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Thursday, September 10, 2026

09/09 Links Pt2: The Genocide Claim in Gaza Has Collapsed. Hamas Supplied the Evidence; New exhibit explores what Britain knew about the Holocaust

From Ian:

The Genocide Claim in Gaza Has Collapsed. Hamas Supplied the Evidence.
This distinction is critical. Civilian deaths alone do not establish genocide, which requires specific intent to destroy a protected group, in whole or in part, as such. When attacks presented as evidence of deliberate civilian targeting are later shown to have killed identified combatants, the inference of genocidal intent is directly undermined. As the evidence accumulates, the claim that these strikes demonstrate a systematic policy of targeting Palestinians because they are Palestinians becomes unsustainable.

Perhaps the most important implication is methodological. Many investigators reached conclusions without knowing who was actually killed. They declared particular strikes war crimes, or even evidence of genocide, without knowing that Hamas commanders had been present. That missing information is critical to assessing whether the IDF was targeting civilians or legitimate military objectives, and whether the attacks complied with the laws of war.

The starkest example is Amnesty International’s “genocide report,” which highlighted 15 airstrikes as evidence that Israel intentionally targeted civilians. Amnesty reported finding no military targets and identified all the victims as civilians. Yet subsequent Hamas and PIJ publications have revealed combatants, mostly commander-level, killed in five of those strikes (thus far). These discoveries demolish Amnesty’s analysis of those incidents: its central factual premise, that no military targets were present, was false. They also expose a fundamental flaw in the report’s broader methodology, which treated the absence of publicly identified combatants as evidence that none existed. When the factual foundation of an investigation collapses, its conclusions cannot simply be left standing. Amnesty’s genocide analysis must be withdrawn in light of the evidence it failed to uncover.

Ironically, organizations that spent nearly two years dismissing Israeli claims are being contradicted by Hamas itself. The evidence reshaping the historical record is no longer coming primarily from Israel. It comes from the Gaza military organizations that fought the war and are now publicly commemorating and lauding their own dead.

The genocide allegation has always depended heavily on the claim that Israel systematically targeted Palestinian civilians in Gaza because they were Palestinians. With approximately 2,500 identified Hamas and PIJ operatives now linking more than 600 allegedly civilian only incidents to acknowledged military personnel, the factual foundation of that narrative has been fundamentally undermined. The claim that these incidents demonstrate a systematic policy of destroying Palestinians as such is no longer sustainable.

In the end, the most consequential witnesses against the genocide allegation may not be Israel or its defenders. They may be Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad themselves.
New book ‘In the War Room’ offers candid look at Netanyahu’s wartime decisionmaking
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads toward what could be one of the most consequential elections of his career next month, a new book is offering an unusually candid look at the decision-making that will define how history — and Israeli voters — judge him.

In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel’s Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis, by Jerusalem Post military correspondent Yonah Jeremy Bob and Wall Street Journal editorial writer Elliot Kaufman, draws on two years of interviews with Israel’s political, military and intelligence leadership to reconstruct the internal battles that shaped the war — battles that often pitted Netanyahu against his own defense establishment.

Both Bob and Kaufman criticize some of Netanyahu’s choices, from the delayed ground invasion of Gaza to the “unforced error” of the 2025 aid blockade, though each credits him with historic gains against Hezbollah, Iran and Syria.

The authors sat down with Jewish Insider on Tuesday, the book’s publication day, to talk about what their reporting reveals about Netanyahu’s wartime leadership, and what it might mean for how he’s remembered at the ballot box.

Jewish Insider: In your view, what is the most impactful revelation in your book that has not previously been reported on?

Yonah Jeremy Bob: This is the first book that’s an inside story about the war. There are a lot of books about Oct. 7. There hasn’t been a book that’s covered the full war from the inside. We really got deeply into the beepers and walkie talkies [Israeli operation against Hezbollah] of September 2024. There had been coverage of these issues but in terms of the depth, IDF sources, Mossad sources in Israel, in the U.S., we tell the story — there was actually a debate, should they go first with the beepers or should they go first with the walkie talkies? The things that we learned were stunning: what could have been done differently, how they accomplished it.

