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Thursday, October 01, 2026

09/30 Links Pt2: 85 years later: Babyn Yar and the fight against deliberate erasure; Jeremy Boreing: They're Trying To Eradicate the Jews; Melanie Phillips on how Britain sides with Islamist evil

From Ian:

85 years later: Babyn Yar and the fight against deliberate erasure
In 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote about the absence of a monument at Babyn Yar. His poem became a protest against the silencing of memory and against antisemitism.

In 1991, a menorah-shaped memorial to the Jewish victims was erected at the site, but the road to establishing a comprehensive memorial center was long. Memorials now stand there, yet the war has halted the momentum of construction and development.

Research continues, even under fire.

In September 2025, the center reported that 1,031 previously unidentified victims’ names had been added to its database since the outbreak of the war. Birth certificates, adoption applications, and court testimony are restoring identities once thought lost.

In the face of erasure, each name restores a person to memory.

A line connects Soviet erasure to Russian propaganda today. Once again, history is subordinated to the needs of the state.

The Kremlin justifies its invasion of Ukraine with the false claim that the country must be “denazified,” exploiting the memory of the victory over Nazism.

A study by Ruslan Kavatsiuk, Oleksiy Makukhin, and Violetta Seleznova, published this month in Eastern European Holocaust Studies, analyzes 4,263 Russian television broadcasts from 2012 to 2024.

The researchers show how “Nazism” became a label used to delegitimize Ukraine and justify military action against it. This, too, is a form of erasure: blurring the historical meaning of Nazism, pushing its victims to the margins, and replacing their story with a narrative that serves the state.

Then, the victims’ Jewish identity was suppressed; today, the memory of their murderers is exploited to justify aggression.

Through my work in Holocaust education and remembrance with March of the Living, I have learned the power of encountering the places themselves. Visiting a town, a synagogue, or a killing site connects historical knowledge to human lives.

To understand what was lost, we must know what existed: families, culture, spiritual life, and daily routines. This is how we counter erasure beyond commemorative ceremonies: by learning about communities, reading testimonies, and remembering names.

Babyn Yar should be a gateway to understanding Eastern European Jewry and its world, while also bearing witness to its destruction.

Ukraine’s efforts to confront this chapter of its past deserve recognition, as does its perseverance in the work of remembrance after more than four years of a devastating war.

On the 85th anniversary of the massacre, our responsibility is to protect memory against erasure, distortion, and manipulation.

That means returning to the facts, supporting research, opening archives, and making their findings accessible; teaching the Holocaust by bullets and learning about the communities that lived before they were murdered.

Behind the name Babyn Yar are tens of thousands of human beings, and beyond it are millions whose stories were buried in the soil of Eastern Europe.

Our duty is to remember their names, their lives, and their Jewish identity, and to ensure that no regime succeeds in bending their story to its own purposes.
The Palestinian Inquisition
Hasan Piker interviews politicians and other public figures and helps establish which answers are acceptable. Having likened liberal Zionists to 'liberal Nazis', he plays at being the grand inquisitor, the arbiter of correct beliefs. If any attachment to Israel puts you in the heretical category, what room is left for disagreement?

You don’t even have to be Jewish to find yourself before this tribunal. Ask Ed Sheeran. His crisis began when Macklemore was removed from Sheeran’s tour following pressure from venue owners over the rapper’s anti-Israel statements and history of anti-Semitic imagery.

Soon Sheeran’s own beliefs were on trial. A picture of him meeting a former Israeli hostage was enough to ‘prove’ he was irredeemable. And when he condemned the October 7 terrorist attacks while also calling the situation in Gaza catastrophic, this too was evidence against him. For some critics, acknowledging suffering on both sides was offensive. British MP Zarah Sultana accused him of ‘both-sidesing genocide’. Apparently, the problem with his compassion was extending it to all humans.

Saturday Night Live UK then turned his reluctance to take sides into a recurring joke. In one sketch, a fictional Sheeran remained unwilling to choose even during a conflict between humans and robots. The joke depended on the audience accepting that his neutrality was cowardice. When comedy writers can’t conceive of there legitimately being two sides to a two-sided conflict, that’s troublesome.

Sometimes you don’t even have to give any answer to become a victim of the inquisition. You just have to sit next to someone who gave the ‘wrong’ one. Pop singer Pink faced an immense backlash after criticising Macklemore’s concert remarks. Then Elizabeth Banks and Amy Adams were photographed sitting with her at the US Open. People began questioning them, too. In a Reddit discussion of the photographs, commenters condemned their friendliness toward Pink and flooded their Instagram accounts with hateful comments. Watching tennis with someone deemed ‘impure’ was enough to start the examination. The warning extends beyond what you’re allowed to say to who you’re allowed to be seen with.

You don’t even have to help anyone to pass the test. A person can donate to Palestinians privately and still fail if they don’t use the required language. Another person can make the proper declaration and be celebrated without being asked to do anything more. The words become the whole point.

The celebrity inquisition doesn’t need everyone to believe what they say. It only needs everyone to know what happens if they don’t say the right words.

‘Put me down for not getting burnt at the stake.’
Adam Brody blasted as ‘ignorant Jew’ over Palestine stance by former ‘Nobody Wants This’ Rabbi consultant
Adam Brody has been lambasted by former “Nobody Wants This” technical consultant, Rabbi Steve Leder, who called the actor an “ignorant Jew” over his comments on Palestine.

“Hi Adam, you might not remember me. My name is Rabbi Steve Leder, and I was the technical advisor for Season 1 of ‘Nobody Wants This,’” he began in a social media video, responding to Brody’s recently published comments to GQ — in which he referred to Israel’s attack on Gaza as a genocide.

“My job was to make sure that your character was authentic and that everything in Season 1 about Judaism was authentic,” he went on.

