Saturday, March 14, 2026

03/14 Links: The despicable disgrace of the ‘call off the war’ crowd; Michigan: a case study in the new Jew hatred; Ashab Al Yamin? New Shi’ite terror group claims synagogue attacks across Europe

From Ian:

NYPost Editorial: The despicable disgrace of the ‘call off the war’ crowd
We’d like to believe that the negative coverage of the Iran war so rampant in the media is simply more Trump Derangement Syndrome, but it’s plainly also about how the president’s firm actions expose how pathetically the same elites applauded President Barack Obama’s misbegotten Middle East policies, and not just his sad nuclear deal with Tehran.

To simplify things, consider The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the dean of elite liberal political analysis, who’s actively sneering at the joint US-Israeli effort to defang an entity that for five decades has called them “The Great Satan” and “The Little Satan.”

“Both Washington and Jerusalem are making claims about ‘imminent’ threats that require ‘preemptive’ strikes,” he huffs, “but we should dispense with such statements: Iran is not presenting immediate danger to the United States or Israel.”

No, because the two nations took out Tehran’s nuclear program last year, as it was weeks from producing usable weapons, and they’ve acted before it could rebuild its defenses and offensive conventional forces to shield it as it recovered that capability.

The imminent threat was to become too tough to take out.

And Iran’s lunatic bombing of almost every country now within its range proves that it was and is a threat to the entire civilized world: Just imagine it with the long-range missiles and nukes that it never stopped developing.

But of course Jeff Goldberg was one of Obama’s chief media sycophants

He asked Obama how he could possibly understand the Iranian regime as both thoroughly antisemitic and “practical,” “responsive to incentive” and “rational” — and accepted without question Obama’s blithe reply that “the fact that the supreme leader is antisemitic doesn’t mean that this overrides all of his other considerations.”

What poppycock: Those “other considerations” centered on a determined drive at regional domination and a certainty that going nuclear was the only sure way to ensure the regime’s survival.

Obama & Co. simply fantasized that a mature Islamic Republic would happily become a normal power if bribed sufficiently — and fanboys like Goldberg swooned.
Jake Wallis Simons: How Israel could spark regime change from the air
In a video speech last week, Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed that the IDF had “many surprises” in store for the regime. According to insiders, these have been delayed by Israeli infighting over which agency will take the credit. But they are on their way.

These surprises, thought to number about four or five, are unlikely to feature anything on the scale of the pager operation that castrated Hezbollah in September 2024. Instead, we are likely to see a sequence of creative subversions of the foundations of the Islamic Republic.

“With one hand, we grip the regime’s throat with force,” a security official said, referring to the conventional air campaign. “With the other hand, we shake it unexpectedly, again and again and again, until its neck snaps.” The objectives are clear. If all goes well, Israeli surprises will both demoralise the regime’s troops, tempting them to desert, and embolden the Iranian people to overthrow them.

But what about boots on the ground? Never before, etc. Well, keep your eyes on the Artesh, Iran’s regular armed forces which, unlike the fanatical Revolutionary Guards, descend from the time of the Shah. These troops tend to be of a nationalistic temperament, not an Islamist one, and they have largely held back from the fighting.

If the humiliation of the regime reaches a tipping point, the Artesh may revolt. This would resemble a traditional coup, empowered by homo digitalis and the Mossad. Another first. As if by magic, the Iranian people would find themselves with a great many boots on the ground.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. None of this is guaranteed and, as Netanyahu pointed out this week, “you can lead someone to water, but you cannot make him drink”. Donald Trump echoed these sentiments, telling Fox News on Friday that an uprising was “a big hurdle to climb for people that don’t have weapons”. He added: “It’ll happen, but it probably will be maybe not immediately.” Post-2003 Iraq always lurks around the corner.

But what was the alternative? Diplomacy had failed. Sanctions had failed. Covert action had slowed Tehran’s progress towards a bomb, but was powerless to stop it. Even after the hammering it received in June, the regime immediately began building back its missile stockpiles and proxies, like zombies knowing only death, and went on to butcher more than 30,000 people in two days, not to mention the atrocities it plots on our shores.

Seen from our rainy isles of appeasement, Mossad and homo digitalis stand like greyhounds in the slips. With or without our support, the game’s afoot. They will follow their spirit, and upon the charge, cry: “God for America, Israel and Iran!”
Brendan O'Neill: Michigan: a case study in the new Jew hatred
Dearborn is like a microcosm of the supine culture that has reigned in the post-7 October West. In the US, the UK and Europe, we’ve witnessed an explosion of the twin forces of Islamism and Islamo-censorship. We’ve seen mobs cheer anti-Semitic terrorism and wallow in the violent dream of Israel’s fiery demise. And yet you’re called ‘Islamophobic’ if you fret about it. Islamism is treated as a reasonable reaction to the behaviour of ‘the Zionist entity’ while concern about Islamism is damned as bigotry. These are Kafkaesque levels of moral deceit, where those of us worried about the rebirth of an ancient hatred are ourselves called ‘hateful’.

