Lahav Harkov: The communities in central Israel that fear an Oct. 7 attack from the West Bank
Consider some of the most dangerous places to live in Israel. There are the kibbutzim and towns along the Gaza border, where Hamas massacred people in their homes on Oct. 7, 2023. There’s the northern border, which was mostly evacuated when the war began due to attacks from Lebanon. Perhaps one may think of Hebron, in the West Bank, where Israelis live in a neighborhood in a mostly Palestinian city whose mayor participated in a 1980 terror attack that killed six civilians.Nicole Lampert: 'The Special Status of the Palestinians Has Been Great for the Aid Business and Terrible for the People'
Then there’s Bat Hefer, a small town of about 5,000 residents, with kibbutzim to its north and south, a few miles east of Netanya in central Israel.
The sleepy town, nestled between Highway 6, Israel’s major north-south artery, and the 1949 Armistice Line, known as the Green Line, is rated as more dangerous than the Gaza border area, according to Maj.-Gen. Rafi Milo, the head of the IDF’s Home Front Command.
In a recording leaked to Israel’s Channel 12 in June, Milo said: “If you ask me where the threat is much greater today, in Bat Hefer the threat is much greater than Yakhini,” a moshav where Hamas terrorists killed seven on Oct. 7.
The danger to Bat Hefer comes from its proximity to Tulkarem, a Palestinian city with a refugee camp from the 1948 War of Independence. Residents of Tulkarem have shot into Bat Hefer and adjacent towns. The IDF has attempted to stop attacks by razing dozens of homes in the refugee camp in recent months, in what a defense source called “the Gaza-fication of the West Bank.”
While the IDF has a constant and more intense presence in the West Bank than it did in Gaza before October 7, 2023, the threat is still present. On Tuesday, IDF soldiers found rockets in a village next to Tulkarem. For the past two years, many Israelis living near the Green Line — an area also called the seam line — have looked out of their windows at Palestinian villages in the distance and wondered how safe their neighborhoods really are. After the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on the south, some began to worry that the same thing could happen to them in central Israel.
Ran Schneider lives in Sha’ar Efraim, a moshav near Bat Hefer that is an official entry point for goods to pass between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He did his IDF reserve duty as a member of the moshav’s rapid response team, and told JI last year that they had long heard shooting from beyond the fence, but it increased after the Oct. 7 attack.
The community’s rapid-response team “was in uniform protecting the moshav. Our area of responsibility was inside the moshav. We would check everyone going in and out and give people a sense of security,” he said.
For many residents of the towns and cities near the Green Line and the separation barrier that runs along it, built in the wake of the Second Intifada to make it harder for terrorists to enter Israel, shootings are only part of the problem. In contrast with some of the more famous segments of the barrier, a high concrete wall often painted with graffiti and murals, much of the barrier is only a metal fence topped with barbed wire. It is a simple fence, lacking some of the high-tech features that the Gaza border fence had before Palestinians bulldozed it last year. In addition, Palestinians for years frequently cut through the fence to work illegally in Israel.
Unlike some central Israeli municipalities, there isn’t a buffer zone between Sha’ar Efraim and the next Palestinian town.
A Facebook post I wrote asking non-Jewish people whether they had fallen out with friends over the Israel-Gaza conflict led to an overwhelming amount of messages and, eventually, an article.Seth Mandel: CAIR Accidentally Makes the Case for Zionism
When that piece came out, I was inundated with yet more examples of horrible rows over this conflict 2000 miles away.
They were all fascinating. And sad. One was from Dr Emily Brearley, a development economist whose own mother had told her she was ‘on the wrong side of history’. She revealed that she used to wear a keffiyeh until she worked with UNRWA, the UN agency specifically for Palestinians. That experience, in many ways, made her see the aid business in a different way.
Dr Brearley has written a book on her reflections on the aid industry called Aid Inferno: How to Reduce Poverty, Combat Global Warming and Be a Good Person. She sent me a LinkedIn post she had written about UNRWA.
In a week when the aid agency is back in the news, with Israel providing evidence that it, and other charities, worked with Hamas, and a raid on its East Jerusalem office leading to condemnation from the UK government, it seemed like a good idea to (with her permission) publish her incredible revelations about what UNRWA is hiding.
