Wednesday, September 16, 2026

09/15 Links Pt2: El-Sayed's Imam Delivered 'Absentee Funeral Prayer' Hailing Ismail Haniyeh as 'Heroic Martyr'; Ed Sheeran’s tour in trouble as opening acts quit

From Ian:

‘Never Again’ means ‘now,’ Florida Jewish Dem says in new ad
In a new campaign ad, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) focuses on fighting Jew-hatred and says that “‘Never Again’ is now.”

The Jewish congressman is running a newly drawn district against Scott Singer, a Republican and mayor of Boca Raton.

“My grandmother escaped the Nazis as part of the Kindertransport out of Berlin as a child,” Moskowitz told JNS. “My grandfather escaped the pogroms. Most of their family members were killed.”

Moskowitz currently represents Florida’s 23rd Congressional District. He is running in the 25th Congressional District, where an estimated 25% of residents are Jewish. He beat democratic socialist Oliver Larkin in the primary.

“Jews in this district and around the country see the significant rise of antisemitism and are worried that their kids and grandkids will not grow up in the same America that we did,” Moskowitz told JNS. “Now is the time for action.”

In the 30-second ad, Moskowitz quotes from the Passover Hagaddah: “In every generation, they rise against us.” He also talks about his great-grandparents, who were murdered at Auschwitz.

The Democratic congressman points to contemporary Jew-hatred, including a school shooter who carved Nazi swastikas into a gun.

“That’s why I’ve fought antisemitism, leading bipartisan laws to increase security at synagogues and Jewish nonprofits and expanding education so we can stop hate crimes before they happen,” he says in the ad. “Because ‘Never Again’ is now.”
Jonathan Sacerdoti: The firework attack on my Maida Vale synagogue is horrifying but not surprising
So: am I surprised? Why would I be? How could I be? Surprise needs a first time, and we are long past ours. We stopped being surprised somewhere between the marches and the ambulances and the Green party and Tucker Carlson and Zohran Mamdani and the people hiding who they are in NHS hospitals. What replaced it is sense: the thing you feel in the stomach before you let it into the head, because the head has been trained to say: don’t exaggerate.

And that is the loop in every one of our minds. Are we exaggerating? Jumping to conclusions? Safe, or in danger? A firework, or a warning? Each nudge pushes us to the next dot, the next quiet conversation about what we should do, and when. Wouldn’t we be stupid not to?

Because something got out on 7 October, and it has not gone back in. The murderers filmed themselves, and a part of the world watched and felt not revulsion but appetite. Jews had been made to look weak again: people who could be slaughtered in their beds. And weakness, in a certain kind of mind, is not pitiable. It is exciting. It suggests the job might be finishable. That excitement reaches a hooded teenager in Maida Vale as surely as it reached a man with a knife in Crumpsall. It is the oldest trap we know: look weak and you whet the appetite; look strong and you are punished for spoiling it. Israel is being punished this month for strength. My synagogue was attacked for looking weak. If I must be, I know which I would rather be punished for.

Edward Miliband stood up in the Commons this month, as a ‘proud British Jew’, to announce £250 million for Jewish security, as if that would distract us from the ‘reset’ he instigated on our country’s relations with the Jewish nation. The money had already been announced in July, and it felt even more useless the second time it was thrust at us as a deflection from our very real concerns for our safety. Imagine paying for more fire hoses as you throw accelerant on the flames, feigning bafflement or blindness as the heat keeps rising. Perhaps Miliband was the Jew his friend had once thought of when he said we don’t understand British irony.

Jew-hatred has always been useful: it lets a country avoid looking at itself too hard. A government with a by-election to lose finds it far easier to talk about far-off settlements than about a growing climate of furious conspiracy and aggression aimed at its own Jewish citizens. Or about immigrants from places where they hate us lot, and hate Britain, too. This is one climate change Miliband and Burnham don’t care to try to halt. If we Jews feel things getting hotter, they’ll just promise us more fans.

