Monday, November 09, 2026

11/09 Links Pt2: When Marx met Hamas; Leiter: NYT spread blood libel against Jewish state, fueled false genocide accusations; ‘We’re never really going to be safe,’ Dara Horn says at Kristallnacht commemoration

From Ian:

When Marx met Hamas
The embarrassment of Israel
What is Israel today to Western civilisation’s Marxist-Islamist opponents? It is an embarrassment, a reminder of their failure. Marx and his followers never did “make the Jew impossible”. With its different social classes all proud of faith, flag and family, no land gives the lie to the Marxist worldview quite like Israel. For Islamists, Israel created in two generations what its neighbours could not in fourteen centuries: simply, a decent place to live. Envy always comes out sideways.

The alt-right is now shot through with antisemitism of its own, but when the Green Party equates Zionism with racism as official doctrine and calls for a single Palestinian state, its members should know that this implies annihilating Israel as a Jewish nation. Its activists seek the establishment of a Palestinian state by “all available means”.

As Jake Wallis Simons outlined in his book Never Again: How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself, the West’s opponents are interlinked and interdependent. Antisemitism, anti-Zionism, Putin apologism, Hitler-revisionism, Tehran-backed terror. They appear to be opposed but are mutually-reinforcing. Aleksandr Dugin, dubbed Putin’s philosophical guru, has praised the “conservative revolutionist” Osama Bin Laden while Russian assistance to the messianic Iranian regime is well known.

Of course, like its western equivalent, Islamic antisemitism flourished centuries before Karl Marx came on the scene. Aside from the enforced second-class dhimmitude of Jews (and Christians) in the traditional Islamic hierarchy, Islam’s colonisation of Spain was followed by ferocious pogroms which saw the slaughter of thousands of Jews. But the postcolonial New Left has blended Marxism with historic regional enmities to create a toxic brew.

After the Palestine Liberation Organisation became a paid-up KGB client (literally: it took $200,000 a month through the 1970s), its job was turning international socialism against the state of Israel — and, inevitably, Jews. As Wallis Simons describes, Yasser Arafat “shamelessly ventriloquised Israelophobic propaganda, railing against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism and racism, the chief form of which is Zionism.” Arafat (and Moscow’s) eliding Palestinianism with anticolonialism was a “genius […] sleight of hand”. Since its aim was ejecting Jews from their ancient homeland, it was also the opposite of the truth. In his PhD thesis at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University, his successor Mahmood Abbas would argue that Zionists engineered the Holocaust as a pretext to establish Israel, exaggerating the number of Jewish dead sixfold. Our Labour Government has just granted him an embassy in London.

By the end of the 1970s, Palestinianism was engaged in a parallel assault on truth in the universities. In Orientalism, Palestinian-American academic Edward Saїd applied the same Marxist hierarchy of oppression to the postcolonial world, again eliding the restored ancient Jewish state with imperialism while bemoaning the failure of the (actually imperialist) Arab armies to destroy Israel in the Six Day War. Combining Islamic grievances and Marxist philosophy, this Third-Worldism has ruined much of the Western academy.

The Modern Age in arms
Faced by the Islamo-Marxists, our era begins to feel like the moment in Evelyn Waugh’s Men At Arms when the English Catholic protagonist Guy Crouchback hears the news of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, that 1939 non-aggression treaty between Stalinism and Nazism:

… everything had become clear. The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms. Whatever the outcome, there was a place for him in that battle.

The enemy is in plain view once more. Socialism has returned to its roots, seeking the annihilation of peoples. What is to be done? The treatment must include our education system. Restoring western immunity to such mind-viruses means teaching our shared Judeo-Christian philosophical heritage, whence our sense of self arose. To save the tree, rejuvenate civilisation from the roots.
When tikkun olam comes at the expense of solidarity with Israel
There is no need to abandon tikkun olam to preserve Jewish solidarity. Secular Israelis volunteer in Africa and other remote regions, provide free medical care, assist local farmers, and share professional knowledge. They do so out of humanism and moral responsibility, without renouncing their national identity.

But perhaps American Jews who place tikkun olam at the center of their identity should ask themselves a difficult question: What happens if the assumption that the world will embrace us because of everything we have done to improve it proves wrong?

