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Thursday, May 21, 2026

05/20 Links Pt2: Jonathan Conricus: ‘The Islamist beast won’t stop at the Jews’; Progressive Rabbis’ Blind Spot; Leaving the Women’s Movement

From Ian:

Progressive Rabbis’ Blind Spot
Over the past several years, I’ve watched an increasing number of American rabbis—many of them, like me, self-identified liberal progressives—use their pulpits to call out the Israeli government and American Jewish institutions for moral failures. They frame their sermons as exercising a prophetic voice: speaking uncomfortable truths to their own community, refusing to look away from injustice even when it implicated their own people.

That’s fine, even commendable. I have done so myself and will continue to do so. The trouble starts when the same rabbis remain eerily quiet when it comes to our enemies and our so-called allies who put Jewish lives in danger. True liberalism demands the same moral standard for everyone. But when rabbis mobilize communities to condemn violent extremists in contested Israeli territories while saying little to nothing about the 92 million people who still live under a brutal regime in Iran, the battles we choose reveal our priorities.

Ask yourself a few simple questions: Why haven’t the organizations built to mobilize rabbis for human rights organized a single public action to decry the thousands of Hezbollah rockets that rained down on northern Israel, displacing tens of thousands of Israeli civilians? What moral calculus dictates that ICE raids warrant rabbinic civil disobedience but jihadist militias on Israel’s border do not? Why was it easier to find progressive rabbinic sermons demanding accountability from the Israeli government than sermons demanding, with equal force, that the international community require Hamas’ unconditional surrender and the return of hostages?

My progressive colleagues argue that spiritual leaders bear special responsibility for their own communities—that we should pay disproportionate attention where we have the most influence. One prominent rabbi compared this to a parent focusing on their child’s misbehavior rather than on other children’s actions. Fair enough. But by volume and emphasis, progressive Jewish voices have contributed to skewed viewpoints, like the one arguing that Israel’s democratically elected government (operating with the checks of an independent judiciary) and Hamas’ government in Gaza (that operates with impunity) belong in the same moral category.

When progressive rabbis describe Israel as an “apartheid state”—borrowing terminology from South Africa’s racial hierarchy—they not only mislead audiences who trust them as moral authorities but also depict a distorted reality. Israel’s democracy is imperfect, much like ours, but it has Arab citizens who vote, serve in parliament, and sit on the Supreme Court. The West Bank represents a military presence in disputed territory following multiple wars that Israel did not start. These situations deserve precise analysis, not borrowed frameworks that erase context and ultimately delegitimize Jewish self-determination itself.

The asymmetry extends beyond Israel. Progressive rabbis readily critique Jewish institutions while rarely making comparable demands of coalition partners. The pattern is consistent enough to be structural. The same rabbis who devoted multiple sermons, signed open letters, and mobilized congregants over Israel’s judicial overhaul—a genuine democratic concern—could not muster comparable energy to publicly confront progressive allies who rationalized or simply refused to condemn the events of Oct. 7.
Leaving the Women’s Movement
In the summer of 1983, the best-known Jewish feminist you’ve never heard of walked away from the women’s movement and never came back. On her way out, she published something of a manifesto. “The Tools of Guilt and Intimidation” appeared in that July’s issue of the feminist newspaper Sojourner, and in it Gloria Z. Greenfield said, “The women’s movement promised a haven for uppity women to experience respectability and self-love.” Unfortunately, she pointed out, this guarantee did not extend to all uppity women. “During the past year, I became disturbed by a pattern I saw developing in the women’s movement: as otherwise well-respected Jewish women began to confront instances of anti-Semitism within the movement, their respectability and credibility began to deteriorate.”

For several years Greenfield had been a leader in the radical feminist movement, in which the most important cohort of feminists of that moment in the 1980s—and even ours—flourished. As the mainstream media declared a traditional feminism based in party politics and legal reform dead, a newer scene was blossoming. One member rightfully called it “a movement of poets,” made up of the writers who were publishing the books that became staples of the women’s studies courses that had been proliferating since 1970, the bestsellers at the new feminist bookstores established as part of this burgeoning women’s culture (or “womyn’s culture”).