Elliot Kaufman: I would point to just how much it took to convince Prime Minister Netanyahu to launch a ground invasion of Gaza at all. You’d think after Oct. 7, of course, Israeli troops are going to roll into Gaza, but in fact Netanyahu was very hesitant, worrying — with good reason, by the way — that Israeli troops could be walking into a death trap. More than that, he had certain Israeli generals telling him, “Don’t do it, the IDF isn’t ready.” He had all the top American generals, sent by President [Joe] Biden, telling him the same thing. He really had to gain confidence in the plan. We tell that story, which I think most people, the way they think about it, would rush right over. But it did take Israel 20 days from the Oct. 7 attack until Oct. 27 to be able to invade Gaza.
Secret 1993 Peres-Hussein meeting helped pave way for Israel-Jordan peace, revealed documents show
Newly revealed documents from a secret November 1993 meeting between then-foreign minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's King Hussein show how the two leaders helped lay some of the early groundwork for the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation revealed on Tuesday, marking the 10th anniversary of Peres's death.

The documents were released on the day of the state memorial ceremony for Peres and the naming of the Jerusalem International Convention Center in his honor. They include excerpts from the minutes of the meeting, which was held at the king's palace in Amman under strict secrecy.

According to the records, Peres's appearance was even altered to prevent identification.

The Peres Center now describes the exchange as a kind of "testament for peace" by two leaders who sought to change the region. During the meeting, Hussein spoke candidly about the urgency he felt and his desire to use the time he believed he had left to advance an agreement.

"Perhaps I have only a year or two left; I will put everything on the line," the king said.

According to the documents, the Jordanian royal palace received a message on October 26, 1993, saying that King Hussein wished to meet with then-foreign minister Shimon Peres. According to the record, Hussein viewed Peres as a creative thinker and was willing to hold a secret meeting as part of the preliminary contacts that ultimately led to the peace agreement signed in 1994.

The meeting did not emerge in a vacuum. It followed years of secret contacts and ties between Israel and King Hussein, including Peres's attempt to advance an agreement with Jordan under the 1987 London Agreement.


Boris Johnson among 5,000 prominent Jews and allies back letter rejecting ‘genocide’ claim
More than 5,000 prominent Jews and allies, including former US envoy on antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Kotler, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and actress Mayim Bialik, have signed an open letter rejecting the “genocide” accusation against Israel, describing it as “the latest blood libel to be inflicted on the Jewish people”.

The letter’s signatories, which also includes historians Sir Niall Ferguson, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Benny Morris, and academics such as Professor John Spencer, Chair of Urban War Studies at West Point and Harvard Professor Stephen Pinker, describe themselves at “outraged and sickened by the charge of genocide, going on to say “we reject this accusation with contempt.

“There is a vigorous debate within the Jewish community over aspects of how this war was fought, and that is a sign of moral health. So is our pain over every innocent life lost. But we must unite in repudiating the lie of genocide.

“The unprecedented combat conditions of the war – hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, thousands of boobytrapped homes – the conflating of combatants with “journalists” and “human rights workers,” the ratio of civilian-to-terrorist casualties, considered low for asymmetrical urban warfare, the absence of mass starvation despite repeated claims of imminent catastrophe, the warnings given to civilians before attack: All these factors were erased in the eagerness to indict Israel for genocide.”

The letter was organised by non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community for Peace. Other prominent individuals to have signed the letter include former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi, former Chairwoman of Paramount Global Shari Redstone, American film producer Nancy Spielberg and author Jonathan Kellerman.

“A crucial difference between war as tragedy and war as genocide is intent”, the letter goes on. “In this war, only one side intended to commit genocide, and that is Hamas.

“To accuse Israel of genocide, the massacre of 7 October has been systematically downplayed, while Israeli actions have been distorted and amplified. Israel went to war on 8 October not out of vengeance, as its detractors claim, but to break the Iranian-led siege of terror enclaves on its borders, and to restore its deterrence, without which it cannot survive in the long term in the Middle East. Thousands of rockets and missiles were fired at Israel in the weeks following the massacre, while Hamas starved and tortured 250 Israelis, some of whom were murdered in captivity.”

The letter goes on to say that “the classic definition of genocide has been changed to apply only to the Gaza war – just as anti-Israel NGOs changed the definition of apartheid and colonialism to apply only to Israel.

