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Thursday, June 04, 2026

06/03 Links Pt2: The Jew-hating Democratic party is a monster created by Barack Obama; Israel’s fairweather friends are fuelling anti-Semitism; The Barghouti Myth

From Ian:

Behind today’s radical, Jew-hating Democratic party is a monster created by Barack Obama
Two hundred and ten years ago this summer, a 19-year-old woman named Mary Shelley, bored one stormy afternoon, decided to write the scariest story ever told.

It was a tale of a brilliant and arrogant man who wanted to change the world but ended up creating a monster. She named him Barack Obama.

All right, she named him Dr. Frankenstein. But had the great author been around to witness Adam Hamawy win the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, she would’ve understood right away that she was looking at a familiar tale of hubris, malice and ghouls on the loose.

Like Shelley’s mad physician, Barack Obama, too, had an appetite for re-ordering the natural world. He took Bill Clinton’s party — one that allowed candidates in some parts of the country to be pro-gun and pro-life and still consider themselves Democrats in good standing — strapped it to the slab and shocked it with a lightning bolt of radicalism.

The creature that emerged from the experiment no longer talked about fiscal responsibility and government reform. It howled instead about opening our borders, legalizing gay marriage and redefining politics as the pursuit of identity by other means.

Antisemitic alliance
Under Obama, the Democrats became a gorgeous mosaic of victimized minorities, encouraged to seek retribution for wrongs real or perceived by grabbing a pitchfork and going out in search of a conservative to blame.

For a while, it all went swimmingly. Obama built a forever campaign that encouraged everyone to give to the party — not only their money but also their loyalty. Endless chatter about “the right side of history” was designed to make it clear that unless you wholeheartedly supported whatever the president and his aides told you was proper, good and desired, you’d be transgressing against history itself.

Tech companies, universities and other institutions soon fell in line, giving us execrable phenomena like cancel culture.

We all saw the might of Obama’s creation during Donald Trump’s disastrous first term in office: At the push of a button, a democratically elected president was made to appear to be the second coming of Mussolini.

And we saw it even more clearly during Obama’s third term, conducted via another Frankenstein-like creation, the brain-dead Joe Biden.

But as every reader of Mary Shelley’s knows, eventually the monster gets loose, grows mad and wreaks havoc. Welcome to the Democratic Party of 2026.
Israel’s fairweather friends are fuelling anti-Semitism
However, in the midst of a Democratic Party where support for Israel is now a political death wish, Emanuel has had a Damascene conversion. He recently advanced the unsubstantiated and largely debunked charge that laid blame on Israel for Palestinian starvation during the Gaza War. On American television, he recently said: ‘The days of taxpayers subsidising Israel militarily, that’s over. No more financial aid.’ And referencing the current war in Iran, he said: ‘The US should never spill any blood for the state of Israel’s security.’ At one time, an interpretation of events like that would have been unimaginable coming from Emanuel.

His counterpart in the UK is Zack Polanski, leader of the surging Green Party of England and Wales, a feature of which is barely concealed contempt for Israel and Jews. In a fawning interview in the Guardian (where else?) last year, Polanski said he grew up in ‘a very Zionist household, raised to really believe that Israel was the centre of everything and must be defended at all costs’. He unabashedly admits that this is ‘very different to my politics now’.

That is an understatement, to say the least. Polanski has excoriated Israel for its response to the 7 October massacre, including accusing it of genocide. Asked by a journalist in April over the escalating, and in some cases lethal, attacks on Jews in England, Polanski delivered an equivocating response: ‘There’s a conversation to be had about whether it’s a perception of unsafety or whether it’s actual unsafety, but neither is acceptable.’ While the public anticipates that conversation, the fortunes of the Green Party continue to rise.

The ostensible reason that Emanuel and Polanski give for their new pandering is that ‘Israel has changed’ since 1948. This is hardly a revelation on the order of the discovery of gravity or the introduction of quantum mechanics. Of course Israel has changed; what country has not changed over the past eight decades? The question neither of these political creatures has asked is why Israel has changed.

The military threat from Iran and its proxies is exponentially greater than ever before, and the insidious international propaganda campaign is even more intense – abetted by former supporters like the United Nations. Israel has been forced to respond in ways not always laudable, but rather than acknowledge this and the fact that Israel remains a beacon of moral leadership and a defender of the values the West was built on, Emanuel and Polanski have committed to cutting the cloth of their beliefs to the odious fashions of the day.

So who is worse, genuine anti-Semites, or these sycophantic poseurs looking to advance their political standing?

At least you know where you stand with real anti-Semites. Some may be cunning, some may be fools and many may just enjoy Nazi cosplaying, but the dangerous ones usually make their intentions known in word, if not in deed.

