Thursday, November 27, 2025

11/27 Links Pt2: The Founding Fathers and the Promised Land; Arnold Roth: Why is US justice for its victims of terror still thwarted?

From Ian:

Katie Pavlich: The Founding Fathers and the Promised Land
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States has supported the modern establishment of Israel as a democratic alliance and, more recently, as an economic partner. National security, intelligence sharing, technology development, scientific research, combating global Islamic terrorism and much more are also ongoing and shared interests.

The history of America and Israel didn’t start in 1948. It goes back to 1776, when American rebels looked to the Promised Land, its foundational story, and were inspired to reject the British Empire in pursuit of their own nation.

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved,” states the Declaration of Independence, signed by 56 men.

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

The Founding Fathers were men of God and believers in the Bible. This is evident in their speeches, writings, proposals and public prayers. Faith was their guiding force, principle and tool to win the American Revolution — against all odds.

“In 1776, a month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met to discuss the design of the Great Seal of the United States. Benjamin Franklin’s idea for the Great Seal wasn’t an eagle or the stars and stripes. We wanted the Seal to depict Moses leading the Children of Israel through the Red Sea, out of slavery and into freedom,” author and filmmaker David Kiern writes. “Jefferson countered, proposing imagery of the Hebrews in the desert, led by a pillar of fire, marching toward the Promised Land.”

After the Americans won their freedom, the credit for Israel’s divine inspiration continued.

“May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors, planted them in a promised land, whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of heaven and make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah,” President Washington wrote to the Hebrew Congregation of Savannah in 1790.
Alan Baker: The 50th anniversary of the infamous UN ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution
As stated by the then-U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Daniel Moynihan, “The United Nations is about to make antisemitism international law. The U.S. does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act. … A great evil has been loosed upon the world.”

The offensive determination equating Zionism with racism was subsequently formally revoked by General Assembly Resolution 46/86, adopted on Dec. 16, 1991, and supported by a majority of 111 states, with 25 Arab League, Muslim and African states opposing.

In introducing the revocation motion during his address to the 45th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Oct. 1, 1990, then-U.S. President George H.W. Bush stated, “NGA Resolution 3379, the so-called ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution, mocks this pledge and the principles upon which the United Nations was founded. And I call now for its repeal. Zionism is not a policy; it is the idea that led to the creation of a home for the Jewish people, to the State of Israel. And to equate Zionism with the intolerable sin of racism is to twist history and forget the terrible plight of Jews in World War II and, indeed, throughout history. To equate Zionism with racism is to reject Israel itself, a member of good standing of the United Nations. This body cannot claim to seek peace and at the same time challenge Israel’s right to exist. By repealing this resolution unconditionally, the United Nations will enhance its credibility and serve the cause of peace.”

On June 21, 2004, at a U.N. Conference on Antisemitism, then-Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan stated, “The actions of the United Nations on the issue of antisemitism have not always been worthy of its ideals. It is deplorable that the General Assembly adopted in 1975 a resolution which assimilated Zionism with racism and I welcome that it later came back on its position.”

But despite its revocation in 1991 and the 2004 condemnation by Annan, the Zionism-racism equation has remained engraved in the annals of the U.N. as an integral component of its operating mode. The damage had been done. The equation enabled the creation and continued permanent financing of an extensive bureaucratic apparatus within the U.N. system of bodies, committees, international organs and specialized agencies designed to amplify and encourage an ongoing Muslim, Arab and Palestinian campaign aimed at undermining Israel as a sovereign state member of the international community.

The resolution paved the way for the formalization of an artificially devised “status,” uniquely tailored for the Palestinian observer representation in the U.N., denominated as a “non-member-observer-state status.”

This anomaly has regrettably become a permanent fixture in the realities of the organization as well as in the present-day realities of the Middle East.

Under the false guise of “statehood,” this anomalous “status” granted to the Palestinians has subsequently been used as a pretext for manipulating a willing U.N. Secretariat and various U.N. bodies, including the International Court of Justice, individual states, and international and intergovernmental bodies, including the International Criminal Court, into acknowledging, recognizing and accepting into their membership a nonexistent Palestinian state. This, despite the nonexistence of any sovereign Palestinian entity and despite the fact that no binding or authoritative international instrument has ever acknowledged the existence of any sovereign Palestinian territory.