“Your pronouncement the other day about a genocide in Gaza was truly shocking, not only because of your misuse and mischaracterization of the word ‘genocide.’ There is no genocide in Gaza. There are genocides in other countries happening, but you failed to mention any of them.”

“You, by your own admission, are a relatively ignorant Jew, and your ignorance really showed the other day,” Leder said.

“If you’re gonna use a word like ‘genocide,’ you oughta know what it means, he continued, calling the way Brody referred to the term as “so flippant” and “disgusting,” while likening it to “asking for a table for two at Craig’s.”

“Here’s some more technical advice: If you know nothing about something, you should say nothing about it.”

Brody previously told GQ when asked about his stance on the Isreal-Gaza conflict, “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”

He added that he’s “hopeful that another administration can really do some good and correct some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.”

In Netflix’s hit series, Brody plays Rabbi Noah Roklov, who begins an unlikely romance with a non-Jewish podcaster Joanne Williams, who is played by Kristen Bell.


Jeremy Boreing: They're Trying To Eradicate the Jews | Ep. 63
This summer, Jordan Peterson posted a simple reminder about the term "Judeo-Christian": the Ten Commandments are Jewish, the great stories of the Old Testament are Jewish, and Christ Himself was a Jew. Parts of the online right pushed back immediately. Dale Partridge insisted the Old Testament is not Jewish. Jack Posobiec replied, "This is not what Christians believe." It looked like a debate about theological vocabulary, but it pointed to something much older and much darker.

In this monologue, Jeremy traces the return of the so-called Jewish Question, the "JQ." He starts with Britain's Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753, moves through the racialized antisemitism of the 19th century and Hitler's "Final Solution," and ends in the algorithm-driven online spaces where a generation of young Americans came of age during the COVID lockdowns. He examines the collapse in support for Israel among young evangelicals and the Groyper War. He also explains why he believes the online right's reaction to October 7th was "written in the algorithm" years before it happened.

00:00 "Christ Himself Was a Jew"
04:50 Young Evangelicals, COVID & the algorithm
08:55 Door 1: The Old Testament
14:12 Door 2: The New Testament
19:44 Door 3: America
24:04 Heritage Americans, "Unassimilable" & Stalin
27:36 Doors 4 & 5: Europe, Israel & Tucker's DNA Test
31:34 The Nowhere Doctrine & the Khazar Myth
33:57 Holocaust Revisionism, Hamas & "From the River to the Sea"
39:12 The Root That Supports You

At the center of the episode is what Jeremy calls the Nowhere Doctrine: five doors that antisemites on the left, on the right, and in Hamas are trying to close on the Jewish people.

The Old Testament. Is the Bible Jewish or Christian? Jeremy argues it is both. Historically it is the Scriptures of Israel, and theologically it is the inheritance of the Church. He draws on Luke 24, St. Augustine's City of God, and the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15.

The New Testament. Did the Jews kill Jesus? Jeremy walks through what Scripture actually says about the Jewish leaders, the Roman soldiers, Isaiah 53, and Christ's own words in John 10. He also responds to Tucker Carlson's claim that the IHRA definition of antisemitism makes "the whole New Testament" antisemitic.

America. Jeremy responds to Tucker Carlson's attacks on Ben Shapiro, to the dual-loyalty charge, and to "heritage American" arguments. He answers them with Article VI of the Constitution and George Washington's 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport.

Europe. This section covers the expulsions of 1290 and 1492, the Évian Conference, the voyage of the MS St. Louis, and the 1939 Eisenach Institute that tried to strip every Jewish element out of the New Testament.

Israel. Jeremy examines Tucker Carlson's proposal, made in his interview with Ambassador Mike Huckabee, to genetically test "everybody in the land." He also covers the story of Ruth the Moabite, Candace Owens' Khazar claims, and the genome-wide research that found no evidence of a Khazar origin for Ashkenazi Jews.

Jeremy also addresses Holocaust revisionism, Nick Fuentes' claim that Jews are "unassimilable," Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans," the Hamas charter, and the slogan "from the river to the sea."

The episode closes with a direct word to young Christians. In Romans 11, Paul asks, "Has God rejected his people?" and answers, "By no means!" He also reminds Gentile believers that they are the wild olive shoot, grafted in by grace: "It is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you."

Christianity, Jeremy argues, does not give us a more sophisticated reason to despise our neighbor. It denies us the right to despise him at all.

This episode discusses antisemitism, the Holocaust, and terrorism for the purpose of education and rebuttal. Quoted claims are presented in order to refute them.


Boundless Insights: Lessons from a Mossad Psychologist - with Glenn Cohen
What allows a person to survive the seemingly unendurable?

Glenn Cohen has spent much of his career trying to understand how human beings respond under extreme pressure. A former Israeli Air Force helicopter pilot and chief psychologist of the Mossad, he helped select and prepare elite personnel for high-risk missions, including the possibility of capture.

After October 7, that expertise was suddenly needed on an unprecedented scale. Cohen was called back into service, helped develop Israel’s protocols for receiving returning hostages, and led the team responsible for debriefing the 168 hostages who came home alive.

In this conversation, Cohen takes Aviva inside the psychology of captivity and survival. He explains what happens when people are stripped of control, how individuals can preserve agency under extreme conditions, and why enduring terrible trauma does not necessarily mean being permanently broken by it. He also reflects on the delicate process of bringing hostages home, the lessons Israel learned from earlier generations of returning POWs, and what the hostages themselves taught him about the limits — and surprising strength — of human resilience. As Cohen puts it: “We are capable of going to hell and coming back.”

