israel and Gaza - that’s two per week. It’s staggering.
More than 200 Jewish staff accuse BBC of ignoring their calls for anti-Semitism probe
The BBC faces a fresh crisis as more than 200 Jewish staff accused the corporation's Board of 'ignoring' their pleas for an investigation into alleged anti-Semitism at the broadcaster.

Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch described it as a 'shameful failure of leadership' that the BBC had 'ignored complaints' of racism and bias as she called on the BBC Board to 'intervene to restore trust'.

Nigel Farage said the revelations mean that the future of the licence fee is now in doubt.

He said: 'The allegations against the BBC over bias are worsening by the day. The licence fee is now in serious question.'

More than 200 Jewish staff, contractors, suppliers and contributors wrote to BBC chairman Samir Shah in July 2024 asking for an urgent formal investigation by the BBC Board into 'systemic problems of anti-Semitism and bias at the BBC, alongside senior management's demonstrable failure to properly address the issue'.

Attached to the letter was a report titled 'Being Jewish and working at the BBC' which included testimony from staff who argued the corporation was no longer 'a safe space to be Jewish'.

The same staff members wrote again to the BBC Board on Friday, accusing it of ignoring their pleas and offering 'words not action' after a gap of more than a year.

Current and former Jewish staff – including producer Leo Pearlman, former ITV head of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz, former BBC executive Danny Cohen and present employees – are signatories to the letter.

They said: 'Despite being presented with documentary evidence of an anti-Jewish bias within the BBC, among BBC news and current affairs specifically, this basic request went unheeded.

'We are still a minority with a simple entreaty to the BBC Board: the BBC's repeatedly substantiated anti-Jewish racism has now been 'Called Out' – who will be held accountable?'

A representative for the signatories told the Mail: 'We drew all this to the BBC's attention over a year ago and since then we continue as Jews to be ignored, gaslit and at worst smeared as a 'lobby'.

'We have been told that the BBC was committed to impartiality and fairness and yet this is demonstrably not the case.

'The BBC needs to live up to its values. This would never happen to any other minority.
'This Is Shocking!' | More Than 200 Jewish BBC Staff Say Anti-Semitism Complaints Ignored
More than 200 Jewish staff, contractors, and contributors have accused the BBC of ignoring their repeated calls for an investigation into alleged antisemitism and bias within the corporation, particularly in news and current affairs.

Their complaints, first submitted in July 2024 along with a report titled Being Jewish and Working at the BBC, highlighted systemic problems and described the broadcaster as no longer “a safe space to be Jewish.”

After more than a year without meaningful action, the signatories have renewed their demands, with critics including Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch calling it a “shameful failure of leadership” and demanding accountability.

The allegations coincide with wider controversies at the BBC, including Tim Davie’s resignation over the Trump documentary edit, and have raised questions about the broadcaster’s impartiality and the future of the licence fee.




BBC Arabic pulls article portraying Hamas terrorist killed on October 7 as innocent civilian
The BBC has removed an article that misidentified a Hamas terrorist who took part in the October 7 massacre as an innocent civilian killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, the JC can reveal.

The move to ditch the news item – published on BBC Arabic in October 2024 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led massacre – came after the JC contacted the corporation about the story.

It comes after Britain’s national broadcaster was plunged in turmoil, with director general Tim Davie and CEO of news Deborah Turness resigning after a leaked memo criticised the editing of a Panorama documentary about Donald Trump and accused the BBC of bias in multiple areas, including its reporting on Israel.

One article published by BBC Arabic on October 8, 2024 and analysed by the JC included interviews with several women inside Gaza named as journalists. Among them was Esraa Alareer, depicted mourning her husband, who the BBC stated had been “killed in an Israeli bombing on the city of Khan Younes” on the first day of the war.

“Despite the shock she experienced on the first day of the war,” the article read, Alareer “continues her journalistic work.”

In fact, Alareer’s husband, Yasser Tawil, was a Hamas fighter killed during the terror group’s attack on the Jewish state on October 7.