How did I come to be away this year, I wondered? Who knows. Consciously, I had travelled to be with my in-laws, and for work. But I couldn’t help but notice that unconsciously I had chosen to be in a place designed for my safety, even if it cannot always guarantee it. Maybe Israel’s founders hoped a state would make the hatred fade. It changed its clothes instead. But the state changed something else: what Jews can do about it. Nobody there has to ask a minister, politely, to care.

In an email trying to keep itself calm, my community told us there was no reason to change our plans. We will be back in the pews this Shabbat, and again on Yom Kippur. We have sensed exactly what is going on, but will be there anyway.

Real human evaluation comes in our actions and behaviour, not our thoughts and hopes. That goes for governments too. We feel it. We sense it. Then we act: some by staying, some by going, all of us by no longer pretending. Joining the dots and looking behind us to trace the picture is not hysteria. It is the minimum intelligence required to stay alive.
Two fireworks launched at London synagogue by gang of youths on Rosh Hashanah
A gang of hooded youths launched fireworks at a west London synagogue on Sunday, the second day of Rosh Hashanah, according to the local Jewish community.

Five teens waited outside the Lauderdale Road Synagogue in Maida Vale before two of them launched two fireworks toward the building at 3:23 p.m., startling a family walking by, according to a statement by the community and security footage cited by The Telegraph.

The Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi Community, which runs the synagogue, informed members of the incident and said the building was empty and no injuries or damage were caused by the “rocket fireworks.”

The incident was reported to Police and the Community Security Trust, the UK Jewish community’s security organization.

“Jewish families should be able to come together to celebrate Rosh Hashanah safely, openly and without fear,” said Rabbi Amir Ellituv, of the synagogue, which was built in 1896, vowing not to allow such incidents to “deter us from coming together as a community.”

A CST spokesman told The Telegraph that it was “aware of the incident,” saying despite the absence of injuries or damage, it was “nonetheless a serious incident that will undoubtedly cause concern.” Police officers patrol the high street after two people were stabbed in Golders Green neighborhood, that has a large Jewish community, in London, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

“CST attended the scene and is in contact with the synagogue, and is working closely with the police to establish the full circumstances,” the spokesman added.

Antisemitic incidents in the UK have risen sharply since the war against Hamas in Gaza began in 2023, with the Community Security Trust, a Jewish community watchdog, saying in August that such incidents rose 21 percent in the first six months of 2026 compared to the same period last year, reaching the second-highest total on record for the first half of a year.


October 7 Massacre Conference To Be Held by Masar Badil in Toronto Despite U.S. Terror Designation
Despite recent terrorism sanctions by the U.S. Treasury against the Masar Badil Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path, the branch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group announced on September 6 that it is proceeding with an October 7 Massacre conference in Toronto.

Masar Badil said in a statement that it was undeterred by the August 26 sanctions leveled against it, and that the November 26-29 Three Years of Al-Aqsa Flood Conference would be held in an act of defiance. The group saw the legal measures as a signal that it was effective in promoting revolution and advancing toward the abolishment of “imperialism” and the dismantling of the “Zionist entity.”

“We will not alter our path or retreat as the state wants us to. Instead, we will continue to take guidance from the steadfast Palestinian Peoples in their homeland who do not bow down to genocide and settler violence, but rather resist by any means necessary,” Masar Badil wrote. “From the Palestinian Resistance, we have learned the true meaning of Jihad as a continuous, unyielding act of defiance against the colonizer. It is a comprehensive struggle that permeates every aspect of our organizing, demanding that we confront the imperialist system in the belly of the beast just as our people confront it on the ground in Palestine.”

The PFLP front group advised allied organizations that they were fighting the “same imperialist enemy together” and that their presence in November would disrupt the “imperialist agenda.”

While Masar Badil is not banned in Canada, its twin organization Samidoun, with which it shares many of the same officers and sub-organizations, was jointly designated by the U.S. and Canada in October 2024.

Al-Aqsa Flood Canada Conference
Subtitled “Resistance & Return From the Belly of the Beast,” the website for the event details how it would commemorate “three years since one of the most courageous acts of resistance in our lifetimes: Al-Aqsa Flood Battle,” referencing the Hamas operational name for the October 7 Massacre. The group decried North America as occupied by American and Canadian “Imperialism,” and saw the efforts of the “victory of the Palestinian national liberation project” as “crucial to defeating global imperialism.”

