Sunday, November 16, 2025

11/16 Links: Hamas member's diary published, reveals exploitation of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure; Israeli football fans banned over ‘entirely fictitious’ information

From Ian:

Hamas member's diary published, reveals exploitation of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure
IDF soldiers seized the personal journal of a Hamas commander from Beit Hanun in Gaza, N12 News reported on Sunday.

Terrorist Khaled Abu Akram’s diary entries prove how Hamas exploits civilian infrastructure in Gaza. For example, in one entry from May 2024, Akram writes about how he went to set up an ambush at a school after tunnels in the area were bombed.

"I went with Abu Saleh (a unit commander in a different company in the area) to set up a new ambush at the Al-Naim school after the tunnels in the area were bombed, and the previous ambush was destroyed,” he wrote.

Akram also described how Hamas used UN infrastructure in the Gaza Strip to its advantage.

"Additionally, we took the batteries from the UNRWA clinic, removed the solar panels, and prepared the water well," Abu Akram wrote in his diary.
The Continuing Threats to Israel from Syria
As part of my army reserve service, I belong to a unit that is holding a sector opposite Syria, defending Israel on the northern border.

Syria continues to host terrorist organizations hostile to Israel and intent on harming it.

The fall of Assad's regime did not bring peace. Instead, it created a strategic vacuum that was quickly filled by radical Sunni militias.

When Syrian opposition forces took control of Damascus on Dec. 8, 2024, in response, the IDF moved into the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria established by the 1974 ceasefire agreement and set up several forward posts.

Today, the IDF holds these positions as strategic depth to defend the nearby towns and villages of the Golan Heights from various hostile actors.

Iranian-backed Shi'ite forces are still operating in southwest Syria and are trying to rebuild their capabilities.

An operational arm of Lebanese Hizbullah is attempting to rebuild its capabilities on the Syrian front, with funding from Iran.

ISIS is also facing us in southern Syria, in addition to many small terrorist groups seeking to harm Israel, including organizations affiliated with Hamas abroad.

The flat terrain in the center of the Golan Heights could allow vehicles from Syria quick access to Israeli civilian communities in a very short time.

In the southern Golan, a landscape of deep wadis can enable covert infiltration by terror cells.

The constant presence of the IDF in this challenging terrain allows it to preempt the build-up of hostile forces - a task that would have been impossible had the IDF remained behind the buffer zone fence.

The Israeli presence in the buffer zone is essential to prevent a repeat of an Oct. 7-type surprise attack in the Golan.
Israeli football fans banned over ‘entirely fictitious’ information
Israeli football fans were banned from Villa Park on the back of “entirely fictitious” information, a former attorney general has claimed.

A group of sitting and former parliamentarians including Sir Michael Ellis, a former attorney general, Lord Austin of Dudley, a former Labour MP, and Nick Timothy, a Tory MP, has written to the chief constable of West Midlands Police to express “deep concern about the propriety and processes surrounding the ban”.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were barred from attending the Europa League clash against Aston Villa on Nov 6 after the West Midlands force raised safety concerns about hooliganism with Birmingham city council.

The force’s stance provoked an outcry, with Sir Keir Starmer calling it “the wrong decision” and the Israeli government condemning it. Maccabi said they would turn down any ticket allocation even if the decision was reversed.

In the parliamentarians’ letter, seen by The Telegraph, the ban was criticised as “bizarre” and “draconian”.

The group warned that the force risked being accused of “two-tier policing” against Jewish people, and called on Craig Guildford, the chief constable, to explain how the decision was made.

The politicians also said they were “deeply concerned” about the force’s portrayal of violent disorder in Amsterdam in November last year, when Maccabi played Ajax in the Europa League.

Pointing to a police commander’s remarks that the violence in Amsterdam “wasn’t all one way”, the group wrote: “This gives rise to a concern about whether West Midlands Police was operating ‘two-tier policing’ when it comes to Israel, because your force has taken draconian steps against an entire Israeli fanbase for a limited number of reported infractions.

“Suggestions that Maccabi fans provoked the Amsterdam attacks have been previously dismissed as ‘entirely fictitious’ by the UK Government’s independent adviser on anti-Semitism after he met the chief of police in Amsterdam and was given access to their reports.

“West Midlands Police have seemingly discarded this overwhelming evidence. Could you please outline how West Midlands Police have reached such a starkly different conclusion about the roots of the disorder in Amsterdam to the Dutch authorities? In the absence of an explanation, there are many who may conclude that the actions of West Midlands Police are akin to victim-blaming.”


