Thursday, November 13, 2025
Dermer: "I Could Not Be More Confident in the Jewish Future"
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who served for 8 years as Israel's ambassador to the U.S., resigned from the government on Tuesday after nearly three years in office.Melanie Phillips: The mainstreaming of Jew-hatred
In a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Dermer wrote:
"On the day I was sworn in as a minister, I promised my family I would serve only two years in that position. I extended my tenure twice with their blessing - first to work with you to remove the existential threat posed by Iran's military nuclear capability and second to end the war in Gaza on Israel's terms and bring our hostages home."
"October 7th was indeed the darkest day the Jewish people have known since Israel was established. But the story of our ancient people...has been defined by our perseverance in overcoming the darkness."
"That has been the story of Israel since October 7th. We rejected moral equivocation and fear to confront our enemies with clarity and courage. Two years later, we have dealt a devastating blow to Iran's terror axis."
"One hundred generations of Jews dreamed of living at a time when there would be a sovereign Jewish state. Four generations have had the privilege of realizing that dream."
"With that privilege comes a sacred responsibility: To secure that dream for future generations. I feel eternally blessed to have had the privilege of serving the State of Israel and devoting myself to that sacred responsibility."
"I could not be more confident in the [Jewish] future. Many enemies who reveled in the evil perpetrated on October 7th and vowed to extinguish the flame of Israel have been eliminated, while the light of Israel burns bright across the region and around the world."
Among the ethno-nationalists, there are also disturbing echoes of the Christian antisemitism that poisoned Europe for centuries. The view that Christian Zionism is a modern heresy is gaining traction among Protestants and Catholics alike, putting into reverse the hitherto ironclad support for Israel by America based upon the reverence for Hebrew scripture among evangelical Christians.Benny Morris: Anti-Israel Demonstrators Don't See Hamas for What It Is
This has all led to a frightening convergence. Left-wingers blame the Jews for capitalism. Right-wingers blame the Jews for liberalism and for denying the divinity of Jesus. Islamists blame the Jews for all the evils of the world. So left, right and Islamists are all now linked to each other by loathing of the Jews.
Alarming as this is in itself, the consequences for politics are likely to be seismic.
America’s Democrats and Britain’s Corbynite hard-left both turn off mainstream voters who reject their extremism. In parallel, if the Republicans are identified with white-nationalist conspiracy theorists, they will also lose great swathes of the public.
However, these extremes of both left and right now have significant and growing traction. In Britain, Corbyn’s hard-left, the ultra-left Greens and the Islamists represent a huge body of feeling that is anti-Israel and anti-West.
Competing with Labour for the same constituency, they will all damage each other. In theory, that would benefit the conservative side of politics. But that grouping is itself divided between the populist insurgency Reform and the Conservative party.
The likely outcome, said the astute political philosopher John Gray in London this week, will be a seven-party split. Reform may emerge as the biggest party in this fragmented chaos, but radical leftists and Islamists will be greatly empowered.
In America, said Gray, after Trump leaves office, the forces of ethno-nationalist radical populism are likely to become even stronger.
At the same time, Mamdani has laid down a blueprint for a merging of radical progressivism and Islamism. That alliance of extremes will damage Democrats and benefit Republicans. But if Republicans are divided between mainstream conservatives and radical populists, they will destroy themselves.
More balefully still, this Zoomer generation—having never been taught the history of the worst that humanity has done to itself—is so profoundly alienated from a liberal democratic culture they believe has badly failed and comprehensively lied about it that they see nothing wrong with authoritarianism and fascism.
The political consensus over reason and morality disintegrated when the left adopted Palestinianism as its cause of causes and turned exterminatory Jew-hatred into a badge of conscience.
That, in turn, lifted the constraints against antisemitism that had previously existed on the right. Antisemitism has exploded on the right because the left gave it permission. In other words, the old guardrails against Jew-hatred have disappeared.
Ideological capture—making impermissible any challenges to the dogma of Palestinianism, identity politics or other “progressive” causes—has turned left-wing views into a hermetically sealed thought system. But on the right, there’s been a parallel retreat from rationality and truth.
Gray says that if politicians continue to fail and thus alienate the public still further, the West could be looking at the rise of real fascism or authoritarianism within a decade.
None of this portends well for the Jews of America and Britain.
The way to respond is to fight like hell: to fight to destroy the progressive ideologies that have hollowed out Western civilization; to fight to turn back the tide of Islamization; and to fight to reconnect Christianity to its Jewish parent by affirming, promoting and celebrating the historic, biblically based identity and culture of America and the West.
Muslims - whether born in the U.S. or Europe or recently arrived - have been at the forefront of the demonstrations chanting "Death to Israel," "Death to the West," and, occasionally, "Death to the Jews." In many European cities, Muslims feel empowered and, with their growing numbers, are able to cow politicians.
After Hitler's destruction of European Jewry, for a time antisemitism became politically taboo in Western Europe and the U.S. But by the 2020s, the memory and impact of the Holocaust had faded and the Gaza war witnessed a convergence of Western and Muslim antisemitism. Old-style Muslim antisemitism now washed across Europe, persuading ignorant Europeans that their fathers' antisemitism had actually been legitimate.