THE STORY OF UNRWA by Dr Emily Brearley
This is an important case study because it has been lavished with all the tools, money and attention at the disposal of the development business: US$70 billion to date. The result has been absolute failure and perpetual chaos. I do not blame the Israelis or Palestinians; you can go to Tik-Tok for that. I blame us.
If there is one topic in the development business that is far outsized in terms of global interest, it is this one. Everyone has an opinion, and the strongest and most furious come especially from those who have never been to the region.
If CAIR is admitting that Jordan is Palestine and that the original name of the West Bank is one that proves Jewish indigeneity, we can consider the conflict pretty much solved. It’s all over but the crying.
The truth is, “West Bank” isn’t really even a Jordanian name as much as it’s a descriptive term. It has no significance whatsoever to any of the peoples who have ever lived in the territory. And again, there was never any legal Jordanian sovereignty so its nickname for Judea and Samaria is irrelevant.
The West Bank isn’t the only descriptive term involving the Palestinians. So is “Palestine,” which was an area of the Ottoman Empire and considered part of Syria in the minds of the Arabs of the region—including those in Palestine. Amin al-Husseini, the father of Palestinian Arab nationalism, had begun the period of the British Mandate by declaring Faisal I the king of Syria, including Palestine. Until about 1920, Husseini was a contributor to a the Jerusalem-based Arab newspaper called (in Arabic) Southern Syria. Once the Western European allies severed the territories, Palestinian nationalism was born.
All that aside, CAIR’s opposition to using the term Judea and Samaria instead of the West Bank has no Arabic or Palestinian-specific rationalization. It is only to deny the history of the Jews. The idea that calling the area something other than the West Bank amounts to the erasure of Palestinians from the map is a laughable claim; nothing Palestinian would be touched in the process.
The Arabs have given Arabic names to Jewish towns in the area, of course. But no one is even suggesting changing those back.
No one who calls it the West Bank is going to stop calling it the West Bank. And that’s fine—I use the term regularly. But CAIR’s policy memo suggests to me that I shouldn’t. If even CAIR understands that the West Bank is a term made up by an illegal Jordanian occupier which has long since renounced any claim on the land, and if even CAIR knows that the land has a proper historical name, perhaps that’s what the rest of us should use. Thanks, CAIR!
Hostage Noa Marciano was murdered by Gazan doctor, claims father after receiving harrowing video
The father of Noa Marciano has spoken publicly for the first time, sharing harrowing details of his daughter’s final moments in Gaza.
Speaking to a small crowd, her father Avi claimed that Noa was murdered by a doctor in Shifa hospital, who injected air into her veins – and that the family found out about her death after they were sent a video of her murder via the social media network Telegram.
"Noa is begging for her life,” he said of the video, adding that, by the end of the clip, “she’s sweating but there’s no life to her body”.
Noa, 19, was one of seven female soldiers to be kidnapped from the Nahal Oz military base on October 7 – the other being Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Ori Megidish – and the only one not to have returned alive.
Her body was recovered from a building adjacent to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City by the IDF in November 2023, and returned to Israel for burial.
On November 20 2023, Hamas released a video of Marciano, blaming her death on an Israeli Air Force bombing raid. However, the IDF said at the time, “After analysing the footage, experts suggest that her injuries do not align with those typically sustained in airstrikes.
“The observed wounds appear more consistent with bullet injuries, and there is also an indication that she may have suffered from injuries related to a fall from a height.”
IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said at the time: "According to the medical findings, Noa was kidnapped to a hiding place near Shifa, and during IDF attacks on the area, the Hamas terrorist who was holding her was killed. Noa was injured, but not a life-threatening injury.
In May 2024 her parents revealed that their daughter had been killed by a medical professional, telling Israeli media: "They chose to murder her instead of taking care of her. It was a doctor who did it, in a hospital. She was injured by air force bombings and was taken to Shifa."
🚨 HORRIFIC:
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) December 10, 2025
Noa Marciano’s father says a Gazan doctor murdered his daughter inside Shifa Hospital
For the first time, the father of 19 year old IDF soldier Noa Marciano is speaking publicly about how she died in Gaza. He says a medical professional at Shifa injected air into… pic.twitter.com/kxzNQ1YmUj
New footage has been released of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostages celebrating Chanukah in the tunnels.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) December 10, 2025
They attempt to light something as a candle, asking for some oxygen so that a flame could be kindled.