Political fakirs like Emanuel and Polanski come off as more acceptable, but do not doubt the lasting damage they can do by legitimising anti-Semitism in the larger polity. Emanuel will almost certainly never become president of the United States, but he lends credibility to the expanding anti-Semitic wing of the Democratic Party and to some extent the Tucker Carlson wing of the Republican Party. Polanski has a similarly slim chance of becoming prime minister of the UK, but he gives a faint whiff of respectability to the Islamo-fascist wing of the Green Party.

The real anti-Semites deserve all the contempt the world can muster. But craven opportunists like Zack Polanski and Rahm Emanuel are also beneath contempt. History will not be kind to them for breathing life into this foul bigotry, however they might try to justify it.
From Anne Frank to anti-Jewish Sanctioning: The Netherlands' Betrayal of Israel
What was once known as the "Country of Anne Frank," a nation that had learned from its own role in the Holocaust... and quietly delivered critical military aid during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, now leads the charge at the EU in Brussels to punish the Jewish state for the apparent crime of Jewish survival....

The Jetten government coalition... has now also taken the lead in pushing sanctions against Israel....

The Dutch pro-Israel parties -- Geert Wilders' PVV, BBB, JA21, ChristenUnie, and the Christian-Zionist SGP -- were deliberately excluded from the governing coalition.

The Jetten minority government therefore governs on parliamentary life support from the very parties that despise Israel.

The Dutch betrayal mirrors a broader European sickness. Mass immigration from Muslim countries has imported a virulent strain of antisemitism that now crosses all political boundaries. Politicians realize only the electoral ramifications: Jewish populations are dwindling and Muslim populations are exploding. Post-Holocaust guilt, once a brake on Jew-hatred, has been inverted: many of the descendants of the perpetrators and bystanders now project their unresolved shame onto the surviving Jews and their state. The "oppressed" Palestinian has replaced the oppressed Jew as the object of European moral narcissism. The Europeans, who never forgave the Jews for Auschwitz, are finally free of guilt.

Europe, which cannot, or does not wish to, protect its own Jewish communities from daily harassment and assault, now presumes to dictate to Jews where they may and may not live in the Land of Israel.

The hypocrisy and moral rot are bottomless. It was Europeans who exiled the Jews from their heritage and cradle of civilization. It was Europeans who subjected "their" Jews to more than a millennium of discrimination, expulsions, mass deportations, and pogroms, culminating in the Holocaust. It was Europeans as well, who, at the Evian Conference of 1938, refused to open their doors to Jews fleeing Hitler. It was the British who issued the 1939 White Paper without a single protest from the other European democracies, and thereby slamming shut the gates of Palestine as a place of refuge as the extermination of the Jews began. It was Europeans (Polish, British, and Dutch) who devised the "Madagascar Plan" to deport Europe's Jews to a remote and uninhabitable island where they would surely perish.

Yet the Jews do not forget where they came from. Jews have lived in the Land of Israel continuously for millennia; and many of the descendants who had been forcibly dispersed, returned.

It is precisely this return that triggers such fury. Dutch authorities and many Dutch politicians now eagerly repeat the modern blood libel of "settler violence," -- all while ignoring the unrelenting terrorism committed by Arabs against the Jews of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and the rest of the Land of Israel for more than a century until today.

Established and thriving Jewish cities, towns, neighborhoods, and infrastructure exist in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan. These "facts on the ground" will most certainly remain in the future and likely grow into a home for hundreds of thousands of Jews now planning to leave a Europe that is collapsing as we speak. Israel will celebrate its restoration in the Land of Israel long after the Netherlands will have been destroyed by the Muslim and African invasions it invited in, and the remnants of what was once a great and moral country have returned to their natural state: a swamp.
Amsterdam Holocaust Museum cancels antisemitism conference
The National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam has canceled a scheduled conference on antisemitism at universities, which was to be held at the museum.

The event, organized by a conservative Dutch politician and member of the European Parliament, was moved to another location last week and took place at a church instead.

“A Holocaust museum is the best place to speak about antisemitism, so I was surprised by the cancellation,” MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen of the Reformed Political Party (SGP) told JNS on Tuesday. “That’s the place to be.”

He said he was informed by the museum’s director that a demonstration was planned in front of the museum against the event and that the director did not want graffiti on the walls shortly before a visit by the Dutch King and the German president.

The staunchly pro-Israel lawmaker who initiated the conference said that about 100 participants ended up attending the advertised event, which the anti-Israel activists had condemned and sought to disrupt.

The Holocaust museum said Wednesday that the antisemitism conference was canceled at its premises because it had become politicized.

“We will not allow the National Holocaust Museum to become the focal point of a political dispute in the context of a rental event,” the Museum’s general director Emile Schrijver said in a written statement. “Protecting the integrity of the National Holocaust Museum should not be a political position; it is our core mandate and one we take seriously.”

The museum’s decision was strongly condemned by the European office of the Israel Allies Foundation, which spearheads faith-based diplomacy around the globe.


