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Monday, November 17, 2025

11/17 Links Pt2: Hating Jews for Fun and Profit; Neither American nor Conservative; Wikipedia’s Antisemitism; Oxford Students Deploy Lynch Mob Symbolism at Protest of Ehud Olmert

From Ian:

Christine Rosen: Hating Jews for Fun and Profit
How did anti-Semitism become mainstream so quickly, especially among younger Americans? Perhaps because it has become a form of mass entertainment.

In the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and the significant increase in attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in the U.S., this is an urgent question. A squad of prominent public figures, elected officials, and cultural arbiters has emerged to promote ideas many thought permanently relegated to the unsavory fringes of American life—and they are gaining an increasingly enthusiastic hearing.

Case in point: Tucker Carlson’s fawning reception of self-proclaimed white nationalist and leader of the so-called groyper movement, Nick Fuentes. As a guest on Carlson’s show, Fuentes, a fan of both Hitler and Stalin, obligingly performed his predictable routine, complaining about “organized Jewry” and the Jews “controlling the media apparatus.” Smiling and nodding along, Carlson did remind Fuentes that “going on about the Jews helps the neocons” but otherwise agreed with him, noting that Christians who supported Israel have been “seized by this brain virus.” An internal conservative battle erupted soon after, when Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, one of the conservative movement’s major institutions, produced a video defending Carlson and calling him a friend.

Water finds its own level, and Roberts’s unwillingness to denounce Carlson’s endorsement of anti-Semi-tic conspiracy theorizing places him and, by association, his institution in the most polluted part of the conservative movement’s pond. That this happened was entirely by design. As Fuentes himself gleefully noted on his show after the Heritage debacle unfolded, “We are thoroughly in the groyper war, the civil war for the GOP.”

In previous eras, anti-Semitism spread in the form of propaganda published in largely fringe newsletters, a few newspapers (like Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent) and books, and notoriously, on radio broadcasts like those of the Canadian-American priest Charles E. Coughlin. Political organizers such as America First Party founder Gerald L.K. Smith (who, like Carlson, was fond of theories about UFOs and demons) also tried strenuously to mainstream anti-Semitism, but the effort never achieved widespread acceptance.

Today, by contrast, anti-Semitism lives and thrives on the entertainment platforms of the young and very online. YouTube, streaming sites like Rumble, and social media platforms have vastly expanded their reach and scope while presenting no barriers to entry and providing anonymity to millions of people who crave communities of the like-minded—often with little regard to what they are endorsing with their time and attention. Popular streamers like Fuentes and Carlson are the arbiters of an online culture that now permeates real-world politics daily. Fuentes boasts more than 1 million followers on X and hundreds of thousands of viewers of his America First streaming show on Rumble, where he regularly, proudly, and unashamedly makes racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, and anti-American claims. Carlson is among the most popular public-affairs podcasters on platforms such as Spotify and Apple, where he muses about “globohomo” conspiracies and “the Antichrist’s newest manifestation.”

Motivated toxic actors like Fuentes and Carlson and Candace Owens, combined with streaming platforms and DIY media, have created a massive amount of content that can be consumed by millions almost hourly. And unlike the anti-Semitic propaganda of old, this new form allows for active, rather than merely passive, consumption. Viewers post comments, swap memes, and form fan chat groups. They feel connected to peers while enjoying the posture of being skeptical renegades “just asking questions” about how the Jews control everything. The Two Minutes Hate is available 24 hours a day.
John Podhoretz: Kevin Mamdani and Zohran Roberts
Roberts cannot be saved from himself, though perhaps his Lord can save him; my Lord doesn’t work that way. For us, “repentance, prayer, and charity avert the evil decree,” as we say on Yom Kippur. Salvation is not on the menu; we must be mindful of our evil inclinations and understand that it is our duty as decent people to fight against them every moment of every day. It is through the knowledge that we have led decent and meaningful lives that we are saved by the posterity we make possible.

So Kevin Roberts, hear me. Since you are friends with a Nazi, or are friends with someone who gives a microphone to a Nazi and chitters like a cicada as that Nazi spews his Satanic bile, you, too, should and must be anathematized—simply to create the condition in this country under which there can be a public square at all.

I am under no illusions here. I do not have the power to anathematize anyone, only to counsel it. I am part of a small people, 2 percent of the American population, whose position and standing in this country and around the world are growing more parlous by the day. But especially because of that, this is no time to accept disingenuous apologies. This is no time to find common ground with those who seek to kill us. And this is no time to sue for peace, even though we are so gravely outnumbered.

Israel is outnumbered, too, and it has demonstrated over the past two years that it will not lie down and die to give the Zohran Mamdanis of the world the satisfaction of having subdued a nation that is their superior in purpose, virtue, and meaning. And here at home, Kevin Roberts and his ilk will not guide the right into the arms of the Nazis and the America-haters without being stood up against.

