Wednesday, November 19, 2025

11/19 Links Pt2: Fighting the Post-Oct. 7 Battles; CAIR and the Campus Hamasniks; Hatred of Israel Caused Iran's Water Crisis; The Roots of a Replacement Fantasy

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: Fighting the Post-Oct. 7 Battles
Two recent stories demonstrate how this realization is settling in across the broader Jewish community. One is the recent account of Rahm Emanuel, the former Democratic congressman and Chicago mayor who is contemplating running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, speaking to the Jewish Federations general assembly. Emanuel made the case for adapting to the new political narrative around Israel: “For the generation under 30, the last two years will be as seminal a definition as what the Six-Day War was for those six days for a generation. We have our work cut out for us.” It was an attempt to warn the Jewish American audience that 2028 is going to be, especially on the Democratic side, a parade of anti-Israel rhetoric. But it was also an acknowledgement that we aren’t the naive fools our pursuers think we are.

Another story is in the Times of Israel, and it’s about that erstwhile Diasporic golden land of Canada: “According to a report published by B’nai Brith Canada in April, Canadians experienced 6,219 antisemitic incidents in 2024, or an average of about 17 incidents of harassment, vandalism and violence per day. That was 125% higher than in 2022, and about 7% higher than in 2023, when hatred exploded after October 7.”

Says Noah Shack, the CEO of Canada’s umbrella organization for Jewish federations: “Now, we’re seeing synagogues firebombed, shootings at schools, people assaulted, and discrimination and hate in schools, universities and in the workplace. This isn’t just about our community, it’s about the threat that this extremism poses to the Canadian way of life.”

Solutions are harder to come by than realizations, but the realizations are the essential first steps. As expected, the post-Oct. 7 world is a different place, and navigating that new world requires every Jewish leader and organization to acknowledge what has changed.

We see one example of this playing out right now. The Anti-Defamation League has taken steps to refocus on anti-Semitism after years of sacrificing its founding mission for a chance to be part of the progressive political coalition. ADL launched a “Mamdani Monitor” which consists of an anti-Semitism tipline for New Yorkers and a pledge to scrutinize the Mamdani administration’s actions and appointments. It’s an entirely reasonable, moderate approach, and it could be useful so long as the ADL follows through. The emerging Jewish consensus that bad actors must be held to account is healthy.

But it has inspired anger from, for example, the Nexus Project, a liberal critic of attempts to fight anti-Semitism and, though young, a relic of the pre-Oct. 7 status quo. Jill Jacobs, an activist with another progressive Jewish group, called the ADL “Islamophobic.”

Still, these attempts to conjure the naive and dangerous fantasies that were shattered on Oct. 7 haven’t had much effect; reality is reality, and the Jewish community has been clear-eyed. As Emanuel said, “[I]f we don’t understand the depth of where we are, we’re never going to fix the problem.” The new normal isn’t pretty, but we don’t have to let it become permanent.
Seth Mandel: CAIR and the Campus Hamasniks
CAIR doing its best Nick Fuentes impression is as good an example of the “horseshoe effect” as one will find.

But the real icing on the cake came just a few hours later. According to the New York Post, a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute and the Intelligent Advocacy Network, two anti-extremism groups, reveals that CAIR has been subsidizing pro-Hamas violence on campus. As the Post reports:

“In California, the largest arm of the CAIR web of nonprofits, affiliates in San Francisco and Los Angeles raised more than $100,000 in donations for campus radicals, while the main group solicited $64,000 in donations, records show.

“The money was then offered as interest free loans in grants of $1,000 to students who lost ‘scholarships, housing or other support because of their advocacy,’ according to CAIR’s website.

“In October 2024, CAIR-CA awarded $20,000 in loans and scholarships to 20 student protestors from the ‘Champions of Justice Fund.’”

Such punishments were so rare, of course, that to qualify for CAIR’s apparent subsidies, one would have had to be among the students causing real harm to those around them.

Anti-Semitism alone has rarely been enough to cost groups like CAIR their political influence. Perhaps now they have finally crossed too many lines.
Watchdog Groups Release Findings of CAIR-California Misuse of $26 Million in Taxpayer Funds
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, California (CAIR-CA) systematically misused millions of dollars in government grants while concealing extensive lobbying activities, according to findings released by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN).

The organization has received over $26 million in state and federal funding since 2022, even as it now faces investigations by both the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review and the California Fair Political Practices Commission.

Circular Funding Scheme and Accounting Failures
The investigation uncovered what researchers describe as a circular funding scheme: CAIR-CA redirected over $3.7 million back to two of its own offices in Los Angeles and San Diego through subgrants, despite requirements mandating at least $5 million go to independent providers. Public records show these offices are not separate legal entities but operate under the same tax identification number as CAIR-CA, making the transfers effectively self-payments.

Independent auditors conducting CAIR-CA’s 2023 Single Audit identified significant deficiencies that prevented verification of how federal funds were spent. The findings indicate CAIR-CA failed to record grant expenditures in its accounting system and did not retain required reports on service delivery or proof of submission to regulators.

Undisclosed Lobbying Activities
Between 2013 and 2023, CAIR-CA spent over $3.8 million on lobbying expenses while reporting only $672,537 to the IRS—leaving $3.13 million undisclosed, according to the report. The largest spike in undisclosed lobbying coincided with increased federal funding in 2023. Federal law prohibits using federal funds for lobbying activities.

