Saturday, November 15, 2025

11/15 Links: 50 years since UN resolution, the world proves anti-Zionism is actually racism; The settler-colonial lie, debunked; Zohran Mamdani and the ugly rebirth of the socialism of fools

From Ian:

Michal Cotler-Wunsh: 50 years since UN resolution, the world proves anti-Zionism is actually racism
Anti-Zionism, as clearly articulated in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism after a long democratic process, is denying Israel’s right to exist as a state and denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination. It is discriminating against Israelis and turning the Jew among nations into all that is evil, a pariah responsible for all that is bad in the world.

Fifty years later, and as the past two years since the October 7 Kristallnacht-moment of our times have made abundantly clear, it is anti-Zionism – denying Jewish identity, memory, heritage, peoplehood, and ancestry – that is racism.

It is racism that has again been normalized and legitimized in the name of “liberation,” “justice,” and “progress,” this time by hijacking, redefining, inverting, and weaponizing foundational principles upon which the UN was founded, betraying all it was entrusted to uphold, promote, and protect. It is racism that not only endangers Israel, but all who believe in its right to exist, and the rights of Jews around the world. To paraphrase the late Rabbi Sacks, what begins with the Jews never ends with us.

“There will be time enough to contemplate the harm this act will have done the United Nations.” Fifty years later, Moynihan’s words have become a devastating reality. The institution entrusted to ensure that “Never Again,” by anyone to anyone, seats the most egregious violators of human rights around the Human Rights Council table. It hosts tyrannical regime leaders who invoke the language of rights, even as they torture, execute, and trample the rights of their people. In what has become a modern-day Tower of Babel, it collapses every foundational principle upon which it was constructed.

In a social-media age guided by a polarizing, fragmentizing business model, in which history has little resonance, what happens at the UN and the human rights industry created to support it does not remain there. Academic institutions, no longer pursuing truth in what has been dubbed a post-truth era, have seemingly replaced the mission of teaching how to think with agendas that indoctrinate generations on what to think. Bot-generated hashtags and buzzwords make their way around the world in TikTok videos, in Instagram reels, and in X/Twitter posts, before the (post)truth “straps its boots on.” Fifty years after the UN declared that Zionism is racism, leaders across spaces and places openly declare that they are not antisemitic, only anti–Zionist, generating popular support and little challenge.

Fifty years later, if we are to learn anything from history that repeats in rhyme, it is not enough to teach what happened. It is vital to understand how it happened, and can happen again, with the same mechanism of demonization, delegitimization, and double standards. It is imperative to insist that the law be applied equally and consistently by the institutions mandated to protect foundational principles. For “Never Again” to mean anything, it is vital to not only remember the past but also recognize present iterations of evil to prevent future recurrence of atrocities.

We must remember, reclaim, and renew the Jewish story, universal principles of human rights, and the commitment to uphold and protect foundational principles. In a raging war of barbarism openly declaring the intent to destroy our shared civilization, it is also a vital step toward protecting humanity and freedom.


The Palestinian Fantasy State
The idea of a Palestinian state exists only in the European imagination; even the Arabs do not truly believe in it.

While Israel recognized the national identity of the Palestinians, they have never recognized the Jews as a people entitled to national self-determination.

Before Israel captured Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem in 1967, those territories were controlled by Jordan and Egypt. Why, then, was no Palestinian state established at that time?

The answer is that the Palestinians never wanted a state of their own alongside Israel. They only wanted a state instead of Israel.

Had the Jews lost the 1948 War of Independence, the Arabs of the region would have slaughtered them as they did on Oct. 7, and then divided the land among themselves - southern Syria, northern Egypt and western Jordan.
Lyn Julius: The settler-colonial lie, debunked
In fact, Israel is the only decolonization project in the Middle East, an indigenous people that has managed to throw off the yoke of Arab and Ottoman dominance. And yet many people assume that political rights only belong to Arab Muslims.

Indeed, there were high hopes at the end of World War I, with the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, that indigenous Christian and other minorities would be given enclaves affording them special protection. The Assyrians and Kurds both expected to have autonomy, if not a homeland of their own. But only the Balfour Declaration of 1917, with its commitment for a home for the Jews, was endorsed at the 1920 San Remo conference and written into the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.

For Khalidi, the settler colonial lie is “not just hypocrisy; it’s historical amnesia. If we truly want justice, we have to stop gaslighting our neighbors and start acknowledging that their story is Middle Eastern, too. Our liberation won’t come from denying theirs.”

