Wednesday, November 12, 2025

11/12 Links Pt2: BDS Cannot Be Negotiated With; The Buchanan Resurrection; The Permission to Hate: Why Antisemitism Feels Good to Its Users; How Wikipedia lies to you

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: BDS Cannot Be Negotiated With
In 1948, Golda Meir famously visited a synagogue in Moscow on the High Holidays, a historic visit by an official of the State of Israel. Meir was the young state’s ambassador to the Soviet Union, which enforced anti-Semitic restrictions without calling them that. The Soviets claimed that a true classless society unburdened by capitalist grotesqueries had no reason for anti-Semitism to even exist. But that didn’t help Russian Jews stuck behind the iron curtain.

Meir and her team went to synagogue for Shabbat services a few weeks before Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. There they encountered a hundred or so elderly Jews. Meir’s Rosh Hashana visit weeks later was announced in advance, and when the delegation arrived they found the street in front of the shul “filled with people, packed together like sardines, hundreds and hundreds of them, of all ages, including Red Army officers, soldiers, teenagers and babies carried in their parents’ arms.”

Meir was the symbol of the reborn State of Israel, and the Soviet Jews defiantly flooded the Great Synagogue to call out to her “our Golda!” Meir was so moved she could hardly speak. When services ended, the throng made it impossible for her to walk back to her hotel. She was guided into a cab, but the cab “couldn’t move either because the crowd of cheering, laughing, weeping Jews had engulfed it.”

So what did the secular socialist Golda Meir say to the Jews in the brief moment before her cab whisked her away? Meir writes that she was filled with shame for underestimating the Jewish spark that still burned within these Jews who were held down in a society of fear but refused to be broken. She managed to stammer out one sentence, which she ridicules in her own memoirs but which obviously moved the crowd, in Yiddish:

“Thank you for having remained Jews.”

The event had proved to her that the Jewish spirit was far stronger than the evil empire trying to stamp it out. But the Russian Jews would need that strength: Within months, a vicious crackdown on Jewish organizing began. They would pay a price for revealing their unbrokenness.
The Buchanan Resurrection
Buchanan’s charge against the Jews is among the most obviously mendacious things any Washington, D.C., insider has ever said. And yet what’s most notable about the debate over Buchanan’s claims is the deference shown him. Yes, William F. Buckley Jr., the giant of American conservatism, called him to account: “I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism.” But then the writer famous for his concise English prose pulled his punches, wondering what “it was that drove him to say and do it: most probably, an iconoclastic temperament.”

Or, knowing the truth, Buchanan nonetheless lied about Jews to put Jews in a bad light—the signature move of antisemites who, after they’re called out for lying about Jews, complain that they can’t criticize Israel without being called antisemites.

And then the magazine Buckley founded endorsed Buchanan in the 1992 New Hampshire primary race. It was a tactical endorsement, according to the editors of The National Review, designed to nudge the incumbent Bush further to the right. Buchanan drew 37% of the New Hampshire vote and then 36% in Georgia.

Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz wrote at the time:
At first glance these results seem impressive, especially for a political novice challenging the President of the United States within his own party. But on closer examination the early primaries provide a measure not of Buchanan’s strength but of Bush’s weakness. Thus, on the same day that Buchanan’s strenuous campaign in Georgia was being rewarded with a 36-percent vote, he got about 30 percent in Maryland, where he had not campaigned at all. And in South Dakota, where Buchanan was not even on the ballot, the same 30 percent of the Republican vote went to an uncommitted slate.

According to Podhoretz: “What all this suggests is that anyone—or no one—running against Bush would have been assured of that 30 percent. This inference is borne out by the exit polls, which showed that most of the people who voted for Buchanan did so because they wanted to ‘send a message’ of dissatisfaction to Bush, not because they were for Buchanan himself.”

Trump’s two terms in office prove that you can win by advocating for America First policies on trade, immigration, and war—so long as you master your resentments and don’t smear American Jews as disloyal and spin up lies about Israel and drive away evangelicals, the electorate’s most solid conservative base. Trump didn’t inherit Buchanan’s legacy—he is a repudiation of it.

