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Sunday, June 14, 2026

06/13 Links: Any deal with Tehran is a deadly farce; Mike Pence: The Case for Israel; Why Israel should close every UN office in the country

From Ian:

Mike Pence: The Case for Israel
As anti-Israel and even antisemitic sentiment has taken hold on the progressive left, many right-wing populists have become isolationists who criticize U.S. support for Israel and even indulge in age-old conspiracies grounded in antisemitism. Chief among those voices is Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who was fired following the $787 million settlement of a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems following the 2020 election. Carlson has condemned U.S. support for Israel and in 2024 he platformed a Holocaust denier who called Winston Churchill the "chief villain of the Second World War." During an interview with the avowed antisemite Nick Fuentes on his show in 2025, Carlson actually denounced American conservatives who support Israel, saying that Christian Zionism is a "heresy" and that non-Jewish Republicans who support Israel are "seized by this brain virus."

He and other populists have also questioned U.S. military support for Israel. Carlson even predicted that Trump's strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would "end his presidency." His fellow right-wing populist, podcaster Steve Bannon, warned that a U.S. strike on Iran would start "the Third World War." The result was quite the opposite: Israel and America demonstrated strength and won the peace. Trump's decision to bomb was a bold move that made the world safer and eased tensions throughout the Middle East. It diminished Iran's ability to threaten its neighbors. The action even helped secure the release of Israelis whom Hamas had held hostage for two years. Carlson and Bannon were wrong and allowed their anti-Israel and isolationist views to cloud their judgment. Fortunately, in that instance, Trump ignored them. Conservatives should recognize open hostility to U.S. support for Israel for what it is and reject these voices in shaping our movement or our party.

In addition to rejecting anti-Israel sentiment, conservatives must reject antisemitism of any form in our nation. Sadly, many right-wing populists are not simply wrong about geopolitics. Many also traffic in antisemitism. Fringe figures such as Fuentes and Candace Owens have attracted followings for their podcasts and social media posts by spewing filth. These and other so-called influencers on the right deliver diatribes full of hateful dog whistles, spin conspiracy theories about Jewish influence, and interview guests who question the reality and enormity of the Holocaust. They often hide behind the claim that they are merely "asking questions." They are in fact utterly incurious, always seeming to know in advance the answers they want to hear and amplify. Just as National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. expelled antisemites from the conservative movement in the 1960s, today's conservatives must reject the new voices of antisemitism today. There is no room in the conservative movement for opponents of U.S. support for Israel, and there is no place in America for antisemitic rhetoric and bigotry.

The United States must remain engaged with Israel and never compromise its safety and security. Radical Islamic terrorism knows no borders as it targets America, Israel, and other nations. It respects no creed as it steals the lives of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. And it understands no reality other than brute force.

America must continue to provide Israel with the means to defend itself and its people. Peace in the Middle East begins with Israeli strength. When Israel is strong, old enemies can start over and become partners. Familiar foes can find new ground for cooperation. And the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael can come together as never before. While at times it may be hard to see, Jews and Muslims have more that unites them than divides them—not only in common threats, but in the common hope for a future of prosperity and peace, and in the common ancestry of a monotheistic belief that runs throughout these lands. Through engagement with Israel and its neighbors, the United States must seek to restore the rich splendor of religious diversity across the Middle East, so that all faiths may once again flourish in the lands where they were born.

Nearly four thousand years ago, a man left his home in Ur of the Chaldeans and traveled to Israel. He ruled no empire, wore no crown, commanded no army, performed no miracles, and delivered no prophecies. Yet to him was promised "descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky." Today, Jews, Christians, and Muslims—more than half the population of the earth, and nearly all the people of the Middle East—claim Abraham as their forefather in faith. In the Old City of Jerusalem, we see the followers of these three great religions living out their beliefs. At the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Christian children receive the gift of grace, in baptism. At the Western Wall, Jewish boys celebrate their bar mitzvahs. And at the Haram al-Sharif, young Muslims bow their heads in prayer. All who hope for freedom and a brighter future should cast their eyes to Jerusalem and marvel at what they behold.

Throughout the history of our nation, generations of Americans have claimed God's promise in Genesis to the people of Israel and all who cherish her: "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse." For the sake of our cherished ally and the future blessing of the United States, if the world knows nothing else, let the world know this: America stands with Israel.
Christian leaders hold emergency summit in Jerusalem to confront global rise in antisemitism
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) convened an emergency summit this week amid growing concern over the global rise in antisemitism following the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre in 2023.

The three-day conference in the Israeli capital comes at a time when social media influencers are consistently pushing antisemitic hate to their millions of followers.

"Attacking the Jews means attacking the very roots of one’s own faith. It means fighting against the people who gave us the Bible. Jesus was Jewish," ICEJ President Jรผrgen Bรผhler told Fox News Digital.