Vivian Silver, a peace activist from Kibbutz Be’eri, devoted her life to helping Palestinians. She helped patients from Gaza reach Israeli hospitals for treatment and worked tirelessly to promote coexistence.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists murdered her in her home. Her story is a heartbreaking reminder that goodwill and generosity cannot guarantee protection against those who reject the possibility of coexistence.

By all means, continue to practice tikkun olam. Help the disadvantaged, fight discrimination, and contribute to a better world. But don’t abandon your insurance policy along the way.

Israel is the one Jewish state, the national home of the Jewish people, and ultimately the place that provides Jews everywhere with a measure of collective security and refuge.

Its survival should matter just as much to a Jew living in Detroit or Miami as it does to one living in Tel Aviv.
Mamdani’s plan to fight antisemitism omits NYC college campuses, critics claim
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to combat antisemitism glaringly omits tackling rampant, anti-Jewish hatred at local colleges and universities, Jewish faculty and staff at CUNY and NYU said

The Mamdani administration’s “Strategy to Combat Antisemitism,” released in September, makes scant mention of colleges and universities, though City Hall said it met with all with Jewish leaders “from all corners of the community” including parents, students and educators.

“In a city that is home to one of the world’s greatest concentrations of public and private universities and colleges, the near absence of higher education from the Strategy is a significant omission,” the CUNY Alliance for Inclusion and the Faculty and Staff Against Antisemitism at NYU said in a joint statement to The Post.

“Those commitments should extend meaningfully to New York City’s colleges and universities.”

The faculty groups said antisemitism in higher education cannot be understood solely through claims regarding hate crimes and physical insecurity.

Antisemitism can also seep into the structures of academia including departments, faculty governance, academic associations, professional networks, labor unions, graduate-worker organizations, and others that determine “whose scholarship and viewpoints are treated as legitimate topics for discussion and debate.”

The CUNY and NYU groups also warned that bashing of Israel and Zionism can explode into antisemitism.

Mamdani himself is a fierce critic of Israel and his report was previously criticized for not mentioning Zionism once in its 33 pages and for refusing to adopt a formal definition of what constitutes antisemitism.


Leiter: NYT spread blood libel against Jewish state, fueled false genocide accusations
The New York Times had helped spread a blood libel against Israel, and the motivation behind accusations of genocide against Israel “is to prepare the next genocide against us,” Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Yehiel Leiter said on Sunday.

Addressing the 43rd International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York, Leiter recounted a meeting with the paper’s editorial board.

“Exactly one year ago, in two days, on Nov. 10, I met with the editorial board of The New York Times,” Leiter related. “I went into a room. They were the jury. They were the judge. They were the firing squad—15 editors with another six on the screen. And they were accusing me. They were accusing the government of Israel they were accusing chayalei tzahal [the soldiers of Israel] of a genocide, of starving people to death.”

Leiter presented the editors with facts, he said: the number of trucks carrying humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip every day; how soldiers risked their lives to protect non-combatants; and how the combatant-to-civilian ratio in the war was the lowest in modern history.

In response, he said, “they gave me feelings.”

About 45 minutes into the conversation, one editor objected by saying “everybody can’t be wrong.” Leiter replied that “not everybody is wrong. Not everybody thinks that we’re committing genocide.”

To the extent that everyone does think so, Leiter told the editor, it was the Times that was responsible.

He cited as an example a July 2025 Times report titled “Gazans Are Dying of Starvation” featuring a photo of Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, an 18-month-old Palestinian from Gaza. Mohammed was emaciated. “Anybody who saw the picture immediately thought of the Holocaust,” Leiter said. “So now we were the perpetrators of genocide. Once we were the victims, and now we’re the Nazis.”

What the Times had neglected to mention, Leiter told the editor, is that the boy suffered from a genetic disease, cerebral palsy and other illnesses. The Times also cropped from the picture the boy’s perfectly healthy brother.

“The senior editor of The New York Times said to me, ‘Ambassador, don’t you think you’re making too much of a misappropriation?’ I said ‘No, that’s not a misappropriation. That’s a blood libel.’”

The ambassador told the audience: “There is no difference between what is being done to us today and what was done to our grandparents in the ghettos of Europe 800 years ago. This is a blood libel. This is very serious. We have to know how to identify what the enemy is and who the enemy is. This is not another antisemitic rant. Please understand, this is a blood libel, and a blood libel will cost lives. And the reason why they are accusing us of genocide is to prepare the next genocide against us.

