Sunday, January 11, 2026

01/11 Links: The courage of the Iranian people and the silence of the world; Why the same network that tormented Jewish students now defends Maduro

From Ian:

Why the same network that tormented Jewish students now defends Maduro
In a remarkable piece of investigative journalism published in Fox News, Asra Q. Nomani documented how a network of self-described Marxist and communist organizations mobilized pro-Nicolás Maduro protests across more than 100 American cities within 12 hours of his capture on Jan. 3 by U.S. forces. The minute-by-minute reconstruction reveals the operational capability that I described in my congressional testimony in December 2024: a sophisticated, foreign-funded rapid-response infrastructure operating on American soil.

Nomani’s reporting raises a critical question: What is this network actually built to do? The answer matters profoundly for understanding both the campus antisemitism many Jewish students experienced after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the broader threat to American foreign-policy coherence.

This infrastructure exists to mobilize immediate domestic opposition to U.S. actions that threaten authoritarian regimes aligned with Chinese and Russian interests. Not all anti-Israel protests fall into this category. But specific campaigns, particularly the “Shut It Down for Palestine” (SID4P) movement that blocked airports, bridges, tunnels and critical infrastructure, were organized by groups with documented ties to Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based American tech billionaire who sold his company for $785 million.

What The New York Times investigation revealed in August 2023 was a global operation. Singham has been co-opting left-wing movements worldwide—from political parties in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, systematically steering them toward pro-China Communist Party narratives. The Times tracked hundreds of millions of dollars flowing to groups that “mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points.”

In South Africa, Singham’s network funded the Nkrumah School, which hosts boot camps attended by activists and politicians from across Africa. According to U.S. tax records, one of Singham’s nonprofits donated at least $450,000 for training at the school. But activists who attended these sessions began noticing something troubling. What was marketed as liberation politics increasingly took a pro-China tilt. New Frame, a South African news outlet funded by Singham, shut down in July 2022 after staff questioned why there was no coverage of Uyghur oppression or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

This pattern of co-optation was repeated globally. In India, Singham funded NewsClick, which “sprinkled its coverage with Chinese government talking points.” In Brazil, funding went to Brasil de Fato, which interspersed articles about land rights with praise for Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The operational model was consistent: Find genuine progressive movements, provide substantial funding and gradually shift their focus toward CCP strategic priorities.
Who The Left Stands With By Abe Greenwald
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The Western left’s silence and inaction in response to the massive anti-regime demonstrations in Iran confirms what some of us have long known. Progressive activists are not pro-human-rights, pro-minority-rights, pro–women’s rights, pro-freedom, anti-racist, anti-authoritarian, pro-peace or anti-war, and they are definitely not pro-democracy.

What they are is anti-American and anti-Semitic. That’s it. Which means the only things they are for are America’s enemies and the world’s Jew-haters.

Some have asked: Where are the American demonstrations showing support for the courageous Iranians trying to bring down the theocratic regime that’s oppressed them for generations? The answer: They don’t exist, or at least not in numbers significant enough to have come to anyone’s attention.

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t protests happening in the U.S. right now. For example, last night, while Iranians were standing up to the mullahs, a crowd of keffiyeh-clad thugs swarmed a synagogue and Jewish school in Queens waving Palestinian flags and chanting, “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here.” Set aside—if you can—that they were there to intimidate Jews. They were also declaring themselves on the side of the Iranian regime. Hamas, as we all know, is an Iranian-backed terrorist organization. That’s where their sympathies lie.

And that’s been the case for more than two years. Anti-Israel protesters in the U.S. and Europe have regularly waved the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah, which was, up until recently, almost an Iranian statelet in Lebanon. And sometimes they’ve brandished the Iranian flag itself. So long as you hate Jews and the U.S., you’ve got friends on the Western left.
Courage of Iranian women stands in stark contrast to Britain's face-masked cosplay revolutionaries
He styles himself a revolutionary, fighting for progress.

Week in, week out, he and his comrades gather in cities across the UK, chanting their support for Palestine and demanding the destruction of Israel.

