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Monday, November 24, 2025

11/24 Links Pt2: Oct. 7 victim families sue Binance over $1B in secret funding for Hamas; How the police used ‘fake claims’ to justify the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv

From Ian:

Professors Need to Diversify What They Teach
Teaching of Israel and Palestine fits the same pattern. Staunchly anti-Zionist texts—those that question the moral legitimacy of the Israeli state—are commonly assigned. Rashid Khalidi, the just-retired Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia, is the most popular author on this topic in the database. A Palestinian-American and member of the Palestine Liberation Organization delegation in the 1990s, Khalidi places the blame on Israel for failing to resolve the conflict and sees the country’s existence as a consequence of settler-colonialism.

The problem is not the teaching of Khalidi itself, as some on the American right might insist. To the contrary, it is important for students to encounter voices like Khalidi’s. The problem is who he is usually taught with. Generally, Khalidi is taught with other critics of Israel, such as Charles D. Smith, Ilan Pappe, and James Gelvin.

Not only is Khalidi’s work rarely assigned alongside prominent critics; those critics seem to hardly get taught at all. They include Israel: A Concise History by Daniel Gordis, a professor at Shalem College in Israel. Despite winning the National Jewish Book Award, Gordis’s book appears only 22 times in the syllabus database. Another example is the work of Efraim Karsh, a prominent historian. His widely-cited classic, Fabricating Israeli History, appears just 24 times.

For most students, though, any exposure to the conflict begins and ends with Edward Said’s Orientalism, first published in 1978. Said is the intellectual godfather of so many of today’s scholars of the Middle East, thanks in no small part to this classic book. In Orientalism, Said claimed to be the first scholar to “culturally and politically” identify “wholeheartedly with the Arabs,” and he faulted the West for not recognizing the “Zionist invasion and colonization of Palestine.”

Orientalism is among the most popular books assigned in the United States, showing up in nearly four thousand courses in the syllabus database. But although it was a major source of controversy, both then and now, it is rarely assigned with any of the critics he sparred with, like Bernard Lewis, Ian Buruma, or Samuel Huntington. Instead, it’s most often taught with books by fellow luminaries of the postmodern left, such as Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault.
Oct. 7 victim families sue Binance over $1B in secret funding for Hamas, Palestinian terror groups
Families of victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel sued Binance Monday, claiming that the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform — and its recently pardoned founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao — helped smooth the transfer of more than $1 billion to the accounts of terror groups responsible for the atrocity.

The lawsuit was filed on 306 plaintiffs and their family members who were murdered, maimed, or taken hostage on Oct. 7 in Israel or in various terrorist acts afterwards. They brought their claims against Binance, Zhao and senior executive Gunagying “Heina” Chen in Fargo, ND federal court.

The crypto platform had already been subject to criminal enforcement actions by the Department of Justice in 2023, resulting in Binance admitting to charges of money laundering and paying more than $4 billion in fines — as well as a four-month prison sentence for Zhao.

But the nearly 300-page complaint stated that Binance’s conduct was “far more serious and pervasive than what the US government disclosed” during those proceedings — and that the company “knowingly sent and received the equivalent of more than $1 billion to and from accounts and wallets controlled by the [foreign terror organizations] responsible for the October 7 Attacks.”

Those include Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to the suit brought by attorneys at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Osen LLC, Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP, and Motley Rice LLC.

“To this day, there is no indication that Binance has meaningfully altered its core business model,” the attorneys said in the suit, alleging the crypto platform was “intentionally designed as a criminal enterprise to facilitate money laundering on a global scale.”

Ali Mohammad Alawieh, the son of Hezbollah commander Muhammad Abd al-Rasul Alawieh, is the holder of one of the Binance accounts identified in the lawsuit.
Former Israeli hostage credits faith for survival in Gaza
A former Israeli Hamas hostage last week said it was his faith that allowed him to survive more than two years in captivity in Gaza.

The remarks by Segev Kalfon mirrored other hostages’ experiences. Whether from secular, traditional or religious backgrounds, many have said they clung to Judaism during their captivity.

“I had one percent chance of surviving—and I did,” Kalfon, 27, said in an interview with @LouderCreators posted on X by the Israeli Embassy in the United States.

