Wednesday, March 25, 2026

03/24 Links Pt2: Britain is a dying society, poisoned by a hatred nobody will confront; Canada’s Polite Pogrom; What Happened, Megyn Kelly?; Death of a Holocaust denier

From Ian:

Jonathan Tobin: The Islamophobia narrative is about erasing Jews and antisemitism
Americans have good reason to fear the spread of hatred that has become normative in nations where Islamists dominate. That is why immigration and even refugee absorption from such countries is so problematic, because it leads to an influx of people who are largely indoctrinated in beliefs that are antithetical to the values of Western civilization and invariably antisemitic.

Nor, contrary to the Times, is fear of such groups imposing Muslim religious law (Sharia) on other societies unfounded. That is not merely the historical pattern of Islamic communities, but the reality in Western Europe, where the infusion of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa has resulted in authorities fearing to enforce the law at all in some places. This creates an environment in which Islamist hate crimes can be excused or ignored, and those who protest such policies are treated as troublemakers rather than truth-tellers.

More than anything else, the talk of Islamophobia is a stick with which to beat critics of Islamic hate. It is an attempt to silence those who have the temerity to notice the connection between the antisemitic incitement that is commonplace in Islamist discourse in the West and attempts to intimidate Jews and target them for violence. It is no surprise that every time an act of Islamist violence happens, it is now followed by talk of the need to prevent Islamophobia.

The Times commended, in retrospect, President George W. Bush’s almost obsessive fear of offending Muslims during his administration’s “war on terror.” Bush’s insistence that Islam was “a religion of peace” became something of a joke during his presidency. Two decades later, that knee-jerk effort to deny the obvious about Islamist hate and antisemitism is no longer merely risible. It is a deliberate effort to prevent effective action against the Jew-hatred that has surged throughout American society, largely with the assistance of the same media outlets so determined to decry Islamophobia.

The point of contemporary bigotry and bias against Jews is, as author Dara Horn has written, to erase them and work toward a final solution of eliminating Jewish civilization. The focus on Islamophobia is just that. Those who are serious about actually preventing discrimination and hate shouldn’t fall for this big lie.
Death of a Holocaust denier
Ali Larijani, the 67-year-old former head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, died a terrorist’s death last week. For much of his career, however, he lived as a diplomat, and was feted as one by regional and Western nations alike.

Back in 2007, Larijani addressed the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany. Arriving in the city off the back of a Holocaust-denial conference hosted by the regime in Tehran, Larijani no doubt got a tremendous kick out of telling an audience in Germany, of all places, that it was an “open question” as to whether the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews had occurred. He did much the same two years later at Munich in 2009, telling one questioner that Iran’s leaders did not share European “sensitivities” or “perspectives” when it came to querying the veracity of the extermination program.

He would have likely done so again in 2011 had his earlier denialist statements not resulted in a ban on his attendance—a classic example of a European state realizing far too late that to stop the horse from bolting, the stable door would need to be shut first.

In the various high-level roles he held on behalf of the Islamic Republic, chief nuclear negotiator among them, Larijani never lost sight of the regime’s core goal of eliminating the State of Israel. Now that he has himself been eliminated—the latest in a long line of terrorists and terror enablers from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran to have been felled by an Israeli strike since the Oct. 7, 2023 pogrom—the question remains as to whether Iran can continue to be the world’s primary state sponsor of anti-Zionist ideology, assuming that the regime survives the current U.S.-Israeli onslaught in truncated form.

Iran took on that position following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its allied communist states from 1989 onwards. During the Cold War, Soviet anti-Zionism, a central plank of Moscow’s foreign policy, morphed into what I call “antizionism”—a toxic ideology that has never been as strong or as visible as today, nearly four decades after the demise of the USSR. What was being opposed was not Zionism as the vast majority of Jews understood the term, but a defamatory caricature that drew heavily on older antisemitic tropes.

This expressed itself in two principal ways: violence and propaganda.

The Soviets backed the Arab side in the regional wars of 1967 and 1973. They supported various left-wing terrorist groups in Western countries, led by such figures as the Venezuelan militant Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez (also known as “Carlos”), a KGB and East German Stasi asset who operated on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. And they sponsored a slew of propaganda initiatives, in the form of pamphlets with titles like “Beware: Zionism,” as well as U.N. General Assembly resolutions, among them the infamous equation of Zionism with racism approved by the world body in 1975.
Genocidal Glee
The screenshots below show two things happening at once:
First, a private email sent by Glenn Greenwald, where he tells a Jewish recipient to “crawl out of your Sabbath hole” and watch Israeli cities being hit by Iranian missiles, followed by a link and the word “Enjoy.”

Second, his public follow up, where he frames himself as the victim of smears, denies wrongdoing, and then states plainly, “I think it’s good for the world that Israel is feeling retaliatory strikes for the wars they started.”

All the talk about innocent civilians, all the moral posturing, all the hours spent pretending this is about universal principles and human suffering, all of it collapses the second Israelis are the ones under fire. Then the mask slips, and what comes out is the truth. They never cared about innocent civilians in any consistent or serious way. They cared about using civilian suffering as a political weapon against Israel. That is a very different thing, and people should stop pretending otherwise.

Defenders of Israel spend an enormous amount of time explaining basic realities that should not need to be explained to honest people. We explain why casualty figures coming out of the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health cannot simply be treated as clean, neutral civilian death tolls, especially when Hamas has every incentive to inflate, manipulate, and obscure the distinction between civilians and combatants. We explain that Hamas embeds itself in civilian areas, stores weapons in homes, schools, and mosques, launches attacks from within populated neighborhoods, and then relies on the resulting images for propaganda. We explain that Hamas built an entire terror infrastructure under Gaza while leaving its own civilians exposed above ground, because civilian vulnerability is useful to them. We explain all of this for one reason. Because if Israel were deliberately targeting innocent civilians, that would be evil, and the truth would matter.

That is what makes comments like Glenn’s so revealing. He’s not arguing that civilian suffering is tragic wherever it occurs. He’s arguing that Israeli civilians being targeted by ballistic missiles is somehow morally satisfying because he has accepted the lie that they are collectively guilty. He wants the category of civilian to apply when it can be used against Israel, and he wants it to disappear when Israelis are the ones bleeding.

And once you see that, a lot of other things come into focus. It explains why so many of these people become extremely skeptical and forensic when Israeli actions are under discussion, but suddenly become emotionless and vindictive when Israelis are murdered. It explains why every dead Gazan child is treated as a moral indictment of the Jewish people, while dead Israeli children are treated as background noise, an unfortunate detail, or in many cases a justified consequence. It explains why they spend months lecturing the world about “dehumanization” and then casually speak about Israeli families as though they are legitimate instruments of collective punishment.


Canada’s Polite Pogrom
Hatred against Jews in Canada has spiked to historic levels since October 7. It’s a crisis commonly measured via violence and vandalism. More synagogues in Canada in the past 28 months have been desecrated, burned, shot at, or threatened with bombings than in any other country. Jews in Canada are now statistically more likely to be victims of police-reported hate crimes than any other minority. A Jewish girls’ school in Toronto was shot at on three separate occasions. A Jewish grandmother was stabbed in a kosher supermarket in Ottawa, and a mother in Toronto was assaulted while picking her child up from a Jewish day care. Police have thwarted a half-dozen extremist murder plots since October 7 against Jews by Canadian residents.

These incidents have generated news coverage and sympathetic statements from mayors and members of Parliament, whose proclamations that This is not who we are as Canadians have become commonplace.

Documenting and denouncing shootings and arson attacks are easy. But it’s harder to account for stories like Rosenberg’s, where Jews exit public life without any glass or bones being broken. How many Jewish academics, health-care workers, teachers, and arts-organization employees have left institutions because they no longer feel welcome or protected? Nobody is counting. The diversity statistics collected by these organizations rarely include “Jewish” as a category of self-identification.

Here’s what can be said for sure: 80 percent of Jewish doctors and medical students surveyed by the Jewish Medical Association of Ontario reported experiencing anti-Semitism at work after October 7. In 2024, more than 100 Jewish doctors stopped acknowledging their affiliation with the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine in protest of what they saw as a failure to protect Jewish students and faculty. Almost a third of Ontario’s Jewish doctors say they are considering leaving Canada because of hostile work environments, according to the JMAO survey.