Guest Bio:
Glenn Cohen is a former Mossad Chief Operational Psychologist, Israeli Air Force pilot, and IDF hostage negotiator. Following October 7, he returned to emergency reserve duty and was appointed the first mental-health professional to meet freed hostages upon their return to Israel. He helped develop Israel’s protocol for receiving returning hostages and led the team of psychologists that debriefed the 168 hostages released by October 2025. Today, he coaches executives and trains organizations on resilience and peak performance. His upcoming book on Post Traumatic Growth has been acquired by Simon and Schuster and Glenn is a sought-after international speaker. More information is available on his site Glenn-cohen.com.


spiked: Melanie Phillips on how Britain sides with Islamist evil | The Brendan O’Neill Show
Melanie Phillips – author of Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Melanie and Brendan discuss Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband’s demonisation of Israel, the myth of ‘settler violence’ in the West Bank, how Hamas controls the narrative on Gaza, and how Palestinianism became a cult.

0:00 Britain’s New Prime Minister
1:48 What’s Wrong With Andy Burnham?
5:10 Britain’s War on Israel
8:36 Ed Miliband’s Jewish Shield
14:00 The Two-State Delusion
19:29 Why Labour Has Turned on Israel
23:11 The Palestine Cause Has Taken Over
27:28 The Truth About Israeli Settlers
38:33 Is Israel Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians?
44:20 Who Really Wants Ethnic Cleansing?
47:14 What Hamas Doesn’t Want You to See
48:51 How Hamas Controls Gaza’s Journalists
50:32 The Footage the Media Didn’t Publish
52:21 Is Gaza Journalism Just Hamas Propaganda?


Jonathan Sacerdoti: ‘There's A Whole Machine’: Jonathan Sacerdoti on Karl Stefanovic Show explains Muslim Brotherhood
British journalist and commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti joins Karl Stefanovic to discuss Britain’s immigration crisis, integration, free speech and the changing face of the West.

Sacerdoti warns that Britain may have changed in a way that is ‘irreversible’, arguing that successive governments have allowed large numbers of people into the country while failing to demand enough integration. He also questions why the UK has struggled to stop illegal Channel crossings.

Sacerdoti also reveals what happened during his controversial Oxford Union appearances, including his viral debate on whether the West should be suspicious of Islam. He discusses threats, free speech and why he believes universities have become a battleground for competing ideas.

He also examines the Muslim Brotherhood and what he describes as its long-term strategy to build influence through Western institutions, before opening up about his father’s experience as a Holocaust survivor and why he believes freedom and Western values are worth defending.




Don’t let Randa Abdel-Fattah into Britain
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is very talented, very smart – and very dangerous. She is an academic, sociologist, lawyer and novelist, born in Australia to a Palestinian father and Egyptian mother. She is the darling of the Australian luvvies set, feted on university campuses and a fixture on the Australian writers’ festival circuit. She is highly articulate, very telegenic and sought-after media talent. She was a regular panellist on the Australian version of the BBC’s Question Time.

Academically, she specialises in what it means to be Muslim in Australia, and Islamophobia. She had benefited from several taxpayer-funded major research grants, and her institution, Sydney’s Macquarie University, is arguably the most ideologically progressive in Australia’s extremely ideologically progressive university system. She is very much at home there.

But Abdel-Fattah is also an outspoken activist for the Palestinian and Gaza cause, and a sworn enemy of the state of Israel.

In Australia, Abdel-Fattah has used her celebrity and media dexterity to amplify her outspokenness on the October 7 Hamas terrorist atrocities, and Israel’s conduct during the conflict in Gaza. Most notoriously, as news broke of the attacks on that dreadful 2023 day, Abdel-Fattah changed her social media avatar to a paraglider in Palestinian colours, keeping it there for several months (she claims she is not active on Facebook and did not realise the image had been up for months). On Australian television she refused to describe Hamas as a terrorist organisation.

Indeed, Abdel-Fattah’s Twitter feed is a stream of denunciations of Israel, ‘genocide’, and opponents of her pro-Gaza cause, right up to condemning Ed Sheeran for not opposing the cancellation of his support act, Macklemore, for on-stage Palestinian activism. In April 2024, she took a group of children to an anti-Israel protest camp at the University of Sydney, and led them in a chant of ‘intifada’.

She has consistently refused to change her views in the face of the conclusive proof of Hamas’s barbaric actions on 7 October and in Gaza, including after December’s Islamist outrage at Bondi beach in December. ‘In the context of the wholesale slaughter of my people, who Israel has trapped under bombs in Gaza, [the paraglider] image that represented a moment of freedom is not something I will apologise for’, she wrote earlier this year.

In January, the premier of South Australia, the Labor party’s Peter Malinauskas, called for her to be removed from the line-up of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival, funded by his government, while the wounds of Bondi were so raw. The organisers complied with the premier’s request, which Abdel-Fattah denounced as ‘censorship’. This led to most of the other invitees walking out, the resignation of the festival director – who, although herself Jewish, personally sided with Abdel-Fattah – and the cancellation of the entire event.

Curiously, however, when Jewish and pro-Israel writers were disinvited from similar events after October 7, there was silence from Abdel-Fattah. Nor did she criticise the doxxing of hundreds of Jewish creatives in 2024, who were targeted by activists simply because they are Jewish. As far as Abdel-Fattah is concerned, it seems free speech is for me and not for thee.

Her latest novel, Discipline, was written after 7 October, and revolves around the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. It was this book Abdel-Fattah was to promote in Adelaide; now she is coming to Britain on a promotional tour for it. It just so happens her planned 3-9 October visit coincides with the third anniversary of 7 October, a time of bitter pain for Jews not just in Israel and Britain, but throughout the West.

Randa Abdel-Fattah is a divisive figure in Australia, and revels in her profile and notoriety. Should she come to Britain, especially at the painfully sensitive time of 7 October, she would be equally divisive.
Taking in more Palestinian refugees is a terrible idea
On Sunday we learned that a former bodyguard to the leader of Hamas was granted citizenship in Britain before allegedly ‘plotting’ a terrorist attack against Jews in Europe. This has shown just how dangerous our migration and borders policies are, and how unsafe they have made us. The country is full of people who wish us ill and more arrive every week. Even Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s independent reviewer of terror legislation, has described mass migration as a national security threat. Last week we also learned that some illegal crossings were not being intercepted, meaning illegal migrants might well be bringing weapons with them.

