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Tuesday, February 03, 2026

02/03 Links Pt2: Did the Bondi Attack Actually Change Australia?; Congressional watchdog says UNRWA wrong to say its report absolves agency

From Ian:

Matti Friedman: New Wave, Old Land
Can a foreign observer show up in another country, without living there or speaking the language, and say something original and definitive about it—something that wouldn’t strike locals as illiterate or banal?

Almost never. My answer would be the same, I imagine, as that of most Israelis, flooded as we are with the confident fantasies of countless such observers in every corner of social media and what’s left of the international press. Whether believing themselves to be journalists or tourists, what most outsiders see in a foreign country is nearly always what they bring with them from home. They mine distant lands for shiny rocks in which to view their own reflection. This seems truer of Israel than of other places because of the way this country and its residents have featured in the fantasy lives of others for so long.

But there are glorious exceptions. One of them was screened in a recent exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem: a documentary film of under one hour, shot in four weeks in the spring of 1960 by the French director Chris Marker. The film, Description of a Struggle, deserves to be more famous than it is. This is not just because it’s a portrait of this country—now weathered and scarred by hard living—as a newborn. It’s because the film is a master class in how to see a place and its people, and a restorative for anyone despairing of our ability to look at the world and create an impression in words or images.

When Marker arrived in Israel with his French crew, another foreign film was already shooting here: the Hollywood epic Exodus, starring Paul Newman. This movie, like the Leon Uris bestseller that inspired it, is an example of a fantastical projection with little connection to the actual place in question. In ticket sales and press attention, Exodus was to Marker’s modest film—in which the stars are anonymous kids, farmers, and a few Israeli cats and owls—what a Royal Caribbean liner is to a birch canoe. Sixty-five years later, Exodus is unwatchable and Description of a Struggle is hypnotic.

Chris Marker, who became famous as part of the French New Wave of the 1950s, was a slippery and playful artist. He claimed at times to have been born in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. In fact his birth occurred, more mundanely for a Frenchman, in France, to parents who called him not “Chris Marker” but Christian Hippolyte François Bouche-Villeneuve. He chose his new name, he once explained, to make it easier to travel. Marker was active into his eighties, experimenting with video games and YouTube in his little studio in Paris. He died in 2012 at age ninety-one.
Seth Mandel: What People Don’t Understand About Jewish Security
This is where the misconception comes in. Jewish institutions across Western Europe, especially in places like France and Germany, have beefed up security. So in many cases, the Jewish children are safe—inside the building.

“But if we take three steps outside,” the Potsdam Jewish leader said, “we are completely on our own.”

When the German office tasked with tallying and categorizing incidents of anti-Semitism completed its report on 2024, it found a rise in Jew-hatred that was not particularly unexpected but nonetheless striking: “In 2024, RIAS reporting offices documented a total of 8 incidents of extreme violence, 186 assaults, 443 cases of targeted property damage, 300 threats” and, for good measure, about 7,500 “cases of abusive behavior.” One example of “extreme violence” was an ISIS terror attack that killed three.

One type of abusive behavior tracked by RIAS: anti-Semitic gatherings, of which there were over 1,800 in 2024: “In 2024, there was an average of 35 antisemitic gatherings per week, compared to 16 in 2023.” Such gatherings—think of the ubiquitous pro-Hamas marches and rallies in major Western cities since the war began—act as a way to “mobilize” anti-Semites, RIAS notes.

Let’s boil it down: There are daily calls for violence and near-daily violent anti-Semitism in Germany. These incidents aren’t taking place inside fortified daycares. The presence of secure buildings in Germany did nothing to slow down the country’s incidence of anti-Semitic violence: People have to get to and from those buildings.

In this way, the argument over securing physical locations, while important, remains incomplete. A wave of anti-Semitism hit Jews in Germany in broad daylight. The only way to avoid it would be for Jews to have simply stayed home. That’s one reason for the suggestion in the Potsdam case that the benefits of securing the daycare center might be offset by the downside of calling attention to the presence of Jewish children: The building will be a gathering place of Jews coming to drop off and pick up their children.

Jews work at offices, eat at restaurants, visit parks, etc.
In 92NY talk, Bret Stephens urges ‘dismantling’ ADL, investing more in Jewish identity
In a speech that described antisemites as an “axis of the perfidious, the despotic, the hypocritical, the cynical, the deranged and the incurably stupid,” Bret Stephens asserted that supporters of the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish defense groups should largely abandon their current strategy for combating antisemitism and instead redirect their resources toward strengthening Jewish life itself.

Stephens, the conservative New York Times columnist and founder of the Jewish thought journal Sapir, said antisemitism is largely impervious to appeals to tolerance, reminders of Jewish and Israeli accomplishments, or mandatory Holocaust education.

Instead, he called for large-scale investment in Jewish day schools, cultural institutions, philanthropy, media, publishing and religious leadership, arguing that the infrastructure already exists but lacks sufficient scale and coordination.