Such recognition clearly undermines, runs counter to and prejudges the intended outcome of the negotiations agreed to in the internationally recognized and internationally witnessed Oslo Accords, an integral component of the Middle East peace process, in which the Palestinian leadership committed to negotiating with Israel the issue of the permanent status of the territories.

Conclusion
The effects of the1975 Zionism-Racism resolution remain an indelible component of the realities in today’s Middle East. The subsequent apparent revocation of the offensive determination in that resolution did not diminish the long-term damage that it caused.

This damage still plagues the international community and, more significantly, the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

The genie cannot be returned to its bottle.
Gil Troy: Thanks to Zionism, We Won - and Will Continue Winning, while Teaching the West about Self-Defense, Self-Reliance, and Self-Respect
Americans are traditionally focused on their lives and, at best, domestic politics. That's why it's stunning to see how much coverage, fury, and focus there has been for two years on Israel in Gaza. Manipulative, well-funded networks have cultivated this Israel-obsession and Palestinian-romanticization. It is magnified mindlessly online.

America seems filled with laptop warriors who never fired a gun and cannot tell friend from foe, arrogantly making long-distance military calls about IDF strategy. Meanwhile, armchair moralists throw lightning bolts of condemnation at Israel, having ignored their own country's behavior in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Never forget: Hamas's Iranian-funded Oct. 7 massacre imposed this existential war for survival on Israel. Oct. 7 marks the latest, bloodiest, chapter in Palestinian exterminationists' decades-long war against Zionism. Read their charters, speeches, and sermons. They've framed their "struggle" as an all-or-nothing fight to eliminate the "Zionist entity." They're the ones who repeatedly rejected compromise since the 1940s, and keep improvising various ways to kill Jews.

Zionism resets the conversation that puts Israel's supporters in a defensive crouch. It transcends the defensiveness, refuting the accusations in deeds not words, with joy not anguish, victories not defeatism. It accentuates the eternals: identity, history, community, continuity, survival. Zionism takes Israel off probation, celebrating Jews' historic commitment to one another, our people, state and land - our intertwined fate.

Identity Zionism roots Jews in a centrifugal reality spinning around our tradition, our land, our people, our state. That superpower resists modern Western culture's forces, spinning toward fragmented affinities, and thereby undermining loyalties to others, to the collective.


Arnold Roth: Why is US justice for its victims of terror still thwarted?
U.S. leaders view King Abdullah as a moderate ally essential for peace. Setting aside such views, what aches and confounds is Washington’s absence of any public admission that thwarting Tamimi’s prosecution stems from the notion that it’s a “price worth paying” for never-stated geo-political goals.

A handful of officials, former U.S. President Joe Biden among them, have paid lip service to extraditing her. But their words ring hollow to me, to the Jordanians, and I believe to anyone committed to justice. Yet the double-talk persists; the hypocrisy at Washington’s highest levels goes unchallenged and mostly unreported.

Obviously, Malki’s birthday means nothing to them. But it ought to be a poignant reminder: justice delayed is justice denied—not only for my child but for all American terror victims. Accountability has to be prioritized over expediency.

I want Congress, the State Department and the White House to act decisively. They need to insist that Jordan honors the treaty; to expose the excuses as self-damaging weakness. This Jordan/Tamimi issue has been under the rug for far too long. A commitment to defeating terror demands principle and determination.

In memory of my Malki and the other victims, those who wield the power must ensure that the terrorists and those shielding them face consequences. Enough with delays and pretense!
Former Obama aide Sarah Hurwitz ignites social media with remarks about Holocaust education
Speaking from notes, she began her remarks with the fairly uncontroversial observation that “young people” are exposed to a media diet that amplifies the fringe, including antisemitic influencers such as Nick Fuentes. She also made the somewhat more contentious point that images of “carnage” in Gaza are making it hard for defenders of Israel like her to debate “facts and arguments” with younger Jews.

But then she veered into talking about Holocaust education, suggesting that the Jewish “bet” on promoting Holocaust education had backfired, at least as a vaccine against antisemitism.

“Holocaust education is absolutely essential,” she said. “But I think it may be confusing some of our young people about antisemitism, because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews, and they think, ‘Oh, antisemitism is like anti-Black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people.’ So when on TikTok, all day long, they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think, ‘Oh, I know the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big, powerful people hurting the weak people.’”

