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Wednesday, September 02, 2026

09/01 Links Pt2: Democrats are selling their souls by accepting Abdul El-Sayed; El-Sayed Campaign Seeks 'Jewish Liaison' for Damage Control; El-Sayed scrubbed old tweet trashing America on 9/11

From Ian:

NYPost Editorial: Democrats are selling their souls by accepting Abdul El-Sayed
Mainstream Democrats are failing the Abdul El-Sayed test — badly.

For starters, the establishment seems to be buying the creepy Michigan Senate candidate’s pseudo-apology for his obscene justification back in March for a crazed Islamist’s attempt to slaughter children at a suburban Detroit Jewish day school.

“Hurt people hurt people,” El-Sayed smugly told Michigan Jews twice in his video statement at the time, explaining that the perp, Ayman Ghazali, was upset because his Hezbollah-commander brother had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a weapons depot.

On Sunday, El-Sayed expressed some regret for those words, admitting that right after the attack was “the wrong time” to be “contextualizing” the perp’s motives.

That is: He still believes his words were correct; the testy Jews just weren’t ready to hear it.

El-Sayed also refuses to disavow his erstwhile BFF and campaign surrogate Hasan Piker, despite his record of toxic anti-Americanism and overt Jew-hatred; the candidate merely writes off the hater as just a “streamer from California” . . . though El-Sayed regularly had Piker stump for him during the primary campaign.

Top national Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer sit by as El-Sayed worms out of his ugly record; at least one Michigan Democrat is far worse.

State Attorney General Dana Nessel — a Jewish Dem who says she’s won’t attend the state convention because of nonstop antisemitic harassment — just urged Michigan’s 100,000 Jewish voters to vote for El-Sayed despite his hate . . . to save the world.

Really: “We have a moral imperative,” Nessel insists, “to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival.”

Sorry: Empowering a blatant antisemite is the opposite of serving “the needs of the world”; such unhinged hate is a warning sign of even deeper depravity.
Eight Democrats join Republicans in resolution condemning socialism, DSA
The House voted 220-192 on Tuesday to adopt a Republican-led resolution condemning socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America. The vote fell largely along party lines after GOP leaders attached language to the resolution backing President Donald Trump’s priority voting rights legislation.

Introduced by Rep. Jeff Crank (R-CO), the resolution “condemns and denounces socialism in all its forms, including the Democratic Socialists of America, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States.”

However, the resolution also explicitly “calls for the enactment” of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — a priority for the president that would mandate proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

Seeking a clean vote denouncing the DSA without endorsing the election bill, a group of moderate Democrats — including Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Hillary Scholten (D-MI) — offered an amendment on Monday to strip out the SAVE Act language while preserving the anti-socialism provisions. However, the House Rules Committee declined to take up the amendment, forcing Democrats to vote on the combined GOP package.

Most Democrats opposed the measure due to the SAVE Act rider, though eight moderate lawmakers broke ranks to vote with Republicans in favor: Reps. Don Davis (D-NC), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Jared Golden (D-ME), Darren Soto (D-FL), Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX).

In addition, Reps. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) and Maggie Goodlander (D-NH) voted present.
Jew hate is as fashionable as ever — look no further than Anna Wintour’s Met Gala disaster
The collapse of the Met Gala’s outrageous plan to honor antisemitic fashion designer John Galliano marks an important victory in a major battle. But there is no sign that triumph is at hand in the larger war against the explosion of Jew hatred in America and around the world.

On the contrary, the outbreaks are numerous and growing in boldness.

One of the lessons of the Galliano affair is that many of the haters feel safe enough these days to come out of the closet and publicly express their loathing.

Wherever you look, from politics to the media to the United Nations and now the fashion world, the scourge is shockingly bold in its emergence.

A common trait among many of the guilty is the use of Israel as a fig leaf for their sickness. A sure-fire sign is the habit of judging the lone Jewish state by a set of double standards never applied to other nations.

Oppressive regimes are given seats on UN human rights panels, where they are encouraged to demonize Israel without fear they will be called to account for their misdeeds.