“A person in this situation has nothing around them,” he added. “All that’s left is to believe. That’s it. Faith. When you believe in something you have something to lean on.”

Kalfon, who was released from Gaza last month as part of a ceasefire deal, said that he witnessed many miracles during his time in captivity. He said he was repeatedly beaten and tortured by his Hamas captors, who tried to convert him to Islam.

“In my darkest moments I knew I was facing a great test,” he said. “And if I survived every single day—and every day there was hell—there was a reason.”

Other former hostages have recounted how they prayed silently in captivity, recited the Sabbath benediction over water on Friday nights, tried to keep the Passover holiday and read from a book of Psalms that was found lying around.

Kalfon was among a group of former Israeli hostages who met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday.

“In the most difficult moments, when hope faded away, the thought of big America and of your leadership helped me believe that one day, I will be able to leave Hamas captivity,” he wrote to Trump in a personal letter, Israel’s Channel 12 News reported on Saturday. “You, Mr. President, were the light for me in the darkest moments in the dark tunnels.”


Brendan O'Neill: How the police used ‘fake claims’ to justify the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv
The truth of Amsterdam was twisted. In fact, it was buried. Yes, some Maccabi fans behaved badly in Amsterdam last November, but the thing they subsequently suffered was of a wholly different order. It was a pogrom. There was a coordinated ‘Jew hunt’ by gangs of mostly Arab men who beat the streets in search of ‘cancer Jews’ to assault. They punched them, whipped them, pushed them into rivers. The mob ‘incited each other to hunt down Jews’, as one Dutch paper put it during the trial of the Jew-hunters earlier this year. For British police to distort the truth of this racist rampage, and even to pin on the Jews some of the acts of violence they themselves experienced, is shameful and sickening.

What was most striking was how gleefully the left lapped up the ‘fake claims’ of the West Midlands Police. The left loves to call the police ‘institutionally racist’ and to damn them as untrustworthy. Bourgeois leftists have even co-opted the old street slogan ‘ACAB’ – All Coppers Are Bastards – to signal their haughty disregard for ‘the filth’. And yet on the Maccabi issue, they believed every word West Midlands Police said. They treated their ‘analysis’ as gospel. They begged for more. How do we explain this sudden switch from being wary of the cops to uncritically imbibing their every utterance about foreign football fans? With one word: Jews.

It is absolutely beyond dispute now: Jews do not factor in the thin ‘anti-racism’ of the modern faux-progressive. So much so that even the word of the police is prized more highly than the word of a Jew. All the usual positions of the woke – that police claims should be treated with scepticism, and the concerns of minority groups should be treated with sympathy – are utterly turned on their heads when it comes to Jews. Then, ‘fake claims’ from the police are believed, while protestations from the Jews themselves are dismissed. It is impossible to explain this phenomenon without using the word anti-Semitism. Seriously, I’ve tried – it can’t be done.

We have witnessed the rise of a most unholy alliance. Police, leftists and Islamists united in the shrill condemnation of Jewish football fans on the basis of untrue claims. This scandal confirms how high Israelophobia now goes – right from the sewer of social media to the air-conditioned offices of top cops. The position of every person at West Midlands Police who was involved in compiling the defamatory dossier against Maccabi fans is now in question. Keir Starmer’s government should do something useful for once and demand an inquiry into how this police force came to spread ‘fake claims’ that caused so much consternation among both Israeli and British Jews. Anything less will be yet another betrayal of our Jewish citizens.
MP questions whether police force behind Maccabi fan ban were influenced by ‘Islamist agitators’
Conservative MP Nick Timothy has questioned whether “Islamist agitators”, including groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, played a role in the controversial decision to bar Israeli-Jewish Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a Europa League match in Birmingham.

Speaking in the Commons, Timothy called the ban a “disgrace” and argued that the police’s justification was based on “fiction.”

He pressed ministers to confirm that “no organisations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, or organisations subjected to government non-engagement” had participated in the decision, and called for the publication of intelligence relating to the ban.

Timothy told MPs: “The ban on Israeli-Jewish supporters was a disgrace, but the justification given by West Midlands Police was, it turns out, based on fiction.