And they sing a Chanukah song together.… pic.twitter.com/1APw6ZBmKk
Ran Gvili, last remaining Israeli hostage in Gaza, featured on two Times Square digital billboards
Commuters in Times Square were confronted this week with a new digital billboard demanding the release of the final remaining hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili.
“Hamas must release him now,” the billboard reads next to a photo of Gvili. “The last Israeli hostage held in Gaza.”
Gvili, a 24-year-old police officer who was killed defending Kibbutz Alumim during Hamas’ October 7 attack, was one of roughly 250 hostages taken into Gaza.
The billboard, which is part of an effort led by the Israeli Consulate in New York and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, comes nearly two months after all 20 living hostages were returned to Israel as part of a US-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
Since then, the remaining deceased hostages in Gaza have been returned intermittently, including the remains of Thai agricultural worker Sudthisak Rinthalak last week, in a slow process that has extended tensions between Israel and Hamas.
Demands intensify to bring the last hostage home
Last month, the American Jewish Committee launched its own billboard campaign in Times Square that featured a montage of the remaining hostages in Gaza. Today, the display only features Gvili.
“The nightmare isn’t over,” the AJC’s billboard reads, according to a video the group posted on Youtube Tuesday, followed by a photo of Gvili’s mother holding a hostage poster of him with the caption, “A family incomplete.”
Later in the slideshow, the screen displays a photo of Gvili with the caption, “Over two years later, Hamas still holds Ran hostage in Gaza,” before ending with the message, “Bring Ran home now.”
A powerful video in the center of Times Square, New York, calls for the release of Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage still held in Gaza, who was murdered and kidnapped from southern Israel on October 7, 2023, over two years ago.
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) December 10, 2025
We will not rest until Ran is home!
Credit:… pic.twitter.com/bVGG7cOMod
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal: Over half of 18-21 year-old Americans are active in Hamas 'resistance'
A slight majority, 51%, of Americans between the ages of 18-21 are not only involved in the Palestinian cause, but are active in Hamas "resistance," leader of the terror group Khaled Mashaal said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
"Can you imagine that the Palestinian case entered into the minds of young Americans and Europeans? This is a new division of resistance. In the street, the youth, university campuses, political parties, and countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia - there has been a great gain for the Palestinian cause," Mashaal claimed.
Israel's image has also been damaged during this period among that demographic, Mashaal stated. "What happened during the two years for the image of the Zionist entity before the world - this Israel which used to glorify how they are a democratic state and a pioneer for Western civilization in the Middle East reared its ugly head."
"You see it in the international area. [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has been issued an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Israel has become a target. It is a killer who committed the crime of a real Holocaust - the massacres," the terror leader accused.
Mashaal reaffirmed his rejection of disarming Hamas's weapons, emphasizing that disarmament is "rejected in the culture of the Palestinian people," because their weapons "represent the spirit of resistance and a means of protecting the people under occupation."
No. We are not going to fight the Second October 7 War in 10 years after Hamas digs up its weapons and attacks again.
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) December 10, 2025
Hamas lost the war.
The entire world has spoken.
Hamas must clear the stage. https://t.co/TmX5g4ERT8
US weighs hitting UN Palestinian refugee agency with terrorism-related sanctions
Trump administration officials have held advanced discussions on hitting the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA with terrorism-related sanctions, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, prompting serious legal and humanitarian concerns inside the State Department.
The United Nations agency operates in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria, providing aid, schooling, healthcare, social services, and shelter to millions of Palestinians.
Top UN officials and the UN Security Council have described UNRWA as the backbone of the aid response in Gaza, where the two-year war between Israel and terror group Hamas unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe.
UNRWA accused of Hamas connections
The Trump administration, however, has accused the agency of links with Hamas, allegations UNRWA has vigorously disputed.
Washington was long UNRWA's biggest donor, but halted funding in January 2024 after Israel accused about a dozen UNRWA staff of taking part in the deadly October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre that triggered the war in Gaza. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio then accused the agency in October this year of becoming "a subsidiary of Hamas," which the US designated as a terrorist organization in 1997.
It was not immediately clear if current US discussions were focused on sanctioning the entire agency - or just specific UNRWA officials or parts of its operation, and US officials do not appear to have settled on the precise type of sanctions they would deploy against UNRWA.