The Barghouti Myth: How the World Is Being Asked to Canonize a Dynasty of Violence
There is a campaign sweeping through Western celebrity culture calling to free Marwan Barghouti - a moderate "man of peace" - in one of the most audacious historical fabrications of our time. It demands the release of a man convicted of five murders, for which he was sentenced to five life terms plus forty years by a court of law.

While the campaign likens Barghouti to South Africa's Nelson Mandela, Barghouti was convicted of planning terrorist attacks during the Second Intifada that killed Israeli civilians at a restaurant, gas station, and hiking trail. He has consistently endorsed armed resistance from prison and refused to renounce violence, while Mandela renounced violence to lead his nation through a peaceful transition.

The Barghouti extended family includes Abdullah Barghouti, a Hamas master bomb-maker responsible for the Sbarro pizzeria massacre in Jerusalem in 2001, which murdered 15 people, including seven children, and a string of other attacks that killed dozens of Israeli civilians. Omar Barghouti is co-founder of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), who built a career telling universities, artists, and corporations around the world to sever ties with Israel.

Palestinian political culture has for decades been organized around the elevation of resistance over governance, of symbolic defiance over institutional competence, of the prisoner and the martyr over the builder. Again and again, maximalism and the romance of armed struggle have trumped the possibility of a state. Releasing Barghouti and crowning him the savior would not break this cycle. It would consecrate it.

Celebrities who would never sign a letter celebrating a convicted murderer in any other context enthusiastically do so here, because the framing - colonialism, apartheid, and resistance - activate a moral reflex that bypasses factual scrutiny. The Israeli civilians murdered in the attacks he orchestrated are edited out of the narrative entirely. Marwan Barghouti is the embodiment of a political culture that has sacrificed Palestinian welfare on the altar of permanent resistance. His family is a case study in how violence, hypocrisy, and the manipulation of Western guilt can be packaged and sold as heroism.


Hamawy victory overshadows mixed primary night for pro-Israel Democrats
In more favorable news for pro-Israel moderate voters, Democrats nominated former Navy pilot Rebecca Bennett, who flew missions over the Straits of Hormuz, to run against Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) in a major battleground district.

“I just feel very strongly that Israel has a right to defend itself and has a right to exist, and that the United States needs to be able to support Israel, and it shouldn’t be partisan,” Bennett told Jewish Insider last August. “I think we should be supporting Israel as an ally, regardless of political party.” She also told JI she supports continuing U.S. aid to Israel without restrictions or conditions.

Kean, who has represented the 7th Congressional District since 2022, has been missing from Congress for the last several months with an undisclosed illness. His uncertain personal circumstances have made Democrats bullish about their prospects in the swing district, which Kean only won by five points in 2024.

Democratic voters in the neighboring 11th Congressional District overwhelmingly renominated left-wing Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-NJ), who was the surprise winner in a special election primary earlier this year after AIPAC’s super PAC spent money attacking the more moderate former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ).

But while Mejia won a whopping 82% of the Democratic vote against her long-shot opposition, there was a significant protest vote against her in the towns with a large Jewish constituency: Livingston and Millburn.

Meanwhile, Rep. Robert Menendez Jr. (D-NJ), a pro-Israel Democrat, comfortably brushed back a challenge from far-left, anti-Israel candidate Mussab Ali, winning 70% of the primary vote.

New Jersey wasn’t the only state holding consequential primaries. In Iowa, the high-stakes Senate race is all set after Democrats nominated the more moderate state lawmaker Josh Turek, the favorite of the party establishment, over progressive state Sen. Zach Wahls.

Turek will face Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA). Iowa has lately been a reliably Republican state, but given President Donald Trump’s depressed approval ratings, Democrats are optimistic they can put the seat in play.
Commentary Podcast: Hamawy Wowee
Our friend Matt Continetti is back to discuss Adam Hamawy's victory in the NJ democratic primary and what it means for other extremist democrats on the ballot, the various California races. Plus, the slog of war continues with more uncertainty and indecisiveness in the Iran war, and Bill Pulte's appointment as acting DNI.
GOP lawmakers argue Hamawy’s terror ties could pose national security risk in House
Some lawmakers are warning that the past terrorist ties of Adam Hamawy, the Democratic nominee in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District expected to be elected to the House in November, could pose a national security risk and that he should be barred from serving on sensitive committees working on national security issues.

Hamawy was an associate of convicted terrorist mastermind Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the Blind Sheikh, and testified in Abdel-Rahman’s defense when he was on trial for his involvement in a series of terrorist attacks in New York City. Hamawy also volunteered for the Benevolence International Foundation, a charity operating in Bosnia that was later shuttered as an al-Qaida front.

He also volunteered at the European Hospital in Gaza during Israel’s war with Hamas, denying when he returned that there was any terrorist activity at the hospital or any tunnels underneath it. Israel killed Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in a tunnel system under the hospital.

Members of Congress are exempt from usual security clearance vetting procedures applied to other federal officials, and all members are able to access certain House-wide classified briefings.