“What we call the fight against antisemitism, which consumes tens of millions of dollars every year in Jewish philanthropy and has become an organizing principle across Jewish organizations, is a well-meaning, but mostly wasted, effort,” Stephens said, delivering the annual “State of World Jewry” address at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on Sunday. “We should spend the money and focus our energy elsewhere.”

In an onstage conversation after the talk, Stephens told Rabbi David Ingber, the Y’s senior director for Jewish life, that if it were up to him, he would “dismantle” the ADL, the leading Jewish group fighting antisemitism.

“That’s not how Jewish money should be spent,” Stephens told Ingber, acknowledging that the ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, was in the audience. “That’s not helping raise a generation of young Jews who are conscious of their Jewishness as something other than the fact that they saw ‘Schindler’s List’ and they visited the Holocaust Museum. That cannot be the locus of Jewish identity. If we’re going to survive, victimization cannot be at the heart of our identity.”


Did the Bondi Attack Actually Change Australia?
A Royal Commission has also been commissioned to investigate antisemitism in Australia in the lead-up to the Bondi attack, following pressure from broad sections of the community after Albanese was initially opposed to holding one.

These steps were welcomed by the Jewish community, yet it remains far too early to declare them transformative. After all, hate-speech laws already existed across Australian jurisdictions, but were only rarely used.

History therefore suggests that legislation alone is rarely enough; the true test is whether authorities are willing to enforce the laws consistently, especially when doing so becomes politically uncomfortable.

And that discomfort may arrive very soon.

The upcoming visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog in early February, at Prime Minister Albanese’s invitation, will serve as a critical test of whether the empathy shown after Bondi represents a lasting shift or a fleeting political moment.

Already, Labor Friends of Palestine have called for President Herzog to be blocked from coming and investigated for alleged incitement and complicity in war crimes. Multiculturalism Minister Dr. Anne Aly initially declined to confirm whether she would welcome the Israeli President on his state visit, before later offering a notably lukewarm endorsement. There are also mass protests planned against his visit by anti-Israel groups. How the government deals with this will be telling.

These are the same kind of groups that supported Hamas after Oct. 7, and appeared on Australia Day, the national celebration of identity and unity, with calls for “intifada.”

Australia is currently at a crossroads in its relationship with Israel and also the Jewish community here. How it navigates that relationship could well determine the future of Jewish life in Australia. Hopefully the solidarity now being shown will be maintained and enhanced. But if it proves to be temporary, and the hostility being drummed up by the local anti-Zionist movement resurges, then the long-term feelings of belonging and security that underpin Australia’s long thriving Jewish community will likely erode further.

That, tragically, could echo the same sad and tragic path of many past Jewish communities throughout history.
JPost Editorial: When war reporting turns into doxing, it risks lives and erodes trust in journalism
Some newsrooms will argue that naming individuals is essential for accountability, especially in war. That claim carries weight only when the reporting meets a verification bar that is higher than ordinary political coverage, because the consequence is predictable: Named persons become permanent digital suspects, and their families often become collateral damage.

Journalism ethics already address this risk. The Society of Professional Journalists warns reporters to “consider the long-term implications of the extended reach and permanence of publication.” In the UK, the Independent Press Standards Organization’s Editors’ Code states: “The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading, or distorted information or images.” Those sentences read like a direct rebuke to any newsroom that publishes an identity first and audits later.

Editors can fix this. They can require identity verification standards that match the severity of the allegation. They can treat “right of reply” as a real step, with time, documentation, and an honest description of what remains unverified. They can stop publishing photos and full names when the public-interest case depends mainly on shock value or online virality. They can also correct with prominence that matches the original splash, because quiet edits do not travel as far as the initial accusation.

Israel and Jewish communities abroad should also read this as a security issue. When a soldier’s identity gets published, the fallout lands in Diaspora neighborhoods, at workplaces, and outside schools and synagogues. The image in Heller’s report, a protest scene in Melbourne, captures a reality that Israelis now face well beyond the battlefield.

War reporting should pursue facts with courage and humility. It should also respect the human cost of publishing a name. When a newsroom turns a contested identity into a headline, it creates a target list, and it hands that list to the angriest people online.
Congressional watchdog says UNRWA wrong to say its report absolves agency
Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, is wrong to claim that a U.S. Government Accountability Office report exonerates UNRWA, Latesha Love-Grayer, director of international affairs and trade at the U.S. agency, told JNS.

“He’s taking our report’s intent further than we would have characterized it,” Love-Grayer said. “We aren’t vindicating anyone.”

Lazzarini stated on Monday that the Government Accountability Office’s report “confirms that UNRWA reviews education materials, trains teachers and provides supplementary teaching documents to eliminate and ban problematic content.”

“The actions were monitored and supported by the U.S. Department of State,” the U.N. agency head stated. “Nonpartisan entities do not serve political agendas. They let facts speak for themselves.”