The Conference would see participants considering “the next phase of struggle that is explicitly aligned with the resistance efforts struggling against Zionist and American settler-colonialism and imperialism” and consolidating “regional forces.”

Participants include Samidoun subsidiary organizations Al-Ahrar Palestinian Prisoner Support, Basil Al-Araj Prisoner Committee, Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return (SUPER UW), and the Masar Badil youth group Tariq El-Tahrir. Projects that appear connected to the network, Free Lebanese Prisoners, Dismantle Damon, Free Palestinian Students, are also listed as endorsers of the conference. Longtime allies of local Samidoun branches, Seattle University Students for Justice in Palestine and Canada Palestine Association, have also noted their involvement.


Ed Sheeran’s Americas tour in trouble as opening acts quit over Macklemore’s removal
Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making onstage comments against Israel.

Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore’s ouster and attributed the decision to the tour’s promoters, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, the Danish band Lukas Graham, and Finneas posted on Instagram that they were leaving the tour.

Rowe and Lukas Graham would have been replacements for Macklemore on Sheeran’s remaining US dates, while Beoga had been performing several songs — including some the Irish folk band co-wrote — with Sheeran around the middle of each set. Finneas, who is Billie Eilish’s brother and musical collaborator, was due to tour with Sheeran in South America later this year.

“Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed,” Finneas said on Instagram. “I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people.”

The moves by his fellow artists put enormous pressure on Sheeran, who has tried to avoid politics and taking a side in the Gaza conflict, arguing that his fans don’t come to his shows to hear politics.


Ben Shapiro: Macklemore Got Dropped From Ed Sheeran's Tour



The Brink: The Soviet Propaganda Echoing Through Zack Polanski’s Greens
In this episode of The Brink, Andrew and Jake are joined by Izabella Tabarovsky to explore how some of today’s most powerful accusations against Israel have their roots in Soviet propaganda.

Izabella traces claims of genocide, apartheid, and “Zionism is racism” back to Soviet campaigns designed to portray Israel as racist, colonialist, and even Nazi. She explains how these ideas spread through academia, the UN, and the global left, surviving long after the Soviet Union itself collapsed.

The conversation also examines the growing overlap between the far left and far right, and why the same conspiracy theories about Israel and Jewish power are increasingly appearing across both political extremes.

A fascinating discussion about Soviet propaganda, antisemitism, and why the ideas of the Cold War are still shaping the debate around Israel today.

Chapters
00:00 How Soviet Propaganda Targeted Israel
02:02 Where the “Genocide” Accusation Began
07:01 Why Stalin Turned Against Israel
12:12 How the Soviets Reinvented Anti-Semitism
16:51 The Far Right Roots of Soviet Anti-Zionism
22:39 Mahmoud Abbas & Soviet Propaganda
28:00 Where “Zionism Is Racism” Came From
33:41 How Soviet Propaganda Survived the USSR
36:48 Durban, 9/11 & the New Anti-Zionism
40:55 How the Far Right Adopted the Same Playbook




Labour MP calls for UK ‘military action’ against Israel
A Labour MP used a parliamentary debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to call for “military action” to be taken against the Jewish state.

Tahir Ali, who represents Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, intervened during a speech by Lib Dem MP Richard Foord, who said that Hamas’ “disarmament and disbandment must be part of any lasting solution” to the conflict.

Ali then interjected, saying: “On the issue of disarmament, should we not also be calling for Israel’s disarmament, given the atrocities that have been committed?

“Previous governments have intervened in the Middle East to take action on human rights abuses and protect international trade routes. Is it not about time that military action was taken against Israel as well?”

The Lib Dem rejected the implied equivalence between Hamas, “a proscribed terrorist organisation,” and the State of Israel.

But Monday’s debate wasn’t the first time Ali called for the use of Britain’s armed forces against Israel. During a debate in July last year, the Labour MP urged David Lammy, then foreign secretary, to “send military personnel to protect Palestinians from the genocide being committed by the IDF”.

During the debate yesterday, several MPs from across the political spectrum praised the government’s decision to announce sanctions against Israeli settlements in the West Bank last week.

