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Saturday, July 18, 2026

07/17 Links Pt2: It is not ‘Islamophobic’ to stand up for Jews and Western civilisation; The DSA Is a Trojan Horse the Democratic Party Must Drive Out; Debating Peter Beinart on the Right of Return and Other Matters

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: Scapegoating the Jews
The ugly reality of a Democratic Party that’s now dancing to an anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-Islamist tune was on display this week with another visitor to Israel, the possible 2028 presidential candidate Rep. Ro Khanna of California.

In an outrageous PR stunt cooked up with radical Israeli anti-government activists, Khanna made an unauthorized visit to a sensitive area of the “West Bank,” where he claimed to have been detained, harassed and even threatened by Israeli security forces who sided with violent settlers.

As video footage subsequently revealed, there was no violence and no harassment. It was a stunt designed to further the agenda of turning Israel into a pariah state—a situation that Emanuel blames on Netanyahu but which has actually been created by a poisonous narrative of lies to which both Emanuel and Vance have contributed.

This unconscionable onslaught is now the driver of politics on the Wwestern left and in parts of the American right.

In Britain, Andy Burnham, who next week will become prime minister after a bloodless coup in the governing Labour Party, made a point of threatening further punishment of Israel over Gaza as his first statement on foreign affairs.

This week, he went one stage further. Having refused to spell out to the British public his intentions for government, Burnham gave an interview to podcaster and former sports broadcaster Gary Lineker, who left the BBC after sharing a post about Zionism that depicted a rat—a Nazi image for Jews. When Lineker referred to the “genocide” in Gaza, Burnham conspicuously failed to challenge him.

For Britain’s incoming prime minister to use such an anti-Jewish dog-whistle—and as a priority—is an ominous signal indeed.

The surreal prominence of the Israel issue in domestic politics is due to a poisonous cocktail of factors, including Islamist influence, the dominance of the intersectional left and the West’s loss of its own cultural bearings, including the notion of objective truth.

What’s becoming ever more apparent, however, is that political leaders are scapegoating Israel because things are going wrong for them, both at home and abroad, and they cannot understand why. Refusing to acknowledge what they’re up against, they blame the Jews.

Israel, America’s indispensable ally, is now making plans to develop its own independent weapons supplies and nurture other alliances against the danger of a possibly hostile future U.S. administration.

Emanuel came to Israel to lecture it that it was in danger of losing America. In fact, with the iron having entered the soul of the Jewish state as a result of Oct. 7, America is in danger of losing Israel.
Brendan O'Neill: It is not ‘Islamophobic’ to stand up for Jews and Western civilisation
The whole report is crazy. It analyses 3,733 Speccie articles about Islam and related issues. It found that 57.4 per cent of them were ‘biased’ or ‘very biased’. Bear in mind that this includes me calling Hamas cunts. It mauls Spectator writers for ‘delegitimising the idea of Islamophobia’ (guilty as charged), for using the phrase ‘Islamic terrorism’, and for obsessing over ‘so-called “grooming gangs”’. Keep up – they’re called rape gangs now, given the reams of evidence we have that these gangs of mostly Pakistani men raped hundreds of white working-class girls. Seems it’s not only ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ to be outraged by the mobbing of an Israeli woman but also by the subjugation of English women.

The report wangs on about me, Douglas Murray, Julie Burchill, Gavin Mortimer, Rod Liddle – fine company! Burchill – who’s also a spiked columnist – rattles the pious pricks because she ‘defends the right to make jokes about Islam’. Call the ayatollah! ‘We’re always told that making jokes about Islam is “punching down”’, she wrote in March 2023. ‘But tell a migrant worker-slave in Qatar or a gay man in Dubai or a spirited woman in Iran that the world’s wealthiest and fastest growing religion is powerless.’ The CfMM’s fun-sponge scribes accuse her of ‘invoking human-rights abuses’ in ‘three separate state contexts’ and ‘attribut[ing] them collectively to Islam as a unified religious force’, which has the effect of reinforcing a moral ‘asymmetry’ that is… oh, I can’t go on. The humourlessness is asphyxiating. Guys, someone disagrees with you. It’s fine. You’re going to give yourselves a hernia.

