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Friday, July 03, 2026

07/02 Links Pt2: The Military Danger of the Congressional Anti-Israel Obsession; Two mayors, one hatred; Ruth Wisse: How to Save the Jewish People

From Ian:

Ben Cohen: The UN’s crusade against Israel is fueling the pro-Hamas left
A smirk laid bare the United Nations’ unremitting hostility toward the state of Israel and its people.

Last week UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem sat stone-faced and silent as she reluctantly listened to wrenching testimony from Ilana Gritzewsky, a young Israeli woman abducted and viciously raped by Hamas during its Oct. 7 atrocities.

“Even now, the feeling of being violated and powerless still lingers,” Gritzewsky said, her voice breaking.

The Jordanian diplomat — whose mandate is to prevent “violence against women and girls” — let out an exasperated sigh in response.

Moments later, Gritzewsky pleaded with her: “Will you look at me?”

And Alsalem finally did so, a smirk playing on her lips.

Her chilling cruelty can be interpreted in only two ways.

Either she believes Gritzewsky was lying, in keeping with the rapporteur’s claim last November that “no independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.”

Or she believes that Gritzewsky and the other Israeli women subjected to grotesque sexual violence and mutilation by those Hamas terrorists got what they deserved.

Whatever the answer, Alsalem’s callous demeanor encapsulated the loathing with which UN appointees regard Israel, and their embrace of the wildest assertions made by Palestinian propagandists.

Because the problem isn’t Alsalem’s alone: It is institutional and structural.

And its impact is not limited to the UN, as the current surge of far-left anti-Zionists in US domestic politics demonstrates.

In the last month, the UN’s human rights bureaucracy has stepped up its crusade to convict Israel of the crime of genocide.

On June 16 Vanessa Frazier, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, placed the Israel Defense Forces on a blacklist of armed forces that abuse children.

That list also includes the Russian Army and ISIS — but not Turkey, despite the horrors inflicted on the Kurds, including children, by its armed forces.

Tellingly, none of the other state armed forces on that list were ever compelled, as the IDF was after Oct. 7, to engage in a war sparked by a massacre of their own civilians.

But such nuances never trouble the UN when it comes to Israel.

Indeed, when Danny Danon, Israel’s UN ambassador, voiced his objection to Israel’s inclusion on the list, Frazier dispensed with diplomatic protocol and attempted to shout him down.
The Military Danger of the Congressional Anti-Israel Obsession
An effort by Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) to strip a provision on U.S.-Israel cooperation from the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act was ruled out of order on Monday.

The provision isn't about the West Bank. It would expand U.S.-Israel cooperation in missile and drone defense, anti-tunneling, cyber warfare and AI.

"We need to compete with China," says Bradley Bowman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

"That requires learning from beleaguered democracies like Ukraine, Taiwan and also Israel, which is the best in the world in some areas of defense tech."

Israel excels at going from concept to fully funded combat capability - a U.S. weakness. Bowman rues the seven years the Pentagon took to adopt Israel's Trophy system to defend U.S. tanks.

The rising anti-Israel obsession is a gift to U.S. adversaries.
Two mayors, one hatred
Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna from 1897 to 1910, used antisemitism to win popularity, making detestation of Jews a key plank of Austria’s Christian Social Party. Adolf Hitler lived in Lueger’s Vienna and would praise him in Mein Kampf, although, for the most part, the mayor did not back up his anti-Jewish rhetoric with policies.

Jew-haters and those who, like Lueger, used Jew-hatred for political purposes, coined the term “antisemitism” in 1870s Germany to make their bigotry sound modern and scientific rather than ancient and religious. Today, those obsessed with Jews and the State of Israel as ultimate sources of evil do the same with “Zionism.” It makes antisemitism sound “progressive.”

Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Pogroms in the 19th century and the Holocaust in the 20th century taught Jews the inherent vulnerability of living at the sufferance of others. Zionists understood that only a sovereign Jewish state could ensure Jewish equality.

Today, resurgent antisemitism uses anti-Zionism as a gateway drug. The abuse took root in 1975, when the U.N. General Assembly passed the infamous Soviet-inspired, Arab League-promoted “Zionism-is-racism” resolution. The resolution was Moscow’s revenge for Israel’s defeat of its Egyptian and Syrian clients in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s new mayor, belongs to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The party’s economic and social views mark it as neo-Marxist. Two of the three successful Democratic Party insurgents Mamdani endorsed in the city’s June 23 congressional primaries are also DSA members. The third is a former member. All three followed the mayor in accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

They do so because the “racist Israel” libel has not quite done the trick. Not when Israeli Arabs are the freest Arabs in the Middle East, and Israel rescued tens of thousands of endangered black Ethiopian Jews.

“Genocide” has replaced “racist” as the ultimate anti-Israel malediction. But the indictment is false. In Israel’s war in Gaza against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other perpetrators of the Oct. 7, 2023 pogrom, the ratio of noncombatant-to-combatant deaths among Gazans has been lower than in Iraq and Afghanistan when U.S. and British troops battled Islamic fanatics.


