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Wednesday, July 01, 2026

06/30 Links Pt2: Dems’ destructive agenda has turned them into a Jew-hating cult; A Former Muslim Exposes Tucker's Lie About Islam; ‘Anti-Zionist’ patrols in Greece condemned as echoing city’s June 1931 pogrom

From Ian:

David Collier: The PFLP Was There on Oct 7. The Archbishop Should Not Have Met Its Supporters
I will keep this as brief as possible. Following my article on the Archbishop of Canterbury meeting with two women with a history of PFLP affiliation, several people contacted me with a variation of the same response: “So what?”

It is hard to believe that, after October 7, there are still people with so little understanding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), what it stands for, and the central role it plays within the Palestinian “resistance” camp.

Some naively imagine that October 7 was a Hamas operation with a supporting role played by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Others assume that because the PFLP is a Marxist-Leninist organisation, it must somehow stand apart from the Islamist groups.

That fundamentally misunderstands the Palestinian armed factions and the reality of the alliances that developed first through violent opposition to the Oslo peace process and later under Palestinian rule after 2006. Whatever their ideological differences, when it comes to fighting Israel and killing Jews, the PFLP and Hamas are brothers in arms.

Nor has the PFLP ever been shy about its position. It openly announced its mobilisation on October 7 and participated in the atrocities that followed. This is the official statement (translated) published on the PFLP website at 10:25am on October 7, 2023.
Dems’ destructive agenda has turned them into a Jew-hating cult
The rise of the Socialist left in New York is a bad omen for obvious reasons.

The radical agenda is uniformly anti-police, pro-criminal, favors wildly expanded government powers over private property and demands punishing taxes on businesses and high-income families to fund its redistribution schemes.

If that were all, it would still be a destructive and dangerous movement.

But the post-election analysis from last week’s New York primary races finds another driving force among the winning candidates.

Namely, the hatred of all things Israel, and those who dare support the Jewish state.

It hardly needs to be said that the pied piper of this sickening eruption is Mayor Mamdani.

He started it and continues to fan the flames of antisemitism.

And now New Yorkers have made the added mistake of electing a cadre of clones.

As Jay Jacobs, the state leader of the beleaguered Democratic Party’s state leader, told The Post, the pro-Palesinian, anti-Israel furor “was a more important issue” in luring voters to races that otherwise had very low turnouts.

Overall, only abut 17% of registered Dems voted in the districts where the Socialist candidates beatprevailed over other Dems, some of them incumbents.
California Democrats divided over calling harassment of Scott Wiener antisemitic
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told Jewish Insider in a statement that Wiener was targeted for being Jewish.

“It is sincerely disturbing to see Jewish lawmakers, including Senator Wiener, face deliberate and ugly attacks,” Schiff said. “Dissent and discourse should be expected during a campaign, but this is something totally different, and not within the bounds of what’s appropriate in a liberal democracy. When lawmakers are being targeted and harassed because they are Jewish, and viewpoints are being ascribed to them based on little more than their religious affiliation, that is a problem.”

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) said in a statement that the actions against Wiener were “unacceptable” and “crossed a line.”

“We’ve seen a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism, violence and hate of all forms directed at people in public life, and we have a responsibility to push back strongly against it,” Padilla said.

San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, Wiener’s competitor in the congressional race who is running to his left, said in a statement that she stands “firm against threats of violence and hate speech. There is no place for hate and violence in our city.”

Asked whether Chan believed the incident targeting Wiener to be hate speech, a spokesperson for Chan declined to say.

“In this moment, what matters is how State Senator Scott Wiener felt and feels about the interactions. We must stand in solidarity against hate whenever someone tells us they are experiencing hate,” said Julie Edwards, the spokesperson.

Pelosi, who endorsed Chan in the race, said in a statement that the harassment against Wiener “went too far, and I condemn all forms of threats and intimidation which have no place in American political debate.” Rep. Ro Khanna said in a post on X that what happened to Wiener “was simply wrong,” but used his condemnation to promote an amendment by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to cut all U.S. aid to Israel.

Outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom did not respond to requests for comment.
Respectability for Radicals By Abe Greenwald
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But for my money, Ro Khanna, the U.S. representative from California's 17th district, is worse. My reasoning is related to a famous line of Martin Luther King Jr.’s. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people,” he said, “but the silence over that by the good people.” Don’t worry, I know the idea needs some tinkering in this case because Khanna is neither silent nor good. He facilitates the oppression and cruelty by translating the florid war cries of radicals into establishment shorthand. Here’s what he posted on X in response to the trans activists who ganged up on Scott Wiener on Friday for being a Jew:

There is no place for harrasment or physical violence in our democracy. I am a strong supporter of protest, dissent, & free expression. But not of intimidation. What happened to @Scott_Wiener was simply wrong. Let's focus on passing @RepThomasMassie amendment to zero aid to Israel. Hold elected officials accountable. But do so in the spirit of building a politics of conviction and dignity, not insult and aggression.

In other words, if you want to go after the Jews, don’t waste your time with a bunch of ranting freaks. Invest in me. I may not know how to spell harassment, but I know how to take down the Jews using the power of the federal government.