"If you don’t fight antisemitism, you are sawing off the branch you sit on. For the church to survive, we need to connect to our roots, (and) fighting antisemitism needs to be at the forefront of every pastor and every leader around the world," he added.

One of the central themes of the conference is replacement theology, a doctrine that holds the church has replaced the Jewish people in God’s plan.

"The Bible is full of God’s eternal plan, which includes the Jewish people. Paul’s statement in Romans 11 that ‘the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable' relates to Israel. This is a doctrine that goes contrary to what the New and Old Testament are teaching and that’s why we need to have this conference," Bรผhler said.

"One cannot deny the Jewishness of the Bible. The most frequent word in the Bible is the name of God, and the second most used name is Israel. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, he died in Jerusalem, resurrected in Jerusalem, rose to heaven from Jerusalem, and he is coming back to Jerusalem. If you read the Bible, it is so easy to see the connection to Israel," he added.

Israel’s newly appointed special envoy to the Christian world, George Deek, addressed the meeting on Wednesday, while Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee are scheduled to attend the summit’s closing event Thursday at the foreign ministry as keynote speakers.

In a recorded message broadcast at the summit, Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked Christian leaders for mobilizing against antisemitism.

"We are witnessing a very disturbing surge of antisemitism all over the world. This is a major challenge for humanity. This is the age-old, perhaps the oldest plague in humanity, and we have to stand up together — thought leaders and religious leaders — and say, ‘No more' and teach people about the sources of this evil and how to counter antisemitism," Herzog said.

"I believe that countering antisemitism requires a combination of three major elements: law enforcement, adjudication and education.

"You, dear leaders, have a huge capability of fighting back, and I bless you. Truly, I bless you as the president of Israel for coming here and fighting back, for coming here and discussing how to fight back," Herzog concluded.
Zionism as Decolonization — How I Went From Anti-Zionist to Zionist
As a former anti-zionist, I often get asked what changed my views on this very heavy, complex, and emotive subject.

Ironically, it was the same question that got me out of anti-zionism that got me into it — what relationship do Jews have to the land?

The lens through which we view this question colours the entire conflict — the history, events, and dynamics involved, what they are, and to what extent they are moral or immoral.

For a number of years, I opposed the existence of Israel and everything to do with it. A matter of principle. Like most other anti-zionists, it was seemingly obvious that Jews are foreign to the land, that they are just white settler-colonizers from Europe who were using the Jewish religion as a racist excuse to steal the land of a vulnerable brown indigenous population. Anyone with a moral conscience would be opposed, no?

Because of this pretext, this mindset presupposes that everything else Israel does must therefore be in service of settler-colonialism. Hence why it launches attacks on Palestinians, displaces civilians, puts up walls, checkpoints, and blockades, bans DNA tests, builds settlements, and the like. Israel must be committing apartheid. Israel must be committing genocide. Everything Israel does (exist, defend itself, maintain national security) is unjustifiable, because the premise of Israel is unjustifiable. And conversely, everything the Palestinians do is justifiable, because they are innocent native people resisting the evils of colonization. The Jews are foreigners who took the land from the natives, just like here in North America, right? Right!?

Wrong. As someone with an academic background in Anthropology and Indigenous studies, who also spent many years as a decolonial advocate focused on indigenous rights, I was inclined to agree. However, when I started seeing the argumentation for Jews being Indigenous (from Ryan Bellerose, Rudy Rochman, Thomas Gallezot, StandWithUS, among others), I was skeptical yet curious, and sought to investigate further. If my beliefs were true, they would hold up to scrutiny, I thought.

Upon actually reading about Jewish history, linguistics, archaeology, and genetics, and also Arab history, and the history of the conflict, it turns out, my opinions were very much rooted in ignorance. Everything clicked into place and my worldviews came crashing down (although accepting it was a gradual process).

Jews are not just white people with a Jewish religion, they are a displaced Levantine people. Arabs are not just innocent natives, they are the descendants of Caliphates that colonized the entire MENA region. Israel is not acting in service of settler-colonialism, it is acting in service of decolonization. There was so much more that I was never told, and so never considered. I was lied to.


Any deal with Tehran is a deadly farce
In the political culture of the Islamic Republic, strategic deception is not a vice; it is an institutionalised instrument of statecraft. Under the doctrines of Taqiyya (strategic dissimulation) and Ketman (concealment of true intent), misleading a non-believing foreign government is a legitimate tactical weapon.

If Western diplomats bothered to study the active governing logic of the regime, they would find that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini himself, in his treatise Risala-ye Taqiyya, codified the reality that deceptive concealment becomes a binding religious obligation if it serves the public good and the preservation of the Islamic state. This is further reinforced by the overarching doctrine of Maslahat (Regime Expediency), which dictates that the Supreme Leader possesses the absolute authority to suspend any legal, moral, or religious prohibition if the survival of the regime requires it.