But members serving on several key committees touching on national security and foreign policy, such as the Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, have more regular access to a much wider range of classified briefings and information. Caucus leadership is responsible for assigning committee posts.

Some of Hamawy’s potential future colleagues — largely Republicans — say that Hamawy should be barred from those committee postings if he’s elected. As a military veteran and having focused much of his campaign on foreign policy issues, Hamawy would ordinarily be a likely candidate for such committee assignments.


Fetterman, McCormick agree Democrats have worse antisemitism problem than GOP
Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Dave McCormick (R-PA) said on Tuesday that they believe antisemitism is worse on the left than on the right, arguing that the electoral success of far-left candidates with antisemitic records in Democratic primaries distinguished the left from the right, as similarly controversial candidates have struggled in GOP primary contests.

The Pennsylvania senators spoke to Jewish Insider on the sidelines of the American Jewish Committee’s Global Forum, where they headlined the closing plenary alongside AJC CEO Ted Deutch with a discussion on promoting bipartisanship amid expanding domestic political divisions.

While both men acknowledged on stage and to JI that antisemitism exists within the conservative movement, they rejected the notion that it had taken hold of the GOP, arguing that the rise of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign in Maine and Pennsylvania state Sen. Chris Rabb’s nomination for a Philadelphia-area House seat showed that the Democratic Party had already normalized antisemitism within their party.

Last month, Republican voters in Kentucky’s 4th District ousted Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), one of the few anti-Israel Republicans in Congress, largely because President Donald Trump endorsed his primary opponent, Ed Gallrein. The outcome was cheered by the Republican Jewish Coalition as an example of party leaders showing no tolerance for antisemitism within the party.

“Look at the people that are winning the primaries in our party right now and look at their views on Israel. We’re old enough to remember that if somebody had a Nazi tattoo, they’re a Nazi sympathizer, but now it’s like, that’s OK. People will defend that, or they’ll just kind of explain that away,” Fetterman said of Platner and Rabb. “In our state, too, Rabb. He won, and he ran on being very, very anti-Israel. So that’s the one thing that’s not just acceptable, it’s actually a virtue.”

“Candidates and Democrats will campaign and proudly stand with Hasan Piker. This is an individual [who said] that Hamas is 1,000% better than Israel and all other kinds of things, [including that] America deserved 9/11. They will campaign with this guy, it’s like their new mascot,” he continued.

Fetterman told JI there is nothing “more damaging a Democrat can believe in” than the right of Israel to fight its enemies, and that, “For me, it’s probably the biggest concern, these people who are winning in the Democratic Party.”


Senate Dems wary after latest Platner revelations, but stick by him
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who said months ago he planned to stay out of the race but has been directly attacked by Platner several times, offered the harshest criticism of the candidate, and suggested he would be eager for a direct confrontation with him.

“I’d be happy to [meet him.] I’d love to. He’s a tough guy. When I was growing up, if someone had a Nazi tattoo, you could pretty much assume he’s a Nazi sympathizer,” Fetterman said, and referred to several of the scandals plaguing Platner’s campaign. “If you describe an American soldier, a Purple Heart recipient, as a dumb motherf***** that doesn’t deserve to live — who describes the U.S. Army as absolutely trash? Who joins a disgusting platform like Kik and puts a [topless] picture — what are you looking for? He’s expressed frustration [with] how I dress, and this a****** is on Kik and sexting to a dozen women and dressing like this.”

He told JI that his Democratic colleagues could be endangering the party’s chances of taking the seat by sticking by Platner, but said it’s ultimately their decision and that of Maine voters.

“The last time a lot of [Democrats] defended someone who was sexting and saying inappropriate things to women, that was Swalwell,” Fetterman said, referring to former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) who resigned amid a flurry of sexual harassment and assault allegations. “If they want to carry water for that, they’re entitled to that. I don’t live in Maine, I’m not a voter. Whoever Maine decides for that.”

Platner’s strongest supporters are standing firmly behind him.

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) told JI that he is still confident that Platner can win the seat.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), asked about the latest scandals, offered a similar response multiple times during the day on Tuesday, deflecting by discussing Republican megadonors’ spending plans in the state.

“There are some concerns that some of the wealthiest people in this country [backing] Republican super PACs are planning to spend $100 million in the state of Maine,” Sanders said. “Why do you think that Republicans super PACs controlled by billionaires want to spend a troubling amount of money to defeat Graham Platner?”

A group of people — at least one of them a spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee — gathered outside of the DSCC headquarters during Platner’s meeting chanting through a bullhorn and holding signs referencing Platner’s various scandals and, without evidence, accusing him of pedophilia.

A handful of them, including the NRSC staffer, were shirtless wearing towels wrapped around their waists, mimicking Platner’s profile photo on the messaging app Kik, where he communicated with other women.

