Friday, June 26, 2026

06/25 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: NYC’s black-red alliance of Islamism and ultra-leftism wants us to hate Israel and America; Israel to send aid mission Venezuela after earthquakes

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: NYC’s black-red alliance of Islamism and ultra-leftism wants us to hate Israel and America
Red-black extremists are now threatening establishment candidates in Colorado, Michigan and Wisconsin, while another radical leftist is poised to become mayor of Washington DC.

This process will metastasize even further very fast. Galvanized by the October 7 attacks and the way western elites subsequently turned against Israel, the Islamists believe they’re on the cusp of victory over America and its allies.

While their motivation has gone through the roof, their useful idiots in the West’s liberal establishment are refusing to see what’s staring them in the face. Instead, they’re obsessively sticking pins into effigies of Donald Trump, while acting as an echo chamber for the Islamists’ lies painting Israel as a demonic force in the world.

Although New York’s voters may nod along to these lies, most of them hardly rank Israel as of greater concern than things like the cost of living.

But Israel stands proxy for something else: a state that the public believe is grinding the faces of the poor and disadvantaged. Just like them. So a vote for those who hate “oppressive” Israel appears to them as a vote for the “oppressed” everywhere.

The Democrats imagine that they’re using the Islamists to promote left-wing policies. The truth is that the Islamists are using the Democratic party to turn the US into Ameristan.

People don’t take this seriously because they can’t believe it could ever happen to mighty America.

Look at Britain and believe it. This is how the western frog is being boiled slowly in the pot.
Alex Hearn: Rooney’s antizionism isn’t political comment but a creed: Israel is evil, its defeat salvation
None of this began on October 7, 2023. The atrocities of that day gave permission to people who were already converted. Rooney joined the boycott of Israel in 2021, refusing to let an Israeli publisher translate her novel into Hebrew while it stayed on sale in Chinese and Russian. That same year, academics went viral copying and pasting a single paragraph that declared opposition to the world's only Jewish state “integral” to their scholarship and “moral worldview”. They then instructed one another to evangelise others and “pass it on”. An entire worldview, copied and pasted, about a state thousands of miles away.

And the permission has had consequences. Attacks on Jews spiked the moment Hamas broadcast its atrocities, and they have not fallen back to where they were. The ideas surface now where they once stayed hidden – in workplaces, in the arts, and on the street. In Stockholm a few months ago they staged a piece of medieval theatre: a man dressed as the caricature of a Jew wearing a blood-soaked apron, holding a champagne flute of blood. He mimed the slaughter of a Palestinian woman while the crowd chanted “crush Zionism”.

It is an old habit. During the Dreyfus Affair, Frenchmen used the figure of the Jew to settle what kind of country France was. A victim of an antisemitic conspiracy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted of being a spy for Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island in French Guiana. He was later cleared but the question behind his case – whether Jews truly belonged – was not. The philosopher Hannah Arendt described the Affair as a dress rehearsal for a performance staged decades later. In 1944 Dreyfus’s granddaughter, Madeleine Lévy, was murdered in Auschwitz. Her name was carved into his gravestone because she had no grave of her own.

The case against Dreyfus only broadened, from one man to a people. The question moved with the times: from “can a Jew be a citizen?” to “can Jews have a state?” Antizionist where once it was anti-Dreyfusard – only the right in dispute has changed. Back then, the French parliament had a debate about “Jewish infiltration”. Now in 2026, the British parliament just had a debate about “Israeli” infiltration. Same shtick, different century.

Rooney cannot be waved away as a masked figure at a march. She is one of the most gifted novelists of her generation, read by millions, and she has taken the oldest accusation in Europe and given it the vocabulary of the age. In her telling, to stand against the Jewish state is not merely permitted. It is the measure of whether you are a good person at all.

When religion receded it left a space – the need to feel good, and to belong. What looks like politics is really a faith, and what looks like a faith is really the search for a self. People build an identity out of their stance on what Jews represent, then call Jews the rootless ones. But the emptiness is their own.
Rising antisemitism ‘the biggest disgrace of our times’, says incoming Telegraph owner
The chief executive of The Telegraph’s incoming owners has described the resurgence of antisemitism among young people as “the biggest disgrace of our times”.