“Already on October 8, as Israel was still fighting terrorists within its border communities and hadn’t yet begun burying its dead, anti-Zionists began raising the cry of “genocide.” In fact, Israel’s enemies have been accusing it of genocide for decades.
Stefanik, Gottheimer announced bipartisan congressional caucus to tackle Jew-hatred on campus
Two of the most outspoken critics of Jew-hatred on Capitol Hill, Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) have formed a new bipartisan congressional caucus focusing on antisemitism on college campuses.

Gottheimer and Stefanik, who received national attention over her questioning of college presidents during the campus protests after Oct. 7, announced the Combating Antisemitism on College Campuses Caucus during a visit to Vanderbilt University.

They visited the Nashville campus to participate in a discussion with six university leaders on how to combat Jew-hatred while protecting free expression.

“Since Oct. 7, Jewish students on too many campuses have been harassed, intimidated and made to feel like strangers in their own school,” stated Gottheimer, who is Jewish.

The goal of the caucus is to ensure colleges and universities protect their Jewish students, faculty and staff.

“We are committed to saving American higher education for the next generation,” Stefanik stated.

The caucus will provide a forum for lawmakers to coordinate oversight of higher education institutions, push colleges and universities to enforce anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies, advocate for federal legislation addressing campus antisemitism and highlight schools that are successfully addressing the issue and share those practices.

Gottheimer said the caucus would “hold universities accountable, back up the schools getting it right, like Vanderbilt, and make sure every Jewish kid can have a college experience without fear of discrimination or violence.”

Dartmouth College, University of Alabama, University of Kentucky, University of Texas at Austin and Washington University in St. Louis were also part of the event.
Antisemitism roils Providence mayoral race
In the upcoming Democratic mayoral primary in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, Israel and antisemitism have claimed prominence as unusually divisive sources of debate for a municipal race, raising concerns among Jewish leaders who worry the focus on Middle East policy in particular will only contribute to further polarization on a sensitive issue.

The election is pitting Mayor Brett Smiley, 47, a first-term incumbent who converted to Judaism while in office in 2024, against state Rep. David Morales, a 27-year-old democratic socialist backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and leading progressive groups including the Working Families Party.

One of the top subjects of debate is a controversial ballot initiative up for a vote in November that — if passed — would require Providence to refrain from investments in “foreign countries conducting ethnic cleansing, apartheid, illegal military occupation or genocide.”

Even as the ballot measure does not name Israel, unlike recent efforts explicitly targeting the Jewish state in Pittsburgh as well as Somerville, Mass., the referendum was driven by local anti-Israel activists, leaving Jewish leaders now rallying to oppose it with little doubt over its subtext. Smiley, a vocal supporter of Israel, has opposed the referendum, saying it could run afoul of state law, while Morales has been among its key defenders, framing the effort as a moral cause.

In a statement shared with Jewish Insider, Smiley noted “the city’s legal department has determined that this ordinance is both unenforceable and likely in violation of existing state law,” while adding the effort “is consuming resources that should be spent protecting the integrity of our elections.” He called the referendum “unproductive” and “burdensome to our election officials,” warning that it “will harm the finances of our city.”
Jewish leaders in Sweden warn of persistent antisemitism in the Left Party
The Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities has renewed its warnings regarding persistent antisemitism within the Left Party (Vänsterpartiet), following a fresh wave of expulsions involving local candidates.

The renewed scrutiny comes after the Left Party removed eight additional candidates from its electoral lists.

According to reporting by Expressen and regional media outlets, the candidates faced disciplinary action after internal investigations and journalistic exposés revealed they had shared antisemitic conspiracy theories, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, and expressed support for Hamas.

According to public broadcasts by Sveriges Radio, these latest removals bring the total number of candidates ousted from the party over antisemitism, Holocaust denial, support for terrorism, homophobia, and praise for authoritarian regimes to 33.

Aron Verständig, chairman of the Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities, stated on X/Twitter on Monday that the council previously criticized the Left Party in the autumn of 2024 because the party “had failed to distance itself from the antisemitism that leading representatives had spread during the summer.”
No bulletproof vest, no phone and three bullets left: How hero Bondi cop took down gunmen
The police officer who shot the alleged Bondi gunmen, ending the massacre, had just three bullets left when the firefight ended — after racing to the attack without a bulletproof vest, body camera, or even his mobile phone.