It’s so telling which articles of mine get on their wick. I’m criticised for saying there has been an ‘orgy of anti-Semitism’ in the West since 7 October. I’m slammed for saying the keffiyeh classes are motored less by ‘concern for Muslim life’ than by ‘contempt for Israel’. I’m accused of using the word ‘Islamist’ in a ‘broad, undefined’ way. O’Neill is too vague in his piece on ‘what he calls the “Jew hunt of Amsterdam in 2024”’, the report says. Erm, it wasn’t me who called it a ‘Jew hunt’ – it was the anti-Semitic mob itself, which expressly hit the streets in order to ‘hunt’ the ‘cancer Jews’ who had travelled to watch Maccabi Tel Aviv.

And of course I’m told off for my pieces on the rape gangs. Especially a 2017 piece in which I commented on the ‘palpable reluctance’ of the state and polite society to ‘confront the particular problem of some Muslim men’s disdain for white working-class girls’. Apparently that’s Islamophobic. It isn’t. I stand by every word. The safety of working-class girls matters to me infinitely more than your feelings.

There’s a side-splitting irony in this bonkers report. It quotes a phrase of mine from a Spectator piece I wrote 11 years ago. It quotes it three times, including in the foreword, which is written by Peter Oborne. That phrase is ‘dainty sensibilities’ – I was criticising the cloying offence-taking of the professional misery guts who stink up our activist classes. How dare you say we are exhibiting ‘dainty sensibilities’, asks this 146-page report about the mean media and its mean words. You couldn’t make it up. But the CfMM is right about one thing: I am making a ‘civilisational judgement’. I judge that Hamas is morally inferior to Israel, that Islamism is morally inferior to secularism, and that shitting your pants when you read something you don’t like is morally inferior to just laughing it off. And everyone is welcome on my civilisational side: Christians, Jews, Muslims, ex-Muslims, non-believers, everyone. Because we don’t discriminate against people, only against ideas.
The DSA Is a Trojan Horse the Democratic Party Must Drive Out
Nowhere is the DSA’s radicalism more dangerous than in its commitment to anti-Zionism. For the DSA, opposition to Israel’s existence is not a secondary foreign-policy debate; it is a litmus test anchored in its governing text.

Analysts note that the DSA functions as a strict ideological enforcement mechanism: any candidate or member who deviates from its anti-Zionist platform or affirms Israel’s right to exist faces swift expulsion or denial of endorsement. Its platform explicitly names Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, hardcoding anti-Zionism as a fundamental tenet.

This hostility is a proxy for animus toward Western civilization and American global leadership. By aligning with hostile anti-Western regimes under the banner of “anti-imperialism,” DSA drags mainstream politics into a dark arena.

This dynamic is bigger than any one candidate. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani built an agenda that strips antisemitism protections from Jews unless they renounce their connection to Israel, while Kiros pledged to end all military assistance.

For the Jewish community, the danger is immediate: the DSA’s rise is tied to an effort to strip antisemitism protections from Jews unless they renounce their connection to the Jewish state.

The Trojan Horse and the “Dirty Break
The DSA’s core deception is presenting itself as part of the Democratic Party while advancing ideas at odds with the party’s values. It does not see itself as a wing of the party; it sees the party as a host organism to be drained and discarded. As documented by political journals like City & State New York, today’s DSA organizers are explicitly executing what they call the “dirty break.” They use the Democratic Party’s ballot access, volunteers, and credibility as tools of convenience while building an independent Marxist-aligned infrastructure designed to break away and destroy the party from within.

The organization’s youth wing formalized this as an official strategy in a 2022 convention resolution. Even former DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison put it bluntly to DSA candidates: if you don’t support the party, don’t use its ballot line, volunteers, or resources to get elected.

Political reporting confirms this “party surrogate” or “party-within-a-party” model. Through structures like the “Socialists in Office” committee, elected DSA officials are bound to caucus weekly, coordinate legislative action, and vote as a unified socialist bloc answering to an external organization rather than the Democratic Party or their broader constituency.

Time to Purge the Poison
For years, the Democratic establishment has responded to this insurgency with quiet accommodation, fearful of alienating a vocal activist base. Every act of appeasement has only legitimized a group working toward the party’s dissolution. The victories in New York and Colorado prove that the time for polite disagreement has passed.