And when Israel is attacked by Muslim neighbors that vow to destroy it, the victim is routinely accused of war crimes for daring to defend itself and take the war to the attackers’ turf.

As the Hamas invasion of Oct. 7, 2023, demonstrated, the Holocaust would be repeated if Israel were foolish enough to permanently lower its guard.

Wherever the place and the particulars, the battlefield is encircled by enablers and cheerleaders, giving rise to dark suspicions about their motivations.


Commentary Podcast: What's Dana's Deal?
Today, we devote the podcast to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's shameful suggestion that Jewish security and survival may have to be sacrificed for the good of humanity.
Rahm Emanuel demands Democrats stop hedging on Hasan Piker’s antisemitism
Rahm Emanuel, the veteran Democratic operative and former mayor of Chicago who is now mulling a presidential bid in 2028, said he would go on Hasan Piker’s Twitch show to give the antisemitic streamer “a lesson in what he is perpetuating and the advocacy and the rhetoric of what he’s doing.”

“I can give him a two-by-four upside his head because of what he said,” Emanuel said in a CNN interview on Monday, referring to recent comments in which Piker had claimed that Jews who support Israel are inviting violence against themselves.

Emanuel’s characteristically tough-talking rhetoric came months after he confirmed to Politico in March that he was open to appearing on Piker’s show, with a spokesperson saying at the time he “is always willing to have difficult conversations with anyone about the future of the country, and to tell people he disagrees with why they’re wrong.”

Piker’s relationship to the party has emerged as a Democratic flashpoint, most notably in Michigan’s heated Senate race, where the Democratic nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, has recently sought to distance his campaign from the controversial streamer as he has faced widespread backlash over his comments about pro-Israel Jews.

“What he said the other day, I think I’m glad he said it,” Emanuel said of Piker, “because it’s out front that somehow we invited the violence against ourselves.”

Emanuel, who is Jewish, said Piker “needs to be challenged” over such claims. “Anybody associated with that rhetoric needs to disassociate with them, because if it was any other group in America — any other group — people would be worked up and in a tizzy, appropriately.”

“Now, if this was any other constituency, the party would deal with this,” he added in the interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Monday. “But everybody seems to be like, ‘Oh, this is OK, whatever.’ You also have a person who thinks 9/11 is OK,” a reference to Piker’s assertion that America deserved 9/11, comments the streamer has since said used “imprecise” language.


Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed old tweet trashing America on 9/11, faces calls from Dems to disavow Hasan Piker
Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed an old tweet trashing America on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to disavow far-left streamer Hasan Piker.

In the now-deleted tweet, El-Sayed mourned the terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 and then noted that he planned to grieve the deaths he blamed on America over the wars that followed.

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed wrote on Twitter, as it was then called.

“Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.”

That appears to be a reference to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the fighting that took place in Pakistan during the 2000s.

It’s not entirely clear when he scrubbed that tweet, which was first uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon, but has gained renewed attention as the country approaches the 25th anniversary of the attack.

A copy of the since-deleted tweet has been saved on the Wayback Machine.

The Post contacted El-Sayed’s campaign for comment.

“Abdul has always unequivocally condemned terrorism and the September 11 attacks,” El-Sayed’s campaign told The Post about his past remarks on 9/11. “Mike Rogers’ attempts to misrepresent Abdul’s beliefs are bad-faith lies meant to mislead Michiganders.”

On Monday, Vice President JD Vance swung through Michigan to stump with Republican Mike Rogers.

“There’s something about Abdul el-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today,” Vance declared during the rally, bashing El-Sayed as “a man who has sympathy and compassion for people who share his religion,” but “nothing for people who don’t.”

Vance was seemingly alluding to El-Sayed’s comments in March about the Hezbollah-inspired attack on Temple Israel. In his response, El-Sayed underscored how the attacker’s family had been killed in Israel’s attack on Lebanon days earlier. He apologized to Jewish Democrats over the weekend for those remarks.

“One of his main campaign surrogates suggested that America deserved 9/11, and you know, I was trying to understand what would motivate a person to say these things, what would motivate a person to do these things,” Vance added at another point, alluding to El-Sayed’s campaigning with Piker.