Anti-Israel sentiment is encouraged by the way the country has constantly been depicted in the Western media. Almost all that the West's largely ignorant young people see and know are images of dead and wounded Arab babies and women - never of jihadi fighters. They know nothing about the Arab terrorism that stalked the Zionist effort to settle in the Jews' ancient patrimony.
They know nothing about the wars Palestinians and Arab states have waged against the Jewish state, nor do they know that the Palestinians consistently rejected the periodic peace offers made by the Zionists/Israel and the international community for a two-state compromise. These young people are probably even unaware of the treaties Israel signed with Egypt and Jordan, to those countries' mutual satisfaction.
Hamas are close cousins of ISIS and though they have had the public relations smarts not to broadcast the slitting of hostages' throats, they have been just as murderous. Hamas kindergartens and schools in Gaza systematically inculcated hatred of Jews and Israel, in line with Hamas's foundational charter of 1988. So the mass slaughter of Israelis by Hamas on 7 October, with its accompanying rapes and beheadings, was prophesied by Hamas documents and ideology long before any blood was actually shed on that day.
Why the keffiyeh-wearing Christian students and professors marching through America's campuses and Europe's capitals don't recognize Hamas's homophobia, misogyny, totalitarianism, and their anti-Christian/anti-Western core beliefs is beyond comprehension. But somehow the demonstrators don't see Hamas for what it is.
Seth Mandel: Literal Blood Libels and the Modern University
Now, this is far from the most important point, but it’s worth noting that Maqusi can’t even get the blood libel right. Jews do not eat matzah on Sukkot, which is the holiday referenced by Maqusi. The Damascus Affair took place just before Passover in 1840.UCL bans former employee after ‘antisemitic blood libel’ shared at campus event
What actually happened was that Jews in Damascus were tortured until they “confessed,” which was followed by general anti-Semitic violence and the kidnapping of Jewish children.
It’s fun, of course, to ridicule Maqusi’s uniquely ignorant attempt to reconstruct the blood libel—claiming Jews eat special pancakes on Sukkot when she means matzah on Passover. And she deserves to be ridiculed, but also to be sent back to the 12th century where she belongs.
It is also tempting for Americans to feel superior at a moment like this. They should not.
In 2016, Jasbir Puar, a Rutgers professor, developed a modern version of this blood libel centered on Jewish theft of Palestinian organs. The details of her accusations were immediately debunked, of course—there was no truth to anything she claimed, lest it even need to be said. But Puar was rewarded by academia with a book contract from Duke University Press. Later, her book-length retelling of this blood libel was required reading in a Princeton University class on Near East history.
So, ha-ha University College of London? Not so fast. America’s Ivy League beat you to it. University College has also apologized and banned both the lecturer and the group that hosted the event.
Two lessons from this. One, Western academia is in far worse shape than even its loudest critics allege. This is not about bias or “wokeness” in the classroom; it is about the shattering of intellectual pursuit in America, in Britain, and elsewhere. It is a de-enlightenment.
Two, the Damascus Affair was a major moment in the history of the American Jewish community, which organized multiple protests and turned itself into the shield of the Diaspora. President Martin Van Buren himself intervened, having his secretary of state decry “such barbarous measures” still happening in the world.
Once upon a time Americans believed that the Damascus Affair was more proof of the value of Western Civilization and the rights and norms that came along with it. Western Civilization was the solution, so it was thought, to the persistence of medieval brain rot into the modern era. And now Western educational institutions are the carriers of that brain rot.
Dave Rich, Head of Policy at the Community Security Trust, said:
“The blood libel is a vicious anti-Jewish lie that has incited hatred and violence towards Jews throughout history. We are appalled that a Research Associate at UCL, Dr Samar Marqusi, has delivered such an outrageously antisemitic lecture to students on UCL property. At a time when antisemitism is rising at alarming rates, it is utterly disgraceful that such dangerous myths are being presented within an academic setting. This is not education; it is the perpetuation of hate. CST has complained to UCL demanding firm and swift action against both Dr Maqusi and the Students for Justice in Palestine Society that organised the talk.”
The President of UCL’s Jewish Society said: “This incident is deeply troubling and such rhetoric has no place on campus. It underscores how much work still needs to be done to ensure that Jewish students feel safe and respected on our campus. We will continue to work with the leadership and authorities to enforce accountability and demand decisive action. Moments like this remind us that vigilance and education must continue – words have consequences.”
Louis Danker, President of UJS, added that “”Jewish students are disgusted that ancient antisemitic blood libels are being platformed on campus in 2025. That a UCL academic feels emboldened to teach ahistoric hatred demonstrates a deep rot in many of our academic institutions. Swift, decisive action is required urgently by UCL and UCL Students Union. Jewish students will no longer accept a culture of impunity on antisemitism, and the time for change is now.”