Khanna is no socialist—he’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And there was a time, not long ago, when he claimed to support Zionism. I don’t know whether he’s been asked about that lately, but he should be. Because once it became clear that anti-Semitism was gaining unprecedented traction in our politics, he decided to go all in—shamelessly. He now rushes to support Jew-haters left and right.

Khanna is worse than the outspoken and earnestly revolutionary Jew-haters because he—along with others—handed them the keys to the kingdom. Raging anti-Semites were always out there, mostly on the fringes. They’re actually not the ones who represent a new and frightening phenomenon. It’s humdrum opportunists like Ro Khanna who are now doing something both novel and ruinous. They’re hoping to trade away the country’s defining virtues for a shot at continued relevance. Khanna has discovered an uncharted depth of political prostitution, and his success threatens to drag us all down there with him.


Families of October 7 victims to march along Gaza border, marking 1,000 days since Hamas invasion
The families of October 7 victims, along with the October Council, announced on Tuesday that they will gather on Thursday in the Gaza envelope communities to commemorate the 1,000 days since the October 7 Massacre and demand an investigation into the failures that led to the attack.

The convoy plans to gather in Kibbutz Re'im's parking lot on Thursday and march around the Gaza border, passing by sites attacked by Hamas on October 7.

The protest will march along Kerem Shalom, Nir Oz, Nirim, Ein Hashlosha, Kissufim, Be'eri, Alumim, Nahal Oz Outpost, Givat Hatzfitniyot, Kfar Gaza and the Police Memorial in Sderot.

The gathering will be open to the public, with the October Council inviting the public to participate or support it by lining the road with Israeli flags.

The families announced that Liad Baram, father of Sgt. Neta Baram, who fell in battle at the Nahal Oz outpost, and Yoram Yehudai, whose son Ron was killed at the Nova music festival.
"I Was Held by Hamas for 505 Days": How We Survived October 7
Eliya Cohen was with his girlfriend, Ziv Abud, at the Nova Festival on Oct. 7, 2023. As they tried to drive away from the rocket fire, they stopped at a bomb shelter. Eliiya said, "More people joined us in the shelter, but we were all talking and joking. Although it was scary, we had seen it before."

"Then suddenly the terrorists were outside the shelter and they were going to kill us. A grenade rolled into the shelter and exploded. Another grenade and we are fighting, picking up the grenades and throwing them out of the door. It was like this for 40 minutes until the terrorists fired a rocket-propelled grenade."

"Ziv fainted and I knew the only chance to save her was to bury her underneath the dead bodies. Two of those bodies were her nephew and his girlfriend." Eliya was shot in the leg and "then I was dragged out and loaded onto a truck. The last thing I saw was a terrorist pointing his gun into the shelter and firing a hundred bullets. I was sure Ziv was dead."

"I was driven to Gaza and thousands of people were on the streets celebrating. I was more scared of these people than I was of the terrorists. The terrorists wanted to keep me alive, a hostage for negotiation. Those ordinary people wanted to kill me. They wanted the respect that would come from killing a Jew."

"I was held for 505 days. In the tunnels was the worst - no light, no sleep, beatings, being stripped naked so they could laugh at us, no food, no water." And then he was released.

Ziv tells her story: "The bomb shelter we were in on that day in 2023 - on Route 232 near Kibbutz Re'im - is now known as the shelter of death. The first grenade exploded and the sound, the smell, the dead bodies...not even bodies, arms and legs and blood. I was scared like I have never been scared before."

"The last thing I remember is holding Eliya's hand and him covering me with dead bodies....I woke up at 11 a.m. and the attack had started at eight. There was me and six other survivors in the shelter, and we had no idea what was going to happen. Would the terrorists come back? We sat with our dead friends for seven hours until we were rescued."

"When he was finally released and I saw him again, after 16 months, he was so thin, my Eliya, and like a ghost. When I was a child I heard people talk about the Holocaust and how much people hated Jews, but I thought that people had changed. Then I saw marches all over Europe, defending what had happened."

"Of the people who were murdered, we knew 48 of them....I suffer from PTSD and still have nightmares."
Seth Frantzman: Israel officially recognizes Armenian Genocide after decades of diplomatic friction
The modern state of Israel, as mentioned earlier, did not want to rock the boat with Turkey. The resulting controversy didn’t just affect Israel – its reach extended to Jewish groups in the US, too.

For instance, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was forced into the spotlight in the early 2000s. As The Jerusalem Post noted in 2007, the ADL “reinstated Andrew Tarsy as its New England regional director… Tarsy was fired on August 17 after publicly voicing opposition to the organization’s refusal to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Abraham Foxman later reversed the organization’s position by recognizing the World War I massacre of Armenians as ‘tantamount to genocide.’”

Back then, it was clear that the controversy stemmed from the belief that pro-Israel groups shouldn’t discuss the genocide because it could affect the Israel-Turkey relationship. What changed was the rise of the AKP in Turkey and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s hostility towards Israel. As a result, Israel was more willing to speak about the Armenian Genocide.

Another issue was Azerbaijan-Israel relations. Azerbaijan has close ties with Israel and Turkey. However, Armenia has, historically, been on poor terms with Israel. As such, the issue of recognition was tied to foreign policy.