Speaking in London on Wednesday, Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, warned that hatred of Jews had become a “global export” in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, with alarming levels of support among younger generations.

“The thing that worries me most is that antisemitism is now a global export, originating largely from Germany and Austria, and is particularly popular among very young audiences,” Döpfner told delegates at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference.

“That is for me the biggest disgrace of our times. I simply cannot believe it.”

Döpfner, who is also the controlling shareholder of the German media giant, reflected on the failure of the international response to the attacks.

Despite what he described as the clear distinction between perpetrators and victims on October 7, he said the aftermath had produced not a surge of solidarity with Jews, but a wave of hostility.

“After October 7, where the question of who started it, who was the perpetrator and who was the victim, was so obvious, that did not create a global wave of solidarity, but a wave of new antisemitism,” he said.

“That goes way beyond Jewish life. It affects us all. Jews are the first victims in an open society model.”

His comments drew rapturous applause from the several hundred audience members attending the conference at the vast Olympia venue in Hammersmith.

Axel Springer has one of the most explicit pro-Jewish and pro-Zionist policies of any major Western media company. Its corporate constitution, known as the Essentials, includes a formal commitment to “support the right of existence of the State of Israel and oppose all forms of antisemitism”.
Is The Media Turning a Blind Eye to Montreal Shooter’s Antisemitism?
Is the media fully explaining the ideological drive behind the actions of Seth Scott Hatfield, whose shooting rampage in the heart of Montreal on June 22 led to the deaths of a police officer and a Jewish civilian?

Based on a manifesto that was made public following the attack, both the Canadian media and international outlets (such as CNN, The Guardian, and Le Monde) have compiled an ideological profile of Hatfield, focusing on his stated hatred for feminism, liberalism, capitalism, pornography, “favored males,” and immigrants.

The manifesto reads as though it is inspired by a mixture of revolutionary Marxism and incel (involuntary celibate) culture and is being presented as such by the mainstream media.

However, one aspect of Hatfield’s hate-filled screed that has received little to no mention by the media is his abhorrence of the Jewish people.

Either his antisemitism is mentioned in passing several paragraphs into an article or it is not mentioned altogether.

Despite this lack of media attention, Hatfield’s hatred for the Jews is not an insignificant part of his violent ideology.


The Free Press: Mamdani-Backed Socialists Sweep New York. What Now? | Douglas Murray, Mark Halperin, Reihan Salam
On Tuesday night, the democratic socialists swept New York.

In a series of closely watched congressional primaries, all three candidates endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani defeated more moderate rivals, including two incumbents. Their victories, which in heavily blue districts all but guarantee their election to the House of Representatives come November, sent shock waves through the Democratic Party.

The winners include former City Comptroller Brad Lander, who favors the complete abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; democratic socialist and New York State Assemblymember Claire Valdez, who also supports abolishing ICE and has plastered the words “Free Palestine” on her campaign signs; and community organizer and democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, who has refused to condemn Hamas, was part of a student group at Columbia that has since called for “Death to America,” and said that a world without borders, prisons, and police is “the only moral way forward.”

The results mark a seismic shift in the Democratic Party, which for months has been consumed by an internal battle between its traditional old guard and an insurgent, socialist, and virulently anti-Israel left wing. Tuesday night was only the latest sign that the latter group is winning that fight.

So who are these candidates? How did the radical fringe take center stage in the Democratic Party? And what do these results mean for New York—and for the country?


Commentary Podcast: Peter Pan Socialism
Our friend Noah Rothman joins us today to discuss the demographics of New York's primary election results, and how voting for socialists is an expression of perpetual childhood. Plus, The ongoing breakdown of relations between President Trump and the republican senate caucus, and a check-in on the situation in the Middle East.


Meet the Mini-Mamdanis: Budding Crop of Extreme Left-Wing, 9/11-Justifying, Israel-Hating Socialists Win Primary Nods for New York State Legislature Seats
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani didn’t just sweep the Big Apple’s congressional races.

Down ballot, members of his Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) dominated contests for seats in the New York State Legislature, ensuring the state capital in Albany, N.Y., will be getting pinker.