The Campaign Against Antisemitism described the situation as “appalling. By failing to clearly refute this centuries-old falsehood, the audience is left with the impression that such a claim could be true, thereby perpetuating one of the most dangerous and long-standing antisemitic myths.”
CAA pointed out that “according to the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism, which has been adopted by UCL, ‘Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism, e.g. blood libel, to characterise Israel or Israelis’ is an example of antisemitism. The blood libel is a malicious and dangerous lie that has incited violence against Jews for centuries. It falsely accuses Jews of using the blood of others for their own gain. It continues to be a major aspect of antisemitism today. UCL must explain how this was allowed to take place.”
UCL Students for Justice in Palestine is an accredited organisation within the university’s student union. The society’s tagline is “you just have to be human”.
UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence, said: “I am utterly appalled by these heinous antisemitic comments. Antisemitism has absolutely no place in our university, and I want to express my unequivocal apology to all Jewish students, staff, alumni, and the wider community that these words were uttered at UCL.
“The individual responsible is a former fixed-term researcher at UCL, but not a current member of UCL staff. We have reported this incident to the police and have banned her from campus. We have launched a full investigation into how this happened and have banned the student group which hosted it from holding any further events on campus pending the outcome of this.
“Regrettably, like many UK universities, we continue to confront incidents of antisemitism and are committing to banishing this from our campus. We have initiated disciplinary proceedings against a number of students in relation to antisemitism and reported incidents to the police where appropriate.
“Freedom of speech and academic freedom are fundamental to university life, but they can never be misused as a shield for hatred. UCL remains steadfast in our commitment to ensure our campus is a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for everyone.”
Former UNRWA Architect/Physical Planner Dr. Samar Maqusi “teaches” @UCL university students in London that “Jews use ‘gentile’ blood for Passover matzah.”🥴 https://t.co/k0puETgKUz
— Leslie Kajomovitz (@kikas6652) November 13, 2025
🔊LISTEN to more of the recording from the lecture at UCL called “The Birth of Zionism”
— StandWithUsUK (@StandWithUsUK) November 13, 2025
See how easy it is to invoke classic antisemitic tropes about the Jews controlling the banks and the “financial infrastructure”. Not just some Jewish families, but- “the Jews”.
All while… pic.twitter.com/s4xl72Gc3o
Anne Frank musical shows Holocaust diarist alerting Nazis to stop Israel’s creation
A comedy musical based loosely on the life of Anne Frank attempts to swear the audience – and media – to secrecy about the last 20 minutes of the show – in which characters chant about ‘Palestine’, don fake noses and dip their hands in a blood-like substance, with “Anne” throwing a page of her diary out of the window to alert the Nazis to her family’s presence in order to prevent the creation of Israel.Jake Wallis Simons: ITV’s Breaking Ranks: The latest piece of genocide porn smearing the Jewish state
The New York based off-broadway show, titled Slam Frank – with the largely non-Jewish cast singing and dancing while wearing yellow Stars of David, is marketed as a musical satire, which was developed after a widely mocked social media post which asked whether Anne Frank, who was murdered by the Nazis, ever “considered her white privilege”.
Estee Stimler, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, was taken to the show and was horrified by the last 20 minutes, describing how some audience members left, but that she was not seated in a position to leave. Stimler, who is not a journalist, subsequently wrote a comment piece for Jewish News about her experience of the musical.
Within a matter of hours, Jewish News was approached by a public relations firm, stating that “we have a very strict embargo policy for all journalists” and that: “We do have some important messaging around the embargo on the last 20 minutes of the show, while we encourage and welcome conversation, we ask that no details be revealed about the final 20 minutes of the show.”
The PR representative went on to say that “the last act is designed to leave audiences in a state of shock and awe, disoriented, provoked, and compelled to continue discussing the performance long after the curtain falls. Protecting that visceral experience is essential to us, and to the integrity of the work.”
There was the usual claim that Israel had dropped more munitions on Gaza than had fallen on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; as usual, nobody pointed out that as many as 246,000 people were killed in Japan, suggesting that Israel had successfully protected a great number of civilians while targeting Hamas underground.Jake Wallis Simons Podcast: BBC is using Trump scandal as smokescreen for anti-Israel bias
Similarly, the opening shot of the documentary showed a street scene with various Palestinians filming a building with their phones. A few seconds later, it was shelled. To the informed viewer, this was confirmation that the IDF had given advance warning to evacuate. To most people, however, this was evidence of a horrific crime.
Starvation allegations were also present and correct, complete with footage of inexplicably well-fed Gazans, and testimony from an anonymous man who claimed to have worked for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation claiming that Israeli troops had wantonly killed civilians seeking aid.
Given the scandal surrounding Anthony Aguilar, an American GHF contractor who sensationally told the BBC that Israeli soldiers had murdered a young boy, only for that young boy to later turn up alive and well, you’d have thought that ITV would be more careful. But this was an anonymous account delivered with no detail, so I suppose there was no risk of such embarrassment.
As Israel is a rambunctious democracy with a strong tradition of public dissent and a volatile political system, it is the easiest thing in the world for Western Israelophobes to find leftists in the country willing to cooperate with such propaganda.
