Friday, July 24, 2026

07/23 Links Pt2: Antizionism Kills: the danger of Zohran Mamdani; Jake Sullivan Can’t Sleep; Rachel Moiselle: Why Ireland Became Europe's Most Antisemitic Country

From Ian:

Due to blogger's wobbly, yesterday's (22nd) links are in the comments here.

NYPost Editorial: We know why Mamdani keeps banging the Israel drum — vibes are all he can offer his base
Mayor Zohran Mamdani finally felt compelled to admit he couldn’t order Benjamin Netanyahu arrested, so his consolation prize for his fanbase was a new Oval Office-style address late Tuesday where he repeated the whole litany of post-Oct. 7 pro-Hamas agitprop — without, of course, even mentioning the genuine atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023.

When you can’t deliver substance, go big on vibes.

The “arrest” thing was always pure fantasy, a story the global left-Islamist alliance tells itself about “international law.”

Neither the United States nor Israel ever signed on to the International Criminal Court under which the bogus “indictment” was laid; indeed US law forbids honoring any ICC warrants.

If Mamdani didn’t know the truth before Tuesday, it’s because he didn’t want to; either way, he kept talking about arresting Netanyahu because the idea cheers his pals and irritates his enemies.

Which is why the “oops, I can’t” speech had to repeat all the “genocide” lies in spurious detail, including fury over a starvation that never happened and a slaughter of aid workers that never took place.

From the start of his campaign, Mamdani’s mayoralty has rested on visions of magically transforming New York City into a Big Rock Candy Mountain of free stuff, social revolution and bitter tears for the enemies of the socialist agenda: homeowners, rich white people, Zionists.

But delivering on his material promises is another matter.
Mamdani’s Netanyahu bluster is a smokescreen for his real goal: crushing Americans’ freedom
For 25 years, US administrations on both sides of the political aisle shared the concern that corrupt nations would use the court to bypass the fairest justice system in the world and subject Americans to politically motivated prosecutions.

As a result, the court holds no power or legal authority over our nation.

After all, we have the US Constitution.

Article II gives the president primary control over foreign affairs, and the Supremacy Clause means that federal law overrides state or city actions in that arena.

The Founders vested this power in the federal government alone, specifically to prevent rogue local officials like Zohran Mamdani from dragging the nation into diplomatic disasters.

Moreover, the American Servicemembers’ Protection Act of 2002 blocks state or local agencies from cooperating with the ICC.

Congress passed the ASPA precisely because lawmakers feared ICC harassment of American troops and officials for political reasons.

Mamdani knew all this — and that, under New York State law, he’d have been exposed to possible criminal prosecution for unlawful imprisonment or official misconduct if he actually ordered Netanyahu’s arrest.

So on Tuesday, he had no choice but to roll back this particular Trojan horse he’s been using to conceal his real agenda.

For him, this episode was just the first skirmish of a much longer war.

He was testing globalization’s dangerous waters by using an easy scapegoat, Israel’s Netanyahu, for cover.

And now everyday Americans will be the guinea pigs for his project.

This is a long play: If Mamdani’s advocacy succeeds and American mayors and governors start acting on ICC papers, it hands legitimacy to a corrupt foreign court — and to adversaries that could target our service members with warrants at home and abroad.

Mamdani was willing to demand the arrest of a foreign head of state under ICC law, and on Tuesday he indicated he would advocate the same for his constituents who are subject to ICC warrants.

The recent incident at Park East Synagogue was instructive.

When members held an event about Israel inside its doors, Mamdani allies attacked it — and Mamdani himself used ICC propaganda to blame the victims for being harassed.

The mayor’s willingness to weaponize ICC decrees against New Yorkers engaging in First Amendment protected activities was shocking and dangerous.

On Tuesday, he made his mission and agenda clear: He wants foreign governance supplanting US sovereignty.

He’s advocating a globalized rule of law influenced by adversarial nations to “impart justice” on Americans.

Our service members, leaders and everyday citizens will be left vulnerable to the weaponized warrants of nations that despise us if he gets his way.

A mayor playing diplomat to appease a radical base is dangerous enough.

But a mayor actively working to erode the sovereignty that protects his constituents is a threat to the republic itself.
Huckabee calls Mamdani an ‘evil antisemite’
U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee lashed out at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday, calling him an “evil antisemite” in the wake of his recorded message branding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “war criminal.”

“Would be easy to say NY Mayor is just an ignorant bigot, but he is not dumb,” Huckabee tweeted.

“He’s an evil anti-Semite who deliberately lies about serious things like ‘genocide’ to stoke Jew hate. If anyone should be arrested, it’s the Mayor of NY for incitement. NYC should be ashamed,” the diplomat said.
Eve Barlow: Antizionism Kills: the danger of Zohran Mamdani
I am a British Jew who fled antizionism in 2014. I told my story. I am calling upon you: Soviet Jews, Yemeni Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Libyan Jews, Polish Jews. We need your stories. I cannot tell them for you. Tell your story of fleeing antizionism. The same sickness with the same lies of “genocide,” “apartheid,” and “colonizing” is spreading like wildfire in an ignorant America among the same racists who pushed you to flee. The same lies recycled - lies that existed decades before any war in Gaza. The ignorant do not know. They are on social media. Tell your story. I will share it. We need your testimony. Do not hide. I need you. We all do.