We have the empirical, undeniable receipts of this duplicity in action. For a decade, Western liberals treated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s phantom ‘nuclear fatwa’ – an oral pronouncement allegedly banning nuclear weapons – as a load-bearing assumption of international diplomacy. Yet a codified text of that fatwa never existed. It was a masterpiece of political theatre. Iranian negotiators later openly boasted that this presentation was merely a tactical improvisation designed to exploit Western naivety.

The ultimate smoking gun arrived when Israeli intelligence successfully spirited the massive ‘Amad Archive’ out of the heart of Tehran. The captured internal memos, engineering blueprints, and test data proved that while diplomats smiled and swore their intentions were peaceful, the regime was systematically filing away the technical schematics required to build a nuclear warhead.

To enter into an apparently ‘favourable’ agreement with an entity whose governing theology mandates duplicity, and whose historical record is an unbroken chain of perjury, is worse than unwise – it is a betrayal of Western security. A favourable deal is simply a more heavily gilded trap. As the head of the Iranian opposition movement, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, so insightfully observes: ‘You cannot reform a snake. Venom is in its DNA.’

Mark Levin is entirely correct: the West and the United States have unwisely restrained Israel from delivering a decisive blow for far too long. The solution to the Iranian threat will never be found on a signed piece of paper in Geneva or Oman. The only meaningful resolution is to paralyse then destroy the power of the mullahs, and their Praetorian Guard, and enable the Iranian people to change the regime. That is undoubtedly their wish, indeed, their dream, expressed in the prayer, ‘Javid Shah’, ‘Long Live The Shah.’
JPost Editorial: JCPOA 2.0: Trump's deal risks undercutting efforts against the Iranian threat - editorial
This smells like JCPOA 2.0. The original nuclear deal was sold as a pragmatic way to delay Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In practice, it gave Tehran time, money, and legitimacy while leaving too much of its regional aggression intact.

The current framework risks repeating the same mistake under a new label: early concessions, vague sequencing, delayed technical talks, hopeful enforcement, and a refusal to confront the full architecture of Iranian power.

It is not enough for Israeli officials to say that Trump understands Israel’s position.

Understanding is not the same as agreement, and agreement is not the same as enforceable language. Israel will face the consequences if Iran cheats, if Hezbollah is strengthened, or if the northern border becomes another arena where Jerusalem is pressed to show restraint while enemies reload.

The reported Lebanon component is deeply troubling. Any concession that pressures Israel toward a cessation of fighting in Lebanon without hard guarantees on Hezbollah disarmament, Iranian funding, and cross-border fire would weaken Israel’s right to defend its citizens.

No state can be expected to outsource the security of its northern communities to promises made by Tehran.

All of this remains speculative. Predicting Trump is difficult even after he announces something, and reported terms can shift quickly.

But if the reports are true, this is not a great deal. It is a dangerous one, and it risks undercutting the enormous American and Israeli effort to weaken Iran’s regime, disrupt its nuclear ambitions, and reduce the threats it poses to Israel, the region, and the world.


Pakistan claims US-Iran deal to be signed within 24 hours; Tehran pushes back
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Saturday that the United States and Iran have agreed to a framework for a peace deal that would end the months-long conflict in the Middle East, with a final text of the deal reached.

Pakistan is now preparing for an electronic signing expected within the next 24 hours, followed by technical-level talks next week, Sharif added.

Some two hours later, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei denied that the signing would take place on Sunday, according to Iranian state media.

He added that the possibility of signing the so-called Islamabad memorandum in the coming days could not be ruled out, but caution was needed regarding any comment on the signing date due to the “hesitation of the other side,” referring to the US.

According to a US official briefing reporters on Friday, the agreement accomplishes five US goals: It reopens the Strait of Hormuz and lifts the US blockade of Iranian ports; it ostensibly “leads to the dismantling of the Iranian nuclear program,” by extending the ceasefire between the sides by 60 days, during which they will hold technical discussions regarding Iran’s nuclear program; it “leads to the United States getting” Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile; it “guarantees a long-term peace in the region”; and it imposes “an inspection regime” to ensure Iran honors its commitment not to seek nuclear weapons.

Israeli officials and security chiefs have expressed bitter opposition to the terms, noting that the framework agreement leaves all of the war’s key goals unresolved — dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, constricting Iran’s ballistic missile program, ending its support for terrorist proxies, preventing its continued global terrorism, and creating the conditions for the collapse of the regime. It also risks restricting Israel’s capacity to thwart Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not directly responded to its latest reported terms.