With most of New York City deep, deep blue, Democratic primaries typically offer the true election fight, with Election Day in November usually a formality. That is the case with some notable state legislative primary wins by Mamdani’s democratic socialists on Tuesday.

New York’s state legislature—which produced both Mamdani and newly nominated socialist congressional nominee Claire Valdez—is becoming a farm team for Mamdani’s merry band of Israel-hating socialists.

Aber Kawas, a hijab-clad Palestinian "Muslim Civil rights activist," was elected to the state’s 12th senate district, a winding area stretching through Brooklyn and Queens.

Kawas has in past remarks made excuses for 9/11, blamed it on the evils of the West, and said Muslims have nothing to apologize for.

"The system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy et cetera—and Islamophobia—have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people, and so this is a long trajectory, and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11," she offered during a 2017 panel.

"The idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera—is something I find reprehensible," Kawas added.

Kawas, who was endorsed by Mamdani, is a Brooklyn native who holds a master's degree in "Islamic Liberation Theology" from a South African university and moved to the district last year, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.

Kawas has also praised terrorists like Syed Fahad Hashmi, convicted of providing support to al Qaeda, and the Hamas fundraisers known as the Holy Land Five as "imprisoned heroes" and "living martyrs," according to FrontPage Magazine.

Footage from 2016 shows Kawas attending a pro-Hamas rally while holding a headband worn by its fighters (though she has disputed that characterization).
Mamdani faces lawsuit over alleged FOIL obstruction in antisemitism and Israel records request
Ex-deputy NYC mayor Randy Mastro and investigative journalist Richard Behar have filed a suit against NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the state Supreme Court. The petition was viewed by The Jerusalem Post.

The action stems from the mayor’s alleged “pattern of obstruction” regarding Behar’s two Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests for all records pertaining to his mayoral actions relating to antisemitism and Israel.

The First FOIL request specifically sought records relating to Mamdani’s Executive Order 1 to rescind the definition of IHRA antisemitism, despite it being adopted by the US government, over 35 US states, over 90 American cities and counties, and many universities.

Behar is seeking all records explaining Mamdani’s rationale for issuing Executive Order No. 1, records assessing its merits, interoffice communications, research, studies, public impact analyses, and directives.

The Second FOIL request sought records relating to the following: Mamdani’s revocation of an Executive Order by the prior mayor that had banned city agencies from participating in economic warfare (BDS) against Israel; Mamdani’s decision to remove NYC Economic Development Corp webpages promoting the city’s ties with Israeli companies and entrepreneurs; and Mamdani’s vow when running for mayor to terminate the public-private partnership between Cornell University and the Technion in Israel.

Behar submitted the two FOIL requests to the Office of the Mayor of New York City on January 13, 2026, and May 8, 2026.

There has been no response.
Who Is Congressional Candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier?
Darializa Avila Chevalier won the Democratic Primary for the House of Representatives in New York’s 13th Congressional District on Tuesday. Given that NY-13 is one of the safest Democratic districts in the United States (D+32 According to the Cook Political Report), Ms. Avila Chevalier is presumably a member of the next Congressional class.

If you read accounts of her victory, you’ll find out she is stridently anti-Israel, and had the enthusiastic support of both the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. All of that is 100% true. But does focusing so much on Israel really tell the whole story?

If you look into her past affiliations and positions, it becomes clear that her vitriol goes far beyond Israel, and into areas that should be of major concern for all Americans. After all, a member of Congress has a local constituency, but a national responsibility, including on areas of homeland and national security.

Ms. Avila Chevalier was amongst the founders of Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), according to a biography on a 2016 Electronic Intifada article she authored.

Based on the name, it may sound as if CUAD is simply one in a long line of far left-wing anti-Israel groups falsely accusing Israel of apartheid and seeking to harm the Jewish state through economic and cultural boycotts. However, when you look at what CUAD says in their own words, it is clear Ms. Avila Chevalier founded an organization with a far larger and even more dangerous agenda.

On their Instagram account, in a since deleted post, CUAD made their wider views very clear: they are “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” While they may view Israel as an outpost of Western Civilization and support its eradication, their ambitions are much broader. In the same post, they say they seek “instruction from militants of the Global South,” militants being a euphemism for terrorist organizations.