Two months into the war, I wrote a piece called “They’re Out to Get Us.” I followed it up with a piece about how they’re trying to drive us underground. They’re still trying to get us. They’re still trying to drive us underground. The Passover Haggadah says, “In every generation they rise up against us to destroy us.” But as is true of everything in this century, time is speeding up. “Every generation” is now “every week,” or “every day.” It’s from the left. And it’s from the right.

But at least we can be comforted by this: Jews have survived worse than this self-righteous twerp from Uganda and Morningside Heights, and America has survived worse than the Nazi catamite brought to you courtesy of the Tucker Carlson charnel house.

Tucker Carlson has millions of listeners and viewers, and so does Nick Fuentes. And they have friends, like Kevin Roberts. Just as nuts have aflatoxin. Their continued common presence will send the right into anaphylactic shock.

We are the EpiPen.
The Desecration of Our Heritage
What Roberts calls “the vile ideas of the left” have become the lingua franca of this new “right.” The conspiracy has changed its costume, but not its creed. The radicals who shout loudest about treason to the nation have themselves become mouthpieces for its enemies. The dialectic of grievance, the politics of victimhood, the scapegoating of Jews and “globalists”—all were spoken long ago on the campuses that the podcast right claims to despise.

Founded to preserve the principles that won the Cold War and rebuilt the free world, the Heritage Foundation now labors to unmake them. Roberts speaks the language of patriotism but rejects its substance—advancing ideas and would-be leaders who would make America weaker, lonelier, and more vulnerable to the forces that openly despise her. When America forgets that her strength lies in fidelity to the values that made her great, she does not find safety in retreat. She invites defeat. Its leaders preach “America First,” yet the policies they advance would leave America last—abandoned by allies, emboldening enemies, and unmoored from the moral purpose that once bound liberty to restraint.

If America owes allegiance only to herself, then every sacrifice made in Europe and Asia and in the long vigilance of the Cold War was a mistake. Walk the cliffs of Normandy, and you will see the covenant written in marble and grass—the white crosses and Stars of David standing in their thousands, row upon row, facing the sea they crossed to free. The same order stretches across the Ardennes, across Anzio and Manila—fields of faith and duty where the living made a vow to the dead. Those who fell there did not die for profit or power. They died for a moral order carved into stone and sanctified in blood—the order that made the West worth defending. This is the moral inheritance of the Judeo-Christian tradition. It forged liberal democracy not as an abstraction, but as a way of life: a covenant between faith and freedom, duty and mercy. If America forgets this, the West will follow—and if the West forgets, freedom itself will fade from the earth. And when that happens, it will not be because the wolves were strong, but because the shepherds lost their faith.

This is not a quarrel within conservatism. It is a quarrel between those who still believe in civilization and those who would sell it for applause. The battle now is the oldest of all: between memory and amnesia. The Heritage Foundation was once built to defend the first against the second. Under Roberts, it is threatening to embody the reversal.
James Kirchick: Neither American nor Conservative
Last August, the American Conservative magazine heralded a scoop on its website: Republican Congressman Riley Moore of West Virginia had sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to award Patrick J. Buchanan—author and television pundit, former aide to Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and himself a candidate for the presidency in 1992, 1996, and 2000—the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

That Moore chose the American Conservative to announce his nomination of Buchanan for the nation’s highest civilian honor was fitting. Along with the journalist Scott McConnell and the Greek aristocrat Taki Theodoracopulos, Buchanan founded the magazine in 2002 as a populist and paleoconservative rejoinder to the free trade, free market, and hawkish foreign policy ideas then regnant in the Republican Party. “Not all conservatives do agree that the United States should engage—for reasons that hardly touch America’s own vital interests—in an open-ended war against much of the Arab and Muslim world,” the trio declared in the magazine’s first editorial. The mission of the American Conservative would be “to reignite the conversation that conservatives ought to have engaged in since the end of the Cold War, but didn’t.”

The following week, Moore co-authored an article for the magazine with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts elaborating on why Buchanan deserves the honor. Decrying “neoconservative gatekeepers” who “dismissed him as a nativist, a protectionist, and an antisemitic isolationist,” Moore and Roberts wrote that “looking back now, his speeches read like prophecy.” They pointed to Buchanan’s address to the 1992 Republican National Convention, which he delivered after waging a bruising yet ultimately unsuccessful challenge to George H.W. Bush for the party’s presidential nomination. “There is a religious war going on in this country,” Buchanan declared, an unnerving assertion that would do more to help Bill Clinton than Bush. “It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as was the Cold War itself, for this war is for the soul of America.” Moore and Roberts also called attention to a clause in Buchanan’s speech accepting the presidential nomination of the Reform Party eight years later in which he implored, “There has to be one party willing to drive the money changers out of the temples of our civilization.”