Lazzarini said that the agency’s report “also recognizes UNRWA’s conflict resolution and tolerance education program, which ensures the teaching of human rights daily within UNRWA schools.”

He added that “disinformation about UNRWA’s education program is a cornerstone of a propaganda campaign to undermine and destroy the agency,” and that the U.S. agency’s report “confirms, again, that UNRWA is constantly taking the right steps to address the challenges it faces and deliver quality education for Palestine refugees.”

Israel has long accused UNRWA of employing staffers with direct and indirect ties to Palestinian terror groups, including employees who participated directly in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks. The Israeli government has published evidence of those ties.


UpScrolled: The New Social Media App For Haters and Antisemites
UpScrolled’s Platforming of Hate
Given the app’s selling points, it is no wonder that in the one week that it has topped the charts for app downloads, UpScrolled has become a veritable free-for-all of anti-Israel and antisemitic posts.

Some of these posts celebrate Hamas and its slaughter of October 7, 2023, a direct contravention of the regulation that forbids support for violent and terrorist groups.

Other posts compare Israel to the Nazis, claim that Israel controls the United States government, and justify violence against Israelis.

It’s not only UpScrolled’s users that are anti-Israel and deny the Jewish state’s right to exist – the app, itself, refuses to let you identify your geographic location as Israel, only giving you the option of “Occupied territories of Palestine.”

Alongside the usual anti-Israel rhetoric that you can (unfortunately) find on most social media apps, UpScrolled has seen a deluge of antisemitic, racist, and neo-Nazi posts.

These include vile caricatures of Jewish people, posts celebrating Adolf Hitler, Holocaust denial, and posts blaming Jews and African-Americans for the ills of society.

While the app’s developers claim that they are intent on removing content that “clearly violates our guidelines,” it appears that they are in no rush to tackle the whirlwind of Hamas support and antisemitic content that has enveloped UpScrolled.

Will UpScrolled Succeed?
At the moment, UpScrolled is growing its user base. While it seems that mainstream organizations and personalities have yet to open accounts (aside from a few notable exceptions, such as a number of European sports teams), the usual suspects have fled there.

Bad actors such as Guy Christensen (who celebrated the shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, D.C.) and Lucas Gage (known for his spreading of antisemitic vitriol) were both eager to sign up, along with Mondoweiss and Drop Site News (two alternative news sites that whitewash anti-Israel terrorism and regularly demonize the Jewish state).

Currently, the usership of UpScrolled seems to be largely made up of anti-Israel activists, advocates for far-left politics, a smattering of normal social media users (foodies, travelogues, etc), and bots.

If more non-political users join the app, then perhaps the platform’s proliferating hate will be diluted. However, as it currently stands, UpScrolled has become a den of hatred and vulgarity. If it continues this way, it will ultimately have a limited user base, serving as an echo chamber for those who are okay with whitewashing Hamas, Nazi symbols, and blaming all of society’s problems on racial and religious minorities.


Here I Am With Shai Davidai: Social Media Has Become Israel’s New Front Line | Founder Brian Spivak
In this episode, host Shai Davidai sits down with Brian Spivak, founder of Barzel Media, to discuss Brian’s journey from tech sales in Tel Aviv to Jewish advocacy and influencer marketing after October 7th. Brian shares how the events of October 7th transformed his identity and led him to support Israel and the Jewish diaspora through innovative influencer campaigns. He talks about his work with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, the challenges influencers face when supporting Israel, and the creation of Barzel Media’s “economic iron dome” to help pro-Israel voices maintain brand partnerships. The conversation also touches on community, resilience, and the importance of standing up for one’s values in the face of adversity. Don’t miss this inspiring story of passion, adaptability, and making a difference.


Qatari funding of Jerusalem hospital raises concerns
St. Joseph Hospital, a Catholic medical institution in Jerusalem located close to Israel’s National Security Ministry, received approximately $7 million from the Qatar Fund for Development, raising concern in the Jerusalem Center for Applied Policy (JCAP) over influence by hostile states near sensitive government sites in the capital.

According to the hospital, the donation was part of a broader renovation project totaling an estimated $60 million aimed at expanding its capacity, including doubling its number of inpatient beds.

Hospital director-general Jamil Koussa claimed that the funding was received before the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel and cited limited Israeli government assistance as the reason for seeking foreign support.

“If Israel brings me 25 or 30 million shekels, I will tell Qatar I do not need them,” Koussa said in remarks published by Ynet, which broke the story on Tuesday. “But the Health Ministry brought us only 3 million shekels.

According to the JCAP, an Israeli policy and research institute focused on Jerusalem-related strategic issues, the hospital donation reflects a broader pattern of Qatari and Turkish involvement in Jerusalem through health, welfare and cultural institutions operating under the banner of civic or humanitarian assistance.

“We are advising the government on how to identify, expose, prevent and punish these sinister players,” it said in a statement to JNS. “If you really want to benefit the residents of Jerusalem, it must be done under Israeli supervision and regulation.”