Ms. Avila Chevalier has also been outspoken in her belief that there should be no national borders and that there should be no police. Not only has she advocated for these policies, she has attacked anyone who doesn’t meet her litmus test of absolute ideological purity. Reform isn’t enough, anarchy is necessary, and everything must be torn down, according to the materials published by the politician. There is a real question if the voters of NY-13, amidst the obsessive focus on Israel, understand the broader context of exactly who they are about to send to Washington to represent them. Do they really not want police protections in their neighborhoods? Do they really want the end of western civilization?
DSA-aligned Brooklyn Democratic leader promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories
An activist that two politicians from the Democratic Socialists of America helped elevate to a leadership position in the Brooklyn Democratic Party on Tuesday posted a vitriolic antisemitic screed to her Instagram last year — declaring as “the truth” a notorious work beloved by Adolf Hitler that describes a Jewish world conspiracy.

Carmella Charrington was part of an army of left-wing insurgents who captured office on Tuesday: In her case, the role of district leader in the Brooklyn Democratic Party, an unpaid but important position that elects the party’s influential chairperson and plays a significant role in nominating judges and filling jobs at the city Board of Elections.

Although the DSA itself did not formally endorse Charrington for the post, two of its most important local figures campaigned with her and helped her make the ballot: state Sen. Jabari Brisport and state Assembly candidate Eon Huntley, who defeated an incumbent lawmaker in a hotly watched race earlier this week.

Charrington’s candidacy was part of a broader campaign to depose the present centrist leadership of the official party organization. But in November 2025, Charrington shared a video to her Instagram account — which features various photos and videos of herself at Brisport and Huntley’s joint campaign headquarters — promoting the “hidden history” in industrialist Henry Ford’s notorious 1920s series of conspiracy pamphlets, The International Jew.

“This better be the topic at the table#dad #deedtheft #ceo #love #ericadams #brooklyn #lovers #lovers #corruption #diddy #nyc ##cardio#cardib #trump,” Charrington captioned the since-deleted post, adding in the comments: “The only way to change is understanding the truth!”

The video itself is a summary and update of Ford’s century-old conspiracy theories, presented by a wellness influencer.


International Criminal Court judges sue Trump admin in NY court over sanctions
Three judges at the International Criminal Court, an independent body in The Hague, sued the Trump administration in New York on Wednesday, claiming that the U.S.-imposed sanctions, in connection with the court’s investigations involving Israel, were illegal.

The judges Reine Alapini-Gansou of Benin, Solomy Balungi Bossa of Uganda and Kimberly Prost of Canada filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, arguing that U.S. President Donald Trump’s sanctions exceed his legal authority and threaten judicial independence.

The Trump administration has sanctioned eight ICC judges under Executive Order 14203 for targeting Israel, after the court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

The United States and Israel are not parties to the Hague-based court.

The three judges who filed the lawsuit claimed that the sanctions have disrupted their personal and professional lives by restricting access to their U.S.-based bank accounts and other transactions, and that they are “designed to intimidate and influence the judges’ decision-making.”

According to the court filing, Prost is “confined to cash transactions” when she travels outside the European Union or Canada and “her accounts with U.S. service companies, such as Amazon, Google and Expedia, have been limited or canceled entirely,” making tasks like booking hotels or calling a taxi difficult.

Prost also claimed that she has lost the ability to attend speaking engagements in the United States, including at Harvard University and Columbia University.

Bossa alleged that, in addition to financial restrictions and canceled speaking engagements, she can no longer access her personal Google email account.

According to the lawsuit, Alapini-Gansou can no longer use a credit card from a French bank, “limiting her ability to cover basic expenses.”


Tikvah: Bret Stephens: Two Strategies for Jewish Survival
Bret Stephens argues that American Jews are repeating an old mistake. For 375 years, Jewish life in America ran on what he calls the ingratiation strategy—proving we're useful, valuable, likable. After October 8th, the instinct was to try it again with the very institutions that turned their backs. That hasn't worked.