As long as I am prime minister of Israel, Iran will not have nuclear weapons,” he pledged in a statement released by his office on Friday. “There is complete agreement between President Trump and me on this issue,” Netanyahu continued.

Sharif’s announcement came two days after US President Donald Trump called off a third night of strikes on Iran, claiming an agreement to end the war had been reached and would be signed shortly.
Trump: US-Iran deal scheduled for signing Sunday
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a memorandum of understanding with Iran is “scheduled to get signed tomorrow,” followed by an immediate opening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Writing on Truth Social, the president continued, “We look forward to working with Iran, and the entire Middle East, long into the future. Hopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn’t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again!”

Trump contrasted the agreement with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action forged by President Barack Obama in 2015.

“The JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon… My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON!” the incumbent president wrote.

Trump pledged that the Iranians will “no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement.”

He added that Tehran will not receive any funds upfront—“Unlike Obama’s Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in payments to them, including 1.7 Billion Dollars in green, cold cash.”

As for the enriched uranium, the president said that the U.S. will “downblend and destroy it,” either in Iran or in the United States, “at the appropriate time.”


Iran booby traps entrances, collapses tunnels leading to cache of enriched uranium
Iran has escalated efforts to seal off its stockpile of enriched uranium, collapsing tunnels, and placing explosive mines at entrances in recent weeks, CNN reported on Saturday, citing five sources familiar with US intelligence.

This comes a day after a senior administration official told reporters that the US and Iran are close to a deal requiring Iran to relinquish its uranium, which has been enriched to near-bomb grade, according to the US.

Reuters also reported on Friday that the emerging US-Iran deal will include the dismantling of the Iranian nuclear program and allowing the US to collect the regime’s enriched uranium.

However, details of how the uranium will be extracted have not been made clear.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that retrieving the uranium is one of the US’s priorities in negotiations, although he has claimed that only the US and possibly China have the capability to do so.

US almost launched ground operation to retrieve uranium

A CNN report from Friday stated that the US had originally planned to launch a ground mission into Iran to recover the uranium, but that Trump had paused the operation.

In an interview with 103FM, former defense minister Yoav Gallant said that the US and Israel could and should have combined forces to retrieve the uranium during the war.

“We should have gone and brought the enriched uranium by force in a military operation during the campaign. That would have uprooted the nuclear program from Iran,” he said.

Former head of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Nuclear Material Removal, Scott Roecker, expressed concern over reports of heightened fortifications around the uranium.
So long Khamenei! Funeral for slain Iranian supreme leader killed in US, Israeli strikes to begin July 4th
Bring the fireworks!

Iran has finally scheduled state funeral proceedings for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to begin on July 4 — the same day the US throws its 250th birthday bash.

The ayatollah was assassinated on Feb. 28, when the US and Israel slammed his Tehran compound with airstrike launching the Iran war. But the Islamic Republic dragged its feet on holding farewell ceremonies for more than three months since his death out of fear of being attacked again.

Now, with a peace deal expected to be signed in the next 24 hours, Iranian state media has announced details of the burial for the 86-year-old cleric.

Three days of funeral ceremonies will be held in the capital Tehran starting on July 4, at the prayer hall of Imam Khomenei — the founder of the Islamic Republic — before a funeral procession will leave on July 6.

Then on July 7, another funeral ceremony will be held in the holy city of ⁠Qom, south of Tehran.

The proceedings will conclude with a burial in Khamenei’s hometown, the northeastern holy city of Mashhad, ‌on July 9.

Khamenei, who was the leader of the Islamic Republic for 36 years, will be buried at the shrine of Imam Reza, a holy place for Shiite Muslims.

Funerals for his daughter and son-in-law, who were also killed in the deadly Feb. 28 strike, will be held on the same day.

Despite Islamic law requiring the dead be buried within 24 hours ideally, the Islamic Republic is believed to have avoided Khamenei’s funeral for so long for fear of potential airstrikes, nationalist counter-rallies similar to the nationwide uprisings earlier this year, and the regime’s need to explain the absence of his son Mojtaba Khamenei.

The younger Khamenei’s son was severely disfigured in the strikes that killed his father and has not been seen in public since his appointment. It is unclear whether he’ll be attending the ceremonies.


IDF says over 70 Hezbollah sites hit as troops advance near south Lebanon’s Nabatieh
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday said it struck over 70 Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, targeting rocket launchers and buildings allegedly used by the terror group to advance attacks, after the army issued evacuation warnings for over 20 locations.

The military added that it killed several Hezbollah operatives identified in areas of southern Lebanon where troops were operating.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported airstrikes in several areas covered by the evacuation warnings, including the villages of Rihan and Sujud, located not far from the city of Nabatieh, which is considered to be a Hezbollah stronghold.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese army said one of its soldiers was seriously wounded in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon.