“The police said their intelligence came from Dutch counterparts after the Ajax-Maccabi march last year… WMP police called the Maccabi fans ‘highly organised’… ‘linked to the IDF’…. they said they intentionally targeted Muslim communities and 5,000 officers were deployed in response. This was contradicted by an official Dutch report….”

He asked ministers to clarify whether “another known Islamist organisation had seen their own report accepted by the police,” and called for them to “hold the Chief Constable to account.”

He added: “Under pressure from Islamist agitators, local politicians and thugs, an English police force is accused of fabricating intelligence and misleading the public. This could hardly be more serious. We need ministers to hold the chief constable to account and give the country the truth.”
London Palestine Festival Raises $50K Under Shadow of Alleged Hamas Ties
The 20th Palestine Festival held at Byron Hall in Harrow on November 22 drew hundreds of attendees and claimed that it raised more than $50,000 for Gaza relief, but the event has sparked controversy over its organizer’s alleged terrorist connections and the participation of several polarizing figures.

Zaher Birawi, officially designated by the Israeli Ministry of Defense as a main Hamas operative in Europe, delivered the festival’s keynote address. His organization, EuroPal Forum, was designated as a terrorist organization by Israel in 2021.

Multiple photographs document Birawi’s meetings with senior Hamas officials, including a 2012 photograph showing him alongside Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh and former Hamas military chief Mahmoud Zahar. Birawi also served as chairman of the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) between 2001 and 2003, and has been involved in MAB activities as a Hamas operative.

The event honored several individuals whose activism has generated controversy. Among those recognized was Ahmed Alnaouq, co-founder of We Are Not Numbers and advocacy officer for Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Jewish Onliner previously reported on the alleged ties between the We Are Not Numbers project (WANN) and Hamas. Additionally, Alnaouq has been found to have documented familial ties to Hamas members.

Another speaker at the festival was Adnan Hmidan, the chairman of the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), another organization allegedly part of the UK Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas support infrastructure.

The festival’s $50,000 fundraising presents serious concerns about fund destination and oversight. With an individual designated by Israeli authorities as a Hamas operative organizing the event and speakers from organizations Israel alleges have Hamas ties, questions arise about how collected donations will ultimately be disbursed.
UK Charity Under Investigation Over Alleged Links to Hamas Network
A British humanitarian organization faces scrutiny after Israeli military documents allegedly revealed that a Gaza-based charity it funds provided logistical support to Hamas fighters. The We Care Foundation, a Birmingham-based international development charity, has been funding the Qawafil Al Khair Association in Gaza — an organization that Israel recently designated as a terrorist entity.

Documents released by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on November 20, 2025, purportedly show internal Hamas records from 2023 indicating that Qawafil Al Khair Association channeled resources to the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing. The records allegedly reveal that funds ostensibly designated for humanitarian relief—including food parcels and construction materials—were redirected to support Hamas fighters. One document reportedly describes a specific request for financial assistance to a Hamas operative.

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), an association of pro-Israel lawyers, initially raised concerns with the English Charity Commission in February 2025 about the We Care Foundation’s open fundraising for Qawafil Al Khair. Following the IDF’s document release, UKLFI submitted the new evidence to regulators.

Background of Qawafil Al Khair
Qawafil Al Khair, which translates to “convoys of good,” was established in 2015 and publicly describes its mission as providing emergency relief services—including food, clothing, and sponsorships—to vulnerable families in Gaza. However, according to UKLFI, the organization was founded by Mansour Rayan and Ali Al-Mughrabi, both former terrorists released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.

Al-Mughrabi, who had been convicted for involvement in a 2002 suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 11 people, was eliminated in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis earlier this year. Additionally, Rayan was convicted of murdering an Israeli civilian in a stabbing in 1994.

UKLFI director Caroline Turner stated that supporting an organization that assists families of Hamas fighters “amounts to assisting Hamas, a terrorist organisation” proscribed under UK law. While Israel has designated Qawafil as a terrorist organization, it has not been sanctioned by the UK government.
Gil Hoffman: Why the BBC’s firing of top executives was uninspiring
Top 10 reasons to fire Davie
The list included these egregious examples of Israel-related controversies:
1. The refusal to refer to Hamas as “terrorists,” despite the UK designation of 2021. World Affairs editor John Simpson justified the decision by saying the BBC does not tell people “who to support and who to condemn.” But HonestReporting discovered that the BBC used the term for Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other international terror groups.