This is most vexing; Turkey could simply accept the genocide and note that the Young Turks and Ottomans have nothing in common with modern Turkey. Modern Turkey was created by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the 1920s. Today’s AKP has roots in religious conservative politics and the Muslim Brotherhood. There is no reason for it to deny the genocide. It isn’t linked to the parties that did it.

The genocide doesn’t reflect modern Turkey at all – it reflects the Ottomans and their actions. However, the AKP has often tapped into both Turkish and Ottoman history. As such, it may feel that the issue threatens them.

Israelis have been pushing to recognize the Armenian Genocide for years. In 2016, Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein spoke at a special plenary debate marking the genocide.

He stated: “It is no secret that [in Israel] as well, this event has been controversial, at least with regards to the publicity it should be given… We must differentiate between our current interests and the difficult past, which this dark chapter is a part of.”

He added: “This is the correct and appropriate thing to do, seeing as we are part of the family of nations, and a nation whose values of morality and compassion towards every human being are paramount. Let us not remain indifferent, albeit a bit late, to the suffering the Armenians experienced.”

MK Zehava Galon, who had pushed for recognition for years and initiated the debate, said, “For years, [MKs] have been coming here, to the plenum, to ask that the genocide be called by its name. This year, after the agreement with Turkey has been signed, I know that granting this request has become particularly difficult.

“There was pressure from the Foreign Ministry and from elements in the government – ‘why are we suddenly raising this issue, with all the diplomatic sensitivity?’ But, despite this, I am declaring that the Knesset must recognize the Armenian Genocide.”
Armenia’s cold response to Israel’s genocide recognition says it all
Israel’s decision to officially recognize the Armenian genocide drew sharp condemnations from Turkey and Azerbaijan, but the most telling reaction came from Armenia itself: almost no reaction at all.

Asked about the Israeli government’s decision during a press briefing, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said simply that his country sees no need to respond. He added that Armenia does not intend to turn the genocide issue into a political tool, saying that avoiding the “political weaponization” of the subject is a clear Armenian interest.

The restrained response stood out precisely because of the anger voiced elsewhere. Turkey accused Israel of using the recognition to divert attention from the war in Gaza, while Azerbaijan called on Israel to reverse the decision, claiming it distorted historical facts.

The Israeli government’s decision, approved unanimously and set to be brought to the Knesset for approval Tuesday, marks a dramatic shift in Israeli policy. For decades, Israel avoided formal recognition of the Armenian genocide, largely because of diplomatic considerations involving Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Yet Armenia’s public reaction suggests that Yerevan is not eager to embrace the move as a diplomatic victory. Under Pashinyan, Armenia has been trying to move closer to the West while also maintaining and deepening ties with Iran. Its outreach to Tehran is shaped in part by Israel’s close relationship with Azerbaijan, Armenia’s rival.

That regional triangle gives the Israeli decision a more complicated meaning for Yerevan. While recognition of the genocide has long carried historical and moral significance for Armenians, the timing and political context of Israel’s move make it difficult for Armenia to treat it as a simple gesture of solidarity.

Armenia has also taken steps in recent years that have distanced it from Israel’s regional position. About two years ago, Yerevan announced its recognition of a Palestinian state, a move that came as part of its broader diplomatic repositioning.


Liberal MP Julian Leeser reveals graphic abuse levelled at him as Royal Commission hears evidence on rising antisemitism
Shadow Education Minister Julian Leeser has revealed the disturbing antisemitic abuse he faces, saying he is routinely branded a “traitor and a Mossad agent” despite his family's history of service to Australia.

His comments came as the Royal Commission into antisemitism resumed hearings in Sydney, with Labor MP Josh Burns appearing as a witness on Tuesday.

The latest round of hearings is examining the spread of antisemitic material through social media and traditional media following a sharp rise in incidents across Australia.

Speaking to Sky News on Tuesday morning, the Liberal frontbencher detailed his own experience as a Jewish Australian.

“My family has been here since the 1840s. My great grandfather was at Gallipoli ... my grandfather was a prisoner of war in Changi and fought on the Burma Railway,” he said.

“And yet, every time I post anything on my social media, I'm called a traitor and a Mossad agent.”

Mr Leeser said much of the abuse was too graphic to repeat publicly.

“That's what Jewish Australians are coping with today,” he said.

He acknowledged politicians often face criticism and abuse but said the amount directed at Jewish Australians had crossed a line.

“Now, I'm a member of parliament so you expect some level of abuse as a member of parliament, but no one should expect that level of abuse,” he said.

“I don't want an Australia for my children, or for anyone's children, where people are judged on the basis of their race or religion.
‘Not the Australia I grew up in’: Confronting reports from Royal Commission into antisemitism
​Nationals MP Anne Webster says it is “incredibly distressing” to hear the reports of what many Jewish Australians are experiencing.
​“This is not the Australia I grew up in,” Ms Webster told Sky News host Jamiee Rogers.
​“Every Jewish Australian should feel safe.
​“This has been a huge failure of the Albanese Labor government.
​“I really hope this Royal Commission comes out with some very clear structures; things need to change.”


Top House Democrats say they’ll oppose effort to cut $3.3 billion in aid to Israel
The top House Democrats on the Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees said Monday that they will oppose efforts led by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to cut the $3.3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel expected under the memorandum of understanding if and when they come to a vote on the House floor.