Hurwitz’s framing could be seen as descriptive, explaining how the emotional structure of Holocaust education — emphasizing victimhood, power imbalance and trauma — leads some students to align emotionally with Palestinians rather than with Jews. She went on to suggest that moral lessons from the Shoah are often taught in a way that’s too binary — oppressed vs. oppressor, powerless vs. powerful — without helping students understand how antisemitism functions in complex ways, even when Jews have sovereignty and power.

But beyond the General Assembly audience, the backlash was fast and fierce. Instagram and Reddit filled up with posts accusing her of saying, as one post put it, “that it was a mistake to teach Americans that genocide is bad.”
Mum cleared of harassment says school treated ordinary Jewish life as evidence
A Jewish mother cleared over a school WhatsApp dispute has told Jewish News she was questioned in custody about ordinary faith-related interactions – including her offer to help with Holocaust Memorial Day and her request to withdraw her daughter from Christian prayer.

Rosalind Levine, from Borehamwood, was arrested in January after Cowley Hill Primary School claimed a series of WhatsApp messages and emails amounted to harassment. The allegations were later dismissed, Hertfordshire Police conceded the arrest “did not meet the legal criteria”, and Levine received £20,000 in damages.

But Levine said she was stunned to discover through subject access requests that the school had also passed unrelated religious interactions to police as part of the same complaint. “I can’t understand the thinking behind it,” she said. “It was very upsetting to think these things had been advanced to the police as evidence of harassment.”

She said she contacted the school in early 2023 after hearing it planned to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. “I thought it was a really nice thing for them to cover,” she said. “I lost family in the Holocaust, and I just wondered what they had planned and whether I could do anything to help.” The school welcomed her offer and asked her to help organise an age-appropriate session. She arranged for two experienced survivors to speak to pupils. “It was all really nice and the school was really thankful and grateful,” she said.

Over a year later – after her arrest – she learnt that the HMD email had been included in a file passed to the police. “It was staggering,” she said. “It defies explanation that something so positive was somehow reported to the police.” She said the reference resurfaced during her custody interview. When she explained that tensions began when her partner questioned delays in recruiting a new headteacher, the detective replied: “No it started on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023.” ‘I was really taken aback,” she said. “It was really shocking and upsetting.”
Stu Smith: The Radical Group Backing the Palestinian Youth Movement
Decolonize U’s curriculum extends beyond environmentalism. The program offers sessions such as Queerness 101, Indigenous Feminism(s) 101, Know Your Rights 101 at the U.S. Borders and Ports, and (Anti-)Ableism 101. These courses, rooted in critical theory, allow Honor the Earth to galvanize young activists around a broader agenda.

In a move that closely resembles the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mask Off Maersk campaign, Honor the Earth has also begun mapping data centers located on what it calls “Indigenous lands.” The organization claims that “[i]t is imperative that we pay attention to the rapid expansion of data centers across our lands, and learn from frontline communities that are fighting back.” Given that such data centers are a strategic asset, and that Honor the Earth is sponsoring another group that seeks to disrupt the F-35 supply chain, this should raise questions among those committed to protecting America’s defense infrastructure.

Earlier this year, Senator Tom Cotton asked the IRS to investigate Honor the Earth. Cotton argued that Honor the Earth is “operating outside of the acceptable scope of activities in 26 U.S. Code § 501 for tax exemptions” by sending funds to PYM, given that group’s “public support for terrorism.”

Cotton’s letter underscores an urgent need for accountability. In North America, PYM has long collaborated with Samidoun, which the U.S. government in late 2024 designated a terrorist front affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. When former PYM senior leaders like Nadya Tannous, now with Honor the Earth, meet with PFLP members, it’s hard to dismiss their increasingly aggressive tactics. PYM’s protests have crossed into illegality and are accelerating toward new forms of militancy, targeting defense supply chains while its sponsor, Honor the Earth, pursues targeting critical data centers. A greater level of scrutiny is clearly warranted.

Unfortunately, the IRS’s Exempt Organizations unit, which handles such cases, is critically understaffed. Despite massive growth in the nonprofit sector, the Exempt Organizations department lost 31 percent of its workforce this year alone. Adding nonpartisan, civic-minded professionals to this unit could curb radicalism by targeting groups that promote or engage in unlawful protest activity.