“Hitler didn’t just happen; it was decades of preparation of demonizing and delegitimizing Jews. And now through the State of Israel, through the Jewish state, there is an attempt to delegitimize and disenfranchise Jews as Jews. We have to call it for what it is. We have to identify the problem. And we have to fight it. We fight it by knowing who we are. We fight it by knowing who our friends are. And we fight this by knowing who the enemy is and by identifying them as the enemy and calling them out as the enemy,” Leiter said.


‘We’re never really going to be safe,’ Dara Horn says at Manhattan Kristallnacht commemoration
Jews are always going to be hunted, according to Dara Horn, author of the 2021 book “People Love Dead Jews.”

“We’re never really going to be safe,” she told JNS at an event on Sunday evening in Manhattan marking 88 years since Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass” pogrom in 1938 before the Holocaust.

“What I think is important about that is that the opposite of safety isn’t just danger,” Horn told JNS. “The opposite of safety is freedom.”

Horn told JNS that the event, which drew 450 people and which the Yad Vashem USA Foundation held at the New-York Historical Society, was particularly moving because Holocaust survivors were there to share their experiences and views of current events.

She had spoken with some before the program and was struck by their courage and their concerns about what is happening today, she told JNS.

Jewish life has increasingly come to revolve around security, and U.S. and Israeli institutions operate under guard and communities weigh the costs of self-defense, according to the author.

Jewish tradition tasks individuals with the responsibility of making choices, and of being accountable for their actions and rebuilding after disaster, Horn said. Future generations shouldn’t raise children in a protective bubble and should instead empower young people to shape their lives, she said.

“What we are trying to build is a Jewish life where our children have the freedom and agency to decide their own future,” she told JNS.

In her remarks at the event, Horn described Jewish history as the story of Jews choosing to live their lives and honor their traditions despite the horrors they faced.

“The State of Israel exists in spite of the Holocaust,” she said at the event. “Not because of it.”

She praised an installation at Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial, that she said told the story of the Shoah through the structure of the Passover Haggadah, which included an uplifting message. The display showed how Jews have taken courage from their religious tradition even when others sought to kill them, she said.
Jonathan Tobin: Kristallnacht eve wasn’t the day to ‘shelter in place’ against antisemites
Not like Skokie
At various points while Jews milled about upscale Rittenhouse Square awaiting the start of the day’s events, the conversation turned to what happened in the late 1970s in Skokie, Ill. The question was whether that was analogous to what Jews were experiencing now.

The planned march of American neo-Nazis through the Chicago suburb with a large population of Holocaust survivors is an important chapter in American Jewish history. After prolonged legal battles about its legality, in which Jews played prominent roles on both sides of the dispute, the march never took place. Still, the trauma of the survivors as they expected what seemed like an attempt to replay their tragic past still lingers in the collective memories of the community.

The uniforms and the swastikas of the would-be Skokie marchers still invoke the sort of imagery that haunts the Jewish imagination in a way that the masks, keffiyehs and Palestinian flags still do not. Yet the dilemma faced by those who turned out in Philadelphia on the eve of Kristallnacht is far worse than those of the embattled Skokie survivors.

There is a great deal of difference between what didn’t happen in Skokie and what did happen in Philadelphia that has nothing to do with the fact that the former played out in the courts, rather than the streets.

It’s that for all of the anger that the Nazis provoked, they were an isolated tiny group of extremists that were widely despised by virtually all of American society. But though the Philly boycott riders clearly miscalculated in terms of the targets they chose and their timing, they are far from isolated.

It’s true that the owners of these restaurants don’t deserve to be treated in this manner just because they are Jewish. Nor is any American Jew responsible for the actions of Israel’s government.

Peddling lies about Israel and Jews
But the problem with the boycott isn’t only that they targeted innocent people. It’s that the line they are peddling about Jews committing “genocide” or supporting an “apartheid state” is a lie. The growing support in American society for isolating the State of Israel and opposing its efforts to defend its population against genocidal Palestinian terrorists and their Iranian sponsors is based on misinformation that has been mainstreamed in the corporate media. The election of open antisemites like Michigan senator-elect Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and many others on the far left is the product of the normalization of Jew-hatred in journalism and popular culture.