Toddler Mode: Journalists Fume, Pout Over Accurate Headline That Makes Democrat Look Bad
Ladies and gentlemen, please keep the journalists in your thoughts and prayers this week. They are working through some very big feelings in the wake of a "scandal" involving a mainstream news outlet daring to publish an accurate story about a Democrat.

The CBS newsroom has been in disarray since Monday, when the outlet posted a story about Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Reporter Zak Hudak observed, rather obviously, that the U.S. Senate candidate could face "renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack" based on the past comments he scrubbed from his social media accounts earlier this year.

The deleted tweets were not particularly outrageous compared to some of the opinions expressed by El-Sayed's friends and allies—suggesting America "deserved" 9/11, denying the Holocaust, praising the Oct. 7 massacre, and blaming Jews for the JFK assassination. They were just annoying—liberal slop along the lines of "yeah, fine, 9-11 was bad, I guess, but have you considered that America is also bad?"

Nothing in the story or its headline was inaccurate, but it made El-Sayed—a Democrat running against a Republican—look bad. It goes without saying that the journalists were inconsolable.

Aggrieved CBS employees ranted (anonymously) to media blogger Oliver Darcy, formerly of CNN. His exclusive reporting suggests the emotional carnage is out of control. The network, led by LGBTQ+ pioneer Bari Weiss, was being "pummeled by a storm of outrage," and struggling to function amid the "avalanche of criticism," Darcy wrote. The Daily Beast also reported on the "intense backlash" among "furious" and "disgruntled" CBS staff.

Oh, my.


El-Sayed Campaign Seeks 'Jewish Liaison' for Damage Control. Here Are 10 Promising Candidates.
Abdul El-Sayed wants to hire a "Jewish liaison" to burnish his image with Jews who might have concerns about his antisemitic baggage. Sounds like a fun job!

The news comes after El-Sayed met with Jewish leaders over the weekend and kinda, sorta, apologized for empathizing with the local terrorist who attacked a Jewish preschool in March. "Hurt people hurt people," El-Sayed said of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who rammed his truck into a synagogue and opened fire in what the FBI described as a "Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism."

Days earlier, El-Sayed expressed empathy for the many Dearborn residents who were "sad" about the death of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The U.S. Senate candidate has also palled around with Hasan Piker, not to mention an array of Islamic leaders who condone terrorist attacks on Israel and aren't particularly fond of Jews. One local cleric who attended El-Sayed's primary-night victory party told the Washington Free Beacon that "money people" from a "special faith" were responsible for the JFK assassination, among others.

Suffice it to say, whoever lands the exciting new Jewish liaison gig will have their work cut out for them. In the spirit of public service, civic cooperation, and interfaith harmony, the Free Beacon has identified 10 candidates who deserve an interview.

Good luck to all!

1. Morris Katz The Fight Agency cofounder, 27, has considerable experience defending Democrats accused of antisemitism. He's worked with Zohran Mamdani, Graham Platner, and—this is convenient—Abdul El-Sayed.

2. Hannah Einbinder She's Jewish, but roots for Hamas. The semi-renowned Hollywood actress loves ranting about politics in front of the camera. She shouted, "Free Palestine!" while accepting an Emmy Award in 2025. Her courageous activism was touted by the Hamas-aligned Quds News Network, which sensibly decided to blur out her disgusting bare shoulders and below-average cleavage.

3. Bernie Sanders Another prominent Jew who hates Israel and capitalism, Sanders famously upset Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Michigan primary. He's about to turn 85, which is roughly the same age as Ayatollah Khamenei was when he got crushed by all those bombs and broke so many hearts in Dearborn. For what it's worth.

4. George Soros If El-Sayed is serious about countering AIPAC's nefarious influence, he should call in the big guns. Jewish billionaire George Soros knows how to get results. For example, no one has done more to advance the pro-crime, anti-punishment cause in America. There's a reason they call him the GOAT. His idiot son Alex notwithstanding.