Today is Tisha B’Av; the day many Jews partake in fasting to mourn the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by our enemies. Last night, Mamdani did as predicted. To prove he is not an antisemite, he tweeted a sunny Tisha B’Av greeting to Jewish New Yorkers, wishing them a peaceful fast and reflecting on Jewish resiliency, mere hours after calling their people’s elected leader a war criminal who should be arrested. This is an abuse tactic known as narcissistic love bombing. Mamdani may pretend he’s no antisemite, but he is proudly antizionist. Antizionism is racism. Name it.

It is mad living in a time when those of us with pattern recognition and strong lived experience look at Mamdani and the DSA and see the Cold War, while the progressives see utopia. There is a smokescreen between us and them, and we are so behind in figuring out how to bring the wall down.

Antizionism is not criticism of a government. It is the organized denial of Jewish self-determination - the only people on earth whose right to a state is treated as uniquely illegitimate. No other nation is subjected to this singular campaign of eliminationist rhetoric. It is Jew-hatred with a progressive veneer, and it kills. It kills by gaslighting victims into silence. It kills by normalizing the idea that Jewish self-defense is the real crime. It kills by creating the moral permission structure for the next October 7, the next synagogue attack, the next Jewish student forced to hide their identity.

Listen to Jews, or make the same mistake the German citizens of 1938 made while that era’s charming violent man smiled for the cameras.

One day it will be as shameful to have been an antizionist in this period as it was to have been a Nazi in the 1930s. The patterns are the same. The cult is the same. The stakes are civilizational. Shake off your attachment. Antizionism is a hate movement. And hate, when left unchallenged, always kills.

Please watch this video, maybe my most important to date, and share it as widely as you possibly can. We are in big, big trouble. Jeremy Corbyn was a mere chopped liver cracker in comparison.


Jake Sullivan Can’t Sleep
President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, can’t sleep in the aftermath of the war between Israel and Hamas, he says.

Sullivan, a longtime Democratic foreign policy hand who is now Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School, made the confession to the New Yorker magazine’s David Kirkpatrick for an interminable article that appears in the July 27, 2026 issue. The article carries the headline "How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—And Iran," with the subheadline, "Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu."

"Sullivan, whose role as national-security adviser made him the last to leave the room before Biden made a decision, told me that he had lain awake many nights thinking about what the U.S. might have done differently," the article says. It is not clear whether the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, which left 13 American service members dead and tens of millions of Afghans in the clutches of the Taliban, is also disrupting his sleeping, but advertising that fact certainly wouldn’t help him secure a cabinet position in the next Democratic administration, nor would admitting he’s had second thoughts about deceiving the American people with regard to President Biden’s mental faculties.

Sullivan, unlike New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, hasn’t publicly accused Israel of genocide. Nor has Sullivan advocated wiping Israel off the map, the goal sought by Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists and their America-hating Iranian sponsors. That’s earned him the enmity of rabid anti-Israel groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which wrote to Harvard president Alan Garber and Harvard Kennedy School dean Jeremy Weinstein in March 2025 urging them to revoke Sullivan’s appointment, which they said "gave new meaning to the concept of failing up and showed a racist disregard for the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians … Mr. Sullivan helped slaughter."
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Bill Cracks Down on Shady Charities That Funnel Cash From Left-Wing Donors to Extremists, Including Israel-Hating Groups That Back Hamas
Congress is taking up new legislation that would expose and penalize American nonprofit "passthrough" groups that facilitate anonymous charitable contributions from Americans to a host of radical left-wing agitators and the terror-tied advocacy groups behind violent pro-Hamas demonstrations across the country, according to a copy of the bill obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Fiscal Sponsorship Transparency Act, spearheaded by Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) with a companion version in the House, centers on a tax scheme known as "fiscal sponsors," in which properly registered nonprofit organizations funnel cash from individual donors and left-wing foundations to smaller groups that are not formally registered with the IRS. This process is effectively the legal laundering of tax-exempt donations to extremist groups and has enabled scores of these groups to operate without ever facing the IRS directly, filing a public tax return, or disclosing the donors behind their operations. In turn, the passthrough groups, or "fiscal sponsor," typically take a cut of the cash—around 5 to 10 percent—before sending the rest to their partner group.

Donors to these passthrough charities usually know exactly where their gifts are going, as they have the ability to earmark their donations, but they are able to give anonymously to unsavory grantees.