Ran Yishai, a former director general of the Jerusalem Affairs Ministry who is now head of research and policy at JCAP, said the hospital funding highlights broader governance challenges in the capital.

“Qatar is a hostile state that supports terrorism,” he said. “Israel cannot allow foreign actors to establish a foothold in Jerusalem through civilian institutions.”
The U.S. Has Spent Millions to Train PA Security Forces; the Return on that Investment Has Been Minimal
The Palestinian Authority's "Pay-for-Slay" policy is much more than just terrorists receiving a salary. Their families enjoy a host of benefits. When released from prison, the terrorists are paid special grants and those who spent more than 20 years in prison are entitled to purchase a new car tax-free.

Terrorists who spent over ten years in prison are given a position in the PA, with the seniority of the position based on the time they spent in prison. If the PA does not call the terrorist to work, he may simply sit at home and enjoy the salary linked to the position.

The case of PA police officer Raed al-Sheikh is illustrative. On October 12, 2000, IDF reservists Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami mistakenly entered the PA-controlled city of Ramallah. The two were brutally lynched by a Palestinian mob inside the city's police station. Al-Sheikh was one of the leaders of the attack, personally participating in the killing. He repeatedly struck Nurzhitz in the head with a wrench. Convicted of murder, he was sentenced to two life sentences.

Al-Sheikh was released on Oct. 22, 2025, as part of the deal to secure the release of some of the hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023. While in prison, the PA paid al-Sheikh over NIS 1.4 million. When released after 25 years in prison, al-Sheikh was entitled to the rank of major general in the PA security forces.

While the U.S. has spent almost $1 billion from 2007 through 2025 to train and improve the PA security forces, unfortunately, the return on that investment has been minimal at best and is probably negative.

The writer, former director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria, is director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center.


Palestinian Authority’s Abbas calls first-ever direct PLO parliament elections
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas said Monday that elections will be held on November 1 for the Palestinian National Council, the parliament of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the PA’s official news agency Wafa reported.

This is the first time members of the council will be elected by direct popular vote. In the past, they were appointed or co-opted from within the movement.

Abbas, who is president both of the Palestinian Authority and of the PLO, issued a decree saying: “Elections will be held wherever possible, both inside and outside Palestine, to ensure the broadest possible participation of the Palestinian people wherever they reside.”

The PNC is one of several largely dormant political bodies controlled by Abbas.

The PLO is supposed to be the overarching umbrella body representing Palestinians worldwide, whereas the PA is supposed to be a transitional administrative body providing services for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Abbas has announced elections for the different political bodies he controls, but those have not always been held for a variety of reasons.

Even if a PNC election is held in November, the body is very rarely convened by Abbas. The last session it held was in 2018. The last PNC election, which was not open to all voters, was in 2006. The terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which are not members of the PLO, are not represented in the council.

While dubbed the parliament of the PLO, the PNC’s main role is to elect the more powerful PLO Executive Committee. The actual parliamentary body for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is called the Palestinian Legislative Council, which has not convened since 2007, when splits between Abbas’s Fatah party and Hamas rendered the body inoperative.

Analysts say the more consequential development in Palestinian politics will take place in May, when Fatah holds its eighth General Conference. During that gathering, a vote will be held to fill the party’s powerful central committee, with many of Abbas’s confidants vying for spots.
Fallacy of Palestinian education policy change; Abbas never met with UNESCO
The Palestinian Authority has failed to change its education system, despite repeated commitments to European donors, according to official European Union documents and national government reports spanning more than a decade.

The findings raise serious questions about continued international funding for Palestinian education, particularly in Gaza, where schools continue to operate using jihadi textbooks under the guise of peace education.

The Palestinian curriculum is not merely an academic framework. It is the ideological foundation of the P.A. itself and a core instrument for shaping national identity. From its perspective, altering that curriculum would amount to redefining its political purpose.

The P.A. is composed of non-state militias, led primarily by the Fatah party, whose raison d’être remains total confrontation with Israel. Recognition of Israel or reconciliation undermines the political identity of the organizations that make up the Palestine Liberation Organization.

As a result, promises to change the curriculum, even when made to donor states, are not actual, technical commitments but political impossibilities. The curriculum reflects ideology, not neutral pedagogy.

Nonetheless, European funding to the P.A. was explicitly conditioned on educational change.
MEF Defeats Islamist Lawsuit—Twice—as CAIR’s Former Allies’ Legal Gambit Backfires
A federal judge has dismissed all claims brought by the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF) against the Middle East Forum (MEF) and its allies for the second time, delivering a decisive legal victory that vindicates MEF’s decades-long efforts to expose Islamist organizations operating in America.

U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal of the Southern District of Florida dismissed SFMF’s amended complaint on January 27, 2026, after previously dismissing the original complaint in May 2025. The court found that SFMF—an umbrella organization representing Muslim entities in South Florida—failed to establish standing for injunctive relief and, critically, failed to demonstrate racial discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. The racial discrimination claim was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.