Why is it that so few Arab voices of moderation are out there, while Western far-leftists, in alliance with Islamists, almost all espouse extremist positions or traffic lies about Israel or Jews?

The smear that Israel is a white colonial-settler state relies on two false premises: It severs Jews from their Middle Eastern ethno-religious roots and denies that Jews are a people distinct from the Diaspora, in which they spent 2,000 years. Israelophobes brand Judaism a matter of faith, like Christianity or Islam. They refuse to believe that Jews are distinct genetically, culturally, linguistically and historically from the many populations they lived among.

In order to depict Zionism as a European imposter, the anti-Zionists date the rise of modern Zionism to 1882 and the arrival of the Russian Jews of the first aliyah. In truth, Jews never left. Through the centuries, they returned, albeit in small numbers, to Eretz Israel.

To keep the memory of the 850,000 Jews forced to leave Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century alive, organizations such as JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa) and HARIF (the Association of Jews from the MENA), along with synagogues and community groups around the world, will observe “Mizrachi Heritage Month” throughout November.

The Israeli Knesset designated an official “Mizrachi Heritage Day” in the calendar on Nov. 30, the day after the U.N. Partition Plan for Palestine was passed in 1947, which triggered riots across Arab countries.

History matters. We must not let the truth be drowned out by crude and dishonest sloganeering. We must keep repeating the facts. And any help from Arab members of society is welcome.


Natalie Lisbona: I've been writing about October 7 rape horrors since day one. These new accounts of sex assaults on men, women and girls expose even greater depths of Hamas's depravity
Dr Itai Pessach, who treated one-quarter of all hostages on their return at Sheba medical centre in Tel Aviv, would not discuss specific cases for fear of inadvertently identifying victims, but he emphasised the scale of sexual violence.

'Almost fifty percent of them had endured significant sexual assaults,' he said.

'And how do you define it? Being watched naked while bathing and forced to dress in front of a few men ? To me, that also counts as assault. Therefore, the figure could be far higher', he told the Daily Mail.

Last week, the Daily Mail broke the world exclusive that Rom Braslavsky, 21, described sexual violence during his two years in captivity, where he was tortured, stripped naked and abused.

'It is sexual violence, and its main purpose was to humiliate me. The goal was to crush my dignity and that's exactly what he did,' Braslavsky told Channel 13's Hazinor programme. 'It's hard for me to talk about that part, specifically. I don't like to talk about it.'

It was the first time a male hostage had publicly gone on record. He also described other methods of torture such as stones forced in his ear and daily beatings while his captors were laughing.

Amit Sousanna, 40 was the first former hostage to speak publicly. She told how she was dragged from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza by ten men and then subjected to sexual acts at gunpoint in captivity.

Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, who was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, recounted that she lost consciousness during the kidnapping after being sexually assaulted.

When she came to in Gaza, she found herself half-naked and surrounded by seven men, who were frustrated when they realised she was on her period.

Fifteen-year-old Dafna Elkayim testified in May that her captor threatened to join her in the shower, said he would marry her and touched her inappropriately.

She was abducted alongside her eight-year-old sister, Ela, after their father and stepmother were murdered.

A report submitted by Israel's Ministry of Health last year said Hamas captors forced two minors to perform sexual acts on one another, compelled them to undress in front of them, touched their private parts, and whipped their genitalia.

The same two former hostages reported being bound and beaten throughout their captivity, with scars and marks consistent with trauma.

Experts warn there are likely many more cases of sexual assault and rape among the released hostages that remain unreported, as survivors often stay silent due to shame and stigma.

Specialists in trauma care stress that victims need time, safety and psychological support before they can begin to speak about what happened to them — if they ever choose to at all.

'There is also the fact that many of the hostages endured such horrific experiences, that they would have blocked a lot of it out.' Says Dr Pessach.

After everything these men and women have endured over the past two years, there's at least some consolation in knowing that - should they choose - it's possible for them to talk about it, receive real help and begin to rebuild.
Former hostage Segev Kalfon prays at Western Wall with father
Hostage survivor Segev Kalfon on Wednesday night visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem for the first time since his release from captivity in Gaza.

Segev Kalfon, 27, was accompanied by his father, Kobi, who blessed him with the priestly blessings (Numbers 6:24-26), as Jewish fathers do for their children every Friday night according to tradition.