Among the possibilities that State Department officials have discussed include declaring UNRWA a "foreign terrorist organization," or FTO, the sources said, though it is not clear if that option - which would severely isolate UNRWA financially - is still a serious consideration.
Any blanket move against the entire organization could disrupt refugee relief efforts and cripple UNRWA, which is already facing a funding crisis.
No. Turkey’s president, who openly talks of his desire to conquer Jerusalem, must not have troops anywhere near here. https://t.co/KSJBmISK2i
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) December 10, 2025
What the pope knows and doesn’t know about Gaza
The new American-born pope, Leo XIV, recently took questions from reporters. One was: Does he see “hope … for a faster peace process in Gaza in this moment?”
His answer:
The Holy See … has publicly supported the proposal of a two-state solution. We all know that in this moment Israel still does not accept this solution, but we see it as the only solution that could offer—let us say—a solution to the conflict that they continuously live.
We are also friends of Israel, and we try with the two sides to be a mediating voice that can help draw closer to a solution with justice for all.
So, the pope asserts that “in this moment Israel still does not accept [a two-state] solution.” The unavoidable implication here is that Israel’s contra party does, in fact, accept the solution and, therefore, Israeli intransigence is the only obstacle to that solution.
Who is Israel’s contra party in a two-state solution—the party that supposedly accepts the solution that Israel currently rejects? It must be either the Palestinian people or, alternatively, the State of Palestine. Let’s consider these possibilities, starting first with the Palestinian people.
There are millions of Palestinians; does each one accept a two-state solution? Does even a majority of those millions accept that solution?
We surely know that fully-fledged members of Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups reject that solution. Anyone who has read the Hamas covenant knows that, for Hamas, the violent eradication of a non-Islamic state—Israel—on land that is an eternal Islamic trust or waqf, is an obligatory religious duty.
The world is panicking over new West Bank units again. Eugene Kontorovich brings the legal facts they refuse to touch. @EVKontorovich https://t.co/Mxjl5epv8q
— Elizabeth Farah 🇺🇸 America 1st always 🇮🇱 (@ElizabethFarah) December 10, 2025
— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) December 10, 2025
Also: Austria, Romania, Lithuania join in refusing to support UNRWA https://t.co/lPd8tPWfiO
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 10, 2025
Our advocacy in 🇩🇪 Parliament: https://t.co/DQE6oKgleH
In 🇮🇹 Senate: https://t.co/JzOkebQFhO
Albanese discredited: https://t.co/B7lo7fb2ov
⚡️ Help us do more! https://t.co/COP1w7QwsO
4/ Bad news for Francesca Albanese: Naples, Bologna, Turin backtrack on honoring her. “They had bet everything on her, and now there's a race to dissociate themselves, after she endorsed the violent pro-Pal raid on La Stampa.” https://t.co/oMPhRFQZa0 @ilfoglio_it
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 10, 2025
UNIFIL claims IDF shot at patrol in Lebanon; Israel says troops fired at suspect nearby
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said Wednesday that its observers came under fire from Israeli troops in a tank a day earlier, during a patrol along the Blue Line close to the village of Sarda.
The Israel Defense Forces countered that its gunfire was not aimed at the convoy, but was a warning to a suspect approaching troops stationed inside southern Lebanon.
“One ten-round burst of machine-gun fire was fired above the convoy, and four further ten-round bursts were fired nearby,” UNIFIL said in its statement.
The observer force said it “asked the IDF to stop firing through UNIFIL’s liaison channels,” adding that nobody was injured in the incident.
UNIFIL claimed that the IDF was “informed of the location and timing of the patrol in advance, following usual practice for patrols in sensitive areas near the Blue Line.”
It said that attacks on or near its observers “are serious violations of Security Council Resolution 1701.”
“In this very sensitive situation, we call on the IDF to cease aggressive behaviour and attacks on or near peacekeepers working to rebuild stability along the Blue Line,” UNIFIL added.
According to the IDF, troops deployed to the Hamames post in Lebanon, just north of Metula, spotted a suspect approaching their position.
Israel to reopen Allenby Crossing with Jordan for first time since deadly Sept. 18 terror attack
Israel was set to reopen the Allenby Crossing with Jordan on Wednesday for the first time since a Jordanian Armed Forces contractor murdered two Israeli soldiers stationed on the border in a Sept. 18 terrorist attack.