Instead, Stephens makes the case that American Jewry now needs to adapt a new strategy—the respect strategy—which was pioneered by Israel. He explains how in this conversation.


JNS: The WOKE Right’s Implosion Has BEGUN!



The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Palestinian Victimhood Narrative
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, delivered a sermon on Sunday (June 21) at St. Peter's Church in the Palestinian town of Birzeit.

It is all very well for the Archbishop to call for peace and the recognition of dignity, but of what substance is this call unless it is also accompanied by an equal demand for repentance by those complicit in Palestinian terror campaigns that have made peace less likely than ever?

Does she not realize the consequence of repeating a narrative where the Palestinian people are nothing more than the helpless victims?

Of omitting to condemn the repeated refusals of the Palestinians to accept serious offers of peace over the generations, not to mention declining to excoriate the brutality of Hamas, the demand of their founding charter to eradicate Jews, their hiding behind civilians, and the complicity of ordinary Palestinians in the terror wrought by Hamas?

Mullally's embrace of this Palestinian victimhood narrative will simply make it more difficult to combat the terrorism and totalitarianism of Hamas, which is the more fundamental cause of the misery of the people and the prolonging of the conflict - not to mention the oppressive treatment of Christians in their territory.


Exclusive: FIFA Threatened with Lawsuit for Seizing Jewish Fan's Israeli Flag at World Cup Match While Permitting Palestinian and Iranian Flags
The Los Angeles soccer fan who had his Israeli flag forcibly confiscated by event staff during a recent World Cup match at Los Angeles's SoFi stadium says he is prepared to sue the FIFA soccer organization for violating his civil rights and endangering his family's safety before a crowd of rabid pro-Palestinian fans, according to a document preservation letter sent late Wednesday and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.

A man named Rony and his family were thrust into the spotlight early last week when videos showed FIFA staff aggressively seizing his Israeli flag during a World Cup match between Iran and New Zealand. As seen in the video, the Star of David flag was pulled from Rony's hands by security guards, while Palestinian and Iranian flags remained in the hands of nearby fans.

The National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), which is representing Rony and his family, says Swiss-based FIFA breached multiple American civil rights laws and is demanding the organization immediately "instruct every United States host venue and every stewarding and security contractor, in writing, that national flags, including the flag of Israel, are permitted on the same terms as any other flag," according to the letter. "Should FIFA decline," the lawyers make clear, "the National Jewish Advocacy Center is prepared to file suit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California seeking the full penalties and damages … along with injunctive relief governing flag enforcement through the remainder of the World Cup."

Rony tense face-off with FIFA staff garnered national headlines as the World Cup is grappling with numerous anti-Israel protests at its events and calls to bar the Israeli team from participating. Washington Jewish Week, the D.C. area's leading Jewish publication, described the incident as a "double standard in which Israeli symbols are deemed provocative while other political displays are accepted without objection." Jewish fans, the paper added, "are asked to make themselves smaller so that others can feel bigger."

Attorneys for Rony—an American whose brother is Israeli-American—say FIFA jeopardized his family's safety at a time when violence against Jews is skyrocketing across the nation, bolstered by anti-Israel protests around the World Cup games.


House education panel advances trio of bills on Jew-hatred, campus BDS
The House Committee on Education and Workforce voted to pass three bills on Thursday aimed at combating antisemitism in schools and preventing universities from boycotting Israel.

At the start of the markup hearing, the chairman of the committee, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), said that Jew-hatred had “exploded at educational institutions” across the country and that schools had failed to meet their obligations to Jews under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

“We have all heard the excuses from college presidents and school district superintendents for why they can’t put a stop to the horrific incidents of antisemitism happening in their classrooms, yet we all know that if similar incidents were happening to other protected classes under Title VI, no excuses would be acceptable,” Walberg said.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) sponsored H.R. 9203, which mandates that schools publish information about Title VI complaint investigations and requires the Department of Education to brief Congress about civil rights complaints. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) introduced H.R. 4795, a federal version of state bills barring universities from participating in the movement to boycott Israel. Both of those bills had Democratic co-sponsors.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.), who is Jewish, introduced the third bill, H.R. 8476, which requires educational institutions that receive federal funding to respond to “discrimination motivated by antisemitism” with the same vigor as other Civil Rights Act violations and incorporates the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred.