The former abductee was kidnapped by Gazan terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, from the Supernova music festival that was held near Kibbutz Re’im, adjacent to the Gaza Strip. In February, his family received a sign of life for Kalfon through a hostage who had been released.

Kalfon was returned to Israel by the Hamas terrorist group on Oct. 13, together with the remaining 19 other living hostages as part of the ceasefire deal, having endured 738 days of captivity.

Watch Kalfon at the Western Wall below.


Protesters to rally for return of slain hostages Dror Or, Ran Gvili, Sudthisak Rinthalak
Protesters are set to gather in Tel Aviv this evening to call for the release of the final three hostages whose bodies are held by terrorists in the Gaza Strip: Dror Or, Master Sgt. Ran Gvili and Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak.

“Together we will stand as one nation and we will continue to call for the return of our… brothers who remain in Hamas captivity,” the Hostages and Missing Families forum says in a statement.

The rally will feature speeches by former hostages Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Maxim Herkin; Ayelet Goldin, sister of Lt. Hadar Goldin; Noam Katz Rudaeff, daughter of Lior Rudaeff; and Ruby Chen, the father of Staff Sgt. Itay Chen.
‘You brought me home’: Ex-hostages thank protesters for their return, call for last 3 captives’ release
One month after their release, several former hostages addressed Saturday night’s rallies for the captives held in Gaza, crediting the demonstrators for their return, and calling on the protesters to keep up the effort until the bodies of the final three deceased hostages held in Gaza are brought back.

“Two years I’ve dreamed of this moment,” freed hostage Maxim Herkin told the crowd of thousands at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, adding that he was speaking from the heart and had not prepared remarks. “You brought me home.”

Herkin was one of the final 20 living hostages who were released on October 13 as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. The deal called for Hamas to release all remaining hostages, living and dead. As of Saturday night, the bodies of Dror Or, Master Sgt. Ran Gvili and Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak were still held in Gaza.

Saturday night’s rallies across the country called for the return of the three captives’ bodies. They also demanded the formation of a state commission of inquiry into the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre in which terrorists killed some 1,200 and kidnapped 251 people.

Guy Gilboa-Dalal, who was also released on October 13, told the crowd at Hostages Square that footage he saw in captivity of protests in Israel, before he was taken down into Hamas’s tunnel complex, gave him hope throughout “two years of darkness.”

“You gave me hope and strength,” he said. “The people of Israel, who don’t forget about their brothers.”


Brendan O'Neill: Zohran Mamdani and the ugly rebirth of the socialism of fools
The British-Iranian writer Potkin Azarmehr has said kibbutzim are that rarest thing – a ‘successful model of socialism’. For these were places free of the authoritarianism that too often attended socialist experiments in the 20th century. The driving force in these collective towns was not ‘compulsion’ but ‘idealism’, he writes. And it was the most grotesque betrayal, he says, when the ‘champagne socialists’ of the West cheered the apocalyptic violence inflicted on these towns founded on non-champagne socialist ideals.

One hundred and one civilians were murdered in Be’eri on 7 October 2023. That’s one in 10 of the population – a literal decimation of Jews. This included farmers in their fields. And peace activists like Vivian Silver, 74, who devoted her life to the cause of coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. And elderly people, those most likely to remember the left-wing values upon which their haven from the vagaries of capitalism was founded.

Like all kibbutzim, Be’eri has felt the pressures of privatisation. But it has held out more firmly than most. Largely thanks to its stunningly successful printing plant, which exploded from a kibbutz side hustle in the 1950s to a place which today prints the vast majority of Israel’s driver’s licenses and customs documents, Be’eri has developed the resources to withstand external dynamics. It maintained its communal lifestyle. All major decisions were put to a kibbutz vote. The kibbutzniks’ three meals a day, and even their homes and cars, were part provided by the collective. As Natasha’s husband, Gal, says: ‘We are proud of being old school.’ Be’eri persevered as one of those old Jewish ‘exercises in radical democracy’, as David Leach described kibbutzim in his book, Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel.

And yet how did the socialists of our own upper middle classes respond to the attempted destruction of this radically democratic community? With indifference at best, glee at worst. ‘Glory to our martyrs’, said privileged American students in the days after those ‘martyrs’ butchered the inhabitants of a socialist community. ‘Long live the intifada’, they cried following this intifada that involved the massacre of collectivist farmers. ‘Globalise the intifada’, they wailed in the wake of this slaughter of peace activists and ageing leftists. Notably, that’s the rallying cry that nepo baby Zohran Mamdani has refused to condemn, a man who’s never farmed for anything other than likes on TikTok.