The arrangement has allowed passthrough nonprofits like the notoriously anti-Israel Alliance for Global Justice and WESPAC Foundation to redirect tax-exempt donor gifts to terror-tied groups that include the U.S.-sanctioned Samidoun, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and the pro-Hamas campus group National Students for Justice in Palestine. The legislation would also impact left-wing, dark-money, passthrough juggernauts like the Soros-backed Tides Center, Thousand Currents, and a network of nonprofits operating under the Democratic consulting firm Arabella Advisors, which funds partner organizations like Black Lives Matter Global Network. The Tides Center, the fiscal sponsorship arm of the Tides Center, has hidden upwards of 1,400 projects behind one single tax return, according to research from Cotton's office.
NGO Monitor: OCHA-oPt: Cooperation with Hamas-Linked Institutions and Terror-Connected NGOs
Executive Summary
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory (OCHA-oPt) leads and coordinates the UN’s humanitarian response in Gaza and the West Bank, administering large-scale funding and operational frameworks through the OCHA oPt Humanitarian Fund, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), and the cluster system.
OCHA-oPt maintains operational, financial, and institutional relationships with Hamas-controlled bodies in Gaza and with NGOs linked to designated terrorist organizations, including entities tied to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
OCHA-oPt coordinates extensively with the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Social Development (MoSD), including reliance on ministry beneficiary lists, registries, and data used in humanitarian programming and cash-assistance frameworks.
Declassified Hamas documents from 2018–2022 indicate direct Hamas involvement in OCHA-linked humanitarian activities, including review of surveys, modification of data collection tools, approval requirements for field operations, and oversight through security and intelligence channels.
Organizations linked to terror groups are integrated not only into OCHA funding pipelines, but also into advisory, coordination, and governance structures connected to humanitarian operations in Gaza and the West Bank.
Significant transparency deficiencies within OCHA reporting and funding mechanisms limit independent oversight of humanitarian aid flows, implementing partners, and project implementation following the large-scale expansion of aid after the October 7th attacks.
Japanese Red Army terrorist behind deadly 1972 attack on Israeli airport dies at 78
Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto, who carried out a deadly attack on an Israeli airport on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1972, died on Thursday in Beirut aged 78, the terror group said.

In a statement, the PFLP mourned “militant comrade Kozo Okamoto… who passed away today” in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group.

The group lauded his “unwavering support for the Palestinian cause.”

Okamoto was part of a three-man commando from the Japanese Red Army, a far-left militant group, that killed 26 people on May 30, 1972, at Lod airport — now known as Ben Gurion Airport — near Tel Aviv in an attack planned by the PFLP, which is classified as a terror group by Israel, the US, the European Union and Japan.

Okamoto, along with Tsuyoshi Okudaira and Yasuyuki Yasuda, arrived in Israel with fake passports on an Air France flight.

Prior PFLP hijackings had led to increased passenger screening by airlines, but inspection of check-in luggage was still rare. The bloodbath at the airport later set off a review of global security standards in the aviation industry.
Miliband pledges ‘new international momentum’ for Israeli-Palestinian peace
New Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has vowed to “inject new international momentum” into efforts to bring about peace and security for “both Palestinians and Israelis”.

In his first major speech as Foreign Secretary, delivered at the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference in Manila, Miliband emphasised the UK’s commitment to diplomacy, stating the UK “very much” welcomed the Memorandum of Understanding reached in June between the US and Iran.

He added: “The UK condemns in the strongest terms the unjustified attacks by Iran since then on shipping and indeed on our Gulf partners.”

Miliband continued: “As a government, I assure you we will work intensely with others to seek to de-escalate this conflict and find a diplomatic way forward which is in all of our interests.”

“That must include reopening the Strait of Hormuz and upholding the fundamental principle of freedom of navigation—a principle that the maritime nations around the table know better than anyone is so important.”

The former energy secretary also spoke of the global impact of the conflict with Iran, highlighting its effects on countries worldwide, including the British economy.

Miliband, who replaced Yvette Cooper as Foreign Secretary in Andy Burnham’s recent reshuffle, noted that the ASEAN conference was taking place “at a moment when the world is ever more unstable and uncertain.”

He added that there was “devastating conflict in Sudan, in Palestine, in Lebanon and beyond, so we must inject renewed international momentum to halt the suffering and secure lasting peace.”

After stressing the UK’s ongoing support for Ukraine, Miliband turned his attention to the Middle East.

“And following the UK government’s historic recognition of the State of Palestine, we must not lose sight of the plight of those suffering in Gaza and the West Bank,” he said. “We will continue to work with others to bring about a just and lasting peace, and to secure security for both Palestinians and Israelis.”
Manchester synagogue terrorist plotted to kill Israeli soldiers at a UK military school
The terrorist who carried out a deadly ramming and stabbing at a Manchester synagogue last year also planned to attack a UK military academy, believing Israeli soldiers were studying there, British outlets have reported, citing prosecutors.

It is unclear whether any Israeli officers were studying at the school at the time of the plot.

On October 2, British-Syrian citizen Jihad al-Shamie rammed his car into the gates of Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation as congregants gathered for Yom Kippur morning prayer services. He stabbed Melvin Cravitz, 66, to death after disembarking, then tried to storm the synagogue before police shot him dead. Adrian Daulby, 53, died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired by a police officer responding to the situation.

Shamie’s friend, 31-year-old delivery driver Mohammad Bashir, pleaded guilty Wednesday at the Manchester Crown Court to conducting “hostile reconnaissance” along with him against the UK Defence Academy two months before the fatal rampage.

Bashir appeared for sentencing over the unrealized plot Wednesday, the BBC reported, after being arrested in November due to his links to Shamie, whom he met at their local mosque.

Bashir, for his part, was not accused of involvement in the synagogue attack, but helped plan a similar attack at the defense academy headquartered in Oxfordshire, the prosecution said.
Jewish leader labels antisemitism as a ‘sickness’
​Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s Alex Rvychin says anti-semitism is a “sickness”.

​“There’s a degree of evil in society…the overwhelming majority of people here are good, and decent, and compassionate, empathetic, and we saw that when the massacre occurred,” Mr Rvychin told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

​“But there are people here that suffer from a sickness, and antisemitism is a sickness.