And yet Buchanan clearly influenced MAGA’s antisemitic faction. Antisemitism was his unique selling point, distinguishing him from others who agreed on the general scope of his core issues. A political faction organized around a pathological worldview is destined to attract broken souls, forming a cohort unwaveringly committed to its cause and leader. Thus, Buchanan carved out a small, devoted faction under his absolute control that could be used to shape Republican politics. His 1992 candidacy didn’t in fact move Bush, who eventually lost, to the right—but the crucial point is that Buchanan was endorsed for “tactical” purposes by the same group of conservative intellectuals who debated whether he was an antisemite. And that confirmed to Buchanan the observation Barack Obama later made: In politics, antisemitism can be used as an organizing tool.

The rising Buchananites are betting that antisemitism doesn’t have a ceiling. Their strategy is premised on the idea that in a historical moment when young voters have more than enough reason to distrust the experts, officials, industries, and institutions ostensibly undergirding our peace and prosperity, Jew hate functions something like a magnet that enthralls splintered spirits, further enchanted by conspiracy theories weaponized to amplify despair and leave its audiences wondering what, if anything, they were told about America is true, and if anything about her is good or beautiful. From this perspective, what held Buchanan back wasn’t that antisemitism failed to appeal to the masses, but that he hadn’t built out the infrastructure that would transform America’s political arena wholly.
The Permission to Hate: Why Antisemitism Feels Good to Its Users
With the rise of worldwide antisemitic rhetoric, demonstrations, and actions, it is natural to turn once again to trying to make sense of it all. Explanations usually focus on history, ideology, or geopolitics. This post looks at something more basic: the emotional payoff antisemitism provides to the people who use it. This is a map, not a cure.

The emotional payoff
Antisemitism arrives as permission—the sense that anger at a pre-approved target is not only allowed but righteous. That permission delivers a potent mix:
Relief: diffuse frustrations condense into a single culprit; anxiety quiets.
Moral bravado: cruelty is reframed as courage, “speaking truth to power.”
Belonging: shared targets bind strangers faster than shared ideals.
Clarity and control: a messy world collapses into clean lines—us/them.
Impunity: harm feels like self-defense, not shame.

A rough formula captures it:
Attraction ≈ (Validation × Belonging × Certainty × Impunity) − Accountability.

Lower accountability—in crowds, echo chambers, or with elite winks—and the “delight” intensifies.

Why Jews “fit” the role
The Jewish figure can be cast to suit almost any resentment:
Visible and invisible: imagined as both puppet-masters and infiltrators.
Insider and outsider: neighbors who remain somehow “foreign.”
Powerful and weak: sturdy enough to “deserve it,” weak enough to be safe to hit.
One and many: “the Jews” as a monolith; counterexamples dismissed as exceptions.

These contradictions aren’t true, but they are useful to anyone seeking the pleasures of permissioned hate. They make Jews a multi-purpose scapegoat across eras and ideologies. The validation loop

Antisemitism scales through micro-permissions—a leader’s wink, a pundit’s “just asking questions,” a chant, a meme. Each erodes shame and pays a small dopamine dividend. Social platforms supercharge the loop: clarity beats complexity; heat beats light. Deindividuation lowers brakes; performative zeal raises the thrill. The result is not only belief—it’s arousal dressed as virtue.


Uri Kurlianchik: How to Defeat the Pro-Palestine Movement
Jews are the best PR people in the world, yet Israel has the worst PR on the planet. I’ve spent months thinking about this strange discrepancy, and I think I have the answer. Jews are masters of convincing people, but our enemies are fanatics. Fanatics cannot be convinced, only converted. We must stop talking to them in the language of facts and figures and adopt the language of mass movement and passion.

I’d like to propose four ways in which this can be done.

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First, I’d like to answer the skeptics who say this is a hopeless uphill battle because there are a lot more of them than there are of us.

This is true.

It’s hard to be heard when you’re shouting alone against 100 people. Sadly, the ratio is even worse in real life. However, this ignores that just like we have enemies, we have friends as well. Often in history, the voice of our friends was louder than our own voice. Remember: it was not a Jew who wrote J’accuse!

So don’t get addicted to the “the whole world is against us” mentality. Feeling sorry for yourself is not attractive. We don’t only have powerful enemies, we also have powerful friends. Don’t forget this.

Now, let’s delve into the problem and see how we can improve the situation.

Who are the two largest groups of Israel-haters? Muslims and Marxists.

We hear a lot of noise from clowns like Candace and Tucker, but they’re not bringing out the masses into the streets. Their supporters generally limit their activity to hitting “like” a few times per day. They have some political clout, but on the streets they’re nothing. The riots and rallies are always Muslims and Marxists.