Beginning in late 2023, CAIR-CA’s advocacy became increasingly dominated by anti-Israel political mobilization. The organization’s 2023 annual report prominently featured a “STOP THE GENOCIDE” banner, marking a shift from previous years. Recent lobbying efforts in 2025 include campaigns to influence California legislation on redistricting and school discrimination protections—all conducted while receiving federal funds.

Despite receiving millions in government grants, the findings show CAIR-CA did not properly report them on IRS Form 990 filings, instead obscuring them under general contributions. The organization also failed to disclose subgrants to regional chapters and omitted required related-party transaction disclosures.


Guy Gilboa-Dalal reveals he was sexually abused by Hamas terorist with knife to throat
Freed Gaza hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal revealed that he was sexually abused during his time in Hamas captivity, N12 News reported on Wednesday.

Gilboa-Dalal stated that his guard sexually assaulted him after a shower and threatened to kill him if he told anyone.

"He let me shower, and when I finished, he dragged me out of there and didn't let me put on my clothes," Gilboa-Dalal said. "He took me back to their room and then threw me onto one of the armchairs.”

"The terrorist started touching me all over my body. I froze. I said to him, 'You're joking, right? This is forbidden in Islam.' He held a rifle to my head and a knife to my throat and said to me that if I told anyone about it, he would kill me."

On October 7, 2023, Gilboa-Dalal was abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival. That same day, Hamas released footage of him tied up in a tunnel in Gaza.

He was held in Gaza for 739 days, and was released on October 12 as part of the US-backed Gaza deal. His family previously reported that he was only allowed to shower once a month with a bucket.

Released Gaza hostages detail sexual abuse
Gilboa-Dalal is the most recent male hostage to come forward with accounts of sexual abuse during captivity. Recently, released hostages Rom Braslavski and Keith Siegel have also provided accounts of Hamas's sexual assault against male captives.

Rom Braslavski was sexually abused in captivity by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Channel 13 reported earlier this month.

The released hostage revealed that his captors stripped him naked, starved him, and tied him up while sexually assaulting him.

“They stripped me of all my clothes, my underwear, everything. They tied me up while I was completely naked. I was torn apart, dying, with no food."

"It was sexual violence, and its main purpose was to humiliate me," he said. "The goal was to crush my dignity. And that's exactly what he did."

“I prayed to God, ‘Please, save me, get me out of this already.’ And you just say to yourself, ‘What the f***?’”


Officials, friends bid final farewell to former hostage Joshua Loitu Mollel at airport ceremony
Tanzanian and Israeli officials and civilians bid farewell to slain Tanzanian agricultural student Joshua Loitu Mollel in a ceremony at Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday morning, marking the end of a two-year effort to recover his remains from Gaza, following the October 7 Hamas attacks.

The ceremony – live-streamed to his family and community in Tanzania – drew dozens of his fellow students from the Agrostudies agricultural internship program, as well as the senior officials who oversee the initiative.

Mollel, 21, arrived in Israel on September 19, 2023, as part of the long-running MASHAV program that brings students from developing countries to Israeli farms for hands-on training. He was murdered less than three weeks later at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where he had been assigned to the dairy farm.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel, Tanzanian Ambassador Alex Gabriel Kalua, and Agrostudies founder Yaron Tamir all offered condolences and tributes. Then, Mollel’s coffin, draped in wreaths, was carried onto the plane that would take him home for burial.

Haskel spoke with visible emotion, emphasizing that Mollel’s murder underscored the brutality of the October 7 attacks. “This man wasn’t Jewish. This man wasn’t Israeli. This man was a human being who happened to be working in Israel on October 7,” she said. “The jihadists murdered him anyway. That is the level of barbarity we are talking about.”


Former hostage twins ahead of Trump meeting: ‘We’ll thank him, ask him to keep going’
Ahead of their meeting at the White House, freed hostages Ziv and Gali Berman said they would thank US President Donald Trump for securing their release and tell him that the fight must go on until the bodies of the final three hostages held by terrorists in the Gaza Strip are released.

Trump is set to meet the 20 Israeli hostages released in last month’s Gaza ceasefire deal at the White House on Thursday.

Interviewed in New York on Tuesday ahead of the Washington visit, Ziv Berman told Channel 12 that his message to Trump will be: “Thank you, and let’s not stop, let’s keep going.”

“He always supported us. The entire war, the US supported us and the State of Israel,” Gali Berman said.

“It is true that he is now going to give F-35s to the Saudis, but that does not mean that he will not continue to help us. We want to tell him to continue to support the fight and help the State of Israel,” Gali said, referring to the recently announced deal between Washington and Riyadh for the purchase of stealth fighter jets.

“There are still hostages there, and we are here to convey the message that we need to bring them back,” he said, referring to Dror Or, Master Sgt. Ran Gvili and Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak.

Gali and Ziv Berman were taken hostage by terrorists from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023. They were released after two years in captivity in the Gaza Strip.

The brothers said that the shared experiences of the hostages have turned them all into a kind of large family.

“We came together under unfortunate circumstances, but there is a connection, there is a common denominator,” Ziv Berman said.