Some, however, demanded that the government go further.


'He Is a Symbol of Jihad': Abdul El-Sayed's Imam Delivered 'Absentee Funeral Prayer' Hailing Slain Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh as 'Heroic Martyr'
Left-wing Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's imam delivered an "absentee funeral prayer" for the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, hailing the terrorist as a "heroic martyr," "symbol of jihad," and "righteous man" who "wanted to liberate Palestine" and "sought nothing more than that," a Washington Free Beacon review found.

Abdelhamid Algizawi of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, the mosque where El-Sayed frequently prays, eulogized Haniyeh during a sermon delivered in both English and Arabic on Aug. 2, 2024, two days after Haniyeh died from an explosive device smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying. He lauded the chief architect of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel as a "heroic martyr" and "symbol of patriotism" and asked God to "place him among the martyrs and the righteous."

"He is a symbol of jihad, a symbol of struggle, a symbol of patriotism, and a symbol of devotion," Algizawi said of Haniyeh, according to a video recording of his remarks posted online. The Free Beacon obtained a transcription of the Arabic portions from an independent translator.

"No one loves him except someone who loves God and his Messenger, and no one hates him except an enemy of Islam. He is a righteous man, one of the righteous," Algizawi continued. "He wanted to liberate Palestine, his land and his homeland. He sought nothing more than that. Yet despite this, the unjust and wicked killed him. … We ask Almighty God to grant him a place in Paradise. O God, place him among the martyrs and the righteous."

News of the sermon comes as El-Sayed faces scrutiny over his attendance at the mosque, where Algizawi has also railed against homosexuality and Jewish influence in the education system, the Free Beacon reported. While many Muslims, including El-Sayed, pray at several different mosques, El-Sayed typically prays at the MCA of Ann Arbor, according to a source familiar with the situation. It is unclear whether El-Sayed was present for the eulogy, but Algizawi has spoken about the candidate personally, using his pulpit to celebrate El-Sayed's primary victory, which he called a "very big victory for the Muslims, Hamdillah, and for the Ummah, and for the Islamic nation." The Muslim community, he said, had an "obligation" to vote for El-Sayed in November to "change the society."


Mamdani won’t say when he’ll release overdue plan to combat antisemitism
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team vowed that it would produce its long-promised plan to fight antisemitism in the five boroughs “soon” — but declined to provide any specifics about when it might actually come out or why his administration failed to meet its original Rosh Hashanah deadline.

The mayor has repeatedly alluded to a forthcoming “first-in-the-nation municipal response” to anti-Jewish prejudice, even as his short tenure leading the city with the largest Jewish population in the world has seen a spike in hate crimes against Jews. The Jewish community is consistently the target of more than half of all hate crimes, despite making up around one-tenth of New York City’s population.

When asked why its Office to Combat Antisemitism had failed to produce the plan before the High Holy Days as promised, a City Hall spokesperson only promised it would be out “soon.”

“The mayor is fully committed to the safety of Jewish New Yorkers and to using every tool available to ensure that Jewish communities continue to thrive as an essential part of the fabric of the five boroughs,” Sam Raskin, Mamdani’s deputy press secretary, told Jewish Insider.

Mamdani himself did not answer a question from JI about the report’s status following an unrelated event — the release of a plan to combat traffic-related deaths — on Tuesday afternoon.

Former Mayor Eric Adams, Mamdani’s predecessor, released a “blueprint” for tackling antisemitism on his last day in office, largely detailing steps his office had already taken. This included an executive order Adams signed adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism as official city policy.
Mamdani still without federal security clearance after 9 months as NYC mayor
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is still without federal security clearance after nine months on the job — limiting his ability to be briefed on classified information involving terrorism or other threats to New York City.

Hizzoner on Monday tried to play down the lack of potentially crucial information being shared with him, telling reporters during an unrelated press conference in City Hall that this was a “typical timeline” for approval.

“The process of my getting a federal security clearance is ongoing,” Mamdani said.

“A number of senior administration officials have a security clearance at this time. The NYPD also regularly briefs me on intelligence investigations that do not involve federally classified information, and we will continue to move forward.”