The effort is splitting the Democratic Caucus, and reportedly driving significant angst among rank-and-file Democrats in closed-door caucus meetings.

Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, told Jewish Insider he plans to oppose the effort to strip the aid out of the 2027 State Department Appropriations bill, calling it a “got-me vote the Republicans are trying to play with.”

Meeks said there are “so many unanswered questions” about the implications and effects of the amendment. “I know there is still danger [in Israel]. I don’t want Israel to be without what they need,” Meeks said. He also noted that many of the weapons that would be purchased with the funding would not be built for years to come.

He said that the amendment leaves significant room for interpretation by the State Department.

“There’s just too many factors to say … ‘We’re taking away $3.3 billion,’” Meeks said, noting the U.S. provides military aid to other countries like Egypt and Jordan. “I don’t think that it would be the wise thing … not good policy.”

But Meeks also highlighted his criticisms of Israeli tactics during the war in Gaza, including the use of heavy bombs to destroy buildings and the deaths of innocent civilians, “so we need to make sure that we are talking about and moving forward in those things.”
AIPAC Podcast: John Spencer on U.S.-Israel Partnerships and High-Priority Legislation
Before you hit play, take 30 seconds and visit aip.ac/act right now and tell your House member to oppose Congressman Thomas Massie’s amendment that would strip critical security assistance to Israel out of an upcoming bill. Once you’ve taken action, share the link with friends and family so they can do the same.

On today’s episode, AIPAC Spokeswoman Deryn Sousa sits down with senior lobbyist Oren Adaki to break down several pieces of high-stakes legislation moving through the House right now—what they do, why they matter, and how anti-Israel members of Congress are working to block them.

Then, Deryn talks with John Spencer of the Urban Warfare Institute about how U.S.-Israel defense cooperation is shaping America’s national security and directly affecting the soldiers carrying out these missions every day around the world. To learn more about how the U.S.-Israel partnership keeps Americans safer and drives new innovation, check out our new memo.


Islam, the left and the West | Lionel Shriver, Brendan O’Neill & Fiyaz Mughal | spiked summit
Since October 7, an unholy marriage appears to have been consummated – between Islamic sectarians and 'anti-imperialist' leftists, united in their contempt for Israel and apologism for the West's Islamist enemies. With anti-Semitic slogans being chanted and Islamic Republic of Iran flags being flown on the streets of Western capitals, how did we get here? Why have progressives thrown in their lot with the world's most barbaric movements? And how can we begin to fight back?

Discussing all this and more at the inaugural spiked summit were Lionel Shriver, Fiyaz Mughal and Brendan O’Neill, chaired by Tom Slater.




The Western Spirit - With Ariel Whitman: What Happened to Tucker Carlson? | James Kirchick
In this episode of The Western Spirit, Ariel Whitman sits down with journalist, author, and Commentary Magazine columnist James Kirchick to discuss the transformation of the Republican Party, Tucker Carlson's evolution, JD Vance's growing influence, rising anti-Semitism on both the Left and Right, and the future of American conservatism.

They discuss Donald Trump, Israel, Zohran Mamdani, Candace Owens, foreign policy, the rise of conspiracy thinking, and whether ideology has been replaced by political tribalism.

James Kirchick is a journalist, author, and columnist for Commentary Magazine. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington and The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age, which examines the rise of authoritarianism and the decline of liberal democracy in Europe.

Chapters
00:00 The Political Landscape and Israel's Role
05:51 Democratic Party Dynamics and Israel
12:11 The Rise of Anti-Israel Sentiment
18:08 The Shift in Democratic Ideology
24:04 The Influence of Tucker Carlson
29:59 The Transformation of Tucker Carlson
35:48 Conclusion and Future Implications
45:51 The New Generation of Conservatives
55:30 Netanyahu's Impact on U.S.-Israel Relations


Jeremy Boreing: A Former Muslim Exposes Tucker's Lie About Islam | Ep 39 w/ Danny Burmawi
Why Tucker Carlson is wrong about Islam and Israel — a former Muslim breaks down the false narratives reshaping the dissident right. Danny Burmawi, CEO of the Ideological Defense Institute and author of 'Islam, Israel and the West,' explains the 14-century history of Islamic conquest, the dhimmi system, the red-green alliance, Mamdani, and why anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are not the same.

Jeremy Boreing sits down with Burmawi, for a wide-ranging conversation on Islam vs. the West, Tucker Carlson's guests on Islam, the conversion that took him from devout Muslim to Christian, what really happens to apostates under Islamic law, and whether the Gulf states are truly more tolerant of Christians than Israel.

Is Islam a Better Friend Than Israel?
How Tucker's Guests Lie About Islam
The 14 Centuries of Conquest
The Blood Tax and the Stolen Churches
Why a Cartoon Made Him Devout
The Day He Read the Quran for Real
What Happens When You Leave Islam
Why It's 'Islamophobia,' Not Muslimophobia
How the Left and Islam Became Allies
Tucker, Qatar, and the Christian Lie




Lucas says Green Party’s ‘Zionism is racism’ motion risks targeting Jews not Israel
Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has criticised efforts within the party to advance a motion equating Zionism with racism, warning that its wording risked targeting Jewish people rather than the Israeli government.