Greenfield would become the most well-known publisher working on books by women who took “the personal is political” to a new extreme, transmuting their complicated relationships with American society and even one another into the tell-all fiction, poetry, and anthologies that defined an enduring strand of the era’s feminism, like Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Black feminist Audre Lorde; This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Chicana writers Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga; and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Black feminist Barbara Smith. Smith was the most prominent member of the Combahee River Collective, the group that coined the term identity politics in 1977, and this idea that one’s activism, views, and even interpersonal etiquette should emerge from social markers like race, class, and gender fueled the multicultural, lesbian-identified group of writers. It was a coterie whose work would be revived decades later by Tumblr, Twitter, and Black Lives Matter, touted everywhere from The New York Times to women’s and teen magazines. The group’s iconic status has been renewed, yet again, in the wake of Oct. 7, as heroes of the leftist battle to take down the Jewish state.

Greenfield, meanwhile, is a documentary filmmaker who has made six movies defending Israel and the West. She is currently screening her latest, A Collective Descent into Evil: The Lethal Obsession with Jews and the Jewish State, which features influential right-leaning voices including Ruth Wisse, Gil Troy, and Melanie Phillips. “The more I experienced the feminist movement, the more I realized that it wasn’t just specific people, that it was the whole movement that was unhealthy. And I didn’t want to have anything to do with it,” says Greenfield.

Decades before Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour declared that Zionists could not be feminists or before U.N. Women took two months to condemn—or even acknowledge—sexual violence against Jewish women on Oct. 7, and videos of young women gleefully tearing down hostage posters flooded the internet, Greenfield was the original, most important, most public feminist who left the left for the same reasons that so many Jewish women are contemplating leaving today.

Growing up, Greenfield’s father told her and her sister “that if the Jewish people and/or the state of Israel were ever in trouble, that we had to go fight. And that really formed who I am,” she says. He was an attendant at a mental institution; her mother was a custodian. Greenfield was born in 1950 in Coney Island and raised on Long Island. Much of her early activist energy went toward feminism: She received her Bachelor of Arts in communications with a minor in women’s studies in 1974 from the State University of New York at Oswego and started several women’s organizations before cofounding Persephone Press with Pat McGloin and Marianne Rubenstein in 1976. At first, the house was devoted to publishing books about women’s spirituality, like its breakout hit, A Feminist Tarot, before it shifted to titles with a more confessional, confrontational ethos.
The world has been completely upended for my Jewish daughters
Ever since Oct 7 2023, British Jews – my family among them – have had to contend with two appalling realities. Firstly, that abuse and attacks against them were excusable for some because of the actions of the Israeli government (actions which have been the subject of highly effective smears and untruths), and secondly that anti-Semitism is now a fact of everyday life in Britain.

The first problem is troubling enough. No British-Nigerian would ever have racism against them justified because of political violence in Nigeria. No Chinese-Brit would ever be told that an attack on them was “because” of the policies of the Chinese government. The argument that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism is a terrific cover story. The truth is that if you delegitimise Israel and the reasons for it existing then your motives are inherently anti-Semitic.

The second problem carries the risk of becoming all-consuming. This applies to my immediate family, my wife’s extended family and all our Jewish friends. Anti-Semitism is a constant: on marches, on social media, in the streets, in schools, in the NHS and in workplaces around the country. This is what I witness weighing down on people every day. It’s on their mind when they call or message their loved ones after another attack on a synagogue or in a Jewish neighbourhood.

My wife asks “What have we done to deserve this?” That could have been asked a thousand years ago, but it still hurts her and her community in 2026.

“We’ve all become constantly vigilant,” says Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg, the leader of the Woodford Forest United Synagogue where both my daughters had their bat mitzvahs. “We park our cars away from the gates. We check the CCTV more often. We are looking over our shoulders all the time.

“Community leaders don’t want to make our communities anxious. We are not going to be cowed but we are on edge, with very good reason, and we’ve not seen anything like this for a very long time.”

Another thing my wife says is that she can’t see us living in London in 10 years’ time let alone 20, and she can see our children wanting – or needing – to live abroad. She has decided to train with the Community Security Trust, the charity that provides security and advice to Britain’s Jews. Jewish schools and synagogues are already fortresses, a daily burden and fear no other faith or group has to face.

“A sentiment I am hearing more and more is that there may not be a future for Jews in this country, and for someone who values their British identity it’s hard to get my head around,” says Wollenberg. “You can tell how bad it is when the police come to visit us and our members say, ‘I’m so glad to see you, we’re so scared to go out.’”