UNSC to Vote Monday on a Resolution That Makes the Gaza Trap Worse Than Before
On Monday, the UN Security Council is expected to vote on the updated draft resolution—the one being marketed as a harmless “refinement” of the Gaza plan. In reality the new draft resolution is the result of the U.S. appeasing the Arab League. The original framework was already a direct threat to Israel’s security and sovereignty. It proposed installing an unelected “Board of Peace” with quasi-governmental powers inside Gaza, placing foreign troops between Israel and Hamas under an international command Israel could not veto, granting sweeping immunity to every actor operating there.

The new text, “Rev 2,” doesn’t correct these problems—it intensifies them. The revised draft adds new political, legal, and security mechanisms that make the framework even more intrusive and even more detached from Israel’s security needs. Monday’s vote is no longer about reconstruction or humanitarian logistics. It is a geopolitical contest over who will control Gaza, and by extension, who will dictate the boundaries of Israel’s security doctrine.

Below is exactly what changed in the U.S.-led resolution, paragraph by paragraph, and why it matters.

Paragraph 7: The Most Dangerous New Clause — Conditions for IDF Withdrawal
This is the heart of Rev 2’s transformation.

The original draft mentioned coordination with Israel but never tied the IDF to a withdrawal timeline. Rev 2 introduces an entirely new architecture:
“IDF will withdraw from the Gaza Strip based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization…”

And then it adds a second clause even more alarming:
“…save for a security perimeter presence that will remain until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat.”

For the first time, the UNSC is defining how, when, and under what conditions Israeli forces must leave Gaza. The IDF’s freedom of action gets subordinated to an international command structure Israel does not control and cannot veto.

Paragraph 8, 9, 10, 11: More Oversight, Less Control
Rev 2 inserts an entirely new reporting requirement:
“Requests the BoP provide a written report every six months.”
This was not in the earlier draft.

The addition bureaucratizes the BoP, placing it under recurring UN review—and therefore subject to reinterpretation every six months by a Security Council .

Together, these changes entrench the UNSC into Gaza’s governance permanently.
Israel rejects US-backed call for ‘pathway’ to Palestinian state
Jerusalem will not allow a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, rejecting a U.S.-backed statement calling for a “pathway” for creating “Palestine.”

“Our opposition to a Palestinian state on any territory west of the Jordan River exists, is firm, and has not changed in the slightest,” Netanyahu stated, speaking ahead of the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.

“I have been pushing back against these attempts for decades, doing so against external pressure as well as internal pressure. So I don’t need encouragement, tweets, or lectures from anyone,” Netanyahu added.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar had declared earlier on Sunday that the Jewish state would “not agree to the establishment of a Palestinian terror state in the heart of the Land of Israel, at point-blank distance from all of its population centers and with topographical control over them.”

Jerusalem’s top diplomat noted that Israel Defense Forces troops were working to destroy three Iran-backed terrorist states: Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.

Earlier on Sunday morning, Defense Minister Israel Katz tweeted, “Israel’s policy is clear: A Palestinian state will not be established.

“Gaza will be demilitarized down to the last tunnel, and Hamas will be disarmed—in the ‘yellow area’ by the IDF, and in ‘old Gaza’ by the international force, or by the IDF,” the defense minister added.

The “yellow area” refers to the area inside the so-called yellow line, slightly over 50% of Gaza’s territory, to which Israeli forces withdrew as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Katz also said Israel Defense Forces soldiers would remain on Mount Hermon and in the security zone in Syria to protect the Jewish state’s northern border following the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024.
Israel Balks at Erdogan's Gaza Troop Hopes
Turkey is reportedly preparing a brigade of 2,000 soldiers to join a U.S.-backed stabilization force in Gaza. Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, said President Trump must recognize the depth of the ideological divide between Israel and Turkish President Erdogan's government.

"Trump is an economic warrior and a dealmaker. He wants to put everyone in his Middle East regional deal by embracing enemies and allies alike," Diker said. "But he doesn't take into account the profoundly deep-rooted enmity that Erdogan's government embodies. Turkey is not a friend of the United States and the Western alliance, even though it's a NATO member. It is currently on a mission to assert itself as an Islamic imperial power in the Middle East."

"You want to talk about an occupier? They're the major occupiers of Syria right now, and they see themselves as the determining Islamic power in Gaza. This is a very dangerous moment, and the president would be well advised to back Israel without conditions." Erdogan is "publicly supporting and financing an international Islamic terror organization." Trump "cannot allow himself to compromise the principles of America first, which is Israel first and the West first."

Former Israeli National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror said, "I think Israel must stand firmly on its feet to prevent Turkish forces from entering. Turkey is a power with a desire to expand its borders and its influence into areas that are relevant to us, and therefore we must not accept a Turkish army in Gaza.