It was innuendo like this that had prompted William F. Buckley Jr. to publish, nearly a decade earlier, a 40,000-word essay in National Review ruefully concluding that Buchanan, his longtime friend and political ally, was guilty of espousing anti-Semitism. But to Moore and Roberts, it wasn’t Pitchfork Pat who was at fault in this exchange but rather the father of the American conservative movement, who had pushed a “spurious accusation of antisemitism” against a noble patriot whom “history has vindicated.”1

Moore’s proposal to give the Medal of Freedom to Buchanan, which the Heritage Foundation touted in a short hagiographic video titled “Pat Buchanan Was Right About Everything,” won the support of MAGA-aligned think tanks such as the America First Policy Institute and the Center for Renewing America (the latter founded by Russ Vought, the past and present director of the Office of Management and Budget). The leader of American Moment, an influential nonprofit for conservative youth, recently told Politico that “Buchanan has been revered by the under-30 crowd basically the entire time that I’ve been working in professional politics.” When Moore pitched his idea at the National Conservatism Conference, an annual gathering of the populist right, it was one of the weekend’s biggest applause lines.


Herzog attends funeral of Meny Godard, killed during Oct. 7 massacre
Israeli President Isaac Herzog eulogized the late Meny (Menachem) Godard, 73, as “the best of humanity” during Godard’s funeral service at Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel on Monday.

“Our wild neighbors, as always, do not know what they are doing, who they are murdering: the best of humanity,” said Herzog, quoting the early 20th century Zionist writer Yosef Chaim Brenner, himself murdered by Arabs during the 1921 Jaffa riots.

“When you look around at the gravestones of all the friends and family buried in Be’eri’s cemetery, you can see: Hamas terrorists murdered the best of humanity on Oct. 7. Meny and Ayelet Goddard, may their memory be a blessing, were the best of humanity,” he said.

Meny’s wife, Ayelet, 63, was killed alongside him in their home in Kibbutz Be’eri by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

Meny’s body was taken into the Gaza Strip, and recovered by Israel on Nov. 13.

“Today we said goodbye to Meny and Ayelet, an inseparable couple in their love, in their lives and in their deaths. And here they are together again, and we, in pain and in mourning, are by their side,” said Herzog.

Meni’s death was officially confirmed on Dec. 8, 2023. He is survived by four children and seven grandchildren.

“The IDF expresses deep condolences to the families, continues to make every effort to return all the deceased hostages, and is prepared for the continued implementation of the [ceasefire] agreement,” the military said in a statement after recovering Meny’s body.

“Hamas is required to fulfill its part of the agreement and make the necessary efforts to return all the hostages to their families and to a dignified burial,” the statement continued.


Former Hamas captive relates weeks-long attempt to dig his way to freedom
Avinatan Or escaped his Hamas captors in Gaza by digging his way out of a tunnel, but was later found and beaten for days, he told an audience at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Washington, D.C., on Sunday night.

“My engineering background saved me. I count in steps. I collected data. I built a small [lightbulb] from broken cables. I planned an escape route in my head. I told myself, ‘You will not let others decide your destiny,’ and I tried to escape,” Or related from a podium, standing next to Noa Argamani, Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal—all former Hamas captives.

“I dug for weeks through sand bags through a collapsed tunnel toward the surface. I made myself work to change my own destiny. One day, as I was digging, I hit the root of a tree. I smelled it. It felt like touching life in a place of death,” he continued.

“One night,” he went on, “I reached the outside. I saw stars for the first time in years. I wrote ‘Hostage’ on a white sand bag, planning my next step. But they found out.”

Or, 32, said that he was beaten by his captors “for days,” and was tied to a chair for a week. “I was sure I will die there,” he said.

But even then, he continued, he wrote three things next to his bed: “This too shall pass,” “Patience” and “Let it be.”

These words “kept me going,” he related. “I had too much time to think about life [in the tunnels]. I used to believe I had bad luck. How could this happen to me? Now I understand something different. Everything in my life—my childhood, my parents, my education, my army service, working in construction, studying engineering—all of it made me who I am. And who I am is what kept me alive.”

The survivor went on to say that he does not see himself as a hero. “I didn’t choose to be a hostage. The heroes are the [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers, the ones who choose to fight for others,” said Or.


The Bataclan Massacre, the Post-1968 Left, and the Unwelcome Victim
This confusion comes directly from the inheritance of 1968. The Left that emerged from that period trained itself to read every conflict as the aftershock of colonialism. Once Islam became associated with the descendants of former colonial powers, the old categories merged. The jihadist became the post-colonial rebel. The terrorist act became a form of revenge against history. The victim became the embodiment of France, and France became the embodiment of its crimes. And because patriotism had been morally delegitimized, defending the victims as French became unacceptable, suspicious, weird, unsettling.