The Home Secretary’s response to this, we learned on Monday, is to announce an act of profound national self-harm. At Labour’s conference, she announced a new legal route for refugees that prioritises Afghan women and girls, and Palestinians. Note the weasel words here – presumably Palestinian men will be welcome. According to the Guardian’s reporting, those ‘who arrive via the scheme will have a far more generous route to permanent settlement’ in which they will be ‘granted indefinite leave to remain, which will give them a five year path’ – in contrast with illegal arrivals who the government intends to grant refugee status with regular reviews. Apparently, the ‘Home Office expects about one in four arrivals to be Afghan women and girls and Palestinian refugees’, although we are reassured that ‘numbers will initially be very small and capped’.

This is an appalling idea. Palestinians are probably the worst migrant population on Earth. We know this because in March 1992, Denmark made the mistake of granting residence to 321 of them. As of 2016 over 63 per cent had been convicted of at least one crime, with 67 of them being jailed. Even then, in the 1990s, Palestinians were highly criminal and highly economically inactive. Now, having been ruled by Hamas for over two decades, fed endless anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda, they are even worse. Similarly, we know that Afghans have very low levels of economic activity and the men are around 14 to 20 times more likely to commit sexual offences than British men.

But, the migration maximalists will argue, that’s why the Home Secretary is cleverly only letting Afghan women and children use this scheme. The problem with this claim is that ‘family reunification’ will kick in as soon as they’re here. Just as with the Palestinian woman who imported 18 members of her extended family, so all the Afghan women and girls we allow into the country will soon be able to bring their brothers, husbands, sons and cousins to our shores. This is also the reason that the proposed caps, and the promise that numbers will ‘be very small’ are worthless. The British immigration system is built to maximise every route. And so opening these paths will doom us to an endless flow of people who should not be here and whose presence will be harmful to this country and its people.

If that wasn’t enough, the Home Secretary has also confirmed that new schemes will open, under which charities and not-for-profits can sponsor refugees. This will merely be a licence for extremist pro-migration groups to flood the country with their favourite nationalities.
Just six doctors sanctioned after 169 antisemitism complaints to GMC
Just six doctors have been sanctioned by Britain’s medical regulator after 169 were accused of antisemitism since the 7 October attacks, newly revealed figures show.

Two doctors were struck off the medical register, two received warnings, one was suspended, and another was required to agree to undertakings, according to figures reported by The Times following work with the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) group.

A further 34 cases remain under consideration by the General Medical Council (GMC).

Internal records seen by The Times reveal how some allegations of antisemitic or other racist behaviour were considered serious enough to be passed to a doctor’s employer or responsible officer, but did not result in a formal GMC investigation.

They included claims that doctors had made reference to “Jews rule the world” and posted a “Star of David with a swastika” on social media.

Since October 2023, 37 complaints involving alleged antisemitism or Islamophobia were referred to employers or responsible officers, compared with 33 that received further inquiry, investigation or a hearing by the GMC.

The revelations come weeks after CAA released a documentary examining allegations of antisemitism within the NHS.

They also follow a separate report this week that Dr Mazin Fageir, a senior trauma and orthopaedic surgeon and consultant at the Royal Free Hospital, shared a cartoon in May 2021 depicting Benjamin Netanyahu pushing a coffin draped in a Palestinian flag into a Nazi concentration camp oven.

According to The Telegraph, the image depicted the Israeli prime minister operating an oven of the kind used during the Holocaust, with the words “Arbeit Macht Frei” above it, a reference to the sign at the entrance to Auschwitz. The cartoon also exaggerated Netanyahu’s ears and nose.

Alex Hearn, co-director of Labour Against Antisemitism, described the post as another “blatantly anti-semitic” case and called for authorities to intervene.

Dr Fiona Sim, head of the Jewish Medical Association, told The Times: “The GMC has certainly said to us on many occasions they recognise conduct as being antisemitic but – for reasons which we don’t understand and are not really explained – they don’t feel that they are seriously antisemitic enough to be taken further.”

She added: “Unlike regulatory sanctions imposed by the GMC for matters of a doctor’s conduct, which are published, the complainant typically hears nothing more if the complaint is referred to their employer or (the NHS). It could be that appropriate actions are taken, but there is very little assurance that the behaviour won’t be repeated.”

The number of antisemitism complaints involving doctors has risen sharply since the Hamas attacks on Israel. There were eight allegations in the year to 7 October 2023, compared with more than five a week since then, according to information obtained by CAA.

Steven Silverman, CAA’s director of investigations, said: “With so few antisemitism cases resulting in action against the offender, is it any wonder that anti-Jewish racism and extremism are rife in the NHS?”


Brendan O'Neill: Why can’t we kick this Gazan nutter out of Britain?
What the hell does an illegal immigrant have to do to get deported from Britain? There are men who criminally crossed our borders and raped our women and yet they’re still living it up here. Often at taxpayers’ expense. Globalism’s cruellest trick: forcing law-abiding citizens to fund the lifestyles of foreign-born rapists. One lowlife from Syria sexually assaulted three women and not only has he not been deported, he wasn’t even jailed. And it’s not just Britain’s women that men from afar can demean pretty much at will – it’s Britain’s Jews, too.

Consider the case of Mosab Abdulkarim Al-Gassas, also known as Abu Wadee. He’s a 34-year-old ‘asylum seeker’ and TikToker from Gaza who sailed to Britain illegally last year. It was soon discovered that he had been a member of a militant gang in Gaza. He’d also posed on social media with an AK-47. Worse, he openly called for the death of Jews. ‘Punish [them] completely’, he said in a Facebook post in 2024. Allah should ‘kill them one by one’, he said. ‘Destroy them completely. Make the Earth fall from under their feet.’