According to the Lebanese Armed Forces, the soldier was first targeted near a hospital in Nabatieh, without being injured.

He was then targeted again on a road between Kfar Roummane and Nabatieh, “resulting in him sustaining serious injuries,” the LAF said.

There was no immediate comment from the IDF.

The Lebanese army withdrew from its positions in the southern town of Kfar Tebnit, close to Nabatieh, as the IDF advanced in the area, according to Lebanese media.

Footage published by Lebanese media shows armored vehicles of the LAF driving away from Kfar Tebnit on the outskirts of Nabatieh.

In a separate statement, the IDF said that seven Hezbollah operatives who were operating out of a tunnel in southern Lebanon were killed in strikes this week.

According to the military, reservists of the 551st Paratroopers Brigade spotted two cells of Hezbollah gunmen emerging from the tunnel, which was used by Hezbollah to store weapons and to carry out attacks.


Podcast: WTH Is Trump Doing In Iran? Miad Maleki Explains. Explicit
In his relentless pursuit of a deal with Iran, Donald Trump has now returned to military escalation, resuming combat operations and warning that the United States will seize Iran’s key oil export hub on Kharg Island. This so-called moderate ceasefire signals a renewed campaign of punishing strikes on Iran until it agrees to terms set by the administration’s negotiating team. As Miad explains, however, Iran’s hardline is not the “leverage” Tehran believes it to be, because Iran ultimately must reopen the Strait of Hormuz for its own economic survival. But at this moment, Donald Trump has no viable partner for peace, and Iran will likely never offer such an option. As Marc and Dany point out, there is no Iranian Delcy Rodrรญguez, and these kinds of arrangements have expiration dates, particularly as 2028 approaches. As long as the sole measure of success in Iran is a negotiated deal, the Iranians hold the power to decide whether victory is possible. It is up to Trump to decide whether that’s acceptable.

Miad Maleki is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), former senior U.S. sanctions strategist and national security leader, and former associate director for the Treasury’s Office of Global Targeting at the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Miad played a central role in marshalling the Treasury Department’s sanctions campaigns against the Iranian regime and its proxy groups: Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraqi Shiite militias, and the Houthis. He is also a U.S. Air Force Veteran.


Kallas' Israel 'apartheid' remarks deepen EU foreign policy crisis
Kaja Kallas compared Israel to South Africa’s racist apartheid era during high-level talks in Mexico, breaking ranks with EU official foreign policy and deepening the controversy around her leadership.

The remark comes as the European External Action Service (EEAS), which she heads, is facing an unparalleled level of criticism about whether it is fit for purpose during the second term of Donald Trump, and amid greater geopolitical uncertainty.

Kallas, a former Estonian prime minister, travelled to Mexico City from 20 to 22 May as part of a senior EU delegation attending a major summit in the country.

During closed-door and confidential meetings with Mexican government representatives, Kallas compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to the racist apartheid policies of South Africa, which ended in the early 1990s.

Officials and diplomats, including those present at the meeting, told Euractiv that she described how moved she was by a visit last year to South Africa and its apartheid museum in the capital, Johannesburg.

South Africa had a strict state policy of forced racial segregation between whites and blacks, known as apartheid, that lasted from 1948 to the early 1990s before being brought down by figures such as Nelson Mandela.

Tough talking
The accusation that Israel’s policies and military action, following the attacks by Hamas in October 2023, are rooted in an apartheid-type policy of racism towards Palestinians, or Arabs, is highly controversial.

While there is some sympathy from the Irish and Spanish governments, the EU has steered well clear of such claims, which have been categorically rejected by countries including Germany and France.

The claim also forms the basis of South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where the country alleges that Israel has violated its obligations under the Genocide Convention in Gaza.

In line with the EU’s policy, Kallas has acknowledged Israel’s right to self-defence but has said the response should be proportionate, while criticising Israeli settlements on the West Bank as undermining the possibility of a two-state solution.

“The EU is critical of Israel and supports a two-state solution. The comparison with apartheid is unacceptable and not EU policy. It is a big problem if she is making these kinds of statements while officially representing the EU on the world stage,” said one EU diplomat.


Why Israel should close every UN office in the country
When it comes to the United Nations, Israel needs to take a much more aggressive response. As a preliminary step, and a potential precursor to entirely pulling out of the organization, Israel should immediately and permanently close every single U.N. office operating in the country.

The events of the last month have again exposed that the U.N. is an infested cesspit of Jew-hatred.

Distorting fact, truth and reality, the U.N. secretary-general included the Israeli security forces in a blacklist of bodies and countries guilty of “conflict-related sexual violence.”

The basis for the inclusion was a cacophony of baseless allegations that the U.N. claimed to have “verified,” but provided no proof. That claim was coupled with the allegation that Israeli authorities continue to hold more than 9,000 Palestinians in detention, “including over 4,000 detained without charges or trial or administratively detained, raising concerns of arbitrary detention.”