More importantly, a segment of the French intelligentsia recast Islam as political symbolism rather than a religious world. Jihadist violence was interpreted as a political expression, not cruelty. This came not from engagement with Islamic history but from the need to preserve an ideological narrative of oppression and resistance. In the process, Islam was reduced to a surface for post-1968 projections. This same distortion led many to misread the Islamic State. ISIS was not the voice of the marginalized but an imperial project seeking to overthrow Middle Eastern states, yet this reality was obscured by the insistence on placing it within an old anti-imperialist story.

Once this shift occurred, even a massacre like the Bataclan could be folded back into the older narrative. The victims faded because they did not fit the script. Any impulse to defend the country, to mourn collectively, or to describe the attack plainly risked being dismissed as nationalism. Reality bent to protect the framework, and in that distortion the final inversion appeared: the killers were treated as bearers of history, and the dead as bearers of France. Public grief itself became uncomfortable, and in that discomfort, the victims were abandoned twice.

The United States is not France, but it is beginning to develop a similar reflex. These ideas never appear out of thin air, and their presence is not inherently harmful. I still read Foucault, and I still enjoy Derrida’s writings on painting and art. Engaging difficult and unsettling thinkers is part of a healthy intellectual life. A democracy depends on argument and disagreement. The problem arises when interpretation begins to blur essential distinctions and is treated as an ultimate truth (even though they insist that there is no objective truth, only their own), particularly in moments of danger.

Jihadist movements are still active, foreign adversaries test American resolve, and political violence is no longer an abstraction. In such a landscape, hesitation about affirming national cohesion carries real consequences. Patriotism becomes something to be softened or hidden, as if expressing a shared civic identity risks being mistaken for partisanship. That hesitation obscures judgment at precisely the moment judgment is needed, whether jihadist groups or foreign proxies target Americans.

France struggled to speak with one voice after a terror attack because the idea of national solidarity had long been treated with suspicion. The United States is not there, but something similar is forming. The challenge is not the existence of dissent or criticism, both of which are essential, but the growing reluctance to affirm the bare civic ground on which a society recognizes danger. In an era of multiplying threats, that reluctance is not merely a cultural debate, it is fundamentally a strategic vulnerability.
Wikipedia’s Antisemitism
Iranian and Irish Anti-Israel Fanatics
These findings echo an earlier warning by tech writer Ashley Rindsberg, who noted in 2024 that two distinct groups of Wikipedia editors seemed determined to insert anti-Israel, pro-Hamas and pro-Iranian content throughout Wikipedia’s platform. He puts the number of bad-faith actors at Wikipedia even higher, at about 40 total.

The first group of anti-Israel editors vandalizing Wikipedia’s Israel and Jewish related entries appears to be Iranian. (Wikipedia editors use pseudonyms, though several of these one-word pseudonyms appear to be Iranian names). In early 2024, they were joined by a second, Irish-led group of editors. This second effort was led by Paul Biggar, an Irish tech executive who founded “Tech For Palestine” (TFP), a hard-core advocacy group dedicated to anti-Zionism, three months after Hamas’ October 7 attack.

TFP recruited Wikipedia editors on the Discord messaging system. “In the channel, two group leaders, Samira and Samer, coordinated with other members to mass edit a number of (Israel-related) articles. The effort included recruiting volunteers, processing them through formal orientation, troubleshooting issues, and holding remote office hours to problem solve and ideate. The channel’s welcome message posed a revealing question: ‘Why Wikipedia? It is a widely accessed resource, and its content influences public perception.” TFP’s main point person for Wikipedia edits is a long-time Wikipedia contributor who goes by Ivana, and whose banner on Discord features a red triangle, used since October 7, 2023 as a symbol of Hamas.

Rindsberg notes that these groups’ “efforts are remarkably successful. Type ‘Zionism’ into Wikipedia’s search box and, aside from the main article on Zionism…the auto-fill returns: ‘Zionism as settler colonialism,’ ‘Zionism in the Age of Dictators’ (a book by a pro-Palestinian Trotskyite), ‘Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims,’ and ‘Racism in Israel.’ The aggregate effect of these efforts is a wholesale shift to the language of the Palestine-Israel topic online.”

Insidious Anti-Jewish and Anti-Israel Slanders
The result is that much of Wikipedia is now a cesspool of antisemitism and anti-Israel lies. The examples are too numerous to count. Here are just a few examples.