Following the meeting with Democratic senators, Platner canceled a planned appearance with the campaign group VoteVets and left Washington, D.C. early because reporters had visited his in-laws’ home and his family’s restaurant, according to NOTUS.
'What a Cool Pic': Totenkopf-Tattooed Graham Platner Admired 'German Helmets' in WW2 Photo of Nazi-Allied Troops, Deleted Post Shows
Maine's embattled Democratic Senate candidate, Graham Platner, praised a "cool pic" of Nazi-aligned troops aiming a rifle during World War II, zeroing in on their "German helmets" and weapon, in a now-deleted social media post, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.

It's not the first time Platner has shown enthusiasm for Nazi iconography. He notoriously had a chest tattoo of an SS "Totenkopf," the skull and crossbones symbol worn by SS officers who manned the Nazi concentration camps.

In April 2019 a Reddit user shared an image of "Swedish Volunteer Battalion in a trench during The Continuation War, 1941."

The image showed soldiers in German helmets during the conflict, pointing a Browning Automatic Rifle at the enemy over a defensive trench. A soldier gesturing to an enormous dog—which appears to be an Alsatian or German shepherd—dominates the foreground.

In a comment from his now-deleted Reddit account P-Hustle, Platner offered this response:


The soldiers in the picture are wearing the distinctive Stahlhelme, dimpled German helmets from World War II. They are aiming a Browning Automatic Rifle. The BAR was designed by an American, John Moses Browning, but some of the rifles were manufactured by a Belgian company in eastern Belgium. After the Nazis captured Belgium in 1940, they took control of the factory in question and manufactured Browning weapons for the Wehrmacht. The Swedes, who supplied many arms to Finland during the Winter War, also built their own variant of the BAR. The Nazis were also fond of captured Polish variants of the light machine gun and issued it to troops in large numbers.


You Won’t Believe Who Candace and Tucker Are Really Working For
On this episode of Shoulder to Shoulder, Rabbi Pesach Wolicki sits down with Dr. James Lindsay, a leading voice in the information warfare space, for a conversation about Alexander Dugin, Russian influence, anti-Israel voices on the Right, and the ideological battle threatening America and the West.




Falconer accuses pro-Gaza MP of ‘echoing antisemitic tropes’ in Commons debate
Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer has accused pro-Gaza MP Iqbal Mohammed of “echoing antisemitic tropes” during a Commons debate after he claimed Israel has a “thirst for blood of innocent civilians” and an “insatiable appetite for the most barbaric violence.”

During a debate on Israeli Defence Forces action in Lebanon, the Dewsbury and Bentley MP cited over 3,000 estimated attacks by Israel in Lebanon and noted the destruction or heavy damage to more than 100 villages since March this year.

He stated that, up until Tuesday, Israel had injured 10,577 people and killed 3,468—including 128 health workers—and had attacked and damaged 17 hospitals, with three more hospitals damaged or destroyed.

After condemning allegations of double and triple-tap attacks on civilians by the IDF, Mohammed asked: “Will this Labour government do anything meaningful to stop Israel’s thirst for blood of innocent civilians, its insatiable appetite for the most barbaric violence, its Gazafication of Lebanon and the wider Middle East?”

In response, Falconer—who had repeatedly stressed the UK’s criticism of Israeli actions in Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank—replied: “I think we’ve got to be a bit careful when we describe the government of Israel.

“I don’t think that they have a thirst for blood for innocent civilians. I think we’ve got to be a bit more careful with our language in this Chamber.

“That sounds to me like it echoes antisemitic tropes. So, I want to just take a little bit of issue with the question that I was asked.

“I have taken clear steps in relation to Lebanon and indeed in relation to events in Palestine. We will continue to do so, but I do think we’ve got to be careful with our language.”


Victim of vile antisemitic attack in NYC relives horrific moment hair was ripped out by maniac screaming: ‘Jews are eating kids’
A raging woman spewing antisemitic hate ripped out a hunk of a Jewish rider’s hair on a Big Apple subway Sunday and screeched “Jews are eating kids,” according to cops and shocking video.

The suspect, identified by police as Bronx resident Diana Smith, shouted an assortment of vicious remarks against Jews on the crowded C train around 2:15 p.m. in lower Manhattan before she assaulted a 23-year-old Upper West Side woman, police said.

“I was a ragdoll and I couldn’t defend myself – there should have been a human barricade around me,” the young Orthodox Jewish victim, who asked her name be withheld, told The Post.

“No one stepped up until it was too late.”

The victim, a nurse and Montreal native, recalled to The Post she entered the transit system at Jay Street and was riding for one stop when the suspect also hopped on and started speaking to a couple “about the dangers of Jews stealing wealth.”

She then turned to another couple and wildly said, “You could always see the reflection of a Jew,” said the Jewish woman.

“And then she turned towards me, like very targeted, stared me down, and smiled with this very eerie smile that I’ll never forget,” the brave nurse said.

“I decided in that moment I really did not want to show fear in the face of that, so I stared at her right back down, and I said, ‘So you see my reflection?’ and she said, ‘Yeah, and I smell it on you too.’”