A group of Jewish teachers in British Columbia filed a human-rights complaint against their own union, accusing the BC Teachers’ Federation of ostracizing, bullying, and silencing its Jewish members. A federal report into Ontario’s K–12 schools found nearly 800 anti-Semitic incidents reported in elementary and high schools since 2023, many relating to the conduct of teachers.

One hundred thirty-five cultural organizations across Canada joined the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel. The Toronto International Film Festival dropped a documentary from its lineup that told the story of an Israeli grandfather’s experience rescuing his family from Hamas on October 7, before an outcry forced its restoration. A Jewish film festival was postponed in Hamilton, Ontario, when the theater hosting the event backed out, citing “safety concerns.” The cartoonist Miriam Libicki was banned from the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival out of “public safety concerns,” because years earlier, she had written a book about her time serving in the Israel Defense Forces. (The festival later reversed course and apologized.)

And then there’s Canadian politics.

In 2023, the mayor of Calgary broke with a long-standing local tradition and refused to attend a City Hall Hanukkah-menorah lighting; she said the event had “political intentions” because it “had been repositioned to support Israel.”

The awkward reality is that a main driver of these incidents is a very Canadian aversion to causing offense: The deference of many politicians and institutions to the views of a rapidly growing minority community is too often leading them to reject another minority community. Although relatively few Canadians hold negative views of Jews, opinion polls have found that such views find greater levels of support within the Canadian Muslim community. From 2001 to 2021, the Muslim population of Canada more than tripled, to about 5 percent of the population. Just 4 percent of non-Jewish Canadians agree that Jews are largely to blame for the negative consequences of globalization, but that figure rises to 28 percent among Canadian Muslims, according to a survey conducted by the University of Toronto sociologist Robert Brym. Similarly, only 16 percent of Canadians believe that it is appropriate for opponents of Israel’s policies to boycott Jewish-owned businesses in Canada, but that claim finds support among 41 percent of Canadian Muslims.
The Quiet Redefinition of “Material Support to Terrorism” in U.S. Courts
I was catching up on Jan v. People Media Project (Palestine Chronicle), and what from the surface looks like a routine procedural move is should be treated as something far more consequential, an attempt to redefine what “Material Support to Terrorism” means.

The Palestine Chronicle is as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit, meaning American taxpayers are subsidizing an outlet with alleged ties to terrorism. According to the lawsuit, the The Palestine Chronicle provided material support to Hamas by employing an individual who was not only affiliated with a terrorist organization, but was directly involved in holding three hostages captive. The case also alleged that Abdallah Aljamal told the hostages that “Hamas was going to ensure that the United States, as well as Jews and Israelis, are hated everywhere and that Hamas in Gaza was coordinating with its allies, including its allies in the media and on college campuses, to foment hatred against Israel and Jews.”

In January, the court stayed the case pending the Supreme Court’s decision in Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe, a case that deals with a very different legal question: whether a U.S. company can be held liable under the Alien Tort Statute for allegedly aiding and abetting human rights abuses carried out by a foreign government. In Cisco, plaintiffs claim the company helped build surveillance systems used by Chinese authorities to track and repress dissidents, raising unresolved questions about corporate liability, intent, and the scope of U.S. courts over conduct abroad.

On paper, that sounds like judicial caution. In reality, it raises a far more serious concern: the quiet reopening of a legal standard that Congress already defined.

A settled statute, treated like an open question
Cisco deals with aiding-and-abetting liability under the Alien Tort Statute, an area of law the Supreme Court has repeatedly narrowed and questioned. It is unsettled, contested, and still evolving.

But the case against the Palestine Chronicle is not operating in that space. The case at hand does not rely on this unsettled, judge-made framework, but on clearly defined U.S. statutes governing material support to terrorist organizations, making the decision to tie the two cases together far from straightforward.

The Palestine Chronicle case centers on alleged material support to a terrorist organization under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, a statute Congress wrote with precision and intent. Its meaning is not ambiguous. The Supreme Court already addressed it in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, making clear that liability does not require intent to commit violence, only knowing support to a designated terrorist organization. That clarity is not incidental. It is the entire point.

The danger is not delay, it’s redefinition
By tying the case against the Palestine Chronicle to Cisco, the court risks doing something far more consequential than pausing a case. It risks importing uncertainty from one legal doctrine into another where uncertainty was deliberately removed.

Material support laws were designed to be preventative. Congress made a conscious decision: in the context of terrorism, waiting for intent to become explicit is too late. The law therefore focuses on knowledge, not shared purpose.

But once courts begin to blur that standard, the definition itself starts to shift. And that is the real danger. Redefining “material support” does not require rewriting the statute. It can happen gradually, through interpretation, through comparison, through procedural decisions like this one.


Melanie Phillips’s new guide to our antagonists and how to fight them fair and square
If you are not angry by now, then you are not paying attention. If you were paying attention before October 7, you had probably read Melanie Phillips’ 2006 book Londonistan and got very angry indeed.

If you are still catching up, you may have read last year’s The Builder’s Stone, which argues that Jews are integral to Western civilisation. Phillips’ latest, Fighting the Hate, is punchy and polemical, but it’s also a practical guide to the dilemmas in which Western Jews find themselves.

“How do you cope when a civilisation is collapsing around your ears?” is the question raised by October 7 and its degenerate aftermath. A “liberal-Muslim axis” has “conducted a concerted and spectacularly successful attempt to manipulate Western public opinion – through an unstoppable and overwhelming torrent of lies and distortions”.

Britain’s soft centre is intimidated and anyway, Phillips writes, it always held Jews in “polite social contempt”. Labour has “betrayed” the Jews. The media present Israel as “positively demonic” in a “total inversion of truth and reality”.

Through the aggression of our enemies, the weakness of communal leaders and the passivity of our neighbours, we face a “crisis of legitimacy” familiar from prior nadirs of Jewish history. But globe-spanning media and mass immigration make it “unprecedented in nature and scale”.

How to respond? Historical precedent suggests that if you haven’t made Plan B by now, then you never will. Most Western Jews, Phillips writes, are “lonely and abandoned and unsure how to behave under this kind of pressure”, and many will not leave for Israel. Fighting the Hate is for them.

This is a tough-love primer, stronger on toughness than love. Jews must fight their haters, Phillips writes. It is a “historic duty to bear witness”, to “stand up for the Jewish people and what they represent, and to fight those who have risen up against the Jews and the West”.

Phillips advises Jews to learn Krav Maga, and develop the psychological and rhetorical equivalent, “a system of fighting back that draws upon your personal armoury of mouth and brain”. The bullies want you to respond emotionally, so learn your facts and stay calm. They expect you to counter with an accusation of “antisemitism”, and perhaps appeals to censorship, so don’t do that either.
Analysts say Gaza 'civilian' deaths include Hamas, other terror members working as medics, media workers
As Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) publicly claim their dead, new research shows that many previously counted as civilians were in fact members of the terrorist organizations, undermining accusations that Israeli forces deliberately targeted civilians in Gaza.

Researchers monitoring the Hamas-run health ministry’s death reports told Fox News Digital that a growing number of "martyrs" were exposed as terrorists by their own groups such as Hamas, despite maintaining public identities as healthcare or media workers.

Gabriel Epstein, senior policy associate at Israel Policy Forum, told Fox News Digital that he has tracked multiple individuals named by Hamas and PIJ as martyrs killed in battle in Gaza who held positions in the health industry, including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs.)

Epstein found several individuals labeled as medical staff who are also members of terrorist groups. The most serious revelation from the martyr list is Fadi al-Wadiyya, a physiotherapist for Médecins sans frontières, who was killed by Israel Defense Forces in June 2024. MSF responded to the death, saying they were "outraged" and "strongly condemn[ed] the killing of our colleague."

When the IDF claimed that al-Wadiyya was a member of PIJ, MSF said they had "no prior knowledge" of his "alleged involvement in military activities" and said they had "not received any formal explanation" of "the circumstances of his killing."