Days after the Hamas-led attack, Alareer told another newspaper – the Hamas-affiliated Felesteen – that Tawil left their home in Gaza in the early hours of October 7, cut through the border fence and took part in the assault before being killed.

In an interview published by the Gaza newspaper on October 10 2023, she described how her husband left their home in Gaza wearing “‘military clothes,’” in a “‘rush’” to join the October 7 assault and never returned.

He “‘could not miss this moment [October 7]; his whole life he had wished and prepared himself in the ranks of the resistance to cross the barrier and engage in the epic battle there,’” she states.


While Tim Davie's resignation is welcome, its cause pales beside far graver failures
BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have finally resigned – but over an incident that pales beside far graver failures. The final straw was a poorly-edited Trump speech in a Panorama documentary. Splicing together footage – to suggest the US President had incited violence – violated basic editorial standards, but resigning over this feels almost insulting given what they chose not to resign over.

Frankly, anyone watching the BBC’s coverage of Israel since the October 7 atrocities could see that something was going badly wrong at the state broadcaster. The corporation admitted broadcasting anti-Jewish hatred from Glastonbury into the nation's living rooms – then declared itself comfortable with that decision.

Journalist Samer Elzaenen, who reported from Gaza for BBC Arabic, called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did”. After his appalling comments were exposed, the BBC rehired him. Senior employee Dawn Queva called Jews "parasites" who invented a "holohoax”. There are numerous similar examples. Little wonder that statistically impossible casualty figures from Hamas were reported as fact, whilst it took 400 days to correct an article falsely linking “fanatical Jews” to 9/11.

But deliberately mistranslating "Jews" as "Israelis" to sanitise antisemitism, and employing Hamas officials as "analysts”, doesn't just breach journalistic standards – it incites hatred against a vulnerable minority. Former BBC director Danny Cohen called this institutional bias "out of control”.

Yet when 200 Jewish staff requested an investigation into what they termed serious institutional racism, the BBC’s leadership refused. Tim Davie declined antisemitism training from Lord John Mann, the government's antisemitism adviser, on three separate occasions. "Heads should roll," Mann said of these scandals.


"Pathetic" — BBC news is biased on almost every issue. Resignations of two execs won't be enough
Journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti delivers a blistering critique of the BBC’s deep-rooted bias following the resignation of its Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness. Speaking with Josh Howie on GB News, Sacerdoti exposes what he calls the BBC’s “institutional rot” — from its Middle East coverage and selective reporting on Israel to its wider ideological capture across news and entertainment.


French institute cancels Palestine symposium following Qatari funding, pro-Hamas accusations
After several days of heated debate, the Collège de France has canceled an upcoming symposium on the subject of Palestine.

The panel “Palestine and Europe: the weight of the past and contemporary dynamics” that was scheduled for November 13 and November 14 was co-organized by Prof. Henry Laurens, the chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World at Collège de France, and the Arab Center for Research and Political Studies in Paris (CAREP).

It was set to platform speakers from the University of Amsterdam, SOAS University of London, the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Complutense University of Madrid, and others. The first two sessions were to be devoted to the history of the Zionist movement and Palestine under the British Mandate.

It first attracted attention (and controversy) on November 7, when Le Point published an article about CAREP being funded by the Doha Institute (and its treasurer, who lives in Qatar).

Le Figaro has also described CAREP as “the intellectual spearhead of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

The former president of CAREP, François Burgat, said in 2024, “I have infinitely, I mean infinitely more respect and consideration for the leaders of Hamas than for those of the State of Israel.”

He was prosecuted for the remarks but later acquitted. Notably, CAREP stood by him in “full solidarity.”

Moreover, Le Point exposed some of the expected speakers and moderators, including anthropologist Véronique Bontemps, who was recently the subject of a disciplinary procedure for “glorifying terrorism”; CAREP development head Muzna Shihabi, who celebrated Hamas’s October 7 massacre; history researcher Thomas Vescovi, who said classifying Hamas as a terrorist movement poses “a democratic problem”; and historian Jihane Sfeir, who spoke in a blog post published at the end of October 2024 of “Israeli necropolitics toward the Palestinian people.”