Surely this piece of shit who publicly dreamt of an Islamo Final Solution as recently as 2024 was sent packing? UK government officials love the phrase ‘not conducive to the public good’. All sorts – from Kanye to Hasan Piker to a cranky Polish priest – have been barred from Britain for their offensive beliefs. This brutish intruder who just two years ago said every Jew on Earth should be murdered must have been barred too, right? Nope. Not a bit of it.

He’s living his best life in Corby in the East Midlands. He’s in an HMO there. That’s a house in multiple occupation – ‘asylum seeker’ accommodation funded from the taxes of working Brits. I know it’s not the main point but illegal immigrants must be laughing their heads off at weak, dumb Britain. They barge in here illegally, this guy with a very public record of spouting venomous hatred against Jews, and instead of saying ‘Fuck off’ we say: ‘Here’s a house. Relax.’

Wadee served a nine-month jail sentence for ‘trying to enter the UK illegally’. (Trying? He succeeded.) That’s actually quite unusual: most illegal immigrants are let loose in the community mere days after arrival. And now he can’t be deported because of the lack of ‘safe and legal routes’ back to Gaza. So we’re lumbered with him. A known anti-Semite must stay. Suck it up, British Jews. A headline in the Telegraph captured the insanity of it all: ‘Gun-toting migrant who called for the slaughter of Jews cannot be deported.’

Read that again. Really take it in. You can break into Britain and have a documented history of fascistic invective and still you’ll be allowed to stay. This week, Wadee told the local newspaper – the Northants Telegraph – that he only made those remarks about Jews under pressure from Hamas. No doubt I’ll be called a ZioNazi for saying I don’t believe him. More to the point, I just don’t think we should risk it. I think we have a greater duty of care to the 300,000 Jews who contribute so much to British life than we do to some gurning arsehole from Gaza who’s been here five minutes. That’s controversial? God help us.

The Wadee case sums up the moral paralysis of the British state, its wheezing, creaking inability to act in the interests of the people of this country. The state failed to stop the boat Wadee was on. It failed to deport him when he came out of jail. So now we have a man in our country who very recently prayed for the mass murder of Jews. Let’s not beat around the bush: he is here because of the government. He is all but a guest of the state.
Soros nephew divulges how family's power helped bankroll El-Sayed's education during secretive fundraiser
Jeffrey Soros, the wealthy nephew of billionaire Democrat mega-donor George Soros, detailed his yearslong connection to Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during a Monday night fundraiser, according to footage obtained by Fox News Digital.

The Soros nephew, a wealthy Hollywood producer, hosted El-Sayed at his home Monday night for a fundraiser that attracted controversy given the emphasis the candidate has placed on getting money out of politics. During remarks, Soros noted that he played a key role in helping El-Sayed get his career off the ground, according to footage obtained by Fox News Digital.

"I just wanted to welcome you here and express my appreciation for coming. And it's been a privilege," Soros said while standing next to El-Sayed during the event, the footage showed. "Speaking of privilege, I've had the pleasure of knowing Abdul since 2012. I got to interview him as a finalist for my parents. Fellowship, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans."

The El-Sayed campaign and the Los Angeles Media Fund, where Soros serves as CEO, did not respond to requests for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Tuesday.

Attendees were asked not to record the event, a common practice at many political fundraisers, organizers said in footage reviewed by Fox News Digital.

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which is designed to help immigrants and the children of immigrants get a leg up in the United States, pays out tens of thousands of dollars in stipend and tuition support to winners. El-Sayed won the fellowship in 2012, and it is touted on its website as one of its success stories.

The financial and political ties come as El-Sayed has made the influence of wealthy donors a recurring theme of his campaign.

"The fundamental corruption of our politics has been the system that allows corporations and would-be oligarchs and billionaires to buy politicians," El-Sayed said during a 2025 local news interview.

"I want to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, pass Medicare for All," he said during a follow-up interview.

A flyer promoting the Soros fundraiser, which was attended by Hollywood notables, stated that attendees could donate up to $57,800 to the Abdul for Michigan Victory Fund, Fox News Digital previously reported. The Soros family’s political machine has also dumped millions into political committees that are supporting El-Sayed’s run for Senate.

"Abdul El-Sayed raising dark Soros money in California after begging Chuck Schumer for money in DC is the least surprising thing he’s done all cycle," Alyssa Brouillet, communications director for GOP nominee Mike Rogers' campaign, previously told Fox News Digital. "That’s what a conman does — says one thing and does another. Michiganders can’t trust this guy."


Mamdani Strategy on Protecting Jews Is Denounced by Jews
The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, a boycott-Israel activist since his college days who as recently as this month was denouncing the Israeli prime minister as a war criminal who should be arrested and prosecuted, rolled out a "strategy to combat antisemitism" that was immediately met with withering derision from the very Jewish community the strategy was ostensibly intended to protect.

The UJA-Federation of New York, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, and the New York Board of Rabbis issued a joint statement denouncing Mamdani's plan. "It fails to address a central issue that the mayor himself has perpetuated: rhetoric that demonizes and delegitimizes Israel inevitably leads to the targeting of Jewish New Yorkers," the statement said. "Those who truly seek to address antisemitism must unequivocally reject such rhetoric and help ensure that Jewish New Yorkers are never made to feel suspect, excluded, or unsafe in their own city."

The Anti-Defamation League of New York and New Jersey also laced into Mamdani. "This mayor does not treat the hate facing Jewish New Yorkers as an emergency and refuses to acknowledge the different shapes it takes. Since he took office 271 days ago, ADL has recorded hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC, nearly 40% of which were related to Israel," the league said. "He has looked the other way as flags glorifying terror groups have been flown outside synagogues, a deliberate act meant to intimidate families walking in to pray, and as crowds gathered outside houses of worship voicing support for the same groups. At the same time, he continues prioritizing his anti-Israel agenda over the basic promises he made to Jewish New Yorkers."