To give them their due, some Israeli soldiers may very well have committed atrocities on the ground. Remember Abu Ghraib, where American forces subjected Iraqi detainees to torture, sexual humiliation, rape and murder in 2003-4? Criminals can be found in every army. Three hundred thousand Israeli troops served in Gaza, and there may have been a number of psychopaths, fanatics and murderers among them.
As Ze’ev Jabotinsky put it in 1911: “As one of the first conditions for equality we demand the right to have our own villains, exactly as other people have them.” Certainly, that is suggested by some of the testimony and footage showcased by ITV.
If true, these people must be brought to justice. But to warp the context, exaggerate the ubiquity of these crimes and deprive the sensible majority of a voice paints a false picture of an IDF comprised entirely of evildoers. Which is what most people think anyway.
After a Telegraph bombshell, both the BBC Director-General and Head of BBC News are OUT as the corporation is exposed for its "FAR LEFT ideological capture".BBC updates page still promoting ‘14,000 babies will die in 48 hours’ falsehood
Our co-pilots take a look at the shocking truth behind the billion-dollar lawsuit threat from President Donald Trump after a Panorama team edited his speech on January 6th 2021. Allison details the biased coverage of Israel and Gaza as well as gender issues, where "smug and arrogant" staffers tried to censor news and silence "normal women".
As Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget looms ever closer, Liam details the incoming fiscal madness as it now seems Labour will break its manifesto pledge and raise income tax.
Joining your co-pilots on the rocket this week is Jake Wallis Simons, award-winning journalist, foreign correspondent, and author of Israel Phobia and his latest, Never again: How the West Betrayed the Jews and itself. Jake joins us to detail the BBC's "damning" coverage of Israel and Gaza and why the Panorama scandal is just a smoke screen for their other mistakes.
The BBC has provided additional information on a page featuring its video of a senior UN representative incorrectly claiming that in Gaza “14,000 babies will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them”, following a Jewish News request for clarification by the broadcaster.
In May, Tom Fletcher, the UN’s Humanitarian Chief, told the BBC that 14,000 babies in Gaza would die in a two-day period unless UN aid could reach them. The claim was made headlines around the world.
However, when the BBC subsequently asked for clarification on the figure, it was directed to an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report which stated something very different – that 14,000 children aged 0-6 were at risk of severe acute malnutrition over the course of a year – not 48 hours – if food aid was not received.
Jewish News found yesterday that a video of Fletcher making that claim was still available on the BBC News website – without any update as to the inaccuracy of his statement.
After Jewish News contacted the BBC, the corporation confirmed that “we have added a note to the relevant page, making clear that the figures were later clarified.” While the update does link to the BBC news story which shows that Fletcher’s claim was inaccurate, it does not specifically mention that inaccuracy, but manages to add a statement from the UN spokesperson which avoided a direct answer as to why Fletcher made such a claim, saying “We are pointing to the imperative of getting supplies in to save an estimated 14,000 babies suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Gaza, as the IPC partnership [Integrated Food Security Phase Classification] has warned about. We need to get the supplies in as soon as possible, ideally within the next 48 hours.”
Two weeks ago The Telegraph published a dossier from Michael Prescott, a former independent adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Board, containing a significant number of occasions where the Corporation had shown anti-Israel bias. One of the examples identified was connected to Tom Fletcher’s inaccurate claim, which the BBC was aware was inaccurate, given its follow-up questions to the UN on the subject. However, Prescott wrote that “despite this, Fletcher’s inaccurate claim was put to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon on Newsnight. Why, when the BBC knew the suggestion was wrong?”
USAID is BBC Media Action’s single biggest donor, other than the British government itself. BBC Media Action is the BBC’s giant pool of free money to pay hundreds of other media outlets to produce slop and amplify stories aligned with the BBC. https://t.co/dHlsBqGgof pic.twitter.com/hh1DGxXmHG
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) November 13, 2025
Legal Aid lawyers union settles after 3 members allegedly ridiculed, targeted for pro-Israel stance
The union repping taxpayer-funded Legal Aid lawyers agreed to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought by members who were allegedly ridiculed and targeted for opposing a union-approved anti-Israel resolution as antisemitic.UC Berkeley Groups Raise Thousands for Gaza Man With Apparent Ties to Designated Terror Groups
The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW Local 2325, agreed to pay the three pro-Israel members a total of $315,000 and admitted that some of the comments leveled at the trio were “inappropriate.”
“We’re happy for our clients, and for the precedent this settlement establishes for Jewish and allied union members across the country laboring against an obsessive focus on demonizing Israel and Jews, instead of a focus on fighting for better wages, benefits and working conditions,” said Rory Lancman, director of corporate initiatives & senior Counsel at the Brandeis Center, who led the prosecution for the plaintiffs.
The settlement also calls for mandatory training of union members.
The case was brought by the Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a Jewish legal civil rights group.