Under these circumstances, the events of the past three years, including the murder of Jews in Washington, D.C.; Boulder, Colo.; as well as the attempted firebombing of Shapiro’s gubernatorial residence in Harrisburg on Passover and numerous other incidents around the globe, are what happens when such “pro-Palestinian” rhetoric is seen as acceptable discourse. Coupled with the fact that so many Jewish institutions have been essentially fortified in response to the constant threats of violence, it is the natural result of the widespread acceptance of these falsehoods about Israel and the antisemitic tropes that accompany them.

As long as such misinformation is ubiquitous in the allegedly responsible press, as well as on popular podcasts and social media, the public can’t be surprised that incidents such as the boycott ride happened. In fact, Americans should be prepared for many more such incidents in the coming months and years.

We can only hope that other communities will respond as Philadelphia’s Jews did this time when the need arises. But no one should pretend that this small victory is a sign that the beliefs of these Jew-haters are being marginalized or thrown back into the fever swamps of the far left and far right, where they belong. As hatred and bigotry against the Jewish minority become normalized throughout society, it’s clear Jews must prepare for more such challenges.
The anatomy of complacency: What Kristallnacht teaches us about modern American ruptures
A fractured New York and the illusion of political solace
I have called New York City home for 35 years. In three and a half decades here, I have watched this city weather economic recessions, natural disasters, and the ashes of 9/11 with unmatched grit and solidarity. Yet in all my years walking these streets, I have never seen New York in such a state. A palpable, unprecedented tension hangs over our transit hubs, our campuses, and the streets outside neighborhood synagogues. Jewish life in Gotham, once the global standard of confident, integrated diaspora existence, now navigates a landscape where mezuzahs are concealed, community schools require armed perimeters, and overt harassment is brushed aside as political expression.

Following high-stakes election cycles, communities often fall prey to a comforting illusion: the assumption that a democratic ballot resolves deep ideological rot. It does not. Elections alter governing personnel; they do not dismantle entrenched radicalism or dissolve bad-faith agitation.

Treating post-election calms as a signal to relax vigilance is a perilous mistake. In New York, anti-Semitic rhetoric has migrated from peripheral internet forums directly into lecture halls, city councils, and urban demonstrations. History teaches us that anti-Jewish animus is never an isolated issue; it is the civic canary in the coal mine. When hostility toward Jewish life becomes normalized in the world’s major metropolises, the broader democratic fabric is already unraveling.

Rhetorical Balkanization and foreign propaganda
Compounding this domestic polarization is the aggressive infiltration of foreign influence and rhetoric designed to balkanize American society. Hostile external actors have recognized that our primary vulnerability is our openness, and they actively amplify the most divisive domestic narratives to accelerate civic fragmentation.

At the same time, political rhetoric is shifting toward dangerous territorial essentialism. When elected officials begin framing entire American states through sectarian lenses, such as newly elected U.S. Senator Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan referring to his home state as "the capital of Arab America" during a speech in Washington, DC, it reflects an unsettling drift toward identity-based separatism. Words matter. When leaders and activist coalitions reframe civic geography into ethnic or ideological outposts, it weakens the core concept of a unified constitutional republic. It fosters parallel enclaves, deepens factional divisions, and creates fertile ground for foreign disinformation campaigns to turn neighbor against neighbor.
Holocaust survivor returns to Berlin home where he witnessed Kristallnacht at age 6
George Shefi was just 6 years old on November 9, 1938, when his mother kept him home for three days.

When he was finally allowed to go out again, his Jewish school inside a Berlin synagogue had been burned down, the Jewish hat store opposite his home had been looted, and the windows of the stationery shop next door had been smashed.

The Jewish shop owner “was trying to clean this thing up, and there were, I don’t know, a lot of people, 30, 40, 50, or something, jeering and yelling and saying nasty things,” Shefi recalled during a recent visit to his childhood home in Berlin’s Schoeneberg district.

Shefi, now 94 and a resident of Jerusalem, was describing Kristallnacht — the “Night of Broken Glass” — when Nazis, among them many ordinary Germans, terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria.

At least 91 people died and 7,500 Jewish businesses were vandalized. More than 1,400 synagogues were targeted by arsonists, according to Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.

Shefi returned to the German capital 88 years later as one of the last living witnesses of Kristallnacht to share his memories at a time when antisemitism is on the rise again, not only in Germany but in many other countries around the globe.

Sitting on a bench in a nearby park where he was barred from sitting as a Jewish child, Shefi said he keeps those painful memories alive to help prevent such persecution from happening again.