2. In February 2025, the BBC was forced to apologize for a documentary it commissioned on Gazan children after investigative journalist David Collier revealed that its teen narrator was the son of a Hamas minister and that his mother was paid by producers.

3. On October 17, 2023, the British broadcaster uncritically parroted Hamas’s claim that an Israeli strike killed 500 people at Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital. Before the IDF released undeniable proof that it did not strike the hospital, whose parking lot was hit by an Islamic Jihad rocket, the BBC’s Jon Donnison declared it was “hard to see what else this could be really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israel airstrike or several airstrikes.”

4. In November 2023, a BBC anchor claimed that the IDF entered Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, “targeting medical professionals and Arabic speakers.” The company later apologized because the truth was that the IDF announced that it brought medical teams and Arabic speakers to help patients while pursuing wanted terrorists hiding there.

5. In a May 2025 interview on BBC Radio 4, UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher made the baseless claim that 14,000 Gazan babies would die within 48 hours without a flood of aid. The BBC itself later found the claim was based on a gross misrepresentation of data about possible malnutrition in the following year.

6. In a July 2023 interview with former prime minister Naftali Bennett about a counter-terror operation in Jenin, BBC presenter Anjana Gadgil questioned whether the IDF had set out to kill children because four terrorists killed were under 18. She accused the Israeli military of being “happy to kill children.”

7. In December 2021, a busload of Jewish kids celebrating Hanukkah was surrounded by men performing Nazi salutes and spitting at them. After footage from inside the bus was leaked, the BBC claimed that the phrase “dirty Muslims” could be heard from the bus. But a Hebrew speaker had actually said, “Call someone. It’s urgent.”

8. In March 2021, the BBC came under fire for hosting a panel discussion of mainly non-Jews on whether the Jewish people were an ethnic minority. The panel discussed whether Jews could be considered as such due to their successful integration within the UK.

9. The BBC coddled highly paid sportscaster Gary Lineker’s anti-Israel social media, including his sharing calls for Israel to be suspended from FIFA. His posts referred to the IDF’s fight against Hamas in Gaza as a genocide.

10. BBC chairman Richard Sharp met in 2022 with then-Palestinian envoy Husam Zomlot, who is known for defending the Palestinian Authority’s pro-terror policies and has been accused of denying the Holocaust. They took a picture in front of a map of “Palestine” that encompassed the entire State of Israel.

No ‘Zionist conspiracy’ here
The Prescott report included many other egregious examples, but the BBC heads would have been forced to resign for just Trump, even if the Middle East coverage was found to be unbiased.

While that may be frustrating, perhaps it was better for Israel that the broadcaster’s heads were not brought down by a ‘Zionist conspiracy.’ Davie and Turness needed to go, no matter what ultimately inflamed enough controversy to spark their resignations.

No matter who replaces Davie and Turness, the fight against the BBC will go on – and media watchdogs and pro-Israel viewers will have to be even more vigilant than ever in holding it accountable.
Deborah Lipstadt has ‘lost faith’ in neutrality of Wikipedia
Wikipedia, one of the internet’s most viewed websites, includes the “Gaza genocide” but not Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks or mass killings of Christians in Nigeria, on a page listing genocides, which, per its statistics, has drawn 62,700 views in the past 30 days.

JNS asked Deborah Lipstadt, the former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism and Dorot professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University, about the page.

“I have pretty much lost faith in Wikipedia as anything resembling a neutral source,” she told JNS.

Wikipedia is “on my list of untrustworthy sources,” Lipstadt told JNS. “It is pretty close to, but not yet identical with, the BBC.”

The scholar said that she did not use Wikipedia as a diplomat and “would have frowned on anyone citing it.”

“Generally, we had much better sources of information,” she said.

Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has said the killings in Nigeria are “not random violence” but amount to “genocide, wearing the mask of chaos.”

There have been recent suggestions on Wikipedia to include Oct. 7 and the Nigerian attacks on the genocide page, but editors declined quickly, saying there was a need for multiple scholarly sources classifying them as such.