Never once did it mention the unequivocal fact that the detainees are terrorists, that each is brought before a court, or that thousands of them are convicted offenders.

Placing Israel on the conflict-related sexual violence blacklist, like placing Israel on a similar blacklist for abuse of children in armed conflict, has been a long-time goal of the terrorists and their supporters, including U.N. organizations. In the eyes of the terrorists, the blacklists were some of the most effective vehicles through which they could vilify and delegitimize Israel.

The U.N. actors were more than useful idiots. For decades, the U.N. actively engaged with a host of NGOs, many of which were either fronts for terrorist organizations or, at the very least, had close connections to terrorist organizations. The “evidence” provided by the terrorists was then U.N.-washed and presented to the world as legitimate and reliable information.

Those tried and tested mechanisms, too often ignored by the Israeli authorities, were just exposed by an Israeli governmental report, “Laundering Propaganda: How UN actors manipulated information in the Gaza War” (2023-2025), that demonstrated how U.N. officials, with little basis, or no basis whatsoever, were at the forefront of distorting reality and promoting blood libels against Israel.

From referencing Hamas-reported death tolls, sometimes alleged to be exaggerated, to claims such as 14,000 babies could die in 48 hours, the Israeli report cites these as examples of contentious data used by U.N. agencies against Israel.

The common denominator for the inclusion of Israel on the blacklists and the report of the government was the work done by the U.N. organizations operating in Israel.

22 U.N. organizations operate in Israel
Over 78 years, Israel has hosted a plethora of U.N. organizations. Astoundingly, there are no fewer than 22 U.N. organizations, devoted to the Palestinian cause of destroying Israel, that operate in Israel. Seventeen have a physical presence in Israel, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) and the U.N. Children’s organization, UNICEF.

From its offices in the heart of Jerusalem, OCHA coordinates the other U.N. organizations and leads the unhinged charges against Israel. According to OCHA, it was Israel that bombed Al-Ahli hospital in October 2023, killing 471 Gazans. It is OCHA leading the global campaign to vilify the “violent Israeli settlers.”


Doctors Without Borders report found cases of abuse and exploitation by staff in Chad
The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The Doctors Without Borders report — completed in July and first reported Saturday by The Associated Press — found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18 staff members were dismissed and barred from future employment. In some cases, the group told AP, the allegations couldn’t be verified or the perpetrators identified. The report also said some of the repeated exploitation suggested potentially organized “sexual trafficking.”

The organization said it launched the monthslong investigation in response to AP reporting that women had accused staff of sexually exploiting them in displacement sites in Chad, where hundreds of thousands fled from Sudan’s devastating civil war, now in its fourth year. The report credited AP as playing “a fundamental role as an external whistleblower.”

The findings by Doctors Without Borders — one of the largest employers and biggest aid organizations in the refugee camps in eastern Chad — indicate the abuse was more widespread than previously reported.

Sexual exploitation has repeatedly surfaced during humanitarian crises despite years of efforts by aid organizations to prevent abuse.

In the cases AP found in Chad in 2024, women said people meant to protect them — humanitarians, local security forces — offered money, easier access to assistance and jobs in exchange for sex. Such sexual exploitation in Chad is a crime.

And in its report, Doctors Without Borders noted that the cases found in Chad stand out because it had allocated extra resources to combat and prevent abuse. The memo also said the findings likely only scratch the surface, as many women were hesitant to speak openly.


The Rubin Report: Dems Embracing of Antisemitism Is About to Backfire | Batya Ungar-Sargon
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Batya Ungar-Sargon about her new book The Jews and the Left; why American Jews historically aligned with the Democratic Party through labor activism, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement; the rise of anti-Zionism as a litmus test on the modern left and its impact on Jewish voters; Zionism, antisemitism, Israel, and the growing divide between progressive activists and mainstream Americans; Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, and the debate over anti-Israel sentiment on both the left and right; America’s unique relationship with Jewish history; populism, Trump, working-class politics, and why she remains optimistic about America’s future, and much more.




Journalist sues Mamdani over delayed release of info about orders against Jew-hatred mayor nixed on his first day
Randy Mastro, a former first deputy New York City mayor in the administration of Eric Adams, and veteran investigative journalist Richard Behar are suing Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they say is his administration’s failure to turn over records related to his rollback on his first day on the job of several of his predecessor’s executive orders on Jew-hatred and Israel.

The lawsuit, which Richard Behar filed in New York State Supreme Court, alleges that Mamdani’s office is guilty of a “pattern of obstruction” in its response to multiple Freedom of Information Law requests that Behar has submitted since Mamdani took office on Jan 1.

Mastro is serving as counsel to Behar. FOIL is New York’s version of the Freedom of Information Act.