In a new interview, the former MP for Brighton Pavilion said: “The way in which that motion was worded caused a lot of concern among people across the party.”

She added:”Zionism can be interpreted in so many different ways, and there was a concern that some people thought the motion was talking more about individual Jewish people rather than the Israeli government.”

Speaking to Politics Home, Lucas was asked about attempts to debate a “Zionism is racism” motion at the Green Party’s Spring conference earlier this year.

Although the motion was not debated due to procedural issues, there are concerns it could resurface at the party’s autumn conference.

“I’m not sure it’s a very helpful debate,” Lucas said. “The way in which that motion was worded caused a lot of concern among people across the party.”
Maternity care review includes claim staff told one family member ‘Jews are sneaky’
The Government has said it will appoint a national maternity commissioner to drive change after a report concluded families have suffered from repeated failures in NHS care including cases of antisemitism said to be “embedded throughout the system.”

The “rapid review” into maternity care, led by Baroness Valerie Amos, reveals cases of antisemitism with one family member being told by staff that “Jewish people are sneaky”.

It calls for urgent change to the way women and families are treated, including when they phone in with concerns during pregnancy and labour.

It states:”Muslim and Jewish families received poor treatment from staff, which they felt was shaped by their religious affiliation.

“Jewish families similarly experienced staff being unhelpful or speaking to them aggressively.

“In a small number of cases, families reported more explicit antisemitic attitudes, one family reported that they were told by a member of staff that ‘Jewish people are sneaky’.

“As a result of these experiences, some families felt compelled to conceal their religious identity to receive better care.

“This included removing clothing that identified their religious identity or avoiding requests that might identify them as Muslim or Jewish.


‘A failure’ Canada’s heritage minister says of Canadian human rights museum’s ‘nakba’ exhibit
Marc Miller, Canadian heritage minister, admitted on Monday that a new “nakba” exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights failed to identify Hamas as a terrorist organization or to state clearly that the group intended to kill Jews on Oct. 7.

The minister did so days after the museum’s only Jewish trustee resigned over the exhibit. “There are some words in there that are regrettable,” Miller told the Canadian Press. “Not identifying Hamas as a terrorist organization is, I think, a failure. And not clearly stating that, for example, Hamas intended to kill Jews is, I think, an unfortunate error in curation and should be rectified.”

“Nakba” is the term that some use for the “catastrophe” of the founding of the modern State of Israel. The exhibit “explores the human rights violations related to the ongoing forced displacement and dispossession of Palestinians,” according to the museum website.

The exhibit, which opened to the public on June 27, omits the words “Jew” and “terrorist” from its description of the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, according to Miller.

“It isn’t up to me to speak to, or insert myself in, the curation of any particular exhibit,” he told the paper. “But manifestly, you cannot deny the fact that this is an exhibit that is born in controversy, and perhaps some of it could have been avoided.”

On June 22, Mark Berlin, a legal scholar and the museum’s only Jewish board member, resigned over what he called a “one-sided” presentation of the “nakba,” in a letter addressed to Miller.

He told JNS at the time that he could not understand why the museum would allow the exhibit to premiere, “knowing the heightened levels of antisemitism in the world, especially in Canada, and knowing the potential harm that could be caused by a prejudicial, biased, one-sided view of an episode in the museum.”


Mamdani’s Israel dodge is nothing but bad faith and hypocrisy
If Mamdani were sincere in not being able to support any state that privileges one religion over another, he’d have to set himself against most Muslim countries in the world, which make Islam their official religion and often discriminate against religious minorities.

He’d have to look askance at Nordic countries, where there are established churches.

He’d hate England for the official status of the Anglican Church, and utterly disdain Greece for its special recognition of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Mamdani, by the way, recently skipped New York City’s Israel Day parade, but has attended its Pakistan Day parade — despite the fact that Islam is that country’s state religion, and religious minorities face legal and informal discrimination in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

More consequentially, if the mayor took his pluralism seriously, he would oppose a Palestinian state on grounds that Palestinian society needs to further evolve to embrace Western norms — lest we risk creating a new Islamic state that represses its people and rests on a foundation of Islamic law.

Of course, Mamdani will never do this.

His purported universalism is a pretext, a way to dress up his irrational animus toward Israel.

Mamdani told Karl that his view on Israel “comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal.”

Such is the mayor’s commitment to equality that he singles out one people and one state for particular obloquy — and asks us to believe that pluralism demands that the Jews cannot have a homeland.
National Review: Why Is Zohran Mamdani Lying About the Jewish State?



Mamdani antisemitism czar heckled at Holocaust memorial event
Phylisa Wisdom, the liberal activist appointed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as executive director of his Office to Combat Antisemitism, got a harsh reception at a Holocaust memorial event in Brooklyn on Sunday.

Wisdom appeared at a gathering at Holocaust Memorial Park in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, home to a large Russian-speaking Jewish community, and adjacent to the Orthodox Jewish enclave in Manhattan Beach — both politically conservative areas at odds with the left-wing Mamdani administration.