He added that Israel must retain operational freedom inside Gaza even after the war. "Israel must not give up Israeli freedom of action, like in Lebanon. The moment Hamas rebuilds itself, we will act as we do in Lebanon."
Israel: Turkey Shouldn't Get U.S. F-35s
Israel's ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said in an interview, "Look at the big picture. The United States incorporated our basic demands into [President Trump's] 20-point plan." Those demands are unambiguous: "to decommission Hamas and to demilitarize and deradicalize Gaza."

On Iran and its network of proxies, Leiter signals confidence in the alignment between Jerusalem and Washington. "We are on the same track, absolutely." If certain terrorist groups "start rebuilding," the president "is going to act militarily again." The message Leiter conveys is that deterrence is real, it is being felt, and it will be enforced.

Regarding Turkey, he says, "We understand the strategic importance of Turkey to the United States. It's a NATO member, a large army, a key geography. And we don't challenge that." But "we can't have Turkish troops in Gaza or Syria. And those practical demands haven't been challenged by the United States; they've been accepted."

"We would prefer that Turkey not receive F-35s from the U.S. We don't think it's constructive at this time." Yet, "we don't live in fear...that Israel's qualitative edge will be compromised."
US said considering forgoing Hamas disarmament to begin reconstruction, as talks stall
The Trump administration is looking to forgo the stage in its peace plan calling for the deployment of a stabilization force to Gaza to disarm Hamas, so that it can move ahead with starting to rebuild the enclave, according to an Israeli television report Saturday.

The current ceasefire, which has been in place since early October, is still only in its first phase, as talks on further steps have stalled over the details of Hamas’s demilitarization and the future governance of the Gaza Strip.

However, the potential change in the White House’s direction is causing talks with Israel on Gaza’s future to “deadlock,” a source told Channel 13 news.

An Israeli security source said that since the White House is having trouble getting commitments from third-party countries to participate in disarming Hamas, it has since begun pursuing “interim solutions, which are currently unacceptable to Israel.”

“This interim situation is the worst there is,” a senior Israeli source told the outlet. “Hamas has been strengthening in recent weeks since the end of the war.”

“There can be no rehabilitation before demilitarization. It is contrary to Trump’s plan. Gaza must be demilitarized,” a security official said.
What to expect during the Saudi Crown Prince’s visit to the White House
While reports have suggested a massive deal for Saudi Arabia to acquire American fighter jets, specifically Lockheed Martin’s stealth F-35 aircraft, such an agreement is anything but final.

US officials have said there are ongoing discussions about potentially selling close to 50 F-35s to the Kingdom. An administration official told Bloomberg News on Friday that the US president was expected to reach an agreement with MBS on the sale.

Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, said Saudi Arabia may no longer be interested in such a deal.

“I don’t think the Saudis are going to buy F-35 and I think the reason they’re not going to buy [them] is because there are American conditions,” Haykal said in a recent webinar with the Arab Gulf States Institute.

Haykel cited the “kill switch” on the US-made jets in addition to Riyadh needing permission to move the plane from one base to another within Saudi Arabia. “So, these are violations of kind of notions of sovereignty. If you pay for the machine, you kind of get to use it however you want, and so unless the Americans give up on those conditions, I don’t think the Saudis will buy it,” Haykel added.

He also highlighted the expensive cost to maintain the jets in addition to the multi-billion dollars needed to purchase them.

Trump is widely expected to provide MBS with a defense agreement of sorts that would guarantee US protection in the event of an attack on Saudi Arabia.

Following the Israeli attack on Doha this year, Trump issued an executive order, pledging to respond to any attack on Qatar. The Article V-like commitment falls short of a defense treaty, which would need Senate ratification.

Saudi Arabia will likely get a similar commitment but with more concrete guarantees in a bilateral defense agreement that would ensure a future US president cannot revoke it as they would be able to do with an executive order.
Israel reportedly signals opposition to US plan to sell F-35 to Saudi Arabia
Israel has signaled its opposition to a proposed U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, Israel’s Kan News broadcaster reported Saturday.

Outgoing Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer reportedly raised the Jewish state’s concerns regarding the sale of 48 jets to Riyadh during a final meeting he held with senior officials in Washington last week.

According to Kan News, Jerusalem fears that the sale of the jets will lead to information leaks to Russia and China, allies of Saudi Arabia, and to the loss of the Israel Defense Forces’ qualitative military edge in the region.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was considering agreeing to supply Saudi Arabia with the state-of-the-art stealth jets.

“They wanna buy a lot of jets,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I’m looking at that. They’ve asked me to look at it. They want to buy a lot of ’35,’ but they want to buy actually more than that, fighter jets.”