There’s nothing you, as an individual, can do about the Muslims. They are soldiers in a war commanded from afar and will only change their behavior if their foreign leadership changes its message. This can only be achieved by diplomacy and military operations.

For example, bombing Qatar was very effective. One small airstrike in Doha made the Islamists change their direction after being obstinate for two years and after tens of thousands of casualties in Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen. As soon as there was the slightest hint that the general, and not just the troops, might pay a price, the general sounded the retreat.

Just like the Muslims, the Marxists are also an army with officers and generals. And here is where you come in.

First, let’s look at the rank-and-file of the enemy.

They are bored and frustrated people who hate themselves and try to dissolve into a cause in order to replace their unsatisfying lives with a satisfying struggle. Palestine is their “opium of the masses.” It gives them meaning and hope.

They can’t do anything about their lives, so they join this movement which erases their individual goals (which they cannot achieve) and makes them a part of something greater. The more distant and unattainable the goal, the better.

In essence, the pro-Palestine movement is a form of escapism.


Jonathan Tobin: Can the ADL go back to defending the Jews?
Foxman was a conventional political liberal on most issues and distrustful of conservatives. But there was never any doubt that he was solely interested in fighting antisemitism wherever it was to be found. He was also disliked by the political left for his staunch defense of Israel. But from the start of his tenure, Greenblatt reoriented the group away from its traditional work toward one that put it in sync with left-wing allies.

Unlike Foxman, Greenblatt was a relentless partisan who didn’t hesitate to stick the ADL’s nose where it didn’t belong—such as when he announced his opposition to Trump’s nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court moments after it was announced.

After that, it was all downhill for the ADL, as the organization imported toxic left-wing doctrines like critical race theory and intersectionality into its anti-hate education programs and hired staff who were primarily focused on pursuing liberal political causes rather than on fighting Jew-hatred.

This wasn’t merely bad judgement. It was a lapse that more or less put the group that the Jewish community depended upon to speak up for it on the side of those who were enabling and supporting a growing movement of left-wing antisemites. By endorsing the antisemitic and anti-Israel Black Lives Matter movement, as well as supporting progressive ideologies that labeled Jews as “white” oppressors, it essentially backed the stigmatizing of the Jewish community and Israel. And by joining the Biden administration’s efforts to censor conservatives in the name of suppressing hate speech, Greenblatt burned his bridges with the very people whom he should have been treating as allies in the fight against the rising tide of left-wing Jew-hatred.

The ADL’s efforts to stay in sync with liberal, left-wing and minority groups—who were once allied with Jews on the left, but who abandoned them after Oct. 7—have been a fiasco. For example, even as it sought to react to the wave of antisemitic activity on college campuses over the past two years, it failed to support Trump’s efforts to roll back the very DEI policies responsible for the problem.

Under these circumstances, there’s good reason for ADL’s critics to remain deeply skeptical of its willingness or ability to respond effectively to the challenge of 21st– century antisemitism.

Moreover, as the Manhattan Institute’s Jesse Arm writes, the focus on raising money to combat antisemitism, such as the enormous sums being donated to the ADL, is itself a waste of scarce resources and effort. He argues, as has scholar Ruth Wisse, that the traditional model of promoting Holocaust education as the standard response to Jew-hatred embraced by the group has failed to produce the intended effect.

This is a moment in history when left-wingers are falsely accusing Israelis of being Nazis, while cheering on Palestinians who actually want to commit Jewish genocide, and when right-wingers are smearing Jews (and Christians) who support Israel as “Israel Firsters” and thereby disloyal. These phenomena render the ADL’s standard responses as obsolete, if not counterproductive.

Redefining Jewish defense
Institutions where Jews once felt at home—from K-12 schools to Ivy League universities—are now hostile environments where the only way to avoid ostracism is to be a “good Jew”: to disavow Zionism and the elements of Jewish identity that the left detests. That means that ADL’s popular “no place for hate” and other programs aimed at making people be nicer to each other do little or nothing to help. Worse, they may persuade some observers that the stubborn willingness of the Jews to defend themselves is the problem, not those who hate them.