Video from the event shows a small group of hecklers booing and calling Wisdom a “kapo,” a term for concentration camp inmates who served as overseers during the Holocaust, and shouting that she was supportive of Adolf Hitler, as organizers of the event called for police to remove them.

“If City Hall declined the invite to speak at this Holocaust memorial, it would have been called antisemitism,” Jewish Council for Public Affairs CEO Amy Spitalnick wrote on X. “We can disagree without these disgusting attacks. What message does this send about our community?”


‘No place’ for Brooklyn Dem leader’s antisemitism, NYC Council speaker says
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin — the first Jewish person to hold her role — slammed a newly elected Brooklyn Democrat’s promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories, but declined to call her commentary disqualifying.

Jewish Insider reported on Friday that Carmella Charrington, elected in Tuesday’s far-left wave to the unpaid but important party position of district leader with help from politicians in the Democratic Socialists of America, last November shared an antisemitic video endorsing industrialist Henry Ford’s infamous antisemitic pamphlet series The International Jew.

The video, which Charrington declared “the truth” and demanded become “the topic at the table,” blamed Jews for everything from gay rights to slavery and rehashed paranoid fantasies about a world-spanning plot to dominate the media, banks, controlled substances, and the education system.

“Obviously I strongly disagree with those views, and those views are deeply, deeply offensive,” Menin, a Manhattan lawmaker, told JI at an unrelated press conference at City Hall. “It’s unacceptable, it’s abhorrent, and there’s no place for that, and I’ll leave it at that.”

However, she did not answer JI’s question as to whether Charrington’s views should bar her from holding the role to which she was elected, which wields significant power over local party leadership and judicial nominations, as well as positions in the city Board of Elections.


Chief Rabbi Mirvis: Chanting ‘death to the IDF’ should be a criminal offence
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has called for a change in the law to make the chant “death to the IDF” a criminal offence.

Speaking at the Religion Media Festival at Methodist Central Hall in London, Mirvis argued that the chant—used by some pro-Palestine campaigners—was a call to kill millions of Jews in Israel.

Referring to Bob Vylan’s performance at last year’s Glastonbury Festival, the Chief Rabbi remarked on “the enthusiasm with which they whipped up hysteria in the crowd following those particular words.”

He added, “This is about millions of people in the state of Israel—fellow Jews. It’s a call to kill them.”

Mirvis explained that the Israel Defence Forces exist “to prevent the annihilation of Israel’s people,” and therefore the chant “death to the IDF” is one that “directly incites” anti-Jewish hatred.

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has called for a change in the law to make the chant “death to the IDF” a criminal offence.

Speaking at the Religion Media Festival at Methodist Central Hall in London, Mirvis argued that the chant—used by some pro-Palestine campaigners—was a call to kill millions of Jews in Israel.

Referring to Bob Vylan’s performance at last year’s Glastonbury Festival, the Chief Rabbi remarked on “the enthusiasm with which they whipped up hysteria in the crowd following those particular words.”

He added, “This is about millions of people in the state of Israel—fellow Jews. It’s a call to kill them.”

Mirvis explained that the Israel Defence Forces exist “to prevent the annihilation of Israel’s people,” and therefore the chant “death to the IDF” is one that “directly incites” anti-Jewish hatred.


Jewish woman alleges Boston Medical Center retaliated after she reported colleague’s anti-Israel desk displays
Boston Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital in the city’s South End neighborhood, gave a negative evaluation to an Israeli Jew, who is a permanent U.S. resident and was then a clinical intern at the center, after she reported a colleague for anti-Israel displays on his desk, according to a complaint lodged to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday.

The complaint, filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, accused the medical center of anti-Israel bias and subsequent retaliation and of violating Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which protects against bias based on categories like race and national origin, and section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which extends those protections to federally funded health programs.

The federal government has interpreted “shared ancestry” in Title VI to include bias based on religion.

The complaint, which JNS viewed, alleges that the Jewish woman, who was an intern at the medical center from May to September 2025, reported to the medical center that a staff clinician had anti-Israel posters, including those stating “they killed our babies” and “they stole our lands,” on his desk.

The intern, whose name is redacted in the copy of the complaint that JNS viewed, believed that the displays violated the center’s policies.

After returning from a trip to Israel on July 2, 2025, the intern found the displays were gone but began experiencing what she believed was retaliation for reporting the displays, according to the complaint.

The retaliation “came in the form of ostracization by her colleagues, so she was denied mentorship and opportunities, her location was moved so that she was specifically separated from the rest of the clinical team and excluded from routine professional interactions and informal professional opportunities as well,” Rebecca Harris, a litigation staff attorney at the Brandeis Center, told JNS.

“She complained about that kind of retaliation and ostracization, and that persisted throughout the rest of her internship there,” Harris said.

The discrimination “culminated in this final evaluation, which included some negative scoring and comments that blamed her for the environment that she was experiencing as a result of the ostracization from her colleagues,” she told JNS. “As a result of that negative evaluation, she hasn’t been able to list her BMC supervisors as references.”

According to the complaint, the Jewish woman received “overwhelmingly positive feedback” on her patient care, including “both portions of her final evaluation and in an earlier written review.”