It remains to be seen what Ghazali thought he would achieve with his butchery at Temple Israel. Whether he fantasised that he was avenging Lebanon or whether his anti-Jewish animus flowed from the Islamist pox in Dearborn. Yet it is reasonable to ask if Dearborn’s virulent Israelophobia pushed this man deeper into the cesspit of anti-Jewish hate. A striking feature of our time is that leftists and liberals will always go looking for the ‘architecture of hatred’ that inspires racist attacks on blacks, Muslims or Latinos – but they never do that when there are attacks on Jews. In fact, they warn against it. Don’t ‘weaponise’ this attack by raising concerns about the broader public culture, they say. It’s only ever Jews who are accused of ‘weaponisation’ for wondering if their persecution might spring from social trends.

Does the cultural elite really expect us to believe there’s no link between its own frothing hysteria over the Jewish State and the march of hostility against Jewish people? It’s a childish delusion, and a dangerous one, to think you can spend your every waking hour lamenting the supposedly unique cruelty of the world’s only Jewish nation and that there will be no consequences for Jews. The ceaseless libels against the Jewish homeland, the cries for more ‘intifada’ – these have consequences. You would think an activist class that says it’s vile bigotry to call ‘transwomen’ men would understand that the bourgeois clamour for the violent dismantling of the Jewish homeland is likely to entail blowback for Jewish people.

This is why it’s sickening to hear the likes of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani mourn the events in Michigan. This is a man who refused to condemn the cry ‘Globalise the intifada’. This is a man whose wife liked Instagram posts celebrating an orgy of anti-Jewish violence far worse than Michigan’s – 7 October. Then there’s Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, wringing his hands over the ‘horrific news’ from Michigan. Mate, your deputy leader is a man who celebrated the pogrom of 7 October. A party that cheers the murder of Jews in Israel has no business lamenting the attempted murder of Jews in Michigan.

Things are getting serious. Over the past week there have been violent incidents at synagogues in Liege in Belgium, in Toronto, and now Michigan. Violent Jew hate is spreading. And the first step to tackling it is to dismantle every snivelling effort to censor public concern. The Orwellian forces who call us bigots for speaking about bigotry need to be put back in their box. The stakes are too high for such slippery, tyrannical games.


Kassy Akiva: No Other Lie
When the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” captivated Hollywood with its portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Daily Wire sent me to the West Bank to see the story up close.

The film, which won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, follows Palestinian activist Basel Adra and portrays the residents of Masafer Yatta as victims of what the filmmakers describe as forced displacement by Israel. During his Oscar acceptance speech, Adra accused Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing.

“‘No Other Land’ reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades and still resist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people,” Adra said.

But is that true? I set out to Masafer Yatta in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, to investigate these claims, which went largely unchallenged on Hollywood’s biggest stage.

In “No Other Lie,” I revisit the story told in Adra’s film by traveling to the same villages and speaking with Israeli officials, Arab residents, Jewish farmers, and policy experts. According to those interviewed, the history of the area — and the dispute over the land — is far more complex than the film suggests.
No Other Lie
After the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land captivated Hollywood with its portrayal of a conflict in the West Bank, The Daily Wire sent reporter Kassy Akiva to the region to see the story up close. Traveling to Masafer Yatta—the focal point of the film—Akiva investigates the claims that went largely unchallenged by the Academy Awards, uncovering the parts of the story audiences never saw.




ChatGPT is pushing Islamic terrorist propaganda: Investigative journalist ASHLEY RINDSBERG reveals how Tehran hijacked AI
As a journalist who's covered the impact of propaganda for more than a decade, I've seen the ways disinformation can shape politics and society. Which is why I am terrified by a new type of information warfare now being waged by terror groups and rogue nations that may ultimately prove far more dangerous than any that has come before it.

The target of these bad actors is something many of us rely upon each day: Wikipedia. The widely-used digital encyclopedia is being targeted by many of the world's most nefarious governments and ruthless ideologues to frame their objectives as innocuous rather than terror – their leaders as noble 'resistance'-members rather than cold-blooded murders.

Most dangerous of all, the world's most popular AI platforms such a Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT heavily rely upon Wikipedia to train their large language models – which are increasingly becoming the most consequential media sources of the digital age.

To see how this phenomenon is playing out in real life, I asked ChatGPT to generate a hypothetical multiple-choice question for American middle school students, asking them: What is Hezbollah?

The answer is: a US designated terror group that has killed hundreds of civilians.

But rather than reference Hezbollah's decades-long campaign of bloodshed – which includes high-profile bombings, hijackings and kidnappings – ChatGPT claimed that Hezbollah is simply 'a Lebanese political party.'

And it offered just one citation: Wikipedia.

The Hezbollah example is hardly an outlier. The same thing happened when I asked ChatGPT about Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Abu al-Walid al-Dahdouh, who was killed by Israel in 2006. ChatGPT described him as a 'prominent commander' responsible for military operations—rather than the head of a terror network which waged a campaign of deadly suicide bombings in Israel.

Surprised? I'm not. As with Hezbollah, ChatGPT lists Wikipedia as the primary source for its al-Dahdouh entry. Same with former Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, who for more than three decades oversaw state-sanctioned policies of terror and repression against his own citizens. And same with former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the October 7th attacks against Israel.