Candidates at both general and local elections line up to declare their antipathy towards Israel, courting the worst instincts of progressives and sections of Muslim communities who appear to have been inculcated with Jew-hate from an early age.

I have to explain this political earthquake to my daughters as best I can, but I’ve lost all sense of what British politics is for, who it serves and what will come of such a topsy-turvy set of priorities. For some candidates, anti-Semitism isn’t just part of their ideology, it is their north star.


Activist who sent Ilhan Omar’s daughter and Hasan Piker on Cuba aid convoy has ties to Hamas and Iran
A millionaire anti-war activist who organized the high-profile “humanitarian aid” convoy to Cuba in March has ties to Hamas and the Iranian regime.

The aid flotilla to Cuba attracted much attention as it included Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi and leftist streamer Hasan Piker — who both sung the praises of the ailing Communist ‘paradise’ after their trip.

It was organized by Medea Benjamin, president of the Arc of Justice Foundation, a charity with $51 million at its disposal.

Benjamin, 73, made at least seven trips to Gaza between 2009 and 2012 where she met with Hamas officials, including the group’s then-leader Ismail Haniyeh, publicly posted photos show. Hamas were designated a terror group by the US in 1997.

Both working for activist group CodePink, Benjamin and her friend and fellow activist Tighe Barry, 69, also met Hamas leaders, including foreign affairs minister Ahmed Yusef, who in 2009 handed them a letter to deliver to President Obama, according the group’s website.

Yusef, who has been described as “Hamas’s gate to the West,” was a senior advisor to then-Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who was later assassinated in Tehran in 2024.


spiked: ‘The Islamist beast won’t stop at the Jews’ | A warning to the West from ex-IDF spokesman
Jonathan Conricus – senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former IDF spokesman – joins spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the New York Times’ shameful laundering of anti-Semitic propaganda, how the Palestinian cause turned genocidal, and how the defeat of Iran can bring peace to the Middle East.




The ABC and SBS have a problem
The deeper issue is that parts of the contemporary activist left increasingly treat Jewish concerns differently from those of other minority communities. When a minority says certain rhetoric is racist or dehumanising, institutions are usually expected to listen. But when Jewish organisations argue that the demonisation of Israel, denial of Jewish self-determination, or application of double standards crosses into antisemitism, they are often accused of bad faith or censorship.

No other minority group is routinely told that its understanding of prejudice is politically illegitimate.

Part of the issue is that many journalists and editors instinctively view antisemitism through a historical lens tied almost exclusively to the far right: neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Holocaust denial. The modern reality is that antisemitism also emerges from parts of the radical left and from segments of Islamist politics. The IHRA definition explicitly acknowledges that complexity. For institutions more comfortable policing right-wing prejudice than left-wing excess, that creates an enduring blind spot.

There is also a bureaucratic instinct at work. Public broadcasters are highly sensitive to accusations of bias. Adopting IHRA would immediately trigger criticism from activist groups, academics, and elements of their own workforce who argue the definition constrains criticism of Israel. Avoiding formal adoption becomes the path of least resistance. In such environments, institutional caution often outweighs principled clarity.

Institutions develop ideological habits, and over time those habits shape what is treated as morally urgent and what is treated as politically inconvenient.

My suspicion is that adopting the IHRA definition would expose the degree to which certain antisemitic framings have been normalised, rather than adequately interrogated, within parts of the broadcasters’ output.

The IHRA debate reveals those instincts clearly.

This is not a debate about wording alone, but about moral authority in public discourse: who defines racism, whose fears are granted legitimacy, and whether antisemitism emerging from anti-Zionist activism is treated with the same seriousness as other forms of bigotry.

On that question, the ABC and SBS were always likely to hesitate.


Man accused of stealing Bondi terror victim’s camera moments after death unmasked
The photographer who is accused of stealing Bondi victim Peter Meagher's camera and pawning it for $800 can now be named as Danny Ridley.

Ridley, 35, has been charged with larceny, disposing of stolen property, furnishing false information to a licensee, possessing or using a prohibited weapon without a permit and possessing and supplying drugs.

He was arrested at a Marayong home in Sydney's west on Wednesday morning, with police officers locating and seizing a camera, handcuffs and electronic devices.

Police allege they also seized a small amount of white crystal powder and further electronics in a car.

Meagher, 61, known to friends as "Marzo", had his camera with him when he was killed and it was seen by witnesses next to his body on the grass at Bondi.