The new book “Bondi Terror” tells the extraordinary story of Detective Senior Constable Cesar Barraza, who sprinted from Bondi police station, where he'd been eating dinner, towards the sound of gunfire when an emergency call on the police radio came through from Constable Scott Dyson.

Even more remarkably, Barraza had been transferred to Bondi just six weeks earlier after praying that he would be posted to the station where he was most needed.

He even asked his parish priest to say the same prayer.

The 16-year police veteran was also working his final shift before annual leave when the shooting occurred.

Barraza, an experienced police marksman, was eating nachos at Bondi police station when a call came through on the police radio: ‘Possible armed offenders. Shots fired.’

Barraza waited to hear confirmation.

Then his colleague Constable Scott Dyson’s voice came through: “I think I’ve been shot.”

Barraza didn’t waste another moment. He didn’t take his body-worn video camera, he didn’t take his mobile phone or even stop to put his bulletproof vest on.

He didn’t take any spare pistol magazines. He didn’t tell anyone what he was doing – he just ran out the back door of the station.

He didn’t know the location of the shooting or that it was a Chanukah festival - but he followed the sounds of the gunshots and ran in the direction that people were fleeing from.

Police had been briefed about several Chanukah events being held across Sydney’s eastern suburbs that day, including at Coogee, Dover Heights, and Bondi, but there had been no expectation of violence.

Officers were patrolling between the events rather than being permanently stationed at them.


Guilt Without Association By Abe Greenwald
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Ramzi Kassem has made a career of representing the worst of this country’s enemies, and Mamdani appointed him as chief legal counsel. But the objection to Mamdani’s planned attendance at the 9/11 memorial is not “centered” on this appointment. Kassem is one data point among many that spell out Mamdani’s antipathy for the U.S. and his sympathy for Islamist terrorists.

We’re not even missing the forest for the trees. We’re missing the forest for a single tree. The problem with Mamdani is that he’s a creature of a particular wilderness—an entire ecosystem—in which all the trees are Ramzi Kassems, because that’s his ideological home.

Mamdani has a public relationship with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The mayor was in contact with and praised the late imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, who publicly defended convicted supporters of al-Qaeda and members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Mamdani has offered shout-outs to the Holy Land Five, who were convicted of funneling money to Hamas. There are so many more. And of course, there’s his friendship with the intrepid 9/11-fan Hasan Piker. Mamdani would never condemn the phrase “Globalize the intifada” because globalizing the intifada is his life’s work.

And that’s what the 9/11 controversy centers on.

The politics of guilt by association are traditionally employed by opponents of an elected official or candidate whose own political record is relatively clean. When you don’t have the goods on someone, you try to draw a line between him and some disreputable figure. But you don’t need to draw a single line when you’re staring at a glowing matrix of Islamist and socialist bad actors. And Mamdani is the biggest bad actor in his circle. He’s the mayor of New York City, and he’s using his office to advance the aims of those who would like to see us destroyed.
Families of 9/11 victims deliver 100,000-signature petition urging Mamdani to skip ceremony
Family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks delivered a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to New York City Hall on Tuesday, urging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this week’s ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks.

New York City Council member Joann Ariola stated that she “stood on the steps of City Hall with the loved ones of many victims of the 9/11 terror attacks” and “demanded that Mayor Mamdani stay away from this year’s ceremonies.”

Ariola said the group handed the petition to a member of Chief Counsel Ramzi Kassem’s staff. Kassem previously represented Ahmed al-Darbi, who pleaded guilty before a U.S. military commission to terrorism-related charges stemming from an al-Qaeda plot to attack commercial shipping.

“The same Ramzi Kassem who defended a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist and is one of the reasons these families don’t want the mayor there in the first place,” Ariola stated. “Mayor Mamdani, apparently, was too cowardly to come out and meet the families to receive the petition himself.”

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed back against the effort.