​“Unless we take hold of it, it will continue to corrupt society, and change the nature of what it means to be an Australian.”




Quillette: Why Ireland Became Europe's Most Antisemitic Country | Rachel Moiselle
Rachel Moiselle is a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin and one of Ireland's most visible activists against antisemitism. In this episode of Quillette Cetera, she joins Zoe Sankey to discuss what it's like to defend a community of roughly 3,000 Jews in a country that largely denies it has an antisemitism problem at all.

Rachel talks candidly about the ignorance surrounding Jewish culture in Ireland, how left-wing ideology has shaped anti-Israel sentiment and political discourse, and why Irish national identity has become entangled with the Palestinian cause. She also shares a very different side of her work: her research into Irish Sign Language, deaf culture, and the role AI translation technology plays for a minority language community, and how that experience shaped her thinking on identity and belonging more broadly.

The conversation moves through her own path toward converting to Judaism, the friendships she's gained and lost since October 7th, the online abuse that followed her Sunday Independent article, and why she still believes speaking up is worth the cost.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and guest background
02:30 Antisemitism in Ireland: perceptions and realities
08:02 The Irish Jewish community: size, ignorance, and challenges
11:57 Denial of antisemitism and its consequences
13:57 The influence of left-wing ideology and anti-Israel sentiment
17:00 Irish national identity, flags, and cultural symbolism
20:57 Ireland's history, independence, and reunification debates
24:12 The role of the EU and language education in Ireland
30:09 Language revival, Irish Sign Language, and cultural identity
37:03 Deaf community, minority identity, and activism
41:08 Technology, sign language translation, and deaf culture
46:02 Jewish identity, conversion, and community engagement
1:03:51 Friendship, loss, and personal resilience
1:14:00 Social media, online abuse, and activism
1:24:05 Future outlook, hope, and community support


Ireland may be asked to approve new Israeli bond prospectus after Luxembourg ends temporary role
Luxembourg’s financial regulator has refused a request from Ireland to approve the sale of controversial Israeli bonds for another year.

Its decision puts the pressure back on Gabriel Makhlouf, governor of Ireland’s Central Bank, as it means he may well be asked by Israel to give permission for a new prospectus of bonds to be sold after 31 August.

Bonds issued by a third country have to be domiciled in an EU member state, and Israel chose Ireland as its “home” country after Brexit. Amid a growing political row about Ireland’s role, given the war in Gaza, Israel last year requested that Luxembourg approve its bond prospectus instead.

This arrangement was only intended to last 12 months, as the choice of home country cannot be changed for bonds of less than €1,000 in value.

It has now emerged, however, that Luxembourg was asked to take the role for another year, but that the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has declined. The original request to do this would have come from Israel, and been transmitted by Ireland.

Last week Mr Makhlouf told the Oireachtas finance committee that it was “sort of bizarre” that Ireland had been chosen as the EU home state for Israel bonds, given that they are not even sold in Ireland.

Last year the bonds were offered to the public in Luxembourg, Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands.


Call ME Back: AI is Activating Antisemites Left and Right - with Niall Ferguson
Can historians win the fight against antisemitism and viral misinformation in the age of AI?

Historian Niall Ferguson joins Dan to warn that fact-based historians are losing the battle with social media algorithms that spread false and antisemitic content to increasingly receptive audiences on both the right and left. He argues the rules of the fight have changed. Drawing on a new essay co-authored with AI researcher John-Clark Levin, Ferguson offers data on how algorithms, non-human bots, and AI are transforming how antisemitic ideas go viral, making traditional methods of exposing lies increasingly ineffective. If facts alone are no longer enough, what comes next?

In this episode:
Why Niall Ferguson says his life's work as a historian has failed
How antisemitism was once pushed to the political fringes, but no longer
How AI changed the fight against antisemitism
Why antisemitism is thriving on both the left and the right
The Nick Fuentes playbook: irony, memes, and virality
Can liberal democracy survive the age of AI?
The politics and concerns about a post-Trump generation
If the old fight is over, what should historians do now?




Israel Advocacy Movement: Jewish Leftist Claims Zionists are Nazis… Then Instantly Regrets It



Rama Duwaji failed to send $2,000 raised from T-shirt benefit to Palestine charity
Rama Duwaji promised to donate the profits from a T-shirt she designed to help a grassroots Gaza charity — but never sent the $2,000 raised, The Post has learned.

A year after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist strikes on Israel, New York City’s now-first lady designed shirts to benefit Dahnoun Mutual Aid, a group based in Gaza that provides essential services to displaced Palestinians, according to its social media posts.

The $47 T-shirts — which featured a drawing of a bird on top of a woman’s head with the Arabic phrase “Khair Ya Tair” (“Good news, oh bird!”) — were sold on Everpress, a London-based platform that worked with charities to sell items for fundraising.

Duwaji pledged 100% of the profits from the shirts, which were advertised on her Instagram account and raised about $2,000, a source told The Post. That money went into “a creator” account at the company, the source said.

The Post is told that Everpress appealed several times to Duwaji to send her banking information so that they could wire her the cash, which she then was required to send to the charity.

“That’s the way it’s supposed to work,” said the source, adding that the platform, which shut down in May, routinely worked with large charities such as War Child and UNICEF. “Everpress took in the funds for the creator [then] sent the money to the creator for the charity.”