In a Telegram account claiming to be the media reserve for the Al-Quds Brigades, a post mourning al-Wadiyya’s martyrdom on Feb. 24 lists the physiotherapist as an assistant to the military manufacturing unit of PIJ’s Al-Quds Brigades.

Fox News Digital asked MSF whether they were aware of al-Wadiyya’s PIJ connections prior to the martyr announcement. A spokesperson said, "We would not knowingly employ people engaging in military activity" as it "would pose a danger to our staff and patients by compromising our neutrality."

The spokesperson said that "MSF had no indication that Fadi Al Wadiya might have been involved in military activity of any kind prior to the Israeli authorities’ online posts in June 2024. In the immediate aftermath of Al-Wadiya's killing, we asked for explanations from the Israeli authorities, but never received an official response. If the Israeli authorities were aware of Al-Wadiya's links with militant activities, they never shared this info with us until after he was killed. To this day, the only information they shared and that we are aware of is what was shared through public social media posts."
The West is turning on its Jews Algorithms and ethnic hatred threaten the diaspora
By effectively demanding total disavowal of the world’s only Jewish state, this campaign has ceased to merely be a rally for a free Palestine. Rather, it has become an offensive against the diaspora, from the high street bakery to the House of Lords. This poisoned discourse reached its nadir on 12 March, when a gunman arrived at a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with the intention of massacring the 130 children there and at the school next door. But, I heard, the synagogue had the word “Israel” in its name. But the Jewish communal leadership had always supported Israel. But the Lebanese attacker — in fact known to be connected to Hezbollah — had lost family to Israeli bombs.

This Middle East war will end. Wars always do. The algorithm will move onto other things. And I do expect, when that happens, the intensity of the proxy diaspora war to slacken too. But I fear that now the seal has been broken. The effusion of Jew-hatred has reversed decades’ worth of declining antisemitism, as memories of the Holocaust fade, with large numbers of young Brits and Americans now dabbling in the taboo-busting “JQ.” This is online slang for asking the “Jewish Question” and exploring its florid antisemitic answers. “The effusion of Jew-hatred has reversed decades’ worth of declining antisemitism.”

Their generation, then, is shaping up to be antisemitic. Over 25% of young Americans now hold unfavourable views of Jews; among older Americans, it’s just 5%. And in the UK, a fifth of students don’t want to houseshare with Jews.

There is evidence to suggest that the intensity of this spike, especially in the case of outright Holocaust deniers like Fuentes, may be driven by foreign powers using bot farms to rip into American cohesion. The war against the Diaspora is a tool of hostile actors in their wars on the West. The king of the “Groypers”, as his fans are known, has enjoyed a dramatically higher rate of early retweets of his X posts — this being the key to viral takeoff — than even Elon Musk. Yet, according to a 2025 report, 90% of the accounts boosting Fuentes’s early retweeters were fully anonymous, with roughly half of his retweeters coming from Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia and Indonesia. The tide may well, when the Democrats return, subside. But the ubiquity of online antisemitism will not.
Streeting brings in new powers to suspend anti-Semitic doctors
Wes Streeting has agreed to reforms that will make it quicker and easier to suspend anti-Semitic and racist doctors.

The overhaul will give regulators new powers to suspend doctors who demonstrate racist or anti-Jewish views, but have previously been able to continue work.

The biggest reforms to the General Medical Council (GMC) in 40 years will also mean that doctors who have committed sexual abuse more than five years ago can be punished.

The Health Secretary supported the reforms after expressing his anger last year at doctors who were not punished for anti-Semitism allegations.

This included Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who was allowed to keep working for the NHS and practising medicine despite making a “slit your throat” gesture to Jewish people and posting anti-Semitic tirades on social media. She has since been suspended, but denied making racist or hateful comments..

It led Mr Streeting to ask regulators to explain “why they are failing so publicly and abysmally in their responsibility to protect Jewish staff and Jewish patients”.

In October, Sir Keir Starmer asked Lord Mann, the Government’s anti-Semitism tsar, to review all forms of racism in the NHS.

The first of his recommendations is now being taken forward by the Government. Changes to legislation will give both the GMC and the Professional Standards Authority (PSA), which oversees all healthcare regulators, more power to overturn decisions made by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS).

Independent panels at the MPTS oversee tribunals when the GMC wants to suspend or strike off a doctor from the medical register – making the final decision.

They can impose temporary or interim restrictions, but came under fire last year for not doing so in some cases of alleged anti-Semitism, including Dr Aladwan’s case.

Under the new laws, if approved, the GMC or PSA, could intervene to impose interim restrictions on medical licenses, while a full investigation is undertaken.
Nicole Lampert: Britain is a dying society, poisoned by a hatred nobody will confront
We’ve had more than two years of hate marches – they were singing “from the river to the sea” under the Tories before Labour. I thought, I hoped it would end when there was a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas – even though I knew we were stuck in a new normal.

But hate marches continue, the hatred endures, it radicalises, it regenerates and it becomes more extreme. They cry “globalise the intifada” and, even after we saw what that looked like in Manchester and then Bondi Beach, our weak Government can’t even outlaw people calling for violence against Jews.

A few weeks ago, I sat with Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, as two medics described the horrific bullying and anti-Semitism they had encountered in the health service. They said no one was willing to help because – they were told – Jews aren’t a minority. And even if we were, we probably deserved it because of Israel. They were in tears, I was in tears, even he had tears swimming in his eyes as he admitted he was “ashamed” to hear their stories.

And so we have an inquiry into anti-Semitism in the NHS to go alongside the one into schools and the previous ones into universities. And still, the hatred ramps up and we wonder where it will end. Inquiries feel like kicking the problem down the road.

Howard Jacobson has written a brilliant novel about the post-Oct 7 world called Howl. That word sums up how I feel. I want to howl: “You have to stop this!” But even if I howled it outside 10 Downing Street, the sound would echo, it would clatter and then it would fall to the ground like a 1p coin. Ignored.

Guts are required to fight this hatred. Leadership. Where is it going to come from? I am not interested in people using party politics, kicking my community between them. I want to hear solutions. I need to know that Islamic extremism is being taken seriously. We all need to know this.

Amid the darkness there was some light. In just a few hours, more than £500,000 was pledged to Hatzola to replace the ambulances. In Golders Green, friends told me, a group had appeared from Cambridge bearing bracelets saying: “You are not alone.”

Britain is a good country with a great sickness. It is one that not even the best Hatzola medic could cure. The teeny bit of optimism I have left in me is that maybe now our leaders have once again seen the symptoms, they will start thinking about a cure. If they don’t, the prognosis is dire: the end of the Jewish community in Great Britain, the destruction of our country.
Stephen Pollard: The Hatzola attack and the normalisation of antisemitism in Britain
Already the loons have started their conspiracy theories. One former British ambassador has written, “Could they make the false flag any more obvious?” and there have been any number of social media posts decrying the very existence of Hatzola, on the basis that it shows how Jews look after only themselves with our own fleet of ambulances. Like all antisemitic assertions, this demonstrates only the stupidity and malignity of those making it: Hatzola is run by Jewish volunteers and funded by the Jewish community, but is – as JC readers will be well aware – there for the entire community, Jews and gentiles alike. And the fact that four of its ambulances have been destroyed means that waiting times across north west London will now suffer – for everyone.

If Iran is the most likely culprit, it is operating in the climate of rising Jew hate in which we are now living and which is proving so – to put it mildly – destabilising for our community. We are not living through 1930s Germany. But that should not be the only measure of concern. Living through a repeat of the Nazi era is not the only definition of an existential threat to our way of life and security. The evidence may be anecdotal, but I know that many of you reading this will have had and will continue to have the conversation I referred to above: whether it is safe for us to stay here.

Increasingly it feels as if we are beginning to return to the times of our ancestors, where the Jews were turned on and scapegoated. I have long argued that the period after Second World War until around the turn of the century, in which antisemitism was present but was shunned and frowned on in polite circles, and when it was not an issue that was of real concern to Jews – the period in which I lived the first 40 or so years of my life, for example – was an aberration. But because the majority of Jews have grown up in that period, it was our norm.