News of the potential sale comes as Trump plans to host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Washington on Tuesday. The two leaders are expected to sign economic and defense agreements.

Asked about the meeting on Friday, Trump told reporters that it was “more than meeting, we’re honoring” the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

He reiterated his hope Saudi Arabia would soon join the Abraham Accords, which have normalized relations between Israel and several Arab and Muslim nations since 2020. Riyadh has so far opposed such normalization, citing a lack of agreement on a roadmap to Palestinian statehood.

Two Israeli officials told Axios on Saturday that Jerusalem was urging the Trump administration to condition an F-35 sale on Saudi Arabia formally normalizing its diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

One of the officials said that the U.S. giving Saudi Arabia F-35s without getting any diplomatic deliverables in return would be “a mistake and counterproductive.”


Hamas stockpiling weapons in sympathetic countries despite Gaza disarmament deal
Hamas has started stockpiling weapons in African countries, Yemen, and other nations sympathetic to the terrorist organization, Israeli public broadcaster KAN News reported on Sunday.

The report follows the implementation of the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which stipulates the disarmament of the latter.

According to Kan, the weapons are being stockpiled so that they can later be smuggled to locations, including the Gaza Strip, where Hamas can access them.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Monday on a draft resolution it had seen last week regarding the multinational force expected to deploy to the Gaza Strip.

Multinational force expected to enforce Gaza demilitarization
According to the resolution, the force will demilitarize Gaza, destroy the military infrastructure there, and secure its borders.

Despite agreeing to a ceasefire that requires its disarmament, Hamas has refused to commit to giving up its weapons.


Oxford Union declares Israel ‘greater threat than Iran’
Opposing the motion, Mr Neuer argued that this characterisation was an “inversion of reality”.

“Regional stability is measured by who starts wars, not by who stops them,” he said. “Israel does not arm terror proxies in five Arab countries – the regime in Iran does that. The entire Middle East knows this, and that is why Arab states quietly depend on Israel for their own survival.

“One of the most powerful illustrations was when the Islamic regime in Iran launched an unprecedented attack on the people of Israel with 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles and more than 120 ballistic missiles.

“The fact that Sunni Arab states provided a combination of air force interceptions... is a real-world vote on tonight’s motion. The Arab states know that Israel is a partner in survival and the Islamic regime in Iran is an existential threat.

“You don’t intercept missiles heading towards a threat to regional stability – you intercept missiles from one.”

The Telegraph understands that union members voted in favour of the motion. The Jewish Chronicle reported that the win was “overwhelming”.

Mr Neuer later posted on X: “In my debate tonight at the Oxford Union, I said that their proposition – ‘Israel is a greater threat to regional stability than Iran’ – struck me as deep satire, but then I recalled that 501 of their members voted to back the student chair who cheered the killing of Charlie Kirk.”
Oxford Debate: Hillel Neuer Calls Out Iranian Opponent for Complicity with Crimes
Conclusion
In the final analysis, Mr. President, the greatest threat to regional stability is a regime that murders its own people, hunts its critics across Europe and America, arms terror proxie, and exports terror on four continents.

The Islamic Regime in Iran has killed hundreds of thousands in Syria, shattered Yemen through the Houthis, bankrupted Lebanon through Hezbollah, hijacked Iraq through militias, and turned Gaza into a launching pad for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

At home, they shoots women in the streets, blind teenagers, torture dissidents, and execute protesters. Abroad, they sends terrorists and assassins to murder innocents in New York, London, and Buenos Aires.

This is not a government seeking stability; it is a revolutionary engine of hate, terror, and chaos. Israel, by contrast, is the firewall that prevents Iran’s imperial project from engulfing the region.

To claim Israel is the greater threat to stability is not merely wrong — it is an inversion of reality itself.


Ryan McBeth: How Israel's Army Can Improve
This is part three of my After Action Review on the Israel Defense Forces and their performance during the Gaza and Lebanon conflicts.

In Part 1, I talked about what went right — strategy, tactics, and the systems that worked.

In Part 2, I went over what went wrong — the failures in intelligence, logistics, and information warfare.

This episode? It’s about what comes next.

From professionalizing the NCO corps to reforming reserve training and modernizing logistics, this video dives deep into how the IDF, and NATO militaries, can learn from these lessons. We’ll also talk about the information war, how social media became a battlefield, and why your next war won’t just be fought with missiles, but with memes.




IDF tank accidentally fires 'warning shots' at UNIFIL soldiers in southern Lebanon
The IDF mistakenly fired warning shots towards two UNIFIL soldiers patrolling in southern Lebanon, the military said on Sunday.