“Everyone has their own story — one was held here, another was held there. But ultimately we were all in the same place, in Gaza, held in captivity and under the control of people and terrorists,” Gali Berman said.


Freed captive moves crowd at Hostages Square
After 775 days in Hamas captivity, hostage survivor Alon Ohel returned to Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on Tuesday to perform the song that sustained him during his darkest hours—the piece he played on his bedroom piano before attending the Nova Music Festival in October 2023.

Ohel, a gifted pianist who returned from captivity on October 13, wrote the words, “Song Without a Name,” on an erasable board while on the helicopter from Gaza to the hospital in Israel.

Written and composed by Shalom Hanoch and originally performed by Yehudit Ravitz, it was the last song he played in his room before leaving for the Nova festival.

Prior to Ohel’s release, medical authorities sounded the alarm that intelligence from released hostages suggested he might be losing his vision.

According to information disclosed on Kan Reshet B, reports from freed captives indicated Ohel had sustained shrapnel injuries to his eye and could only detect shadows with one eye. Medical sources said that based on survivor testimonies, he risked losing vision in both eyes.

After his return, and upon medical evaluation, it was confirmed that his right-eye sight had been severely compromised.


Adam Louis-Klein: The Roots of a Replacement Fantasy
Alfred Rosenberg’s 1921 book on Zionism is a remarkably revealing text. Rosenberg was, of course, a Nazi and a classical antisemite, and his treatment of Zionism is fully shaped by that ideological frame. He unfolds a typical conspiracy narrative that indicts “Jewish influence” for weakening non-Jewish nation-states, and his attack on Zionism revolves around the dual-loyalty libel: the claim that Zionists, by understanding themselves as a distinct people, form a “state within a state.” In this sense, his engagement with Zionism—suffused with classical antisemitism—anticipates someone like the neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes today, who has ridden the wave of the post–October 7 genocide libel.

At the same time, Rosenberg’s conspiratorial pseudo-history closely parallels the work of Yuri Ivanov, one of the formulators of Soviet antizionism, who likewise applied the explanatory logic of The Protocols to Zionist history. In both cases, Zionism is retold through a fabric of alleged “secret meetings,” forged scripts, and sweeping claims about Jewish influence and coordination — a conspiratorial re-organization of historical material rather than an engagement with political or social realities.

What makes Rosenberg particularly interesting, however, is how he projects what we now call “great replacement” theory onto Arab Palestine itself. The very libel that reappeared in Charlottesville in 2017 with the chant “Jews will not replace us”—a slogan that crystallized the contemporary far-right’s demographic fantasy—is already present in Rosenberg’s account. The older trope of “Jewish conquest,” used by figures like Marr and Drumont to describe Jewish activity within Europe, is simply transposed onto the Zionist project abroad. In doing so, Rosenberg effectively anticipates the central claim of contemporary settler-colonial theory: that Zionism depends on the demographic replacement of a native population.


Op-Ed: Pastor John Hagee: Salvation or damnation for the Grand Ole’ Party?
Millions of American Christians have come to reject the false doctrine of Replacement Theology which teaches the Jewish people were replaced in the eyes of God by the Christian Church. If this were true, then God would be a liar and the Bible would be false. In short, the existence of the modern state of Israel and the Jewish people are yet further evidence that God is who He says He is.

Likewise, most American Christians know well that Jesus Christ said “no man takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord…” (John 10:18). As such, Christians should see through anyone, lawmaker or otherwise, seeking to justify their failure to stand with Israel and her people due to the fallacious claim that “the Jews” killed Christ. The only thing such a sinful person is confessing is that they do not believe in the sacrificial and substitutionary death of Christ. And for the Christian, that is the true heresy. Believing that God has not and cannot break covenant with the Jewish people? That is true faith.

My personal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is Jewish, as was the entire first family of Christianity. Referring to the Jewish people Jesus says, “truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me” (Matthew 25:40). What the woke right is doing to the Jewish people today in America is thus, an abominable, sinful affront to God.

Beyond the avowed bigots, American Christians must all see clearly and confront those who say “I love Israel, but…” because whatever comes next is going to be an equivocation about loving what God loves.

Domestic matters such as the border situation and American military adventurism overseas deserve serious discussion. But, the woke right is not interested in serious discussion. Their comments are not intended to elicit thought but to sow discord. They are nothing more than rage-baiters, seeking to appeal to the worst in mankind, all while lining their own pockets — one click at a time.

God said that He will treat the nations, this includes our own, as they treat Israel. As such, only damnation awaits the antisemite. For if we fail to stop this evil, the United States will no longer enjoy the favor of God. Fundamentally immoral countries never do, and if antisemitism continues to be tolerated and mainstreamed on the right, after it has already inundated the left, then that is what America will become.

Antisemitism is categorically and fundamentally anti-Christian. To quote another Christian Zionist, Charlie Kirk, blaming Jews for all of your problems “is demonic and from the pit of hell and it should not be tolerated.” And as for he who stands idly by at this tipping point, or she who allows herself to be represented in our nation’s capital by a bigot without so much as an utterance of protest? They will inevitably suffer the fate of the “lukewarm” (Rev 3:16).