ADL's national CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, also weighed in. "Security grants do not substitute for moral clarity. A mayor who will not define antisemitism, will not confront terror flags being marched around in Jewish neighborhoods and terror sympathizers at the doorstep of a synagogue, and will not put his own politics aside is not fighting this crisis. He is managing around it," Greenblatt said. "The mayor's actions or inactions only serve to help fuel antisemitism in NYC."

Israeli diplomats based in New York were even more fierce in their denunciations of Mamdani and his "strategy."

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said, "Mamdani, you fan the flames and then shout 'fire.' You are the one who kindled the hatred in New York City against Jews! You are the biggest inciter—and the last one who can comment on this matter."

The consul general of Israel in New York, Ofir Akunis, said in a statement directed at the mayor, "Until you recognize that your language against the Jewish State, which you don't recognize as the homeland of the Jewish people, is the fundamental reason for the rise of antisemitism in New York City, it will continue to increase."


NYC’s First Lady Is ‘In Residence’ at Israel-Hating Islamic Wellness Retreat in Portuguese Castle: Organizers Called for Abolishing Israel, ‘Cleansing’ It of Jews
Eat, pray, bomb.

New York City's first lady is currently wrapping up a week as an "artist-in-residence" at a luxury Islamic wellness retreat that has called for the destruction of Israel and openly celebrated Palestinian terrorism, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.

While Rama Duwaji went from the river to the spa, her husband rolled out his own "strategy to combat antisemitism"—a move widely panned by Jewish New Yorkers.

Duwaji's attendance at the spiritual wellness gathering in Porto, Portugal was previously reported by the New York Post, but the extremism of the group had not been previously known.

The retreat, known as the Women Sanctuary, is currently in its second session of the month at an 18th-century Portuguese castle that's now a high-end hotel and event space. The listed price for five nights in a private, single room at the Women's Sanctuary is $5,216.

Duwaji, who calls herself "a Syrian illustrator and animator" even though she was born in Houston, is believed to be doing Arabic calligraphy at the retreat. She is currently featured on the Women Sanctuary website as a member of the team, bizarrely under the fake name "Karl Holland."

The sanctuary was started by Rym Nur, a "Paris-based creative," for women looking to "find sisterhood and spiritual connection through online book clubs, pop-up events and retreats," according to Vogue Arabia.

The retreats also center heavily on Islam—and are not-too-subtly often held in high-end Southern European locales in Sicily, Spain, and Portugal, lands which were occupied by the Arab caliphates in the Middle Ages. In recent decades, Middle Eastern terror movements like ISIS and al Qaeda have openly aspired to start a new caliphate.

"We gathered to reclaim our history," the Women Sanctuary said of a recent Mallorca trip.

Photos from Women Sanctuary promotions show women in hijabs and chadors looking peaceful in sun-kissed and beguiling Mediterranean settings.

Nur began doing retreats—which she calls an "ode to Allah"—in September 2023 and from the get-go made the destruction of Israel a front-and-center issue of the programming.

"Abolish the colonial apartheid state of Israel. Free Palestine," the Women Sanctuary said in an October 2025 Instagram post during a retreat in Corsica (during the Middle Ages, Muslim raiders terrorized Corsican villages and sold the Christian villagers into slavery).
Senate hopeful apologizes after saying Maine Jews won’t call Gaza war genocide ‘because they’re Jewish’
Democratic Maine Senate hopeful Troy Jackson apologized Wednesday after complaining that Jewish residents of his state have been reluctant to label Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip a genocide, saying that hesitation was “only because they’re Jewish.”

Jackson, who has faced pressure from his left flank to more forcefully condemn the Jewish state, made the initial comment Tuesday to Portland’s NBC affiliate.

“It’s unfortunate that there are people here in Maine that don’t like to use that term only because they’re Jewish and what that means to them, with the Holocaust,” said Jackson, according to Jewish Insider.

“[Israel’s war in Gaza] fits that description and it is. It’s [an] unbelievable thing that’s happened there that people that are innocent are being murdered, and it is a genocide.”

Just 1% of Maine’s 1.4 million population identify as Jewish, according to the Pew Research Center, and the state is routinely ranked in surveys as one of the least religious in the US.

In addition, experts have noted that the ratio of confirmed civilian deaths to combatant deaths in Gaza is the lowest in the history of modern warfare.

In the face of criticism, Jackson issued a statement Wednesday saying he was sorry for the “pain” his remark caused.

“I believe what’s happening in Gaza is genocide, and I also understand that word carries particular weight for many Jewish families given the Holocaust — the genocide of six million Jews,” he said. “In trying to acknowledge that, I misspoke and made a generalization about Jewish Mainers’ views that doesn’t reflect what I meant to say.”

“Mainers hold a range of deeply considered views, and I promise I will always listen and work to approach these conversations with the care and respect they deserve. In the US Senate, I’ll fight antisemitism and work for lasting peace and security for Palestinians and Israelis.”

When asked at another point in Tuesday’s interview about Hamas’ attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which sparked the conflict, Jackson responded with equivalence, saying: “There’s people that are wrong on both sides of this issue. But in the end, senseless murders, horrific murders are happening to both sides, and that has to stop.”

The Democrat also called for an end to all US aid to Israel at least while Benjamin Netanyahu, whom Jackson called a “war criminal,” was prime minister.
Dem socialist trying to unseat LA mayor says at Jewish event that she was guest on antisemite’s show to reach its audience
Progressive Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman did more to harm her chances against Mayor Karen Bass by defending her appearance on antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker’s show and saying that she supports the movement to boycott Israel than she did by reiterating her stance that Israel is guilty of “genocide,” according to political science scholar Dan Schnur.