There is something seriously ridiculous about these Fisher-Price revolutionaries of the Ivy League sneering at the genuine grafters of a collective entity like Be’eri. Here we have people for whom ‘socialism’ means dying your hair a funny colour and buying bumpy fruit from Whole Foods looking down their noses at Jews who properly live out the ideals of voluntary socialism. In fact it’s worse than that – they actively celebrate the death of these people, fantasising that the murder of civilian collectivists by a racist army backed by the imperial theocrats of Iran is somehow a blow against ‘the system’. Their wrongness, not to mention their misanthropy, is astonishing.

Ask yourself: what has changed between the 1970s, when progressive Westerners flocked to the kibbutzim, and today, when ‘progressive’ Westerners hail the invasion and pillaging of the kibbutzim by armies of anti-Semites? It’s not the kibbutzim themselves. They remain attempts to live differently. No, it’s the West’s own notion of what’s ‘progressive’. Where once our young idealists saw in Zionism a plucky project of post-colonial nation-building valiantly withstanding the incursions of powerful Arab armies, now they see Zionism as a settler-colonial pox that those powerful armies have a duty to violently excise from the Holy Land. The Western left’s journey from love for kibbutzniks to an inhuman disregard for their mass murder by racists is a story of our moral decline, not Israel’s.

A ‘socialism’ that cheers the coming to power of a son of eye-watering privilege but shrugs its shoulders over the ruthless execution of octogenarian leftists is a foolish socialism indeed. That’s what we are witnessing: the ugly rebirth of the socialism of fools. Where once that twisted species of socialism held Jews responsible for the ills of capitalism, now its Israelophobic heir holds the Jewish nation responsible for the ills of the entire world. To such an extent that even that nation’s farmers and pensioners are seen as fair game for barbarism. Dehumanisation is the fuel of this ‘socialism’ that has such a frenzied obsession with one small country.


New York Sheikh on Visit to Israel With Muslim Faith Leaders Decries Mamdani’s Snub of Jewish State

‘We ain’t fleeing’: Demand for firearms said to rise among NYC Jews after Mamdani elected
Jewish gun owners, firearms instructors and security professionals in New York City say demand for firearms training and concealed-carry permits has surged since the election of mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, with many citing concerns about safety and a perceived shift in the city’s political climate, according to a Saturday New York Post report.

At Samson Armory, a recently opened gun shop in Brooklyn, owner Michael Bergida said interest rose sharply immediately after Mamdani’s victory. Bergida, 30, an NRA-certified firearms instructor and Orthodox Jew, said many of his new customers are older Jewish residents, clergy members and others who fear rising antisemitism.

“We’re probably the only gun store to have a minyan,” Bergida said. He described growing anxiety within Orthodox communities and predicted “chaos” under the new administration. “The NYPD is all retiring – we have to fight for ourselves. People are freaking out over Mamdani – anyone who has any Christian-Judeo values,” he stated.

Bergida said he works closely with synagogues on preparedness. “It’s like doomsday prepping – people are loading up ammo,” he said. “I have a passion to prep Jews.”

Despite the concerns he cited, Bergida said he has no plans to leave the city. “We ain’t fleeing — we’re here to stay. We’re not victims anymore.”

Other firearms instructors reported similar spikes.

“It’s getting busy because of him,” said Lance Dashefsky, a gun safety instructor who teaches the mandatory state concealed-carry curriculum. He said many students explicitly cite the mayor-elect when asked why they want a gun license.


Democratic socialist who accused Israel of genocide defeats incumbent Seattle mayor
The lesser-known Wilson, a democratic socialist, ran a campaign that echoed some of the themes of progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in New York.

Like Mamdani, who came from behind to defeat former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the New York City Democratic primary, Wilson trounced Harrell by nearly 10 percentage points in the Seattle Democratic primary in August and quickly became the favorite to win the mayor’s office.

Wilson has also echoed Mamdani’s criticism of Israel, replying in August to a user on X who asked her what she thought of the “genocide in Gaza” that she is “strongly opposed” to.

“As Mayor of Seattle, my ability to end the violence is limited, but I will do everything I can to end the suffering of Palestinians and guarantee the safety of Muslims, Jews, and people of all faiths and backgrounds in Seattle,” she added.