People of faith and conscience cannot allow the same spirit that flowed through Haman and Hitler to corrupt and corrode the soul of the GOP. Whether it is in our communities, in our churches, on college campuses, or in Congress, antisemitism in our society must be confronted at every turn. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s admission remains true today: “God will not hold us guiltless.”
Every Jewish conspiracy is true, just not about Jews.
Yet when someone makes a factual claim about the Muslim world — about laws, institutions, war crimes, political structures, cultural tendencies, or historical patterns — the response is immediate and scripted: “Islamophobic.” The content doesn’t matter. The accuracy doesn’t matter. The data doesn’t matter. The charge is designed to shut down conversation before it can begin. It is a shield against scrutiny disguised as a defense of tolerance.

Criticizing Jews is framed as courage; criticizing anything Muslim is framed as hatred. Jews are told that recognizing antisemitism is manipulative, but Muslims are told that recognizing factual analysis is bigotry. The inversion is not accidental; it is strategic. It is how a narrative protects itself from the burden of reality.

The pattern is so consistent it begins to reveal its psychological core. The Muslim world’s anti-Israel fixation is not about Jewish behavior. It is about Jewish non-compliance with a centuries-old hierarchy in which Jews were expected to be quiet, vulnerable, deferential. A sovereign, resilient, armed, intellectually vibrant, globally connected Jewish state is an existential insult to an old worldview. The projection of conspiracies onto Israel is not a description of what Jews do, but of what Muslim regimes have done, or are doing, or fear will be exposed if the mirror is held too still.

And that is the deeper truth: Israel is not the conspiracy. Israel is the mirror, a mirror that reflects uncomfortable realities about power, politics, media, religion, empire, and modernity in the Muslim world; a mirror that exposes what governments prefer to deny; a mirror that shatters the mythologies that undergird regional identity.

That is why the accusations never stop. Not because they are true, but because they redirect attention away from the truth. Projection is not merely a tactic; it is the architecture of the narrative. Almost every “Jewish conspiracy” is real. But it is real in the places where the accusation originates, not in the place where it lands.

Israel’s existence doesn’t create these contradictions; it reveals them. And that, more than anything else, is the reason the conspiracies will continue. The mirror is too clear, and too bright, for those who fear what their own reflection might show.
For the Epstein Conspiracy Theorists, All Roads Lead Back to Israel
This isn’t about Epstein. It’s about needing a Jewish villain.

The Epstein files reveal a predator who exploited global networks — American financial elites, British aristocrats, Gulf monarchs, Chinese business moguls.

But for people already convinced that Jews or Israel sits at the center of every world event, Epstein becomes just another vessel for the oldest hatred: • Medieval Europeans blamed Jews for plagues.
• 19th-century Europeans blamed Jews for capitalism and communism.
• Nazis blamed Jews for Germany’s defeat.
• The Soviets blamed Zionists for imperialism.
• Today’s anti-Israel left blames Israel for “genocide” and police violence.
• Today’s woke-right blames Israel for “corruption” and American decline.

When reality is complex, antisemitism offers a shortcut:
Find the Jew. Invent the plot. Blame Israel.
This obsession isn’t merely foolish — it is dangerous.
Because the far-right and far-left aren’t just criticizing Israeli policies.
They are creating a worldview in which Jews are the invisible hand behind every social, political or historical development they resent.
And Epstein is simply the latest excuse.
They are not investigating corruption.
They are not exposing hidden networks.
They are not fighting injustice.
They are scapegoating — in the very way that has historically preceded societal breakdowns and authoritarian movements.
The truth they cannot accept
Epstein’s crimes were monstrous.
His network was global.
And his files are littered with elites from across the world.
Only people who enter this conversation already convinced that Jews or Israel are behind every evil could look at the same evidence and conclude Israel — rather than the U.S., the U.K., the Gulf monarchies or American billionaires — is the real story.
And that tells us everything.
The conspirators aren’t exposing Epstein’s evil. They’re revealing their own.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and the rise of politics of stupid
There are many reasons why Zohran Mamdani won the mayoralty of New York, and the biggest ones have little to do with Jews or Israel and probably even less to do with him specifically and more with Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump.

But there’s is no denying that with his victory, the spectre of the corbynisation of the Democratic Party looms larger than ever. Where the Democrats take this from here is impossible to predict, and like Mamdani’s victory it will likely hinge on other issues and a panoply of unpredictable coincidences.

We know already what the bad scenario looks like. Other western countries have seen liberal Jews pushed into the denounce-or-renounce dilemma: either denounce Israel and the core values of your community, or renounce your membership in the community of enlightened liberals, including in the post-1945 institutions that were often built by Jews who were both committed to humanitarian values and unapologetically Zionist too.

The first illusion to dispense with is the despite-because conflation. The hipster activist isn’t enthusiastic about Zohran Mamdani despite his anti-Israel hostility. The worldview he promotes, the one he has consistently been committed to through his entire pubic life from his student days until now, places Israeli wrongdoing as a central organising principle. The Jewish state is an embodiment of political sin, and its supporters in the West constitute a powerful network seeking to entrench its sinfulness and persecute those who would dare to the tell truth.