The lawsuit arose after MEF and local community leaders brought attention to SFMF’s activities and the Coral Springs Marriott decided to cancel SFMF’s January 2024 conference. MEF had published research documenting SFMF’s ties to radical Islamist movements and individuals with connections to foreign terrorist organizations. The hotel cited “significant undesirable interest” in canceling the event.

In a notable passage, Judge Singhal rejected SFMF’s attempt to conflate religious identity with racial discrimination: “To accept SFMF’s premise that prejudice against a Muslim community group is akin to racial and ethnic discrimination, the Court would need to equate MENASA [Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia] ethnicity with the Muslim religion. The two are not the same.” The judge further noted that “not one of the alleged discriminatory statements concerned race” and that SFMF’s religious affiliation was “coincidental and not at all related to the alleged discriminatory actions.”

“This is a tremendous victory for the Middle East Forum and for all Americans who believe in the right to expose Islamist extremism,” said Gregg Roman, executive director of the Middle East Forum. “The court has affirmed what we have always maintained: raising legitimate concerns about organizations with troubling ties to radical movements is protected speech—not discrimination. SFMF’s attempt to weaponize civil rights law against its critics has failed spectacularly.”

“We will not be silenced or intimidated,” said Benjamin Baird, director of MEF Action, who worked with local activists in Florida to urge the Marriott to stop hosting SFMF events. “MEF will continue pushing hospitality providers to disassociate from terrorist-supporting organizations.”
Zack Polanski: Green Party has an ‘obsession’ with Israel
Green Party leader Zack Polanski openly complained party members were “obsessive” in their condemnation of Israel, newly-leaked audio obtained by Jewish News reveals.

Polanski, 42, also admitted being left “deeply disappointed” as the Greens failed to back a motion at party conference that would have demonstrated an internal culture that was friendly and welcoming to Jewish people.

In the newly-unearthed interview, Polanski also criticised the former leaders of the Greens for failing to devote enough time to a debate on antisemitism at the party’s annual conference, as he pushed a motion recognising the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

“I’m deeply disappointed it was rejected,” Polanski said at the time. “I don’t think it’s a controversial motion.”

In an interview given to the tiny Kingston Green Radio online station in October 2018, Polanski said of the anti-Israel current within the party: “I would say it feels a bit obsessive at times.”

On the Greens’ failure to adopt a policy on antisemitism at that time, Polanski said: “I think in the future it would be absolutely shameful and incoherent not to have a policy on antisemitism.”

With the party then under the co-leadership of Siân Berry and Jonathan Bartley, members rejected a motion calling for the adoption of the IHRA definition.

Former Liberal Democrat member Polanski has become a staunch anti-Zionist as the current Green Party leader.

His party is battling to win next month’s by-election in Gorton and Denton by openly trying to appeal to Muslim voters, with a hardline anti-Israel stance and claiming the government is “complicit” in a Gaza “genocide.”

But the leaked intervew reveals Polanski, born into a traditionally pro-Zionist family in north Manchester, held very different views on Israel himself as recently as 2018.
Polanski under pressure to back anti-Zionist one-state solution stance for Greens
Zack Polanski is under increased pressure from pro-Palestine activists to declare the party anti-Zionist and to back a one-state solution in the Middle East.

The calls come as pro-Palestine activists in the party urge him to support a “Zionism Is Racism” motion they are pushing for debate at the Greens’ Spring Conference in March.

The motion, proposed by the Palestine Green Party and Green For Palestine Steering Group, calls for “a single democratic Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital” and rejects all accusations that anti-Zionism is antisemitic.

It also advocates for the “de-proscription of Palestine Action” and the “release of all political prisoners” held by Israel.

Jewish News understands the motion is already picking up significant support from members on the far-left of the party, who are campaigning to get it debated and voted on at the forthcoming party conference.

If passed it would move the Green Party away from a policy of backing a two-state solution based on pre-1967 borders.

Other far-left parties, including the rift-ridden Your Party have already declared themselves to be anti-Zionist.

Polanski’s own stance on Israel has evolved dramatically.

Once a founding member of the Jewish Greens and a self-described pro-Zionist, he now says he is “not a Zionist” as a result of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Pro-Palestine activists are pressuring him to go further and oppose Israel’s right to exist.


Publicly funded Birmingham arts venue to host ‘pro-armed resistance’ extremists
A publicly-funded arts hub in Birmingham run by a charity “focused on creating an inclusive future” is hosting the launch event of an “unapologetically pro-armed resistance” group whose leaders rant about “Jewish supremacy”.

The Old Print Works in Balsall Heath, which describes itself as a “diverse and welcome community” is the venue on Sunday 8 February for the launch of the “Anti-Zionist Movement”, featuring notorious conspiracy theorists and employees of the Iranian regime.

As promoted by the “Activist Independent Movement” in collaboration with “Stop War Crimes Gaza” and “Palestine Pulse”, key participants will include Rahmeh Aladwan and David Miller.