“I used to be like a regular Holocaust survivor, I hated the Germans and so forth, but about 10 years ago I came to the conclusion how those kids that I speak to, how can they be to blame for what happened 80 years ago,” he said.

He now speaks to school groups and other Germans about the lessons of his life.

“You have to learn and study it because you aren’t responsible for what was, but you’ll be responsible in five, 10 years of what’s going to happen,” Shefi said. “And for that, if you don’t know the history of the Holocaust, you can’t prevent it anymore.”


‘We support Hamas’ banners displayed at mass anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam
Large crowds marched against Israel in Amsterdam on Sunday, including several masked demonstrators who set off smoke flares and held banners reading “We support Hamas,” the Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported.

Co-organizer Amnesty International said more than 200,000 people took part in the “Red Line” protest. It was the fourth such mass rally in the Netherlands since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

Police arrested four people for “minor incidents,” according to De Telegraaf.

Speakers, including former Labor Party leader Lilianne Ploumen, called on the Dutch government to take tougher measures against Israel and suspend military cooperation with Jerusalem.

Organizers also demanded stricter trade sanctions, a halt to all arms sales to Israel and an official Dutch declaration that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, the Associated Press reported.

Marchers chanted “The Netherlands finances, Israel bombs.” Signs read “Zionism is fascism” and several invoked Anne Frank, asking: “Who will explain it to Anne?”

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten, who participated in a similar march last year but did not attend Sunday’s rally, defended his government’s approach at a press conference on Friday.

He said the government was “exerting greater political and diplomatic pressure” on Israel to honor its agreements on Gaza, while also increasing pressure on Hamas and other organizations carrying out “various operations that endanger the safety of ordinary Israelis,” according to AP.

The Dutch government has already introduced a ban on imports from Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, triggering a diplomatic dispute with Jerusalem.


Kristallnacht eve anti-Jewish boycott backfires, as 10 times as many show up to support targeted Philly eateries
More than 2,000 people supported Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia targeted by a “boycott ride” on Sunday after lawmakers, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, said the aim was antisemitic.

“Philadelphia sent a powerful message,” Jayne Zirkle, communications director for End Jew-Hatred, told JNS.

“Supporters flooded the streets to stand with the Jewish community, carrying signs that read ‘End Jew-Hatred’ and ‘I am not a Jew with trembling knees,’” Zirkle said. “These are the voices of a community that refuses to be intimidated.”

Organized by the anti-Israel group Philly On Your Left, the boycott targeted Huda, K’Far Café, Mac Mart, Dizengoff, Goldie and Schlesinger’s, each of which is Jewish- or Israeli-owned. (Goldie, a falafel restaurant, is kosher.)

Protest organizers said it was “anti-Zionist.” They said that the American-Israeli celebrity chef who owns three of the targeted businesses held a fundraiser for Friends of United Hatzalah, an Israeli emergency medical service.

Jewish leaders and legislators noted that the boycott was scheduled for the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-led pogrom on the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938, that targeted Jews in Germany and Austria, and that only Jewish-owned restaurants were targeted in the Philadelphia boycott.

Community members organized a food crawl, slated for the same time and place as the boycott, to support the restaurants.

On Sunday morning, Marti Lieberman, owner of Mac Mart, said her kiosk was “stacked with security,” as well as macaroni and cheese.

“Let’s show them that love always wins,” she said, after spending the weekend preparing for expected crowds.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia told supporters not to engage with protesters, and city leaders told the Philadelphia Police Department to maintain safety.

Boycott organizers said they were protesting “pogroms” against Palestinians.

Mark Goldfeder, CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, which sent attorneys to observe the boycott and document any crimes, said that the lawyers saw a “massive police presence” and a “strong Jewish counter-protest.”

“Philadelphia showed what happens when government takes antisemitism seriously before it becomes a crisis,” Goldfeder told JNS.


ISGAP Reads, ISGAP’s New Public Journal Club
In the inaugural session of ISGAP Reads, Dr. Andrew Pessin discussed his ISGAP publication, Setting the Record Straight: Refuting the Common Lies Told About Israel (2025), in conversation with ISGAP Faculty Member Dr. Shai Davidai. The session explored common misconceptions about Israel and featured an engaging audience discussion and Q&A.