Mamdani is not the first mayor to have issues with his security clearance while running the Big Apple.

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio was also without the high-level clearance at this point in his tenure after failing to even apply in the early days of his first term.
Cuellar becomes first Texas Democrat to criticize upcoming Piker speech at UT
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) criticized plans for antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker to speak on the flagship campus of the University of Texas, becoming the first Democrat in Texas’ congressional delegation to do so.

Piker was invited by the school’s University Democrats student group for a speech set for Sept. 30.

“Hasan Piker’s scheduled appearance at the University of Texas is deeply concerning,” Cuellar wrote on X. “Free speech allows difficult and controversial views, but it does not require anyone to stay silent when someone has a history of hateful comments about Jewish Americans, 9/11, and Hamas terrorism.”

Cuellar, among the most moderate Democrats in the House, said that Jewish students at the school “should not be made to feel targeted or unsafe on their own campus. UT should be a place for debate, learning, and respect, not antisemitism or rhetoric that excuses terrorism.”

He stopped short of explicitly calling for the speech to be canceled.

Piker said on X that the comments were a “direct violation of the 1st amendment,” adding, “free speech must be protected. dems should push back against this attack!”
William Morris Endeavor Sticks With Hasan Piker, Much to Notorious Influencer's Surprise
William Morris Endeavor, the high-powered Hollywood talent agency led by super agent Ari Emanuel, is standing by its longtime client Hasan Piker, a curious turn that has surprised even the far-left influencer himself, given the agency's penchant for quickly dropping other clients at the slightest whiff of controversy.

Piker, a popular Twitch streamer and influential figure on the political far left, has become a lightning rod this election cycle over a catalogue of anti-American, anti-Israel, and Marxist rhetoric. He has said that "America deserved 9/11," called Israel "much worse" than Hamas, called for "capitalist blood" to "flow in the streets," and justified the murder of health care CEO Brian Thompson.

He has also been highly visible on the campaign trail, supporting Democrats in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, where his relationship with Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed—who has refused to denounce him—has become a national issue. Some more moderate Democrats have disavowed Piker, including presumptive 2028 presidential hopeful Rahm Emanuel, the older brother of Ari Emanuel.

Rahm Emanuel, who served as former president Barack Obama's chief of staff, recently said he would "give [Piker] a two-by-four upside his head" over the influencer's claim that Jews foster antisemitism by supporting Israel.

Piker has candidly discussed his relationship with WME and expressed amusement that the firm has kept him on as a client. Piker, who said in an interview in June that "I'm repped by WME," said his handlers at the agency asked him after Oct. 7, 2023, to "tone it down" with regards to his anti-Israel commentary.

"I was like, 'Fuck no,'" Piker said he told his agents, who have been identified in previous reports as Chris Jacquemin and Bennett Sherman.

Piker said in a mocking tone that his WME handlers responded, "OK, well, we won't send work your way."

"But they never dropped me, and they dropped so many other clients," said Piker.
PFLP-linked New Zealand party running on Palestine platform enters election, sparking concern
Less than two months ahead of the New Zealand general elections, a PFLP-linked party running entirely on a pro-Palestine platform is raising questions about the normalization of Israel and Jew hate in the southwestern Pacific nation.

The Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party was almost not allowed to register after over 200 submissions opposing it; however, the Electoral Commission ultimately decided to allow it to pass on August 5. This means it has at least 500 members, as that is the threshold needed to secure registration.

Not only will the party feature on the ballot paper, but it has also been allocated nearly NZ$79,000 in taxpayer-funded election broadcasting money.

According to its website, the Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party has three main aims: Building a democratic party that unites supporters of Palestine from all traditions; pressuring the New Zealand government to support the prosecution of war crimes and genocide; and recognizing that Palestinian liberation is bound up with the broader struggle against imperialism.

It also calls for the return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland and the dismantling of the State of Israel.

The party was founded and is led by Paul Hopkinson, who also serves as the national spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) campaign in New Zealand.

Hopkinson told the New Arab on June 23 that he plans to use his position as a registered political party to hold other parties to account on the issue of Palestine.
Jury discharged in trial of alleged Downing Street pro-Hamas protester
A jury has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a protester accused of making a pro-Hamas speech outside Downing Street days after a deadly attack on Israel.