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is probing Wikipedia over, in part, concerns of “potentially systematic efforts” to insert antisemitic and anti-Israel propaganda into various Israel-related articles.
Israeli professor turns harassment into a lesson in wit and resilience
A London-based Israeli academic harassed by a group of pro-Palestinian students has delivered a masterclass in using humour as a weapon.

Prof Michael Ben-Gad described a new campaign against him in recent days, in which the protesters had doctored a photo of him and “put me in what they think is an IDF uniform, but it was an Air Force major’s uniform”.

He told his audience: “That’s kind of fine by me because if you believe their argument, a klutz like me can fly a plane.”

Referring to his national service in the 1980s, he said: “I worked very hard to get the doctors over there to agree to let me serve in the ground forces. They’re not going to give me a $40 million F-16 to fly.”

Ben-Gad, an economist at City St George’s, University of London, was speaking at the conference of Academics For Academic Freedom, a free-speech campaign group. The latest student demonstration against him, on 21 November, in front of the campus building, followed a disturbance of one of his lectures a few weeks earlier by keffiyeh-wearing students who accused him of having blood on his hands for having served in the IDF.

At the third annual AFAF conference the professor also responded to the placing of $100,000 bounties on the heads of Israeli academics around the world. Home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and social media accounts were listed for at least 40 academics, the Jerusalem Post had reported the previous day. “I’ve looked through the list and they left me off the honour roll. I’m not sure who to complain to about that.”

He had a further grievance: “As an economist, it’s kind of odd to have just one price. There’s no premium on professors of mathematics and physics. It shows you how badly they’re doing at the moment.”
Northwestern Professor Uses Biomedicine Class to Claim Israel Deliberately Killed Its Own Citizens on Oct 7, Lecture Slides Show
A Northwestern University professor turned her biomedicine course into an anti-Israel lecture accusing the Jewish state of killing its own people on Oct. 7, 2023, excusing Hamas terrorism, and arguing that Israel does not have the right to self-defense, according to lecture slides obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Associate professor Helen Tilley, who teaches a "Biomedicine and World History" course, held a class session titled, "Discussion on Palestine and Israel: Past and Present," which the Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern (CAAN) watchdog group described as "hostile to Jewish and Israeli students" in a complaint filed with the university late last week and first reported by the Free Beacon.

The Nov. 17 lecture featured two anti-Israel activists, medical professor Peter Sporn and medical student Ramzy Issa, as its only guest speakers. Tilley, Sporn, and Issa all signed the 2024 "Northwestern People's Resolution," which accused Israel of "genocide" and called for a boycott of the Jewish state.

Slides from the presentation broadcast extremist anti-Israel falsehoods, including the idea that, on Oct. 7, "Representatives of Hamas left the occupied territory of Gaza and entered the sovereign space of Israel" before "the Israeli military made a snap decision to enact its 'Hannibal directive,' meaning its officers deliberately fired on and killed some of its own citizens rather than risk having them taken hostage."

The lecture also included the notion that, while Palestinians "have rights of self-defense"—justifying Oct. 7—Israel does not.

A section on the history of Israel's founding leaves out the fact that the Jewish state accepted the United Nations' 1947 partition plan for the British Mandate but its Arab neighbors rejected the framework and launched a joint invasion.

A reading list provided in the lecture slides includes books by notorious terror supporters like Rashid Khalidi and Noura Erakat.

Khalidi, a professor emeritus at Columbia University, once served as the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) spokesman and blamed Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israeli "settler colonialism" and "apartheid." Khalidi was slated to teach a class at Columbia this fall before backing out after the university agreed to a settlement with the Trump administration. Khalidi's course, which he moved to the far-left nonprofit People's Forum, features teachings from a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist.


Melbourne synagogue arsonist motivated by mental illness, judge rules
An Australian judge ruled on Monday that the man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness, not antisemitism.

The ruling follows a wave of antisemitic attacks that have roiled Australia since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, including the firebombings of synagogues and a Jewish day care center, and attacks on Jewish-owned businesses and property in both Melbourne and Sydney.