ChatGPT's reliance on Wikipedia as a source is obviously problematic because Wikipedia articles often rely on information provided by the terror groups and government they describe.

It's a process you might call 'information laundering:' By exploiting weak Wikipedia editorial standards, militant groups produce entries that are absorbed into a trusted knowledge platform, and then redistributed across search engines and AI systems,

The result is subtle but powerful.
French proposal for Israel-Lebanon peace agreement includes recognition of Israel
Lebanon has accepted a French proposal as a basis for peace talks with Israel, while Israel and the United States are still reviewing the framework, Axios reported on Saturday, citing three sources familiar with the details.

The proposal reportedly aims to end the current war, secure an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, and create a path toward unprecedented Lebanese recognition of Israel.

The reported framework comes as Israel prepares to significantly expand its ground operation in Lebanon, with Israeli and US officials telling Axios that Jerusalem is weighing a push to seize the area south of the Litani River and dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure.

Such a move would mark Israel’s largest ground operation in Lebanon since the 2006 war, according to the report.

According to Axios, France wants Israel and Lebanon to open negotiations, with US and French backing, on a political declaration that would be finalized within one month. The talks would reportedly begin among senior diplomats and later move to senior political leaders, with Paris proposed as the venue.

The declaration would include an initial Lebanese recognition of Israel and a commitment by Beirut to respect Israel’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the report said.

Both sides would also reaffirm their commitment to UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and to the 2024 ceasefire agreement.
Hamas asks Iran not to target ‘neighboring countries’ after attacks on Qatar, Turkey
Hamas on Saturday called on its benefactor Iran to refrain from striking neighboring nations after the Islamic Republic responded to the US-Israeli bombing campaign by targeting countries across the region, including Qatar and Turkey, two of the terror group’s other leading state sponsors.

The Hamas statement, which called for an end to the “American-Zionist aggression” against Iran, came as Palestinian media reported at least three people killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza on Saturday. The Israel Defense Forces, which said it killed three Palestinian gunmen since Friday, did not immediately comment on the reports, but regularly attributes such killings to alleged ceasefire violations by Hamas.

In its first such public appeal to Tehran, Hamas said that, “while affirming the right of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respond to this aggression by all available means in accordance with international norms and laws, the movement calls on the brothers in Iran to avoid targeting neighboring countries.”

A Hamas official told AFP that the Palestinian terror group has been in contact with Iranian officials over the issue.

“The Israeli occupation seeks to sow discord between Iran and its Arab and Islamic neighbors,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.

“Hamas’s leadership has also reached out to officials in several countries, including Qatar, Turkey, and Iraq, urging them to work toward halting the American and Zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he added.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Before Pouring Billions into Gaza, Trump's 'Board of Peace' Needs To Ask A Few Hard Questions
[T]he Palestinian Authority... is expected to play a significant role in the future management of the Gaza Strip. Recently, Nickolay Mladenov, High Representative for the "Board of Peace," announced the establishment of a "Liaison Office" by the PA for communication and coordination regarding the board's activities in the Gaza Strip.

The newly established National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, which is supposed to be an independent body of apolitical technocrats, is dominated by officials affiliated with the PA and its ruling Fatah faction.

For the past 33 years, the international community has failed to track the flow and use of aid money donated to the Palestinians, enabling high-level corruption. Tens of billions of dollars in international aid given to the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip have been lost to corruption, siphoned off by terror groups or mismanaged by the PA leadership.

Since October 2023 alone, Hamas has reportedly generated an estimated $500 million by seizing humanitarian aid trucks and selling supplies to Gaza residents at inflated prices.

Corruption, mismanagement and diversion of aid have repeatedly undermined reconstruction efforts in the Gaza Strip and played a major role in preventing aid from reaching ordinary Palestinians. Cement and construction materials intended for civilian housing have repeatedly ended up being used for Hamas's terror tunnels and military infrastructure. Resources that donors believed were helping build homes and schools were instead strengthening Hamas and other terror groups. Much of the donor money has been swallowed by corruption, political patronage, and the militarization of Palestinian society.

The Gaza Strip has become the only place in the world where a terror group can repeatedly wage war -- funded by the international community -- while that same international community pays to rebuild the battlefield afterward, possibly for the next war.

The people of the Gaza Strip urgently need humanitarian assistance, housing, infrastructure, and economic opportunity. However, pouring money into the territory without strict safeguards will not help those residents.

International aid has empowered a governing system that prioritizes rockets over reconstruction. While donors thought they were funding hospitals and schools, Hamas was appropriating enormous resources and investing them in weapons, military infrastructure, and preparation for the next confrontation with Israel.

If the "Board of Peace" truly wants to help the Palestinians, it must abandon the illusion that money alone will solve the problem. Any serious reconstruction effort must begin with extremely uncompromising conditions...
FBI: Attacker shot himself after getting stuck in car he rammed into Michigan synagogue
A Lebanese-born man who learned a week earlier that four of his family members — including two brothers who were reportedly Hezbollah operatives — were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building where dozens of children were inside.