Regina Sassoon Friedland, director of the pro-Israel American Jewish Committee’s Seattle office, was quoted by the Jewish News Syndicate as saying that “Wilson’s genocide claims lack factual or legal foundation.”

She said the AJC would “oppose any attempts to adopt BDS into city policy,” referring to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. BDS aims “to isolate and dismantle the world’s only Jewish state and has harmful effects on Jews in the United States,” said Sassoon Friedland.

“Now that she has been elected, we urge mayor-elect Wilson to commit to ensuring the safety of Seattle’s Jewish community and its institutions by supporting the Seattle Police Department and working with Jewish communal leaders,” she added.


UN official for violence against women falsely claims no independent probe found Oct. 7 rape
“No independent investigation found that rape took place on October 7,” United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, falsely claimed on Friday, despite a UN report that detailed Hamas’s use of sexual violence during the October 7 massacre.

“No Palestinian applauded rape in Gaza,” Alsalem further wrote during a social media exchange on the ongoing legal case against soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner in the Sde Teiman detention center.

Last year in March, Alsalem also denied knowing Israel had been a victim of repeated missile attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah as the terrorist groups launched air barrages on civilian communities across Israel.

She also co-authored a February 2024 report with Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, accusing the IDF of sexually abusing Palestinian females.

Asked at the time in an interview with Channel 13’s Hazinor, where she received her information for this report from, Alsalem said the “reasonably credible information” had come from sources she could not cite and the nonprofit Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

Notably, anti-Israel conspiracist Richard Falk is the chair of Euro-Med’s board. He has previously claimed that Israel was responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing.

Hamas's use of sexual violence on October 7
A United Nations delegation of experts, including Pramila Patten, the UN special rep. of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, visited Israel in February 2024, where they said they had found substantial evidence that Hamas had raped and sexually abused hostages and victims during and after the massacre.

These findings were established following an extensive review of over 50 hours of footage, 5,000 photographs, and 34 independent interviews.

“Nine experts drawn from the UN, including… specialists trained in safe and ethical interviewing of survivors/victims and witnesses of sexual violence crimes, a forensic pathologist, and a digital and open-source information analyst,” confirmed Hamas had raped and committed other acts of sexual violence.


IDF destroys Gaza tunnel where three soldiers were killed 11 months ago
On Friday night, the IDF destroyed a tunnel complex where three members from the military’s 92nd Shimshon Battalion in the Kfir Brigade were killed 11 months ago, the military said on Saturday.

Positioned east of the Yellow Line, near the Beit Hanun area of the Gaza Strip in an IDF-controlled region, the tunnel ran one kilometer wide and was dozens of meters deep, the army added.

The three IDF soldiers who were killed there nearly a year ago were Capt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, St.-Sgt. Netanel Pessach, and Sgt.-Maj. Hillel Diener. One other soldier was wounded in the incident.

Atedgi, 22, was from Kiryat Motzkin, and served as a deputy commander; Pessach, 21, was from Elazar; and Diener, 21, was from Talmon.

Initial investigation of the three soldiers' deaths
Initial investigations published shortly after the three soldiers’ deaths said that they entered a booby-trapped area.

In this context, several possibilities were raised regarding what could have led to their deaths.The first was that a Hamas scout detected the troops and activated an improvised explosive device from afar.

The other was that one of the troops stepped on a tripwire, which set off the device and the explosion.


Ryan McBeth: Tucker Carlson, Antisemitism, and the MAGA Split Russia Loves
I don’t usually talk politics, but when politics becomes a weapon of war, we have to talk about it.

Right now, the American conservative movement is splitting in two: pro-Israel traditionalists on one side, and “America First” isolationists, with some drifting toward antisemitic rhetoric, on the other. That fracture has become a perfect attack vector for Russian disinformation.

In this video, I break down how that divide formed, how Russian state-linked actors are exploiting it through fake websites, cloned news domains, and AI-generated propaganda, and what that means for U.S. national security.

We’ll talk about:
• The growing conflict between pro-Israel conservatives and the Tucker Carlson “restrainer” faction
• How Moscow amplifies both sides using the “firehose of falsehood” method
• Why internal political fractures weaken U.S. deterrence abroad
• What this means for American legitimacy and ideological cohesion

Antisemitism isn’t just a moral failure, it’s a national-security vulnerability.