On occasion, he’ll turn his attention elsewhere and stand outside a feminist conference, screaming abuse at attendees who refuse to buy into the fantasy that trans women are actually women.

Whether devoting himself to making Jews feel unsafe or spending miserable afternoons threatening women who reject the presence of men in changing rooms and rape crisis centres, the contemporary British radical goes equipped with two essentials.

The first is a terrifying certainty. The second is a face-mask.

I’ve never had much time for these cosplayers, these weekend insurgents with their incoherent views and their violent rhetoric but, over recent days, my contempt for them has only deepened.

Since December 28, people across Iran have been on their streets, demanding the end of the Islamic regime that has terrorised them for decades. With international media denied access to the country, citizens have, through shaky live streams on their smartphones, showed the world what real revolutionary courage looks like.

How small the masked undergraduate waving a Hamas flag on a British street looks when compared with those Iranian women who – under threat of the most horrific punishment – have thrown off the hijabs they are compelled to wear.

While British ideologues align themselves, from the safety of the West, with the Islamists of Hamas and Hezbollah, people across Iran are saying “no more” to the theocrats who, for years, have supported those terror groups.

And they are doing it with humbling bravery.

Watching shaky footage of a group of young women – their heads uncovered, their voices loud and clear – marching in protest while the sound of gunfire echoed around them, I found myself profoundly moved by their courage. Would I, I wondered, step up as they were now doing?

The most honest answer I could give myself was that I hoped so.

It has been depressing, if unsurprising, that those on the British left who scream so loudly about Palestine have had little to say about what’s happening in Iran. There have been no rallies of Keffiyah-clad protestors demanding support for the oppressed people of Iran.

But, then, how could they credibly have done so when Iran, under the leadership of Ali Khamenei, has been funding Islamist terror groups that share their unwavering hatred for Jews?


Mississippi’s largest synagogue severely damaged in suspected arson attack
Mississippi’s largest synagogue was heavily damaged Saturday morning in a predawn fire that local authorities believe was caused by arson, though investigators did not immediately say whether they suspected it was a hate crime.

The Jackson Fire Department, along with the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, arrested a suspect who they believe caused the fire intentionally, according to local media. The suspect’s name and the allegations against them were not immediately released.

Beth Israel Congregation is the only synagogue in the city of Jackson, and is believed to be the largest of the 14 or so synagogues in the southern US state. About 3,000 Jews live in Mississippi, or 0.1 percent of its 3 million residents.

According to reports, firefighters received a call at about 3 a.m. Saturday morning and found flames rising from the windows upon arrival. All doors to the building were locked, and suspicions that the fire had resulted from thunderstorms the night before were ruled out.

The synagogue’s library and administrative offices were destroyed in the fire, as were two Torah scrolls stored in the library. The main sanctuary was not damaged, and the Torahs there were later removed for safekeeping. A Torah rescued from the Holocaust and stored in a glass case was not damaged.

In an email to the congregation following the fire, synagogue president Zach Shemper said there was “significant” soot and smoke throughout the building, but no injuries. He later said the building was “unusable” and would need extensive cleanup and repair.

Prayer services have been suspended indefinitely. Worshipers who arrived Saturday morning for Shabbat services helped sort through some of the items damaged in the blaze.

“We have already had outreach from other houses of worship in the Jackson area and greatly appreciate their support in this very difficult time,” Beth Israel said in a statement.

The Reform temple was established in 1860 as the first in Mississippi. It was attacked in 1967 by members of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan hate group who targeted its rabbi, Perry Nussbaum, for his work supporting civil rights.


After synagogue arson, Mississippi mayor decries bias based on faith, race, ethnicity, sexual identity
John Horhn, mayor of Jackson, Miss., stated on Sunday that a fire had “occurred” at Beth Israel Congregation, a Reform synagogue, and the city’s lone Jewish house of worship, which traces its origin to 1860.

The city’s fire department responded “quickly” to the fire, which broke out at about 3 a.m., and “contained the blaze and extinguished the fire,” the mayor said, describing the attack on a Jewish house of worship in broad terms.