I have spent years arguing that antisemitism is never only about Jews – it is a leading indicator of a society’s broader institutional and moral health. The DSA’s rise fits that pattern. Hatred of Jews has historically been the ideology radical movements borrow when they need a common enemy to attack the liberal establishment.


John Anderson: Iran, Trump, And The Weakening Of The West | Melanie Phillips
In this conversation, Melanie Phillips joins John Anderson to discuss the crisis of Western resolve and moral decline. Drawing on her decades as a commentator, Phillips argues that Iran's perceived strength reflects Western weakness and hesitation. She also explores how anti-Zionism and elite failure have hollowed out Western values

A pre-eminent voice in British public discourse, Melanie Phillips possesses a storied journalistic pedigree. Having established her reputation at The Guardian and the New Statesman, she now provides sharp political and social analysis for The Times, The Jerusalem Post, and The Jewish Chronicle. A familiar and formidable presence on the airwaves, she has long served as a regular panellist for BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze and BBC One’s Question Time. Phillips was honoured with the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1996 during her tenure at The Observer, and her extensive bibliography includes her candid memoir, Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain.

1:03 – Introduction
1:50 – Trump's strike on Iran: courage or overreach?
7:53 – Why the Iranian regime can't be negotiated with
10:57 – Is the Middle East less stable now?
14:22 – Trump's political calculus and the chance he resumes the war
16:07 – Allied failure: Britain's missing warship
18:24 – "No problem was ever solved by war"
22:26 – The axis of evil and China's surveillance state
23:24 – Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
27:36 – Western media as a weapon against the West
32:16 – Bondi and the crisis facing Jewish Australians
39:05 – Anti-Zionism as a Trojan horse for the West
46:58 – The rise of populism, explained
49:20 – The welfare state's founding lie: wants vs needs
1:01:26 – Sharia courts and the "one law for all" principle


Why life for Britain’s Jews could well get worse under Andy Burnham
In a little more than 100 days, Israel will hold a general election, with current polling indicating that Benjamin Netanyahu and his governing coalition will lose. Were this to happen, it is highly likely that the new government would seek to roll back a range of highly controversial legislative actions rammed through by its predecessors. It would seize the opportunity for a re-set, not just domestically, but internationally.

There is no way that the UK Foreign Office, and the office of the incoming Prime Minister, does not know this – after all, Andy Burnham himself is seeking to project the idea of a political re-set. A country that was serious about its role in an Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as successive governments have consistently claimed that Britain is, would see this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

They would be reaching out, via back channels, to prominent leaders within Israel’s opposition, making it clear that the deterioration of the relationship between the two countries under Netanyahu’s leadership was highly regrettable, but that they were dedicated to its repair, precisely because of the need to reach a long-lasting settlement in the region.

There is absolutely no indication that Andy Burnham, or his team, have made any effort to do this, and it is perfectly clear why. Burnham’s priority is to try and win back former Labour voters who withdrew their support over the issue of Gaza. Adopting a more hostile policy towards Israel is a means to that attempted end.

This would be somewhat understandable, were it not for the fact that it won’t work – trying to assuage people who are vehemently anti-Israel with anything short of a full diplomatic rupture is doomed to fail. The attempt, however, is itself notable, because there are few politicians in England who have proved to be more susceptible to targeted political campaigns than Andy Burnham, whether in a positive way – Hillsborough – or a negative one – axing a planned clear air zone for Manchester.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign may not realise yet, but Andy Burnham as Prime Minister is likely to be the biggest gift they have ever received.
London mosque already under Charity Commission scrutiny released sermon blaming ‘all evil’ in Muslim world on Jews
A London mosque recently placed under investigation by the Charity Commission over allegations that it hosted an antisemitic preacher had published an earlier talk by the same cleric who blamed “all evil” in the Muslim world on Jews.

The charity regulator said this week it was probing Hounslow Jamia Masjid and Islamic Centre after The Telegraph reported it hosted in January Egyptian preacher Yosry Gabr, also known as Yusri Jabar, who had allegedly said previously: “The final war will begin in which we will kill every Jew”.