Aladwan, a British-Palestinian doctor, is infamous for her persistent rants about “Jewish supremacy” in the UK. She was arrested twice by the police last year, with charges including malicious communications and inciting racial hatred. In November, a Medical Tribunal suspended Aladwan for 15 months while the GMC carries out a full investigation into her conduct.

Miller, who was fired by the University of Bristol in 2021, has since become a producer of a show for the Iranian regime’s Press TV and regularly talks about “Jewish supremacy” on Twitter, where he has also called on “Zionists” to be “targeted”.

Also promised are 58-year-old Palestinian activist Sami Al Soos, (an anti Zionist member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which attempted to cross the Mediterranean last year to bring a negligible amount of aid to Gaza); pro-Palestinian activist Maher Falastini, and former trade unionist Latifa Abouchakra, who works for Iranian state TV, who regularly rants about “Jewish supremacy” on social media.


‘Completely Wrong’: Trump Demands $1 Billion From Harvard, Contradicting New York Times Report
President Donald Trump announced that he is seeking $1 billion in damages from Harvard University and flatly rejected a New York Times report claiming that his administration had backtracked on demands for a financial payment to resolve charges of anti-Semitism and civil rights violations.

"Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University has been feeding a lot of 'nonsense' to The Failing New York Times. Harvard has been, for a long time, behaving very badly!" Trump posted Monday night on Truth Social. "We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the future, with Harvard University."

Trump's post came in response to a Times report that the White House was no longer demanding a $200 million payment from Harvard to resolve claims that the university let anti-Semitism run rampant on campus. Anti-Semitism at Harvard, which had been mounting before Oct. 7, 2023, was exposed by the university's response to the attacks, which prompted bipartisan condemnation and congressional and federal investigations. After Trump took office, he froze federal funding for the university. A judge restored some of it, but the federal government is appealing, and even if existing funds are restored, a cutoff of future funds would be painful to Harvard.

"The Failing New York Times story was completely wrong concerning Harvard University," Trump said in a follow-up post. "I hereby demand that the morons that run (into the ground!) the Times' change their story, immediately."

The president also said Harvard tried pitching a "convoluted job training concept, but it was turned down in that it was wholly inadequate and would not have been, in our opinion, successful."

"It was merely a way of Harvard getting out of a large cash settlement of more than 500 Million Dollars, a number that should be much higher for the serious and heinous illegalities that they have committed," Trump continued. "This should be a Criminal, not Civil, event, and Harvard will have to live with the consequences of their wrongdoings. In any event, this case will continue until justice is served."


Carnegie Mellon DEI Chief, Whose Salary Is Partially Funded by Qatar, Worked As ‘International Liaison’ for Sanctioned Palestinian Nonprofit
Carnegie Mellon University’s top DEI official, currently at the center of an anti-Semitism discrimination lawsuit, served as an "international liaison" for a terror-linked Palestinian NGO that was recently sanctioned by the State Department.

Elizabeth Rosemeyer serves as assistant vice provost of DEI and Title IX coordinator at Carnegie Mellon, where she oversees the Pittsburgh-based private university’s efforts "to prevent and effectively respond to all forms of discrimination."

Years before joining Carnegie Mellon, Rosemeyer served as "international liaison" for the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), an anti-Israel lawfare group formed in 1995 by a former member of the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Rosemeyer worked for the organization in the Gaza Strip from July 1996 to July 1997, according to her LinkedIn profile, writing grant proposals and communications materials for "funders, constituents and international media." The State Department sanctioned the PCHR in September over its collusion with the International Criminal Court "to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent."

Rosemeyer’s background could become relevant to a lawsuit filed by former Carnegie Mellon student Yael Canaan, who accuses the school of fostering a culture of anti-Semitism. Rosemeyer is a central figure in the lawsuit. The lawsuit led to the startling disclosure last month that Qatar, the Hamas-allied Gulf monarchy, "partially" funds Rosemeyer’s position at Carnegie Mellon and the school’s campus in Doha, Qatar.

Canaan, a student from 2018 to 2022, alleges that architecture professor Mary-Lou Arscott directed several anti-Semitic remarks at her, including a suggestion that Canaan should do a class project exploring "what Jews do to make themselves such a hated group."

Canaan alleges Rosemeyer, who joined Carnegie Mellon in 2018, dismissed her concerns and "aggressively discouraged Canaan from filing a formal complaint" against Arscott.

Canaan contends that Qatar, which has contributed more than $1 billion to Carnegie Mellon for a satellite campus in Doha, influenced Carnegie Mellon to create an "antisemitic organizational culture motivating it to unlawfully discriminate against her and harass her."
Sydney lecturer accused of abusing Jewish students denies charges as supporters clash with media
A former University of Sydney lecturer accused of verbally abusing Jewish students on campus has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges and vowed to fight the case in court, as supporters clashed with journalists outside the courthouse.