“It was done on the first day of the Mamdani administration, so there couldn’t have been that many documents relating to that decision,” Mastro, who served as deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani, told JNS. “Yet he has gotten stonewalled.”

Behar “was not given any date for production, and then he was told they won’t produce responsive documents, if at all, until November,” Mastro said.

Under New York law, members of the public, including journalists, have the right to request records relating to government decisions, and agencies are required to respond—or provide reason for denial—in a timely manner.

The mayor’s delay in responding to the requests was “arbitrary, capricious and irrational in multiple egregious respects,” Behar alleges.

“The city’s prolonged delays, without any substantive justification, demonstrate a pattern of obstruction that is inconsistent with the purposes and mandates of FOIL,” the petition states.

Behar’s two requests, which he filed on Jan. 13 and May 8, sought records related to Mamdani’s decision to rescind several of his predecessor’s executive orders, including those adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred and barring city agencies from boycotting Israel.
Dinner meant to honor Jewish Sabbath packed with anti-Israel activists charged up to $5K a head
A dinner purportedly meant to honor the Jewish Sabbath was filled with a stomach-churning assortment of radical anti-Israel activists, critics told The Post.

Tickets for the Friday night dinner organized by guerrilla activist group Climate Defiance ran as high as $5,000 a pop to nosh with a who’s who of lefty darlings, including anti-Israel provocateur Linda Sarsour; Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander; radical Queens Democratic socialist Tiffany Caban who was arrested for protesting the war in Gaza; and anti-Israel, Mayor Mamdani-linked trans rabbi Abby Stein.

The kosher and vegan-friendly meal at the home of “social activist” filmmaker Jill Goldman celebrated the Tribeca Film Festival climate hysteria flick “Just Look Up,” which follows Michael Greenberg, founder of Climate Defiance.

Boasting “no phones, no cameras, no tech” the “traditional Shabbat meal” will “break bread” and “build community,” welcoming allies of all “faiths, backgrounds, and traditions,” the invite said.

But critics didn’t buy the supposedly inclusive and intersectional lovefest.

“Why is this being done in secrecy? What is it that you’re going to say that needs to be hidden from the public? Knowing who the players are, this feels like it’s using Shabbat as a cover,” Jewish activist Tali Goldsheft of the “Politically Homeless No More” movement fumed to The Post, alleging the ban on devices at the end shields it from potential scrutiny.

Earlier this month Israel banned Sarsour, the former co-chair of the Women’s March, from a planned visit, which drew outrage from anti-Israel group CAIR.


107 protesters arrested outside court hearing of Palestine Action raiders
More than 100 protesters were arrested for showing support for terror group Palestine Action outside Woolwich Crown Court on Friday evening, as four activists were handed jail sentences.

Police vans arrived outside the court to ferry demonstrators away after the first person was arrested at about 1.20pm, with the total rising to 107 by about 6pm.

Campaigners had gathered outside court in support of four Palestine Action activists who were being sentenced for destroying equipment at an Israel-based defence firm’s UK factory, in a raid which left a police officer with a fractured spine.

About 200 people sat outside the court on Friday, holding signs saying “Saving lives is not terrorism I support Palestine Action”, according to the Defend our Juries campaign.

As each protester was carried away, with one officer holding each limb, crowds applauded while others berated the officers.

Some of the chants were “you’re complicit in genocide” and “Met Police, shame, shame, all the crimes in your name”.

In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “A number of arrests have been made during a protest in south-east London.

“All are currently in police custody.”

Charlotte Head, 23, Samuel Corner, 30, Leona Kamio, 30, and Fatema Rajwani, 21, were in an old prison van which crashed into the Elbit Systems site near Bristol in the early hours of August 6 2024.

The activists, all wearing red boilersuits, caused an estimated £1 million in damage, after destroying computers, drones, and other equipment with sledgehammers and crowbars they had taken with them.

Corner, who fractured police officer Kate Evans’ spine with a sledgehammer, was jailed for seven years and eight months, Head and Kamio each for five years and Rajwani for four years and eight months.


Antisemitic Cornell student turns down interview because he's 'not interested in working for a Jew'
A Cornell University student who applied for a summer internship with a Jewish-owned NYC startup rejected the opportunity with a hateful message: ‘Not interested in working for a Jew,” the shocked CEO posted on X.

Austin Franco put his antisemitism on full display when he passed up an interview with VryfID because its co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn are proudly Jewish.

Franco, 19, delivered the message to both brothers via job board site Handshake after applying for a summer role at the company, which pairs renters with landlords and verifies their identities to prevent fraud.

The Einhorns reviewed Franco’s application and he was being considered for an internship with VryfID’s growth team, which is tasked with attracting renters to the company.