Part of the encounter was captured on the victim’s phone, which shows Smith’s ugly rhetoric.


Outgoing Slovenian government reportedly blocks landing of Israel passenger plane
An Israeli passenger flight was reportedly prevented from landing in Slovenia today due to the outgoing government’s opposition to the actions of the Israeli government, leading to the plane being diverted to a neighbouring country.

The Israir flight which was due to land in Ljubljana on Wednesday, was forced to touch down in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, instead. The CEO of the airline, Uri Sirkis, told Israeli media that the diversion was “because the authorities in Ljubljana are refusing Israeli carriers to land, due to their firm political opposition to the policies of the Israeli government”. Sirkis went on to describe the action as “a blatant violation of EU air agreements.”

This is understood to be the first time that Slovenia has blocked such a flight from landing. Last week it was announced that a Croatian carrier, TradeAir, would step in to operate flights between Tel Aviv and Ljubljana, because the Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure had not renewed the flight permit of the Israeli airline.

A statement from the Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed that “Israel has made it clear to the Slovenian authorities that this is a completely unacceptable step.”

The MFA also noted that “a new government is expected to be formed in Slovenia soon to replace the outgoing hostile government, and Israel expects a significant improvement in relations between the countries.”
Federal judge reviewing suit by Emory prof accused of aiding genocide for being part of Israeli military
A federal judge is weighing whether a lawsuit, in which a Jewish Emory University professor alleges that he was falsely accused of abetting genocide for serving in the Israeli military, can proceed.

Dr. Joshua Winer, a surgical oncologist at Emory University School of Medicine, accuses defendants, including the medical student Umaymah Mohammad, Doctors Against Genocide Society and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of defaming him and conspiring against him after he took leave after Oct. 7 to serve in the Israel Defense Forces, treating wounded soldiers.

The complaint accuses the defendants of saying that Winer aided and abetted genocide and war crimes, declaring him unfit to practice medicine or teach students and seeking to have Emory strip him of his faculty appointment and clinical privileges.

Attorneys for the defendants have moved for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta to dismiss the case.

The court will now decide if the case will proceed to discovery or whether the claims are dismissed, according to Lauren Israelovitch, senior litigation counsel at the National Jewish Advocacy Center, which represents Winer.

“We expect a decision in the coming months,” she told JNS. “The case is now at an inflection point.”

“At its core, this case concerns a coordinated effort to destroy Dr. Winer’s career through false accusations of the most serious kind, made because of his Zionism and his service in the IDF,” she told JNS. “We’re confident that his claims will withstand scrutiny and move forward so that he has a fair opportunity to present his case before a jury.”

On Monday, Doctors Against Genocide Society filed a Rule 11 motion, which Israelovitch said is a sanctions motion that argues “that the claims lack a sufficient basis and were brought for an improper purpose.”

“Rule 11 sanctions are an extraordinary remedy and are applied sparingly with caution,” she told JNS. “Courts impose them only in rare circumstances, and we are confident this motion will be denied.”

In the motion, Doctors Against Genocide argues that Winer’s case against the group relied on two Instagram posts made in response to the suspension of Mohammad, a medical student and defendant in the case.

Mohammad was allegedly suspended for saying in an interview with Democracy Now on April 26, 2024, that Winer “aided and abetted in a genocide, aided and abetted in the destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza and in the murder of over 400 healthcare workers and is now back at Emory, so-called teaching medical students and residents how to take care of patients.”

She has filed her own suit against Emory.
NYPD arrests NYU student who unfurled swastika flag on campus building
The NYPD arrested an NYU student Wednesday for raising a flag that displayed swastikas and a Star of David atop a university building last month.

The perpetrator was a fourth-year NYU student at the time of the incident and has not yet received a diploma, a university spokesperson told Jewish Insider on Wednesday. The New York Times reported that the man is named Alexander Stepnowsky, a music technology student.

He was charged with a hate crime and trespassing, among other charges. NYU will carry out its own disciplinary measures, which could include expulsion or degree revocation, the spokesperson said.

Appearing near Washington Square Park on May 13, the flag mimicked the purple NYU banners seen across campus, yet it was emblazoned with a Star of David flanked by two swastikas. It was flown on the roof of the Steinhardt building, named in honor of its Jewish benefactors, Michael and Judy Steinhardt.

“The University cooperated fully with the NYPD. We are grateful for their exhaustive work and for the efforts of the Manhattan District Attorney in identifying the person responsible for this heinous crime,” Wiley Norvell, senior vice president for university relations and public affairs said in a statement.

“The symbols that were represented are antisemitic and hateful to every person of conscience; this appalling act violated our sense of community and solidarity. In addition to criminal proceedings, we will immediately pursue our disciplinary procedures, which carry the most severe consequences.”

“I commend NYU for its unequivocal condemnation of this hateful act, its cooperation with law enforcement, and its commitment to full accountability,” said Mark Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.