An Israeli security official told Hebrew media that Jerusalem’s political echelon ordered the crossing reopened for the passage of goods and humanitarian aid after “necessary security adjustments” were implemented on both sides of the border.
“Security screening and inspection procedures for Jordanian drivers and the contents of the trucks have been tightened and dedicated security forces have been assigned to guard the crossing,” the official said.
The official emphasized that aid trucks will be transferred to the Gaza Strip “under escort and security after thorough security inspection.”
On Sept. 18, a civilian hired by the Jordanian Armed Forces to transport aid to the Gaza Strip carried out a combined shooting and stabbing attack while waiting for his truck to be inspected by Israeli troops.
The Israel Defense Forces identified the victims as Sgt. Oran Hershko, 20, a liaison officer in the army’s international cooperation unit, and Lt. Col. (res.) Yitzhak Harosh, 68, an officer in the Civil Administration’s Unit 309.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir advised the political echelon to halt deliveries of humanitarian aid from Jordan following the attack.
Jerusalem’s Foreign Ministry in an X post blamed the terrorist attack on “vile incitement in Jordan,” adding that the two IDF soldiers were killed as a result of Amman’s incessant “echoing of Hamas’s campaign of lies.”
Meanwhile in the real world, around 270,000 tents and tarpaulins have entered Gaza since the ceasefire. The UN is responsible for only 20% of the aid entering Hamas Gaza, so unsurprisingly its data is incomplete… and Israel-hating NGOs use that to paint Israel as evil. https://t.co/EgrK9x0jG0
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) December 10, 2025
Turns out the source of these fake news is @julianborger from @guardian.
— Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ (@MarkZlochin) December 10, 2025
Notably, in the body of the article he does initially write “treated”, rather than “hospitalized”, but even there he misrepresents what UNICEF actually said and casually inserts “severe” before “acute… https://t.co/QQZzjCC0DS pic.twitter.com/I0E43Kc4PV
Once again, OCHA manifacturing a false narrative:
— COGAT (@cogatonline) December 10, 2025
How? by quoting Hamas claims about shortages of medicines in Gaza, framing it as an urgent humanitarian failure.
The reality:
Since the start of the war, every single request for medicines, narcotics, and medical consumables… pic.twitter.com/XJ55agOCKI
WATCH: Gaza over the past week👇 pic.twitter.com/3GhMIJoxhC
— COGAT (@cogatonline) December 10, 2025
Sen. John Fetterman Sends A CLEAR Message To The Anti-Israel Left Attacking Him!
Senator John Fetterman pulls no punches in this conversation with Gabe Groisman from the U.S. Senate studios. From his unwavering support for Israel post-October 7th to calling out antisemitism on American campuses and inside his own party, Sen. Fetterman reveals how one war redefined his politics and worldview. He talks about crying with orphans, defying his party, backing the Trump-era peace deal and why he proudly stands with the 8% of Democrats who didn’t flinch during the Gaza War.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro: Why Fetterman Matters Now
01:45 - The Orphan Visit That Changed Everything
05:10 - Hostage Posters and Making a Statement
08:25 - The Tree of Life Massacre: Personal Wake-Up Call
11:10 - Rise of Antisemitism in America
14:30 - Being the Last Democrat Standing on Israel
17:00 - From Harvard to Standing Alone in the Senate
20:10 - Meeting Soldiers, Widows and True Courage
23:55 - Cities in Crisis: Socialism and the Far Left
27:45 - Losing the Working Class & the 2024 Warning
Dave Rubin: The Tucker & Candace Bubble Is About To Burst
Dave Rubin joins The Erin Molan Show (Episode 62) for a raw, inside look at the fracture inside alternative media — and why he thinks the Tucker Carlson & Candace Owens bubble is about to burst.
As one of the OGs of independent podcasting, Dave talks with Erin about the rise and corruption of legacy media, the opportunities and traps of the alt-media boom, and how easy it has become for podcasters to chase cheap, viral outrage instead of truth.