O Palestine!
Canada's recognition of "Palestine" came with conditions — that were never enforced. In the Palestinians' war against the Jews, they are never given their own agency. Only Israel is expected to abide.

On September 21, 2025, Canada recognized a state that does not govern itself, cannot hold an election, and was at that moment partly ruled by a group Canada lists as a terrorist entity.

Prime Minister Mark Carney called his recognition of “Palestine” a “step toward peace.”

Nine months on, it is fair to ask what it actually stepped toward.

Begin with what the recognition was supposed to buy, because Carney did not simply recognize “Palestine.” He recognized it on “conditions.” The Palestinian Authority would reform its governance. It would hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas could play no part. It would demilitarize.

And in the quieter briefings around the announcement, two more conditions surfaced, the ones that matter most to anyone who has actually read a Palestinian textbook or a Palestinian Authority budget: The Authority would scrub its school curriculum of the material that teaches children to hate and murder Jews and glorify martyrs. It would end the payments it makes to the families of people imprisoned for killing Israelis, the policy the world has learned to call “Pay for Slay.”

These were not decorative requests. They go to the centre of why a Palestinian state has never functioned: a leadership that has not faced its public in 20 years, an education system that manufactures the next war, and a salary structure that pays better the more Jews you kill.

Carney attached his recognition to fixing exactly these things. He told us recognition was “predicated on” them. Predicated — what a lovely word. It means the recognition was supposed to depend on something. Perhaps he would even apply some pressure to making sure those things happened. Surely, rushing recognition through at a time when a war is raging while innocent hostages are held in terror merits … something?

So let’s check the something.

Anything?

On the curriculum, an Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education review of the 2025 to 2026 Palestinian Authority textbooks (the very textbooks published in the month Canada recognized “Palestine”) found that they continue to incite antisemitism and violence, glorify terrorism, reject the two-state solution, and erase Israel from the map.

On the payments, the European Parliament was asking in March 2026 whether the Martyrs’ Fund had genuinely ended or had simply been rerouted through renamed welfare channels, with a draft Palestinian constitution poised to write the whole thing into the founding law of the state Canada had just blessed.

On the elections, the most concrete promise of all, the Palestinian Authority’s own deputy foreign minister said within two weeks of recognition that there would be no vote while the war continued — not a delay, but a condition on the condition.

None of it was met. Not one item on the list. Imagine our surprise.
Countries didn't ban athletes from flying to Israel, they let the paperwork do it
Triumphant ceremony opens games
And by every account except mine, it was a triumph. Idan Raichel performed, and next to him sang Daniella Gilboa, who was a hostage in Gaza and on Wednesday stood in front of a full stadium singing to her people. Yuval Raphael, who survived Nova, opened the night. Edan Alexander got a wall of noise.

The Maccabiah banner came in with families of the 12 Druze children killed on the soccer field in Majdal Shams, and one of the torchbearers was Evyatar Zeituni, a paratrooper wounded on October 7 defending Kibbutz Kissufim.

President Isaac Herzog spoke. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke, and there were boos, some. The American section, around 900 of them, was so loud at points you couldn’t hear Michael Harpaz and Montana Tucker calling the parade.

My kids came for the singers, obviously. I came so they would absorb something they can’t get from me at the Shabbat table: that they belong to a people, that Judaism is bigger than our synagogue and our town, that there are Jews in places they’ve never heard of who care about the same things they do. They love sports. This was the night they learned the map that comes with it.

Which is why I couldn’t stop counting flags.

Austria: one athlete. One. Belgium, barely more. South Africa, which for decades sent big, noisy, proud delegations, was down to a handful. And Australia, usually among the largest teams at any Maccabiah, essentially wasn’t there.

The Australian story deserves to be told properly. Maccabi Australia withdrew its whole delegation, roughly 300 athletes and 60 staff who had trained for two years, because Canberra’s travel advice for Israel sits at “do not travel,” the most severe level.

The few Australians who marched came as individuals on borrowed teams. Remember, this is the community that buried four of its own after the bridge collapse at the 1997 games and still came back, game after game. For them, staying home is enormous.

In the stands Wednesday, I heard the rumor version: that some countries have banned their citizens from flying here. Not true, and I checked, because that’s the job.

No government has forbidden anyone anything. What they’ve done is raise advisories to “reconsider travel” or “do not travel,” which voids travel insurance, which makes it legally impossible for a national federation to send a team.

The athletes were never banned. The paperwork did it for everyone, quietly, and nobody had to say the word out loud.
Florida governor designates CAIR as terrorist organization
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis designated several groups as terrorist organizations on Wednesday, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, more commonly known by its acronym CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and Antifa.

“Last December, I signed an Executive Order to eliminate the influence of radical terrorist ideologies and the organizations that promote them in Florida. This year, I signed legislation to strengthen those protections and give Florida permanent statutory tools to combat terrorism while defending the constitutional rights of our citizens,” said DeSantis.

“Today, we are officially designating terrorist organizations under Florida law,” he said. “In addition to CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood, we are adding Antifa to the list, along with more than 90 Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including cartels.”