What is now happening, I believe, is a sort of reversion to the mean: for centuries open Jew hate and antisemitic attacks were the norm, and that is what we are now returning to. It is only because so many of have grown up in the aberration of the post-war period, that we are so shocked by what is now returning.

Whoever is responsible for last night’s attack, that, surely, is the real context.
Britain has a fifth column says Suella Braverman on visit to Hatzola aftermath
Suella Braverman has warned of a “fifth column” threatening Britain, in the wake of the arson attack which destroyed four Hatzola ambulances.

Speaking to the JC after touring the scene of the fire, the former Home Secretary claimed a “community of people” from outside the UK “are intent on destroying this country and its values of tolerance and decency.”

The former Conservative who is now a Reform MP said: “A large part of that involves antisemitic hatred, and it is not spoken about enough, it is not policed enough, it is tolerated.”

Touring the site of the blast on Monday evening, Braverman said it was “heartbreaking to see another attack on the Jewish community”.

The MP for Fareham and Waterlooville in Hampshire said she was “increasingly frustrated by the lack of action and the mealy-mouthed words of sympathy and thoughts and prayers from our political leaders”.

Asked what she would do differently if in power, Braverman said she would ban “hate marches” and “bring an end to normalised antisemitism on our streets”.

Later, sitting down with a plate of falafels and hummus at restaurant Taboon on Golders Green Road, Braverman reflected on her time in government and said she had been repeatedly blocked from acting on extremism and antisemitism.

“I have been in government and I have tried to stop this. I tried to ban the hate marches, but a Conservative Prime Minister and a Conservative Cabinet didn't agree with me that we needed to ban the hate marches and sacked me because I wanted to ban them.”

“I would need a prime minister who actually supports me,” she added.

She reiterated her call for the proscription of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stating that she had been prevented from taking that step while in office.

“The last Conservative government wouldn't even make the promise to do it; they just prevaricated and some of us internally were urging for the prescription and we were blocked,” she said.
Golders Green arson is a test of Britain’s resolve to defend its values
That is the purpose of our new plan, Protecting What Matters. It will tighten how public bodies, charities, schools and universities deal with extremist groups; improve how we track and confront extremism across the country; and stop dangerous individuals spreading their ideas here in the UK.

At its heart is a simple belief: our country works only when we live by shared values – respect, fairness, and the willingness to stand up for one another. Antisemitic attacks tear at those values. When Jewish families in north London lie awake wondering whether an ambulance outside might be targeted, something fundamental has gone wrong. Communities Secretary Steve Reed, MP

Protecting What Matters is practical: stronger police powers to manage protests; further investment to tackle antisemitism in schools and colleges; and a public review of antisemitism in the NHS. And since coming into government, we have put record funding into security for synagogues, schools, youth movements and community centres. I am proud of that commitment, and will protect it for as long as it needed – though it is a mark of failure that such defences are required at all.

Even strong security cannot erase what we are facing. Antisemitism, the oldest hatred, mutates but never disappears. It corrodes trust, divides neighbours, and emboldens those who think Jewish people should live smaller, quieter lives.

Yet Jewish communities and leaders continue to do extraordinary work to nurture tolerance and bring people together. This is what matters. We must protect what matters.

Your safety is a measure of this country’s integrity. We will pursue those responsible, strengthen the security you rely on, and do so with determination – until that day when a Hatzola ambulance is not a target but a quiet reassurance that help will always come.
King Charles to become Community Security Trust patron
It was the best “good news” an anxious Jewish community could have hoped for: King Charles has agreed to become patron of the Community Security Trust.

Lord Finkelstein, a trustee of the CST, delivered the King’s decision to a rapturous 1200-strong crowd at the charity’s annual dinner, its timing all the more perfect for a community still coming to terms with that morning’s vicious firebombing of four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green. The audience included politicians from across Parliament, from Health Secretary Wes Streeting to former Foreign Secretary Sir James Cleverley.

But the mood running through the evening’s event was one of determination and defiance. Lord Finkelstein set the tone when he declared: “We are going to stay strong because we have each other — and we have allies.” Not only, he said, did the community welcome keynote speaker, the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, “with an open heart and open arms”, but “our greatest ally” was the King.

His Majesty’s acceptance of the invitation to become patron of the CST sent a clear message, Lord Finkelstein said. “We are not just Jews, we are British Jews. We stay strong and we stay here. We have seen worse, and we have come through it.”

In a warm and passionate address, the Home Secretary spoke repeatedly not merely of the need to tackle antisemitism but also set out some of the measures which the government is taking. These include an increase to £28 million of funding, previously announced, for the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant. Ms Mahmood said she was happy to announce that this level of funding would be maintained in the year ahead.

The Home Secretary began her address by saying she wished “that the work of the organisation is no longer necessary”, that she wished “we had defeated antisemitism in this country”, and that she wished “we could take the safety of our Jewish community for granted”.

But she noted: “It is not lost on me that this funding is an illustration of a wider societal failure: the failure to address the scourge of antisemitism. I am no stranger to this fight. In the dark years of opposition, I fought the antisemitism that infected and disfigured the Labour Party, as did the Prime Minister”.

She described the attack on the Hatzola ambulances as “appalling,” saying: “To target Hatzola, an institution devoted to saving lives and serving the public in North London, is so warped it defies words.

“This was more than an attack on four ambulances. It was more than an attack on one organisation or on one community. It was an attack on this country and on us all”. And she made clear: “An investigation is ongoing. Those behind this warped attack should be in no doubt: they will be pursued and made to face the consequences of their vile actions”.


Car torched in suspected antisemitic attack in Belgium
The torching of a car overnight in Antwerp, Belgium for which two minors were arrested, is being treated as a suspected antisemitic attack, a Belgian official said on Tuesday.

European countries including Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain have witnessed incidents targeting the Jewish community since the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran on February 28.

A spokesperson for the Antwerp prosecutor said an investigation was under way, and that the two suspects had been arrested shortly before midnight on Monday, moments after the attack.

They said a video circulating on social media that purportedly showed the arson attack appeared authentic and was part of the investigation. Reuters did not independently verify the video.

In a post on X, the European Jewish Congress condemned the arson attack, saying that it “reflects a deeply troubling escalation in acts targeting Jewish communities.”

Over the past two weeks, synagogues have been attacked in Liege, Belgium, and in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, as was a Jewish school in Amsterdam. In Britain, counterterrorism officers are leading an investigation into an attack on Jewish community ambulances.


Police said to suspect terror motive in fatal ramming of settler teen
Police’s suspicion of a terror motive in the fatal ramming of an 18-year-old Israeli settler in the West Bank over the weekend has reportedly strengthened with time, the Haaretz daily reported Tuesday, though the investigation is still ongoing.

Yehuda Sherman had been traveling in an ATV when it was hit by a Palestinian driver north of Nablus on Saturday. Police began investigating the incident as a lethal car accident, but later announced that they were probing the possibility of an intentional attack.

Citing a source familiar with the ongoing investigation, Haaretz said police increasingly suspect the incident was a terror attack and believe it occurred after a dispute between Sherman and the 57-year-old driver, from the nearby Palestinian village of Beit Imrin.

Police reportedly have evidence that the driver sped up just before the impact.

But those close to the driver, including his brother and his defense attorney, insisted the car crash was an accident.

Sherman lived in the illegal settlement outpost of Shuva Yisrael Farms in the northern West Bank. He was conducting a “land patrol” Saturday afternoon with two other men, including his brother, Daniel, who lives in and runs the wildcat outpost, the Samaria District Council said.

The council’s statement alleged that the Palestinian vehicle sped up toward the ATV before hitting it, although neither the police nor the army statement said that.

Sherman was fatally wounded, while his brother Daniel and the driver were lightly injured. All three were taken to the hospital.


Three Palestinians charged in connection with Huwara lynching of Jewish teen
Israeli prosecutors recently indicted three Palestinians over the Jan. 25 assault of a Jewish teenager in the Samaria city of Huwara, the Israel Police said on Tuesday, in an incident described as a severe lynching that nearly resulted in the victim’s death.