Industry figures call on ITV to ban Nadia Sawalha from channel in open letter after her 'antisemitic' posts
Leading figures in the entertainment industry have today called on ITV to ban Nadia Sawalha from appearing on the channel after she was accused of posting antisemitic content on social media.

The actress and presenter came off the Loose Women panel last month after she defended her husband Mark Adderley's anti-Israel rants and shared a number of 'unhinged' videos on her Instagram account.

While she has not appeared on the ITV daytime show since the end of April, bosses are thought to be in talks to reinstate her in the coming weeks.

Now, a number of leading Jewish figures have presented ITV executives with a 15-page letter, outlining their concerns over this prospect, following her 'repeated examples of conspiratorial rhetoric, inflammatory commentary, disinformation, and antisemitic discourse.'

Former ITV executive Claudia Rosencrantz, former Director of BBC Television Danny Cohen and Fulwell Entertainment co-CEO Leo Pearlman are among the signatories.

Ms Sawalha, they claim, has not been raising 'criticism of Israeli government policy' or 'debate surrounding the conflict in Gaza', which would have been 'legitimate political expression.'

Their main concerns arise from her 'repeated promotion, legitimisation and endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy narrative' as well as the 'amplification of inflammatory disinformation and false claims relating to Israel and Jewish people.'

She has also been accused of being 'mocking, dismissive, or trivialising treatment of antisemitism allegations and concerns' as well as 'inflammatory conduct and gestures widely interpreted by viewers as threatening, hostile, or intimidating toward Jewish people.'


IN BED WITH NEO-NAZI: New Indictment Exposes Leftist Group’s Scandalous Relationships With White Nationalists
The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid at least three people who wanted to leave the white supremacist movement not to do so, according to the Justice Department’s superseding indictment handed down Tuesday.

A federal grand jury in April had indicted the SPLC on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. The SPLC has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

While the organization “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press conference that “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”

The charges revolve around the SPLC’s program paying “field sources” inside white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups. The organization has maintained that it paid these informants in order to alert law enforcement to extremist violence before it happened, and some of the informants’ information did lead to prosecutions.

However, the indictment claims some of the SPLC money actually went to prop up the organizations—and the superseding indictment reveals more details of the allegations.

Where Did the SPLC Money Go?
The superseding indictment alleges that the “field sources” used the money from the Southern Poverty Law Center to grow extremist groups.

Field sources used the money to attend and host “extremist group rallies”; grow and create “new chapters of extremist groups”; recruit new members; donate to extremist group leaders; “purchase materials for cross burnings; purchase materials to make Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods”; and more.

One of the field sources, identified as “F-9,” reportedly had a romantic relationship with an SPLC employee. F-9 infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance and received $140,000 from the SPLC. F-9 shared bank accounts with the SPLC employee, who used the cash to pay for the couple’s personal living expenses.
Jewish apartment building in London’s Golders Green targeted in suspected arson, no injuries
An arsonist allegedly set fire to a predominantly Jewish apartment building in north London’s Golders Green neighborhood early Tuesday morning, in what is believed to be the latest in a string of incidents targeting the city’s Jewish community.

According to the Jewish neighborhood watch group Shomrim, a suspect allegedly set fire to a communal stairwell in a building on Bridge Lane, where the majority of residents are Jewish and many are young families.

Residents were alerted by a fire alarm, and a resident quickly extinguished the flames before emergency services arrived, Shomrim said. No injuries were reported.

Witnesses reported seeing a suspect deliberately start the fire in the building’s communal stairwell and flee after being confronted by residents.

A photo posted on social media by Shomrim showed a baby stroller in the stairwell, apparently scorched by the flames.

Shomrim said it recovered evidence believed to belong to the suspect, and was working with Metropolitan Police to investigate the incident. There were no immediate arrests made.
Light sentence for German man convicted of antisemitic hate speech raises alarm
Jewish community leaders in Germany expressed shock and outrage this week after a court sentenced a 60-year-old resident of the northern city of Flensburg to a six-month suspended prison term for displaying an antisemitic sign in the window of his second-hand store.

The court also ordered him to donate EUR 1,200 ($1,370) to the Ladelund concentration camp memorial.

The sign, which was displayed for four hours on Sept. 17, 2025, read: “Jews are not allowed to enter this place!!! Nothing personal, not even antisemitism, I just can't stand you.”

The case drew widespread attention because of its echoes of Nazi-era signs that appeared in the windows of many German shops barring Jewish customers. It also comes amid heightened concern over antisemitism in Germany.

At the sentencing hearing, the judge sharply criticized the man for displaying the sign, noting that after police ordered him to remove it, he took it out of the window only to place it on a wall inside the shop. The court found that the action was an obvious attempt to incite hatred against Jews living in Germany and constituted a violation of their human dignity.

The judge also said that “He knew what he was writing. The sign was deliberately intended to evoke memories of the Nazi boycott slogans directed against Jewish businesses.”