CAIR and CAIR Florida filed a lawsuit the same day in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, seeking to block enforcement of the law, arguing that the designation did not give the group “a meaningful opportunity to challenge the designation before a neutral decisionmaker.”
David Collier: Lost in Translation: What Mohsen Mahdawi is Really Saying
Mohsen Mahdawi is a 35-year-old Palestinian man. At Columbia University he cofounded Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) with fellow activist Mahmoud Khalil. Both men were detained by ICE in 2025, have robust legal teams, media connections, and despite deportation orders remain in the United States while exhausting the appeals process.

In April 2025 we published two exclusive investigations into Mahdawi that detailed his history of support for terrorist organisations, his glorification of convicted terrorists, and the extensive ties between his family and militant groups. We also exposed significant fabrications with elements of the personal backstory that helped build his reputation in the U.S. Since then, none of our findings from those investigations have been rebutted.

It was therefore troubling to see Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) still gathering with Mohsen Mahdawi, as they did at the United States Capitol in June 2026 to introduce legislation to repeal a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

This is not about where you do or do not stand on politics, on Donald Trump, on Israel, or on the subject of ICE. Mohsen Mahdawi should not be your poster child.


The Anthropologist Deconstructing Antizionism
A Yale-trained anthropologist, Adam Louis-Klein emerged from the Amazon to find his academic world celebrating a hate movement. He is using his background in anthropology to fight antizionism.

Adam Louis-Klein was a left-wing Yale philosophy grad, conducting fieldwork among indigenous Amazonians for his PhD in anthropology. Completely cut off from the world, he finally got online, and the horrors of October 7th hit him like a freight train -- and what he saw in his own academic circles shook him even more. Today he runs one of the most effective anti-antizionism organizations in the Jewish world. This is how he got there.

Adam was born in London and grew up in Seattle. He had a Bar Mitzvah, visited Israel, and was involved in Jewish life at Yale, but after college he drifted away from Judaism entirely.

"I joined a far-left group called Socialist Alternative," he says. "I was very into communism." His undergraduate degree was in philosophy, and he became obsessed with Alain Badiou, a French Maoist philosopher. After Yale, he pursued a Master's in philosophy, then another in anthropology. Along the way, he discovered The Amazonian Cosmos by anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, a dense, metaphysical account of an ancient indigenous cosmology. He was hooked.

When Adam began his Ph.D. at McGill University in Montreal, he decided to dedicate his dissertation to the Desano people described in Reichel-Dolmatoff's book. Through American Christian missionaries active in the region, he found his way to a small Desano village deep in the Amazon.

Life there was stark. "I drank rainwater out of a huge bucket. I bathed in the river every single day." He stayed in a ramshackle health post meant for visiting medical professionals, with windows that wouldn't close and bats in the rafters. He was an outsider in every sense. "It was probably the loneliest experience of my life," he says. "I was seen as a completely alien being." Every day, he walked to the village pavilion and listened to the elders tell the stories of their people.

The Desano, it turned out, consider themselves a chosen people with a special affinity for Jews. Some indigenous tribes even claim descent from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. "When I told the Chief I was Jewish, that was how we connected," Adam says.

Spending time with the Desano gave Adam a new lens on indigeneity itself. The Desano trace their origins to a sacred homeland where they once lived under a single chief. Eventually there was conflict, dispersal, diaspora – and they even displaced another tribe in the process. "There's immigration, war, displacement," Adam says, "but no one's going to call the Desano settler colonists because immigration, displacement, and war are just history."

What defines an indigenous people, he came to understand, isn't that they never moved. It's that a sacred territory anchors their identity, history, and culture. That insight would soon become central to everything.
Human rights orgs have routinely ignored complaints of antisemitism for years, per new report
The human rights nonprofit sector has systematically ignored or suppressed employee complaints of antisemitism for years, according to a new report published on Wednesday by EiGHT, an organization based in Israel that was created after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks to provide oversight of humanitarian NGOs.

The 63-page report was submitted to Australia’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, which was formed after the Bondi Beach terror attack last December, as well as several United Nations bodies. It draws on interviews with more than 70 current and former employees of organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders and Greenpeace. It alleges that the organizations’ biased treatment of Israel contributed to a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli employees.

“One of the rationales for the report was to give voice to victims, essentially, along the lines of human rights work that I edited every single day for 14 years,” EiGHT’s executive director, Danielle Haas, who was a senior editor at Human Rights Watch until 2023, told Jewish Insider. “It’s just a shame and shocking that the victims should be coming now from within the human rights and humanitarian world itself.”

The report is focused primarily on the treatment of employees within the sector, rather than research and output related to Israel and the Palestinian territories, though it argues that the two are linked — and that the wholesale adoption of anti-Israel narratives by these NGOs contributes to the hostile atmosphere facing Jewish employees. For instance, employees alleged that if they asked questions about an organization’s approach to Israel, they often faced pushback. One Australian employee of a global NGO claimed they were fired after raising questions about the quality of the group’s work on Israel.

“When the leadership is demonstrating utter disregard for Oct. 7 victims or for Jewish lives lost, it only follows logically that those underneath them will too,” Haas said.

The report paints a picture of institutional leadership that is resistant to both external and internal criticism.