The Jewish woman fears asking the medical center for a recommendation due to the negative evaluation she received and believes that it will hurt her chances for future employment, because she is looking to work in a “fairly niche field in mental health counseling,” according to the complaint.
Heathrow security officer who was told to remove Palestine badge claims it is same as being asked to take off her hijab as she sues for discrimination
The panel reserved some of its strongest criticism for Ms Saiyed's evidence.

The tribunal found she was 'susceptible to hyperbole', capable of 'misinterpreting, misunderstanding and/or misremembering' events and had become 'swept along with her own inaccurate narrative'.

The judgment said: 'We find that the claimant is capable of saying something and believing it is true and yet is shown to be wrong when you look at the contemporaneous documents.'

It continued: 'We find that this connects to the fact that the claimant in person is very polite and not aggressive. We find that she would not want to think that she would accuse anyone of racism or of being a racist as she would consider herself too polite.'

The tribunal added: 'We find that the claimant is a very capable, intelligent individual, but someone whose evidence was not always credible and reliable.'

By contrast, the judges said Heathrow's witnesses 'demonstrated no such tendencies to hyperbole or misinterpretation', adding that where the evidence conflicted they preferred the airport's contemporaneous documents, emails, meeting notes and witness accounts.

The panel found there was no evidence that Heathrow's actions had been motivated by Ms Saiyed's race or religion, concluding that the decisions complained of were management responses to an increasingly complex workplace dispute rather than acts of unlawful discrimination.

It dismissed all of Ms Saiyed's claims of direct race discrimination, direct religious discrimination, harassment and victimisation.


Prada’s new brand ambassador celebrated violence against Israeli football fans
Italian fashion house Prada has prompted concern over its decision to declare controversial Palestinian rapper Saint Levant its new brand ambassador.

A video circulating this week shows Saint Levant celebrating the violence against Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans in Amsterdam in November 2024 - days after Israeli supporters were attacked.

Speaking to the crowd at a concert, the Gaza-raised hip hop star said with a smile: “Quick little shout out to our Moroccan brothers for what they did the other day.

“Because it’s not the first time they come to a land that’s not theirs and start some shit, so thank you for taking care of business.”

Although some Maccabi fans did sing anti-Arab chants and committed a few acts of violence, Dutch police records confirm that they were largely the victims of what one pro-Palestine activist enthusiastically described as a “Jew hunt”.

According to the Israeli embassy, hundreds of Maccabi fans were attacked. A total of 59 people were arrested, 10 of whom were Israeli.

The official report by Amsterdam’s prosecutor and police made clear it was the Israeli club’s supporters who were the victims of “groups.. looking for a confrontation”.

Prada named the Palestinian rapper, born Marwan Abdelhamid, its brand ambassador last week.

Posting an Instagram video showing the rapper modelling its clothes last week, the fashion house said: “Prada ambassador Saint Levant attends the Prada spring/summer 2027 menswear fashion show in Milan, at Fondazione Prada’s Deposito.”

In the video he can be seen sporting a pendant in the shape of pre-1948 Palestine, sparking criticism from some pro-Israel commentators.


Between conflict and contribution: Jewish editors and the politics of knowledge on Wikipedia
Abstract
Wikipedia is one of the most influential platforms for digital knowledge production, organized around community-based consensus and open participation. These ideals are increasingly strained in politically sensitive areas, raising questions about minority editors’ inclusion and their ability to participate meaningfully in consensus-building processes. This study examines how Jewish editors experience contributing to English Wikipedia and how their participation is shaped by conflict-related dynamics and identity-based challenges. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 19 Jewish veteran editors of the English Wikipedia, this study outlines a four-phase model of editorial engagement: idealistic entry, emergent friction, emotional erosion, and adaptive coping or emerging silences. The findings reveal how structural and procedural community dynamics can facilitate the exclusion of minority voices, enabling dominant groups to capture and shape public knowledge and narrow the space for contested perspectives.

Conclusion
While Wikipedia may appear open and democratic, the selective attrition of contributors from marginalized or contested groups operates as a quiet mechanism of epistemic control. The experiences described by the interviewees suggest that Wikipedia’s moderation architecture can be exploited to exclude minority perspectives based on ethnic, national, or religious identity, thereby perpetuating the very structural inequalities that Wikipedia claims to transcend. More broadly, these findings align with critiques of platform governance that show how ostensibly neutral structures on collaborative platforms reproduce inequality through routine editorial practices rather than overt acts of exclusion (Lemieux et al., 2023; Tamani et al., 2019). For Jewish editors, navigating politically sensitive topics made these dynamics especially exclusionary, as the inability to have their knowledge recognized contributed to a growing sense of epistemic injustice. In such cases, the systematic dismissal of valid perspectives constitutes epistemological violence, in which silencing occurs through structural means rather than explicit exclusion (Fricker, 2007). Future research could examine article histories, talk pages, and policy interactions to identify the specific mechanisms through which exclusion is produced and sustained. It could also explore similar dynamics among other minority groups and consider strategies for strengthening neutrality through more inclusive participation.


Man arrested in Toronto for allegedly yelling anti-Israel slurs, making death threats, throwing rocks at a victim
Abdulkadir Al-Jelani, of Toronto, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with making death threats and three counts of assault with a weapon, after he allegedly “without provocation” approached a man, yelled “anti-Israel slurs” and threw rocks “and other items” at the victim from the street, the Toronto Police Service said.