Rose Nakad, 53, appeared at her first court hearing this week, where she denied two counts of harassment and intimidation with intent to cause fear or harm, as well as an additional charge of offensive conduct. Nakad was accompanied by a group of supporters, some wearing keffiyehs, who confronted reporters waiting outside the courtroom.

During the hearing, Nakad rejected the allegations against her. Her next court appearance is scheduled for next month, and she has been granted an exemption from attending in person.

The charges stem from an incident last October, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, when Nakad was filmed confronting Jewish students on campus in a video that later went viral. In the footage, she is heard shouting antisemitic slurs, calling the students “parasites,” “rubbish” and “filthy f***ing Zionists.”

In the video, Nakad also says: “If you tell me you’re an anti-Zionist Jew, I have no problem with you,” before adding, “A Zionist is the lowest form of rubbish. Zionists are the most disgusting thing that has ever walked this earth.”

She is further heard declaring herself “an Indigenous Palestinian” and “a real Semite,” while repeatedly yelling at the students to leave. A university security guard is seen attempting to separate her from the group as the students ask her to walk away.


EL PAÍS POST-OCT. 7: FROM STRUCTURAL BIAS TO MILITANT ACTIVISM
“Neither [journalist] Jesús [Sérvulo González] nor El País are antisemitic, it was a mistake that we corrected when we saw it,” El País foreign desk chief Guillermo Altares insisted earlier this month.

His protestations were an effort to quell a wave of outrage over the newspaper’s publication of an article claiming that U.S. federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, who is presiding over the trial of Nicolás Maduro in New York, “has made an effort to maintain an impartial stance despite being a well-known member of the Jewish community.”

Yet, years-long systematic analysis of El País’ Israel coverage indicates that the unfortunate episode was hardly a one-off error on the part of a publication highly sensitive to antisemitism. To the contrary, it was a revealing slip which exposed a deeply ingrained framework in which Israel and Jewish identity are regularly portrayed as suspicious, problematic, or incompatible with values such as impartiality or political legitimacy.

For decades, El País has maintained a structurally anti-Israel bias that at times borders on antisemitism and that, since Oct. 7, 2023, has devolved into openly militant informational activism. This shift has been characterized by the uncritical adoption of Hamas’ narrative, systematic distortion of facts, and the promotion of the “genocide” framework as its primary interpretive lens.
OCT. 7 MASSACRE ERASURE AT THE GUARDIAN
Last week, we published a post illustrating how the Guardian continues to erase Hamas from their coverage of the war they launched over two years ago – the advancement of a narrative in which nothing the terror group has done since Oct. 7, 2023 matters, and insists that Israel is the only party whose decisions are of any consequence.

Though this latest example of disappearing the genocidal Islamist extremist group from stories focusing on Gaza was written by the outlet’s chief Middle East correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison, it would be a mistake to focus too heavily on individual journalists. Rather, the outlet should be properly seen as a closed antizionist circle that’s impervious to any information challenging their pre-determined conclusion of Palestinian victimhood and Israeli villainy.

In fact, as we’ve documented previously, almost immediately after Oct. 7th, 2023, Guardian journalists and contributors began what we’ve described as the abuse of Oct. 7th memory: downplaying of the most savage antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust, while framing the story instead as one about Israel’s putatively disproportionate response, which, within weeks, they began claiming was “genocidal”.

In addition to the erasure of Hamas from the post-Oct. 7 battlefield, as illustrated by Graham-Harris’ article, an article over the weekend by William Cristou takes Hamas’ Guardian-assisted disappearing act a step further, by blurring, or even erasing, the simple fact that the war began as the result of an unprovoked massacre by the terror group, which killed 1,200.


Investigation uncovers hundreds of Nazi-linked accounts at Credit Suisse
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony about newly uncovered links between the Nazis and a Swiss banking conglomerate, amid an ongoing legal dispute over restitution to Holocaust victims.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), committee chair, told reporters before Tuesday’s hearing that an independent investigator found 890 accounts with potential Nazi links at Credit Suisse, which UBS acquired in 2023.

“These accounts were once used by individuals or entities who participated in or assisted Nazi war efforts,” Grassley said. “That includes wartime accounts for the German Foreign Office, a German arms manufacturing company and the German Red Cross.”

“Credit Suisse’s connection to all three of these entities was previously unknown, or only partially known,” Grassley told reporters. “The investigation also found evidence that Credit Suisse’s banking relationship with the SS was more extensive than we knew before.”

Nazi Germany and members of the Nazi party had extensive relationships with Swiss banks before, during and after World War II, taking advantage of Swiss neutrality and the country’s banking secrecy laws to shelter assets, including wealth seized from Jews during the Holocaust.

Jewish groups, historians, national inquiry commissions and the Swiss banks themselves have since undertaken efforts to reveal the role that Switzerland played as a banker for the Nazis.