“When someone uses the N-word on campus, no one thinks about free speech. No one talks about, ‘Let’s understand what they’re thinking. Let’s have a discussion,’” Fine said. “But somehow when it came to Jews, everyone wanted to rediscover the idea of free speech.”

Title VI bars discrimination on the basis of “race, color or national origin” but not religion. The Supreme Court and the Department of Education have generally included discrimination against Jews and some other religious groups, including Sikhs and Muslims, as violations of the act, because members of those groups frequently have a real or perceived shared ancestry or ethnicity.
What Is Being Taught in Chicago Classrooms about the Middle East?
I decided to check out Monday's celebration of Israel's 78th birthday, held by the Consulate General of Israel in Chicago.

Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza showed off a photo of a map of the Middle East that her son brought home from elementary school, where the nation that since 1948 has been known as Israel is labeled "Palestine."

"All these kids think Israel is Palestine because that's what they're being taught. It's everywhere," she said.

The Chicago Public Schools serving up publicly funded propaganda inculcating anti-Jewish hostility was a common thread in my conversations.

Ellen Rosenfeld, an elected member of the CPS board, said teachers give assignments like, "Explain why Israel is committing genocide." "We're not teaching kids how to think, but what to think," she said.
University of Maryland vetoes student gov bylaw amendments codifying divestment from Israel
The University of Maryland, College Park, vetoed the Student Government Association’s bylaw amendments that would have codified support for the movement to boycott Israel.

According to an undated letter that JNS viewed, Patty Perillo, vice president of student affairs for the public university, wrote to the student government that the amendments “contravene the nature and purpose of its governing document” and “bind future SGA administrations to certain, specified political or policy positions.”

Perillo cited an amendment barring the student government from spending student activity fund fees toward companies on the BDS movement’s list and another requiring the student government to advocate for the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, a nonprofit that manages the university’s investments, and the University System of Maryland Foundation, a nonprofit that manages the investments for the University of Maryland system, to divest from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s top 100 arms-producing and military services companies.

“Given the incompatibility of these amendments with the overarching function of the bylaws document, and to preserve the policy prerogatives of future SGA administrations, I must now, as a last resort, reject and otherwise veto the above-referenced proposed amendments,” Perillo wrote. (JNS sought comment from the student government.)

Katie Lawson, chief communications officer at the public school, confirmed the letter’s authenticity to JNS.


As Strip stagnates, Gazans plan first large anti-Hamas protest since ceasefire
On June 18, several dozen people gathered outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, one of the Gaza Strip’s largest medical centers, to protest what they said was the lack of adequate treatment for the many wounded left by the war between Israel and the Hamas terror group, which rules the Strip.

In videos posted online, demonstrators were heard speaking out angrily against the powers that be, complaining of corruption and apathy, while carefully avoiding direct criticism of Hamas.

“Nobody cares, not even the Health Ministry,” said one amputee. “They are all thieves.”

Another protester complained of being blocked from seeking medical care abroad.

“We are not allowed to leave and we will die here, while thieves with money forge medical reports and leave,” he said. “This is not [Israel], this is the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization.”

The demonstration marked a rare public display of criticism against the governing powers in Gaza, where the Hamas terror group continues to rule the areas where nearly all of the Strip’s approximately two million residents live.

On Friday, demonstrators say they will gather again for a much larger protest against dire conditions in the largely unrehabilitated enclave, an event that organizers say will be the first significant show of public dissatisfaction against Hamas in Gaza since the war with Israel halted in October.

Since early June, anonymous social media accounts operating under the banner of the “June 26 Revolution” and apparently organized by Palestinians in Gaza and abroad have been calling on Gazans to take to the streets, seeking to build grassroots momentum.


Greek Holocaust victims’ belongings from Nazi camp returned to their descendants
A watch, a wallet, a ring: personal effects taken from Greek prisoners at a German concentration camp were returned to their descendants on Thursday, 81 years after the Holocaust.

Kaiti Kerasiotis’s eyes filled with tears as she held in her hands the watch of her husband, Evangelos, after an emotional ceremony at the Greek foreign ministry.