Vance speaks out against antisemitism, avoids controversy in RJC remarks
Vice President JD Vance stuck to a pro-Israel line and rejected antisemitism in remarks on Monday to the Republican Jewish Coalition, avoiding any new controversies while not being pressed directly about some of his past comments and affiliations, including with Tucker Carlson, that have most concerned Jewish Republicans.

Attendees, with some exceptions, largely said that the speech helped Vance reassure skeptical Jewish and pro-Israel Republicans and boost his support with the RJC crowd ahead of a potential 2028 presidential bid.

Vance, in an off-record conversation with RJC Chairman Norm Coleman, audio and a transcript of which were leaked shortly after his remarks, was asked about a list of antisemitic influencers including Carlson and Nick Fuentes and his decisions about how to engage with those figures. He didn’t directly address Carlson — who he has previously defended as a friend — in his response, instead highlighting differences he sees between figures like Fuentes (who he tagged as antisemitic) and Rogan (who he said wasn’t).

“One area where I really do draw the line is on people who engage in what I call this blood libel attitude. I recognize a lot of people in this room might disagree with things that Tucker Carlson or Megyn Kelly or Joe Rogan has said, but — just to hone in on Fuentes and Rogan, I think these are two very, very different categories of people, both with their reach, but also within the ideas that are in their actual head,” Vance said.

Regarding Rogan, he said that he thinks the best approach is to engage and make his case and try to reach his audience. Fuentes, he said, is a substantively different case who is not worth engaging with given both his neo-Nazi views and his personal attacks on Vance and his family.

“But outside of some pretty bright lines, I try to talk to as many people as I can,” Vance continued.

Vance also highlighted a “growing suspicion” among the under-40 generation of the U.S.-Israel relationship and said that he believes that the best way to make the case for the relationship is to “actually get out there and talk about the ways in which it is in the best interest of the United States of America,” highlighting advanced missile defense technology as one example.

He said that other arguments that may have “made a lot of sense rhetorically 30 or 40 years ago” may not have the same appeal to young people today.

Asked about his past comments that Israeli and U.S. interests don’t always align, the vice president said that Israel is important to U.S. national security and among the U.S.’s most critical alliances, as well as undergirded by a “deeper cultural symbiosis and harmony.”

Vance was not directly asked about his recent comments accusing the Israeli government of conducting influence operations in the U.S. to undermine negotiations with Iran.


Doctor accused of supporting Hamas in social media posts appears in court
An NHS consultant neurologist has appeared in court accused of posting her support for Hamas on social media.

Dr Rehiana Ali, 46, from Bradford, was also accused on stirring up racial hatred when she appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

The hearing was told Ali is alleged to have shown support for Hamas in three posts on X and one WhatsApp message between October 2024 and March 2025.

She is charged with four offences of expressing an opinion or belief in support of a proscribed organisation, as well as being reckless as to whether it would encourage support for Hamas.

She is also faces seven charges of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred.

Ali, representing herself, refused to indicate pleas to the charges, calling them “politically motivated”.
Back to campus: A fearful time for Jewish students at Cal Poly
The back-to-school season is an exciting time, when everything is new and filled with opportunity. For Jewish college students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, though, the thrill of the new year is tinged with fear.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is supposed to protect students, including Jews, from discrimination based on “race, color, or national origin.” But not all minorities are created equal in the eyes of university administrators.

Cal Poly takes charges of racism seriously — as well it should. Charges of antisemitism — not so much.

As the executive director of the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, I run the LIAT Fellowship, a leadership program for Jewish college students, which brings me in contact with many students from some of our country’s best universities.

While many have positive campus experiences, there is a constant refrain: There is no point in filing Title VI complaints against bad actors, because it’s a waste of time.

The case of Adira Fogelman is an example. She is a rising senior at Cal Poly. A few months ago, she testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights about her personal experience with antisemitism on campus.

In one incident, Adira requested that the history department offer a pro-Israel perspective to balance out anti-Zionist speakers invited to a department event. The department chair mocked her, comparing her request to a balanced debate about the Holocaust or racism. She filed a “Bias Incident Report” with the Office of Student Affairs, but she never heard back.