However, Gabr had made further chilling references to Jews during a sermon put out on the mosque’s YouTube channel in May 2023.

In that address he claimed the anticipated false messiah would be supported by Jews from Isfahan in Iran and alleged that “all evil” in the Muslim world stemmed from Iran and “the Jews who pose as ayatollahs”.

Gabr said: “Tehran was called Isfahan in those days, the days of the prophet. So he said when he appears and announces himself in Isfahan, he will be supported by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan, wearing tayalisa (a scarf around the neck and shoulders). And we now know that Iran is leading evilness in the entire Muslim land, it is arming Muslims against other Muslim sects, make them fight each other and this provoked that all evil stemmed from this devil.

“He is currently leading evil through Iran and through the Jews who pose as ayatollahs and wear tayalisa. The Rafidi and Safavid ideology is originally Jewish, outwardly professing Islam while concealing disbelief within.

"Those are his supporters and they are there, therefore, we are living through this tribulation; and consequently, everything that is happening in this era, the spread of lies and deceptive media, the glorification of obscenity, immorality, nudity, and sexual deviance, and men engaging sexually with men while women do the same with women, all stems from this devil.”

The Telegraph reported that, in a video posted online in January, Gabr said: “Wars will stop after killing the Jews – there will be no wars after killing the Jews.” It also reported that, in another video, he said: “The final war will begin in which we will kill every Jew. They know this, the Jews know they will be killed.”

Gabr had previously called for Jews to be killed, supported armed violence against Israel in Gaza and backed jihad against the West, according to the newspaper.
Bishop of Blackburn: ‘The Church is adding to the rising tide of anti-Semitism’
Bishop North, who previously served as Bishop of Burnley and was named Bishop of Blackburn in 2023, was speaking to The Telegraph as the meeting of the Synod in York drew to a close this week. He made his views clear in the chamber, where he spoke of how “terrified” Jewish people in Lancashire are, and of their “existential fears for their future in this nation”. His local rabbi was best friends with one of those murdered in the Manchester synagogue attack.

He called on the Archdeacon of West Cumberland, the Ven. Stewart Fyfe, to consider not forcing the motion on solidarity with Palestinian Christians that he’d presented to a vote. When this call was unsuccessful, Bishop North abstained and the amended motion was carried, despite appeals from Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis and the Board of Deputies of British Jews for the Church to reject Kairos II.

The document, Sir Ephraim warned last week, used “extreme rhetoric to challenge the very concept of a Jewish state”.

One line in particular has drawn criticism – “The genocidal war on Gaza is the continuation of the Zionist project to seize all of Palestine, emptied of its Palestinian people” – suggesting that Zionism is inherently genocidal. Israel, it adds, is a “colonial enterprise built on racism”, and it goes on to call for a “boycott [to] dialogue with Zionist voices”. The latter demand, Sir Ephraim said, risked “undermining decades of careful relationship-building between Christians and Jews”.

The document comes four years after the Church of England apologised for anti-Jewish laws passed 800 years ago. For Bishop North, the new motion undermines that position.

“The big mistake was to reference particularly the Kairos II document, which is, a number of speakers said, anti-Semitic according to a definition of anti-Semitism [we have] adopted. It’s certainly perceived to be anti-Semitic by the Jewish community. It’s an inflammatory document.”

The motion, he feels, will make it “significantly harder” to create a forum locally where people with different views on the Middle East conflict can come together and share a dialogue.

“Is someone going to read a Synod motion and attack a synagogue? No, I don’t think that,” he says. “But I do think the tide of anti-Semitism is rising and we should be condemning that, yet we’ve done something that will add to it. That is deeply unwise, particularly with the long Christian history of anti-Semitism.”
London pastor launches campaign against anti-Israel Christian document after Synod vote
The pastor of a London church has launched a campaign to oppose the Palestinian Christian document accusing Israel of genocide, which the Church of England voted to recommend to its members for study earlier this week.

More than 1,900 people from different Christian denominations have so far signed a declaration denouncing the document, entitled A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide, which was issued by the Kairos Palestine movement last year and is known as Kairos II.