The indictment follows the arrest of six suspects following a joint investigation by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the Israel Border Police’s Judea and Samaria investigations and intelligence unit, police said.

“According to the findings of the investigation, on Jan. 25, 2026, information was received from the Shin Bet regarding a Jewish teenager who had entered the Huwara area, where he was violently attacked by several local residents. As a result of the assault, the teenager lost consciousness and the suspects believed he was dead,” according to the statement.

Following the report, security agencies carried out “intelligence-gathering and investigative operations” that led to the arrest of six suspects. Indictments were filed over the weekend against three of those involved.

“The investigation revealed that this was a serious security incident with characteristics of a lynching,” police stated.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry in an X post on Tuesday described the incident as terrorism, adding: “Call it what it is.”

“A Jewish teenager was lynched in Huwara by Palestinian thugs. Beaten unconscious until they thought he was dead,” the ministry tweeted. “Three suspects have been charged. Arrested by Israeli Border Police forces.”

Palestinian terrorists targeted Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria at least 5,051 times in 2025, according to figures published by the Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) NGO last month.


Board of Peace envoy lays out principles of disarmament plan presented to Hamas
The Board of Peace’s top Gaza envoy on Tuesday revealed the principles of the disarmament proposal submitted to Hamas earlier this month, urging the international community to pressure the Palestinian terror group to accept the offer in order to prevent another cycle of violence in the Gaza Strip.

“It has been presented to the parties, and the engagement on it is very serious,” Board of Peace High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov said in remarks at the United Nations Security Council’s monthly session on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Two senior Arab officials familiar with the proposal submitted by Gaza ceasefire mediating countries — the United States, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey — told The Times of Israel that they expect Hamas to respond with a counter-offer in the coming days.

While the officials offered some details on the proposal, which were published in The Times of Israel, Mladenov’s briefing to the Security Council was the first time aspects of the disarmament offer were disclosed on-the-record.

Five principles of disarmament
According to Mladenov, who briefed the council repeatedly during his previous tenures as UN envoy for Iraq and the Middle East peace process, the proposal to Hamas has five principles.

“First is reciprocity. Decommissioning proceeds in parallel with staged withdrawal (by the IDF). This is fundamental to the credibility of the entire process,” he said.

While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly endorsed US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for ending the Gaza war last year, he and other members of his government have expressed a desire to maintain a permanent IDF presence in at least the eastern half of the Strip still controlled by Israel.

Mladenov said that the second principle of the disarmament proposal submitted to Hamas is sequencing. Confirming The Times of Israel’s reporting, he said that “the most dangerous weapons — rockets, heavy munitions, explosive devices, assault rifles owned by arm groups [will be] addressed first [and] Tunnels must be neutralized.”

“Personal weapons are addressed later through a registration and collection process,” he said, ostensibly referring to what the Arab diplomats said would be the buy-back program in which funds and jobs are offered to those who hand over their weapons to the Palestinian police force being formed.


travelingisrael.com: Israel’s Collapse: The 5 Reasons That Will Lead to the End of the Jewish State.
Is Israel actually on the brink of collapse, or is this just a highly polished information war? Here is the full breakdown of the lies, the receipts, and the truth they don’t want you to see.




Coleman Hughes: Sam Harris on Iran, Tucker Carlson’s Conspiracies, Antisemitism & the Future of Civilization
Sam Harris is one of the great thinkers of our time. The philosopher, neuroscientist, and host of the Making Sense podcast joined me to discuss some of the defining issues of the moment. We began with the ongoing war in Iran. While Harris is in favor of regime change, given the Islamic regime’s hostility to its own people as well as the United States, he is pessimistic about the possibility of success and raises his concerns about the competence of those carrying it out.

From there we dug into a wide range of issues: anti-Zionism and antisemitism, the rise in conspiracy theories, to the Epstein files and how they should have been handled, the mental health effects of social media, declining global birth rates, and what he thinks about Gavin Newsom as a potential presidential candidate.

At one point, I put to Harris my sense that, across an array of topics, he devotes an unusually large percentage of his intellectual energy to the 1 percent chance that something will go catastrophically wrong. But Harris disputed my assessment, explaining that the threats he’s most worried about—from jihadist attacks, to pandemics worse than Covid, to AI ruining civilization, to President Donald Trump doing lasting damage to the integrity of our society—are not remote tail risks, but real and plausible dangers that demand serious attention.

0:00- Intro
1:05- Is War With Iran Justified?
7:52-The Case for Preemption
14:46-Why Open Societies Must Defend Israel
22:23-Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism
29:26-The Right’s Antisemitic Turn
35:00-Why Conspiracies Are So Seductive
38:02-Epstein, Distrust, and Disclosure
45:15-Social Media and Mental Health
49:40-Democracy and the Middle East
53:49-Declining Birth Rates
56:22-Are These Really Tail Risks?
1:04:13-Gavin Newsom and 2028


Rep. Brad Schneider, New Dems chair, urges Democrats to disavow Hasan Piker
Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL), who chairs the moderate New Democratic Coalition, called on Democrats on Tuesday to reject and distance themselves from Hasan Piker, the far-left media figure boosted by an increasing number of Democrats and Democratic candidates.

Piker has faced repeated criticism for antisemitic comments and support for terrorism, in addition to a range of other offensive remarks and activity. Schneider, in addition to his leadership in the New Dems -— one of the largest groups in the House Democratic Caucus — is a co-chair of the Congressional Jewish Caucus.

“Hasan Piker is an unapologetic antisemite,” Schneider said on X on Tuesday. “Democrats risk losing our credibility to condemn those on the right who traffic in bigotry, antisemitism, & hate when our own Members of Congress & candidates are celebrating or, worse yet, platforming those who espouse hate of any kind.”

Schneider said he is proud that the Democratic Party “welcome[s] a broad diversity of opinions and priorities. But we cannot allow those who preach hate & seek division to find safe harbor among us. We must call out hate & reject those who champion ideologies of exclusion and demonization.”
Pro-Palestine Children’s Book Glorifies “Al-Qassam,” the Name of Hamas’ Military Wing
Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa has published her first children’s book featuring positive a reference to Hamas’ designated terrorist military wing. In promotional materials for Palestine on the Moon, Abulhawa describes a plot element where “there’s a magic part of the moon called Al-Qassam” where “Palestinians will use its magic moondust to get free, and free the rest of the world too.”

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, commonly known as the Al-Qassam Brigades, serves as the armed wing of Hamas and was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department in 1997. Additionally, “Qassam” is also the name associated with the rockets Hamas has repeatedly fired at Israel.

Abulhawa’s Activism and Controversial Statements
Abulhawa, an internationally published novelist, founded the nonprofit Playgrounds for Palestine in 2001 and has been active in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Her activism extends beyond policy criticism into inflammatory rhetoric about Israelis and Jews.

In social media posts, Abulhawa has referred to Israelis as “rootless, soulless ghouls” and described the October 7 attacks, which killed over 1,200 Israelis, as a “spectacular moment.” She also characterized the Gaza war as a “Jewish supremacist slaughter,” writing “these sons of Satan will taste what they meted to us.” Susan Abulhawa’s Op-Ed describing October 7th as a “spectacular moment.” Credit: Electronic Intifada

In a March 2026 interview, Abulhawa doubled down, stating “I think no words, no terrible words should be spared for these monsters, because they are monsters” in reference to Jewish Americans.
NYC school pushes artwork by Zohran Mamdani’s wife while blocking Holocaust survivor from speaking to students
A Brooklyn middle school used Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife’s artwork in a seventh-grade activist-themed lesson — at around the same time it had temporarily blocked a Holocaust survivor from speaking to students, The Post has learned.

Illustrations by Rama Duwaji — who Mamdani has bizarrely claimed isn’t a public figure — were showcased alongside celebrity writers, dancers and musicians like Kendrick Lamar in a course called “Art for Social Change” at MS 447 in Boerum Hill.

“Students have been busy throughout this unit thinking about their own deep culture, their identities, their interests and activities, and social justice issues connected to one, some, or all of these, MS 447 teacher Joy Cannon said in a notice to parents last fall.