El-Sayed 2.0? Soros Fellow Who Penned Pro-Terror Op-Eds and Advises Hamas-Tied Charity Launches Pennsylvania Senate Bid, Challenging Fetterman
The first Pennsylvania Democrat to launch a primary challenge against Sen. John Fetterman is a Gaza-born writer and anti-Israel activist who has penned op-eds defending Hamas and Hezbollah and serves on the advisory board of a boycott Israel group with ties to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

Ahmed Moor announced his campaign in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, which described Moor as a "dues-paying member of the Philadelphia chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America" and a "Palestinian American writer who was born in Gaza."

The interview did not press Moor about several op-eds he has written, including a November 2010 piece in the Guardian, headlined "America's role in Lebanon," in which Moor describes Hezbollah—the terror outfit responsible for the deaths of more than 200 Americans in the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks bombing—as a "legitimate political party that reflects the aspirations of many Lebanese people."

Moor described Hamas in a similar manner in a July 2024 op-ed in the Guardian in which he outlined the "basic truths" of the "Palestine-Israel nightmare," writing, "It remains the case that many Palestinians view the Islamist parties Hamas and Islamic Jihad as among the only actors committed to their right to self-defense. That right is self-evident to the Palestinians and their supporters, no matter their views of either party. … Hamas’s assertion of Palestine’s right to self defense—in defiance of Israel, the United States, Britain and Germany—also acts as one of the few points of leverage available to the Palestinians after decades of a failed 'peace process.'"

Months earlier, in October 2023, Moor was quoted as a "Palestinian thinker" in a Guardian forum that asked him to describe the "set of emotions and experiences" he felt as Hamas carried out its Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel. "I experienced a commingled set of feelings," Moor responded. "You can't, as a Palestinian, as somebody of conscience, observe that bulldozer breaking through that wall and not feel a sense that 'the natives have broken free—good for them.' At the same time, I had a deep sense of foreboding." More recently, Moor has published his writing on Substack, including a March 2026 piece headlined, "Zionism continues to be the problem."

Moor serves on the advisory board of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), an anti-Israel nonprofit "working to end all U.S. support for Israel's military occupation and apartheid policies toward Palestinians." The group is the fiscal sponsor of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), which is based in the West Bank and advocates for global sanctions against Israel. The committee's members include the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine, which is made up of five U.S.-designated terrorist organizations including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The fiscal sponsorship was the subject of an unsuccessful 2019 lawsuit arguing that USCPR provided material support for terrorism by lending its nonprofit status to the BNC.

Moor could become the latest anti-Israel radical to win the Democratic nomination for a competitive U.S. Senate seat, following in the footsteps of Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, whom Moor cited as a source of inspiration in his interview with the Inquirer. He described his primary bid as an "uphill battle," given that Fetterman is expected to attract "a field of experienced candidates with more fundraising and political experience." The same could have been said, however, about El-Sayed, who narrowly prevailed in his own primary against congresswoman Haley Stevens and state lawmaker Mallory McMorrow after running to their left and campaigning against the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Indeed, Moor's résumé bears a striking resemblance to that of El-Sayed.


John Lewis axes hijab brand over Hamas massacre image
John Lewis has removed a Muslim clothing brand from its website after it emerged that the company shared an image showing Hamas terrorists breaching Israel’s border during the 7 October massacre.

The high street retailer has confirmed to Jewish News that it has withdrawn Bokitta, a Lebanon-based fashion brand, while investigating social media posts linked to the 2023 attacks.

“We were not aware of these posts and have removed the brand while we investigate,” a John Lewis spokesperson told Jewish News.

The decision follows an investigation by The Mail on Sunday, which uncovered an image shared on Bokitta’s official Instagram account on 18 October 2023, depicting a paraglider and bulldozer associated with the Hamas-led attacks.

The image appears to have remained online for more than three years before being removed following the newspaper’s enquiries.

The investigation also uncovered a post by the company’s co-founder, Hala Absi, who described Israelis as “oppressors” on the day of the massacre.

“May God protect our brothers and sisters in Palestine and grant us victory over the oppressors,” she wrote alongside a news clip about the attacks.

John Lewis had reportedly stocked Bokitta products for at least three years, including £35 hijabs and £70 prayer sets.

The revelations have prompted anger from Adam Ma’anit, an Israeli living in Britain whose cousin, Tsachi, was kidnapped on 7 October and later killed by Hamas.