The source said that the team at Everpress repeatedly reached out to Duwaji on her personal email account and via Instagram, but she did not respond and the $2,000 stayed in the account.


Former Navy SEAL running for Senate in Minnesota touts lifelong commitment to US-Israel relationship
Adam Schwarze, a retired Marine and Navy SEAL who has conducted operations alongside the Israel Defense Forces, told JNS that becoming the next U.S. senator from Minnesota is “the most important mission I’ve ever done in my life.”

The 42-year-old Minnesota Republican Party-endorsed candidate to replace retiring Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) is slated to face Michelle Tafoya in the Aug. 11 Republican primary.

The winner is expected to face either Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan or Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) in the Nov. 3 general election.

Despite recent polling suggesting that Tafoya is in the lead, with 41% compared to his 5%, a Minnesota GOP-endorsed candidate “has never lost a primary,” Schwarze told JNS.

“It’s never happened in the history of the party,” he said.

Schwarze secured 63% of delegate votes at the state’s Republican convention in May.

Born in St. Paul and adopted at 6-months-old, Schwarze enlisted in the Marine Corps after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. He became a Navy SEAL and deployed nine times. He served at U.S. embassies in Armenia and Mali and conducted special operations missions in more than 70 countries, per his campaign website.
Pro-Israel stalwart Alma Hernandez wins Arizona Senate race despite antisemitic attacks
Alma Hernandez, a Jewish Democratic legislator in Arizona who is known as an outspoken supporter of Israel, claimed victory on Wednesday in a bitterly contested primary for an open state Senate seat in Tucson, hailing the win as a repudiation of the far left.

Hernandez, who is 33 and identifies as a “proud Zionist,” faced off against Rocque Perez, a former Tucson City Council member, whom she accused of using rhetoric that crossed a line into antisemitism with no pushback from the range of elected officials supporting his campaign.

With all votes counted in Arizona’s 20th Legislative District, Hernandez pulled in 54% of the vote share, defeating Perez by 8 points, according to unofficial results on the secretary of state’s website. The election results have yet to be officially certified.

“The voters in my district rejected antisemitism and rejected the DSA’s agenda, and clearly rejected what the mayor, the congresswoman and the county attorney wanted,” Hernandez, a term-limited House member, said in a statement to Jewish Insider, referring to the Democratic Socialists of America. “We proved that elections are won by knocking on doors and talking to voters, not by social media or online outrage and your friends’ endorsements.”

Throughout the campaign, Perez, who had been endorsed by Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) and Pima County Attorney Gabriella Cázares-Kelly, among others, had fixated on Hernandez’s pro-Israel views, casting her as having been influenced by “foreign” and “overseas interests” and labeling her an enabler of “genocide” and “bankrolled” by AIPAC, which does not engage in state-level races.

In one fundraising message, Perez asked his supporters to contribute $5 to “unseat a Zionist!”

Jewish leaders in Arizona had raised concerns about Perez’s messaging, saying that his attacks were an example of how rising anti-Zionism on the far left has intersected with antisemitism and is met with silence from Democratic Party leaders.
Florida Democratic Senate candidate Alex Vindman calls out rising left-wing antisemitism
Alexander Vindman, a former Army officer who became nationally known as a National Security Council whistleblower during the first Trump administration and is now running for Senate in Florida as a Democrat, called out rising antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment on the left in a Zoom meeting with the Florida Democratic Party Jewish Caucus on Tuesday.

Vindman, who is Jewish and who fled the Soviet Union as a child, said he felt protected from antisemitism during his career in the military in the occasional times he experienced it, but faced a wave of antisemitic hatred from the right when he became a whistleblower during the first Trump administration.

He said that he had experienced a significant rise in antisemitic harassment when he declared his Senate campaign, in large part from the left.

“I’ve become used to the right-wing, nationalist, nativist, antisemitic tone, but I’m really shocked about what I’m seeing from the far left — the DSA wing, that is deeply troubling,” Vindman said. “It is not simply criticism of Israel but a conflation of Israel and Judaism, and a rise of antisemitism within what should be a portion of our own big tent.”

He said that leaders have not done enough to address the issue or hold the perpetrators accountable, on all sides of the political spectrum.

“When we fail to do that, we breed impunity and we encourage that kind of behavior,” Vindman said.
DSA candidate interned at Hamas ‘greenhouse’ school infamous for terrorist recruitment
New York socialist House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier interned at a Hamas-linked West Bank school before returning to America to portray her country as evil.

Avila Chevalier taught “professional competency courses” at An-Najah National University between May 2014 and July 2014, according to her LinkedIn profile and comments to the press. International watchdog and Israeli government reports flagged An-Najah as a hub for terrorist recruitment and radicalization before and after her visit, with students staging a giant Hamas-themed graduation during her stay. Hamas had even recognized An-Najah — a public campus under the Palestinian Authority — as a “greenhouse for martyrs,” according to Anti-Defamation League translations archived in 2013.

The socialist candidate won her Democratic primary in June with endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The 2014 internship laid the groundwork for Avila Chevalier’s induction into Mamdani and the DSA’s movement more than a decade later. She is now running in November alongside nearly a dozen DSA-backed New York candidates, driving a radical upset in the Democratic Party.