Authorities said Friday that Ayman Mohammad Ghazali, 41, crashed his car into Temple Israel outside Detroit on Thursday afternoon, then started firing his gun through the windshield, exchanging fire with an armed security guard.

Following the attack on Thursday, a person familiar with the matter speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said security guards in the building killed the gunman.

Later, authorities said guards “neutralized” him.

But Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit field office, said during a news conference Friday that ultimately Ghazali fatally shot himself after he got stuck in his vehicle and the engine caught fire.

Officials later found large quantities of commercial-grade fireworks and several jugs of a liquid believed to be gasoline.

The FBI, which is leading the investigation, has described the attack on one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues, located in suburban West Bloomfield Township north of Detroit, as an act of violence targeting the Jewish community.

Runyan said that law enforcement didn’t have enough evidence to call the attack an act of terror at this time, but said that investigations were ongoing.


What is Ashab Al Yamin? New Shi’ite terror group claims synagogue attacks across Europe
A new group calling itself Ashab Al Yamin has claimed responsibility for three attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe this week.

The first attack was the bombing of a synagogue in Liege, Belgium, on Monday. This was followed by an attack in Greece on Wednesday and an arson attack on a synagogue in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Friday.

The group seemingly did not exist before this week and, unusually, does not have its own Telegram or social media channels. Usually, such groups create channels straight away.

Nevertheless, the videos it took of the three respective attacks quickly appeared on Shi’ite axis Telegram channels, such as those associated with Hezbollah or the IRGC. This may suggest a link between Ashab Al Yamin and Iran-related proxy organizations.

The name Ashab Al Yamin translates as Companions of the Right or People of the Right. This does not mean right in the political sense, but rather 'righteous ' or 'just.' Ohad Merlin, MENA researcher at the regional program in MIND Israel, explained to The Jerusalem Post that the Quran often uses right and left as metaphors. The specific Arabic name People of the Right also appears in the Quran in Al Waqi'ah 56:28.

The group's logo depicts an upstretched arm holding a rifle, which is pointing to the right. Behind this is an image of the globe. This logo bears all the hallmarks of the logos of Iranian terror groups or Iranian-led Islamic Resistance groups; Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the IRGC in Iran all feature the same image of a hand holding a rifle pointing rightwards, superimposed on a globe.

One notable divergence with the logo of Ashab Al Yamin is that it features a specific rifle model: a Dragunov rifle. A SVD or Dragunov rifle is a Soviet semi-automatic rifle prized among some groups in the Middle East, but significantly less common in Europe. The other axis groups mentioned use stylized versions of AK rifles.
Blast hits Jewish school in Amsterdam, mayor calls it targeted attack
An explosion damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam early on Saturday, causing no injuries, in what the city’s mayor described as a deliberate attack against the Jewish community, Dutch news agency ANP reported.

The explosion at the school in an upscale residential neighborhood on Amsterdam’s south side caused only limited damage, Mayor Femke Halsema said in a press release, as police and firefighters arrived quickly at the scene.

“This is a cowardly act of aggression against the Jewish community,” Halsema said.

“Jewish people in Amsterdam are increasingly confronted with antisemitism. This is unacceptable.”

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten called the attack in Amsterdam “horrible” and said it understandably caused “fear and anger” in the Jewish community.

“The safety of Jewish institutions has our full attention,” he said in a post on X.

Four arrested after explosion at Rotterdam synagogue
Security at synagogues and Jewish institutions in the Dutch capital had already been heightened ahead of the attack, as the bombing was the second attack against a Jewish target in the Netherlands in recent days.

It comes after an explosive device detonated at a synagogue in the center of Rotterdam on Thursday, also causing no injuries.

Four suspects in Thursday’s bombing were apprehended later that day when police stopped a car that was driving suspiciously close to another synagogue.


Security guard injured in Michigan synagogue car ramming ID’d as longtime police officer
The security guard who was injured when an armed antisemitic terrorist tried to murder toddlers at a Michigan synagogue has been identified as a longtime police officer.

Danny Phillips was standing guard as the Temple of Israel’s director of security when the terrorist plowed through the front doors and opened fire on Thursday, according to the Detroit News.

Phillips was hospitalized following the attack.

“We are also sending our love and our prayers and our strength” to Phillips, Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny said during Friday’s Shabbat observance.

“Danny is an amazing man.”

Phillips previously spent 28 years working for the Bloomfield Hills Police Department, serving as the department’s advanced firearm instructor and rising to the rank of lieutenant before joining Temple Israel in June 2025.

His appointment was made “in response to the evolving realities facing Jewish communities,” according to Temple Israel, and was part of a months-long process to beef up the synagogue’s overall security.

He was hired to oversee a sophisticated operation that included a combination of an in-house security team with metal detectors, guards for hire, police and even overhead drones during events like High Holiday services, according to Forward.


US may hit Iran's Kharg Island again, Trump tells NBC News
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States may carry out more strikes on Iran's Kharg Island oil export hub, saying that while Tehran appears ready to make a deal to end the conflict, "the terms aren’t good enough yet."

He said the US strikes had "totally demolished" most of Kharg Island, telling NBC News that "we may hit it a few more times just for fun."