This core group of excited supporters don’t see this an embarrassing moral failure in an otherwise likeable persona. They see it as a mark of authenticity, a brave stand against the dark forces holding us all back from all the righteous and good. They’re not the reason Mamdani won this election – Trump and Cuomo, among many others, deserve much more of the credit – but they are committed and motivated and eager to transform the Democratic Party into a political force that takes onboard all the principles of what I have elsewhere called “geostrategic antisemitism.”

The elite-mob symbiosis of antisemitism which exploded in the immediate aftermath of October 7 and has not abated since has left too many Jews dumbstruck by what is happening in front of them, unable to come to terms with the urgency and unable to mobilise non-Jewish allies. Too many struggle to make the case that ideological antisemitism is inherently bad. Instead, they try to turn it into a generalised demerit, a harbinger of other evils. Jews are “the canary in the coal mine,” we are frequently told, with the implication that what strikes us now will find you in due time.

And indeed, that has sometimes been true, but the warning itself rings hollow. It demands understanding antisemitism as another form of prejudice against a minority rather than as a comprehensive ideological doctrine.
Call me Back Podcast: Don't Feed the Lion - with Yonit Levi and Bianna Golodryga (BONUS EPISODE)
This week, Dan sat down with Yonit Levy and Bianna Golodryga, who recently published a children’s novel, Don’t Feed the Lion, which focuses on a group of teenagers facing the rising tide of antisemitism and having to find their way through the storm. Despite its dark theme, the book is a story full of love, resilience, and self-discovery.

Yonit Levy is the lead news anchor at Israel’s Channel 12 and co-host of the UnHoly Podcast. Bianna Golodryga is a news anchor and global affairs analyst at CNN.


The Man Who Held Back the Flood By Abe Greenwald
Via Commentary Newsletter, sign up here. One of the many things that’s become clear since Charlie Kirk was assassinated is that not only was he a true friend of Israel and the Jews, but he was the key figure in keeping the groypers cordoned off from the rest of the young American right. With his calm, reasoned, but passionate public refutations of groyper Jew-hatred, he was holding his finger in the dike. For this act, Jews, Christians, and Americans of all faiths owe him an incalculable debt.

I don’t care about the winding road he may have taken to get there. He began his public life at an extraordinarily young age. By the time of his assassination, Kirk was preserving the future of the country, steering it between the Scylla of left-wing radicalism and Charybdis of right-wing nihilism. I honestly had no idea how much good he was doing for the nation, and I wish I could have expressed my gratitude while he was alive.

After he was murdered, there was no young, charismatic, patriotic, Christian influencer with Kirk’s reach and moral courage to step up and do the job. In fact, the most prominent among them used his death as an opportunity to do the opposite. They smashed the barrier and cackled as they profited from the hatred that came flooding in.

Kirk’s friends and associates grieved over his death, swore to carry on his campaign and build on what he created—and then they took a sledgehammer to it all.

It’s obvious why the Jews owe Kirk so much on this score. But the role he played in protecting young, particularly male, Christians from being seduced by a poisonous worldview was no less vital. Indeed, that was his life’s mission.


The Fatal Flaws in Tlaib’s Congressional Gaza “Genocide” Resolution
The genocide allegation collapses once basic facts and legal standards are applied. The resolution never provides evidence of the specific intent to destroy a protected group, which is the core requirement under the Genocide Convention. Instead, it relies on inference, selective quotation, and politically curated narratives. Genocide cannot be declared on the basis of interpretation or implication.

The text’s central flaw is the erasure of Hamas and October 7th. It ignores that Israel has been fighting tens of thousands of militants embedded beneath civilian areas in a vast tunnel system built over many years. No account of the war is credible when it removes the belligerent that initiated hostilities, abducted civilians, promised to do it again , and used Gaza’s population as human shields. Without that context, the resolution’s reading of civilian harm is not grounded in the realities of the battlefield.

The evidentiary claims are equally unsound. The resolution treats Hamas-supplied fatality numbers as unquestionable fact despite the group’s history of falsification. It incorporates allegations, such as the supposed attack on the Al Basma IVF clinic, that rest entirely on an unverified media report with no independent forensic evidence or proof of intent. Assertions of genocide cannot be built on hearsay, anonymous sources, or claims that have never been verified by any professional investigative body.

For these reasons, H.Res.876 cannot be sustained as a factual, legal, or credible document. It disregards essential context, relies on unreliable or unverified claims, and misrepresents the stated objectives and conduct of the Israeli government. Genocide is the gravest allegation in international law and demands the highest standard of proof. This resolution does not meet that standard. Congress should reject a declaration built on omissions, distortions, and assertions that collapse under scrutiny.
Irish govt says it won’t oppose bill to ban imports from Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem
A bill to ban goods and services from Judea and Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem, advanced in the Irish parliament on Wednesday.

The Irish government stood down on the so-called Occupied Territories Bill, as opposition parties supported a motion in parliament calling on the government to pass the measure before the end of the year.

American officials have signaled that the legislation could have dire consequences for American businesses operating in Ireland, due to laws in the United States penalizing boycotts of Israel, including Israeli-controlled territory outside internationally recognized borders.

“This legislation is unhelpful virtue-signaling,” a U.S. State Department spokesperson told JNS. “It does not serve the cause of peace in the Middle East, which the U.S. and partners are advancing in real time, and could moreover adversely affect American businesses operating in Ireland. We are monitoring developments closely.”