“Division should not prevail over the spirit of unity that brought us together after Sept. 11,” Hochul wrote. “On this 25th anniversary, we should honor those we lost by coming together again as New Yorkers and Americans. The mayor of New York City will be there, as he should be.”
Commentary Podcast: The Great Forgetting
Surprise! Abdul El-Sayed is connected to an imam who doesn't like gays and Jews. How did we go from 9/11 to the War on Terror to candidates like him? And how could the U.S., or Israel, have prepared for attacks with no precedent?


Even as Democrats nominate anti-Israel candidates, poll suggests 67% of Jewish voters plan to cast ballots for Dems in November
Even as the Democratic Party has nominated several anti-Israel candidates, two-thirds of Jewish voters said that they plan to vote Democrat in the midterm election, according to a poll released on Wednesday.

The survey by the Jewish Voters Resource Center suggests that 67% plan to vote for Democrats and just 26% plan to vote Republican in November.

“Democracy, the cost-of-living and a deep hostility toward Donald Trump are driving the Jewish vote,” said Jim Gerstein, principal at GBAO Strategies, which conducted the poll.

“For Jewish voters, this is an election about stopping Trump,” according to Gerstein, who has worked for Democratic candidates and committees.

Nearly a year after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, Democrats nominated others who expressed the same views—including that Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza—in primary contests against pro-Israel Democrats.

The list includes Dr. Abdul El-Sayed over Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in the Michigan Senate primary, Adam Hamawy for the House in New Jersey over a large field of candidates, including East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen, and former city comptroller Brad Lander over Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) in New York City.

The anti-Israel candidates singled out the American Israel Public Affairs Committee among the political action committees spending millions of dollars for favored candidates.

In July, a majority of House Democrats voted to cut off aid to Israel after most Senate Democrats voted in April to block some weapons sales to the Jewish state.

But that hasn’t dissuaded most Jews from continuing to support the Democratic Party.
Abdul El-Sayed and 'Guilt by Association' (satire)
Rosenwald, who previously served as an editor of the Washington Post's history section, raises an interesting point. We don't have proof that El-Sayed ever heard the imam discuss the deviant nature of homosexuals. Just like we can't definitely answer any of the following questions:
• Did Hassan al-Qazwini, the imam El-Sayed congratulated at a mosque opening in June, ever discuss what Bernie Sanders described as "antisemitic conspiracy theories" in front of the candidate?
• Did El-Sayed ever hear Fadhel Al-Sahlani, another imam who attended the mosque opening in Dearborn Heights, praise the Oct. 7 attack or cast doubt on the Holocaust?
• Why was Husham al-Husainy, a pro-Hezbollah imam who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024 because he thought (incorrectly) that Trump would ban gay marriage, mingling with guests at El-Sayed's primary-night victory party?
• What, exactly, did al-Husainy mean when he told the Free Beacon that "money people" who belonged to a "special faith" were behind the JFK assassination?
• How did a book by Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips—the extremist Islamic scholar who has denounced homosexuality as "evil" and espoused the benefits of child marriage and wife-beating—end up in El-Sayed's living room on a bookshelf that (allegedly) wasn't his? And why did he ask a documentary crew to refrain from filming it?
• Did El-Sayed ever discuss the American government's direct involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks with fellow speakers at the Islamic Society of North America convention in Detroit over the weekend? Did he get a chance to speak with convention panelist Yasir Qadhi, a Texas-based imam who has called the Holocaust a "hoax"?
• Did he overhear anyone at the convention lament the absence of Tariq Masood, the Pakistani cleric whose invitation to speak was rescinded after the Free Beacon reported on his history of "pedophilic rhetoric," which includes bragging about forcing his 13-year-old niece into marriage?
• Did he happen to catch Zaid Shakir's speech, in which the New Jersey cleric accused the U.S. Congress of committing "treason" by voting to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism?
• What about Siraj Wahhaj, the Brooklyn imam who also spoke at the convention? Did El-Sayed get a chance to ask him whether he still thinks homosexuality is a "disease of this society"?

And finally:
• How many unsavory associations would it take to establish a pattern Rosenwald and others might find "compelling"?
• How impressive is the mainstream media's commitment to unbiased truth-telling? I mean, is there any doubt they are covering El-Sayed exactly the same way they would cover a Republican candidate with similar ties to anti-gay Christian fundamentalists, neo-Nazi activists, and other right-wing zealots?