Meagher and Ridley were both photographers at the Bondi Channukah by the Sea event.

Meagher was working for a company that laminated family portraits onto magnets as a keepsake.

Ridley, who is not Jewish, had been directly employed by Chabad of Bondi.

Every 20 minutes or so, Meagher would hand his memory card to company owner, Amir Glazer, who would download them onto his laptop and print them out for the magnets.

Research for this author's book, Bondi Terror, has revealed that Meagher had handed his memory card to Glazer six minutes before the shooting.

It meant the final six minutes of photographs were missing, including the last photograph he ever took.

A memory card containing these photographs is believed to have been recovered from Ridley's residence.

Police intend to return it to Peter's widow, Virginia Meagher, imminently.


Imams Council ducks crucial issue of Islamist extremism in submission to Bondi RC
Sky News host Chris Kenny discusses the National Imams Council releasing its submission to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

“The National Imams Council has released its submission to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion,” Mr Kenny said.

“My point about this submission by the Imams Council is that it ducks this crucial issue of Islamist extremism entirely, well, almost entirely.”


Progressive Caucus PAC endorses grandson of founding Fatah member in California congressional race
The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC endorsed Ammar Campa-Najjar, the grandson of a founding member of Fatah, on Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) seat in California’s 48th Congressional District.

Issa announced on March 6, 2026, that he would not seek reelection, citing a desire for “a new chapter and new challenges” after more than two decades in Congress. His decision came after California’s redistricting reshaped the district to include parts of San Diego and Riverside counties, making it more competitive for Republicans.

In announcing its endorsement, Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), the PAC’s co-chairs, stated that Campa-Najjar, a former Obama administration official and Navy Reserve officer, would become “the only member of Congress who has lived in Gaza, where 30 members of his family, including children, have died.”

“Ammar is running to restore war powers to Congress, dismantle ICE, cap prescription drug costs, implement Medicare for All, ban private equity from buying up homes and pursue a real pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and longtime residents,” the co-chairs stated. “Ammar is the only candidate campaigning on a progressive agenda in this race, and we steadfastly endorse his campaign.”
Anti-Israel Pennsylvania Dem wins primary for open House seat
Philadelphia Democrats nominated Chris Rabb, a state representative who has accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza and supports a Palestinian “right of return,” in Tuesday’s primary to succeed retiring Rep. Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).

With no Republican running in Pennsylvania’s heavily Democratic 3rd Congressional District, Rabb is widely expected to win the general election and join the U.S. House in January 2027.

He received 44.3% of the vote in the four-candidate race, defeating Sharif Street, a Democratic state senator, who won 29.5%.

Rabb campaigned as an anti-establishment Democrat and aligned himself with the party’s left flank on Israel and economic policy. During the campaign, he repeatedly condemned Israel’s military response to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 terror attacks. He also criticized pro-Israel lobbying groups, while seeking to link his opponents to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

He has been endorsed by several prominent progressive and anti-Israel Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Summer Lee (D-Pa.), as well as the Congressional Progressive Caucus political action committee.

Rabb also appeared at a rally with left-wing online streamer Hasan Piker, who has referred to Orthodox Jews as “inbred” and called the Israel Defense Forces a “Nazi army.”


Dems distance themselves from Texas candidate calling for Zionists to be imprisoned, castrated
Elected Democrats denounced a candidate for a House seat in Texas this week over her calls to imprison and castrate Zionists and raised questions about her funding from a newly-formed super PAC with possible Republican ties.

Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist who led the first round of the Democratic primary in Texas’s 35th Congressional District, has drawn scrutiny for her social media posts about Jews and calling to turn immigration detention centers into prisons for Zionists.

“She’ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking,” a post from a campaign social media page states.

“It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists,” it adds.

In a followup post, she clarified that “does not mean I want Jews in internment camps,” but that “if you are a Zionist,” then “you are a danger to humanity and belong in prison.”

Galindo has also said “Zionists are not real Jews” and has referred to “the Jews who own Hollywood” and on Tuesday, she posted a video clip of Ghassan Kanafani, spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, whom Israel killed in 1972 after the PFLP orchestrated the Lod Airport massacre.

Those comments have drawn sharp criticism from leading Democrats around the country, including some who have otherwise been frequent critics of Israel.

“This is absolutely disgusting,” wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). “This bigoted garbage and antisemitism should be nowhere near our politics.”