The ALAA had even initiated proceedings to expel the three Nassau County members — Ilana Kopmar, Diane Clarke and Isaac Altman — after they filed a lawsuit last year to block the union from passing a one-sided resolution that condemned Israel for the war, but didn’t blame Hamas, whose Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks sparked the conflict.
Two of three plaintiffs are Jewish.
The approved resolution also opposes all existing and future US military aid to Israel and endorses the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the Jewish state, which critics say is a form of antisemitism.
In their federal court complaint, the plaintiffs described being targeted as “snitches,” “losers,” “disgusting,” “dictators in training” and “Zionist ghouls” in the ALAA’s internal discussion boards.
A fundraising campaign organized by Berkeley Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 4 Palestine (STEM 4 Palestine) and Berkeley Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP), and promoted by UC Berkeley lecturer Peyrin Kao, has raised over $66,000 to date for a Gaza resident. A Jewish Onliner investigation has revealed that the recipient appears to have ties to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations—information never disclosed to donors.
The beneficiary, Nedal Mohammed, a member of the Abu Samra clan in Deir al-Balah, has been photographed attending official ceremonies for the U.S.-designated terror group The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and wielding automatic weapons. His social media reveals praise for the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre and posts mourning apparent members of designated terror organizations and militant groups.
The Campaign
STEM 4 Palestine—previously known as Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 4 Palestine (EECS 4 Palestine)—launched the fundraiser on September 26, 2025, in collaboration with FSJP. The campaign initially set a goal of $50,000, but on October 9, the organizers increased the target to $100,000. As of publication, the campaign has raised over $66,000.
The campaign states it will send funds directly to Nedal to purchase and distribute food to displaced families in Gaza. Each of the fundraising updates separately confirm the money raised is going to Nedal Mohammed.
Leading the effort is Kao, a UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science lecturer who appears in promotional videos seemingly personally vouching for Nedal. “We got in touch with someone named Nedal Mohammed,” Kao explains in footage posted to STEM 4 Palestine’s Instagram account, confirming direct communication between the Berkeley groups and the fundraiser’s beneficiary and that they reached out to the alleged terror-linked individual. Photographs from Gaza show banners bearing the names “Berkeley STEM,” “EECS,” and “FSJP” displayed alongside Nedal during distribution activities.
Our client, a Canadian citizen, was told that her place of birth—Kfar Saba, Israel—could not appear on her passport “because of the political conflict.”
— Neil G. Oberman (@NeilOberman) November 13, 2025
No law supports this.
No regulation authorizes it.
No democracy should tolerate it.
Passports are not political documents.… pic.twitter.com/q5UERBeoVK
NYC: Flyers at The New School are calling for the removal of Hillel, a vital safe haven for Jewish students found on campuses across the country.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 13, 2025
Let’s be clear — this isn’t about Palestinian rights.
The goal here is to vilify, isolate, and erase Jews from campus life. pic.twitter.com/6NHuHAVHU2
Meet Noel P. McGrath (Craith P Nollaig on Facebook). He describes Israelis as "evil personified" and "animals," claiming that Hitler (Yimakh shemo) was right all along. Noel appears to be the life partner of Cork City Council Cllr. John Maher (@jmaher0). We suspect that Noel… pic.twitter.com/ctRoIW0dow
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) November 13, 2025
Casey Kennedy is pushing a man with a Nazi tattoo for Maine’s senate seat.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 13, 2025
Let his employer know here: https://t.co/bxIT87RbKL pic.twitter.com/fPhprpBoV9
Wikipedia Editors Attack Co-Founder Jimmy Wales Following ‘Gaza Genocide’ Page Criticism
While many editors criticized Wales and defended the “Gaza genocide” page treating genocide claims as fact, there was also a push endorsed by Wales to properly devise site standards on genocide claims. Discussions focused on either a specific guideline or policy on such claims or to have a guideline more broadly addressing how to handle the characterization of violent events with some discussing just expanding upon existing policies and guidelines. Editor Very Polite Person created a page to workshop a potential policy or guideline proposal focusing on questions about how to balance claims from governments and other organizations along with assessing Wikipedia practice and existing standards.
Even with co-founders Wales and Sanger criticizing the “Gaza genocide” article, editors continued pushing the claims. The think tank study disputing genocide claims, which precipitated the page lock, was ultimately removed from the page a few days after Wales commented when the lock expired. SuperPianoMan sought to note in the introduction the various countries opposing genocide claims with editors fighting over it and framing those countries as Israel’s supporters. Discussions regarding how prominently to mention rejection of genocide claims were also initiated. A section was even added on “genocide denial” linking to an article created last month. Surveys showing Israelis supported military actions in Gaza were moved to the “denial” section.
Disputes have also arisen over whether to claim as fact Israel was committing genocide in the introduction of Israel’s own article. Editors removing such changes noted the material in the article was itself the basis of prior community decisions. This was followed by a new discussion being opened on also claiming genocide as fact in the Israel article. One editor created a “Gaza genocide” navigation box listing “genocidal acts” and linking an “incitement to genocide” page created shortly after the September decision to claim as fact that Israel was committing genocide. The navigation box has been added to over 150 articles, including one on a pro-Israeli march.