Wikipedia now has an entry titled “Jewish Supremacy” which asserts it “is the belief that Jewish people are superior to non-Jews.” (There are no comparable entries on “Arab Supremacy” or “Muslim Supremacy” - nor on Buddhist or Hindu Supremacy, despite widespread religious-based strife between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar and Buddhists and Hindus in Sri Lanka and ongoing violence between Hindus and Muslims in India.)
An entry on “Israeli Apartheid” falsely asserts that apartheid exists in Israel.
The entry “Well poisoning” falsely states that Israel poisoned the wells of Arab communities during its 1948 War of Independence, and continues to do so today, echoing age-old antisemitic tropes that Jews poison the wells of non-Jews.
An entry titled “Palestinian Genocide Accusation” falsely claims that “Since it’s foundation in 1948, Israel has been accused of carrying out genocide against Palestinians….” (Shockingly, an entry detailing Hamas’ genocidal attack on October 7, 2023 has a more nuanced title: “Allegations of genocide in October 7 attacks.”)
Wikipedia’s entry “Al Ahli Arab Hospital Explosion” describes the October 17, 2023 explosion in the hospital, which was found to be the fault of a faulty missile that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was trying to launch into Israel, and which caused heavy casualties. Initial media reports around the world blamed Israel but subsequent analysis by American, British, Canadian, French, and Israeli intelligence services - and media analysis - found that the missile was fired from within Gaza. The entry falsely insinuates that Israel launched the missile, inaccurately claiming: “The cause of the explosion is contested.”
One particularly active Wikipedia editor, who goes by Iskandar323, has changed Wikipedia’s entry on “Jews” to remove the “Land of Israel” from a description of how the Jewish people originated. He also altered the article’s short summary, which appears on mobile versions. Instead of calling Jews an “Ethnoreligious group and nation from the Levant” to an “Ethnoreligious group and cultural community” with no mention of their origins in the Middle East.
Iskandar323 has also removed descriptions of Hamas’ 1988 founding charter, which calls for the murder of all Jews across the globe as well as the annihilation of Israel, in at least four articles, including Wikipedia’s “Hamas” entry. (Instead, the “Hamas” entry states “the 1988 Hamas charter was widely described as antisemitic,” without explaining why.)
NYC, Seattle socialist mayors-elect take part in anti-Israel strike against Starbucks
Seattle’s and New York City’s socialist mayors-elect joined an “open-ended” strike against Starbucks this week. The protest pickets what the organizer, Starbucks Workers United, calls unfair labor practices and has said is in solidarity with Palestinians.

“While workers are on strike, I won’t be buying any Starbucks, and I’m asking you to join us,” stated Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect who has said he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he comes to the Big Apple.

“Together, we can send a powerful message,” he said. “No contract. No coffee.”

Katie Wilson, the Seattle mayor-elect who has accused Israel of “genocide,” reportedly said, “I’m not buying Starbucks, and you should not either.”

Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that “socialists tend to be very hostile to Jews.”

He said, “Why is Mamdani screaming about Israel issues in the campaign? He’s the mayor. He doesn’t have a foreign policy. He hates Jews.”
From Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories to Anti-Israel Libels: John Cleese’s Latest Squawks on Social Media
What has happened to John Cleese?
The famous British comedian and actor, known for his leading roles in Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, has unveiled his latest role, albeit one far less amusing than his usual fare: Online spreader of anti-Israel propaganda and borderline antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Recently, it was announced that Cleese’s upcoming shows in Israel (which had been postponed due to the June 2025 Israel-Iran war) had been cancelled due to alleged pressure by the anti-Israel BDS movement (although Cleese claims that it was only for safety reasons).

However, this reasoning seems to be a cover for something much more sinister: John Cleese has become the latest victim of Israel Derangement Syndrome.

Ever since mid-October (ironically, after the implementation of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas), Cleese’s X account has been awash with posts spreading misinformation and denigrating comments about the Jewish state and the IDF. When he is not publishing his own posts, Cleese is sharing content from other accounts, some of which are known to be responsible for spreading antisemitic libels.

Some notable examples of Cleese’s crossing over into full-blown hate and irrationality include:

Sharing a fake quote by the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, claiming that she would sleep well even if a million Palestinian children were killed. He shared the false quote along with the comment “Unbelievable.”
Oxford Students Deploy Lynch Mob Symbolism at Union Protest of Ehud Olmert Event
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address at the Oxford Union on November 16 was disrupted by protesters who displayed red-painted hands inside the debating chamber, recreating imagery from one of the Second Intifada’s most notorious terrorist attacks.

In October 2000, a Palestinian mob lynched two Israeli reserve soldiers who had accidentally driven into Ramallah. After beating and stabbing the men to death, perpetrator Aziz Salha appeared at a window displaying his blood-soaked hands to a cheering crowd below. The photograph became an iconic image of the conflict, shocking the Israeli public.