The UNIFIL soldiers were mistakenly identified as suspicious individuals due to poor weather conditions.

No injuries were reported.

The Lebanese army accused Israel of violating its sovereignty in a social media post. "The Israeli enemy persists in its violations of Lebanese sovereignty, causing instability in Lebanon and hindering the full deployment of the army in the south."

"The Army Command affirms that it is working in coordination with friendly countries to put an end to the continuous violations and breaches committed by the Israeli enemy, which require immediate action as they represent a serious escalation."

UNIFIL claims IDF purposefully opened fire on peacekeepers
Earlier, the UNIFIL had said an IDF tank opened fire on its peacekeepers patrolling within Lebanese territory.

"Peacekeepers asked for the IDF to stop firing through UNIFIL’s liaison channels," UNIFIL stated. "They were able to leave safely thirty minutes later, when the Merkava tank withdrew inside the IDF position. Fortunately, no one was injured."

The UNIFIL called on the IDF to "cease any aggressive behavior and attacks on or near peacekeepers, who are working to support the return to the stability that both Israel and Lebanon say they seek."
Australian Envoy Links Antisemitism to Israel Policy, Jewish Leaders Push Back
However, many Australian Jews blame the government’s inaction and what they perceive as pandering to Muslim voters for the rise in antisemitism. During King’s interview with The Media Line, one solidarity event participant approached him, cursing him and the government.

“We have a Labor government, which, just like the Labor governments in the UK and Canada, is essentially not supportive of Israel,” advocate Dvir told The Media Line. “They’re really pandering to the masses. It’s about votes. In Australia, we’re a tiny minority, whereas there are many more Muslims. And I think, you know, actions speak louder than words.”

She added that while the government often repeats the line, “there’s no place for antisemitism in Melbourne or Sydney, Australia,” the lived reality tells a different story. “There is very much a place for antisemitism because we’re living it every day. There’s this culture of normalization of antisemitism … Two years ago, people would never say or write or do what they’re doing now, but it’s become so normal that it’s reached unacceptable levels.”

Former Australian Labor parliamentarian Anthony Gerard “Tony” Lupton, who was in Israel for the event, told The Media Line that his party has undergone significant changes.

“Now we have people who are very much captured by identity politics and by electoral pressure in Western Sydney from Muslim voters, and they have just decided to dump the Jewish community and all their principles,” he said. “That lack of leadership has allowed the genie to get out of the bottle.”

Despite the rising antisemitism and growing interest in aliyah, most Australian Jews said they are not ready to give up on their home country.

“We have to be resilient,” Dvir said. “We have a lot of work to do, and the community is very active and is working very hard to advocate. I don’t think the answer is running away. It’s okay if you want to run toward, but we can’t run away. We just have to right all the wrongs.”


Osbournes blast Roger Waters as 'twisted, sick, and irrelevant' in podcast episode honoring Ozzy
Sharon Osbourne and two of her children, Kelly and Jack Osbourne, tore into controversial Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters in a recent episode of The Osbournes Podcast, where the three honored and discussed their love for Ozzy Osbourne.

In an expletive-laced tirade, the Osbournes slammed Waters as “probably one of the most twisted, sick individuals,” with a “superiority complex.” They also said he was a “miserable, ugly human being.”

“The guy is sick in the head. He is not relevant in today's world. Nobody likes him. This is not just us; nobody likes this man,” Sharon Osbourne said, later adding that Waters is a “bad seed” struggling to remain relevant.

“So he's got a f**king tea towel on his head and a Palestinian flag, and he thinks that makes him relevant.”

The podcast episode follows an August interview Waters gave to The Independent Ink, shortly after Osbourne's death. During the interview, Waters said that the former lead vocalist of Black Sabbath “ was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense” and that he “couldn't give a f**k” about Black Sabbath.

Waters, who has maintained a fiercely anti-Israel stance, has also made numerous comments and stunts that have been condemned as antisemitic.

'My father always thought you were a c**t,' Jack Osbourne posts to Waters
Initially, after Waters’s comments about Osbourne, Jack Osbourne posted on his Instagram that “My father always thought you were a c**t,” and that Waters’s remarks “proved him right.”


Bigwig on Mamdani’s transition team railed against Jews, questioned gay rights in vile unearthed posts
A bigwig on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team spewed hatred against Jews and Israel and questioned gay rights in a series of hateful social media posts from a decade ago.

Hassaan Chaudhary, who identifies himself as newly appointed political director for Mamdani’s transition and inaugural committee on LinkedIn, used the word “Jew” as a slur, and even praised former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who infamously said Israel is “a cancer which will be eliminated soon.”