What is needed are focused political campaigns aimed at supporting allies who will stand with Jews when they are under siege. An actual self-defense effort to deter intimidation and violence against Jews may also be of more use than the standard community-relations and interfaith programs that liberals swear by but led to nothing other than disappointment. Just as important, rather than enabling legacy groups like the ADL to grandstand and issue press releases, funds might be better spent on strengthening Jewish identity with greater support for Jewish education and experiences, such as camps and trips to Israel. That will do more to prepare Jews to withstand the current surge of hate against them than anything Greenblatt can do or say.

Nevertheless, the task of monitoring and responding to antisemitism is still necessary and the ADL has the resources to perform it. Even those of us who have lamented the group’s failures and bitterly criticized its profound misjudgments are ready to cheer it on when, as with its first steps to put Mamdani on notice that the Jews aren’t afraid to stand up to him, the group shows a willingness to do its job. But if it falters under left-wing criticism, or refuses to ally with those on the right who are ready to fight Jew-hatred, its plug will have to be pulled.
Jonathan Sacerdoti: BBC execs didn't resign over Hamas film or rampant anti-Israel bias, but Trump edits were last straw
The downfall of BBC Director-General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness didn’t come from the broadcaster’s many controversies over Israel, Gaza, or Trump — but from one Panorama documentary that crossed a line.

Producers had edited Donald Trump’s 6 January 2021 speech to make it appear he’d incited violence, cutting out nearly an hour during which he urged supporters to protest peacefully. That manipulation proved indefensible.




As Eurovision decision looms, host Austria lobbies for Israel to remain in contest
With less than a month to go until the European Broadcasting Union makes a final decision on Israel’s participation in next year’s Eurovision, host Austria has been pushing publicly and behind the scenes for the Jewish state to be allowed to take part in the song contest.

Meanwhile, Israel is moving full steam ahead with its plans to compete, with the newest season of “Hakochav Haba” (Rising Star), which traditionally selects the country’s Eurovision entrant, officially kicking off Tuesday night.

While the decision on whether Israel will be allowed to remain in the competition is slated for early next month, the EBU has remained mum on how such a verdict will be reached, with signs pointing to the scrapping of a vote by member countries entirely.

Over the weekend, Roland Weißmann, the director general of the Austrian public broadcaster ORF — which is hosting next year’s contest in Vienna — visited Israel, meeting with officials from Israel’s Kan public broadcaster as well as President Isaac Herzog.

According to a Kan spokeswoman, Weißmann’s visit was aimed at “working to ensure that Israel participates in the Eurovision Song Contest” next year in Vienna.

Weißmann told Herzog that “Israel is an integral part of the contest,” according to Kan, echoing comments he and other Austrian officials have made publicly.

The public broadcasters of some European countries, including Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands, have pledged to withdraw entirely if Israel takes part in the contest, and several others, including Iceland, Slovenia and Belgium, have threatened to follow suit.
The animal rights group sharing obscene anti-Jewish hate
An animal rights group that claims to fight cruelty to pigs is spreading vile antisemitic conspiracy theories – blaming “Zionists” for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine – while boasting celebrity backers, Jewish News can reveal.

Farms Not Factories, which campaigns for consumers to only buy local, high welfare and ethically produced pork, lists celebrities including Hugh Grant, former Channel 4 TV presenter Jon Snow and Game of Thrones actor Jerome Flynn on its “high profile supporters” page.

However, the organisation also publishes what it describes as “newsletters”, tens of thousands of words long, which quote copiously from a variety of deeply unpleasant sources pontificating about Jews, Israel and the Shoah, as well as promoting anti-vaccination and anti-Ukraine themes.

The newsletters tend to begin with the line, “The purpose of our newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media.” While much of the newsletters are made up of quotes from different sources, the newsletter itself will also introduce topics with its own wording. Examples of the latter, from newsletters over the last few months, include:
“In the 1930s the Rothschild-Rockefeller alliance introduced music frequency science that would alter people’s mental state into disruption, disharmony and disunity to brainwash them to be ready to fight in World War II”
“Watch a banker explain how during WWl the German and US Central banks were run by two Zionist brothers.”
“Murdering non-jewish children is allowed in the Talmud”
“Charlie Kirk’s words that helped get him killed by the zionists”
“Zionists are liars, thieves and murderers in their pursuit of world domination”
“The zionist diaspora controls governments across the world, forever aiding their zionist brothers in the Middle East to access oil and other resources belonging to Arab nations. Jews are 2% of the world’s population possessing 10% of the world’s wealth to buy their power to establish The Israel Project that includes conquering the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan”.
“The proxy war in Ukraine is to steal Russia’s resources and bleed them of their power to intervene in the West and zionist geopolitical games.”
“Also consider that the zionists along with their US brothers and sisters in the CIA, were behind 9/11 to convince the gullible US public to endorse multiple wars against the so-called axis of evil in the Middle East and Africa”.
David Miller’s employment tribunal win challenged
The latest round in Professor David Miller’s fight with Bristol University began at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in central London on Wednesday.