UK Health Secretary Warns of ‘Chilling’ Antisemitism in NHS as Jewish Patients Report Fear, Discrimination
UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting called it “chilling” that some members of the Jewish community fear discrimination within the country’s National Health Service (NHS), as reports of antisemitism in Britain’s health-care system continue to rise.

In an interview with the local LBC radio show on Friday, Streeting was asked about the recent case of Dr. Martin Whyte, a pediatrician and former executive member of the British Medical Association (BMA), who received only a formal warning but was allowed to continue working despite several of his antisemitic posts going viral.

“My immediate gut reaction was unrepeatable on the radio at this time of the morning,” the British official said.

“This has been such a big story because we’ve seen undeniable, outrageous examples of vile antisemitism by people who clearly identify as NHS doctors,” Streeting continued.

“Those people have forgotten not only basic humanity, but also their professional responsibility to patients. No one entering the NHS should feel afraid or question whether they will be treated fairly because of their race or religion,” he said during the radio show.

On Monday, the UK’s top medical regulatory body, the General Medical Council (GMC), cleared Whyte to continue working as a pediatrician despite spreading hateful and antisemitic messages online, including references to “Jew banker goblins” and “gas the Jews.”

In the course of its investigation, the medical regulator concluded that Whyte did not hold bigoted beliefs and that his actions “fall just short of that which would be considered serious enough to pose a risk to public protection.”

This latest incident has sparked outrage among the local Jewish community and public officials, fueling broader concerns across the UK as rising antisemitism in health-care settings in recent months has left Jewish communities feeling unsafe and marginalized.

During the interview, Streeting recognized that many Jewish people hold a negative perception of the NHS.


UKLFI: Doctor Suspended for Nine Months After Tribunal Hears Evidence of Antisemitic Conduct
A paediatric consultant from Whittington Hospital has been suspended for 9 months following a decision of the Interim Orders Tribunal (IOT).

The suspension was imposed on Dr Ellen Kriesels after a hearing on 14 November 2025 in which the tribunal heard extensive evidence of her antisemitic behaviour, including abusive protest material and a series of deeply troubling posts on X.

The decision follows UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI)’s detailed complaint to the General Medical Council (GMC), submitted on 8 September 2025, documenting Dr Kriesels’ public displays of hatred towards Jews, her support for Hamas, and her repeated harassment of Jewish individuals online and at demonstrations.

UKLFI provided photographic evidence of Dr Kriesels attending multiple pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London holding a hand-drawn placard depicting the Israeli flag alongside the words: “rape, steal, cry, kill, cheat, lie.”

This sign, aimed at Israelis as a whole, constitutes a sweeping racist generalisation and a clear example of antisemitism. She carried the placard at events on 4 June, 19 July, and 6 September 2025, and was also photographed giving an obscene gesture towards Jewish counter-demonstrators.

The tribunal heard that these actions, witnessed in public spaces, left Jewish patients, colleagues, and members of the public distressed, shocked, and alarmed.

UKLFI had also documented some of Dr Kriesels’ extremist posts on X, where she repeatedly claimed that Jews—Zionist or not—embodied “supremacy,” described Judaism as “racist, imperialist and genocidal,” and stated she was “sickened” by Jews.

She attacked the yellow ribbon symbol used to show solidarity with Israeli hostages, claiming it was a mark of “Jewish supremacy,” and dismissed concerns about the presence of Mein Kampf in Gaza.

The tribunal was told that more than 1,500 complaints, many from patients, were received by her NHS trust, raising fears that she could not provide safe or unbiased care to Jewish families.

The UKLFI complaint highlighted that Dr Kriesels publicly characterised Hamas as “oppressed resistance fighters” and “not terrorists,” potentially breaching Section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000, which prohibits expressing support for a designated terrorist organisation.

Her protest sign may also amount to offences under Sections 5 and 18 of the Public Order Act 1986 for displaying abusive and racially inflammatory material.


Canadian-Israeli denied option to put Israel as place of birth in her new passport
A Canadian-Israeli was told that she could not put down Israel as her birthplace while applying for her new Canadian passport due to a “new policy applied by the Canadian government,” the woman, whose name is Anastasia, said in a social media post.

“A Canadian Passport employee told me they can not write Israel as my birth country. These are the clear consequences of the current government and leadership in power,” she wrote on X/Twitter.

According to her video, the employee told her that the recognition of a Palestinian state by the government of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney allowed people from certain cities in Israel to write that they are from Palestine.