“Sad world,” Gabe, 24, wrote on X Monday along with a screenshot of Franco’s jaw-dropping eight-word response to trying to schedule a Zoom call: “Not interested in working for a Jew. Thanks.”

Gabe Einhorn told The Post he felt obligated to share the message to raise awareness of growing antisemitism. He blacked out Franco’s name out of graciousness, but commenters quickly revealed his identity.

“I felt bad exposing him because I thought he could have made a mistake and he really doesn’t believe this wholeheartedly,” Gabe said.

But the Ivy Leaguer soon made it clear that he meant every word of what he wrote.


AI models are absorbing antisemitism from humans, study says
Artificial intelligence models have absorbed historical antisemitic tropes from the human texts the models are trained on, according to a recent psychology study.

The authors, from Israeli universities, said the analysis showed how “an ancient prejudice persists in modern technological systems through complex patterns of trait association and cultural coding.”

The research paper, published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist academic journal, investigated how Jews are represented in large language models (LLMs) and whether the models replicate biases related to Jews.

LLMs are advanced AI systems, trained on vast troves of existing text, that process and generate human language. They are a key technology powering chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Bias in LLMs presents risk because, as the models become increasingly integrated and influential in professional spheres, prejudices could be borne out in areas like hiring, education and loan approvals, the authors said.

The study focused on OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 Turbo, the most advanced and commonly used model at the time of the research, with users in the hundreds of millions. The findings were replicated on other AI models, such as DeepSeek and Mistral.

The ChatGPT model was trained on texts including books, websites and academic articles, giving it a nuanced framework for replicating human patterns in language and culture.

Investigating AI bias was challenging because LLMs are trained to suppress inappropriate and offensive responses, said the study, authored by Gal Gutman of Ben-Gurion University and Michael Gilead of Tel Aviv University.

The study, therefore, had to find ways to bypass those AI controls and suss out latent biases.
Israelis say they were attacked at Bologna Pride for carrying rainbow Star of David flag
A group of Israelis were pushed and verbally accosted by attendees at the LGBTQ Pride Parade in Bologna, Italy, on Saturday, witnesses told Israel’s Channel 12 television station.

The group was waving a pride flag with the Star of David in the center, which other parade attendees took issue with, prompting the altercation. According to the report, a pregnant woman among the group of Israelis was violently pushed.

“They screamed at us that we were murderers; all the children there were scared,” one Israeli was quoted as saying.

“I stood with my wife and son and another family who came with strollers, and we filmed their screams,” another added, “We were with children, proud families who came to march in an event founded to promote our rights – and we were attacked because we are Jews.”

This year’s parade, held under the title “Rivolta Pride” (“Revolt Pride”), revolved around a number of themes, including climate change and several LGBTQ-centered issues such as recognition of same-sex families and access to HIV prevention medication, although organizers emphasized that support for the Palestinian people was also a key focus of the parade, according to Italian daily Corriere della Sera.

Organizers said one of the activists who took part in the recent Gaza aid flotilla and was subsequently detained in Israel would be attending the parade.

Italian media reported that Palestinian flags were waved alongside Pride flags throughout the demonstration.

Protesters could reportedly also be heard chanting “Queers know which side to stand on: Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.”


Rooftop installation brings searing Oct. 7 imagery and poignant lyrics to Azrieli Mall
For nearly three years, lyricist Noam Horev and photographer Ziv Koren have used their respective crafts to portray the stories of Israelis affected by the Hamas massacres of October 7, 2023.

“I became a father in October 2023, and my partner was on reserve duty, and I ran away to my writing,” Horev told The Times of Israel. “I felt this need to write my emotions about the feelings of the nation and the optimism that you still sometimes felt.”

Koren, a photojournalist, took his motorcycle south on October 7 to capture the unfolding horrors of the Hamas massacre.

Now the two have partnered with the Azrieli Group to present “We Will Rise,” an emotional, multi-layered installation that opened June 9 and will remain on view through October.

The exhibit is on display in a roughly 500-square-meter (roughly 5,400-square-foot) gallery purpose-built for the show on the roof of Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Mall.

The installation features 10 large-scale structures, each one featuring narrated text written by Horev over Koren’s photographs — images that are familiar, sometimes traumatic, often haunting.

Throughout the approximately 45-minute tour, visitors move through the different stations equipped with a personal audio system in Hebrew or English.

Portrayed are moments from October 7 as soldiers witness the destruction and devastation, later as Israelis struggled to bring home the 251 hostages abducted to Gaza, and as the country turned itself into a volunteer force to help those in need.

Other images resonate as well: a wall of stickers of those who were killed, a pile of hostage dog tags, photos of the injured and maimed as they rehabilitate themselves, the face of former hostages Gadi Mozes in the potato field of his beloved Kibbutz Nir Oz.





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