“Raman was already on the record on genocide, but she just did the math,” Schnur, who lectures at Pepperdine University, University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, told JNS.

“There are a lot more progressives in Los Angeles than there are Jews, and not every Jew is necessarily a strong supporter of Israel,” he said, but “her lines on BDS and Hasan Piker were more damaging.”

Raman and Bass faced off at a mayoral forum at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, during which they appeared separately on stage, on Wednesday.

Alex Cohen, a journalist, posed questions to each candidate at the event, which the Skirball Center, Jewish Federation Los Angeles, Jewish Family Service LA and the Los Angeles chapters of the Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee co-hosted.

Cohen told Raman that her May appearance on Piker’s show was “deeply hurtful to many voters, considering what Piker has said in the past about Jews and his praise for terrorist organizations.”

Given that Raman told ABC News that she “vehemently” disagrees with some of his statements, why did she go on Piker’s program, Cohen asked.

Raman said that as someone seeking higher office, she has to “go and speak to voters” on various platforms. She added that many of Piker’s viewers are Los Angeles voters, and many young people don’t watch television and don’t get political mailers at home.

“I felt like I responded to the questions that he asked me with honesty about where my platform and my views were,” she said. “He asked me certain questions that I said ‘yes’ to, and there were others where I pushed back against, like questions about the existence of the State of Israel, and I stood my ground on those issues.”

Cohen noted that Raman agreed with Piker that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza and asked how she defines the term and what she would say to Jews, who see it as “highly inflammatory.”

Raman said that she’s “not an expert on these issues,” but experts have said that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a “genocide.”

“I felt compelled to speak out about issues that we saw—the images that are coming, the targeting of hospitals, the deaths of children,” she said. “I was the first in City Hall to condemn the attacks on Oct. 7. I condemned them without reservation, and I will speak up when there are issues that require condemnation.”

Marc Graboff, an AJC Los Angeles board member, asked Raman in what ways she diverges from the Democratic Socialists of America, including its support for efforts to boycott Israel. Raman said that boycotting the Jewish state is a “legitimate form of peaceful protest.”


Palestine Action US founder funded radical media outlets, is tied to Iran state TV
A network established by the founder of Palestine Action US has helped fund and develop a web of media outlets used to promote its radical messaging, with the network extending into organizations connected to Iranian state media.

This was revealed exclusively to The Jerusalem Post by Honest Reporting on Wednesday.

Honest Reporting’s investigation maps a media ecosystem allegedly funded or supported by the network behind US-designated terrorist group Palestine Action, showing how its ideology and messaging spread through seemingly independent outlets.

Palestine Action is an anti-Israel protest group founded in the UK in 2020. Its work - before its proscription by the UK in 2025 - mainly involved the vandalism and destruction of defense factories, companies and Israel-linked institutions.

A US branch of Palestine Action was launched in October 2023 by multi-millionaire heir turned communist activist James Cox ‘Fergie’ Chambers. Palestine Action US describes itself as a “direct action network.” The UK branch was recently designated and sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in August 2026. The US branch has not been designated.

Founder facing extradition to the US over Hamas financing, support
Chambers is currently facing extradition from Spain to the US over alleged Hamas financing and Hamas support. The Irish Times cited Chambers’ partner Stella Schnabel as saying he is accused of providing Hamas with $7.5 million in funding. He himself received $250 million after divesting from his family’s media conglomerate, Cox Enterprises, in 2023, according to his spokesperson.

In July 2026, Chambers tweeted, “If Pal Action is terrorism, terrorism is awesome.”

The Post also found a November 2023 interview with the LA Magazine where Chambers said he uses some of this wealth to pay the legal fees for members of UK Palestine Action.

Under Chambers’ leadership, a wider network was born.

In July 2023, ahead of the creation of the US branch of Palestine Action, Chambers and a few of his “comrades” created the Babochki Collective, described as “a cadre collective focused on revolutionary funding, propaganda and political education, direct action/legal support, and the open proliferation of a steadily stronger anti-imperialist united front.”

Among the Babochki founders was Palestine Action co-founder Calla Walsh as well as Paige Belanger, both of whom participated in a November 2023 Palestine Action vandalism attack on a New Hampshire Elbit Systems facility.

According to Honest Reporting, Chambers and Babochki have financially backed and founded several news outlets and organizations, “expanding their violent radicalism across the information landscape.”

The financial records of the Babochki Collective show that it transferred $350,000 to the Atlanta Community Press Collective, “an abolitionist” nonprofit media organization, on October 9, 2023. The Atlanta outlet itself lists Babochki among its donors.

Additionally, as reported by the Free Press, Chambers’ Alford compound housed the journal Combat Liberalism and the Berkshire Communists (the former edited by Chambers and the latter founded by him).

Furthermore, according to Chambers himself, Babochki gave three financial grants to anti-Zionist news outlet Mondoweiss: two grants in the first three months of the Collective’s operation, and $20,000 in October 2023.


University of Florida Faculty Group Hosts Study Session on PFLP Terrorists
A group made up of University of Florida faculty and staff is running a political-education series that includes a class built around the writings of two figures tied to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.

The six-part series, organized by UF Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine, includes a session titled “Breaking the Iron Wall: How Have Palestinian Revolutionaries Understood Zionism?” The class centers on Ghassan Kanafani, a founding PFLP official and political bureau member, and Walid Daqqa, who was convicted of commanding the PFLP-affiliated group responsible for abducting and killing 19-year-old Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam.

The underlying course description describes Kanafani and Daqqa as “Palestinian revolutionaries” and says participants will study their writings to develop an analysis of Zionism capable of “guiding political action against it.”

The program is organized by UF FSJP, not by the university itself.