Australian Magistrate Malcolm Thomas found that Angelo Loras, 35, who doused the front door of the East Melbourne Synagogue with flammable liquid and ignited it on July 4 had been in the grip of a delusion stemming from failure to take his schizophrenia medication.

The assailant, who had pled guilty to arson and recklessly placing people at risk of death, was eligible for release on Monday due to time served.

Around 20 worshippers were having a Friday night dinner inside the synagogue at the time of the attack.

“This is a difficult one because there do seem to be genuine mental health issues, but it’s perhaps worrying that Mr. Loras, who was born in Iran, came to have a bag with flammable liquids and something to start a fire with, that he came to choose a synagogue out of all the available buildings, and that he came to be there on a Friday night and was trying to gain entry,” Jamie Hyams, Director of Public Affairs at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, told JNS on Monday. “We certainly hope this was indeed just an unfortunate coincidence, and that there will be no repeat.”

The attack was one of three suspected antisemitic incidents to rock Melbourne that weekend, along with the storming and trashing of a popular Israeli owned eatery and vandalism against a business and three vehicles.
Syrian man on trial for Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing
In a courtroom in Berlin on Thursday, prosecutors said that a 19-year-old Syrian man who stabbed a Spanish tourist in February had been out to “target a person of the Jewish faith” at the city’s main Holocaust monument.

The suspect, named in the German media only as Wassim Al M., is accused of being a supporter of the Islamic State terrorist group.

Al M. approached his victim, 30, from behind among the concrete steles of the memorial, according to prosecutors, and inflicted a five-inch cut to his throat with a knife.

The victim was rushed to hospital, where he underwent an operation in a state of induced coma. He later recovered from his injuries.

Wassim Al M. had “internalised IS ideology, rejected the Western way of life, and was convinced that a holy war against infidels must be waged worldwide,” prosecutors said, according to the AFP news agency.

He shouted “Allahu akbar”, or Allah is the greatest, after the attack, witnesses said.

Al M. was living in Leipzig, southwest of Berlin, and traveled to the capital to commit the attack, prosecutors said, adding he had been “driven by the escalation of the Middle East conflict.”
‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews’: Polish MP's speech outside Auschwitz stirs outrage
“Jews want to be super-humans in Poland, entitled to a better status, and the Polish police dance to their tune,” far-right Polish MP Grzegorz Braun said outside the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Braun, the head of the Confederation of the Polish Crown party, made the comments on Saturday amid news of the Polish government’s plans to adopt a resolution combating antisemitism.

In October, a draft resolution of the Council of Ministers on the adoption of the National Strategy for Counteracting Antisemitism and Supporting Jewish Life for 2025-2030 was published on the website of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.

“Poland is for Poles. Other nations have their own countries, including the Jews,” Braun continued, adding that promoting Jewish life in Poland was like “inviting Hannibal Lecter to move in next door”.

He went on to promise that his party “will scatter the International Auschwitz Council to the four winds” if it gains influence in government. He said that under his governance, the council would have no basis in law or budget.

Braun also said, “The area of the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is de facto an extraterritorial zone. It is no longer a Polish territory.”
'Boom, Boom Tel Aviv,' songs calling for killing of Jews, Israelis on Spotify, Amazon
Music calling for violence against Israel, Israelis, and Jews in general is readily available on major music platforms.

Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube host multiple remixes of punk rap duo Bob Vlyan's chants for "death, death to the IDF" that they performed at the June Glastonbury festival. Album art for many of these depicts the inverted red triangle used in Hamas propaganda to denote a target. Some of the songs have tens of thousands of listens.

Other songs call for the bombing of Tel Aviv, such as white nationalist Lucas Gage's Boom, Boom Tel Aviv, whose title also serves as the chorus.

"This is what you get for all your evil deeds. You were mocking dead kids, but now you're getting hit. Iranian missiles have your entire skyline lit," read the lyrics of the song. "And you cry victim and say you didn't start this, but the whole world sees that your lies are retarded. Now you feel terror like the Palestinians. How does it feel to have bombs drop on your civilians? Yo, you could have avoided all this if you wanted to, but humanity never expected good behavior from you Jews."

Variations of the song are available on Spotify, Amazon, and Apple Music. Different versions on YouTube have racked up millions of views.