The 58-year-old is also accused of making death threats while throwing the rocks and other things, according to the department. It said that the incident occurred at about 12:10 p.m. and that the suspect was arrested 10 minutes later.

The victim, who is believed to have been targeted for his or her “religious attire,” had minor injuries, the department said. It said the investigation involved a “suspected hate-motivated assault with a weapon.”

Al-Jelani is due in court on July 1 at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre.

The police department said that it is up to the attorney general to decide whether to pursue hate crime charges, which are often added later on.

Jews were the targets of 82% of religion hate crimes in Toronto in 2025, according to police data.
Puerto Rico man charged with threatening mass violence against Jews, LGBTQ community
Robinson De La Cruz Hilario, a Puerto Rico man charged with making online threats of mass violence and receiving child sexual abuse material, admitted to federal investigators that he made threatening social media posts targeting both the LGBTQ and Jewish communities, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court.

The FBI announced on Friday that De La Cruz was arrested following an investigation that allegedly uncovered “repeated online threats of mass violence targeting the LGBTQ community, as well as the receipt and possession of illegal child exploitation material.”

According to the affidavit, the FBI’s San Juan Field Office received a tip in February that De La Cruz was planning a “mass shooting event” and had shared a “tactical” map of a gay-friendly bar in the San Juan metropolitan area. Investigators also identified numerous public social media posts praising Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., before being killed by police. During the attack, Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The complaint also alleges that on June 8, De La Cruz posted images of patches, some associated with neo-Nazi groups, alongside messages including, “Let’s burn the LGBTQ community to the ground hunting season is on” and “Let’s kill every single person in the LGBTQ community in Puerto Rico.”
‘Anti-Zionist’ patrols in Thessaloniki condemned as echoing city’s June 1931 pogrom
The Central Jewish Council of Greece (KISE) has condemned efforts by far-left groups to organise “anti-Zionist patrols” in Thessaloniki, describing similarities to antisemitic attacks which took place in the same city 95 years ago.

Rouvikonas (Rubicon), a Greek anarchist direct action group, organised groups of its members to march through the country’s second largest city on Saturday 27 June. The individuals, who were joined by members of ‘Permanent Struggle for Class Liberation’ and the ‘Thessaloniki Liberation Initiative’, were dressed in black t-shirts bearing a picture of the Palestinian flag on the front.

In a statement from Rouvikonas, the group said that “In recent years, we have witnessed a peculiar colonization of many megacities by capital, domestic and – mainly – imported. Under the guise of investment and economic development, Israeli (and other) funds are massively buying up beaches, neighbourhoods, and villages, turning the residents of these areas into immigrants in their own land.”

Rouvikonas went on to claim that “in this context, Israelis are rushing to ‘invest’ their money, bloodied by the genocide, in Airbnb and other accommodations or plots of land, which the Greek state is selling off at bargain prices. While the people of Palestine and Lebanon are being massacred, Zionist tourists, IDF soldiers and their families arrive by the thousands on cruise ships, turning their investment estates into sources of income or places of rest from the rapes and murders of civilians and children in Gaza.

The far left group stated that “Israeli investments are part of the Zionist state’s tactical ‘soft power’, a tool for economic leverage of the state in which they invest in order to exert influence on issues of trade cooperation and international relations. At the same time, they generate huge profits which are used to maintain Israel’s expensive, international propaganda machine (Hasbara).”


Anduril enters next phase of Israel strategy
As it builds a permanent presence in Israel, the $61 billion defense company has identified former Air Force commander Amikam Norkin as a leading candidate to lead its local operations.

American defense technology company Anduril, which is considering a major expansion into the Israeli market, has identified former Israeli Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. (res.) Amikam Norkin as one of the leading candidates to head its operations in the country, Calcalist has learned. The company, whose private-market valuation recently climbed to $61 billion, is in the process of establishing a permanent presence in Israel to strengthen ties with the Ministry of Defense and the IDF, pursue sales of advanced autonomous systems, and identify strategic partnerships or acquisitions among local defense-tech startups.

Norkin's candidacy reflects Anduril's desire to appoint a leader with deep operational and strategic expertise to spearhead its Israeli operations. Norkin stepped down as commander of the Israeli Air Force in 2022 after more than three decades of military service. Since leaving the military, he has served as a managing partner at Ace Capital Partners, an investment fund focused on aerospace and defense technologies.

The connection between Norkin and Anduril is a natural one, given that much of the company's business is centered on autonomous aerospace systems. Founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, Anduril has reshaped the U.S. defense market by challenging traditional contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, while winning major Pentagon contracts to develop autonomous aircraft, including the Fury combat drone, as well as advanced air defense systems.

The upcoming visit to Israel by Anduril CEO and co-founder Brian Schimpf is intended to advance the selection of the company's local leadership and explore strategic collaborations. The move comes after Anduril partnered with Elbit Systems to submit a proposal for the Sigma self-propelled artillery system for the U.S. Army, a collaboration that illustrates the company's strategy of combining traditional defense hardware with its AI-powered Lattice software platform.





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