Twenty-five years later, Oxford students recreated that gesture inside one of Britain’s most prestigious institutions to protest a former Israeli prime minister who had been invited to speak.

The protest came just two days after the Union voted “overwhelmingly” that Israel poses a greater threat to regional stability than Iran. That debate welcomed Mohammad Shtayyeh, former Palestinian Authority prime minister, and Ataollah Mohajerani, a former Iranian regime official whom human rights lawyer and UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer accused of complicity in dissident assassinations. Both spoke without disruption.


Harvard Rhodes Scholarship Recipient Lauded Hamas's Oct. 7 Attack: 'Daring To Resist'
A Harvard College senior and newly minted Rhodes Scholar lauded Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, describing the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust as an example of Palestinians "daring to resist" Israeli "colonialism."

Sazi Bongwe, an international student from Johannesburg studying English, included the remarks in a September 2024 op-ed that accused Israel of using the terrorist attack as a pretext for "starvation."

"Israel, with the support of the United States, has turned October 7 into the sole reason for the Palestinian people's continued suffering and slaughter," Bongwe wrote. "The Palestinian's suffering, Israel declares to the world, is all the fault of the Palestinians for daring to resist."

The op-ed goes on to criticize those who "insist that Hamas's attack was outside the bounds of the right to resist" as "nullifying Palestinian resistance." It also includes a rebuke of "Gandhi-style nonviolence" and invokes Frantz Fanon, a far-left scholar who argues that violence is "a necessary response to the systemic violence of colonialism."

"Fanon did not rejoice at acts of armed struggle he might have found reprehensible, but he did not condemn them either. He understood where they came from, and where those who carried them out thought they were going: the destruction of colonialism," wrote Bongwe. "Fanon, too, might have recoiled at the violence he saw, but his mission was, nonetheless, to authorize it, because ultimately he wanted every act of violence—that of the colonizer and the colonized—to end."

Harvard students can only apply for the Rhodes Scholarship if they obtain the Ivy League school's formal endorsement, a selective process in which half of Harvard's prospective applicants are rejected.

Bongwe has played an active role in anti-Israel activism at Harvard. He participated in the school's anti-Israel encampment in April 2024 and attended a "Palestine study-in" at the Harvard Law Library six months later. One of the encampment's lead organizers, Asmer Asrar Safi, was himself named a Rhodes Scholar in 2023, the Washington Free Beacon reported.


London college bans academic who repeated antisemitic libel
A prestigious London university has banned an academic from its facilities after a video emerged online of her apparently recounting uncritically an antisemitic blood libel in a lecture to students.

“I am utterly appalled by these heinous antisemitic comments,” the president of University College London, Michael Spence, said last week in response to the footage. “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,” he added.

The comments in question were made by Samar Maqusi, a former employee of the U.N. aid agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, on Nov. 11 to members of the UCL chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, and involved the so-called Damascus Affair.

The affair, which led to antisemitic pogroms in the Syrian capital, began with the disappearance of an Italian monk, whose body was later found. Jews were accused of murdering him for ritual reasons—an antisemitic trope common in past centuries, and in some places still today.

“So the story is that a certain investigation was undergoing to try and find where Father Thomas is—he was found murdered and a group of Jews who lived in Syria said they admitted to kidnapping him and murdering him to get the drops of blood for making the holy bread,” says Maqusi in the video.

The lecture, titled, “The Birth of Zionism,” was the first in a five-part series called “Palestine: From Existence to Resistance.” The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter that hosted the series has been temporarily banned from holding campus activities, The Jewish News of London reported.
‘Disturbing’ Boston University event depicts Israel, Zionism as ‘uniquely malignant’
It is “deeply disturbing” that the Boston University School of Law held an event on Friday with an “overwhelming number” of sessions that made the “charge that nefarious actors are manipulating American universities,” according to the American Jewish Committee.

Listed speakers included Michel DeGraff, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor who allegedly harassed a Jewish student, and Sahar Aziz, a distinguished law professor and chancellor’s social justice scholar at Rutgers Law School, who referred in 2024 to Zionists “inflaming Islamophobia by accusing Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians of supporting terrorism.”

The session in which Aziz participated referred to “recent suppression of pro-Palestine advocacy, through expulsions, disciplinary sanctions and the weaponization of antisemitism charges” that “demonstrates institutions’ active role in reinforcing the U.S.-Israel alliance.”

Sara Coodin, director of academic affairs for the AJC, told JNS before the event that it appeared to be “deeply disturbing” and an effort to reduce “complex questions about the state of the American university to such a reductive ideological perspective.”

“This symposium, which features more than 50 individual speakers, claims to engage with questions about upholding democracy, but an overwhelming number of its sessions fall back on a single underlying charge that nefarious actors are manipulating American universities both from without and from within,” Coodin said.