Honor the Earth is just one organization within a broader ecosystem of radical nonprofits. Its support for a group that allegedly supports terrorism offers a glimpse into the shady world of far-left activist shops—and points to the need for more vigorous enforcement of the tax code.


Upcoming Al Jazeera Conference Features Hamas Operative & Professors from Northwestern University in Qatar
Al Jazeera Centre for Studies and Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University are convening an academic conference in Doha on November 29-30 that brings together an Israeli-designated Hamas operative and alleged Muslim Brotherhood affiliates with faculty from Northwestern University’s campus in Doha to discuss international media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. The gathering takes place just days after President Trump signed an executive order initiating the designation of certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations.

The conference, titled “International Media and the War on Gaza: Modalities of Discourse and the Clash of Narratives,” aims to explore what organizers call “functional semantic mechanisms that reveal the implicit meanings in international media coverage of the war on Gaza,” according to promotional materials. However, conference documents reveal a predetermined narrative that dismisses documented atrocities as false Israeli reports.

Conference Promotes Dismissal of Hamas’ Oct 7 Atrocities
Conference documentation explicitly frames Hamas’s massacre as an “attack on settlements” while dismissing verified atrocities as Israeli fabrications. One document states that “most Western media, and even some Arab media, promoted, especially in the early months of the war, the Israeli narrative and its false reports about ‘burning children’ and ‘raping Israeli women’ during the Hamas attack on settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip.”

The materials criticize media outlets for reporting on “Israel’s right to self-defense” and for describing Hamas’s actions as terrorism, positioning these factual characterizations as biased coverage rather than accurate reporting of the October 7 massacre that killed over 1,200 people.

These claims contradict extensive documentation, including UN findings of “reasonable grounds to believe” sexual violence occurred, forensic evidence confirming 27 children were shot and burned alive, and multiple independent investigations documenting the atrocities.

Israel-Designated Hamas Operative Serves on Organizing Committee
Arafat Madi Shoukri, listed as a member of the conference’s organizing committee, was designated by Israel in 2013 as one of Hamas’s main operatives in Europe. Shoukri previously directed the Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR), which was also banned in 2013 by the Israeli Ministry of Justice, which identified it as serving as Hamas’ representative in Europe.

Social media images from Shoukri’s Facebook account show him pictured with former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and attending a meeting between a CEPR delegation and Muslim Brotherhood representatives. According to the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch, Shoukri later relocated from Britain to Qatar, where Arabic media reported he assumed a position at Al Jazeera.


Government successfully closes loophole which saw Palestinians use Ukraine scheme
The Government has been successful in its bid to close a legal loophole which meant that Palestinians could avail themselves of a scheme intended for Ukrainian refugees, with the Court of Appeal overturning a previous Immigration tribunal ruling.

As reported by The Telegraph, the original case, back in February, had allowed a family based in Gaza to come to the UK, where the father’s brother already resides. The immigration tribunal had ruled that under the European Convention of Human Rights article 8, protecting the right to a family life, they should be allowed to enter the UK, under a scheme set up in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 – despite the scheme having been closed in early 2024. The ruling placed the rights of the family above the “public interest” of rules on UK entry to control immigration.

The family’s application was initially refused in May 2024, when the Home Office decided that they had not met the requirements of the scheme. Their initial legal appeal was dismissed by a tribunal judge, but a further appeal was subsequently upheld by upper tribunal judges.

However, Appeal Court judges have now ruled that immigration tribunals must properly consider the Home Secretary’s rights under the same ECHR article to act with regard to “the economic well-being of the country … or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others”. The Appeal Court also ruled that the family links between the two Palestinian brothers were not strong enough to justify their entry to the UK under Article 8.

The case led to a rare instance of both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition condemning the tribunal’s decision, during a weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons.


‘Probably the most impressive operation I’ve ever seen’
A team of former senior United States military commanders released in recent days a comprehensive assessment of the 12-day war (June 13 – 25) fought between Israel and Iran, revealing new details about the scope, speed and strategic impact of the operations that reshaped the Middle East earlier this year.

The report, published on Nov. 20 by the Washington D.C.-based Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), concludes that Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion” was an “operational masterpiece” that not only removed an existential threat to the Jewish state by severely degrading Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, but also advanced American national security interests.