In another case at Cal Poly, a university professor joined a mob of students protesting against an Israeli speaker on campus. The professor chanted for violence against Zionists, called students “Nazis,” and told one Jewish student to go back to Germany.

Despite video footage of the incident, the harassing professor was not penalized or rebuked. Instead, he was later allowed to serve as the faculty advisor for the Cal Poly chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine — a group known for stoking antisemitic hatred on campus.


BBC presenter’s reference to ‘Gaza genocide’ broke impartiality rules
A BBC reporter broke impartiality rules by referring to “genocide” in Gaza, the broadcaster has admitted.

Katty Kay, the BBC’s US special correspondent, made the comment on a podcast owned by Gary Lineker, the controversial former Match of the Day presenter.

It comes after Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, promised to tackle the corporation’s long-standing problems over impartiality, which led to the resignations of his predecessor, Tim Davie, and head of news, Deborah Turness, last year after a Telegraph investigation.

The Telegraph revealed that an internal BBC memo had warned of “systemic issues” with its coverage of the war in Gaza and “a desire always to believe the worst about Israel”.

Despite the crisis triggered by the emergence of the dossier, the BBC is still having to apologise for staff breaching impartiality guidelines relating to Gaza.

Kay, 61, is one of the BBC’s most experienced journalists in North America, having anchored coverage of the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections.

She has a second job co-presenting The Rest is Politics: US with Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director, which is part of Lineker’s Goalhanger stable of podcasts.

In an episode recorded last month, she said: “I know there is so much anger in the Democratic Party, understandably, and about what has happened in Gaza and Israel, and the government of Netanyahu’s response to that, and the genocide that is being committed there.”

A listener complained that the comment breached the BBC’s requirement that opinion should be distinguished from fact, and the broadcaster accepted that Kay’s comment “did not meet our editorial standards”, which BBC staff are expected to uphold even when they are appearing on non-BBC programmes.

The BBC said Kay “meant to attribute the characterisation of events” in Gaza to “certain Democrats” who believed Israel had committed genocide, “but failed to do so clearly”.


Palestinian Source: There Are Eight Times More Attacks on Israelis in the West Bank than on Palestinians
The Arab media outlet Mo3ta tracks incidents of Palestinian violence against Israelis in the West Bank, as they are very proud of it.

An X user posted a screenshot from Mo3ta that details actions taken against Israelis from January 2018 to August 2026.

In those 103 months, Palestinians engaged in 62,308 acts of violent confrontation with Israelis, about 605 incidents per month. These include shootings, stabbings, car rammings, stone throwing, suicide bombings, throwing grenades, and burning tires.

The Times of Israel reported 867 incidents of Israeli violence in 2025, which works out to 72 per month.

According to this Palestinian source, there are eight times more attacks on Israels than there are on Palestinians.

This is not to excuse Israelis but to point out that people are hearing only one side of the story, a crazily skewed version.

Israel makes up 0.013% of the land area of planet Earth. Its conflict with West Bank Palestinians is nothing compared to what's going on between gangs in Chicago, let alone a massive conflict like the one in Sudan that has left half a million dead in the same time span as the Gaza war.

The fact that the world is up in arms about Israeli violence but couldn't care less about what's going on in Chicago or other cities in the U.S. means this is not about compassion for the innocent; this is about hating Israel.
Eastern Jerusalem Schools Swap Palestinian Curriculum for Israeli Program
All newly opened grades in public schools in Palestinian-majority eastern Jerusalem will use the Israeli curriculum as the school year begins Tuesday. After Israel annexed eastern Jerusalem in 1967, the education system in the Palestinian areas of the city taught the Jordanian curriculum, which was later replaced by the Palestinian curriculum.

This year - after a long process that began at the initiative of parents, followed by Israeli government pressure on school principals in the city - all new first grade and seventh grade classes opening in the state education system in eastern Jerusalem will use the Israeli curriculum. This means 45,000 students (38%) of a total of 120,000 Palestinian students in eastern Jerusalem will study the Israeli curriculum. In 2020, 13,000 students studied the Israeli curriculum, while in 2025 the number had risen to 30,000.