The ruling distinguished between antisemitic or racist speech that is deliberate and intended to incite hatred, and speech that is spontaneous or constitutes a protected personal opinion under freedom of expression laws.

During questioning by police, the man said he posted the sign because none of the Jewish people he knew had opposed the war against Hamas in Gaza. He later acknowledged that he should have distinguished between Jewish individuals who may hold different views on the conflict.

The man's attorney told the court that his client regretted his actions, had not intended to offend members of the Jewish community and would not engage in similar conduct in the future.


Israeli doctors save unborn baby with pioneering in-womb surgery
Israeli doctors have carried out a groundbreaking fetal operation to save an unborn baby after a rare placental tumour caused life-threatening heart failure during pregnancy.

Specialists at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah performed what is believed to be the first procedure of its kind in Israel, intervening while the baby remained in the womb to prevent the condition from becoming fatal.

The emergency developed when a routine pregnancy scan at 25 weeks identified an unusual tumour on the placenta. Further examinations revealed the growth was disrupting blood circulation between the placenta and the foetus, placing severe strain on the baby’s heart.

With the pregnancy still at an early stage and premature delivery carrying significant risks, doctors decided the safest option was to treat the problem before birth.

The procedure was led by Dr Yuval Gielchinsky, director of Beilinson’s Fetal Medicine Centre, alongside Dr Kinneret Tenenbaum, head of the hospital’s Twin Pregnancy Clinic.

Using a minimally invasive endoscopic technique, the team entered the uterus and located the blood vessels supplying the tumour. They then cauterised the vessels, cutting off the blood flow that was allowing the growth to continue.

“The only option left was endoscopic intervention,” Gielchinsky said, noting that the treatment could only be attempted because the tumour was positioned in an accessible area of the placenta.


New Mossad chief thanks United Hatzalah volunteers who saved him on Oct. 7
Nearly 32 months after they helped save his life during the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, two United Hatzalah volunteer medics reunited with newly appointed Mossad director Roman Gofman at his inauguration ceremony on Tuesday.

According to United Hatzalah, a volunteer emergency medical service organization that provides free rapid-response care across Israel, Moshe Weizman and Elishiv Mizrachi met Gofman for the first time since the dramatic rescue that unfolded in southern Israel during the Hamas assault on Israeli communities. The new Mossad chief shook hands with them, thanked them and posed for a photograph with them.

On the morning of Oct. 7, as Hamas terrorists launched their attack, Weizman and Mizrachi headed south to assist the wounded. At approximately 8:30 a.m. near the Bror Hayil Junction, a civilian vehicle flagged down the ambulance driven by Weizman.

Inside was then-Brig. Gen. Roman Gofman, commander of the Tze’elim military base, who had sustained severe gunshot wounds while fighting Hamas terrorists. Weizman transferred Gofman to the ambulance and began an emergency evacuation while speaking with the wounded officer throughout the journey in an effort to keep him conscious.

Shortly afterward, Mizrachi joined the rescue effort and the two medics evacuated Gofman to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, continuing lifesaving treatment en route.

The emotional reunion took place during Gofman’s official inauguration as head of the Mossad. The Prime Minister’s Office and Gofman invited the two medics to attend the ceremony at Mossad headquarters.

“During those moments in the ambulance, I had no idea that the man we were treating would one day lead one of the most sensitive and important organizations in the State of Israel,” said Weizman following the ceremony. “We saw a wounded fighter on the side of the road, a courageous commander who spoke with us throughout the evacuation.

“We had one mission: keep him conscious and save his life. Who could have imagined that one day he would become the director of the Mossad? Standing here at Mossad headquarters and watching him assume this position is a full circle moment beyond words.”
Human bones discovered in Kibbutz Kfar Aza neighborhood devastated in October 7 massacre
Bones that appeared to be human remains were discovered on Wednesday afternoon in a neighborhood of Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

The area was one of the sites of intense fighting on October 7, 2023, when Hamas Nukhba terrorists infiltrated the kibbutz, murdered and abducted residents, looted homes, and set houses on fire.

Security authorities were notified after the remains were found. Police forces arrived at the scene, collected the bones, and transferred them to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine for identification.

The identity of the remains has not yet been determined. Authorities have not announced whether the findings are connected to victims of the October 7 massacre or to any specific missing person.

The report noted that Nirel Zini, who was murdered during the attack, was decapitated by terrorists, and his head has not been found to this day.

Kfar Aza among hardest-hit communities
During the October 7 massacre in Kfar Aza, 64 civilians and IDF soldiers were killed, and 19 people were abducted to Gaza. Nearly all of the homes in the kibbutz were damaged, and fighting continued in the area for three days as terrorists remained inside the community and in surrounding agricultural fields.

An IDF probe later found that the military had failed in its mission to defend the kibbutz. The failures included Israel’s broader security concept before the attack, the resources provided to the community’s emergency squad, and the deployment of military forces.





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