An-Najah National University and Avila Chevalier’s campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Washington Examiner. She told City & State New York in June that her Middle East visit was “really formative” for her worldview, tying global events to supposed American oppression.

“The connections just solidified in my mind,” she told the outlet. “Oh, these are not only like systems, they are the same system. It was the same tear gas made in the USA that was being dropped on Gaza that was also being used against [Black Lives Matter] protesters in Ferguson.”
Connie Chan embraces anti-Israel group’s endorsement in Bay Area House race
Connie Chan, a progressive member of the San Francisco board of supervisors running to succeed retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), claimed an endorsement on Tuesday from Track AIPAC, a virulently anti-Israel group that has faced accusations of spreading antisemitism.

In a statement posted to social media, Track AIPAC said Chan had completed its candidate questionnaire “affirming that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people and that Congress must end U.S. complicity in it and hold those responsible to account.”

Additionally, the group said, Chan vowed to back “a total arms embargo on Israel,” reject “support from AIPAC and the rest of the Israel lobby” and push for the pro-Israel group to register as a foreign agent — a spurious claim that has drawn scrutiny as a cover for invoking antisemitic tropes concerning dual loyalty.

While Chan had already expressed her alignment with several of the commitments she made in the questionnaire, Track AIPAC had apparently been skeptical of her candidacy until relatively recently.

Chan is also supported by a number of Democrats who have been endorsed by AIPAC, including Pelosi, the former House speaker, and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), among others in California and beyond.

Representatives for Pelosi and Schiff did not return requests for comment about Chan’s friendly rapport with the anti-Israel group, which has drawn criticism for backing extreme candidates, demonizing Zionism and using flawed methodology to distinguish among differing Israel advocacy groups such as J Street and Democratic Majority for Israel.


Hidden network drives Britain’s anti-Israel protest movement, report reveals
Since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, the United Kingdom has arguably seen the largest and most sustained anti-Israel protest movement in Europe. Hundreds of thousands poured into London’s streets at its height. It gave the impression of a grassroots uprising.

What was portrayed as a spontaneous outpouring of popular sentiment consisted, in fact, of demonstrations by a relatively small group of professionally organized, sophisticated and internationally funded groups that traffic in anti-Israel and anti-Western narratives, a new report reveals.

“The image of modern extremism as a handful of isolated radicals, confined to cells or obscure, shunned corners of society, is dangerously outdated. Today’s anti-Western influence networks are global, coordinated, top-down, well-funded,” reported NGO Monitor, the Jerusalem-based research institute that produced the study, whose findings were presented at a House of Lords event on July 8.

The report describes the network as a series of concentric circles. At the center are hostile states, terrorist groups (Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda) and extremist movements (Muslim Brotherhood). Around them are charities, protest groups and advocacy organizations that “provide legitimacy, amplify propaganda and serve as vectors of transmission for extremist agendas to society more broadly.”

The report looked at 40 major anti-Israel U.K. protests—selected based on criteria such as their scale, media visibility and political impact—and identified the organizations that sponsored them.

Although hundreds of groups took part in the U.K.’s anti-Israel mobilization post-Oct. 7, NGO Monitor boiled down the organizers to six core groups. They were involved in 32 of the 40 demonstrations, “illustrating the extent to which a relatively fixed coalition of repeat actors dominates the operational infrastructure of anti-Israel campaigning in the U.K.”

The six were: 1) Stop the War Coalition; 2) Friends of Al-Aqsa; 3) Muslim Association of Britain; 4) Palestinian Forum in Britain; 5) Palestine Solidarity Campaign; and 6) Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.


Trump admin drops subpoena seeking info on Jewish Penn staff in federal probe
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dropped its effort to require the University of Pennsylvania to share information about Jewish staff as part of the federal agency’s probe of alleged Jew-hatred, a spokesman for the private university told JNS on Thursday.

“The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has withdrawn its subpoena that demanded the disclosure of personal contact information and lists of Penn’s Jewish employees,” the spokesman told JNS.

“With the support of many members of the community, who have stood with Penn throughout, the university has been able to protect its employees’ rights and none of the subpoenaed personal contact information was disclosed,” the spokesman said. (JNS sought comment from the agency.)

The commission has been investigating allegations that the Ivy League school failed to properly handle allegations of antisemitism against its Jewish employees. In April, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that the agency could move forward with its subpoena against the university to provide the contact information and addresses of its Jewish employees to the agency.

According to a resolution agreement between the commission and the university that JNS viewed, the agency won’t take action to enforce the subpoena, and the matter will be dropped in court.
After backlash, Hillel plans to retract amicus brief defending Harvard in federal suit to strip Ivy’s funding over Jew-hatred
After a backlash, Hillel International plans to withdraw an amicus brief it filed to support Harvard University, as the Ivy tries to preserve $2.7 billion in federal funding after the federal government said that it has failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism, the Harvard Crimson, a student paper, reported.

Hillel filed the brief on Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, where the Trump administration is appealing a September ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts restoring $2.7 billion in federal funding to the university, according to the Crimson.

Hillel stated in its brief that the Trump administration’s cuts would not address Jew-hatred, and that Harvard took recent measures to address the matter, the student paper reported.

Kenneth Baer, a Hillel spokesman, told the paper that the brief had not gone through its “internal review process” and that it planned to withdraw the brief on Thursday morning.