No one was injured in the fire, reportedly.

“Acts of antisemitism, racism and religious hatred are attacks on Jackson as a whole and will be treated as acts of terror against residents’ safety and freedom to worship,” the mayor stated. “Targeting people because of their faith, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation is morally wrong, un-American and completely incompatible with the values of this city.”

The mayor added that the city stands with “Beth Israel and the Jewish community, and we’ll do everything we can to support them and hold accountable anyone who tries to spread fear and hate here.”
The courage of the Iranian people and the silence of the world
In the silence—or in the muted tone of solidarity, and in the general inaction save for a few commendable groups, such as those who gathered over the weekend in Rome—there is something deeply sinister going on for the Iranian people in these hours.

As Abe Greenwald wrote in Commentary, what we are witnessing is not only indifference toward a great human rights struggle, but also active accommodation of anti-liberal powers.

It can be seen in the streets, where demonstrations are being prepared in Lodi in support of Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, even of Nicolás Maduro, the authoritarian Venezuelan leader captured by the United States; in the push to recognize a Palestinian state at the regional level in Tuscany; in preparations for yet another aid flotilla to Gaza. Humanitarian activism today supports the oppressors, not the oppressed.

While there is no shortage of op-eds against U.S. President Donald Trump, there is remarkably little support for the struggle against the most evil regime in the world—the Iranian regime—which attacks not only its own people but democracies everywhere.

Just as in 1979, many cheered for Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the Iranian Revolution that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and replaced Iran’s monarchy with an Islamic theocracy, today there is cheering for New York’s Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and the pro-Iranian Maduro.

Faced with the fire now spreading through most Iranian cities, the world appears gripped by a kind of collective hypnosis.

It fails to see that the horrific pyramid of power built by the ayatollahs is on the verge of collapse. Reality cannot break through the regurgitation of old anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist theories.

Forgotten are the daily suffering and persecution of the Iranian people—and the international aggression that has caused explosions and innocent deaths around the world through Iranian and Hezbollah actions.
Iranian Regime Escalates Crackdown on Protesters, Slaughtering Hundreds as Trump Weighs Military Action
The Iranian regime slaughtered upwards of 500 protesters over the weekend, marking one of the bloodiest crackdowns in the Islamic Republic’s history, as President Donald Trump weighs a range of military options that reportedly include precision strikes on regime assets and cyber warfare.

The Iranian government intensified its response to the popular uprising after cutting internet services on Thursday. The internet blackout has made tracking the number of dead difficult, but accounts from human rights organizations and international media outlets reach anywhere from 500 to 2,000 killed, a violent reaction to a protest movement that has spread to nearly every major city in all 31 Iranian provinces. Bodies are reportedly stacking up in hospitals around the country, with medical staff overwhelmed by the number of killed and injured through Sunday afternoon.

Khosro Isfahani, a senior research analyst with the National Union for Democracy in Iran, said the regime has taken to tossing bodies into the back of pickup trucks and dumping them in front of the deceased’s loved ones' homes, a tactic meant to intimidate the Islamic Republic’s opponents and keep protesters off the streets. The government’s crackdown has thus far not quelled the uprising, Isfahani told the Washington Free Beacon.

"They are brutally killing people, the numbers are extremely high. But the thing that’s coming as a surprise to many is that Iranians are not relenting," he said. "They are not giving up, they are staying on the streets. The numbers are growing on the streets and people are fighting back."

The crackdown comes ahead of a Tuesday briefing for Trump and senior cabinet members, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, on options that range from military intervention to economic measures. The Wall Street Journal reported that "no imminent action" is expected after that briefing, but NBC News reported that Trump has already been presented with "preliminary plans" for an attack on Iran and the president has repeatedly vowed to use force to stop the regime from killing civilians.

"Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday, his most recent comments on the matter. "The USA stands ready to help!!!"