“Documented complaints about hostile behavior related to Jews, Israel, or Israelis, and professional standards failures connected to Israel work have consistently failed to produce meaningful consequences,” the report states.
Antizionism Is The Real Hate Movement
George Orwell understood something that every totalitarian movement eventually discovers: if you control language, you control thought.

In 1984, war becomes peace. Freedom becomes slavery. Ignorance becomes strength. Today, we are asked to accept another inversion.

Zionism—the national liberation movement of the Jewish people—has been described by some as “Canada’s most successful hate movement.”

The proposition would be laughable were it not so dangerous.

What is Zionism? It is the belief that the Jewish people, like every other people, have the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland.

Nothing more, nothing less.

One may disagree with Israeli governments. One may oppose settlements. One may criticize military operations, judicial reforms, or coalition politics. Israelis and Jews around the world do so every single day.

But Zionism itself is simply the affirmation that Jews, after two thousand years of exile, persecution, expulsions, pogroms, and ultimately the Holocaust, are entitled to political sovereignty in the land where Jewish civilization was born.

The extraordinary claim made by antizionists is not that nationalism is wrong.

It is that Jewish nationalism alone is wrong.

This is not universalism. It is discrimination.


UN commission chair says IDF ‘presence’ cited as basis for alleged deliberate targeting of Gazan children
Justice Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, said the panel concluded that Israeli forces “intentionally killed” Palestinian children in Gaza if the presence of Israeli soldiers was confirmed in the area.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Muralidhar referenced the commission’s controversial report released last month that intended to show Israel deliberately targeted children in its war against Hamas.

The U.N. official described the panel’s methodology, saying investigators used “forensic tools, geolocation and chrono-location to confirm the presence of Israeli soldiers” at scenes where multiple Gazan children were killed by gunfire.

Muralidhar did not explain what constituted a confirmed Israeli military “presence” or address whether investigators considered alternative explanations, such as crossfire or Hamas’s documented use of civilians as human shields. The report itself does not appear to examine alternative theories for those deaths beyond alleged Israeli responsibility.

According to Muralidhar, the commission identified two alleged methods by which Israeli forces intentionally targeted children. The first, he said, involved repeated airstrikes in densely populated areas, which the commission argued demonstrated intent because Israeli authorities knew children would be killed even if the stated targets were Hamas operatives.

The second, he said, involved quadcopters, drones and snipers. Muralidhar cited a case described in the report alleging that an Israel Defense Force quadcopter equipped with thermal imaging and a sniper capability fatally shot a 10-day-old infant through the roof of a tent.


UNRWA deceives donors over Colonna reform compliance, report finds
As the U.N. Relief and Works Agency seeks to restore its funding slashed in the aftermath of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, a report published on Thursday concludes that UNRWA has failed to implement the major reforms recommended in the 2024 Colonna Report.

“UNRWA has failed to meaningfully implement many of the Colonna Report’s key recommendations—particularly those addressing educational neutrality, hate speech and antisemitism—despite repeatedly reporting substantial progress,” the Israeli-based nonprofit Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) said in a statement.

The Colonna Report is a review of the U.N. relief agency led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, commissioned by the U.N. secretary-general, following the involvement of UNRWA staff in the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel’s northwestern Negev.

The report from 2024 issued 50 recommendations, and IMPACT-se was one of the only NGOs invited to testify before Colonna and her committee.

This week, at the UNRWA Pledging Conference at U.N. Headquarters in New York, leading donor governments cited the agency’s supposed implementation of the Colonna recommendations as justification for continued financial support and confidence in the agency, according to IMPACT-se.

In 2025, the largest three donors to UNRWA were the E.U. with almost $100 million, Germany with $60 million and the U.K. with $27 million. Germany and Britain in particular included specific amounts for the implementation of Colonna’s recommendations, IMPACT-se said.

However, IMPACT-se’s report documents how UNRWA unilaterally revised its reporting methodology, lowering the required threshold for recommendations to be classified as “completed,” leading to a substantially accelerated rate of implementation. Moreover, UNRWA continued to request international funding for recommendations it says it has already completed.


Commentary Podcast: How to Save the Jewish People
John is joined by Professor Ruth Wisse for a discussion on her book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews, the challenges Jews face in an era of converging hatreds, and the need for American Jews to leverage their position in society for their own self-defense.


Settler violence math. 'West Bank' sanctions. Timing for Israeli sovereignty | Sophia Tupolev
⁠Eugene Kontorovich⁠, law professor at George Mason University and senior scholar at the ⁠Kohelet Policy Forum⁠, and ⁠Naomi Kahn⁠, Director of Regavim's International Division, sit down with C14 to dig into the data behind 'settler violence,' the sanctions built on top of it, and what's actually stopping Israel from applying sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.