He was deported in May 1944, aged just 19, to the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. Decades later, Greek school pupils taking part in a historical memory campaign found his elderly surviving spouse.

“I can’t believe it,” she murmured, speaking to reporters, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, as she recalled the evening she was contacted by the pupils.

“I took out the photos I had put away. I went back into the past, and I told myself he had not been forgotten after all.”

‘Participatory remembrance’
The restitutions in Athens were part of the #StolenMemory campaign launched in 2016 by the Arolsen Archives — the world’s most comprehensive records on victims and survivors of Nazi camps.

Greek pupils were tasked with tracing the families of prisoners deported between 1943 and 1944, in a project with the Greek foreign and education ministries.

“As camp survivors become ever fewer, new, more participatory forms of remembrance must be developed,” said the Arolsen Archives’ director, Moritz Wein.
Elderly disabled Jewish woman subjected to antisemitic abuse inside Melbourne Vodafone store
A disabled elderly Jewish woman was allegedly subjected to a tirade of antisemitic abuse and filmed without her consent inside the Vodafone Elsternwick store in Melbourne earlier this week.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, recounted the incident to Dr. Dvir Abramovich, Chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC).

She reported entering the Vodafone store at approximately 3:35 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, seeking help with a pocket WIFI device.

After several rounds of being told by a young man at the Vodafone store that the device only needed charging, the employee became visibly agitated and did the following: shouted “Free Palestine” at the elderly lady repeatedly inside the store; called her a “dirty Zionist”; told her “Jews are disgusting”; insisted she hand over her personal mobile phone with no explanation; and filmed her on a phone without her consent while she stood trapped at the counter, unable to leave without her device.

After the ordeal ended, the woman burst into tears in the street.

She has since formally complained to Vodafone.

“Him saying Free Palestine to me basically felt like a call for my murder," she told Abramovich. "I was very scared. I didn’t know what he was capable of. And I just hope he doesn’t have my details and that he doesn’t doctor the video or use it in any way. I feel very unsafe and scared for my life and for my future.”


Israel to send aid mission after earthquakes devastate Venezuela, killing hundreds
Israel is preparing to send an aid delegation to Venezuela following the earthquakes that hit the country on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said.

“The Ministry is conducting a situation assessment with the relevant authorities in Israel and is examining the options for assistance,” it stated.

The Health Ministry is also preparing to send a medical aid delegation to Venezuela, including forming medical, logistics, and emergency response teams that will join the effort, pending coordination with and approval from the Foreign Ministry.

The offers of aid come after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit about 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of Caracas on Thursday, followed less than a minute later by a magnitude 7.5 tremor, according to the US Geological Survey.

The USGS, using predictive modeling to estimate the death toll, said it would most likely run into the thousands, with a substantial probability of exceeding 10,000.

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) announced on Thursday that it is preparing to provide aid totaling hundreds of thousands of shekels to Venezuela’s Jewish communities. This includes 500 families who were evacuated from their homes.

KKL-JNF chairman Eyal Ostrinsky spoke with Roberto Mishkin, a senior leader of the Jewish community in Venezuela, and KKL-JNF Venezuela’s CEO, who updated him on the situation.

“KKL is committed to Jewish communities in the Diaspora, which are an inseparable part of us both in routine times and in emergencies. Just as we were there during Operation Roaring Lion system in Beit Shemesh, Beersheba, Dimona, and Arad with communities that suffered severe damage and extreme upheaval, so we will be there for our brothers in Venezuela in their time of need,” Ostrinsky said.
NBA’s Sacramento Kings draft Israeli-born Emanuel Sharp
The Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night selected Houston University shooting guard Emanuel Sharp, with the 45th overall pick in the NBA Draft.

Sharp is the son of former Maccabi Tel Aviv star Derrick Sharp and was born in Israel. The 22-year-old sharpshooter, who holds Israeli, American and Canadian citizenship, had also played for Israel’s Under-16 national basketball team.

He holds Houston’s all-time record of three pointers with 277, according to ABC10.

His average shot rate for three points stands at 37.2% and has averaged 15.5 points per season.

Sharp started playing college-level basketball for Houston in 2021.





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