Together they dig into:
• How Dave went from mainstream TV to one of the first big independent long-form interviewers
• Why the failures of legacy media on Russia, COVID, Jussie Smollett and more helped force audiences into the alternative space New Hampshire Public Radio
• How anyone can now look like a “journalist” with a desk, a mic and a blazer – with zero standards
• Why Dave believes Tucker Carlson was actually better when he had constraints – and how he’s now flipped on previous positions and friendships
• Why watching Candace Owens go down conspiracy rabbit holes is personally painful for him after years of close friendship
• The idea of “kayfabe” – pro-wrestling style scripted conflict – and how politics & media now feel exactly like that
• Why Dave thinks truth-tellers who resist audience-capture (like Erin and a tiny handful of others) will win the long game while grifters burn out
• His prediction that Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News could prove that a more sane, reality-based legacy media model is profitable – and might actually pop parts of the alt-media bubble
At the end of the episode, Erin also shares a look inside a recent PragerU LA Gala she was part of with Brandon Tatum, moderated by Marissa Streit – and what that night revealed about where conservative media is heading next.
Chapters
0:00 Dave Rubin cold open – “The alt-media bubble will burst”
1:15 Erin intro – why this conversation matters now
3:00 Dave on being an OG of independent media
7:00 How legacy media created the demand for alt media
11:30 Anyone can look like a journalist now
15:30 Tucker Carlson: “better with barriers” vs now
17:00 Candace Owens: from friend to painful divergence
19:30 Kayfabe: politics as pro wrestling
20:00 Truth vs outrage: what actually lasts in this business
21:00 Alt media’s coming crash – what happens next
22:00 Bari Weiss, CBS News & a new legacy media playbook
22:50 Erin’s PragerU LA Gala story (with Brandon Tatum & Marissa Streit)
What is really going on in Gaza as we approach "Phase II"? pic.twitter.com/vulx63RSNN
— Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) December 9, 2025
“The Ms. Rachel Challenge”
— Jake Donnelly (@RedWhiteBlueJew) December 10, 2025
We now know tons of infant formula was hoarded by Hamas. There’s video. It’s real. And it should surprise nobody who’s been paying attention to this war.
Hamas has no regard for its citizens; including babies. That’s why the terrorists are in tunnels… https://t.co/Yhj8T5rNwm pic.twitter.com/bhFQqNaDKM
68 years later and nothing has changed. pic.twitter.com/HgYEQVYgJV
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 10, 2025
Dec 2025 Harvard Harris Poll Results: 🧵
— Niranjan Shankar (@NiranjanShan13) December 10, 2025
Ukraine, NATO, and Israel have roughly similar favorability / unfavorability ratings (though Israel slightly less favorable) - but China, the PA, Russia, and Hamas are the least favorable: pic.twitter.com/vhwTfQdvAT
New Jersey city accidentally raises Palestinian flag on intifada anniversary
The mayor of a New Jersey city on Tuesday apologized for accidentally raising the Palestinian flag on the anniversary of the first Palestinian intifada.Jasmine Crockett’s Farrakhan-Praising Pastor Launches Bid To Replace Crockett in Congress
Hoboken Mayor Ravinder S. Bhalla said that he had raised the Palestinian flag at City Hall following requests from city residents who are Palestinian.
Bhalla said he made the decision “in keeping with our city’s long-standing practice of recognizing the many cultures and communities that make Hoboken special.”
He noted that Hoboken’s City Hall has raised the flag of many different communities, including flags for Israel, Italy, Puerto Rico, breast cancer awareness and the LGBTQ community, and that raising the Palestinian flag was not a “political statement.”
“This flag raising is an acknowledgment of our Palestinian neighbors,” Bhalla said on X.
Bhalla went on to say that he had not been aware that he had raised the flag on the anniversary of the start of the First Intifada, a mass Palestinian uprising against Israel that took place from 1987-1993.
The recognized starting date for the intifada is December 9.
“It has since been brought to my attention that today’s date holds historical significance related to the First Intifada. I want to state unequivocally that this association was not known when the scheduling was approved,” Bhalla said. “I understand that this coincidence has caused concern for some members of our community. This was not our intention.”
Dallas pastor Frederick Haynes, who hailed anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan as a "great" man and lashed out at Israel in a sermon just one day after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, is running to replace a member of his congregation in Congress: firebrand House Democrat Jasmine Crockett (Texas).
Haynes filed paperwork for Texas's 30th district on Monday, shortly after Crockett launched a campaign for Senate. "She’s the baddest sister out there," Haynes, the pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church, said at a Senate kickoff event for Crockett.