“They have looked at mentor art and artists like Misty Copeland, Kendrick Lamar, Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Rama Duwaji, Libre Gutierrez, and Marianne Williamson,” Cannon added.

Educators presented the first lady’s work to students and encouraged them to use it as inspiration to create their own personal art.

“What is the message in Syrian-American Rama Duwaji’s art?” the students were asked. “How do you think her deep culture shapes what she cares about and what she creates?”

Duwaji’s illustrations include headings and messaging such as “Stillness of Displacement,” “People Will Rise Against Tyranny,” “Pulse of Protest,” “Quiet Refusal to Be Spoken For,” and “And in Sisterhood What It Means to Belong.”
Rashida Tlaib member of secret Facebook group where Hamas terrorists glorified
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is part of a secret social media group in which its members have glamorized Hamas in its war battle with Israel after the terror group attacked and killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians last month, Fox News Digital has found.

The Michigan Democrat is a member of the Palestinian American Congress group on Facebook. The group is hidden from non-members and does not appear on the platform's search engine, though Fox News Digital was able to gain access to it.

The group's founder, Maher Abdel-qader, who has extensive ties to Tlaib and has also been linked to other liberal politicians, has come under fire in the past for his antisemitic social media posts, including questioning if the Holocaust ever occurred.

Rashida Tlaib is a member of the private Palestinian American Congress Facebook group. (Fox News Digital screenshot of the secret Palestinian American Congress Facebook page)

The Palestinian American Congress group, of which Tlaib is a member, has featured pro-Hamas posts in the wake of the deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

On Oct. 12, one group member posted: "We don't want to throw you in the sea...we want you to ride it back from where you came." The message was accompanied by a picture of an elderly Israeli woman and a Hamas fighter holding her captive.

On Oct. 19, another group member wrote about the "achievements" of the "resistance in Northern occupied Palestine," including dozens of dead Israeli soldiers. The post included a picture of a Hamas fighter.

"Since yesterday I have been attached to the TV watching the news," one group member posted on Oct. 10, addressing the "American Media" and saying, "You, and the people directing you, are the problem, you created it almost 100 years ago, made it official 75 years ago and you have been feeding its flam ever since."

"You consider Hamas a terrorist organization and I am not going to argue with you at the same time you have been broadcasting that they have been killing women and children, guess that is what terrorists do at the same time no mention to the killing of Palestinian women, children and entire families killed on a daily basses (sic) by the [peace-loving] state of Israel using American gifts of weapons and jet fighters."

"Yesterday I didn't see Hamas I saw the grand kids (sic) of the refugees that ethnically cleansed from their homeland attacking the grand kids (sic) of the colonists whom sent them to diaspora," they later wrote.

Several members have also posted pro-Hamas messages and pictures this year before the attacks.


Abdul El-Sayed calls statement on Temple Israel attack ‘a risk’
Far-left Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is taking flak over comments in an internal campaign call that issuing a statement on the attempted terrorist attack on Temple Israel in the Detroit suburbs was a “risk,” Punchbowl News reported Tuesday.

In both the original statement and the internal comments, El-Sayed condemned the attack while also suggesting that it ultimately could be blamed on Israel’s operations in Lebanon. The alleged attacker was the brother of a Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike, the IDF said.

The Punchbowl report linked to a minute-long unlisted YouTube video of El-Sayed, which appears to have been recorded on Zoom.

“I want us to understand that we have to work toward a world where none of this happens, no war, no bombing of apartment buildings, no antisemitism, no attacks on synagogues in schools, like we need to be opposed to all of it and and I think that that’s the kind of leadership that I’m hoping I can offer,” El-Sayed said in the video.

“We put out a much longer statement on this,” he continued. “I hope folks will check it out, and I hope it resonated. And, you know, it was a risk. All of our team was really worried about saying something, but leadership is being willing to say the thing, if you believe it to be true, that nobody else is going to say.”

It’s unclear if the “risk” El-Sayed referred to was tracing the attack back to Israel’s actions in Lebanon or condemning the attack itself.

While El-Sayed spoke, one person in the Zoom meeting, identified as “Mauricio” appeared to justify the attack, saying in a comment, “The synagogue raised funds for the IDF.”

In the initial statement, El-Sayed offered a condemnation of the attack, emphasizing that it would leave scars on the community and that it recalled “centuries of trauma,” while affirming his support for Jews’ right to practice their faith in safety.

But, while condemning the attacker and saying his actions could not be justified, El-Sayed also suggested that the perpetrator’s actions ultimately traced back to Israel and its reported killing of his family members.
Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman finds work with Track AIPAC
Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), who lost his bid for reelection in 2024 largely over his hostile views on Israel, now appears to be working for a political action committee linked to a radical anti-AIPAC social media account — a committee funded in part by soft-rock icon Don Henley.

The latest disclosure filings from Citizens Against AIPAC Corruption, one of two PACs tied to the X account AIPAC Tracker and website Track AIPAC, show that it paid $7,000 to a Yonkers, N.Y.-based firm called JAB Advocates for “General Campaign Consulting.”

JAB does not appear to be a registered company in New York, but its address in the filing belongs to Bowman, who lost a primary challenge for his seat covering parts of the Bronx and Westchester County to Rep. George Latimer (D-NY) in 2024.

Bowman’s LinkedIn identifies him as JAB Advocates’ “Founder & Principal.”

“Advising political leaders, EdTech companies, and advocacy organizations on policy strategy, government relations, and market entry — with active engagements across the U.S., Europe, and South Asia,” the description on his page reads, highlighting Bangladesh and Qatar as countries where his clients conduct business. “Senior advisor to members of Congress, elected officials, think tanks, and fundraisers across the country.”
What Happened, Megyn Kelly?
Why this shift?

This change appears driven by both political and personal factors.

Within the American right, an ongoing dispute between traditional foreign policy hawks and “America First” isolationists has intensified – especially since the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025.

Israel has become a central fault line in that divide.

On the isolationist side, this debate has increasingly overlapped with the normalization of extremist and antisemitic rhetoric seen in figures like Tucker Carlson and others who platform voices that demonize Israel and Jews.

This retreat from foreign engagement, combined with flirtations with antisemitism, is particularly pronounced among younger right-wing audiences drawn to figures like Carlson and Candace Owens.

Against this backdrop, Kelly appears to be recalibrating.

Rather than shaping her audience, she is following it, moving from tentative criticism to increasingly sweeping claims.

Yet she has not fully embraced the conspiratorial rhetoric of Carlson or Owens. Instead, she acts as a bridge shielding more extreme voices while refusing to challenge them.

That makes her less an extremist than an enabler.

There are also more personal incentives at play.

As noted by Ben Shapiro, Kelly has a history of adjusting her positions to maximize engagement, reflecting trends within the right rather than shaping them.

Her podcast is managed by Red Seat Ventures, which also produces Tucker Carlson’s show and other right-leaning content. Breaking with those figures could carry professional costs.

Taken together, Kelly’s shift appears driven by audience capture, relevance, and incentives, not principle.

And when a major media figure operates that way, it raises serious questions about the integrity of American political discourse.


Toronto Police to deploy armed officers, bans pro-Palestinian protests in Jewish areas
Toronto Police is deploying armed officers across the city and outside places of worship in light of attacks on synagogues and the US consulate, the force announced Tuesday.

The Service is launching Task Force Guardian, a security initiative that enhances police visibility in key locations by deploying uniformed officers equipped with patrol rifles and other long guns as part of a deterrence strategy.

It is also establishing a dedicated Counter-Terrorism Security Unit (CTSU) to provide continuity, oversight, and proactive risk mitigation through an intelligence-led, evidence-based approach. The CTSU will also improve information‑sharing and strengthen existing security partnerships with the RCMP, the OPP, and local and international law enforcement partners to identify and disrupt potential threats affecting Toronto and the GTA.

The measures come in light of "heightened tensions, and the firearm discharges targeting synagogues and the US Consulate in Toronto and other violent, hate-motivated incidents around the world," the Service said in a statement.