Trump also questioned whether Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still alive.

"I don't know if he's even alive. So far, nobody's been able to show him," Trump told NBC.

"I'm hearing he's not alive, and if he is, he should do something very smart for his country, and that's surrender," he added, while calling the news of Khamenei's death a "rumor."

Trump also said that he is not ready to make a deal with Iran because "the terms aren't good enough yet."

Trump said on Saturday that "the only power [Iran has] it's a power that can be closed off relatively quickly, is the power of dropping a mine or shooting a relatively short-range missile. But when we get finished with the shoreline, they're not going to have that power either."

"We've knocked out most of their missiles. We've knocked out most of their drones. We knocked out their manufacturing of missiles and drones, largely. Within two days, it'll be totally decimated," Trump added.

He also told NBC that it is not clear whether Iran has dropped mines into the Strait of Hormuz.


Strait of Hormuz open to everyone but US, Israel, Iranian FM Araghchi says
The Strait of Hormuz is only closed to US and Israeli ships, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with MS NOW on Saturday.

Other ships are free to pass, although many prefer not to due to “security concerns,” which Araghchi claimed have nothing to do with Iran. He added that currently there are “many tankers and ships that are passing through the Strait of Hormuz.”

This comes after US President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the US, along with several other countries affected by “Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait,” would be sending warships to keep the Strait “open and safe.”

In the post, Trump listed China, France, Japan, South Korea, and the UK as examples of countries affected by the closure, expressing hope that they would send ships to the area.

Araghchi says everything is under control amid claims of instability within regime
Araghchi also responded to claims made by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was wounded and likely disfigured, saying that “there is no problem with the supreme leader.”

“He sent his message yesterday and will perform his duties - he is performing his duties according to the constitution and will continue to do that,” Araghchi added.

Araghchi also emphasized that the Islamic Republic was well-established and not reliant on any one person, and that any loss of individuals could be weathered by the system.

“Everything is under control,” Araghchi said.


IDF pummels terror sites as Hezbollah chief threatens long campaign
Israeli forces have killed more than 380 Hezbollah operatives, including key commanders from the Shi’ite group and other terrorist organizations operating in Lebanon, since the start of “Operation Roaring Lion” on Feb. 28, the IDF said on Saturday.

The terrorists were killed in a series of targeted strikes from the air, sea and land over the past week, the statement read.

The prominent terrorists slain were from Hezbollah, Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force and Imam Hossein Division, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as “the senior command of Iranian regime representatives in Lebanon,” the Israel Defense Forces said.

The IDF mentioned some of the most senior commanders by name: Zid Ali Jomaa, commander of Hezbollah’s firepower management; Ali Reza Bi-Azhar, head of the intelligence branch of the Lebanon Corps within the Quds Force; Ahmad Rasouli, intelligence commander in the Quds Force’s Palestine Corps; and Ali Maglas Tabaja, commander of the Imam Hussein Division.

In total, seven Hezbollah commanders, five Lebanon Corps commanders, three Imam Hussein Division commanders and one Islamic Jihad commander were killed. The IDF did not specify how many additional Iranian representatives were killed.

“The eliminations and strikes in Lebanon significantly degrade the command-and-control and firepower abilities of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, and it minimizes the threats to the State of Israel and its civilians,” the army stated.


Iran launches waves of missiles towards central Israel, Eilat
Iran launched a ballistic missile towards central Israel at approximately 2:30 a.m. on Sunday morning,

An earlier wave on Sunday morning targeted Eilat in southern Israel, at approximately 1:30 a.m.

The missile launches caused the IDF's Home Front Command to sound sirens across central Israel, the northern West Bank, Eilat, and the Arava.

Initial reports indicate that shrapnel hit in Rishon Lezion, Ramle, and Bnei Brak, with both Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah reporting that there have been no direct casualties.

However, MDA paramedics treated an unspecified number of people who were injured en route to the shelter, and those who suffered from anxiety, and United Hatzalah added that they had also treated two people injured en route to shelters.

Additionally, MDA paramedics provided medical care to two elderly civilians, approximately 80-years-old. One suffered cuts from broken glass, and the other inhaled smoke, an MDA spokesperson stated.


Iranian cluster munition injures boy, man in Eilat
Iran continued to fire ballistic missiles at Israel throughout Saturday, with a cluster munition warhead lightly wounding two civilians in the southernmost city of Eilat.

The missile was likely intercepted by Israel’s air-defense system, but its fragments dropped in seven locations in Eilat, Ynet reported.

A boy, 12, and a man, 39, were taken to the city’s Yoseftal Medical Center.

The Magen David Adom national emergency health service initially reported that the boy was in moderate-to-serious condition. Yoseftal Medical Center later clarified that victims were admitted with light injuries.

The boy and man were hit while outside of protected spaces, according to Ynet.

The report cited Ben Avital, the 39-year-old, saying, “I was out walking the dogs and we received an early warning. We wanted to get into a bomb shelter, but I didn’t manage to reach one in time. So I took cover in a private parking area.