In this episode:
Where the UN's own fine print reveals how it counts Arab attackers of Jews as victims of settler violence

Why Netanyahu's latest rejection of a Palestinian state isn't new policy, but a restatement of Israel's unwavering position

What it would take for Israel to apply its civil laws over Judea and Samaria (Areas A, B, C)

How Biden era sanctions targeted Jewish citizens of Judea and Samaria and Americans under the banner of "West Bank violence"

Why Israeli banks and credit card companies are to blame for enforcing foreign sanctions, infringing on Israeli economic sovereignty, and what will happen if Israel doesn't act to sanction proof its own financial system




The Brink: Islamists, the Muslim Brotherhood and Britain's Future | Muslim Expert’s Warning
In this episode of The Brink, Jake is joined by Emirati journalist, author, and political strategist Amjad Taha for a wide-ranging conversation on the rise of political Islam in the West, the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the growing security challenges facing Britain and Europe.

Amjad argues that Western democracies have underestimated the threat posed by Islamist movements, explaining how organisations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood have embedded themselves within universities, charities, community groups, and political activism. He discusses anti-Semitism, radicalisation, the role of British institutions, and why he believes many Western governments have failed to confront the problem.

The conversation also explores the UAE's approach to combating extremism, the Abraham Accords, the future of the Middle East, and the wider struggle between Islamist ideology and states seeking stability and coexistence. We examine Britain's relationship with the Gulf, the war in Sudan, and why Amjad believes the West has misunderstood its allies in the region.

Finally, we turn to Iran and the aftermath of the recent conflict with Israel and the United States. Amjad explains why he believes the current ceasefire is only temporary, argues that the Iranian regime remains the greatest threat to regional stability, and warns that the next confrontation may be even more dangerous.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
03:12 How The Muslim Brotherhood Gains Influence
07:55 Iran, Hamas & The Silence Of British Politicians
12:27 How Islamists Use Democracy Against The West
15:32 Universities, Mosques & Radicalisation
22:26 What Is The Muslim Brotherhood?
28:32 How The Brotherhood Changes Society
32:01 Should Britain Ban The Muslim Brotherhood?
35:15 Public Prayer Or Political Power?
39:35 How Much Influence Does The Muslim Brotherhood Have In Britain?
46:28 Is The Problem Islam Or Islamism?


Sadiq Khan confirms plans to visit Nova Festival exhibition after Jewish News story
The Office of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has told Jewish News he is looking forward to attending the Nova Festival exhibition “very soon” and “seeing for himself how this powerful and moving installation enables Londoners to bear witness to the horrific events of 7 October”.

The pledge comes after this paper revealed that organisers felt disappointed that while a variety of senior political and religious figures had attended since the exhibition opened in East London on 20 May, the Mayor had not.

Jo Woolfe, chair and lead partner of the Nova Exhibition London, spoke to Jewish News in the wake of Tuesday’s announcement that the memorial would be extending its presence in the city until Wednesday 15 July due to phenomenal demand. She expressed frustration with regards to how the Mayor’s office appeared to have approached the invitations, suggesting that they had eventually corresponded with her proposing dates after the exhibition was meant to have closed – although it has subsequently had its run extended.

A spokesperson for the Mayor said: “The Mayor is looking forward to attending the exhibition very soon, and seeing for himself how this powerful and moving installation enables Londoners to bear witness to the horrific events of 7 October.
‘Notorious’ antizionist Tony Greenstein ‘expelled’ from Green Party
A “notorious” anti-Zionist activist has claimed he has been permanently expelled by the Green Party.

Tony Greenstein, whom the JC revealed this week had compared activists suspended for antisemitism to civil rights campaigners like the Suffragettes and Chartists, hit out at the party’s decision via his blog.

There, he shared what appeared to be an email from the party which he said he received on Monday.

It read: “Following the notification of 4.8 suspension, which was put in place for you by the Green Party Council [GPC], I now write to tell you that GPC held a supplemental meeting on 7th May 2026, at which, after proper consideration, there was a consensus decision for your permanent expulsion from the Green Party under 4.8 of the constitution.


Parades for Pakistan, Eradication for Israel: Mamdani’s Hypocrisy Goes Unchecked on ABC
On June 28, 2026, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl sat down for an interview with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The topics centered around the recent democratic primaries in New York City and his support for certain candidates and the positions they hold. When Karl asked the self-described anti-Zionist about Israel, he failed to challenge Mamdani’s flawed definition of Jewishness or his hypocrisy regarding democratic rights.

After Mamdani first lambasted Israeli actions in Gaza, Karl asked if he supported Israel as a Jewish State following the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) rejection of a two-state solution. Mamdani gave a rehearsed response: “I’ve said time and again, I support the State of Israel as a state with equal rights. I believe that any state that privileges one religion over the other is one that I can’t tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else . . . we should all be considered equal no matter what our faith is.”

The pretense that Mamdani is against any countries that “privilege” one religion over the other is demonstrably and obviously false, and yet Karl failed to challenge him.

There are Christian countries with state designated religion – Mamdani has never voiced an issue with them. There are more than two dozen countries whose constitutions designate Islam as their state religion or who refer to themselves as Islamic Republics or monarchies – many of whom “privilege” Islam over others. Mamdani has no problem with them either.

How do we know? Well, Mamdani marched in a New York City parade in celebration of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which has constitutional provisions and specific penal laws that apply differently to non-Muslims.