Here I Am With Shai Davidai: The Beauty Queen Who Served on Israel's Frontlines | Noa Cochva
In this powerful episode of “Here I Am,” host Shai Davidai sits down with Noa Cochva—Miss Israel 2021, IDF combat medic, and advocate. Noa shares her inspiring journey from growing up in a small Israeli village to serving as a combat medic and instructor in the IDF, including her experiences on the Gaza border during the war. She opens up about the challenges of treating both soldiers and civilians, the ethical dilemmas faced by medics, and the emotional toll of war.

Noa also discusses her unexpected path to becoming Miss Israel, the viral advocacy videos she created during her reserve duty, and the impact of both support and hate she’s received online. She reflects on her family’s Holocaust legacy, her evolving Jewish identity, and her mission to inspire and unite Jewish communities worldwide. This episode is a testament to resilience, courage, and the power of using one’s voice for good.

This season is dedicated to Shai’s grandmother, Leah Davidai, who passed away earlier this year. Sponsored in part by Iron Dome Coffee, visit www.irondomecoffee.com and use the code HERE I AM for an exclusive discount just for our listeners.


1.5 million Jews took up arms against the Nazis. One was this author’s grandfather
Mervin (Mickey) Heller returned home to Toronto, Canada, from Europe in September 1944. From that point on, he refused to say anything about his service as a Royal Canadian Air Force navigator during World War II. No matter how hard people — including his family — tried to coax him into opening up about his experiences, Heller stayed mum.

As Heller was about to turn 90 in 2011, his grandson, Israeli journalist Aron Heller, thought his Zaidy (Yiddish for grandfather) might be willing to finally talk about where he was and what he did during the war. He was wrong; seven decades later, Mickey Heller still wasn’t ready to share.

However, the senior Heller was more than happy to talk about his friends’ and comrades’ experiences in WWII. This gave his grandson enough leads to follow to eventually write the newly published “Zaidy’s Band: The Untold Stories of a Jewish Band of Brothers in World War II.”

“He wouldn’t talk… He wouldn’t give me access to [his] records. There was a real reticence there. So, he became more like a vehicle for the story than the story itself. That’s why it’s not a memoir. Instead, it’s a narrative of this larger theme of Jews in World War II and [foreign volunteers] in the establishment of the State of Israel. My grandfather is the connecting tissue, because through him, I can tell the story,” Heller said as he showed this reporter around the recently-opened Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II in Latrun, just off the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

The museum, with its tech-driven interactive installations and historical artifacts, pays tribute to the 1.5 million Jewish men and women who fought with the Allied forces in World War II. A third served in the US military, another third in the Soviet army, and a final third with the armed forces of various other countries, especially those of Great Britain. Others fought against the Nazis and the Axis powers as partisans and members of underground organizations. In total, 250,000 of these Jewish combatants were killed in the line of duty.
Holocaust Fighter Joseph Alexander Turns 103
This November Joseph Alexander will be celebrating his 103rd birthday. To have such a long life and to be so active is an amazing thing – just on its own – but Alexander’s life goes beyond amazing and moves into awe-inspiring.

Alexander is a Holocaust survivor who has been sharing his story for decades with others. He is part of an outreach program that has been to Burbank and Glendale schools.

CVW wants to wish Joseph Alexander a Happy Birthday and thank him for continuing his brave outreach to teach others of what hate can bring.

Below are excerpts from interviews CVW has done in the past with Mr. Alexander. It is important to continue to share his story:
“Most U.S. adults know what the Holocaust was and approximately when it happened, but fewer than half can correctly answer multiple choice questions about the number of Jews who were murdered or the way Adolf Hitler came to power …Nearly three-in-10 Americans say they are not sure how many Jews died during the Holocaust while one-in-10 overestimate the death toll and 15% say that 3 million or fewer Jews were killed,” according to a 2020 Pew Research Center survey.

This is what makes Alexander’s outreach so important.

“So this is what I hope: When I talk to them they [receive] the knowledge …they are our future,” Alexander said in a past interview with CVW regarding speaking to students about the Holocaust.

During WWII Alexander had been held in 12 different camps; one of them was Auschwitz and then Birkenau and Dachau. He was in camps for five years.




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