A State Department spokesman told the Free Beacon that the Trump administration is closely monitoring the uprising, adding that "the Iranian regime is fully aware of President Trump’s warning and should not test U.S. resolve." Asked about the regime’s threats to activate a global network of terror cells in response to the protests, the State Department said the Islamic Republic "should carefully consider the consequences of its actions and not underestimate the resolve of the United States under President Trump’s leadership."


Exiled crown prince says those cracking down on Iran protests are ‘legitimate targets’
Reza Pahlavi, an Iranian opposition figure and son of the deposed shah, announces a new stage in the effort “to overthrow the Islamic Republic and reclaim our dear Iran.”

“In addition to seizing and holding the central streets of cities, all institutions and apparatuses responsible for the regime’s false propaganda and cutting off communications are considered legitimate targets,” he says in a video statement.

“Government employees, and the armed and security forces, have the opportunity to join the people… or choose complicity with the murderers of the nation,” he says.

Pahlavi says all Iranian diplomatic missions abroad should wave the flag that was used before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. A protester managed to briefly replace the Islamic Republic flag at its London embassy with that older version, and Pahlavi appears to back similar actions elsewhere, arguing that those offices belong to the people of Iran, not the regime.


Truck plows into crowd of Iran regime protesters in LA
A U-Haul truck in Los Angeles plowed into a crowd protesting the Iranian regime and demonstrating support of the Iranian people, KNBC reported.

The protest was in Westwood, where KNBC reported hundreds gathered to show support for those protesting against the regime in Iran.

KNBC reports that it’s unclear if any injuries have been reported in connection with the U-Haul. Law enforcement has not identified the driver.

In a video of the incident uploaded on Twitter/X, the truck appears to have Arabic writing on the side of it, along with a sign in English reading "NO SHAH. NO REGIME. USA: DON'T REPEAT 1953. NO MULLAH."


Bondi Beach hero, Ahmed al-Ahmed, pauses recovery plans, meetings due to new severe pain
Ahmed al-Ahmed, heroic figure of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, was forced to interrupt his recovery plans and public appearances in the United States on Saturday after suffering a new bout of pain, Sky News reported.

Ahmed had arrived in New York earlier in the week to pursue the next stage of what he described as his "treatment journey." During his stay, he had appeared on multiple US TV shows, including an interview on CNN alongside the father-in-law of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, one of the shooting victims.

He'd also been honored at the Colel Chabad Gala on Wednesday night, where Jewish billionaire Bill Ackman had presented him with a gold menorah inscribed with the words “Light will win”.

But on Saturday, Ahmed reported that his health declined again, posting on Instagram about a sudden swelling in his hand accompanied by severe pain forcing him to miss several scheduled meetings.

"Despite that, they came with such kindness and respect to check on me in my modest hotel room, just to make sure I was okay," Ahmed added in his post. A video showed Ahmed lying in a hotel bed, surrounded by visitors.
Trump wants ‘full transparency’ from Bondi terror attack inquiry
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy on antisemitism says Washington is closely watching Australia’s royal commission into the Bondi Beach terrorist attack amid concern over Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s past pro‑Palestinian activism and his government’s handling of antisemitism.

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun told The Australian on Friday that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio want “full transparency” from the inquiry and are monitoring how Canberra responds before drawing conclusions.

Kaploun said the Albanese government had shown “apathy” toward Jewish concerns and “turned a blind eye” to antisemitism in the years leading up to the attack, delaying a royal commission until after the tragedy, and suggested that Albanese’s activist history and attendance at pro‑Palestinian protests may have contributed to Canberra’s lack of action in addressing antisemitism ahead of what is widely described as the worst terrorist attack in Australian history.

“It doesn’t lend itself to him being a fair and impartial person …, which is crucial to finding out what occurred,” Kaploun said.

Sky News Australia reported on Dec. 30 that newly highlighted footage from 2000 shows Albanese, then a federal Labor MP, addressing a pro‑Palestinian rally in Sydney where flags of designated terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah were flown and children wore mock suicide vests.

Kaploun criticized Albanese for letting a report by Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal sit on his desk for six months, saying there was “no reason” its recommendations were not implemented earlier and that it should not have taken a massacre to spur action.
Man charged over alleged duct tape vest incident in Bondi Junction
A man who was allegedly wearing a vest covered in duct tape in Bondi has been charged with behaving in an offensive manner.