In Pakistan, non-Muslims are constitutionally disqualified from holding the positions of president and prime minister. Religious minorities are systematically persecuted there, including pursuant to laws outlawing blasphemy against Islam.

Mamdani’s inclusion of Saudi Arabia with Israel is a transparent attempt to appear as if he is not singling out Israel. But in trying to equalize the two countries, Mamdani looks both ridiculous and wrong. As Attorney Mark Goldfeder wrote, Israel is a “Jewish democracy with equal citizenship for non-Jews. [Saudi Arabia] is an absolute monarchy governed by sharia.” Saudi Arabia prohibits public practice of any religion but Islam and both apostasy and blasphemy can carry the death penalty there.


Arizona Jewish leaders regret supporting Yassamin Ansari after she turns against Israel
When Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) narrowly prevailed in the Democratic primary for an open House seat in Phoenix in 2024, winning by just 36 votes in a deep-blue district, the Arizona lawmaker could attribute her success, in part, to strong backing from the local Jewish community as well as a surge of outside spending from a prominent pro-Israel group.

Many Jewish and pro-Israel leaders in the state and beyond were encouraged that Ansari, who identifies as a progressive, staked out what seemed at the time like a moderate approach to Middle East policy issues amid rising Democratic hostility toward Israel over the war in Gaza — particularly in the party’s far-left wing.

Ansari, an Iranian American and former vice mayor of Phoenix, drew a contrast with her top rival, Raquel Terán, a former state lawmaker and party chair who had raised concerns among Jewish activists over her lack of clarity on key issues, such as whether she supported aid to Israel. For her part, Ansari stressed her commitment to U.S. military funding for Israel “without additional conditions,” while saying in a position paper that the United States “must do everything in its power to stop” Iran “from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” which she argued “would pose an existential threat to Israel.”

Now, however, Ansari, 34, has largely turned away from the stances she embraced during her primary, aligning with a range of far-left policy positions that have led several Jewish and pro-Israel leaders to feel they were misled, they told Jewish Insider.


Darializa Avila Chevalier Dating Mamdani Lawyer Who Repped Al Qaeda Terrorists, Including 'Close Associate' of Bin Laden
Presumptive Democratic congresswoman and Zohran Mamdani-backed socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, is dating Mamdani's chief legal counsel, 48-year-old Ramzi Kassem, who is best known for defending al Qaeda terrorists, including a "close associate" of Osama bin Laden.

Chevalier confirmed the relationship in a statement shared with City & State.

"Ramzi Kassem and I met outside an ICE detention facility, both working to free someone unjustly held," she said. "Over the years, as we collaborated on different projects, our professional acquaintance became a friendship, which grew into a romantic relationship. I'm deeply grateful for such a loving, supportive partner – he's been a refuge these past few years."

City & State reported that the couple became official in 2023, when Kassem helped Chevalier, a City University of New York graduate student, with her research paper "analyzing the racism and Islamophobia of a Customs & Border Protection anti-terror unit."

Mamdani tapped Kassem, who teaches at CUNY's law school, to serve as his chief counsel in January. Before that, Kassem represented a slew of al Qaeda terrorists, including Ahmed al-Darbi, who was convicted in 2017 for the bombing of a French oil tanker, and several other Guantanamo Bay detainees, most notably Shaker Aamer, a "close associate of Osama bin Laden" who fought in the 2001 Battle of Tora Bora, where U.S. forces stormed an al Qaeda complex in Afghanistan where bin Laden was hiding.

Both Kassem and Chevalier were deeply involved in anti-Israel campus activism while students at Columbia University.


Pro-Palestine parents launch campaign against school antisemitism review
A pro-Palestine parents group has launched a campaign against government measures designed to help combat antisemitism in schools, the JC can reveal.

Backed by a faction of the National Education Union (NEU), Parents for Palestine are campaigning against Sir David Bell’s review, which it claims risks preventing criticism of the “Zionist settler-colonial project” and creating a “hierarchy of racism”.

Jewish groups have slammed the radical demand for the Bell review to be withdrawn, with Parents Against Antisemitism criticising what it called a “campaign against investigating antisemitism”.

The government commissioned the Bell review after school-related antisemitic incidents were recorded at double the levels seen before 2023.

More than one in five British-Jewish parents say their children have experienced school-related antisemitism, according to JPR, while a survey from the teachers' union NASWUT found more than half of Jewish members had experienced antisemitism in the workplace in the past year.

Despite this, Parents for Palestine, backed by the NEU’s International Solidarity Network and other anti-Israel factions, have urged supporters to challenge the Bell review and submit responses opposing its authority.

In campaign material seen by the JC, activists claim Bell’s probe is “not worthy of serious consideration” and risks “weaponising the rise of antisemitism to prevent any criticism of the state of Israel”.

“Such reviews are dangerously misleading and can be used to justify new oppressive policies,” the material goes on.


NPR Rebrands Hezbollah Through Slick Framing, Silent Acquiescence and Revisionist History
NPR’s Steve Inskeep and former Lebanese presidential candidate and diplomat Tracy Chamoun pushed Israeli expansionist conspiracies in a June 18, 2026, interview. Inskeep set Israel up as the aggressor through dishonest, slick framing, followed by a failure to challenge Chamoun’s lies and factual omissions. Her parroting of Hezbollah propaganda and notable misrepresentations were particularly surprising given her past anti-Hezbollah positions.