Drowning in Bias: The Guardian’s Latest Hit Piece Accuses Israel of Weaponizing Water
Aside from the disproportionate focus on the allegations against Israel, there are several other issues with The Guardian’s article and with the study upon which it is based.
These include:
Both the article and the Pacific Institute study make no mention of Hamas damaging water pipes between Israel and Gaza during the October 7 attacks, or that Hamas digs up water pipes in order to fashion crude rockets. This disregard of Hamas’ weaponization of water infrastructure calls into question the “impartiality” of these pieces.
The Guardian makes no mention of the measures taken by the Jewish state to increase the amount of water that enters the Gaza Strip, including repairing damaged pipelines, aiding in the construction of a UAE-sponsored pipeline from Egypt, providing power to the Khan Younis desalination plant, and fueling water facilities.
Some of the instances of “assaults on water” that were listed by the Pacific Institute include the military filling up illegal wells in the West Bank. This is not done to harm the Palestinians but to preserve the integrity of the fragile water system in the West Bank. When wells are illegally drilled without any oversight, they can harm both the quality and quantity of water in the area. Without providing this proper context, the Pacific Institute creates a false narrative that Israel cruelly targets Palestinian water sources in the West Bank.
Some other instances of “assaults on water” in Lebanon or Gaza documented by the Pacific Institute were the result of Israeli attacks on nearby military targets and were not the primary focus of Israeli forces. One example of this is a 2024 attack on “Al Nabatieh, Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah infrastructure. During the raid, water and electricity networks are damaged.”
By making the Pacific Institute’s latest report largely about Israel and by throwing nuance to the wind, The Guardian amply demonstrates its obsessive anti-Israel agenda and total lack of journalistic integrity.
This is the @Reuters template for stories about Israel: dramatic allegations in the headline then the buried fact at the end—U.S. agencies reviewed the evidence and found no Israeli war crimes, perhaps isolated incidents. Headline accuses; fine print at the very end clears. 1/ pic.twitter.com/6rtyLOHeFw
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) November 13, 2025
UK commentator who praised Oct. 7 ‘victory’ lands in London after US deportation
British pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel political commentator Sami Hamdi landed back in London on Thursday after being released from the United States, where he spent more than two weeks in immigration detention.
Hamdi was detained on October 26 at San Francisco International Airport after US officials revoked his visa during a speaking tour in which he criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza. The Trump administration has accused him of supporting the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre.
“It’s wonderful to be back after being exonerated by two federal judges, both of whom found that there were serious breaches of freedom of speech,” Hamdi told reporters after landing at London’s Heathrow Airport, where he was embraced by his family.
He said the only allegation against him was overstaying his visa after it was revoked without warning. He insisted he had complied with all visa conditions and alleged the move was linked to his advocacy for Gaza.
“I want to say that this wasn’t just an attack on me. It was an attack on the freedoms of ordinary Americans and citizens worldwide. It was an attack on their freedom to speak the truth in the face of hatred,” he said.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Hamdi’s visa was canceled under security rules and that he was in the country illegally. Rights groups and press freedom advocates condemned the detention, calling it an attack on free speech.
In a statement at the time of his arrest, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman cited remarks he made in a video posted online shortly after the Hamas attacks in which he called to “celebrate the victory” of October 7 and asked his audience “how many of you felt euphoria” when they heard of the Hamas atrocities in which terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
Hamdi is a grotesque hater. And many mosques want to hear from him. He has MP supporters too. Wake up, as Sycophant says. We have a firestorm of dangerous hatred in the country and the fire brigades remain idle.https://t.co/ODkWqypCHf
— habibi (@habibi_uk) November 13, 2025
South Africa admits over 100 Palestinians after 12-hour airport delay, backed by activist groups
Over 100 Palestinians who traveled to South Africa allegedly seeking asylum disembarked after spending over 12 hours on the tarmac at a Johannesburg airport, South African public broadcaster SABC reported on Thursday.
The 153 Palestinians traveled on a flight from Nairobi, Kenya, and were held at O.R. Tambo International Airport after South Africa's Border Management Authority (BMA) initially refused their entry because they were unable to indicate the duration of their stay or the address of their accommodation, SABC noted.
Out of the 153, 23 had been transferred to their final destinations, while the remaining 130 were processed for entry into South Africa.
They were allowed to enter the country after pro-Palestinian activist group Gift of the Givers "gave its commitment to accommodate the travelers," SABC clarified.
The activists claim that Israel deliberately did not stamp passports "to exacerbate the suffering" of the Palestinians.
Activists thank South African gov't for pro-Palestinian stance
"We thank the South African government for coming to the assistance of the Palestinian people yet again. Gift of the Givers, with other civil society partners, will provide humanitarian assistance to the refugees," the activists stated.
The Palestinians "are eligible for 90-day visa-exempt travel to South Africa, and have been processed as per normal and will be required to adhere to all conditions of entry," BMA Commissioner Michael Masiapato confirmed to SABC.