After the construction of the security barrier in the early 2000s, which separated Israel and most of eastern Jerusalem from the West Bank, increasing numbers of Jerusalem Palestinians looked for jobs in the Israeli labor market. Demand for the Israeli curriculum and Hebrew language studies increased as a path toward integration into Israeli higher education and the Israeli job market.

For many years, parent committees and Palestinian activists in the city opposed the introduction of the Israeli curriculum, but opposition gradually waned as demand for it grew. According to sources in the Jerusalem Municipality, in contrast with prior years, this school year there is no significant opposition to the Israelization process among Palestinians in the city.


Woman who attacked Jewish schoolchildren and pulled father’s beard given suspended sentence
A woman who hurled antisemitic abuse at Jewish schoolchildren before attacking a father and pulling his beard has been handed a suspended prison sentence.

Syeda Khatun, 39, targeted children waiting outside a Jewish secondary school in Stamford Hill on 10 May after they returned from a school trip.

She was sentenced at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, after being convicted of a series of racially aggravated offences.

The sentence was increased from eight months to 12 months after prosecutors successfully argued that her hostility towards the victims’ Jewish ethnicity should be treated as an aggravating factor.

Khatun first shouted antisemitic abuse at a mother carrying her baby before turning towards the schoolchildren and aggressively swinging her arms at them.

When the father of one of the children challenged her over why she was targeting youngsters, Khatun struck him in the face and pulled his beard while continuing to shout antisemitic slurs.

She was convicted following a trial on 3 July of three counts of racially aggravated assault, one count of racially aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of racially aggravated words and behaviour causing harassment, alarm or distress.

The prosecution case included CCTV footage and eyewitness evidence. The Crown Prosecution Service said charges were authorised within 24 hours of receiving the police evidence.
Bay Area coffee shop closes indefinitely amid lawsuits alleging discrimination against Jewish customers
Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland, Calif., has closed indefinitely as its owners prepare for a federal trial stemming from three lawsuits alleging that the Palestinian-owned coffee shop discriminated against Jewish customers.

The shop announced the closure in an Aug. 21 Substack post, saying it needed to turn its “full attention” to the legal cases. Its last day of operation was Aug. 23.

The U.S. Department of Justice failed a lawsuit against the coffee shop, owner Fathi Abdulrahim Harara and its operating company, Native Grounds LLC, in June 2025, alleging violations of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The lawsuit followed separate federal and state suits filed earlier that year by the Anti-Defamation League and Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff on behalf of Michael Radice, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on behalf of Jonathan Hirsch. Radice alleges he was refused service and subjected to antisemitic slurs in June 2024, while Hirsch alleges that he and his 5-year-old son were asked to leave the coffee shop after Harara confronted him about a Star of David on his hat in October 2024.

The federal trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 26. A federal judge denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the Justice Department lawsuit in September 2025.

In its Aug. 21 post, Jerusalem Coffee House wrote that “these lawsuits represent the ongoing efforts of Zionist organizations and the federal government to use the courts as a tool to repress free speech and public political commitments to Palestine.”


Targeted antibiotic gel helps 80% of pilot patients avoid foot amputation, Jerusalem trial finds
An Israeli-developed technology that delivers antibiotics directly to severe infection sites helped eight out of 10 diabetic patients who had been considered candidates for foot amputation avoid the procedure in a clinical pilot at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

The technology, developed by Israeli biotech company GentaGel, uses a biodegradable polymer to release antibiotics gradually at the site of an infection for up to 60 days, according to information provided by the company.

The small clinical pilot included 10 patients suffering from severe infected diabetic foot ulcers and bone infections who were candidates for either amputation or removal of infected bone. Eight recovered from their infections without requiring amputation, while wound closure and bone regrowth were observed in those eight patients.

The findings are preliminary, and the company is now advancing additional studies in Israel and the United States while pursuing a regulatory pathway with the US Food and Drug Administration.