A three-person panel, presided over by Lord Fairley, KC, the EAT president since February 2025, was holding a three-day appeal by the university against the political sociology professor’s victory in 2024. In February last year Miller took the university to an employment tribunal, claiming he had been discriminated against and unfairly dismissed by Bristol in 2021 because of his anti-Zionist beliefs. This followed a long-running battle with Jewish students at Bristol, and Miller’s repeated attacks on Israel and Zionism.

The Employment Tribunal last year ruled in Miller’s favour and said for the first time that anti-Zionism was a “protected” belief under the 2010 Equality Act. The tribunal determined that while some of his comments were “ill-judged,” they did not constitute unlawful speech, were not antisemitic, and did not incite violence. In addition, the tribunal found Bristol’s decision to dismiss him was “disproportionate”, it reduced his potential compensation by 50 per cent due to his own “culpable and blameworthy” conduct in singling out students for criticism.

Now, both the university and Miller himself have appealed against the Employment Tribunal’s decision — Bristol against the ruling that he was discriminated against and unfairly dismissed, and Miller challenging the rulings on “contributory fault” which reduced his compensation.

On Wednesday morning, the EAT panel heard a claim that there were “almost 40 errors of law” in the 2024 Employment Tribunal decision, which runs to more than 100 pages. Chris Milsom, appearing for Bristol University, gave the panellists indicators of some of the problems in last year’s ruling. Many of the issues relate to how a protected belief is “manifested” — in other words, though a belief itself may be legal, it is the way it is expressed which can cause a problem. Lord Fairley repeatedly asked: “Where does one draw the line?”
Jewish students barricade themselves in building at Berlin's Technical University to protest antisemitism
After two years in which buildings and rooms at universities in Berlin became focal points for pro‑Palestinian activists—who barricaded themselves there to protest Israel and the war in Gaza—Jewish students at Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin Technical University) have decided to adopt the same tactic. Since Monday morning they have been barricading themselves in the building of the general student assembly.

The occupation is intended to shine a spotlight on and draw attention to the antisemitic biases occurring at the university, and the praise that terror organizations receive across campus and within the student council and among the student body in general.

In a statement issued by the student group “Occupy Against Antisemitism," the students declared that they are protesting the student council elections held at the end of last month, and the fact that among those elected were antisemitic students belonging to authoritarian groups and organizations that in the past glorified Hamas and the terror attack of October 7.

In addition, the protesters claim that the newly elected student‑council members were responsible for violent demonstrations around campus last year. They added that the elections themselves took place in “a non‑democratic climate, where any critical thought was blocked and Jewish students became the subject of jokes every time they raised their concerns.” “We are students at TU Berlin who belong to the Jewish left, and raise criticism and awareness about antisemitism at the university,” the statement read. “We believe the student council must include the broad spectrum of students at the university, including Jewish and Israeli students.”

The students also demand more actions and events against antisemitism on campus, the removal of the student council’s support from all antisemitic groups on campus, and a new appointment to the position responsible for combating antisemitism at the university.

Universities in Berlin have been hotspots for violent and severe protests over the past two years. Muslim students and far‑left activists barricaded themselves in lecture rooms, hoisted banners, sprayed graffiti and shouted harsh slogans against Israel and Jews, demanding that the universities cut all ties with academic institutions in Israel.


How Wikipedia lies to you | Ashley Rindsberg on the internet’s most powerful propaganda tool
Wikipedia has been hijacked. Although the free internet encyclopedia poses as a neutral, unbiased and trustworthy source of information, it can easily be manipulated by ideologues, governments and other partisan actors. Here, Ashley Rindsberg – editor and chief investigative officer of @NPOVMedia – lifts the lid on the behind-the-scenes policies that make bias inevitable and allow a handful of anonymous editors to rewrite reality.