Kairos II brands Israel a “colonial, settler, and exclusionary entity”, describes Palestinians as the “indigenous people of this land” and calls on churches to “distinguish between dialogue with Jews and dialogue with Zionism”.

While condemning the killing of civilians by Hamas on October 7, it says the attack was “born out of decades of injustice, oppression and displacement since the Nakba of 1948”.

But the Declaration Against Kairos II – initiated by Regan King, pastor of The Angel Church, an independent evangelical congregation in Islington – denounces the document as inaccurate, one-sided and dangerous, saying it “only serves to hinder the cause of peace”.

It accuses the document of “falsely and without substantiation” accusing Israel of genocide, seeming to rationalise the “heinous crimes” of October 7 and calling for an end to the state by describing it as a “settler colonialist” project.

The declaration adds that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is “enduring and irrevocable”.

On Monday, the Church of England’s governing body, the General Synod, voted to encourage members to “engage” with Kairos II, despite warnings from the chief rabbi and a former archbishop of Canterbury that the document could harm Jewish-Christian relations. The conference of the Methodist Church recently called for the creation of study materials based on it.

In reaction to the Synod, King, who is also a presenter with the Christian channel Revelation TV, said he felt that “someone has to do something”.

He hoped the Declaration Against Kairos II would “encourage the Jewish community that there are people who will continue to stand with and to speak on the Jewish community’s behalf”.

Originally from the USA, he has lived in Britain for over 20 years and is married to a messianic Jewish woman from Jerusalem. Their children attend a Jewish primary school.

A regular visitor to Israel, he spent his sabbatical there last year. He said he found the experience of being in Ramallah, in the West Bank, two years ago “more unsettling” than a visit to Iraq during the days of Isis because of the pro-Hamas posters he saw in the Palestinian city.

“Kairos II fails to pursue reconciliation and peace and accepts no responsibility for the plethora of atrocities carried out historically against Israel by self-identifying Palestinians,” he said.

“Furthermore, the document avoids recognising or referencing the many voices of Arab-Israelis and Palestinians who have a very different perspective and do not see Israel as the root cause of Palestinian suffering.”

It was, he added, “truly grievous that the Church of England has ventured far from its rich tradition of support for the Jewish people”.
As a Jewish student at King’s College, I’m being persecuted for my beliefs
When I started my English degree at King’s College London nearly two years ago, I was hugely excited. I could not wait to meet like-minded people who loved literature as much as I did.

But it was on my first day, Sept 24, 2024, that I learned my lesson: being Jewish is fine, as long as you stand on the “right side of history”.

After a fantastic first few hours, where I went to my introductory lectures, made tentative new friendships and arranged study sessions, I went onto my class’s group chat.

We were discussing a lecture series called the AKC (Assistantship of King’s College), which was to focus on the Israel-Hamas conflict that term. When a description was posted, the first response was, “finally, an attempt to educate the zionists [sic]”.

Naive as I was, I asked what was meant by that statement, and was met with: “Are we not all pro-Palestine here, or what?” The same person then added: “I would assume to a degree that requires critical thinking, Zionism would be non-existent in our cohort.”

Stunned by this, I tried to discuss our differing views and have a productive conversation – but I was met with a barrage of abuse as others in the chat joined in. All of a sudden it was almost 100 against one.

Some called for me to be removed from the chat entirely. One asked whether there was a “f---ing Zionist” in the chat. Another demanded: “Get them out.” A third asked if I was “real” or “computer generated”.

Then things got even darker. Another student said: “Cant [sic] wait to see you tomorrow Tali.” Then asked someone else to “come sort out the zionist”.

Betraying a degree of self-awareness, one of them said: “If this is bullying, call me the mayor of bully town.” They then asked: “Are they going to suspend the whole year minus Tali?”

So there I was, an 18-year-old on my first day of university, crying on my bed. I could not understand what I had done to deserve such hatred. The answer, of course, is nothing.
Universities accused of letting antisemitism flourish.
In a statement, the Australia Israel and Jewish Affairs Council said university leadership allowed anti-Semitism to flourish almost unchecked.

"The harrowing testimony of Jewish students and staff, together with the evidence of several university vice-chancellors, has laid bare systematic failures of university leadership," the council said in a statement.