The service noted that the action is not connected to one immediate threat, but instead relates to the fact that Toronto is seeing a more complex threat environment influenced by global conflicts, online radicalization, and extremism, along with a significant increase in hate crimes.
Prominent West Midlands Muslim activist arrested on suspicion of racially abusing policeman
A prominent West Midlands Muslim activist, who led the protests against a football match involving Maccabi Tel Aviv, has been arrested on suspicion of racially abusing a black police officer.

Akhmed Yakoob, who stood as a pro-Gaza independent candidate for the West Midlands mayoral election and the general election in 2024, was arrested on March 10 after a live stream he was running appearing to broadcast a male voice describing a policeman man as a “racist motherf*er, black motherf*ker, son of a bitch.”

The arrest came just five days after Yakoob was reportedly detained on March 5 in connection with the burning of an Israeli flag at a separate protest.

West Midlands Police confirmed a 38-year-old was arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence at about 18:00 GMT on Hospital Street, Birmingham, and has since been released on bail.

In a statement, the force said it was aware of social media comments suggesting the arrest was connected to the burning of an Israeli flag on 5 March at another demonstration on Hospital Street.

“That is not the case. The investigation into the flag burning continues, and we are liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service,” a spokesperson said. “We respect people’s right to protest and express views, without intimidating individuals, communities or breaking the law.”

Yakoob, who has become known as the “TikTok lawyer” after representing two brothers involved in an incident with police at Manchester Airport, was at the centre of calls for protests in Birmingham after Aston Villa were drawn against the Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv.


Ousted Harvard President Claudine Gay To Teach Harvard Course on ‘Politics in Higher Education’ Two Years After Resigning in Disgrace
Two years after she resigned in disgrace as president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay is returning to the classroom to teach a Harvard course on "political pressures" at the Ivy League university.

Gay's course, titled "What is a University?: Purpose and Politics in Higher Education," will cover ongoing debates about "curriculum, admissions, research, preservation, and governance" at Harvard, according to a course description reported by the Harvard Crimson.

"The course will place Harvard as its center, using ‘Harvard-specific cases, histories and examples’ as a lens for examining broader debates in higher education," the Crimson reports.

The course description states that the "tutorial" will "encourage Harvard students to engage in critical thinking about their own institution and to understand the background political, social, and market pressures that influence their college experience." The course, which begins in the fall of 2026, will include a maximum of 16 students, whose final project will be to propose "a vision for institutional reform or reinvention."

Gay is certainly familiar with the political headwinds facing Harvard, though her status as an expert in understanding them is up for debate.

Gay, who despite a thin résumé became president of Harvard in July of 2023, came under fire early in her presidency when, in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, she failed to condemn a letter from Harvard student groups blaming Israel’s "apartheid regime" for the massacre. A statement from Gay and other Harvard leaders merely said they were "heartbroken" by the violence. Under pressure, Gay eventually denounced Hamas.


‘Giant’ review: John Lithgow is superb as Roald Dahl in show about his revolting anti-Semitism
A couple of words are nowhere to be found in the title of the new Broadway play “Giant,” about children’s author Roald Dahl — namely “friendly” and “peach.” Theater review GIANT

2 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission. At the Music Box Theatre.

By the bitter end, it’s clear why. Because this Dahl, viciously played by the superb John Lithgow, is no peach. A peach pit, more like.

Mark Rosenblatt’s meaty debate-drama, which opened Monday night at the Music Box Theatre, shows a much uglier side of the clever mind behind “Matilda,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “The BFG [Big Friendly Giant]” and “James and the Giant Peach”: that he was a raging, self-described antisemite.

Directed by Nick Hytner, “Giant” fictionalizes, sometimes joltingly, the dangerous moment in the 1980s when the literary titan, whose books are touchstones of childhoods the world over, threw his bigotry out into the open and faced the consequences.

Staunch Dahl bets he’s too gigantic to fail.

His petrified employers and future wife Felicity (Rachael Stirling) aren’t so sure.

The real event that rocked Roald was a controversial 1983 book review he wrote of “God Cried,” a work harshly critical of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

In his write-up, Dahl called all Jews “a race of people” who’d “switched so rapidly from victims to barbarous murderers.”

He conflated the government of Israel with the global Jewish population and compared the Middle Eastern country to Nazi Germany.

Dahl then deplorably doubled down in a follow-up interview with the New Statesman.

“There’s always a reason why ‘anti-anything’ crops up anywhere,” he said. “Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

Audience members new to this shocking information can’t help but think: This is the same guy who dreamed up Matilda Wormwood and the chocolate river?!

In a word: Yes.
Israel women’s tennis team withdraws from April tournament over security concerns
The Israel Tennis Association (ITA) has announced that Israel’s women’s national team will not participate in the Billie Jean King Cup tournament in April, citing security concerns related to travel and the current regional situation.

Israel had been scheduled to compete against Bosnia in the Europe/Africa Group II event. According to the ITA, concerns centered on both the security situation in Israel and the players’ safety while traveling abroad. Officials also noted sensitivities about competing in a destination perceived as less friendly toward Israel at this time, as well as the participation of teams from several Muslim-majority countries, including Egypt and Morocco.

The Billie Jean King Cup, formerly known as the Fed Cup, is the premier international team competition in women’s tennis and is often referred to as the “World Cup of Tennis.” This year’s competition features a record 148 nations competing across four regions: Africa, the Americas, Asia/Oceania and Europe.

Israel previously hosted the Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I tournament in Eilat in 2012, 2013 and 2016.

The ITA said it considered hosting this year’s event in Israel but determined it was not feasible given the current security circumstances.

Ronen Morali, captain of Israel’s team, said, “This was the right and wisest decision under the current circumstances. Following the concerns expressed by the players, most of whom are very young, and due to the understanding that we will not be harmed professionally by the move, we decided to submit an official request to the ITF not to participate in the tournament.”

The International Tennis Federation accepted the ITA’s formal request to withdraw.

Morali noted that, if the trip had been scheduled to take place now, “The Israeli security authorities would not have authorized us to go.”

He added, “Our responsibility is first and foremost to protect the players’ safety and security.”
Chicago man charged with threat to ‘shoot up a synagogue,’ faces up to five years
Timothy Holmes, 31, was charged with threatening to “shoot up a synagogue,” the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.

The 31-year-old allegedly wrote “I’m going to shoot a synagogue” on social media in response to a post from an official Israeli government account about the assassination of the then head of the Iranian regime.

He faces up to five years in prison, the department said.

“Antisemitism has no place in our society,” stated Andrew Boutros, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. “This administration has made clear that threats and violence against the Jewish community will not be tolerated. Working closely with our law enforcement partners, we will find, prosecute and hold accountable the perpetrators of unlawful antisemitic threats and violence.”

The Justice Department also said that Holmes made “a series of derisive posts concerning Jewish people” and that he “posted the purported address in the United States of relatives of an Israeli government official.”

Holmes was arrested on March 18 in Florida and appeared “that afternoon in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida,” the Justice Department said. “Over the government’s objection, he was ordered released on a $100,000 bond subject to various conditions.”
Man convicted of hate crime for attacking Israeli in New York after Oct. 7
An assailant was convicted on Monday of an antisemitic hate crime for attacking an Israeli man in New York City in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel.

The case came as a series of antisemitic and Israel-related crimes dating to the upheaval in the city in 2023 and 2024 were resolved in New York City courts, and marked a relatively rare conviction for an antisemitic hate crime.

Yehia Amin pleaded guilty to assault as a hate crime in the third degree in Manhattan’s New York Supreme Criminal Court. He cannot appeal.

Amin is expected to be sentenced in May to 90 days’ imprisonment, followed by five years of probation.

He was released after Monday’s hearing on his own recognizance, but had to surrender his passport to ensure he does not flee abroad.

The judge in the case warned Amin that, if he is arrested before beginning to serve out his prison term in May, he could be sentenced to up to three years in prison, a Jewish community courtroom observer told The Times of Israel.

The judge at Monday’s hearing communicated with Amin in Arabic through an interpreter, and Amin stated that he was a US citizen. Illustrative: Police protect Jewish students during an anti-Israel protest outside Columbia University in New York City, February 2, 2024. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

On October 18, 2023, shortly after the Hamas invasion of Israel, Amin stalked and punched a 23-year-old Jewish Israeli near Times Square, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said in an indictment after the incident.