The anti-Israel group Track AIPAC, which had previously endorsed Galindo, withdrew its endorsement on Tuesday amid the controversy.


San Francisco State is home to a student group linked to terror organizations
Mahmoud Khalil is facing deportation after serving as a spokesperson for a Columbia University group that barred Jewish students from entering their anti-Israel tent encampment amid chants of “Go back to Poland” and “10,000 October 7th.”

Khalil’s group describes the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which resulted in the slaughter of 1,200 and the kidnapping of 251 others, as a “moral, military and political victory.” He praises slain Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar as a “hero of the revolution.”

Yet he was a welcome guest at San Francisco State University (SFSU), hosted by a student group that is part of a terrorist organization.

The General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) is an official branch of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which Congress first designated as a terrorist organization when it passed the Anti-Terrorism Act in 1987. The act makes it unlawful for the PLO or any of its constituents, such as GUPS, to maintain an office in the United States.

In 1988, presidents—and later, secretaries of state—began issuing waivers allowing the PLO to maintain its Washington mission for the purpose of peace negotiations. These bore fruit in 1993 with the Oslo Accords.

However, in 2017, the federal government stopped issuing waivers due to the PLO’s refusal to make use of the office to engage in “direct and meaningful negations on achieving a comprehensive peace settlement.” The U.S. State Department closed PLO’s mission in 2018. And no waiver has been issued since.

Yet GUPS remains active at SFSU.


Dublin city councillor posts anti-Semitic video calling for a ‘real final solution’
A Dublin city councillor who posted a video calling for a “real final solution” against “satanic” Jewish people, has said he “probably shared something I shouldn’t have”.

Philip Sutcliffe, an associate and coach of MMA fighter Conor McGregor, posted the video as his status on the WhatsApp messaging app on Monday afternoon. The video has since been deleted.

The one minute 16 second video starts with footage of Adolf Hitler and a voice-over stating he “warned us of the outcomes we’re currently experiencing”.

The video listed of series of anti-Semitic tropes, including blaming Jewish people for “degenerate Hollywood”, pornography and “white replacement”.

It called Jewish people “satanic” and claimed Jesus referred to them as “the spawn of Satan”.

The apparently AI voice-over stated “the world has a serious Jewish problem. Time to wake up and find a real final solution for this eternal menace to save civilisation”. Much of the video included offensive and anti-Semitic images depicting Jewish people.

The video was visible to anyone in Sutcliffe’s WhatsApp contact list.


Harry Styles says ‘correct’ after concertgoer in Amsterdam yells ‘Viva Palestina’
On the opening night of his world tour beginning in Amsterdam on Saturday, global superstar Harry Styles backed a brief pro-Palestinian chant from the crowd. It was his first public comment on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after years of expressing an affinity for Jewish culture.

The Amsterdam concert Saturday was the first of his Together, Together tour, held at the Johan Cruijff Arena.

Following Styles’ remarks about “changing the world together,” in between songs, an attendee shouted, “Viva, Viva Palestina” (meaning, “Long Live Palestine”), to which Styles replied, “Correct.”

It’s the first time the 32-year-old has made any public remarks on the conflict, but one of Styles’ tour charity partners is Choose Love, a humanitarian organization that works with displaced communities around the world, including those from Gaza.

Styles is newly engaged to actor Zoë Kravitz, who is Jewish, and as a teenager, he often tweeted transliterated Hebrew well wishes for various Jewish holidays. While competing on the British talent show The X Factor in 2010, where he rose to stardom, Styles stayed with the Orthodox Jewish Winston family, with whom he became close and considers mentors. In 2014, Styles announced that his New Year’s resolution was to learn Hebrew.

Saturday’s show was the latest demonstration of pro-Palestine solidarity in the concert space since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. Some performers have integrated pro-Palestine activism into their concerts by creating large displays with flags and visuals accusing Israel of genocide. Others have called for an end to the war in Gaza, and some have dedicated entire concerts to raising funds for Palestinian charities.


German nationals face potential felony hate-crime charges in Miami Beach over antisemitic graffiti
Florida prosecutors are considering whether to elevate misdemeanor charges against two German nationals accused of vandalizing a Miami Beach bench with antisemitic graffiti to a felony hate-crime offense, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office told JNS on Tuesday.

Miami Beach police responded to Lummus Park near 12th Street and Ocean Drive on Monday evening after park rangers discovered graffiti drawn on a public bench, reading, “Adolf was here” alongside a swastika.