While the value of goods from beyond the so-called Green Line imported into Ireland is relatively negligible, services are a different matter, and proponents of the bill have been debating whether to include them in the final text.

According to RTÉ, Ireland’s national television and radio broadcaster, Thomas Byrne, Ireland’s minister of state at the Department of Foreign Affairs, acknowledged on Wednesday that “it is a fragile moment” for the Gaza peace process, and while “we’ve no policy issue with the inclusion of goods and services,” he added that this “must be legally robust” to any legal challenges.
New York City imam leads Muslim student walkout of university interfaith event after row with Jewish speaker
Around 100 Muslim students walked out of an interfaith event at a New York university after a guest imam told them to "exit immediately" when he realised there was a “Zionist” in the room.

The event, which was held last Thursday at Manhattan’s City College of New York, was aimed at promoting the understanding of different cultures. Numerous reports cite the demographics of the audience as 100 Muslim, 20 Christian and two Jewish, with several speakers including the imam and a Jewish representative.

Despite a large Jewish student base, many were attending a Holocaust event in a nearby room at the same time as the event.

The imam, named only as Abdullah, began by telling students that "Allah is responsible for their grades" and soon went on to advocate Sharia law, insisting that rich people should have their hands chopped off, according to the Times of Israel.

“I’m talking about the elite, the filthy rich, the ones that continue to steal from people as we speak today. Those are the ones that deserve their tips to be cut off,” he said.

Then, turning to the Jewish representative, Ilya Bratman, he said: “I came here to this event not knowing that I would be sitting next to a Zionist and this is something I’m not going to accept."

A cheer erupted from the audience after the imam mentioned the war in Gaza, claiming that, as a Zionist, Bratman was responsible for civilian deaths in the Strip.

The Imam then shouted: “If you’re a Muslim, out of strength and dignity, I ask you to exit this room immediately.


Revealed: Oxford Union protestors who disrupted Israeli ex-PM’s speech are scholarship students
Two female international scholarship students – their hands painted to mimic dripping red blood –were among the protesters removed from the Oxford Union chamber after sabotaging a speech by a former Israeli Prime Minister, the JC can reveal.

The pair were among the activists involved in a protest that disrupted Oxford University’s debating society.

The chaotic scene unfolded as protesters blocked the entrance and disrupted proceedings from inside. The crowd itself was around 100, smaller than expected, in part attributed to the demonstration, which blocked some students from attending altogether.

According to a Jewish fourth-year student who was in the hall, the disruptions were relentless.

The JC understands that among those with red-painted hands who were eventually removed from the chamber was Khadija Khokhar, pictured smiling in a photograph with her bright red palms raised.

Khokhar is a Fulbright scholar from Detroit, studying International Development, meaning her studies are partially funded by the taxpayer.

She also runs an online shop selling Palestinian merchandise, including a poster of a keffiyeh-clad face painted onto an outline of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, alongside the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

The US citizen has previously organised climate-change activism through the “Fridays for Future” movement and was photographed addressing a protest with the group in Washington DC in 2019.

Another protester pictured with her red hands raised inside the chamber and later removed was Nazifa Binte Harun, a Bangladeshi postgraduate student on an Oxford DAC Scholarship, which covers full tuition and living expenses for students from developing countries.


The Canadians in Hamas: The operative, leader and financier
Usama Ali is an alleged Hamas operative, leader and financier.

He is also Canadian.

And so are others in the Palestinian terrorist group that killed 1,200 and took more than 200 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023, Global News has learned.

About 450 people with assorted roles in Hamas have ties to Canada, according to a source familiar with the intelligence on the matter.

The source, who spoke on the condition of not being identified, said the list was comprised of permanent residents, as well as those with family or associates in Canada.

But it also included citizens like Ali, an alleged member of the Hamas executive team who runs the terror group’s financial office.

The figure dates to the time of the Hamas attack on Israel that brought the Middle East to the brink of regional war and may no longer be so high, the source added.

The Israeli offensive in Gaza has killed tens of thousands, and airstrikes have targeted the Hamas leadership in Lebanon, Iran and Qatar.

As Gaza’s de facto government, Hamas controlled a broad array of institutions for almost two decades, and many residents could have therefore had dealings with the group out of necessity.

But the number said to have been active in the organization in various capacities, and connected to Canada, is significant and includes a top leader.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service confirmed it was investigating Canadians in Middle East terror groups, but declined to elaborate.
Germany’s interior minister backs stripping citizenship from Hamas supporters
Germany’s interior minister on Wednesday backed Berlin’s decision to strip a man of his citizenship for supporting Hamas, saying naturalized citizens should forfeit their nationality when they are found not to uphold German values.

The decision comes as Germany tightens immigration and citizenship rules amid a debate about who belongs in the country and the rise of the far-right.

Many German politicians have voiced concern at the support for Palestinian terror group Hamas and its October 7, 2023, attack among the hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrived in Germany from the Middle East in the last decade.

“People who have acquired German citizenship, including dual nationals, have declared their commitment to our system of values,” Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said at a news conference.

“If it becomes apparent that this was a deliberate misrepresentation, and that they do not share this system of values… it should be possible to withdraw citizenship,” he said.

German media reported that the Syrian man who came to Berlin as a young child posted a photo on Instagram one day after his naturalization showing two Hamas fighters, with the caption “Heroes of Palestine.”