Police were called to Oxford St at Bondi Junction about 10.10pm on Sunday to reports of suspicious behaviour.

A 33-year-old man from Victoria was allegedly found wearing a vest covered in objects and duct tape.

A second vest was allegedly found following a search of the man’s car, with police saying a face mask and tin believed to contain prohibited drugs also discovered.

The vests were deemed safe after examination by the Rescue and Bomb Disposal Unit.

The man was charged with give false information person/property in danger, possess prohibited drug and behave in offensive manner in/near public place/school.

He was refused bail and is due before Local Court on Monday.


IDF strikes Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday carried out strikes on Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in Southern Lebanon, the IDF announced.

“A short while ago, the IDF struck shafts used to store weapons at several military sites of the Hezbollah terrorist group in Southern Lebanon,” the military stated, adding: “In recent months, activity by the Hezbollah terrorist organization was identified at these sites.

“The activity at the sites that were struck constitutes a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon. The IDF will continue to operate to remove any threat to the State of Israel,” concluded the army.

The Iranian terrorist proxy started attacking the Jewish state the day after Hamas’s massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, opening a second front on the country’s northern border that lasted until a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Beirut and Jerusalem on Nov. 27, 2024.

The truce deal required Hezbollah to be disarmed, starting in regions adjacent to the border, with the Lebanese Armed Forces mandated to establish a monopoly over arms in the country under the terms of the ceasefire agreement and a subsequent Lebanese Cabinet decision.

The Lebanese Armed Forces said on Thursday that it had completed the first phase of its national disarmament plan, expanding its control in the south as part of efforts to “extend the state’s authority exclusively through its own forces over the entirety of Lebanese territory.”

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, in a statement the same day, said that while Lebanese efforts were “an encouraging beginning,” they were “far from sufficient” given Hezbollah’s Iranian-aided rearmament efforts.

“The ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States between Israel and Lebanon states clearly, Hezbollah must be fully disarmed. This is imperative for Israel’s security and Lebanon’s future,” Jerusalem said.


Chief Rabbi: Accusing Israel of genocide is a troubling moral deceit which trivialises the term
The Chief Rabbi has condemned the accusation against Israel of “genocide” in Gaza as a “troubling moral deceit” which “trivialises” the concept.

In a rare outspoken public intervention, Sir Ephraim Mirvis says the word is sometimes used “from a place of singular hostility towards the world’s only Jewish state”.

He also warns “linguistic escalation has consequence”, and that “extreme rhetoric almost always leads to extreme violence”, following the antisemitic terror attacks in Manchester and Sydney, Australia last year.

The Chief Rabbi’s comments in the Sunday Telegraph come with the term continuing to be used by a number of NGOs and MPs in Britain.

In November, the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, the second most senior figure in the Church of England, said the Israeli military had committed “genocidal acts”.

In his comment piece in the Telegraph, the Chief Rabbi writes: “When academics, activists, faith leaders and public figures declare, with unshakeable certainty, that genocide has occurred, they do something far more destructive than merely repeat a falsehood. They trivialise the very concept they claim to defend.”

Citing crimes against the Rohingya and the Uyghurs and in West Darfur as warranting the justified use of the term, he says: “To invoke the term ‘genocide' as an accusation against Israel is to strip it of its true meaning, reducing humanity’s gravest crime to a political insult.”

Sir Ephraim argues that “intent” is a crucial part of the definition of genocide.


Jonathan Sacerdoti: The uncomfortable truth: how Israel underwrites European safety, despite being condemned
Europe’s relationship with Israel has never been simple. It is shaped by history soaked in blood, by moral claims born from catastrophe, and by institutions that insist on speaking in the language of values while acting through interest. In the aftermath of October 7, those tensions have hardened, exposing fractures between governments and peoples, ideology and reality, rhetoric and reliance.