Neil Barofsky, an independent ombudsman employed first by Credit Suisse and now by UBS to investigate those links, told senators on Tuesday that despite its claims of transparency, UBS is now engaged in efforts to stymie his investigation.
Denmark hands 2 Swedes lengthy prison sentences for 2024 attack on Israeli embassy
Two young Swedes were sentenced to jail terms Tuesday for throwing grenades at Israel’s embassy in Denmark over a year ago.

A Copenhagen court condemned an 18-year-old to 12 years in prison and a 21-year-old to 14 years after finding them guilty of “terrorism” in the October 2024 incident.

“The two men threw the grenades with the intention of seriously frightening the Israeli and Danish populations — the attack therefore constitutes a terrorist act,” police said in a statement.

The Copenhagen court also ruled that the two men, aged 16 and 18 at the time, acted in concert after prior agreement with one or more unidentified accomplices belonging to a criminal network in Sweden.

During the hearing, the youngest of the two, who is also being prosecuted in Sweden for shooting at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, admitted to being a member of the Foxtrot criminal network, which had recruited him during his secondary school years.

“The criminal network acted as the armed wing of a Middle Eastern terrorist organization in Denmark, where the Israeli embassy had been designated as the target of the attack,” prosecutor Soren Harbo said in the press release.

In the middle of the night on October 2, 2024, two grenades damaged the terrace of a house next to the diplomatic mission in the upscale Hellerup neighborhood. No one was injured.
South Carolina Republican Senate Candidate Floats Antisemitic Conspiracies in Effort to Boost Long-Shot Campaign
Paul Dans, a lawyer and Republican candidate for US Senate in South Carolina, has boosted antisemitic conspiracy theories online, suggesting that high-ranking Jews have imported drugs and implemented an extermination campaign against white people.

“The ELITES call us ‘goy cattle’ and sent OxyContin into our communities for a reason. EPSTEIN files confirm WHITE GENOCIDE and WHITE HATE is not a conspiracy but an operation in progress,” Dans posted on X on Monday.

Goy is a term for a gentile, a non-Jew.

Dans, who describes himself as an “America 1st warrior” and a counterweight to entrenched Washington, DC establishment interests, has portrayed himself as an ardent opponent of longstanding US foreign policy. He has been critical of what he calls America’s entanglement in “endless wars” in the Middle East and Ukraine.

​​”I’m America first and not Israel first, not Ukraine first. We always have to ask what is in the foreign policy interest of the United States citizen. How are we helping the people back home thrive and be safe?” Dans said during an October 2025 interview with South Carolina local news.

Notably, Dans is also a former director of the embattled Heritage Foundation and was the chief architect of Project 2025 — a sprawling political playbook which outlines how to overhaul the federal government to support a conservative policy agenda. The Heritage Foundation has found itself embroiled in mounting controversy in recent months after its president, Kevin Roberts, issued a passionate defense of antisemitic podcaster Tucker Carlson. Carlson had elicited backlash after hosting a chummy interview with the Holocaust-denying, anti-Jewish streamer Nick Fuentes.

Dans also appeared on “The Tucker Carlson Show” in November 2025, in which he and the podcaster criticized US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for his steadfast support for Israel, insinuating that Graham focuses more on uplifting Israel than the US.
Man charged after allegedly performing Nazi salute to group of Jewish schoolchildren at Australian airport
A man has been charged after he allegedly performed a Nazi salute in front of Jewish schoolchildren at an Australian airport.

The 23-year-old is alleged to have directed the offensive gesture towards a group in a terminal at Melbourne Airport on Monday, February 2.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) allege the Greenvale man, who was identified as an airport employee, fled the scene shortly after the incident.

Officers reviewed CCTV footage and interviewed witnesses to identify the alleged offender, and attended a home in the Victoria suburb the same day.

The man was charged with one count of public display of prohibited Nazi symbols or giving the Nazi salute.

He is due to appear before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, March 3.

The AFP launched the National Security Investigations (NSI) team in September 2025 to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of the Jewish community.
PBS to air four-part documentary series on blacks, Jews in America
PBS is set to air a new four-part documentary series written by “Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates Jr., which examines the relationship between black and Jewish Americans throughout U.S. history.

Titled “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History,” the series premieres on Feb. 3 and is scheduled to run on consecutive Tuesdays through Feb. 24.

PBS described the project, which airs during Black History Month, as tracing a relationship “defined by solidarity and strained by division,” shaped by the forces of racism and antisemitism, and by civic and cultural cooperation, particularly during the civil-rights era.

“The black and Jewish communities found themselves swimming against parallel currents,” Gates said in the trailer for the first episode. “It wasn’t a perfect partnership but stood as proof that people could bridge deep divides.”

“When I was growing up, I only thought of race in terms of black and white,” Gates said. “It wasn’t until much later when I learned about antisemitism that I realized blacks and Jews face common enemies, but when we stand together, we are a formidable force.”

“But I don’t wanna romanticize the alliance because it wasn’t an untroubled relationship,” he added.

Gates will be hosting a virtual town hall discussion in advance of the premiere.






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