British TV set to air film interviewing IDF soldiers on alleged Gaza war misconduc
A new British documentary airing Monday on ITV features rare testimony from Israel Defense Forces soldiers who say the war waged in Gaza was marked by relaxed rules of engagement leading to the gratuitous killing of innocents, the use of civilians as human shields, and orders to destroy buildings without clear military justification.

While many of the allegations in “Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War” echo earlier allegations aired in Israeli and international media, the hour-long film introduces several new and specific accounts that have not appeared in previous coverage.

The documentary, produced by the London-based studio Zandland and directed by Ben Zand, assembled on-camera interviews with serving and former IDF personnel, some speaking publicly for the first time. Their testimony offers a portrait of a military campaign that several participants described as unrestrained and morally disorienting.

“These testimonies shine a light on actions and decisions that the world was never meant to see, and they challenge us to confront what really happens in conflict when accountability is lost,” Zand said ahead of the broadcast.

The IDF responded to the documentary’s claims in a written statement, saying it “remains committed to the rule of law” and that “allegations of misconduct are thoroughly examined,” adding that several investigations by the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division are ongoing.
NPR’s war on Israel: Bias masquerading as journalism
National Public Radio’s bias against Israel has been a nearly daily thing since the Hamas-led terrorist invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Critics of the media outlet have rightly spoken out repeatedly against its slanted coverage, such as the continuous use of casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry as fact and without explaining to its audience that Hamas controls this information. What has gone largely unexamined is NPR’s blaming Israel for its supposed inability to access the Gaza Strip during the war.

In September, NPR proudly reported on its charging the Israel Defense Forces with crimes, and at the same time, pressured Israel to allow more journalists into Gaza, knowing full well that these news people would be placed in danger.

One of the statements that it signed onto read: “We demand the protection of Palestinian journalists and an end to the impunity for crimes perpetrated by the Israeli army against them in the Gaza Strip. We demand the foreign press be granted independent access to the Gaza Strip.”

The palpable hypocrisy when it comes to Israel and hostility to Israel was displayed by NPR once again earlier this month with its story headlined, “Our Correspondent Is Finally Allowed Into Gaza.”

It seems like NPR wants to see more news people in the Palestinian enclave so that it can have more stories about journalists who are casualties.

Its audio report on Nov. 5 was introduced on its website this way: “During two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.”

To me, this sums up NPR’s failure to cover accurately. Hamas is not labeled as the terrorist group that it is. Hamas and Israel are portrayed as two equal nations in conflict, rather than the true story of a nation at war against terrorism. The 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel is left out, so that Israel’s presence in Gaza has zero context.
Mail on Sunday Claims ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan’s Sexual Assault Scandal Could Be a ‘Mossad Dark Op’
Mail on Sunday Spreads Conspiratorial Guff
For reasons known only to its editors, The Mail on Sunday has chosen to advance an extraordinary theory: that Mossad may have orchestrated the sexual-misconduct allegations against Khan to sabotage the ICC’s cases against Israel.

The paper claims “many believe” the accusations could be a “Mossad dark operation,” alleging the complainant might have been “a plant” recruited to entrap Khan. It compares the alleged plot to Israel’s 2024 “exploding pager” strike on Hezbollah, implying the intelligence service could have planned such an operation years before the October 2023 Hamas massacre even occurred.

The article recycles an old 2023 claim that Israel spied on Khan’s predecessor Fatou Bensouda – an accusation Israel denied – and treats a single Hebrew word (“phones”) found in an anonymous 2024 email as suspicious “evidence” of Israeli involvement, even while conceding Mossad would hardly be careless enough to leave such a clue.

It also insinuates that journalists “close to Israel” were seeded with the whistleblower’s email, and speculates about the recent revelations of a Qatar-funded operation that gathered intelligence on Khan’s accuser.

Throughout, the article offers no concrete evidence linking Israel or Mossad to any of these events, relying instead on anonymous sources, conjecture, and wild speculation.