"These hearings should be a watershed moment. Australian universities should finally accept responsibility and accountability for their failures."

The commission will sit in Melbourne for a second week from Monday before moving to Sydney.

On Friday, the commission announced protests and the responses of police will go under the microscope in a block of hearings in August. rally

It will examine a pro-Palestine protest at the Sydney Opera House in October 2023, where attendees allegedly shouted "f*** the Jews".

A neo-Nazi rally outside NSW Parliament House in November 2025 will also be examined.

More than 60 protesters attended the demonstration, which NSW Police chose not to oppose at the time.

"The right to engage in peaceful protest is a fundamental attribute of democratic life," Commissioner Virginia Bell said in a statement.

"The commission's focus in this hearing block will be on whether there are opportunities to improve the way police respond to anti-Semitic conduct in protest settings."


Ask Haviv Anything: 132: What is happening now in Gaza? With Dr. Shira Efron
The Gaza war may have stopped, but the struggle over Gaza’s future is only beginning. Hamas is rebuilding, Gazans remain displaced, and the American plan for disarmament, reconstruction and new governance appears stalled. Dr. Shira Efron, Gaza expert and senior fellow at RAND, joins Haviv to explain what is actually happening on the ground -- and why Israel’s failure to offer Gazans an alternative to Hamas may be its greatest strategic mistake of the war.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Gaza's Current Crisis
02:30 Expert Background and Relevance
05:02 Overview of the Trump Peace Plan
08:34 Challenges in Disarming Hamas
12:35 Current Status of Peace Efforts
16:37 Israeli Control and Gaza Governance
21:00 Potential for Future War
27:25 Hamas's Rebuilding and Rearming
33:43 Civilian Population and Humanitarian Issues
41:17 The Importance of a Civilian Strategy
47:28 International Forces and Their Role
01:02:07 Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
01:12:56 Path Forward and Optimism


Comedy Cellar USA: "An Agenda Dressed Up in Violins?" - Debating Peter Beinart on the Right of Return and Other Matters
An Israel Conversation

Claude Says:
Peter Beinart - editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, New York Times opinion writer, and author of "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza" - joins Noam Dworman and Dan Naturman for an honest, occasionally heated conversation about the questions underneath the Israel-Palestine debate. Does Jewish tradition teach that Israel's survival depends on its ethics - and does Beinart, an observant Jew, mean that literally? Is there such a thing as demographic critical mass? Why is secession the answer everywhere from Quebec to Czechoslovakia, but one shared state the answer here? Is the Palestinian right of return a sacred principle, a practical question, or - as Noam puts it - "an agenda dressed up in violins"? Plus: South Africa and Mandela, Iran, the Olmert-Abbas offers, what Benny Morris actually wrote about 1948, Robert Jackson's "suicide pact," and what day one of a one-state solution would look like for a gay couple in Tel Aviv. Two people who disagree about almost everything - except the settlements - actually talk to each other.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro - four nice things about Peter Beinart
4:50 Will God punish Israel? Jeremiah, tradition, and belief
13:20 The critical-mass hypothetical: a 49% Hasidic America
22:03 Quebec, Czechoslovakia, South Africa - why not divorce?
41:35 The right of return: "You can cherry-pick anything"
54:24 1948: They were closer to the Holocaust than we are to COVID
63:40 Day one of a one-state solution: the list
79:53 "An agenda dressed up in violins"




Dance, dance revolution Ticked-off clubber stomps on anti-Israel protesters at NYC rave
An annoyed clubber at a Brooklyn rave stomped on anti-Israel activists last week when they laid across the dance floor to protest the organizer, shocking new video shows.

The rabble-rousers infiltrated the Under the ‘K’ Bridge Park event July 10, with about five of them staging a “die-in” protest against Boiler Room and its owner, private equity giant KKR, which they claimed invests in Israeli arms manufacturers.

The protesters wore white t-shirts with things such as, “Boiler Room is owned by Israeli arms investors,” and, You’re dancing on every martyr’s grave” written on them as they laid motionless on the floor.

The video, posted by an anti-Israel group calling itself the “Boycott Room,’’ showed the enraged rave-goer jumping into the air before driving his feet into a protester’s torso.