NPR introduced the interview with audio of two unfairly cherry-picked sentences from a seven-minute interview two days prior with Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter. In it, Leiter said, “We’re not going to withdraw from south Lebanon. And the madmen of Tehran have no business poking their nose into Lebanon.” This set the stage for Chamoun to lie about Israel’s goals in Lebanon; specifically, to argue that the Israelis had territorial ambitions there.

Both Chamoun and Inskeep ignored statements by Israeli officials which explicitly stated Israel had no territorial ambitions in Lebanon – something even Arab outlets reported. Indeed, Leiter explained in his interview that Israel was in Lebanon “to protect its people.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) created a security buffer zone in southern Lebanon to protect northern Israeli communities, and not because of some fantastical threat. Years ago, Hezbollah published parts of its detailed plan, since thwarted, to conquer the Galilee, using a combination of tunnels and explosives. Hezbollah rockets from October 2023 through October 2024 killed dozens of Israelis, displaced thousands and damaged northern communities.

Leiter’s full interview went into great detail about Israel’s ceasefire agreement with Lebanon that will be implemented once Hezbollah pulls back all of its fighters north of the Litani River. For NPR’s audience, Leiter explained that this agreed-upon arrangement has been repeated thrice in U.N. Security Council resolutions. But Hezbollah has not been a party to the agreement and continues to defy the Lebanese government.


Board of Peace to Open "Hamas Free" Humanitarian Zones in Gaza
The Board of Peace will launch a pilot program in the coming weeks to manage humanitarian shelters in areas of Gaza that are not under Hamas control. The first area to which civilians with no weapons or affiliation with Hamas will be directed is Tel Sultan, near Rafah. Medical aid and food will be sent into the humanitarian shelters in an effort to loosen Hamas's hold on the population, piece by piece.

The Israeli political echelon and former senior military officials argue that this is the way to deepen the blow to Hamas, by disconnecting it from the population. In these areas, no concrete will be brought in for Gaza's reconstruction. Instead, pre-fab structures will be placed there and services will be provided for the population that settles in them.

At present, the U.S. is preventing Israel from resuming fighting in Gaza, even though Hamas refuses to disarm in accordance with the Trump plan. However, within the existing constraints, the IDF is continuing targeted eliminations inside Gaza and striking Hamas's efforts to reestablish itself.

A political source told Israel Hayom: "We are maneuvering within the American constraints, increasing the pace of eliminations while staying below the threshold of international criticism, and this will continue as long as Hamas is not prepared to demilitarize."
COGAT: Hamas detained sick Gazans after Israel approved exit from Strip
Hamas terrorists detained a group of more than 100 sick Gazans after Israel approved their exit from the Strip on Monday, Jerusalem’s Defense Ministry said.

According to the ministry’s Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit, the group was “held up for more than one hour at a checkpoint that Hamas terrorists set up.”

“When Hamas continues to spread lies to the world, saying Israel is hindering sick patients from Gaza from exiting the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, the reality again told a different story,” it added.

The statement noted that the United Nations on Monday condemned “forces affiliated with the de facto authorities in Gaza,” e.g., Hamas, for hindering humanitarian efforts “by stopping convoys for inspection and entering U.N. warehouses and facilities, which is illegal.”

“While accusations against Israel receive immediate attention, Hamas’s actions are time and again ignored by human rights organizations, despite their harm to the civilian population,” COGAT stated.


Washington state human rights panelist resigns weeks after video footage spread of his antisemitic comments
Luc fils Jasmin, resigned on Wednesday as a member of the Washington State Human Rights Commission after facing backlash when the state panel posted footage of his antisemitic remarks during a commission meeting.

“As of July 1, 2026, commissioner Luc Jasmin resigned the Washington State Human Rights Commission,” the panel’s website says. “WSHRC currently does not have any further details.”

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, posted to social media on Thursday that he will be “making an appointment to this vacancy soon.”

“If you’re interested in serving on the Washington Human Rights Commission, or any of our other boards and commissions, here’s how to apply,” he wrote. He shared a link to an application.

The resignation comes a few weeks after Jasmin spoke with JNS about his remarks and apologized to the Jewish community repeatedly.

“I own my mistake,” he told JNS.

Jasmin said that he didn’t know that the video of the hearing would be shared with the public, though it was posted to the commission’s official YouTube channel.

During a phone call with JNS, Jasmin said that he wasn’t sure if Hamas was a terrorist organization. “I do not know anything about this, and I don’t know if I should make a decision,” he said.
California Rotary club installs former Irvine mayor as president despite Jewish groups’ objections over antisemitic posts
The Jewish Community Action Network urged Rotary International on Thursday to intervene after the Rotary Club of Orange County/Los Angeles installed former Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan as its president, despite objections from Jewish organizations over social media posts that promoted antisemitic blood libels.

The local branch serves communities across Southern California, with a focus on community development and goodwill projects.