Army chief vows to crack down on settler attacks, even as suspects freed after mass riot
Three of the four Israeli suspects who were arrested over Tuesday’s major arson attacks in the West Bank were released from police custody on Wednesday, in a move that sparked ire from Israel Defense Forces officials, who criticized police for their lack of law enforcement against violent settlers.

The arrests were made by the IDF on Tuesday afternoon, after troops responded to reports of a large-scale attack on two Palestinian villages in the central West Bank, which involved dozens of settlers.

The attack was sharply condemned by both the IDF chief of staff and the Central Command chief on Wednesday. It came amid a major wave of settler violence, with attacks taking place on a near-daily basis with almost complete impunity.

Additional footage from the scene published by Palestinian media outlets on Wednesday showed dozens of settlers, some masked and some carrying clubs, setting fire to trucks and vehicles in the area.

During the incident, 10 vehicles were torched, along with a warehouse and a plastic factory. Four Palestinians were injured in beatings and by stones thrown by the settlers.

The IDF then transferred the four suspects to the Israel Police, who have jurisdiction over Israeli citizens in the West Bank, alongside the Shin Bet security agency.

According to the military, settlers then attacked a group of soldiers responding to reports of a nearby attack and vandalized a military vehicle.


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GAZAWOOD: Palestinian accounts are massively spreading this video, claiming the baby is starving in Gaza.
In reality, he’s not from Gaza - and his real, heartbreaking story is entirely different.




Iranian state TV airs anti-Israel show with Hebrew subtitles
Iranian state television on Monday for the first time ever aired a program with Hebrew subtitles, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting outlet.

“Toward the Horizon of Palestine,” which began airing on IRIB‘s Ofogh channel in the days after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, included Hebrew subtitles for the first time on Monday evening.

After Tehran “realized that ‘Toward the Horizon of Palestine’ is being monitored in the occupied territories, starting last night, we began broadcasting the news in Hebrew,” said host Hossein Hosseini.

IRIB said the show provides “detailed analysis of the resistance front’s developments and to answer audience questions about Palestine and the Axis of Resistance,” which comprises Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and other Iranian-backed regional terror groups.

The Israeli Air Force struck the IRIB‘s Tehran headquarters during the 12-day war with the Islamic Republic in June. According to the Israeli military, the target of the strike was a communications hub used for military purposes.

The building was used by the regime “under the guise of civilian activity, covering up the military use of the center’s infrastructure and assets,” it said, adding that the attack “directly harmed the military capabilities of the Iranian Armed Forces.”
IAEA unable to check Iran’s uranium since June war, says inspection ‘long overdue’
The International Atomic Energy Agency has not been able to verify the status of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile since Israel and the US struck the country’s nuclear sites during the 12-day war in June, according to confidential reports seen by news agencies.

“The Agency’s lack of access to this nuclear material in Iran for five months means that its verification… is long overdue,” the IAEA said.

According to the IAEA’s last report in September, Iran maintains a stockpile of 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60% purity — a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

That stockpile could allow Iran to build as many as 10 nuclear bombs, should it decide to weaponize its program, IAEA director general Rafael Grossi warned in a recent interview with the AP. He added that it doesn’t mean that Iran has such a weapon.

Tehran, which routinely calls for the destruction of Israel, maintains that its nuclear program is for purely civilian purposes. However, before the war, Iran had been enriching uranium to levels just below weapons-grade, which has no peaceful application. Israel has also said Iran was taking steps toward weaponization.

According to the safeguards agreement that Iran has with the UN nuclear watchdog, Iran is obliged to produce a “special report” detailing the location and status of its nuclear material, including its highly enriched uranium stockpile, following events such as attacks or earthquakes.

The special report must also address the status of the facilities affected by the June war.

The IAEA said Wednesday that “the provision of such a report is indispensable for the Agency to provide assurances that nuclear material subject to safeguards in Iran remains in peaceful nuclear activities and that the facilities subject to safeguards are not misused.”
Seth Frantzman: Iran engages in diplomatic blitz, strengthening ties with Iraq, Uzbekistan, UAE
Iran is working the phones of diplomacy. Over the past days, Iranian state media have described a flurry of activity on the diplomatic front. This comes as Iran is also concerned about tensions with Israel and is weighing whether it will re-enter talks with the US. This is part of a larger agenda.

Advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Akbar Velayati, said that the “era of the United States’ dominance has come to an end and the world is now transitioning from a unipolar to a multipolar and equitable order,” Iranian state media noted.

What is Iran’s foreign ministry doing? “Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Hussein Mohammed Bahr Al Uloom has commanded the recent remarks by Esmaeil Baqaei, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, regarding the sixth parliamentary elections in the Arab country,” Iran’s state media IRNA said.

Iraq’s elections are important because of all the pro-Iranian militias in Iraq. It is also important for Iran to try to continue to influence and control parts of Iraq and Iraq’s resources.

The Islamic Republic views ties positively and has praised the political and electoral atmosphere in Iraq. “Bahr Al Uloom added that Baqaei also expressed hope that the Iraqi people’s participation in the electoral process will help outline the political future of the country,” IRNA added.

Iran is also improving ties with Uzbekistan. “Iran and Uzbekistan have reached new agreements to expand cooperation and investment in the mining and mineral industries, marking a significant step toward strengthening bilateral economic relations,” IRNA noted.

This comes days after US President Donald Trump hosted Central Asian countries and also after Kazakhstan announced it would join the Abraham Accords. Iran also wants to maintain its position in Central Asia. “During his visit to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Iran’s Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mohammad Atabak held talks with Uzbekistan’s Minister of Mining and Geology, Islamov Bobur Farxodovich, and Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade, Laziz Kudratov, on Tuesday,” IRNA noted.


PM recalls horror of Manchester synagogue attack as he makes plea for national unity
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has recalled his visit to Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester following the devastating Yom Kippur terror attack, as he urged faith leaders at a Downing Street reception to fight back against those sowing division and hatred in the UK.

Addressing around 120 people at the Interfaith Reception—including representatives from the Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, and Hindu communities—Starmer reflected on the timing of the attack, which came just 48 hours after he delivered a speech at the Labour Party conference promoting national unity.

He described meeting the families of victims and witnessing the grief and shock that lingered less than a day after the incident.

“I was struck by the sheer horror of what had happened,” Starmer said. “But I was equally moved by the bravery of those who rushed to help—including members of the local mosque, who were among the first to offer assistance, and those in the cinema hall who risked their own safety to protect others. Their actions saved lives and reminded us of the true spirit of our country.”

Reflecting on these moments, he added, “So even in the depths of that despair, I could see what I truly believe is the country that we are.”

He continued, “I was really struck by the fact that many at the synagogue put their own lives at risk, one very much so—pushing the door shut and holding it shut to make sure that other people were safe. Undoubtedly saving the lives of very, very many people. And thinking not of themselves, but of what they could do for others.”

Rabbi Elchonon Feldman, Chair of the Rabbinic Council of the United Synagogue and Senior Rabbi of Bushey United Synagogue, represented the Chief Rabbi at a meeting of senior faith leaders in Downing Street earlier.

After the meeting, Rabbi Feldman said: “I was honoured to represent the United Synagogue in a roundtable discussion with the Prime Minister and Faith Minister at 10 Downing Street today.

“I stressed our community’s deep concern that the Heaton Park terror attack – and other attacks on Jews – did not take place in a vacuum but came from a culmination of Jewish hate over the last two years. As well as giving the Jewish community the security protection it sadly needs, the way to respond must be a strategy for societal cohesion led by the government but working closely with aligned faith leaders.”
Australia debates banning Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir over upcoming caliphate event
An Australian organization dedicated to establishing a caliphate across the Muslim world is set to hold a conference in late November on encouraging Islam as an alternative global governance system, with Australian officials warning that the group presents a threat and should be banned.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is set to hold its 2025 national conference in Bankstown on November 23, proposing that the "moral decay of the global order" exposed by the war in Gaza demanded a new system under Islam.

"The world stands at a breaking point, demanding a new system rooted in truth and justice. At this critical juncture in human history and the unique times we face as a Ummah, where Muslims are being prepared to lead the world once again," read an Instagram advertisement last Monday. "Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia (HTA) warmly welcomes you to this year’s conference, where we will amplify the vision and mission of Islam, as a complete way of life and the only alternative to the falling and failing capitalist world order."

Promotional materials repeatedly referred to societal crises and problems around the world, such as war, slavery, poverty, and corruption, and revolution, and assured that Islamic rule would bring about peace, prosperity, and purpose.