As Europe’s political centre shifts and its demographics change, Israel finds itself simultaneously condemned in public and depended upon in practice. Accusations of antisemitism collide with strategic cooperation. Recognition of Palestinian statehood sits uneasily alongside intelligence sharing, weapons procurement, and military coordination. The question is no longer whether Europe and Israel disagree, but whether they still understand each other at all.

In this conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti is joined by former Israeli Ambassador to the EU and NATO Ronny Leshno Yaar, and Professor Sharon Pardo of Ben Gurion University, to examine whether Europe has turned against Israel, or whether the reality is more structurally complex and morally uncomfortable. Drawing on diplomatic experience, academic analysis, and personal history, they explore Europe’s changing identity, the return of antisemitism, Israel’s missteps in European politics, and the quiet depth of cooperation that continues despite the noise.

👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand why Europe’s posture towards Israel appears hostile yet remains dependent, and what that means for Israel’s future in a changing West.

💬 We Discuss:
🧭 Why Europe is not a single actor, but a shifting collection of interests, institutions and contradictions
🧬 How Jewish history is embedded in European identity, and why that inheritance is now contested
📉 The return of antisemitism after October 7, and Europe’s failure to confront it structurally
🏛️ How Israel aligned with Europe’s right and what it gained and lost by doing so
🛡️ Europe’s quiet military and intelligence defence of Israel, despite public condemnation
✈️ Why people to people ties, from academia to travel, may matter more than diplomacy
⚖️ Whether Israel can afford deep cooperation with Europe while facing existential political disagreements


travelingisrael.com: How (and Why) Qatar Is Poisoning American Children
Qatar isn’t criticizing America by accident. Through Al Jazeera and massive investments in U.S. education, an Islamic dictatorship is pushing anti-American narratives straight into the minds of young Americans. This video exposes Qatar’s soft jihad against the United States — and why the Constitution doesn’t “suck.”


Erin Molan: Sid Rosenberg Breaks Down in Tears on Erin Molan Show (Rawest Moment Yet)
Episode 80 (Weekend Bonus): Erin Molan sits down with NYC radio powerhouse Sid Rosenberg for a conversation that turns unexpectedly raw and emotional—from political courage and losing friends… to the one thing that still hits years later: the silence after his dad passed away.

Sid opens up about:
Why he believes New York is heading into dangerous territory
How politics can destroy friendships and families
The moment he realized: “There’ll never be a text again.”
And why hate (and controversy) can become fuel—if you’re built for the fight

CHAPTERS
0:00 – Weekend Bonus Setup (2 guests)
0:45 – Sid on NYC politics & “making it miserable”
3:20 – The friendship fallout (Curtis Sliwa)
5:45 – “I voted for Hillary…” (Trump changed his mind)
8:45 – “If they don’t hate you, you’re doing it wrong”
10:10 – Erin on her father & grief that doesn’t fade
11:45 – Sid’s dad: “Best show ever” (then the silence)
14:10 – Sid as a father & what he learned
20:00 – His son’s diagnosis + “send that to the doctor”
32:00 – Noble Gold: Silver, instability & protecting retirement


Israel Advocacy Movement: Iranian Explains How Israel Can Bring Down the Regime

US court rejects Mamdani's attempt to block real-estate deal involving Israeli-owned company
A US bankruptcy court rejected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's attempt to block a major real estate transaction involving the US branch of Israeli company Summit Properties in Brooklyn over the weekend.

The deal is valued at $451 million and includes more than 5,000 apartments across 90 buildings, most of them subject to rent regulation.

For Mamdani, who has made tenant protection a core theme of his platform, the ruling represented a personal setback. One of the central buildings included in the deal is a neglected property in Brooklyn that he visited on his first day in office, where he publicly promised residents that the city would step in on their behalf.

The legal battle intensified last week when city officials filed with the bankruptcy court seeking to halt the sale. The city’s main argument was that the Israeli-owned Summit lacked the “will or resources” to rehabilitate the deteriorating buildings.

During the hearings, the city presented data showing that properties already owned by Summit in New York have more than 780 open violations, including roughly 290 classified as posing an “immediate danger.”