They would never rush to judgment in that situation.

It's an important lesson to keep in mind as we prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Waldo from the Where's Waldo? books is a perfect example. He travels the world through space and time, getting up to all sorts of shenanigans. Suppose you found him at a Nazi rally in Nuremberg, maybe even several Nazi rallies.

I know what you're thinking: "It could happen to anyone." Maybe he got lost. Who's to say he didn't leave as soon as the speakers started ranting about Jews? Based on the evidence, we can't prove he wasn't there to protest the regime. Enough with the guilt by association.


5th person arrested in NYE bombing plot is a ‘trantifa’ Marine vet out to ‘recreate Waco’ on ICE: complaint
The fifth person arrested over an alleged New Year’s Eve bombing plot by a far-left terrorist group is a transgender Marine veteran who wanted to “recreate Waco” on ICE agents, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.

Micah James Legnon, 29, was arrested in Louisiana on Saturday after being tied to chats with suspected members of the far-left terrorist group Turtle Island Liberation Front as they allegedly plotted to plant pipe bombs on businesses and then ICE agents, according to the FBI investigation.

Legnon — who went by “Kateri TheWitch” and “DarkWitch She/Her” in chat groups — appeared to be planning an attack in New Orleans to coincide with others attacking southern California, the complaint alleged.

Legnon shared pictures of assault rifles and body armor — and federal agents “found sniper training manuals, SWAT training manuals, assault rifles, and multiple rounds of ammunition” in a raid on the suspect’s home in New Iberia, the complaint said.

Legnon also posted a story on Facebook on Dec. 4 that called Border Patrol agents “masked f–ks,” the complaint alleged.

“S–t time to recreate Waco tx with these f–kers. F–k ice,” the extremist wrote, which the FBI took as a threat to recreate the 1993 massacre by David Koresh’s Davidians that ended with four agents and more than 70 civilians killed, the complaint noted.


Gnasher Jew Uncovers Identity Behind Notorious Antisemitic X Account
Antisemitism watchdog Gnasher Jew published an OSINT investigation linking the X accounts @RabbiJeffx, @ParodyJeffx and @JeffreyxEpstein to a Croatian-Norwegian woman it identified as Tara Sinkovec. The accounts have developed a track record of spreading virulent antisemitic conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, anti-Jewish propaganda and repeated cases of disinformation.

A Wayback Machine capture from October 1, 2024 shows a post under @TaraSinkovec. The same post now appears on X under @RabbiJeffx.

In the post, responding to then-Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, the account wrote: “Israel, you are getting a taste of your own medicine. Cry the victim. Nobody’s gonna believe you anymore.”

The archive indicates that the account later changed usernames, directly connecting the @TaraSinkovec and @RabbiJeffx handles.

The Accounts’ Virulent Record of Antisemitism and Disinformation
Gnasher Jew had previously documented material from @JeffreyxEpstein that included Holocaust denial, anti-Jewish propaganda and conspiracy theories alleging Jewish control or collective wrongdoing, including a post suggesting Jews were responsible for the September 11 attacks.

@ParodyJeffx also circulated demonstrably false claims involving Israelis. In August, the account posted footage of a fire in Albania and claimed a property had gone up in flames one day after its owner removed a group of Israelis who were allegedly IDF soldiers. Similar kinds of posts have also been made by the @RabbiJeffx account.

Albanian fact-checkers found that the burning structure was not the supposed Airbnb, but an electrical facility in Vlora. The post amassed approximately 1.3 million views, along with tens of thousands of likes and reposts, before the claim spread across multiple languages.

In another case in June 2026, @ParodyJeffx circulated an image purporting to show conservative activist Laura Loomer attending a private birthday party for Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah. The account claimed Pahlavi was celebrating his birthday and that Loomer was among those attending.

A subsequent Snopes investigation found that the image had been digitally altered to insert Loomer into a photograph in which she was not originally present. The original photograph was taken during Pahlavi’s visit to Israel in April 2023, not at a June 2026 birthday party. Pahlavi was born on October 31, 1960.

@ParodyJeffx was also documented sharing a fabricated image purporting to show Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk next to Palantir CEO Alex Karp. Max Nordau highlighted the manipulated image in January, adding another example of fabricated visual material circulated by the account.