"The Muslim ummah must be ready for the day when once again we are called to establish Islam in governing our affairs," said one HTA representative in a video.
Two Swedes on trial in Denmark for Israeli embassy grenade attack
Two Swedish men went on trial in Denmark on Wednesday for allegedly throwing hand grenades at the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen last year, AFP reported.

The defendants, aged 18 and 21, face terrorism charges, as well as charges of aggravated assault and attempted murder. The younger man pleaded guilty to aggravated assault but denied aiming the grenades at the embassy. His lawyer, Jakob Buch-Jepsen, told the court his client admitted to throwing two grenades but not to targeting the mission. The second defendant pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Prosecutors said the pair transported five hand grenades to the area of Hellerup, near the embassy, on Oct. 2, 2024, throwing two that struck a nearby residential building and exploded. Police later found DNA from the 18-year-old on one of the grenades recovered from a garden. The two were arrested at Copenhagen’s train station as they prepared to travel to Amsterdam.

According to Swedish media, the 18-year-old was recruited by Sweden’s Foxtrot criminal network and is also being prosecuted in Sweden for a shooting at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm the previous day.

The six-day trial is scheduled to conclude Feb. 3. Swedish intelligence has previously alleged that Iran sought to recruit local criminal gangs to attack Israeli targets. The Islamic Republic denies the claim.
Toronto police seek suspect in alleged hate-motivated assault against Jewish victim
Toronto police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man wanted in connection with a suspected hate-motivated assault that took place in North York.

On Sept. 27 at approximately 7:30 p.m., officers responded to a call for an assault in the Bathurst Street and Baycrest Avenue area.

Investigators say the suspect was a passenger in a moving vehicle when he allegedly assaulted a victim who was walking on the sidewalk. During the attack, police report the suspect directed racial slurs at the victim, who was identifiable as a person of Jewish faith at the time of the assault.

The incident is being treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence, police confirmed on Tuesday.

The suspect is described as a male, approximately 20 to 24 years old, and six feet four inches tall, with a slender build and a thin mustache. He was last seen wearing a white shirt with a grey sweater, black pants, and a black beanie hat.

Police have released an image of the suspect and are urging anyone with information to come forward.
Protest held outside Austrian parliament against event honoring declared antisemite
Dozens of people rallied in Vienna on Tuesday against an event hosted by Austria’s first far-right parliamentary speaker that was denounced by critics as antisemitic.

Parliament elected Walter Rosenkranz as speaker after his far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) topped national polls last year for the first time — though they failed to form a government.

But Rosenkranz has faced widespread criticism for his membership of a student fraternity known for its strident pan-German nationalism, and the country’s main Jewish organization has ruled out working with him.

On Tuesday evening, Rosenkranz went ahead with the event in parliament named after Franz Dinghofer, an Austrian vice chancellor in the 1920s, despite historians urging him to stop it, pointing out that Dinghofer was a member of the Nazi party during World War II.

The event, which has been held in parliament in the past and is billed by the FPOe as a “symposium,” drew criticism from Austria’s Jewish community and major political parties.

About 200 protesters gathered in front of the parliament building on Tuesday, according to an AFP journalist.

“Dinghofer was an antisemite and a Nazi party member during WWII,” said Lia Guttmann, co-president of the Austrian Union of Jewish Students group.


The Neo-Nazi who worked inside Buckingham Palace
The chief propagandist for a far-right network exposed by ITV News earlier this year is a former Buckingham Palace employee now helping to forge an Anglo-American alliance of white supremacists intent on bringing US Neo-Nazi tactics to Britain.

Known only by the pseudonym “John” within extremist circles, ITV can now identify him as Matthew Gravill, a 26-year-old from Leicestershire, who travelled to Texas in September to meet a “who’s who” of senior figures in the American fascist movement.

The excursion was part of the group's effort to find ways to exploit social and political divisions in the UK and the US.

Material reviewed by ITV News — including more than 100 hours of undercover recordings, thousands of encrypted messages, and conversations with officials and people who unwittingly encountered Gravill — reveals his double life: a Palace warden guiding visitors through royal state rooms, and a covert organiser within an international extremist movement.

Evidence shows Gravill has played key roles in at least two British fascist groups — Active Club England and Vanguard Britannica, neither of which has been proscribed by the UK government.

His trajectory exposes how extremist views can pervade all strata of society, including inside one of Britain’s most protected institutions, and illustrates how far-right networks are coordinating across borders.




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