UF FSJP initially advertised the broader program as a free six-session series running from September 14 through November 23, with sessions originally planned for UF’s Marston Science Library. The group later said the university would not allow the “Understanding Zionism” discussions to be held on campus.

A flyer for the Kanafani-Daqqa session lists Curia on the Drag, a private Gainesville venue, as its location.

Curriculum Mirrors Activist Course
The UF program closely mirrors a political-education course launched in New York in 2025 by The People’s Forum under the same title, “Understanding Zionism: A 6-Part Study for the Palestine Movement.”

The original course describes itself as intended for organizers and people who support the Palestinian movement and says its purpose is to deepen their understanding of Zionism while expanding their engagement in the movement for Palestinian liberation.

Its instructors included organizers from The People’s Forum and the Palestinian Youth Movement. The Kanafani and Daqqa session specifically lists the Palestinian Youth Movement as its organizer.

The Gainesville series follows the same framework. UF FSJP described its program as political education intended to deepen participants’ understanding of Zionism while expanding their engagement in the Palestinian liberation movement.

The UF group’s public page also directs students to get involved with the university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.

A Founding PFLP Figure
Kanafani was a prominent Palestinian writer, but he also held senior positions inside the PFLP. A Palestinian historical biography states that Kanafani took part in founding the PFLP in December 1967, was elected to its political bureau, became its official spokesman and oversaw its media activities.

He later edited al-Hadaf, the PFLP’s publication, until his death in Beirut in 1972.The United States designated the PFLP as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997.


Ex-Fatah strongman Dahlan may join with Hamas to challenge PA’s Abbas at ballot box
A former Fatah strongman exiled from Gaza is in talks to form a political alliance with leading terror organizations Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to run in planned Palestinian elections, a spokesperson for Dahlan’s breakaway faction has confirmed to The Times of Israel.

Dahlan, once a top figure in Fatah, was ousted from the political movement led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas nearly two decades ago, but continues to play an outsized role as a powerful fixer in Palestinian and Gulf politics.

Though the leading Abbas critic would likely remain behind the scenes from his Emirates perch, the formation of an alliance under his Fatah Reformist Democratic Faction could give Hamas and other armed groups that could be banned from the vote an avenue to participate under another name, creating a significant challenge to Abbas’s long-running rule over the PA.

This week, Islamic Jihad Deputy Secretary General Mohammed al-Hindi told the AP that his group had agreed to form a unified slate with Hamas as well as Dahlan.

And in an interview on September 26, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya said his movement would participate in parliamentary elections scheduled for late November as part of a “national coalition,” but did not elaborate.

Abbas has said parliamentary elections will be held November 28 in Gaza and the West Bank. But he has repeatedly delayed elections, most recently in 2021, when Fatah appeared headed for defeat.

When Hamas won the last elections, in 2006, Israel and Western countries boycotted its government, fueling months of unrest that led to its takeover of Gaza the following year. Then-PA prime minister and senior Hamas leader in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh, left, with then-Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan in Gaza City, March 17, 2007. (AP Photo/File)

An overt alliance between Hamas and Dahlan would mark an unusual turn for the longtime foes.

Dahlan, who once served as the PA’s security chief in Gaza, spent years hunting down Hamas members, and remains critical of the group. But the sides have also maintained behind-the-scenes ties in recent years, particularly given that Dahlan retains a base of supporters in Gaza that has persisted throughout nearly two decades of Hamas rule.

Hamas said in August that al-Hayya had met Dahlan in Cairo and discussed ways to “end the monopolization of national decision-making and formulate a comprehensive national strategy.”

The Iran-backed Islamic Jihad has a long history of working alongside Hamas. Its participation in elections, however, would mark a departure from its previous position eschewing Palestinian elections as part of a hardline stance that wholly rejects the Palestinian Authority framework.


US colleges with history of anti-Israel activism to stage play with Oct. 7 survivor testimony
Almost a year after Northwestern University agreed to a $75 million federal settlement over allegations of Jew-hatred, the private school in Evanston, Ill., will host a play on Oct. 6 based entirely on survivor accounts of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terror attacks.

The Hillel at the school is slated to show the play “October 7,” presented by the Unreported Story Society and directed by Jeff Gurner, as a staged reading at its Cahn Auditorium. JNS spoke previously with Irish journalists Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, who wrote the play using interviews that they conducted in Israel after the attacks.

“Hearing survivors’ testimony performed word-for-word turns Oct. 7 from an abstraction into human beings, and that’s something every student needs to encounter,” Noah Oxfeld, a senior at Northwestern, told JNS. “This is education at its most honest and its most necessary.”

Under a November 2025 settlement with the Trump administration, Northwestern agreed to pay $75 million and end an agreement it negotiated with anti-Israel encampment protesters in 2024. It admitted no wrongdoing.

Yali Koch, a student at Northwestern, told JNS that the production is “a great medium for helping people understand the human impact of the atrocities committed on Oct. 7, presenting a more complete picture of the conflict and hopefully fostering more productive conversations.”

According to Koch, anti-Israel sentiment has been “normalized” among students, who are “left without the resources or context to form their own informed opinions.”

The production will also be staged at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Dec. 8. Jewish students at the private school told JNS recently that Cornell would be allowing an antisemitic student to return to campus.

At a recent event hosted by Cornell students featuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), student leaders from the university’s chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America led the audience in a chant of “from the river to the sea” and praised the “student intifada.” Jewish organizations and leaders have long said that the first statement calls for Israel to be erased, and the second incites antisemitic violence.

Sofia Eliasi, a Cornell sophomore, told JNS that “from 30-second videos on social media to flashy campus protests and catchy chants, there is a lot of noise for the average college student to filter through and learn what truly happened on Oct. 7, 2023.”

Eliasi said that staging the play at Cornell “allows eyewitness experiences to circumvent editorializing and illuminate what really occurred that day.”





 


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