Urslaan Khan, 44, was on trial for allegedly expressing support for the proscribed group in Whitehall, central London, on 17 October 2023.

Jurors viewed a video of Khan holding up a placard making reference to Hamas at the gates of the Prime Minister’s London residence on that day and making a speech.

In the video, he said: “I support the physical force resistance in Palestine.

“Cruella Deville – sorry – Suella Fernandez Braverman, does not scare me or my brothers. I support armed resistance in Palestine.”

On being quizzed about his placard by an officer, Khan allegedly said: “I know there is 0 percent chance of me going to jail for it and whether it reaches the CPS threshold, 1 percent maybe?”


Trump admin settles with Tennessee university over alleged discrimination against Jewish students
The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday that a settlement has been reached with Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee to resolve allegations that the private university discriminated against Jewish students.

The departments launched a joint investigation in February into the university’s DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, which is based in Harrogate, Tenn., after allegations that Jewish students were denied accommodations that would allow them to observe religious holidays without academic penalties. The investigation examined potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.

According to the Justice Department, investigators found that during the 2025-26 academic year, the medical school “denied requests by Jewish students to reschedule classes, exams and other academic assignments so they could celebrate or observe their religious holidays, but granted requests by non-Jewish students who sought the same accommodation.”

After Jewish students challenged the policy, the medical school adopted a new policy in January that prohibited excused absences for religious observances while continuing to allow excused absences for “professional student leadership obligations” and other nonreligious reasons, the department stated. (JNS sought comment from the university.)

Under the settlement, the medical school must revise its absence policy to allow religious absences on the same basis as nonreligious absences. Students whose excused absences are approved cannot be penalized for missing academic requirements because of the absence.
Florida university students ask court to block suspensions over racist, antisemitic group chat
Four Florida International University students disciplined over racist and antisemitic messages in a private group chat asked a federal court on Tuesday to halt their suspensions and other sanctions while their First Amendment lawsuit proceeds.

Abel Carvajal, Dariel Gonzalez, Ethan Ratchkauskas, and Dante Mojena filed a renewed motion for a preliminary injunction against FIU President Jeanette M. Nuñez, a day after Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga ruled that the students have “valid First Amendment claims.” The court rejected the university president’s bid to dismiss those claims but dismissed other counts in the students’ lawsuit.

The students were among participants in a private, off-campus WhatsApp group chat during the fall 2025 semester. FIU reviewed more than 1,200 pages of conversation, accusing members of the chat of posting threatening, racist, antisemitic and other offensive material. The public Miami university ultimately imposed disciplinary sanctions against all four. Carvajal was accused of creating and managing the group and was disciplined for allegedly assisting violations of the university’s student code of conduct.

The students contend that the university punished constitutionally protected private speech. They characterize some of the messages, including statements attributed to Ratchkauskas, as humorous and hyperbolic rather than literal threats. In her Sept. 14 ruling, Altonaga said the allegations concerning the context of those statements were sufficient at the pleading stage to support a First Amendment claim.
NHS Surgeon suspended for social media posts about ‘Zionists’
A doctor accused of sharing hateful social media posts, including one which said “you can shove your Torah, your Talmud, your Moses and all your prophets up your stinky ass”, has been found by the Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service to have impaired fitness to practice and has had his medical licence suspended for nine months.

Dr Muhammad Khalil (GMC number 7499689), who previously worked as a vascular surgeon at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust, was accused by UKLFI of having shared a post by controversial US activist Shaun King depicting what King called “an average Israeli/Zionist idiot”, which continued on to say “We, the Arabs, are going to wipe you completely from the face of the earth! You can shove your Torah, your Talmud, your Moses and all your prophets up your stinky ass.”

Other posts allegedly shared by Dr Khalil included a quotation attributed to former Egyptian President Nasser calling for the “complete eradication” of Israel. UKLFI also complained that Khalil had denied the fact that Hamas carried out a massacre in Israel on 7 October 2023, alleging that fabricated reports had been circulated by Israel and Western media. The advocacy organisation also said that Khalil had subsequently had his Instagram account restricted, for which he blamed “the Zionists”.