He then attempted to repeatedly jump on the protesters but fell after the second hop, the footage showed.

Boiler Room representatives told The Post that the situation was handled by security “within a couple of minutes’’ and that the ticked-off clubber was bounced along with the protesters.

“We weren’t expecting a lie-down, especially 45 minutes from the end,” the rep said of the protest.

The incident occurred on the first day of the two-day event.


Randi Weingarten attacks Trump as teachers’ union weighs anti-Israel resolutions
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, used her keynote address at the union’s national convention on Thursday to attack U.S. President Donald Trump and urge members to help Democrats retake Congress, as delegates prepared to debate multiple anti-Israel resolutions.

“Remember that warning—about the barbarians at the gate? Well, the barbarians aren’t at the gate; they are inside, including at the highest levels of government,” she said on stage at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. “The president and his cronies are abusing government powers to punish political opponents. Every day, they find new ways to attack voting, presumably to entrench themselves.”

She criticized Trump’s education policies, immigration enforcement and tariffs, as well as what she pronounced was the president’s “costly war against Iran that has left us worse than when it started.”

Weingarten told attendees that the AFT is launching a “Democracy Defenders election protection program” to recruit 5,000 members to protect voters’ rights and that the union is committing “to our most ambitious election program ever.”

She said the teachers’ union could “build what Martin Luther King Jr. called the ‘beloved community'—an America where hate has no home. Where the trans nurse, the Palestinian teacher, the Jewish student and every person regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender or place of origin, feels welcome, safe and valued.”

The remarks come as delegates to the convention gather to vote on resolutions and amendments to the union’s constitution, including multiple anti-Israel resolutions. In footage from the convention, some delegates can be seen wearing keffiyehs.

Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and author of The Parent Revolution, told JNS that “Randi Weingarten’s speech at the AFT convention had nothing to do with improving student outcomes.” He stated that “her unhinged performance showed everyone that the teachers’ union has become little more than a money-laundering operation for socialist politicians.”


Texas man indicted for threatening to blow up White House, ‘kill some billionaire Jews’
A federal grand jury indicted Peter James Bloomfield, of Iola, Texas, for allegedly making threats, including blowing up the White House and killing “some billionaire Jews,” the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

The 35-year-old faces up to five years in prison and up to $750,000 in fines on all three counts.

Per the indictment, he also threatened, including in a comment section on a Fox News broadcast of a U.S. Senate hearing, to kill U.S. President Donald Trump, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and FBI and CIA agents.

The Justice Department previously said that the man also threatened Zionists and others.

Federal agents found more than 20 guns and a “significant” amount of ammunition in his home when they executed a search warrant, the Justice Department said.
Argentina vs Spain World Cup final becomes a proxy for the Israel-Palestinian conflict
Sunday’s World Cup final will see Argentina face off against Spain — setting up a showdown between two countries that have recently taken sharply opposing views on Israel.

Their stars, too, symbolize the split: Argentina’s Lionel Messi has drawn attention for his past ties to Israel, while Spain’s Lamine Yamal has made headlines by displaying a Palestinian flag after a crucial win.

Online discourse has now cast the match as something of a proxy for the Middle East conflict, and sparked more than a few anti-Israel and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

“We are getting an Israel versus Palestine World Cup,” wrote content creator Ryan Rozbiani on X.

“Argentina is the only team among all participants that is openly and consistently pro-Israel,” wrote one X user, whose bio says they oppose the Islamic Republic of Iran. “That’s why I’m rooting for them.”

Khabib Nurmagomedov, the former MMA fighter and vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, posted a similar message to his Instagram story and wrote, “I know who I’m supporting.”

Sneako, the streamer who has spread antisemitic conspiracy theories and used Nazi slogans, weighed in a couple of weeks ago: “Argentina is the Israel of South America.”

Argentina’s President Javier Milei, a self-described “anarcho-capitalist” who took office in December 2023, has transformed Argentina’s foreign policy toward Israel, shifting the country from a more critical stance to one of its closest allies.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain, a socialist, has emerged as one of Europe’s most outspoken critics of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza against Hamas and a leading advocate of Palestinian statehood.





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