New exhibit explores what Britain knew about the Holocaust
The first glimpse of what is envisaged for the long-awaited Holocaust Memorial building, next to the UK parliament, was unveiled at Portcullis House on Monday — and Lord Pickles and Ed Balls, the cross-party chairs of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation, vowed that “concrete steps” would happen soon, within the timing of Andy Burnham’s government.

The taster exhibition, unveiled together with a scale model of the proposed Holocaust Memorial building in Victoria Gardens, is called “What Did Britain Know About the Holocaust”, and takes as its starting point the assumption that Britain only really knew what was going on after the liberation of Belsen in April 1945.

But as Martin Winstone, the project historian for the UK Holocaust Memorial, pointed out, much was known at least three years earlier, from continuing newspaper accounts — shown in the exhibition and reflecting reports from across the country —to a major declaration on December 17 1942 by Allied governments, condemning the Holocaust and pledging to bring the perpetrators to justice once the Nazis were defeated.

The exhibition will tour the UK in the coming months — initially in the parliaments or assemblies of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — and then for public view to other cities. Winstone said: “This came about in the wake of the passage of the Holocaust Memorial Act earlier this year. We thought it was the right time to begin to share some of the research we’ve been doing, and to start a national conversation about this history, and why it matters to us.”

He said that some of the opposition to the proposed Memorial and Learning Centre had been from those who said “what’s the Holocaust got to do with us?” But he said the exhibition “very much showed” that the Holocaust was a British concern throughout the war years. “We show not only how much was known by government, but also by the British people.”

In fact, he said, that although for much of the war British combatants did not serve in Europe, there was a prisoner of war camp close to Auschwitz — “and some of these British PoWs were serving alongside Jewish Auschwitz prisoners in the IG Farben chemical factory”.

Winstone told Jewish News of the appropriateness of the present venue: “Portcullis House [part of the parliamentary estate] stands on the site of the building where Charles de Gaulle had his first home for the Free French, when he came to London in 1940”. The French and the Polish governments in exile were among those who made London their base during the war in Europe, allowing for much information to be traded with the British authorities.

Jews living in Britain were all too aware of what was happening, Winstone said. “In December 1942 there were services of mourning in synagogues all round the country and, for example, in Liverpool’s Greenbank synagogue, there were 1500 people attending. For many of those people it was not just mourning for Jews as Jews — but mourning the loss of parents, siblings…in other words, an immense family tragedy.”
NYC seeks help finding men suspected of two incidents it’s probing as anti-Jewish hate crimes
The New York City Police Department said on Tuesday night that it is asking the public to help it identify two men, whom it suspects of two incidents that its hate crime task force is investigating as suspected Jew-hatred.

A man, who wore a white ball cap, shorts and a black coat, wrote “anti-Jewish remarks” and drew a Nazi swastika at a bus stop at the northeast corner of Lefferts Boulevard and Hillside Avenue, in Queens, on Aug. 27 at around 4:30 a.m., per the department.

The site is within several blocks of more than half a dozen synagogues.

The suspect, whom the department has yet to identify, faces a criminal mischief hate crime charge. He fled on foot at the time and traveled “southbound on Lefferts Boulevard to parts unknown,” the NYPD said.

On May 7, an attacker came up to a 39-year-old man at around 1 p.m. and “slapped the victim’s yarmulke causing the head covering to fall to the ground,” the NYPD said. The attacker, who is suspected of a hate crime, reportedly approached the victim from behind while the latter was trying to go into a business at 1 Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan, not far from Wall Street.

That attacker, who wore a black ball cap, “fled the location on foot, traveling southbound on Whitehall Street to parts unknown,” the NYPD said.

Anti-Jewish hate crimes have surged in New York City since Zohran Mamdani became mayor in January. He has said that Israel is guilty of “genocide” and campaigned on jailing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although he has more recently admitted that he lacks the authority to do so. His spokeswoman has also said that synagogues violated international law when they host pro-Israel events.

After recording a 182% increase in anti-Jewish hate crimes in the Big Apple in January, in Mamdani’s first month in office, the city began publishing only “confirmed” hate crimes and not “reported” ones in February. That suggested a decline, although it was hard to compare 2026 statistics with those from 2025.