In its response to the MPTS decision, UKLFI said: “We welcome the Tribunal’s finding that Dr Khalil’s fitness to practise is impaired and its decision to suspend him for nine months. The material we reported went far beyond legitimate criticism of Israel. It included ‘Death to Israel’, threats to wipe Israelis from the face of the earth, and grossly offensive references to the Torah, Talmud, Moses and Jewish prophets.

“Doctors occupy positions of enormous trust. Jewish and Israeli patients must be able to enter a hospital without wondering whether the doctor responsible for their care harbours this degree of hostility towards them or their community.
The New York Times’ Uncanny Knack for Finding the “Right” Israelis
Novak’s own résumé provides few plot twists. From 2012 to 2017, she ran Breaking the Silence, an organization of former Israeli soldiers whose anonymous testimonies have generated years of controversy over accuracy and verification, if rather less hesitation among the international media outlets eager to quote them. Now, as head of B’Tselem, she is making headlines with the latest accusation: “elimination.” Novak explains that this particular process does not actually require Palestinians to be eliminated. Instead, it describes a “logic” that makes Palestinian collective life increasingly impossible. How conveniently elastic. If “elimination” meant what most readers might reasonably assume it means – removal or destruction – she might have to contend with the awkward matter of a Palestinian population in the West Bank that continues to grow. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics itself put that population at 3.43 million at the end of 2025.

So why Novak? Why does today’s Times hand its opinion page to the head of an organization that had already accused Israel of apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing? And why does the whole exercise feel so familiar?

In June, the Times commissioned Israeli analyst Yonatan Touval to explain that American support is “Israel’s true weakness.” In July came Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov, warning readers in a guest essay that we are entering a “terrifying new era of genocide.” Then, in August, came “These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat,” in which the Times assembled an impressive collection of former Israeli security figures whose condemnations were presented as a striking awakening – provided, of course, one stopped reading at the military résumés. Look a little further and the impression of hardened security hawks undergoing some sudden revelation became rather harder to sustain.

There is a reason for this. The New York Times has a view of Israel, but that view acquires rather more authority when an Israeli can be found to express it. An American accusing Israel of apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing or “elimination” is just another critic. Put the same accusation in the mouth of an Israeli and suddenly it comes with a useful little rhetorical flourish: Look, even the Israelis say it.

And therein lies the trick. Israel has millions of citizens with wildly different political views, including generals, academics, activists and former officials. Yet whenever the Times needs an Israeli voice to validate its bleakest conclusions about the Jewish state, it demonstrates an uncanny ability to find exactly the right one.
Gaza-bound technocrats draw up 71 rebuidling projects, which hinge on Israeli approval
The new Palestinian technocratic government tasked with replacing Hamas in Gaza has crafted 71 projects for rehabilitating the war-decimated enclave, aiming to implement them in its first six months. Almost all of the plans however require significant cooperation from Israel, which has been largely reluctant to allow such efforts to date.

The Times of Israel obtained a copy of the “6-Month Gaza Recovery Program” that was drawn up by the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) and finalized during a late August meeting in London of its commissioners.

The NCAG is being closely supervised by the Board of Peace, a US-controlled body that was given a UN Security Council mandate to oversee the postwar management of the Gaza Strip.

The Recovery Program contains one-page summaries of the 71 projects, detailing their expected impact, the NCAG commissioner in charge and how much each will cost over a six-month period. They are designed in a way that potential donor countries and entities could adopt a particular project to bankroll.

The total funding needed for all of the programs is roughly $6 billion. While the US secured pledges for $17 billion in February, only a tiny fraction of that has been delivered and many of the offers came from Gulf countries, which have since shifted priorities amid the Iran war.

No start date is given for the projects, as almost all of them require the NCAG to first begin operating from inside Gaza. The technocratic committee has been stuck in Egypt since its establishment in January, as the Board of Peace spent months coaxing Hamas to accept a disarmament plan that would pave the way for the terror group to hand over control of Gaza to the NCAG.