Shabbos Kestenbaum, a PragerU political commentator and former Harvard student who sued the university, stated on Wednesday that he was “shocked” that Hillel had filed the brief supporting the Ivy and called on Jewish donors to rescind funding.

He later stated that he talked to the CEO of Hillel, who agreed to retract the brief. “Public pressure works,” Kestenbaum wrote. “Any organization supporting anti-American, anti-Jewish campuses are all on notice.”


A Crossroads of Legacy: Why the Truth of Samaria/Sebastia Cannot Be Erased
In the central highlands of Judea and Samaria lies Shomron (Sebastia), one of the region's most significant archaeological heritage sites. For nearly three thousand years, it has stood at the crossroads of kingdoms, faiths, and civilizations- from the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Israel to a major center of Christian pilgrimage.

While its Jewish and Christian importance remains firmly rooted in the archaeological record, a growing debate has emerged over how this heritage is understood and preserved.

The question is not whether Shomron deserves protection- it unquestionably does. The question is whether its documented history is recognized, preserved, and presented transparently. The Israelite Foundations: Shomron, Capital of Ancient Israel

Long before the city became known as Sebastia in Roman times, this strategic hill was known as Shomron (Samaria). In the 9th century BCE, King Omri purchased the hill from a landowner named Shemer (1 Kings 16:24) and established it as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. The name Shomron derives from the Hebrew root shamar (ש-מ-ר), meaning "to guard" or "to watch."

The archaeological record leaves little doubt about Shomron's central place in the history of ancient Israel:
The Samaria Ostraca: More than 100 inscribed potsherds written in Paleo-Hebrew were discovered near royal storehouses, documenting taxation, administration, and daily life in the Israelite kingdom.
The Samaria Ivories: Excavations uncovered over 12,000 carved ivory fragments from the palace complex, echoing the biblical references to Shomron's "houses of ivory" (Amos 3:15).
Imperial Records: Contemporary Assyrian inscriptions referred to the Israelite kingdom as Bit-Khumri ("House of Omri"), demonstrating international recognition of the dynasty and state.

The significance of Shomron's Israelite heritage is reflected in leading archaeological collections worldwide. Following the landmark excavations of the 1930s, many of the Samaria Ivories were brought to the British Museum, where they remain on display today.

The Hasmonean and Herodian Eras
Following the Hasmonean independence in the 2nd century BCE, Shomron once again became an important site in the Judean Kingdom. In 27 BCE, King Herod expanded the city into a sumptuous urban and cultural center and renamed it Sebastia, in honor of Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus, while building atop the earlier Israelite capital.


Washington sanctions Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official, others tied to Hamas
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official and three other people and three entities that it said aided Hamas, the Gaza-based terror group and Muslim Brotherhood offshoot.

“The Trump administration will relentlessly pursue terrorists and those who finance them,” stated Scott Bessent, the U.S. treasury secretary, on Thursday. “Whether operating under the guise of charities, businesses or underground financial networks, those who enable Hamas will be exposed, sanctioned and held accountable.”

Those sanctioned include Mahmoud al-Abyari, a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader based in the United Kingdom. His branch was sanctioned as a specially designated global terrorist in January.

The federal government says that al-Abyari supported fundraising for U.S.-sanctioned institutions tied to Hamas and helped provide financial assistance to the terror group.

A pair of “sham charities” were also sanctioned, including the Indonesia-based Tujah Bulah Global and the Gaza-based Madad Palestine Charitable Society.

The Treasury Department said that Hamas created both for fundraising and revenue-generating purposes.

“Today’s action further exposes a multi‑layered typology, in which Muslim Brotherhood affiliates and Hamas‑directed front organizations operate transnational fundraising channels, using charitable facades and underground banking networks to move and disguise funds across jurisdictions,” the federal government said.

Turkey-based money exchanger El-Kahira for General Trading was also sanctioned, as were its owner and two shareholders, for transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars for Hamas.

Thursday’s designations are the third in a series of Muslim Brotherhood sanctions packages that the U.S. Treasury Department announced this year.

In January, the United States designated the Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese chapters of the Brotherhood as specially designated global terrorists, citing their support for the Hamas terrorist organization.

The State Department also designated the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terror organization and sanctioned its secretary-general, Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, as a specially designated global terrorist.

The Treasury Department also designated the Egyptian and Jordanian Brotherhood chapters as specially designated global terror entities.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Hamas's New Leader, Same Old Jihad
The election is... evidence that efforts to remove Hamas from power have failed.

Instead of discussing disarmament, Hamas is discussing succession. Instead of preparing to relinquish power, it is choosing who will govern.

Terrorist organizations do not negotiate themselves out of existence.

Al-Hayya was Sinwar's closest associate. He served as Sinwar's deputy. He helped shape Hamas policy before and after October 7. After the massacre, al-Hayya praised October 7 as "a source of pride for our people... to be passed down from generation to generation."

The election sends a clear message throughout the Middle East: The Iran-led "Axis of Resistance" remains intact.

It also explains why al-Hayya's first public remarks as Hamas leader included thanks to Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Iraqi Shiite militias. His loyalties are clear.

The continued protection afforded to Hamas leaders by terrorist-sponsoring "friends" of Trump, such as Qatar, Turkey and Pakistan, undermines international efforts to combat terrorism.