South Africa forced ~100 Gazans to stay on the plane for hours upon landing and denied them entry into the country…despite the country presenting themselves as a great defender of Palestinian rights.
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) November 13, 2025
The corrupt ANC also colludes with the Islamic regime in Iran to accuse… pic.twitter.com/pSaxtVWraU
🚨 Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani welcomes Gazans who the Italian government has awarded scholarships to study at universities in the country. The Gazans thank the Italian government and the minister, who appears excited to welcome and embrace the "fruits" of his… pic.twitter.com/d2KymVlDbQ
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) November 13, 2025
Lebanese General (Ret.) Yaarob Sakhr: Lebanon Should Board the “Great Train of Development” Sweeping the Middle East – The Arab-Israeli Conflict Is Over; Israel Has the Upper Hand Because of U.S. Support pic.twitter.com/Rn0AOA8R0P
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) November 13, 2025
BREAKING: Colonel Sajjad Azadeh of the Iranian Army [Artesh] Ground Forces has publicly announced his defection from the Islamist regime in Iran, pledging allegiance to Iran’s Lion and Sun flag. He declared that “great things are underway” and that soon “this regime of lies,… pic.twitter.com/VAIzfxCual
— Shayan News (@ShayanNews) November 13, 2025
🚨WATCH: Holding the Shah's regime flag in the Tehran subway: The Iranian news agency Fars, associated with the regime, claims that Iranian security forces arrested two uniformed men who raised the flag at the metro station, and it was found that they are not soldiers and that… pic.twitter.com/YSUJ5FQ7TI
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) November 13, 2025
Feds convict neo-Nazi who targeted Georgia rabbi, Jewish state rep
Federal prosecutors in Georgia announced on Thursday that a neo-Nazi was convicted of hate crimes earlier in the month after he sent threatening, antisemitic postcards to a local rabbi and the state’s lone Jewish representative.
Ariel Collazo Ramos, 32, of High Point, N.C., was found guilty of a count of mailing threatening communications with a hate-crime enhancement after he sent messages, including “Jews are rats,” to Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar and Esther Panitch, a Georgia state representative.
“Is there a child rape, torture and murder tunnel under your house? We have the Zyklon B,” Ramos stated in a handwritten note, referring to the cyanide-based poison that the Nazis used at Auschwitz and other death camps.
“Use code ‘gasthejews’ for 10% off,” he added.
The Justice Department noted that family members of both Bahar and Panitch were murdered using Zyklon B during the Holocaust. Bahar and Panitch each received the same message from Ramos.
Ramos wasn’t exercising his free speech when he sent the antisemitic postcards to the two, according to William Keyes, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
“This neo-Nazi delivered a true threat to life and liberty,” Keyes stated. “Antisemitic threats and all threats made against the federally protected freedoms of our citizens will not be tolerated in the Middle District of Georgia.”
Panitch offered her “profound thanks” for the verdict on Thursday.
Gaming isn’t always just gaming.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 13, 2025
Certain GTA mods create worlds that celebrate terrorists and promote violent narratives, and the clips spread far beyond the players themselves. It may look like gameplay, but it pushes real extremist ideology. pic.twitter.com/6EsBO4WX7g
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— Gordon Freeman (@ma1q) November 13, 2025
Israelis Are Saving Lives in Jamaica after Hurricane
An Israeli delegation of 30 medical personnel is treating victims of a powerful hurricane that struck Jamaica, working side-by-side with local medical staff.‘TIME’ selects Eli Sharabi memoir for 100 must-read books of 2025
"The two hospitals where we are working have almost doubled their patient load since the storm, because people have nowhere else to go, said Dr. Sefi Mendelovich, deputy director-general of the Israel Ministry of Health.
He reported that the Israeli team is receiving very warm treatment. "People who hear we are from Israel say, 'well done.' We have not received negative responses."
Prof. Ofer Marin, director of Shaare Zedek Medical Center, said: "It is moving to see again how the State of Israel can extend a hand: fast, professional and warm, even at a distance of over 10,000 km. We were privileged to touch patients, save lives, and certainly represent our country with honor."
TIME magazine included the memoir of former Israeli captive Eli Sharabi, titled Hostage, on its list of 100 “must-read” books of 2025, published Wednesday."Red Alert" Exposes Truth after Oct. 7
Ahead of the book’s international release on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, TIME ran a long-format piece with translated excerpts from the memoir, which it called “a taut, immersive chronicle of endurance” that “serves as a window into the Israeli view of the war.”
Sharabi “was pulled away from his wife and two daughters in the first hours of the [Oct. 7, 2023,] attack. For the next 491 days, with rare exceptions, the only people Sharabi saw were other hostages and Hamas militants—the same parties that have remained front and center in the viewfinder of Jewish Israelis for two solid years, even as most of the world shifted its focus to the Palestinian civilians,” the article states.
Hostage was published in Israel in May, four months after the abductee’s return from Gaza. It is the first published memoir of a freed Hamas captive, and has become a best-seller in Hebrew.