ISIS supporter in Pennsylvania sought to poison synagogue food — FBI
A supporter of the Islamic State group in Pennsylvania sought to poison food and drink at synagogues and backed Hamas, according to a federal criminal complaint announced on Tuesday.

Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, was charged with firearm- and terrorism-related offenses in the Western District of Pennsylvania federal court.

An FBI agent with the Joint Terrorism Task Force said in a criminal complaint that law enforcement had first received an anonymous tip in 2023 about a Telegram group administrator, using the moniker “Nikolas Cruz,” who was posting threats online and sharing documents about assembling explosives and car bombs.

Investigators determined that Kramer, who also used the pseudonym on Discord, was behind the “Nikolas Cruz” account. A mass shooter named Nikolas Cruz carried out the Parkland high school shooting in 2018.

While investigating the Discord account in 2023, investigators found that Kramer allegedly solicited child sexual abuse material from a 14-year-old in Germany.

The FBI searched the home of Kramer’s parents, where he lived, in Valencia, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Investigators found a recording of Kramer pledging allegiance to ISIS on a laptop.

Kramer, a juvenile at the time, was charged in state court with plotting a mass casualty incident and possessing child sexual abuse material. He was sentenced to a juvenile treatment program that ended in March.


US-based Ondas buys Israeli defense tech firm in deal worth up to $390 million
US-based defense holding firm Ondas Technologies has agreed to buy Israel’s Gate Technologies, a developer of advanced electronic fuzes for the safe activation of autonomous precision-strike weapons, including loitering munitions and missiles.

Under the terms of the acquisition deal announced late on Monday, Ondas will pay $205 million, of which $105 million will be in cash and $100 million in Ondas common stock. Another payment of up to $185 million will be tied to Gate Technologies meeting performance and financial targets through 2028.

Founded in 1996, Shoham-based Gate Technologies is the developer of sophisticated miniaturized electronic components for initiation, actuation and detonation devices used for missiles, UAVs and other autonomous systems. The firm said its products have been integrated into dozens of modern weapon systems globally, including rockets, missiles, UAVs and loitering munitions, also known as “suicide drones” or “kamikaze drones.”

Nasdaq-listed Ondas develops autonomous drones, robotics and mission-critical technologies for government, defense and commercial customers, including the Israeli and US military. The US defense firm said the acquisition coincides with efforts by militaries around the world to rebuild stockpiles and increase the production of missiles, rockets, loitering munitions and other precision-strike systems.

“Munitions stockpiles are being rebuilt around the world, and a new generation of low-cost, autonomous munitions is becoming a growing part of the battlefield,” said Ondas chairman and CEO Eric Brock. “At the same time, the market is shifting from traditional mechanical fuzes to electronic safe-and-arm devices, which are essential for weapons that are smaller, smarter and software-defined.”
Global song to mark third anniversary of Oct. 7
A new international song and music video featuring voices representing 17 countries and cultures has been released ahead of the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre.

“The Whole World Sings Together,” created and produced by Friends of Zion founder Mike Evans, is intended to convey a message of solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people, remembrance of the victims of the attack and hope for the future.

The project features voices representing the United States, Israel, China, India, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Hungary, Iran, Yemen, Germany, Argentina, South Korea, Britain, Italy, Russia and Mexico.

Friends of Zion, a Jerusalem-based evangelical organization that promotes support for Israel and strengthens ties between Christians and the Jewish people, is inviting people around the world to watch and share the music video and sing the song on Oct. 7, creating what organizers hope will be a global moment of remembrance and solidarity.

Evans said the project was inspired by “We Are the World,” the 1985 charity single written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones. Recorded by more than 40 prominent American musicians as USA for Africa, the song raised awareness and funds for famine relief in Africa.

“In 1985, the world sang together for Africa. Now, the world must sing together for the Jewish people,” Evans said. “Oct. 7 cannot become another date that fades from memory,” he added. “We will remember the lives that were taken, the families that were shattered, the hostages who suffered, and the people who continue to carry wounds the world cannot see.”

Organizers said the song seeks to bring together people from different backgrounds through music, with performers representing communities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Its refrain emphasizes standing alongside the Jewish people and moving “through the darkness into light.”





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