In a June 22 letter, JCAN, the Jewish Federation of Orange County and the Israeli American Council called for a review of Khan’s conduct, citing posts in which she said of Israelis, “the sick pedophiles/cannibals are doing what they do best.”

Khan was installed on June 27. In a follow-up letter sent on Thursday, JCAN said Rotary leaders acknowledged receipt of the concerns but proceeded with the installation.

“Evidently, the Orange County/LA Club determined that endangering the Jewish community is not disqualifying or inconsistent with ‘truth,’ ‘fairness,’ and building ‘goodwill,’” stated Julia Heiman, director of policy, legal and government affairs at JCAN.

The organization also pointed to Rotary International rules that allow a club’s board to terminate a member “for good cause,” urging the group to reconsider its position.

“Blood libels are not a policy disagreement,” said Ilana Meirovitch, CEO of JCAN. “They are the oldest pretext for violence against Jews.”
Man accused of stalking judges over divorce case sent Holocaust slurs to victim, court told
A father who was unhappy with the outcome of his divorce proceedings targeted some of Britain’s top judges in a stalking campaign, a jury has heard.

Following a bitter divorce in 2009, Richard Kendal allegedly stalked and harassed Sir Andrew McFarlane, now the retired president of the Family Division at the Royal Courts of Justice, and the Chief Magistrate of England and Wales Sir Paul Goldspring, to whom he is accused of sending antisemitic messages.

Goldspring’s legal adviser and researcher, Elizabeth Hardy, as well as Kendal’s ex-wife, Ruth Garner, are also alleged victims, Kingston Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Laura Blackband told the court: “Unfortunately, the divorce was far from amicable as Mr Kendal appears to have been unable to move past the end of his marriage.

“Following his dissatisfaction at the outcome of the original divorce proceedings and ancillary financial matters, he has devoted his energy over years into pursuing vexatious litigation against his ex-wife, waging personal and unpleasant vendettas against some of the judges – including Sir Andrew McFarlane and Sir Paul Goldspring – and engaging in intimidation and threats to his ex-wife.”

The jury was told that Kendal, 62, of Wandsworth, south London, is not fit to stand trial because he suffers from psychosis involving a persistent delusional disorder.

Their role is not to consider whether Kendal is guilty of the alleged offences but to decide if he did the acts with which he has been charged.
Court hears teen caught with terror material said he could ‘blow up Melbourne’
A Melbourne teenager accused of downloading a cache of violent terrorist material told another youth detention inmate he knew how to make bombs to “blow up the whole of Melbourne” days after his arrest, a court has heard.

The 17-year-old allegedly amassed a cache of bomb-making manuals and accessed Islamic State and al-Qaeda propaganda while researching nearby synagogues and Melbourne’s busiest intersection, the court heard on Thursday.

The disturbing details were aired in the Children’s Court after the teen applied for bail months after his arrest.

The teenager was arrested on March 24 after counterterrorism authorities were tipped off that he had allegedly ordered a custom IS flag from China.

Following the tip, Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police officers raided an inner-north housing commission unit, where the teenager, who is in year 12, lived with his parents and five siblings.

The arresting officers discovered the cache of extremist material on a USB, phone and computer belonging to the teenager, the court heard.

The files allegedly included an al-Qaeda video depicting a man in a balaclava instructing viewers on how to make TNT, as well as a step-by-step manual on manufacturing and placing a train derailment device.


Brooklyn man arrested, charged after entering Chabad World Headquarters with baseball bat, knife
Sean Pelzer, 36, of Brooklyn, was charged after allegedly entering Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood on Wednesday armed with a knife and a baseball bat, according to the New York City Police Department.

Pelzer was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal trespass, an NYPD spokesperson told JNS.

Police said officers responded to a report of “a 36-year-old male unlawfully inside of a synagogue with a baseball bat” at 770 Eastern Parkway, within the confines of the 71 Precinct.

“The individual was subsequently taken into custody without further incident,” police told JNS.

Footage of the incident shows Chabad attendees ushering a black man, who appears to be wearing a black kippah, out of the building and toward a nearby NYPD police vehicle.

Chabad Headquarters has reportedly contacted police about Pelzer several times.

“This is the reality of being Jewish under the mayoral control of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It’s open city on attacking the Jews,” stated Moshe Spern, president of United Jewish Teachers, who thanked police for protecting Chabad’s 770 location.

“Mamdani, your words have zero impact because everyone knows you want these actions,” he wrote. “No Jew is safe in this city.”


Israeli startups raise $3.3 billion in June
Israeli startups raised total capital of $3.3 billion in June, financial outlet Globes reported on Wednesday.

The biggest fundraising round was made by marketing analytics company AppsFlyer, which raised $1.3 billion, the report read.

Cybersecurity firm Cyera raised $600 million and networking solutions firm DriveNets raised $410 million.

In the first three months of 2026, Israeli startups raised $3.1 billion. Israel’s all-time record of capital raised in one month is $3.5 billion in October 2021.

During that same year, Israeli firms raised $25.6 billion, which remains the Jewish state’s record to date.

The final figure for June 2026 might be higher than the one noted in the report, according to Globes, since some companies do not publish the investments they received.





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