Chaudhary, who was the director of Muslim engagement for the Mamdani campaign, also described Israel as a “bloody country” and a “barbaric nation” in the posts — some of which date back to when he was 18 years old.

More recently, Chaudhary reshared a post on X in December 2024 aimed at pro-Israel Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who is Jewish.

“If Luigi [Mangione] had shot a Gazan toddler instead, Josh Shapiro would have given him a medal,” the original post said.

Responding to Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi on February 9, 2012, Chaudhary said, “Hitler..why dont you face our Pakistani people? Your daughter works at WSJ [the Wall Street Journal].”

He then invokes an urdu phrase, saying, “oh forgot that Jew hoga tera baap” — which loosely means “Jew will be your father.”

In another post, a thrilled Chaudhury also lauded Ahmadinejad and called him “fearless.”

“This banda [person] is fearless RT “@murtazasolangi President Ahmedinejad has declared Israel as cancer which will be eliminated very soon,” Chaudhury wrote in an X post to Pakistani official Murtaza Solangi.

He spewed venom toward Israel in other posts.

“There is a barbaric nation who’s killing indigents and innocent Palestinians called ISRAEL. TALK about it. #stupid media,” Chaudhury said in a November 2012 post to a Pakistani journalist.


Tucker Carlson's Brother Suggests Jewish Pro-Israel Commentators Should Register as Foreign Agents
Buckley Carlson, brother of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, has ignited controversy after posting a series of statements on X that critics are calling deeply antisemitic.

On November 15, 2025, Buckley Carlson publicly endorsed a clip of Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier who has declared himself on “team Hitler” and called for a “holy war” against Jews. Carlson quote-tweeted a Fuentes fan account that accused President Trump of betraying his base, in part due to his pro-Israel policies, asking “Where within this clip is he wrong?”

But Carlson’s most inflammatory statements targeted prominent Jewish political commentators. He reshared a meme mocking Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Laura Loomer, and Dave Rubin, asking why they shouldn’t be “compelled, like AIPAC, to register as foreign lobbyists.”

When challenged on these accusations, Carlson doubled down emphatically: “Clearly, all four of them get funding from Israel. And, clearly, all four of them put Israel’s priorities over America’s.”

He defended his position by claiming he was merely discussing “a foreign lobby” and insisted he never said “jews” — despite the fact that all four individuals he singled out are Jewish.

This controversy comes as Tucker Carlson himself has faced intense backlash for platforming Nick Fuentes in a lengthy October 2025 interview. During that two-hour conversation, Fuentes identified “these Zionist Jews” as enemies of conservatism and argued that Jewish Americans inherently prioritize Israel over the United States. Tucker largely agreed with Fuentes on Israel and attacked Christian Zionists, including U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, saying they’ve been “seized by this brain virus.”


Toronto slammed for raising PLO flag
B’nai Brith Canada has blasted Toronto’s decision to raise the Palestine Liberation Organization flag this Monday, saying that the event “violates the City’s prohibition against flag raisings that espouse hatred, violence or racism.”

The human rights organization directly addressed Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, writing on X Thursday that the move “is not inclusion. It is a glorification of violence,” and noting that they had contacted the City of Toronto’s Chief of Protocol and External Relations to demand the event be cancelled.

B’nai Brith described the event as celebrating the Nov. 15, 1988 P.L.O. self-declaration of a “State of Palestine,” which Yasser Arafat announced during the First Intifada, “paying homage to violence and terrorism.”

“While civilians were being blown up in buses, and terror was glorified as ‘resistance,’ Arafat declared ‘independence’ in the name of the PLO, which, at the time, was a terror-listed entity in Canada,” said B’nai Brith.

“The PLO’s affiliated operatives carried out the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972, murdering eleven Israeli athletes, the Khartoum embassy killings, airport massacres, and bus bombings that left civilians burned alive. Its terror activities included hijacking planes, bombing schools, and executing Jews around the world,” the statement continued.

“While Jewish Torontonians are harassed, threatened, and silenced in their own city, this is the legacy Toronto is celebrating by raising the Palestinian flag to commemorate Palestinian Independence Day.”

The text of the declaration Arafat proclaimed in Algiers praises the “intifada” multiple times, including this line: “Our hearts are lifted up and irradiated by the light emanating from the much blessed intifada….”

Palestinian intifadas against Israel have resulted in thousands of civilians being killed in horrific terrorist attacks.


Columbia University rejects three Israel divestment proposals
The Columbia University Advisory Committee on Social Responsible Investing (ACSRI) rejected three anti-Israel divestment proposals on Friday, arguing that appeals to withdraw investment from companies with financial ties to Israel were overbroad, impractical, and without the necessary degree of consensus to be implemented.