“These claims, which are accompanied here by specific sessions that cast Israel and Zionism as uniquely malignant actors, hew closely to the classic antisemitic canards of Jewish power, malicious influence and control,” she said. “Those canards not only fail to exemplify critical thinking, they conjure its exact opposite—conspiracism.”

Douglas Hauer-Gilad, who has alleged that he was forced to resign from his position as an adjunct law professor at the university for protesting what he viewed as antisemitic social media posts from Aziz, told JNS that Aziz and DeGraff “lack civility in political discourse and both use social media to attack Jews.”

“This is one further step at BU to institutionalize radical Jew-hatred,” he said.


Israeli forces dismantle unauthorized Jewish outpost in Judea
Israeli security forces on Monday evacuated the unauthorized outpost of Tzur Misgavi, located southeast of the city of Efrat in Judea’s Gush Etzion region, displacing 25 families, Hebrew media reported.

Hundreds of Israelis rushed to the Judean hill on Monday morning in an attempt to stop the evacuation. Four teenagers were detained when they blocked demolition equipment at the site, according to local reports.

Daniella Weiss, chairwoman of the Nachala Settlement Movement, had called on the public to come and prevent the destruction of the outpost.

The NGO, which seeks to establish new Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, slammed the move as an “attack on Hilltop Youth.”

“While our enemies are trying to undermine our hold on the Land, it is precisely the government that is directing tools and efforts against the pioneers of settlement,” the group noted, calling it a “dangerous move that harms the very heart of the Jewish presence in the Land of Israel.”

The Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration claimed the demolition was ordered by Israel Defense Forces Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth “following the fact that criminal activity and serious incidents of crime and violence [occurred] at the site, which affected the security of the area.”

The Civil Administration said the IDF and other Israeli security bodies would continue to take actions against unauthorized construction in Judea and Samaria, which it said harms “the security and public order of all residents of the area.”

Israel National News reported that Tzur Misgavi was established some two years ago on “survey land,” whose ownership is unclear but which could later be declared state property. Residents managed to halt the illegal expansion of Sa’ir, a nearby Arab village, according to INN.
Who is behind Al-Majd, the Israeli-linked evacuation group sending Gazans to South Africa?
Al-Majd, the organization behind the mysterious evacuation of 153 Palestinians from Gaza to South Africa, is seemingly led by an Estonian-Israeli man based in London, raising questions over whether it may be an Israeli shell company.

The organization was allegedly established in 2010 in Germany to provide humanitarian aid and education. However, it is not listed in the public Charity Register maintained by the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).

Additionally, the email address provided on Al-Majd’s website bounced back with automated messages stating it does not exist when The Jerusalem Post checked on Sunday. Al Jazeera reported that it has no office at its registered address in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem.

Haaretz reported that an older version of the website showed a logo for an Estonian company named Talent Globus, registered a year ago under a Mr. Tomer Janar Lind.

Although Talent Globus lists three other staff members aside from Lind, the Post could not find any matches for the listed individuals elsewhere on the Internet. Additionally, the social media addresses and the phone number listed were invalid.
Muslim Brotherhood stole half a billion dollars in Gaza donations, Arab sources reveal
The Muslim Brotherhood allegedly stole half a billion dollars in donations for the Gaza Strip in a single campaign, Egyptian researcher Maher Farghali reported on Sunday.

While Farghali noted that it is typical of the Muslim Brotherhood to “exploit Gaza and Palestine for money,” the difference with this incident is that the theft was condemned by Hamas.

The association Waqf al-Ummah/Ummet Vakfı, founded by the Muslim Brotherhood, is said to have been responsible for taking half a billion, which it raised in a single fundraiser in the name of “Gaza.” Waqf al-Ummah has operated out of Turkey since 2013 and is overseen by religious figures.

Hamas learned of the corruption in January 2024 through one of its younger members, Khaled Mansour, who was investigating Waqf al-Ummah and the associated individuals. Over the last few days, Mansour (@mansourgaza) has been posting repeatedly about the situation, including detailing the figures stolen.

'The biggest theft scandal in the history of the Islamic movement'
“How is it conceivable that many Brotherhood elites and Islamists remain silent about the biggest theft scandal in the history of the Islamic movement of the funds of the people of Gaza,” he wrote yesterday.

Hamas released a statement, which was viewed by The Jerusalem Post, on learning of the incident back in January 2024, titled “exposing and disavowing certain institutions and individuals,” in which it prohibited any dealings with Waqf al-Ummah.

Hamas spoke of “suspicious campaigns and funds collected in the name of Gaza, administered by some institutions abroad that exploited the emotions of our people and supporters under the pretext of relief and humanitarian aid.”

Hamas then said it has “no relationship whatsoever with these institutions and campaigns, does not supervise them, and has not authorized anyone to collect donations on its behalf.”