“It just fell on me and the dogs. They’re stitching up my forehead and I probably broke my foot. I managed to save one dog. Their names are Tzili and Gili. I managed to save Tzili. Right now they’re fighting for Gili’s life at the veterinarian.”

Emergency personnel, including police sappers and rescue teams, were dispatched to the area to handle any unexploded ordnance and interceptor parts, the Israel Police said in a statement.

“Searches are ongoing with the aim of locating additional items and removing any danger to the public,” the statement read.


EylON the Record: The Two Most Powerful Air Forces in the World | Lt. Gen. Dick Newton
Iran built its power on terror, missiles, and the threat of nuclear blackmail. The question now is whether the U.S. and Israel will finish the job—or leave behind an even more dangerous regime.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Lt. Gen. Dick Newton, former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force and America’s first commander of the B-2 stealth bomber squadron, about the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran and what it will take to actually win. They discuss whether this is a synchronized allied operation or two parallel wars, what success against the Islamic Republic would really look like, and why stopping short could leave Israel, the United States, and the wider region facing an even greater threat.

In this episode:
Why the United States is so impressed with the Israeli Air Force as a "force multiplier" for American power

Why declaring victory too early could leave a wounded Iranian regime alive, angry, and more dangerous than before

Why a joint US-Israeli commando operation might be the only way to deal with the Iranian regime's enriched uranium

This conversation goes beyond the daily headlines to examine the real strategic stakes: deterrence, alliance credibility, regime survival, and the future balance of power in the Middle East. If Iran is left partially defeated but still intact, the costs will not stay local—they will shape American power, regional stability, and the global contest against the authoritarian axis.




Iranian footballers change asylum decision as secret approach revealed
Three members of Iran’s women’s football team who were granted humanitarian visas in Australia have changed their minds, as new details emerge about the secret moment when players were offered the chance to seek asylum.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced on Sunday that three women informed officials they intended to leave Australia and return to Iran.

It comes after seven members of the squad had at one point sought protection, though four have now reversed course and opted to return.

“While the Australian government can ensure that opportunities are provided and communicated, we cannot remove the context in which the players are making these incredibly difficult decisions,” Mr Burke said.

“The Australian government has done everything it could to make sure these women were provided with the chance for a safe future in Australia.”


‘Jarring omission’ from Sydney Swans chief Matthew Pavlich’s tribute speech gets called out
The Sydney Swans have apologised after being pulled up on a “jarring omission” from their tribute to the heroes and victims of the Bondi Beach tragedy last Thursday.

While it largely went unnoticed by many on the night (and indeed was widely praised), it has now emerged that new Sydney chief executive Matthew Pavlich’s speech was edited before he addressed the SCG crowd ahead of the Swans-Carlton clash.

Swans great and radio commentator Gerard Healy has revealed that the word “Jew” or reference to the “Jewish” community was not uttered when Pavlich spoke.

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Healy had initially praised the Swans for taking the initiative to recognise the tragedy while also calling out the AFL for its silence on the issue.

But now Healy says there has been a serious “error of judgement” by Sydney and a lot of people in the Jewish community are “upset”.


Karol Markowicz: No, Mayor Mamdani, the First Lady of NYC is not a private role
People like Duwaji, who imagine they are friends to the Palestinian people, are ultimately their enemy. The same Oct. 7 that Duwaji celebrated was terrible for Israelis, yes, but also ended up being a disaster for the people in Gaza she claims to care about.

Did Duwaji imagine that her “likes” on social media posts would cower Israel into not responding to their people being brutally massacred at a music festival and at home in their pajamas? Was she so ensconced in her echo chamber that she though her western privilege and her social media button clicking would stop retaliation to children being kidnapped and murdered?

Friends to Palestinians would tell them to accept the existence of Israel and, like the liberals of old used to say, co-exist. But no one liking posts about mass murder is going to do that. New Yorkers need realism just the same to improve a city that has been in decline. They can’t count on this mayor or his wife to give them that.

Duwaji liked these posts before she was the wife of the mayor of the City of New York. Surely she will be more careful in the future not to expose her support for wanton slaughter. Her husband is making excuses for her but there are none. New Yorkers have gotten a peek into what the mayor’s wife really believed when she thought no one else was watching.
The real scandal behind Zohran Mamdani's Gracie Mansion dinner
Gracie Mansion is not a private dining room: It is the official residence of New York City’s mayor and one of the most visible civic symbols of municipal authority in the United States. When a figure associated with a protest movement that produced widespread reports of intimidation toward Jewish students is welcomed into that setting, the gesture carries a meaning beyond personal hospitality.

It confers legitimacy.

By hosting Khalil at the mayoral residence and publicly celebrating the occasion, Mamdani effectively recast a figure tied to campus confrontation as a guest of civic respectability. What had previously been associated with disruption and intimidation was reframed as something closer to moral vindication.

That reframing is exactly why the language used to describe the dinner matters.

Labeling Khalil merely an “anti-Israel activist” makes the story sound like a distant foreign policy dispute; it implies a debate about events in the Middle East. In doing so, it erases the domestic reality that made the Columbia protests so controversial.

Those events unfolded on an American campus, affected American students and raised serious questions about whether Jewish students could participate fully in university life without intimidation.