The three December 2024 proposals by Columbia students, faculty, and staff accused the Israeli government and military of human rights violations, war crimes, and apartheid, in particular since the Israel-Hamas War. The alleged Israeli violations, which ostensibly included the restriction of humanitarian aid with intention to starve civilians, and the deliberate targeting of civilians, were supposedly made possible by companies in which the university was invested, such as businesses that built parts for fighter jets or construction equipment used in demolition projects.

The proposals contended that Columbia’s investment in companies that provided service or succor to Israeli efforts through business interactions constituted violations of the spirit of the university’s principles, United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, and US foreign assistance laws.

The second and third proposals also appealed to Columbia’s past commitments to divestment from fossil fuels and to environmentally friendly policies, arguing that the war had damaged the local environment and emissions from explosives and vehicles had exacerbated global climate change.

The same two proposals also contended that while there was no unified view or explicit majority backing the divestment documents, past proposals against apartheid South Africa and human rights violators in Sudan hadn’t required such a high bar of consensus.
‘Kill the Jews’ scrawled at Canada’s Concordia University
The words “Kill the Jews” were found scrawled inside a building at Concordia University in Montreal over the weekend, marking the latest antisemitic incident in Canada.

The vandalism, which included the words “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” was discovered in a campus bathroom.

“It is categorically unacceptable and antisemitism has no place on our campus,” a university spokesperson told JNS on Saturday.

Bnai Brith Canada said the message was “a direct threat to Jewish students” and accused the university of creating an environment where “hate has become normalized.”

“Jewish students at Concordia are entering buildings where open hostility is now routine,” the organization posted to X on Sunday. “They hear assurances of safety while the reality around them shows the opposite. Concordia’s leadership has allowed this problem to escalate and has not taken the action required to protect its own students.”


Sky News Arabia accused of whitewashing genocide
Sky News Arabia has been accused of whitewashing genocide in Sudan.

One of the channel’s correspondents was filmed hugging a female commander in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group opposed to the government, who had previously urged fighters to carry out mass rape.

The reporter – who is married to a senior RSF official – last week became the first to reach El Fasher, the capital of Darfur state, where analysts estimate thousands if not tens of thousands of people have been killed by the rebel militia.

On Wednesday, the broadcaster released an interview with a doctor who claimed he had not seen a single dead body, even though nearly 500 people are thought to have been killed in the building where he worked.

Other reporting also appears to have downplayed satellite images of piles of bloodied bodies.

The claims follow accusations of bias levelled at BBC Arabic over its coverage of the war in Gaza.

Sky News Arabia is a joint venture between Sky and IMI, a media investment fund controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the vice-president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, had been considering whether to allow IMI to take a 15 per cent stake in The Telegraph as part of a takeover bid led by RedBird Capital Partners, a US private equity firm. However, the deal collapsed on Friday.

The UAE is said to be backing the RSF in Sudan in an effort to gain access to the country’s rich farmland, valuable coastline and deep reserves of gold.


How Illegal Crypto Mining Cripples Iran's Electricity and Economy
Unregulated crypto mining is a colossal drain on Iran's already fragile national power grid.

Illegal miners take advantage of the country's heavily subsidized electricity prices, which are among the cheapest in the world.

The illegal farms tap into the grid using residential, agricultural or industrial connections, paying a fraction of the actual cost or, in some cases, bypassing meters entirely.

Iranian power officials estimate that unauthorized crypto mining operations consume the equivalent to the electricity demand of an entire major city like Tehran.

State-run utility Tavanir has attributed 15-20% of the country's electricity deficit to these operations.

The result is predictable rolling blackouts across major cities and provinces.

The subsidized energy intended for homes and vital industries is being secretly siphoned off to generate a private, digital asset, forcing the public to bear the cost in darkness.

The authorities offer large cash rewards to citizens who report illegal operations, a desperate measure that highlights the severity of the crisis.

The illegal crypto mining phenomenon in Iran is an organized, large-scale black market.


Israeli FM condemns antisemitic slur targeting Mexican president
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday condemned antisemitic graffiti targeting Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum after violent protests erupted in Mexico City over the weekend.

During Saturday’s demonstrations outside the National Palace, protesters spray-painted the words “Jewish whore” on the gates of the presidential residence, according to local reports. The slur referred to Sheinbaum, the country’s first female and Jewish president.

“Israel strongly condemns the antisemitic and sexist insults directed at the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo,” Sa’ar posted on X. “There is no place for that kind of attack in political discourse. All forms of antisemitism, in any context, must be unequivocally rejected.”