The figures were supported by documents Summit filed with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2025 detailing its holdings in the city. Despite the claims, the judge rejected the city’s request to delay the proceedings and allowed the bidding process to continue.


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Fury after protesters tell Israeli restaurant ‘get out of Notting Hill’
The Metropolitan Police has been accused of standing by while pro-Palestine protesters targeted an Israeli restaurant in London.

Dozens of protesters under a banner of the “International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network” gathered outside Miznon restaurant in Notting Hill on Friday night.

A spokesman for the restaurant, co-founded by celebrity chef Eyal Shani, said it was the seventh time the establishment had been targeted by “racist abuse and intimidation”, and called for the authorities to “put an end to it”.

Prominent members of the Jewish community also told The Telegraph they had felt intimidated by the protesters and have called on the police to do more to protect them.

Footage shared on social media, not verified by The Telegraph, showed one activist proclaiming the “right to resist by any and all means necessary, for the full liberation and from the river to the sea” to cheers from the crowd.

The “From the river to the sea” chant has been interpreted by many as a call for the destruction of Israel, although some pro-Palestinian groups say it refers to the right of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to freedom.

Other videos posted online purportedly showed a large police presence immobile across the street as the protesters congregated.

Kemi Badenoch described it as an example of how “the police stand by” in the face of “harassment and incitement to violence against Jews and law-abiding people on our streets”.

The Metropolitan Police has repeatedly been accused of doing too little to combat anti-Semitism at pro-Palestine protests.

Some of the protesters have been called anti-Semitic for chanting “jihad” or “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free”.
Melbourne sees renewed anti-Israel protest as fires rage across Victoria state
A couple of thousand pro-Palestinian activists rallied against Israel in Melbourne on Sunday, defying police’s and local authorities’ requests to cancel their event due to raging bushfires in the Australian summer.

The anti-Israel protest came less than a month after the Bondi Beach attack at a Chanukah event in Sydney, and as hundreds of Iranian protesters were being killed by security forces of the Islamic Republic on the streets of Iran.

Sunday’s event, in which attendees slammed the government’s invitation for Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia, included chants such as ‘From the river to the sea’ and ‘Long live the intifada,” went ahead despite a request by Melbourne Mayor Nick Reece and the police to nix the event due to the fires raging throughout Victoria state.

“We can close a city—300,000 of us closed the [Sydney Harbour] Bridge,” Nasser Mashni, president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, said at the rally, the first since Dec. 14’s Bondi Beach terrorist attack. “We can shut down a city, a bridge, a town, wherever it might be, because we are the people.”

A Victorian government spokesperson had said that no one should protest this weekend.

“If you are going to come into the city to whip up hate and division, you will be dealt with by police,” a spokesperson told the Herald Sun.

Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Bob Hill previously stated that “now is not the right time for protests” due to the force being busy with the wildfires.

“Common sense and respect for other people in need should mean any planned protest does not go ahead. … With Australia’s Jewish community still hurting after the tragedy at Bondi, and Victoria fighting catastrophic fires, to proceed with these protests would be selfish, divisive and offensive,” he said.

Jeremy Leibler, president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, told JNS Sunday, “On the same day Victorians are fighting bushfires and the world is watching Iranians risk their lives against a brutal regime, these activists chose another rally. It’s becoming harder to pretend this is about helping Palestinians and not about demonizing Israel and keeping Jewish Australians on edge.”


Revealed: Labour MP Egan forced to cancel school visit after anti-Israel teaching union campaign
A planned visit by Labour MP Damian Egan to a school in his Bristol North East constituency was cancelled over claims his presence might inflame teachers and parents, Jewish News can reveal.

The decision was taken to halt the routine visit to inspect the MP’s local school following a campaign mounted by the far-left-led National Education Union’s staff group, along with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who highlighted Egan’s link to the Labour Friends of Israel group, and claimed to be representing the view of teachers, parents and residents.