Haynes is likely to have an advantage in the race thanks to his alliance with Crockett, who frequently attends Friendship-West and has called Haynes her mentor. It's a natural pairing, given that Haynes, like Crockett, has a tendency to make inflammatory remarks.
Haynes, for example, posted a selfie with Farrakhan at a 2019 event and referred to the Nation of Islam leader, who once called Adolf Hitler a "great man," as a "wonderful and great man." His mentor, meanwhile, is Jeremiah Wright, the former pastor of Barack Obama who stoked outrage during the 2008 presidential race over a sermon in which he shouted, "God damn America."
MEET JASMINE CROCKETT’S POTENTIAL REPLACEMENT:
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) December 10, 2025
With Jasmine Crockett running for Senate, will a more reasonable person fill her House seat?
Very funny. Crockett’s radical Dallas pastor, the Louis Farrakhan fanboy Frederick Haynes, is running to replace his congregant. pic.twitter.com/thdJzSA4q8
Haynes's affinity for Farrakhan and Wright is reflected in his preaching. On Oct. 8, 2023—with Crockett in attendance—Haynes lashed out at Israel over the Hamas terror attack carried out the day before. pic.twitter.com/X6bRtktx34
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) December 10, 2025
Georgia congressman Hank Johnson, who once revealed his fears that Guam “will tip over and capsize”; now believes (like the mullahs in Tehran) that America is the Great Satan. pic.twitter.com/yL54EiFM7p https://t.co/Z7ib5pzMV7
— Robert Zimmerman (@Nayborhoodbully) December 10, 2025
Christians killed in Gaza during the war: 44
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) December 10, 2025
Christians killed by Islamists in Nigeria in 2025: 7,000 (185,000 since 2009)
Yet Qatar’s newest resident obsessively demonizes Israel as systematically targetting Christians, while downplaying the mass slaughter in Nigeria pic.twitter.com/wwIN9WmDwf
Candace Owen going on about the evil of Jews. Russell Brand retweets it.
— Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) December 10, 2025
It’s like the medieval era where everyone is talking about the evil of Jews but supercharged thanks to the ubiquitous of social media. https://t.co/79iv7rboq4
CAIR Taps Alleged Terror-Tied Legal Group to Fight Terrorist Designation in Florida
When the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a press conference Tuesday to denounce Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for designating it a “foreign terrorist organization,” the civil rights group chose a curious legal ally: the National Lawyers Guild. Charlotte Kates, coordinator of U.S.-designated terrorist organization Samidoun, was listed as a part-time organizer for the Guild on its website. NLG has also publicly defended Samidoun against its terror designation.
Miranda Margolis, representing the NLG’s Tampa chapter, appeared at the event wearing a keffiyeh to argue that DeSantis lacks constitutional authority to unilaterally label American institutions as terrorist entities. The press conference saw CAIR officials emphasize their commitment to constitutional rights and reject what they called “defamatory” accusations.
The Samidoun Connection
The NLG’s International Committee lists Charlotte Kates as its “part-time organizer.” Kates simultaneously serves as international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which the U.S. Treasury designated as a terrorist organization in October 2024, describing it as “a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).” Canada, Israel, and the Netherlands have issued similar designations.
Kates was arrested in April 2024 after leading chants of “Long live October 7” at a Vancouver demonstration and calling the Hamas attack “a brave and heroic operation.” She traveled to Iran in August 2024 to accept a “human rights” award that was also bestowed upon the secretary-general of terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). She traces her world view to Lenin and Marx and has stated, “There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas.”
Her husband, Khaled Barakat co-founded Samidoun and is designated as a PFLP leader by the United States. He was deported from the United States in 2003 and is barred from entering the European Union.
I look forward to discovery — especially the CAIR finances. Should be illuminating! https://t.co/2ONFTrVnDh
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) December 9, 2025
🚨 DESANTIS TORCHES CAIR’S MELTDOWN AND DROPS THE REAL BOMB: DISCOVERY IS COMING
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) December 10, 2025
While CAIR-Florida trembled through its victimhood press conference, Ron DeSantis stepped up and said the one thing guaranteed to send their entire network into panic mode:
“I welcome the lawsuit.”… https://t.co/2lYzSh4hC3 pic.twitter.com/WhhSXNpZFG
If the West Bank is an indigenous Palestinian name,
— Adin - عدین - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) December 10, 2025
What is the East Bank? https://t.co/By6ubWLzAM
"The Israeli government routinely refuses to treat a mass murderer as a peace partner. This is obviously the Israelis' (the Jews') fault."