Diabetic foot infections can be particularly difficult to treat and, in severe cases, can lead to repeated surgery, long hospital stays, and amputation.
Israeli-Ukrainian Dancer Adele Zaikman Becomes Newest Professional on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 35
The premiere season of “Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro” concluded on Monday night and Israeli-Ukrainian professional dancer Adele Zaikman was crowned the winner, which secured her a spot as a professional on season 35 of ABC’s popular dance competition show “Dancing with the Stars.”

Zaikman, 24, is from Israel but currently lives in Los Angeles. She is a Blackpool Dance Festival winner who specializes in Latin style dances. According to her Instagram bio, Zaikman is a “consistent top finisher at the world’s most prestigious professional Latin championships.” She proudly displays Israeli and Ukrainian flag emojis in her Instagram bio and has shared posts that do not shy away from pointing out that she is from Israel.

On “Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro,” Zaikman beat Latin dancer AJ Pritchard and commercial dancer Selena Hamilton in the final three. For her finale performances, Zaikman and her celebrity partner Nev Schulman, who competed on season 29 of “DWTS,” performed a samba to “Bun Up the Dance” by Dillon Francis and Skrillex and a paso doble-inspired freestyle routine to “Natural” by Imagine Dragons.

“That was so good. That was powerful. It was controlled,” guest judge and six-time “DWTS” winner Derek Hough told the duo after their freestyle routine. “It was grounded. It was intense, and I loved that you picked that style because it contrasted the other two freestyles. It made you guys stand out.”

“Adele, you could just walk across the floor and you would be captivating. There is a quality to what you do, a maturity,” he added. “If you became a pro, you wouldn’t just fit in; you would elevate the rest of the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ cast. I really believe that.”

On the premiere episode of the show, Hough nicknamed Zaikman “Rolls Royce” because her professional and polished dancing looked “expensive.”

“You are beyond a diamond for me,” judge Shirley Ballas, also known as the “Queen of Latin,” said to Zaikman on the show. “I think that you are probably one of the best female dancers I’ve ever seen in 66 countries of ‘Dancing With the Stars’ or ‘Strictly Come Dancing.'”
Gal Gadot: ‘I nearly quit acting to go back to Israel’
Gal Gadot came close to giving up acting and returning to her life in Israel before landing her breakout role, she has revealed.

The Israeli star made the comments on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, speaking to host Josh Horowitz ahead of her upcoming film The Runner, which comes out in the UK on September 2.

Despite having already featured in several of the Fast and Furious films, Gadot said that, in the mid-2010s, she felt like she hadn’t made it to where she wanted to be as an actor.

“I [had] reached a point in my career where I had so many ‘almost’ that I wasn’t as big enough of a name,” she told Horowitz.

“I was already a mother and my husband had all of his business in Israel and I told him I'm not really sure if I want to continue chasing this.

“It was too hard. I can deal with challenges [but these challenges] were not up to me. [I thought] ‘all this work and I can’t get anywhere; maybe I'll go back to Israel [and] I'll finish my degree.”

However, her outlook changed when she received a phone call from filmmaker Zack Snyder offering her the role as Wonder Woman, whom she first played in 2016’s Batman vs Superman before headlining her own standalone film, Wonder Woman, the following year and Wonder Woman 1984 in 2020

Gadot recounted the intense emotions she experienced the moment she heard. “I felt dead, then I felt alive... then I flew to the US to do the audition.”

She went on to talk about how when she was young, despite always doing performing arts and dancing and “loving to be the centre of attention”, becoming an actor was never what she imagined for her life.

“I come from a family which is very proper. You finish school, you get a degree, you get a real career. I was on a path to becoming... a lawyer, [studying] political science.

“The universe has its way of showing you the right direction.”

Gadot said that her original career path means she has a special affection for her current character, Maia, a lawyer is dragged into a criminal plot where she is forced to run around London to save her son from a kidnapper.

That, though, is where the similarities between her and endurance athlete Maia end, she joked.

“If there is one thing I hate while I work out, it is running.

“It was shocking to me that I said yes to [the] role, but I'm very happy that I did.”





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