The Gracie Mansion dinner therefore carries significance that extends beyond Israel. It raises a question about the boundaries of civic legitimacy in the United States itself.

Democratic societies are strong enough to absorb fierce arguments about foreign policy. What they cannot ignore is the normalization of movements that helped create an atmosphere in which Jewish students felt threatened inside American institutions.

When political leaders elevate figures associated with that movement into the symbolic heart of city government, the gesture sends a clear message about what behavior is now considered acceptable within civic life.

That is why the Gracie Mansion dinner deserves scrutiny.

Not because it involved a critic of Israel.

But because it signaled that the political culture which surrounded and celebrated the humiliation of Jewish students can now be welcomed into one of the most prominent civic spaces in New York City.

And describing that merely as a controversy about Israel misses the real story entirely.
Oct. 7 survivor has blistering message for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ‘rape hoax’-believing wife: ‘These are facts’
A survivor and witness to the atrocities of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in Israel delivered a blistering broadside to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife after she “liked” a social media post claiming the rapes of Israelis during the terror rampage were a “mass hoax.”

“My message to Mrs. Mamdani is simple: political narratives should never cloud your judgment when it comes to the facts of October 7th. Real people suffered, were raped and were killed,” Tali Biner told The Post Friday from a bomb shelter in Israel.

“I was there.”

Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji liked a February 2024 Instagram post by an anonymous pro-Palestine influencer questioning the validity of a New York Times report about sexually-violent attacks by Hamas on civilians.

Duwaji, 28, was describes herself as a Syrian-American artist, also liked a celebratory Instagram post that shared images of the murderous assault on the day of the attack.

Bliner said she’s speaking for the Oct. 7 rape victims who never got to tell their story — because they were killed after being violated by the Islamic terrorists.

The surgical nurse, now 30, was at the Nova music festival when the massacre unfolded, and spent seven harrowing hours hiding from Hamas killers in a small camper on festival grounds.

She recalls hearing the blood-curdling screams of women, sometimes for what seemed to be 20 minutes.

Biner would hear desperate pleas of “No!” and “Stop!” over and over again, followed by a gunshot.

“I knew beyond any doubt what was happening was not just torture, it was sexual violence,” she said.

When she finally emerged from her hiding place, she discovered naked bodies, young and old, lying on the ground.

“They dismembered bodies and sexually violated women and men, including rape and the insertion of objects into their bodies,” she said.

“These are facts.”
Mamdani slams ‘reprehensible’ antisemitic comments by author his wife illustrated
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday condemned online commentary from a prominent Palestinian writer and activist who labeled Jewish people “parasites” and “demons” whose book Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, provided an illustration for.

The mayor’s comments came a day after the Washington Free Beacon reported that Duwaji had supplied artwork for an essay by prominent author Susan Abulhawa in the collection Every Moment is a Life, a book Abulhawa also compiled. The outlet also found various tweets in which Abulhawa railed against Israelis and Jewish people more broadly, using terms such as “Jewish supremacist vampires,” “rootless soulless ghouls,” and “dual loyalty Zionists.”

In one post, Abulhawa quoted another X user who asked, ”is everyone Jewish or married to a Jew in the U.S. government?” to add her own antisemitic commentary.

“the whole world is zionist occupied, except Palestine. They’ve stolen our land and home and heritage, but we’ve at least kept our dignity, refusing to submit to these parasites on earth,” she wrote.

In his remarks on Friday, Mamdani asserted that his wife had “never engaged with nor met” Abulhawa, and received the contract work for the illustration via a third party.

“I think that that rhetoric is patently unacceptable. I think it’s reprehensible,” the mayor said.

The mayor also again stressed that his wife “doesn’t have a role” in his administration, though in a January interview he called her the “best advocate” for influencing his policy decisions.

Jewish Insider previously reported that Duwaji had liked multiple online posts expressly supporting the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.


Made in Moscow
On 1 March, the day after the United States and Israel launched strikes against the Islamic Republic, Candace Owens told her 7.6 million followers on X, “goyim always must die so the Khazarian mafia can expand their borders.” The post had 1.8 million views. A few days later, Tucker Carlson told his audience that Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement best known for campus outreach, was part of a plot to orchestrate the Iran war, in order to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and rebuild the Jewish Temple.

These are not fringe ideas hatched in fetid corners of the internet. The underlying ideas about secret Jewish networks, occultist sects manipulating world events, and non-Jews dying in Jewish wars are outgrowths of an ancient prejudice. And their contemporary form did not emerge from American political culture.

The characterisation of Chabad as a nefarious conspiratorial organisation, references to a “Khazarian mafia,” the idea that Jews are Satanic, and the links between these ideas and anti-Zionism can all be traced to Moscow. Russia’s use of anti-Jewish disinformation predates the Soviet Union. The most widely disseminated antisemitic text in history, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, is an early 20th-century Tsarist Russian fabrication purporting to document a Jewish plan for world domination. It was assembled in part from a 19th-century French political satire that had nothing to do with Jews, with the goal of redirecting social unrest and was subsequently disseminated by the Nazi regime.