The man was with four friends, all of whom were wearing kippahs, when they walked by Amin, who recognized them as Jewish and pursued them.

Amin, who was 28 at the time of the attack, taunted the group, telling them, “Hamas should kill more of you,” “May Allah kill all the Jews,” and “All Jews should die,” according to the District Attorney’s Office. While Amin pursued the Israelis, he blasted music from a speaker that he later described as “Hamas music.”
Jewish man allegedly targeted with Nazi salutes at casino: ‘Wasn’t intimidated’
A Jewish man has filmed the moment he confronted a group of men who allegedly performed a Nazi salute, and yelled “heil Hitler” and “gas the Jews” at him and others outside Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia.

In the video, filmed on March 14 at 11:50 p.m., the Jewish man approaches three men on the casino’s promenade and can be heard saying: “Have you got something to say to me?”

One of the alleged offenders, dressed in a black hoodie, denies knowing what antisemitism means as he is confronted by the Jewish man.

Later in the video, the same man pleads with the victim to delete the footage of their earlier encounter.

“Don’t come at us where you Nazi saluted us … because we’re Jewish,” a voice can be heard saying.

“And I apologize for that, I apologize for that action,” the accused man said.

“I ask of you one thing … can you please delete the video that you have of me on your phone?”

The Jewish man, who wished not to be named, told NewsWire he was with family members, all of whom were visibly Jewish, when the alleged Nazi salute and antisemitic remarks were made.

“I was deeply impacted by the fact that we’re sitting there, minding our own business, when these idiots felt emboldened to say disgusting slurs to us,” he said.
Reform suspends election candidate who likened Shomrim volunteers to ‘Islamists on horseback’
Reform UK has suspended its Hampshire mayoral candidate after he appeared to liken a Jewish neighbourhood watch group to “Islamists on horseback”.

A party spokesman told the Press Association on Tuesday: “Chris Parry has been suspended by Reform UK, pending investigation.”

It is understood that his candidacy has also been suspended.

Leader Nigel Farage faced calls to sack the candidate after he described the communal Shomrim neighbourhood watch group as “cosplayers” and likened them to “Islamists on horseback”.

Parry, Reform’s mayoral candidate for Hampshire, made the comments after responding to a social media post that questioned whether Christians would be able to set up their own patrols in the aftermath of Monday’s arson attacks on Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green.
Former attorney general accuses police of ‘bizarre inaction’ over ‘antisemitic’ art exhibition
Former Attorney General Sir Michael Ellis has criticised Kent Police for what he described as “bizarre inaction” after the force found no criminal offences in an art exhibition accused of featuring antisemitic tropes.

Among the imagery in Matthew Collings’ Drawings Against Genocide exhibit at the Joseph Wales Studios in Margate, were an artwork that says “no evidence” was found of Hamas’ sexual violence on October 7, smiling IDF soldiers standing over what appears to be a pool of blood and human skulls, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy being “paid by Israel”, and accusations that CST chief Dave Rich and journalist David Collier are “devoted to Zionist apologetics”.

The display also featured numerous instances of Nazi swastikas displayed alongside the Star of David, references to Jeffrey Epstein and multiple depictions of Israelis engaging in hypnotism, including a drawing of a naked Benjamin Netanyahu captioned with the words “hypnotism” and “change reality”.

Another illustration depicted two auctioneers linked to Sotheby’s, the auction house owned by French-Israeli Patrick Drahi, eating babies with blood dripping from their mouths.

Following an investigation into the exhibition, Kent Police said: “[We] received a report concerning artwork deemed to be offensive at an exhibition in Dane Hill, Margate, at 4.20pm on Saturday 21 March 2026.

"Enquiries have been carried out by officers, and no criminal offences were identified.”

The force added that the exhibit “does not include content that is directly abusive or insulting toward Jewish people as a group”.

Criticising the force’s decision, Sir Michael Ellis, who served as Attorney General for England and Wales between 2021 and 2022, told the JC: “Time and again, unmistakable acts of antisemitism around the country have been going unpunished by the police.

"The UK’s Jewish community already feels betrayed by the criminal justice system, and the police’s bizarre inaction in this latest case will further damage what little confidence they have left.

"The police have serious questions to answer over their handling of this case.”
UK council removes page promoting antisemitic art exhibit
The local council for Margate in the United Kingdom has removed from its tourism website a promotional page for an art exhibition in which Israelis appear to have been depicted as a bloody demon, it said on Monday.

Separately, Royal Holloway, University of London, a public research university and member institution of the federal University of London, is facing legal action by a non-Jewish Zionist student it suspended for alleged hate speech after he told an anti-Israel activist that her keffiyeh, a shawl that has been popularized as a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, looked like a “tea towel.”

These controversies unfolded in the media amid coverage of the suspected torching in London on Sunday of four ambulances belonging to the Hatzola Jewish emergency group.

Thanet District Council, where Margate is located, told JNS that its tourism promotion website, Visit Thanet, “lists many events, activities and exhibitions,” including the one featuring anti-Israel imagery. But, “Once the council was contacted regarding the nature of the content, the link to this exhibition was removed,” a spokesperson for the council said, adding it “is not affiliated with the gallery or this exhibition.” The council “apologises sincerely for any distress or offence that has been caused,” the spokesperson said.

The exhibition was by Matthew Collins, a former art critic for the Evening Standard, titled “Drawings Against Genocide.” Thanet is a popular holiday destination in Kent. A page recommending the private gallery where Collins’s works were on display was removed after criticism over its content.

Before the removal, The Telegraph quoted Chris Philp, a Conservative politician who serves as the shadow home secretary—the opposition party’s point person for home office affairs—as saying: “This extremist Labour council is supporting an openly antisemitic exhibition. These pictures are dripping with sickening antisemitic tropes, and all those involved in this should hang their heads in shame.”


Certain death, small chance of success: The pre-state parachuters who jumped into Nazi Europe
Travel around Israel, and you will find streets, squares, and kibbutzim named for Hannah Senesh, Enzo Sereni, and Haviva Reik. While the names are familiar, few Israelis today know who these people were and what they did to deserve such veneration.

Author and journalist Matti Friedman was among those unfamiliar with their stories until he began working on his latest book, “Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe,” which was published on March 24. The book, Friedman’s fifth, recounts the thrilling adventures of these and 29 other Jews from the Yishuv (the pre-state Jewish population in Israel) who parachuted behind enemy lines in Europe in 1944 to try to save Jews who had not yet been exterminated by the Nazi killing machine.

“I had a vague sense about who Hannah Senesh [the most famous of the parachutists] was, but I did not know about the others. I think the way in which Hannah has become, in a sense, a Zionist poster child can actually turn people off. They don’t necessarily want to know more, because she seems like a caricature,” Friedman said. (Fittingly, he kept a small plastic Hannah Senesh figurine on the shelf above his desk while writing this book.)

However, once he started looking into these characters, he discovered how intriguing and inspiring they were as real individuals. There was also a key question he was determined to answer: Why are they so important to Israel and Zionism’s founding myth and ongoing narrative, despite not having actually saved any European Jews? Moreover, the Nazis captured 12 of the parachutists and executed seven of them, including Senesh, Reik, and Sereni.

The parachutists were on a double mission, Friedman explains. They had their orders from the Yishuv’s leadership, but they were technically recruits to the British military tasked with working for the MI9 secret service unit, specifically to facilitate the escape of Allied POWs and help downed Allied airmen evade capture by the enemy. After being carefully selected for the mission (32 were chosen from 250 candidates), they were sent to British-controlled Egypt to be trained by the Special Operations Executive. They were taught radio operations and how to connect and fight with partisan groups. From there, they were transferred to Bari, Italy, for flights that would drop them into enemy-controlled territory.

“One of the most interesting characters in the book, I think, is the British officer who runs the mission. His name is [Lt. Col.] Tony Simonds. He had an appreciation of what Jews could bring to the British intelligence effort because of their double identities [because they had escaped the Holocaust to Palestine from various European countries]. They could pretend to be all kinds of different things: Hungarians, Slovaks, or Croats. That was very useful,” Friedman said.




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