In March, the city said that it would publish both “confirmed” and “reported” statistics separately each month. The city provides a comparison between “confirmed” 2026 statistics and the prior year, but not of “reported” hate crimes.
In Italy, hundreds protest bill to ban antisemitic rallies
Hundreds of people gathered on Wednesday in Rome for a demonstration against a bill that seeks to ban antisemitic rallies in Italy. The protesters oppose the bill’s use of a definition for antisemitism that includes certain types of anti-Israel statements. Several smaller protests against the bill were planned to occur in cities across Italy.

The bill, which the Italian Senate approved and amended earlier this year, would extend the 1931 Law on Public Safety to events with “a serious potential risk due to the use of symbols, slogans, messages, and any other antisemitic acts pursuant to the working definition of antisemitism adopted by this law.”

The working definition, the bill states, is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition, which Italy adopted in 2020 but has not made legally binding. It lists examples of anti-Israel criticism that it says in certain contexts can be defined as antisemitic, including comparing the country’s policies to those of Nazi Germany, denying the Jewish people the right to self-determination and “applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation,” as the definition states.

The opponents of the bill argue that it is too limiting of freedom of expression, and risks being abused to silence pro-Palestinian voices and events.

The IHRA definition means the bill “risks creating a serious restriction of the spaces of political, cultural and academic freedom, affecting the possibility of expressing critical positions towards Israel and its policies and its responsibilities towards the Palestinian people,” according to Amnesty Italy.

However, Davide Romano, the director of the Jewish Brigade Museum in Milan, questioned the motives of the bill’s opponents.

He told JNS he had questions for the protesters. “Where were you in the last three years when we Jews were attacked? Showing up only now against a law that aims to protect us shows that you are part of the problem,” he said.
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Israel population is at 10,305,000, up 1.2% over last year
Israel’s population is estimated at 10,305,000 people, the Central Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday in figures released ahead of the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah, which begins on Friday night.

They include 7,828,000 Jews and those classified as “other” (78.3% of Israelis), 2,173,000 Arabs (21.7%), and 304,000 foreign nationals residing in the country.

The Israeli population increased by 124,000 over the past year, representing a 1.2 percent growth.

During the past Jewish year, some 182,000 babies were born in Israel, and 50,000 people died.

The average life span in Israel is 81.4 years for men and 85.9 for women, the CBS reported.

Migration led the population to lose some 8,000 people overall, the statistics showed.

Some 24,000 new immigrants moved to Israel, and around 4,000 others came as part of family reunification (when an Israeli citizen requests citizenship for their non-Israeli spouse or child), and some 21,000 Israelis living abroad returned. But at the same time, 57,000 Israelis left the country.

Since the establishment of the state in 1948, 3.51 million people have immigrated to Israel.
Sydney Sweeney appears in nude new 'Hatikva'-playing ad
Novig, a sports trading application, debuted a new marketing campaign on Wednesday starring actress Sydney Sweeney appearing nude anticipation of the upcoming football season – with the apparent tune of the Israeli national anthem "Hatikva" ending the clip for no apparent reason.

The lighthearted ad features a Sweeney in a variety of suggestive positions using an array of athletic gear – including basketballs and footballs – to cover her body.

"Think you know sports? Prove it. Novig is just sports. So they wanted to show just sports," the actress said in the clip.

The commercial transitions into a sequence displaying her in provocative poses while she wears several types of athletic gear – such as football pads and a jersey – and repeats the word "sports."

"You can't trade this. I just look good here," she said in a subsequent scene while positioned atop a pool table. The broadcast wraps up with what appears to be the musical notes of "Hatikva" serving as the backing track, although without any apparent reference to Israel.

Sweeney discussed the video in a statement and said, "The campaign was about embracing a fun idea. The concept is simple: cut through the noise and put the focus entirely on sports."

This latest ad comes months another provocative ad featuring Sweeney in which the clip cleverly references her natural beauty when promoting American Eagle, saying "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans."

Sweeney has not shied away from appearing pro-Israeli in the past, although her actual stance on Israel remains a mystery. According to a photo published by StandWithUs several months ago, the "Euphoria" and "White Lotus" star hosted Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or, who endured separation during months in Hamas captivity.





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