Berlin’s immigration office became aware of the case through security agencies and believes it was deceived, as he had declared his loyalty to German values, the media reported.


Lebanese man goes on trial in Germany for supplying Hezbollah with drone parts
A Lebanese man went on trial Tuesday in Celle, Germany, where he is accused of being a member of the Hezbollah terror group and procuring drone components that were exported for use in attacks against Israel.

The defendant, identified under local privacy laws only as Fadel Z, supplied thousands of parts, some of which were used in two attacks on Israel, including a 2024 strike on a retirement home in the central Israel city of Herzliya, prosecutors say.

Due to his role in supplying parts used in the attack, prosecutors accused Fadel Z of aiding and abetting attempted murder. Charges filed against him in September also included membership in a terror organization and violating a European Union ban on supplying the drone parts.

Fadel Z was arrested in July 2024 as part of a wave of police action across Europe to bust a suspected multinational Hezbollah drone smuggling network.

The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement at the time of his arrest that Fadel Z had been a member of Hezbollah for over ten years, first doing public relations for the terror group.

In 2022, he began working on the drone program, first from Barcelona in Spain, then moving to Germany in 2023.

Hezbollah “employs foreign operatives who covertly purchase components in Europe and export them to Lebanon,” prosecutors said.

Until his arrest, Fadel Z purchased materials and parts for drones worth some €1.4m ($1.62 million), according to prosecutors. They included over 2,000 gasoline and electric motors and over 600 propellers. Parts were purchased from companies in Europe, China, and the US.


US, European powers submit IAEA motion demanding access to bombed nuclear sites in Iran
Iran must “cooperate fully” with the UN’s nuclear watchdog, according to a draft resolution submitted to the agency’s board by Britain, France, Germany and the United States, and seen by AFP on Wednesday.

Tensions between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog have repeatedly flared in recent years, with relations being further strained in the wake of a 12-day war in June that saw Israeli and US strikes on key Iranian nuclear facilities.

Since the war, agency inspectors have not been granted access to key nuclear sites such as Fordo and Natanz, which were hit in the strikes in June, but they have been able to visit other sites.

The draft, which is expected to be voted on by the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) during its meeting this week, stresses that it is “imperative” for Iran to comply with its obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

It also urges Iran to provide “access that the agency requests.”

Last week, the IAEA called on Iran to allow it to verify its enriched uranium inventories, especially its sensitive stockpile of highly enriched uranium that was “long overdue,” according to a confidential report seen by AFP.

“Iran has failed over the past five months to provide the IAEA with requested information regarding the status of its enriched uranium stockpiles and safeguarded nuclear facilities,” the resolution reads.
Hatred of Israel Caused Iran's Water Crisis
After a devastating earthquake in 1962, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi quietly invited Israeli experts to advise Iran on modernizing its water infrastructure.

Hundreds of Israeli water experts worked on Iran's water restructuring and rethinking of agricultural practices.

By the time the shah fell, Iran's water systems were flourishing. The country had productive water-focused agricultural planning, major cities' plumbing upgraded to reduce leaks, and several desalination plants designed, built and operated by Israelis, in partnership with Iranian experts and engineers.

After the revolution, the Israelis left quickly and many of the Iranian engineers who had worked with them were exiled or executed.

The regime's religious leadership largely outsourced water issues to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose engineering and construction companies handled Iran's hydrological problems, enriching its leadership with billions of dollars.

Nik Kowsar, an exiled Iranian journalist, described billion-dollar "dam and transfer schemes" that were adopted "not because they worked, but because they meant massive commissions."
Iran releases Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, gives no reason for detention
Iran on Wednesday released a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker with all its 21 crew members aboard days after Tehran seized the ship without explanation, the vessel’s managers said.

Tehran had no immediate comment on the release of the Talara, which marked the first ship seizure by Iran in months. The Middle East remains tense after Iran’s 12-day war in June with Israel and as concerns remain over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

Cyprus-based Columbia Shipmanagement said the crew “are safe and in good spirits.”

“We have informed their families, and the vessel is now free to resume normal operations,” the firm said.

It added that “no allegations were made against the vessel, her crew and the vessel’s managers and owners.”

Ship-tracking data analyzed by The Associated Press showed the Talara traveling away from Iran.

On Friday, Iran’s military seized the vessel as it traveled through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil traded passes. The ship had been traveling from Ajman, United Arab Emirates, onward to Singapore.
Australia registers Press TV as Iranian foreign agent
Iranian state broadcaster Press TV has been formally registered under Australia’s Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (FITS) as an entity acting on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Attorney General’s Department told Iran International.

According to an email sent by the Attorney-General’s Department to Iran International, Press TV received a provisional transparency notice on 21 October 2025, which was finalized on Tuesday after the network failed to provide evidence rebutting the designation within the 28-day period.

Under the scheme, Press TV must now register on the public FITS portal and submit periodic reports on its activities in Australia. Failure to comply can result in prison terms of one to five years, heavy fines, or further prosecution under national security laws.

Press TV is only the third organization to be compulsorily registered under FITS. The two previous entities were Chinese. The Confucius Institute at the University of Sydney and the Australian Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of China.