— Rabbi Yaakov Menken (@ymenken) December 9, 2025
The idea that Ken Roth is a civilized human being, much less an authority in human rights, is a symptom of an insane society. https://t.co/ugdlEwh6rf
Don’t Believe Your Eyes – Or Blame Hamas! Hamas propagandists and mouthpieces continue to whitewash the terror group’s narratives and propaganda in the United States when it comes to the humanitarian suffering of Gazans and the harsh conditions they endure. Despite providing… https://t.co/2tUTTW8AXp
— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) December 10, 2025
This @LemkinInstitute? The one that doesn’t know that dolus specialis is in fact in Art. II of the Genocide Convention?
— 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 🎗️ (@ElliotMalin) December 9, 2025
The one having legal action taken out against its by its namesake’s family for bastardizing what genocide is?
That Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention? https://t.co/WuL2VvmnV3 pic.twitter.com/56W9PApvft
“They are unarmed, but you have to know that Israelis are our enemies, so we have to kill Israelis”
— Gal G., Adv 🇮🇱 (@ICK_GalG) December 9, 2025
5 out of the 8 terrorists who carried out the massacre of the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics were educated at UNRWA (schools) 🇺🇳.
🇩🇪 3 of them were captured by German… pic.twitter.com/CjT5gVyt2B
Yeahhhh
— Adin - عدین - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) December 10, 2025
The Palestinians have never carried out terrorist attacks abroad https://t.co/SAw2Cq5Ik0 pic.twitter.com/v0uKR7uvlr
How is it a "human shield" if she's literally behind them? https://t.co/E1Ju7w3LkZ pic.twitter.com/tnk5jZ5k7t
— Adin - عدین - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) December 9, 2025
Due to the success of previous selfie cruises… pic.twitter.com/dNFwq5H7Fw
— Starmer Sycophant (@sirwg202110) December 10, 2025
If you want to support her fight, go to - https://t.co/BDHVfjRCc7
— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) December 9, 2025
“RTE said it did not comment on legal proceedings.”
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) December 10, 2025
This is just too funny. I don’t know who to root for. https://t.co/gP2NsxKHCh
Professor of political economy at Ireland’s second best university. https://t.co/iYyE9pzUK0 pic.twitter.com/1tXld8A07k
— Rachel Moiselle (@RachelMoiselle) December 9, 2025
Agreed. pic.twitter.com/RRRKbPgVw8
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 9, 2025
If plane hijackers are your heroes then there’s a very good reason why your movement is being criminalised. pic.twitter.com/htecTaCjMr
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) December 10, 2025
Outside LA’s Metropolitan Detention Center, graffiti artist Naashchaa and friends manage to botch a flag-burning stunt, fumbling to set American and Israeli flags on fire. They stay masked the entire time while constantly griping that ICE officers wear masks.
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) December 10, 2025
You really couldn’t… pic.twitter.com/SmNFkjsW0v
The crying Welsh nurse is telling pro-Pals to make their own baby coffins and deliver a “Body of Evidence” (get it?) on war crimes to the local police. This is ghoulishly mad. pic.twitter.com/e7nsxNNZio
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) December 9, 2025
Pro-Pal in Berlin claiming that she’s not crazy but “Zionists” are going to k*ll Candace Owens because she’s revealing the ‘truth’. Fancy saying this stuff on the streets of Germany. pic.twitter.com/iUzzXdCjV6
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) December 9, 2025
‘Boycott Coca-Cola’ ads are now popping up across London’s Underground.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) December 10, 2025
It’s honestly exhausting how every supposedly neutral public space gets hijacked by the Free Palestine crowd for yet another round of anti-Israel propaganda.
And for what? I suppose their goal is to shut… pic.twitter.com/NWgoHy9Pk4
54% of the British public admit that they don’t know what ‘Zionism’ means.
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) December 10, 2025
So, we interviewed people on the street about it.
Welcome back to “Do you know what ‘Zionism’ means?”, Part Two. pic.twitter.com/mHOXxkfdvc
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