Iran's Leader Spotlights Helyeh Doutaghi, Yale Scholar Fired After Jewish Onliner Exposed Her Terror Ties
Over the last two days, the official media X account of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei, posted several videos featuring Helyeh Doutaghi speaking at Iran’s November, 10, 2025 conference titled “We and the West: A Conference on the Views and Thoughts of Ayatollah Khamenei.”

Doutaghi, an Iranian-born former Yale Law School scholar who was terminated in March 2025 after Jewish Onliner exposed her membership in Samidoun, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, appeared prominently at the state-sponsored event designed to foster a global intellectual movement against Western democracy.

The conference took place at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) International Conference Center with the presence of Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. The event’s stated goal: to strengthen “multilateralism and the unity of independent countries” against what organizers call Western domination, while promoting Khamenei’s vision for confronting U.S. and European hegemony. The closing ceremony was attended by professors, researchers, and political and academic elites from around the world.
CyberWell identifies online Arab-language conspiracy theory, titled ‘Tired Islam’
CyberWell, a nonprofit that monitors and counters online antisemitism, has flagged a social-media conspiracy theory called “Tired Islam,” alleging that a Jewish writer named Jacob Dunne wrote a book detailing a secret blueprint to destabilize Muslim societies.

The book, The Tired Islam, does not exist, including in the U.S. Library of Congress.

Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor, founder and CEO of CyberWell, likened the fabrication to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a propaganda pamphlet of fabricated minutes from a Jewish conclave in the 19th century that supposedly spells out Jewish plans to enslave the world.

“It revises century-old religious antisemitism, tailored to go viral on today’s platforms,” she said. “The narrative pushes the same antisemitic tropes that have historically led to mass violence against Jews, now wrapped in a pseudointellectual setting to appear credible and urgent.”

Videos circulating online display invented excerpts from a fictitious chapter titled “The End of the Arabs,” describing Jewish efforts to destroy Muslim society and claiming that the text is stored in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

These invented excerpts include language such as, “We must start attacking the sheiks, the mosques and the Friday sermons so that the public moves away from them, abandons the mosques, moves away from the teachings of the Quran and prefers our culture to its religion,” and “Technology and the internet are the weapons of our time. We must focus on supporting the negative aspects that undermine the personality and behavior of the Muslim.”

“Digital platforms are facing a moment of reckoning,” said Cohen Montemayor, warning that inconsistent enforcement on social-media platforms leaves room for such conspiracies to thrive.


In world first, Israeli scientists use RNA-based gene therapy to stop ALS deterioration
In a groundbreaking study, researchers at Tel Aviv University, leading a large-scale international team of scientists, say they have identified – and neutralized – an RNA molecule that can stop the nerve cell damage that causes paralysis in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS.

Now they hope they can use the discovery to help patients with the fatal illness.

“When we added a specific RNA molecule to human cells and animal models for ALS, the nerve cells stopped degenerating and even regenerated,” said Prof. Eran Perlson from the Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University, speaking to The Times of Israel.

Their study, recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Neuroscience, opens a new avenue for treating the disease.

“We wanted to get to the root of the matter of what causes ALS to enable the development of effective drugs for this incurable disease,” Perlson said. The team used mice that had been genetically modified to serve as a “biological stand-in” for the disease.

The research was led by Dr. Ariel Ionescu, Dr. Lior Ankol, and lab manager Tal Pery Gradus in collaboration with Dr. Amir Dori, Senior Neurologist and Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit at Sheba Medical Center. Additional participants included researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and research institutions in France, Turkey, and Italy.
Hundreds gather to honor Charlie Kirk in Jerusalem, including officials, clergy
A memorial in Jerusalem for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sunday became a declaration of purpose, as hundreds of Israelis and American visitors vowed to continue the work he began, according to a report.

The Press Service of Israel (TPS-IL) reported that roughly 300 people, including Israeli officials, clergy and U.S. Christians, gathered Sunday to honor the Turning Point USA founder, who was shot and killed during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University in September. Many said the event felt less like a memorial and more like a mandate.

Pastor Rob McCoy, one of Kirk’s closest confidants, described him in comments reported by TPS-IL as “faithful, humble, a wonderful husband and father,” and revealed a personal discipline — a weekly Sabbath rest.

“He found unbelievable freedom in turning everything off. From Friday night to Saturday night, no one could reach him,” McCoy said. “That rhythm grounded him.”

McCoy also said Kirk saw politics as a way to strengthen society, not a route to power.

“He saw politics as an on-ramp to increased humanity,” McCoy said. “If he could get young people rowing in the streams of liberty, he believed they would eventually reach its source.”

Several attendees told TPS-IL that Kirk’s reach extended far beyond his audience.




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