The scheme, in force since 2018, aims to increase public awareness of activities conducted in Australia on behalf of foreign governments.

Australia previously sanctioned Press TV in September 2023 over its role in broadcasting forced confessions and aiding the suppression of dissidents, one year after the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, in morality police custody in 2022.

Despite the sanctions, the network continued filing reports from Sydney via its correspondent Shahane Batt until at least February 2025.
French Muslim boy jailed for rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl has sentence commuted in retrial
One of two French Muslim teenagers found guilty of raping a 12-year-old Jewish girl in 2024 has had his sentence commuted on account of "need to prepare for future reintegration."

The original sentences were handed down on June 15 of this year. The two boys were given seven and nine-year prison sentences, respectively, for their participation in the gang rape of a minor under the age of 15 on the basis of religion.

The two were 13 years old at the time of the incident; a third boy involved in the incident was below the age of criminal responsibility (12 at the time) and therefore could not receive a prison sentence. He was instead sentenced to five years in an educational facility.

However, on November 18, the Versailles Court of Appeal retried the boy with a greater sentence behind closed doors, ultimately commuting his sentence to seven years (down from nine).

"The court took into account the entire case as provided for by law: the facts, their seriousness, but also the personality of the minor and the need to prepare for future reintegration," said his lawyer Melody Blanc.

The lawyers for the victim, Muriel Ouaknine-Melki and Oudy Bloch, told AFP that "the main thing is that she has managed to bring the perpetrators of her attack to justice and that two of them are imprisoned," and praised "the courage of [their] client".
French authorities probing Grok AI over ‘Holocaust-denying comments’
French authorities have expanded an investigation into Elon Musk’s platform X to include “Holocaust-denying comments” generated by its AI chatbot Grok, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Wednesday.

A Grok X post on Monday in French said the gas chambers at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau were “designed for disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus, featuring ventilation systems suited for this purpose rather than for mass executions.”

The comments were still visible on X as of 1800 GMT on Wednesday and had been viewed a million times.

Nazi Germany murdered six million European Jews during World War II.

More than one million people died at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp built by Nazi Germany when it occupied Poland in World War II — most of them Jews.

Zyklon B was the poison gas used to kill inmates in gas chambers in the camp.

The “Holocaust-denying comments shared by the artificial intelligence Grok, on X, have been included in the ongoing investigation conducted by the cybercrime division of the Paris prosecutor’s office, and the functioning of the AI will be analyzed within this framework,” the prosecutor’s office told AFP.

In July, French authorities launched an investigation into claims that X, formerly known as Twitter, skewed its algorithm to allow “foreign interference,” with the probe examining the actions of the company and its senior managers.


NSW introduces new laws against neo-Nazi rallies, deports South African protester
The New South Wales government is introducing amendments to criminalize neo-Nazi activity amid a crackdown on recent Australian white supremacist protests that have seen a South African activist being detained for deportation.

NSW attorney-general Michael Daley submitted a bill to the state parliament on Wednesday to amend the 1900 Crimes Act, making it an offense to publicly engage in conduct that indicates support for Nazi ideology. Support would be indicated by imagery or “characteristics” associated with Nazi ideology that would “cause a reasonable person to fear harassment, intimidation, or violence.”

Police officers may direct a person to remove a suspected Nazi symbol from display, according to the bill’s text, and make it an offense not to comply.

The 1988 Summary Offences Act would also be amended to clarify that while a person participating in authorized public assemblies may not be guilty of offenses related to unlawful assembly, they can still be guilty of other crimes while participating in a protest, such as an offense related to the demonstration’s purpose.

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies welcomed the proposal of the legislation, explaining that they were necessary following white supremacist group White Australia’s protest against the “Jewish lobby” and hate crime laws outside the state parliament last Saturday.

“The Nazi ideology and the growth of white supremacist groups do not merely endanger communal safety and cohesion but are fundamentally subversive to the values and structures of our democracy,” the board said in a statement. “Decent people across NSW have had enough of hate groups trying to divide our community and undermine the communal cohesion Australians have long treasured.”


UK’s PEF to boycott Israeli archaeologists over Judea & Samaria excavations
The United Kingdom-based Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) issued a statement declaring that it will boycott Israeli archaeologists involved in excavations in Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, Gaza, and the Golan Heights. The organization accused Israel of carrying out what it described as illegal archaeological activity and said such actions harm the cultural heritage of the region.

According to the PEF, recent months have seen an increase in what it called destruction and unauthorized excavations at various sites. The group pointed to a February 2025 archaeological conference in Jerusalem as signaling what it termed an expanded Israeli plan to continue excavations in Judea and Samaria.

In its statement, the PEF claimed that Israeli archaeologists have begun excavations at the Samaria-Sebaste site in Area C without the involvement of the Palestinian Authority, which the group asserted holds legal responsibility for the site. The PEF warned that additional locations may face similar activity.

The organization said it opposes these developments, arguing that they "disenfranchise" Palestinians from their heritage and serve as a precursor to further settlement activity. It reiterated its position that international law forbids an occupying power from conducting excavations or removing archaeological material.

The PEF announced that it will not publish material originating from such excavations, will not host those involved, and will not assist their research. The group stressed that its policy targets actions rather than nationalities and stated that scholars who adhere to international law remain welcome to work with the PEF.




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