Communities Secretary Steve Reed had revealed that a “Jewish colleague” was refused permission to visit a school in his own constituency, after officials cited fears his presence might “inflame teachers” as he spoke at the Jewish Labour Movement’s annual conference event on Sunday.

Reed told Jewish News news editor and publisher Justin Cohen at the event: “I have a colleague who is Jewish, who has been banned from visiting a school and refused permission to visit a school in his own constituency, in case his presence inflames the teachers. That is an absolute outrage.” Facebook post after Damian Egan MP school visit cancelled

Asked what his response was to this incident, Reed said:” They will be called in, and they will be held to account for doing that, because you cannot have people with those kinds of attitudes teaching our children. You just can’t have it.”

Reed to not name the Jewish colleague.

But social media posts from last September show pro-Palestine activists celebrating the fact that Egan’s school visit had been cancelled.


‘Haaretz’ says columnist fired for receiving funds from Qatar lobbyist
A columnist for Haaretz was allegedly found to have received hundreds of thousands of dollars that were traced back to a Qatari government lobbyist, the Israeli newspaper reported on Saturday.

The allegations about Alon Pinkas, a political analyst and former consul general of Israel in New York, marked the third time in recent months that one of Haaretz‘s writers has been linked to the “Qatargate” scandal.

“Qatargate” refers to a probe into advisers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—Yonatan Urich, Eli Feldstein and Israel “Srulik” Einhorn—over suspected ties to a foreign agent, bribery, money laundering and efforts to promote Qatar’s image, with Feldstein also being accused of mishandling classified Israel Defense Forces intelligence documents.

According to a report by Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster, Doha’s influence campaign sought to spread five talking points: Egypt enabled the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack by letting smuggled goods enter the Gaza Strip; Hamas leaders were based in Qatar at the request of Israel and the United States; Jerusalem asked Qatar to transfer funds to Hamas in Gaza; Qatar is militarily important to Israel and the U.S.; and Qatar, not Egypt, must mediate the hostages-for-ceasefire negotiations with Hamas terrorists.

The alleged Qatari payments to Pinkas, which continued from January 2024 through March 2025, were made through an Israeli businessman by the name of Gil Berger, who it turned out received the money from Jay Footlik, a Washington-based lobbyist for Doha, Haaretz reported.

During the period in which he received money from Berger, Pinkas wrote seven pieces in Haaretz’s English edition dealing with Qatar.

Pinkas was said to have ended his dealings with Berger once Footlik’s involvement in the Qatargate affair was reported on in Israeli media.

After reports surfaced about his ties to Footlik, Pinkas was questioned by Haaretz Editor-in-Chief Aluf Benn, the newspaper said on Saturday. The columnist told Benn that he had a friendly relationship with Footlik and helped connect him with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.

In a conversation about a month later, after it became public that Pinkas had given testimony to the Israel Police, he acknowledged that he had received payment from Footlik. Pinkas denied that any messages had been dictated to him by Doha, saying the columns reflected his own views only and were based on positions of Israeli and U.S. officials.

Following the exchange, Pinkas ended his work at Haaretz. The daily did not report on the circumstances of his departure at the time, though an editorial note was added to his columns on the day he left the paper.

Last year, another person who received payment from Footlik, David Saig, wrote an anonymous column for Haaretz in which he attacked Egypt for its support of Hamas while praising Qatar, the paper said.


Israeli Youth Judo Team Kicked Out of Polish Tournament After Antisemitic Abuse
A group of about 90 Israeli children and teenagers, aged 7 to 16, from judo clubs in Or Akiva and the Sharon region, faced antisemitic harassment during a youth judo tournament yesterday, leading to their expulsion by organizers.

The event, hosted by the Polish Judo Association, saw spectators directing insults, boos, and antisemitic chants such as "Free Palestine" and "Here come the Jews" at the Israeli delegation throughout the day. Two Israeli coaches were physically assaulted in front of the children. Rather than intervening against the perpetrators, organizers removed the entire Israeli team to de-escalate the situation.

The incident has prompted online outrage, with calls for the International Judo Federation and European Judo Union to take action.

No official responses from the involved organizations have been issued.




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