In France, praise for Nazi collaborator Petain prompts legal action, condemnation
A senior French official said on Saturday that legal action would be taken over comments made praising Philippe Petain, Vichy France’s wartime head of state who collaborated with the Nazis and was convicted of treason after World War II.

The row is the latest controversy over the legacy of Petain, a World War I hero disgraced for his collaboration with the Nazis. With his regime’s help, some 75,000 Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps.

Xavier Delarue, the government prefect of Meuse department in eastern France, said he would take action over remarks made following a mass for Petain organized by an association dedicated to restoring his reputation.

French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez and France’s umbrella Jewish communal group also condemned the comments.

Yonathan Arfi, president of CRIF, which represents Jewish institutions in France, called the tribute an insult to the memory of the Jews deported during Petain’s time in power, “whom the zealous collaborators of the Vichy regime handed over to the Nazis.”

“Celebrating a mass for Petain is to glorify collaboration and rehabilitate a traitor to the nation,” he added.
Survivors demand German auction house halt sale of Holocaust artifacts
A Holocaust survivors group is calling on a German auction house to cancel a sale of hundreds of Holocaust artifacts, including letters written by prisoners and other documents that identify many people by name.

The International Auschwitz Committee, a Berlin-based group of survivors, called for the cancellation of the “cynical and shameless” auction — titled “The System of Terror” and set to be held Monday by the Felzmann auction house.

The collection of over 600 lots at auction in western Neuss, near Düsseldorf, included letters written by prisoners from German concentration camps to loved ones at home, Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, the German news agency dpa reported.

“For victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless undertaking that leaves them outraged and speechless,” Christoph Heubner, an executive vice president of the committee, said in a statement on Saturday.

“Their history and the suffering of all those persecuted and murdered by the Nazis is being exploited for commercial gain,” he added. The committee said the names of individuals were identifiable in many of the documents.

Heubner said such documents of persecution and the Holocaust “belong to the families of the victims. They should be displayed in museums or memorial exhibitions and not degraded to mere commodities.”

“We urge those responsible at the Felzmann auction house to show some basic decency and cancel the auction,” he added.


JPost Editorial: Israel needs more visitors like MP Sammy Wilson to bear witness
Northern Irish MP Sammy Wilson visited Israel as a longtime supporter of the Jewish state and left with something even more valuable: He is now a firsthand witness who can speak with authority back home.

“I wanted to say with some authority: I’ve been there, I’ve spoken to people, I’ve seen on the ground what people have suffered,” Wilson told Jerusalem Post reporter Mathilda Heller after his recent visit. That is exactly the kind of voice Israel needs more of in today’s hostile international climate.

Wilson, from the Democratic Unionist Party, never hid his support for Israel. He also knew his visit would draw fire. “Nobody on the other side wants the truth to be shown,” he said, describing how pro-Gaza MPs in the House of Commons “hiss and try and shout me down” when he defends Israel.

In his view, parts of the Labour Party are “so dependent in maybe 200 or 300 of their constituencies on the Muslim vote that they seem to have closed their eyes to any kind of objectivity when it comes to Israel.”

These are not criticisms that can be easily dismissed as “Israeli propaganda.” They come from a British politician who lives with political consequences, who understands the pressures within the UK system, and who has chosen to stand with Israel despite them.


Israeli judoka Timna Nelson Levy fights for the Jewish people and flag
“When we’re on the mat, we’re not only fighting for ourselves. We represent the entire country, the flag, and the Jewish state,” Israeli judoka Timna Nelson Levy told JNS.

Nelson Levy, ranked 10th in the world in the women’s under-57 kg category, has competed in 252 contests, won bronze in the team competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and is a European champion.

She spoke with JNS about the challenges of being an athlete during the war against Hamas and in the post–Oct. 7, 2023, reality.

“Abroad, we were surrounded by a lot of security at the beginning of the war, and we felt the hate and the antisemitism, unfortunately. I once fought a Moroccan girl who refused to shake my hand after the match. We’re also used to being booed by the crowd and seeing Palestinian flags. Sometimes we’d just walk outside and see protests,” she said.

“We don’t walk around with the word ‘Israel’ on our backs at all. Athletes from other countries walk freely with their national colors on their uniforms. We’re not allowed to leave the hotels as we please, and at times it can be frustrating,” she continued.

Nelson Levy described herself as a very enthusiastic child, one of six siblings. Her mother, who immigrated from the United States to Israel, wanted her to channel that energy into something productive.

“I started judo when I was six. When I was very young, it was my dream to get to the Olympic Games and win a medal. I’m now 31, and Los Angeles will be my third Olympic Games,” she said.




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