Through forged documents, fabricated attributions, and coordinated disinformation campaigns, the KGB regularly weaponised antisemitic tropes to discredit Western institutions and used antisemitism to deepen social divisions. To work, such conspiracies do not need to be universally believed. They only need to circulate widely enough to polarise, distract, and degrade institutional trust.

In 2024, the US Department of Justice unsealed the files documenting a Russian disinformation operation that was part of the broader “Doppelgänger” campaign targeting American Jewish communities. Operatives created a fraudulent version of a Jewish newspaper and impersonated Israeli citizens on social media. According to an FBI affidavit, this was a deliberate effort to exploit divisions within the American Jewish community in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election.

Moscow has also cultivated Western far-right extremists. The Russian Imperial Movement, designated a terrorist organisation by the US government in 2020, provided paramilitary training to Western extremists on Russian soil. As a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty investigation has documented, Russian military intelligence recruit saboteurs via Telegram. Global intelligence and terrorism analysts at the Soufan Center allege that the founder of “The Base,” a transnational neo-Nazi network that carried out “Operation Kristallnacht” by vandalising synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin, is a Russian intelligence asset.

While Putin publicly claimed that the “denazification of Ukraine” was one of his reasons for invading the country, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that, on Telegram, the invasion was framed as a war against a covert Jewish power structure. As the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has documented, the same claim was common on social media: “Ukraine is NOT at war with Russia, it’s being SET FREE BY Russia! The Khazarian Jewish Mafia is being brought down.”

The “Khazarian mafia” conspiracy theory is Russian state-adjacent propaganda that begins with the false claim that Ashkenazi Jews descend from a medieval Turkic empire. Though academically debunked and genetically disconfirmed—Jews from the three diverse diaspora groups of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi are genetically closer to each other than to non-Jews from their respective regions—the lie is hard to kill. These Khazarian “fake Jews,” the conspiracy theory alleges, secretly control global finance, media, and governments.

The defamation of Chabad-Lubavitch as a covert organisation directing geopolitical events has followed the same trajectory. In October 2022, an assistant secretary of Russia’s Security Council published an official article calling for the “desatanisation” of Ukraine and designating Chabad-Lubavitch a “neo-pagan supremacist cult.” A Security Council superior later issued a formal apology, but it was too late—the claim had already spread far and wide.

Alexander Dugin is a veteran of the antisemitic organisation Pamyat who has been prominent in Russian-imperialist intellectual circles for three decades. His work characterises Jews as descendants of “semi-demons” and worshippers of the Middle Eastern pagan god Baal. Dugin depicts a satanic elite connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Israel, bent on the destruction of traditional civilisation, as the animating force behind Western foreign policy, and frames Western civilisation itself as a “paedophilic civilisation of Baal.” His Foundations of Geopolitics is reportedly assigned reading at the Russian military academy.


Police to ‘act decisively’ on ‘intifada’ chants and placards at Al Quds hate demo
Officers will “act decisively” on intifada chants and placards spreading hate during the al-Quds Day demonstration in London, the Metropolitan Police said.

Scotland Yard is bracing for a “difficult public order” environment on Sunday, with at least 1,000 officers drafted in to manage crowds expected to reach about 12,000 people amid the conflict in Iran.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood granted the police’s bid for a month-long ban of the annual march organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), making it the first time such a restriction on protest had been imposed since 2012.

But people can still legally assemble and take part in a so-called “static protest”.

In its latest statement on the demonstration, the Met said: “Officers on the ground will act decisively and be briefed on placards, flags and chanting that will cross the line into hate crime or support of a proscribed organisation.”


The Indian princess who rescued Jews from the Holocaust
The remarkable story of an Indian princess who rescued Jewish families from the Holocaust features in a major exhibition opening in London later this month.

Among the exhibits going on display at Kensington Palace is a never seen before item of jewellery that sheds new light on the bravery and humanity of Catherine Duleep Singh, one of the last princesses of Punjab.

The pendant belonged to the family of Ursula Hornstein, a Jewish girl who fled Germany with her family just months before the Second World War.

It was given to her by Catherine who sponsored the family’s escape to Britain.

Catherine and her sisters, Sophia Duleep Singh and Bamba Sutherland, were the daughters of Duleep Singh, the last maharajah of the Sikh Empire, who was deposed at the age of ten in 1848 and later exiled to Britain and Europe.

Although exiled the family became well known figures in British society and politics, including to Queen Victoria, who was godmother to Sophia.

Catherine had spent much time in Kassel, central Germany, living with her lover Lina Schäfer.

In 1938, the princess had a chance encounter in a doctor’s surgery with a Ursula’s mother, Ilse Hornstein, whose husband was facing death in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Michael Bowles, Ursula Hornstein’s youngest son, said Catherine offered to be the family’s guarantor for British immigration “almost immediately”.

Bowles said: “It’s an incredible testament to someone being kind and generous. For our family, it is enormously powerful that someone would have taken the trouble to do that.”

Ilse herself took enormous risks, going to the Gestapo offices disguised as a secretary and securing her husband’s release on the grounds of his First World War hero status, enabling the family to leave Germany.




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