The English edition is published by Harper Influence, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
“It was important to me that the story come out as quickly as possible, so that the world will understand what life is like inside captivity,” said Sharabi, according to AP.
Over almost four decades of making movies and TV shows, I've supported many causes, working with people from many different walks of life - ethnicities, races, women, LGBTQ. I did it because it's how I saw the world, not because I was "supposed to."Pulp Fiction Producer Lawrence Bender, Telling Jewish Stories About Oct 7th with Zionist Filmmakers
Then came Oct. 8, 2023, the day after the horrific massacre in Israel. I started to notice my phone not ringing. I wasn't getting calls from this diverse group of people I'd been working with most of my life: "Are you OK?" "Do you have family or friends in Israel, and are they OK?"
Not only were my peers staying quiet, but many also denied the atrocities that happened. Some even started justifying the acts of terror. And the antisemitism of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, of which I've been a member since 1995, became clear. The very industry that preaches inclusion and empathy mostly turned away when my fellow Jews were being raped and murdered. Even worse, many blamed Israel for all this.
I was compelled to act, and the result is my limited scripted TV series on Paramount+, "Red Alert." My team and I made it to honor the very people who went through this horrific experience, those who were killed and those who survived. It became a mission to tell their stories - to show the truth of these incredible heroes ignored or maligned by Hollywood and the rest of the world.
We chose family and underdog stories - a middle-aged mother running off to save her son and, in the process, saving many neighbors; a man trying to save his wife; a mother saving her two daughters as her son is taken into Gaza.
And we have a very important story of an Arab family whose father saves his child, himself and ultimately saves an IDF unit. All true. Most people don't understand that many Arabs were also murdered by Hamas. All these ordinary people became superheroes.
For my progressive friends who have gotten it so wrong - who have twisted the truth, excused the terror and demonized Israel - I hope they begin to understand the real truth.
Pulp Fiction Producer and Jewish Hollywood filmmaker, Lawrence Bende,r is our guest this week on Being Jewish with Jonah Platt. They discuss Hollywood's Silence on Antisemitism, the new 'Red Alert' Miniseries based on Oct 7th, and Lawrence's incredible relationship working with Quentin Tarantino on 6 films.
Three-time Academy Award-nominated Hollywood producer Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, Inglourious Basterds, An Inconvenient Truth) sits down with host Jonah Platt for a deeply personal discussion about his legendary career, lifelong commitment to social justice filmmaking, and the crushing moment he felt "abandoned" by his peers after the October 7th attacks.
Bender, a Lion of Zion, explains how this moment of "harrowing silence from Hollywood" pushed him down a new, urgent path to produce the compelling new Paramount Plus miniseries, Red Alert, which dramatizes four heroic and horrifying true stories from that terrible day in Israel. The conversation explores his early life in The Bronx, experiences with antisemitism, the responsibility of being a Jewish filmmaker, and the intentional inclusion of stories from an Arab-Israeli family in Red Alert to show the world the reality of Israel.
00:00 -Hollywood to Red Alert
03:28 - Lawrence Bender's History With Israel
05:48 - Hollywood's Harrowing Silence
10:27 - Being Jewish in Hollywood
16:20 - The Impossible Production Timeline
19:10 - Reuniting with Quentin Tarantino
23:25 - Childhood Antisemitism
33:04 - Actors Playing Survivors
43:24 - On-Set Gun Safety Rules
49:10 - College Antisemitism Stories
54:20 - Red Alert Trailer Reactions
56:59 - Lawrence Bender's Next Film
Ask Haviv Anything: Episode 59: Are Jews indigenous to Israel?
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Prominent Holocaust survivors die, including ‘librarian of Auschwitz,' last Warsaw Ghetto fighter
When Michael Smuss died last month at 99, an era of Jewish history came to a close.
Smuss was the last known resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when Jews rose up against their Nazi persecutors in one of the most dramatic episodes of the Holocaust.
Smuss was not the only prominent survivor to die in recent weeks. A number of survivors, several centenarians, have died in a wave that underscores the rapid disappearance of anyone alive with robust memories of the Holocaust.
Six months after the Claims Conference estimated that 220,800 Holocaust survivors remained alive, that number has dropped below 200,000, according to Greg Schneider, the group’s executive vice president. What’s more, those who were “in camps and ghettos and who can speak to that experience,” he noted, are all in their 90s and 100s.
“It just makes the loss even more dramatic,” Schneider said. “The group of people that can share that experience is really very limited today, and unfortunately, are leaving us at a much faster rate than even general survivors.”
With the population of survivors who experienced the camps and ghettoes firsthand dramatically decreasing as the months go by, Schneider said the time to hear their testimonies was now.
“There’s limited time to hear an authentic voice directly from a survivor,” said Schneider. “It’s always been urgent to listen to a survivor and to hear their story, but now we have to say with such clarity, your children, your grandchildren, future generations, will never be able to have that experience. So if you want to have that experience, you must do it immediately.”
Here are some of the stories of the prominent survivors who have died recently.
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