The Narrative Falls Apart
What The Mail on Sunday presents as investigative reporting quickly unravels into incoherence. Having floated the idea that Israel masterminded the scandal, the paper then suggests Qatar – Hamas’ chief sponsor – was also spying on the Mail on Sunday because it had disclosed the misconduct allegations against Khan in 2024. It condemns the idea that Mossad would be “sloppy,” yet simultaneously argues that a Hebrew word in an email could amount to proof of Israeli involvement.

The timeline itself is impossible: the alleged assault occurred nearly a year before the ICC pursued warrants against Israel, making it absurd to suggest the Mossad foresaw the political fallout of a future legal decision.

And in its confusion, the story manages to portray Khan’s accuser as both a victim and a foreign agent – a contradiction that reveals how far the paper must stretch to maintain its conspiracy.


Prosecution moves to seize 50 foreign vessels linked to Gaza flotilla after blockade breach attempt
The prosecution filed a motion on Monday seeking the permanent confiscation of 50 foreign-flagged vessels that attempted to breach Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail in late August and included dozens of vessels and hundreds of activists from multiple countries.

Israel’s navy intercepted the flotilla in early October, detaining more than 400 participants. Israel maintains that the maritime blockade is lawful and necessary to prevent arms shipments to Hamas. Organizers argued that the flotilla’s humanitarian goal and maritime-law protections justify their attempt.

The request by the prosecution notes that a “significant number” of the vessels were either owned or financed by Hamas or affiliates, including a front company named “Neptune Cyber” linked to the NGO Palestinian Conference for Palestinians Abroad.

The request rests on international law precedent that allows a blockading state to seize vessels that attempt to breach a lawful naval blockade.

According to the filing, the first wave of 41 vessels was intercepted on October 1, with a second wave of nine vessels intercepted about a week later. The prosecution said the flotilla was “unprecedented in scale and scope... organized and centrally-directed...” and that its “movement resembled military vessels sailing in formation.”


Hundreds Attend Elie Tahari Runway Show in Miami Honoring Female IDF Soldiers, Hosted at Catholic University
Eight hundred people attended a fashion show on Thursday night in Miami by renowned Israeli fashion designer Elie Tahari that honored female soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and supported Tahari’s new initiative to provide clothing for wounded IDF veterans.

The runway show highlighted 40-50 garments from Tahari’s Fall 2026 collection, assembled into a new collection for the event titled “Threads of Valor.” Its name draws inspiration from a chapter in the Book of Proverbs called Eshet Chayil (“Women of Valor”), which praises a woman as the matriarch of her family and household, and is traditionally sung by a husband on Friday night before the start of the Shabbat meal. “Eshet Chayil” includes lines that talk about a woman making and selling garments.

“Tonight has been the best night of my life,” Tahari said on stage at the runway show. “I’m very proud to be a part of this. Anything I can do for the soldiers — they are my heroes; they are always going to be my heroes. And it makes me feel happy.”

The Israeli-born fashion designer immigrated to New York in 1971 with less than $100 and built a billion-dollar fashion empire that has been successful for over 50 years. Since the Hamas-led terrorist attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, he has been passionate about supporting IDF veterans, with 100 percent of his e-commerce going directly to help female IDF soldiers.

Thursday’s runway show took place at St. Thomas University (STU), a Catholic school. It was co-organized by Ashlee Rzyczycki, director of STU’s Fashion Merchandising and Design program, as well as Tobi Rubinstein, who serves on the school’s fashion advisory committee and had a career in fashion for the last 45 years. The show was also organized in collaboration with Yedidim – an organization that assists IDF veterans — and Soireee Events.

The runway show was divided into different segments and each revolved around a different theme – including resilience, command, power, freedom, confidence, and sacrifice – that related to the journey and stories of the IDF soldiers honored at the event. Students in STU’s fashion design program collaborated in picking garments by Tahari that would be featured in the runway show, in line with the chosen themes, but students also helped create the lineup and worked behind the scenes at Thursday night’s event.


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