The assessment drew on an August fact-finding mission to Israel by a delegation that included Gen. Charles Wald (United States Air Force, ret.), former deputy commander of U.S. European Command; Lt. Gen. (United States Army, ret.) Robert Ashley, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; and Vice Adm. Mark Fox (United States Navy, ret.), former deputy commander of U.S. Central Command.

The authors were granted significant access to Israel’s government, intelligence community and the Israel Defense Forces to reconstruct the decision-making process and battlefield performance of the campaign.

“We came away convinced that in Operation Rising Lion, Israel displayed intelligence and military capabilities that exceed any of America’s allies in the world,” Wald told a press briefing on the report on Wednesday. “More than just operational excellence, Israel achieved major strategic effects advancing not just its own, but America’s national interests.”

The report said the operation was “30 years in the making,” following decades in which “Iran worked towards Israel’s destruction” along three main efforts: Its nuclear program, ballistic missile capabilities, and the Iranian proxy network.

Referring to Operation Rising Lion, Wald stated, “It’s probably the most impressive military operation I’ve ever seen or been a part of.”
Australia designates Iran’s IRGC as state sponsor of terrorism
Australia on Thursday designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a state sponsor of terrorism, marking the first such listing under counter-terrorism legislation passed in response to Iranian-directed attacks on the country’s Jewish community.

The designation follows intelligence assessments that the IRGC orchestrated antisemitic arson attacks on Sydney’s Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in October 2024 and Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue in December 2024.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong called the attacks “unprecedented and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation on Australian soil,” speaking in a joint press release on Thursday, with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke calling the IRGC listing a direct response to the “despicable actions of the Iranian Government.”

Australia expelled Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi and three other Iranian diplomats on Aug. 26, giving them seven days to leave and suspending operations at its embassy in Tehran. Iran downgraded diplomatic ties in response.

The listing makes it a criminal offense punishable by up to 25 years imprisonment to provide support to, associate with, or recruit for the IRGC.


31 year old man arrested over Heaton Park Synagogue terror attack
Police have arrested a man in connection with the Heaton Park synagogue terror attack, bringing the total number of arrests made in connection to the attack up to seven.

Greater Manchester Police confirmed that a man was arrested at Manchester airport today “on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism”. He had arrived on an inbound flight.

On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Jihad Al-Shamie, a British national originally from Syria, drove his car into pedestrians outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation, before exiting the vehicle and stabbing congregants. He sought to gain entrance to the synagogue itself, but was unsuccessful. Adrian Daulby, 53 and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed in the attack, with Al-Shamie killed by armed police.

Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts, who holds operational responsibility for Counter Terrorism Policing North West, said:

“At around midday today, officers from Counter Terrorism Policing North West arrested a 31-year-old man in connection with the appalling terrorist attack that took place at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue.

“The man was arrested at Manchester Airport after arriving on an inbound flight and has been taking into custody for questioning. The loved ones of Mr Daulby and Mr Cravitz have been updated on this development, as have those who were seriously injured in the attack.


Family of fallen British-Israeli soldier launch campaign for memorial healing space
The family of British-Israeli soldier Benji Needham, killed in Gaza nearly two years ago, have launched a £250,000 campaign to build a memorial healing space overlooking the landscape he loved.

Needham, 19, was serving in the IDF when he was killed defending Israeli communities during the early months of the war. His siblings have unveiled plans for ‘Benji’s Light Point’, a lookout in Zichron Yaacov designed both as a remembrance project and a therapeutic setting for those affected by conflict.

The fundraising effort is being run by teams in Israel and the UK, each operating their own pages that feed into the same central campaign total. At the time of writing, the wider campaign stands at ₪454,342 (around £106,000).

One of the UK-linked pages, led by Benji’s sister Yael Schlagman, has raised more than £16,000 towards her internal target of £25,000 – all of which contributes to the larger £250,000 goal.

The planned site will host youth programmes, volunteer days, therapy activities and gatherings for bereaved families, while also offering a quiet space “to pause, breathe and feel Benji’s presence,” relatives said.

The family described the vision as “a living and breathing memorial that continues Benji’s values of connection, kindness and service”.

The lookout is expected to open next year, subject to funding and planning approval.




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