The cities listed in the video are Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah, and Jerusalem, while a document shared later by Anastasia’s lawyer stated that she was actually born in Kfar Saba, Israel. “This is a serious legal, administrative, and human rights concern,” said the letter signed by attorney Neil Oberman.

"No law supports this," said Oberman in his own post to X. "No regulation authorizes this. No democracy should tolerate this. Passports are not political documents. They are a tool of identity and equality before the state."
German pastor discovers his grandfather was Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler
One summer evening last year, couples therapist Henrik Lenkeit, 49, was watching a TV documentary about German Nazi SS master Heinrich Himmler, architect of the Holocaust.

After the show ended, Lenkeit poked around the Internet for information about Hedwig Potthast, Himmler’s rather gruesome mistress featured in the documentary. Suddenly, Lenkeit saw his grandmother’s face in an image of Potthast posing with Himmler.

“I looked up and saw Himmler’s mistress — my grandmother — in the picture with Himmler,” Lenkeit told The Times of Israel.

After months of amateur genealogical research, Lenkeit and German newspaper Der Spiegel concluded Lenkeit was the notorious SS chief’s grandson. The process included consulting with political scientist Katrin Himmler, great-niece of the late Reichsführer-SS.

Beginning in 1936, Potthast — Lenkeit’s grandmother — was Himmler’s private secretary and starting in 1938, his mistress. She gave birth to two of Himmler’s children, including Lenkeit’s mother, Nanette-Dorothea, in 1944.

Throughout her lifetime, Lenkeit’s mother, who died in 2019, diligently kept the secret of her paternity. But those efforts were upended by Lenkeit’s investigation last year, particularly when the therapist uncovered his mother’s birth certificate — signed by Himmler.
Teen pilot charged over 'pro-Hamas' videos granted bail
A teenage student pilot and airport worker accused of sharing "pro-Hamas" videos of the October 2023 massacre and searching for the location of Israeli embassies has been granted bail.

Mohamed Ghassan Eltatary, 19, faced Southport Magistrates Court on Friday charged with five offences after a joint counter-terrorism team seized electronic devices in a raid on a Gold Coast home.

He was accused of sharing "pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic" videos, including terrorist bodycam footage of the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, on the Discord group chat application, Magistrate Louisa Pink heard.

Two mobile phones, a laptop and a handwritten diary had been previously seized from the home in April, police said.

Eltatary was also accused of searching online for how to purchase knives, mass stabbings and shootings, .50 calibre bullets, how to purchase a Hamas headband and the location of Israel's embassy in Australia.

"The material is disturbing and confronting," Ms Pink said.

Eltatary, a dual Palestinian-Australian citizen, wore a green prison-issue tracksuit with no shoes and waved to his father in court, who blew a kiss in return.

Eltatary's mother attended the start of the bail application but left after finding it "too emotional", defence barrister Tony Kimmins said.

Crown prosecutor Sam Poplawski opposed bail on the grounds that terror suspects required exceptional circumstances for release and Eltatary presented an unacceptable risk of reoffending.

Eltatary had been viewing violent extremist material since age 12, Ms Pink heard.


Greece in talks with Israel over $3.5 billion arms deal
Greece is looking to purchase anti-aircraft and artillery systems from Israel worth around $3.5 billion as part of its modernization of its armed forces, Reuters reported on Friday.

The two countries are engaged in talks over a multi-layered anti-aircraft and anti-drone system, a large-scale initiative launched by Greece in April 2025 and dubbed “Achilles Shield,” the report read.

“We want to buy 36 PULS artillery systems and anti-aircraft systems for ‘Achilles Shield.’ The negotiations with Israel will intensify next month,” a Greek official told the news agency.

PULS (Precise and Universal Launching System) is a multiple rocket launcher developed by Haifa-based military technology company Elbit Systems, which can fire a variety of ammunition types to various ranges from the same position, to ranges of up to 185 miles, according to Elbit’s website.

The cost of 36 PULS rocket artillery systems, the official continued, is estimated at $755 million, and would be used to protect Greece’s border with Turkey.

Athens has pledged to spend around $33 billion by 2036 to keep pace with Ankara, Reuters reported.

Greece also plans to buy stealth fighter jets, frigates and submarines from the U.S. and Europe, the report added.

A second Greek official was confirmed as saying that negotiations with Israel are underway. Athens was interested in procuring advanced weaponry from Israel in 2024, but the war in Gaza delayed the discussions, the second official noted.




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