According to police reports, the city’s Real Time Intelligence Center used surveillance cameras to identify and track the suspects to the Colony Hotel on Ocean Drive shortly after the incident. Investigators alleged that one man wrote the graffiti while the other shielded him from public view.

The suspects were arrested and identified as Christoph Rehak, 58, and Gunther Manfred Jekschtat, 63, both of Germany. Police said both men admitted involvement in the vandalism and were charged with criminal mischief.

“The 1st Degree Misdemeanor charge of Criminal Mischief more than $200 and less than $1000 is presently being reviewed to see if it can be enhanced to a 3rd Degree Felony under Florida’s Hate Crime Enhancement statute,” a spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office told JNS.
Police confirm arrest after Jewish family almost hit by driver on a pedestrian crossing
Police in Manchester have confirmed that an arrest has been made after video footage was widely shared on social media showing a strictly orthodox Jewish family narrowly avoiding being knocked down by a car speeding through a red light at a pedestrian crossing.

The video, which appears to be CCTV footage from a shop on Leicester Road (A576), Salford, in the heart of the Broughton Park neighbourhood, which contains one of the largest Jewish communities in the country. With a time stamp of just after 10:00 on Tuesday 19 May, it shows a white Mercedes stopped a few meters away from a pedestrian crossing on the street, yards away from the junction with Wellington Street East. The car only begins to move when the light turns red for oncoming traffic and the family begins to cross the road; only the quick reaction of those starting to cross appears to prevent them being run over.

In a statement from Greater Manchester police this afternoon, a spokesperson said: “Officers are aware of a video circulating online purporting to show an incident of dangerous driving in Salford.

“An incident of dangerous driving was reported to local officers on Leicester Road at around 5pm on Tuesday 19 May. Thankfully, no one was injured.

“A 49-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving. He remains in police custody at this time.


Spotify declines to take down rap song cited for antisemitic conspiracy claims
Spotify declined a request by the International Legal Forum to remove a song from its application that the ILF argued spread antisemitic conspiracy theories and violated the audio media platform's guidelines on hate content.

In an email reviewed by The Jerusalem Post, Spotify said on Monday that it did not believe that Chris Webby's rap song Raw Thoughts VII met the threshold for removal under the platform's rules.

The song, which has garnered almost three million collective plays since being uploaded to Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music on March 4, the rap song details a shadowy cabal causing all the world's ills and engaging in child sacrifice, before ultimately revealing the culprit to be the Jewish people and Israel.

"Once Upon A Time In A Rewritten History, Thirteen Bloodlines Rose To Power, Wickedly, They Came From Ancient Lands With Depravity, And Vices Like Usury And Rape And Ritual, Sacrifices. They Worshipped Evil Gods But They, Kept The Secrets Hidden, As They Infiltrated And Hijacked Other Religions. They Conquered Other Countries, And They Printed All The Money, While They Plotted On The Plan For The Control Of Everybody," begins the song, not explicitly accusing Jews.

The song breaks into a ramble about deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and names several celebrities and politicians supposedly involved in a pedophilic sex ring. Halfway through the segment, the music of the Jewish folk song Hava Nagila is woven into the piece.


Israel's Negev officially recognized as international wine region
Israel's Negev Desert was officially recognized by the state and global community as an international wine region on May 11, listing it as a protected geographical indication labeled "Negev," according to a press release.

The recognition, based on research demonstrating the uniqueness of the region's wines, follows a four-year initiative led by the Merage Foundation Israel, a private philanthropic foundation that aims to strengthen Israeli society.

The foundation's Executive Director, Nicole Hod Stroh, described the recognition as a "deeply personal milestone."

"As someone who made aliyah from Colombia and has spent many years advancing regional development and economic growth in the Negev, I see wine tourism as a modern and meaningful expression of contemporary Zionism," said Stroh.

"This recognition strengthens the region’s economic and tourism potential while positioning the Negev internationally as an innovative, high-quality wine region," she continued. "I have no doubt that in the coming years the Negev will become a sought-after wine tourism destination alongside leading wine regions around the world."

The newly-designated wine region stretches from the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat to the resort city of Eilat on the country's southern tip.

The Negev follows the Judean Hills region's recognition several years ago (Israel's first), joining major international wine regions such as Champagne, Chianti, Bordeaux, and Napa Valley.





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