The people paying the highest price remain the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. Instead of rebuilding homes, reconstructing schools, restoring hospitals, and creating jobs, Hamas is holding leadership elections. Its priorities could not be clearer. Its leaders are busy securing their own political future while ordinary Palestinians continue living amid destruction.

The election of al-Hayya should finally end the fantasy that Hamas may evolve into a political movement willing to coexist peacefully with Israel. It should also end the illusion that negotiations alone will persuade Hamas to disarm.

Allowing Hamas to survive politically after October 7 would send a message to terrorist organizations and the Iranian regime: that committing mass murder carries no lasting consequences, and that even after one of this century's worst terrorist atrocities, its perpetrators can simply elect a new leader and carry on as before.
Hamas’s new leader vows to continue path of Oct. 7 mastermind Sinwar
Hamas’s newly appointed leader Khalil al-Hayya delivered a television address in the Arabic language on Wednesday in which he vowed to continue in the path established by his predecessors, including Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, the architects of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel’s south.

Al-Hayya said he is assuming the role with a “heavy burden” in a “delicate and sensitive stage in the history of our national cause,” according to Al Jazeera.

“The first thing we affirm is that we will walk the same path, carrying the banner high and fluttering until it is raised over Al-Aqsa [in Jerusalem] and the lands of a free and defiant Palestine, for which the free and sincere people from all factions of our people and its righteous sons have struggled,” he was quoted as saying.

He said that Hamas’s first priority is to end the Israel Defense Forces’ “occupation” in the Gaza Strip and achieve its full withdrawal, calling to move onto the next stage in the ceasefire agreement.

The next priority is to reconstruct the Strip, “an inherent right of our people,” which must not be conditioned on making political concessions, al-Hayya continued.

He moreover called on the Palestinian factions (i.e., terrorist groups) to unite and rebuild together “national institutions ... on democratic foundations,” inviting the PLO to participate in political decision-making.


Cisco backs Israeli cyber startup led by Iranian-born security veteran
Israeli-founded startup Zafran Security, the developer of an AI-native cyber threat exposure management platform, has landed a strategic investment from US tech giant Cisco Systems Inc.

The US maker of networking software and hardware has invested in Zafran through its venture capital arm Cisco Investments, the startup said late on Wednesday. The size of the investment was not disclosed but is estimated to increase Zafran’s previously announced $130 million total funding to more than $140 million, according to Hebrew press reports.

Cisco Investments joins existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Menlo Ventures, PSP Growth, Vintage Investment Partners, and American Express Ventures.

Zafran was founded in 2022 by Iranian-born cybersecurity research veteran Sanaz Yashar, CEO, Snir Havdala, and Ben Seri. The startup is the developer of a risk and mitigation platform that pledges to find and fix software security threats within hours, instead of weeks. The platform adapts, coordinates and synchronizes an organization’s existing arsenal of security tools to defend against cyber attacks.

Cisco Investments vice president Janey Hoe said the investment in Zafran is geared to “create a more unified, intelligence-driven security ecosystem that empowers our customers to better discover vulnerabilities and reduce risks in their infrastructure.”

“As the threat landscape grows increasingly complex in the AI era, the challenge for security teams has extended from identifying vulnerabilities to effectively orchestrating their remediation,” said Hoe.

Zafran’s platform uses AI and automation technology to manage threat exposure and mitigation as AI accelerates the speed and sophistication of developers and bad actors alike to find software flaws. One of the main challenges facing businesses is that attackers weaponize critical security flaws much faster than they can patch them, Cisco cautioned in a recent blog post.
Kidney transplant reunites terror survivor with family of man who saved his life
A kidney transplant at Clalit-Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah brought an extraordinary full-circle moment when an altruistic donor and his recipient discovered they had first been connected by a deadly terrorist attack more than two decades earlier.

Yonatan Rom, who survived the 2002 terrorist attack on the Otzem Pre-Military Preparatory School on the outskirts of Atzmona, aka Bnei Atzmon, a moshav in Gush Katif, the southern Gaza Strip, donated a kidney through Israel’s paired kidney exchange program after deciding to become an anonymous altruistic donor.

Although Rom was not a direct match for the woman originally selected to receive his kidney, he chose to continue with the donation, agreeing to donate to a stranger.

Shortly before last week’s transplant, Rom met the recipient for the first time and learned he was Reuven Tam, the brother of Eyal Tam, the commander of Atzmona’s emergency response squad whose actions during the attack saved Rom’s life.

The March 2002 attack, during the height of the Second Intifada, began when a Hamas terrorist infiltrated the pre-military academy in the Gush Katif community of Atzmona. Five students were killed and 23 others wounded before Eyal Tam fatally shot the attacker, preventing an even greater massacre.

“I want to thank Yonatan for giving me a new chance at life,” Reuven Tam said after the transplant. “We hope to remain friends for the rest of our lives.”

Rom said he only discovered the connection during his first meeting with the recipient.

“None of this was planned,” he said. “Reuven told me that he was Eyal’s brother. Since we had both lived in the same community, I began talking about what we experienced during the attack.

“It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Gush Katif. Eyal stopped the terrorist and ended the massacre. I arrived at the scene in my car, the terrorist opened fire on us, and only minutes later Eyal arrived and neutralized him.”





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