Speaking to The Mail on Sunday, he said: “John Lewis is a national treasure. When our daughter was born, we bought her buggy and baby clothes there.

“To see them entangled with a company that celebrated 7 October is a stab to the heart.

“John Lewis claims to have strong ethics. They need to prove it by severing ties with Bokitta and issuing a public apology.”
Exclusive: Green councillor said Muslims who condemn October 7 attack ‘bear shame of supporting Jews’
A Green Party councillor said Muslims who condemned the October 7 Hamas attack “will bear the shame of supporting the Jews”, the JC can reveal.

Mustafa Ahmed celebrated his election to serve Burngreave ward on Sheffield City Council in May 2026 by waving a Palestinian flag and chanting “free Palestine” following four unsuccessful attempts between 2021 and 2024.

Since his election, Ahmed has been a prominent supporter of the “Zionism is racism” motion, which has sparked a dispute on the city council.

The Labour-led minority council remains in coalition with the Greens.

This is despite instructions from the national Labour Party to sever such agreements unless local Green groups disavow the motion which calls for a single Palestinian state by “all available means, including armed struggle”.

Ahmed is reportedly among those who pushed for the Greens to stand by the motion despite the ultimatum from Labour and the prime minister, who branded it an “antisemitic” policy.

Last week the Labour council leader Fran Belbin said there is “now a basis on which Labour and the Greens” can continue the controversial coalition.

Ahmed was seen alongside the author of the “Zionism is racism” motion Lubna Speitan at a press huddle after it was voted through at the Green Party conference.

Now, the JC has uncovered a Facebook post shared by Ahmed in the days following the Hamas-led massacre, in which the Yemen-born councillor warned his followers: “Don’t be more Jewish than the Jews” and warned them against bearing “the shame of supporting the Jews”.

The Arabic-language post shared by Ahmed said: “Supporting a disbeliever against a Muslim is apostasy. Jerusalem is not a geographical issue; Jerusalem is a matter of faith! Its liberation from this occupier is a promise from God Almighty in Surah Al-Isra.

“This religion will triumph with or without you. You alone will bear the shame of supporting the Jews! And so as not to appear ridiculous, do not belittle what has happened. The occupiers themselves have admitted that what happened was astonishing and shocking. So don't be more Jewish than the Jews!”
Tower Hamlets councillors urged to cut ties with ‘anti-Semitic’ network
Tower Hamlets councillors are being urged to cut ties with a pro-Palestinian network accused of peddling anti-Semitism.

The Tower Hamlets Palestine Solidarity Network (THPSN) are accused of sharing social media posts perpetuating anti-Semitic tropes, including comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza to Nazi Germany and claiming the media takes orders from “Zionist masters”.

Run by local councillor Faysal Ahmed, THPSN also ran a fundraising appeal for Cage, the UK-based Muslim advocacy group that triggered uproar in 2015 by defending British terrorist Mohammed Emwazi – nicknamed Jihadi John – after he oversaw the murders of kidnapped Western journalists and aid workers in propaganda videos in Syria.

The then Tory government described Cage as “terror apologists”, with David Cameron, the then prime minister, denouncing its remarks as “reprehensible”.

Other Tower Hamlets councillors for the ruling Aspire Party are also members of THPSN’s Facebook group.

The social media posts have prompted outrage among Jewish groups who have accused the network of peddling conspiracy theories and urged the Met Police to examine whether its posts have glorified terrorism.

Alex Hearn, the director of Labour Against Antisemitism, has urged that councillors involved with THPSN “should cut ties immediately”.

He said: “This group has been fundraising for Cage, an organisation whose research director described Jihadi John as a ‘beautiful young man’. Any councillor involved with this group should cut ties immediately and be referred to the council’s standards committee.

“This group’s channels have pushed classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories: that the media takes orders from ‘Zionist masters’, that a shadowy lobby runs the country, and that terror attacks are staged.”

“Alongside that sits a glamorised tribute to Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the 7 October massacre, hailed as an immortal hero of ‘the resistance’. Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation.

“The police should examine whether any of this content crosses the line into glorifying terrorism.”


Toronto woman arrested for violating release conditions at anti-Israel protest in Jewish neighborhood
Diana Bosco, 40, of Toronto, was arrested on Sunday for demonstrating in a Jewish neighborhood at an intersection that has seen multiple anti-Israel protests since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, after she was previously arrested and released on the condition of not returning to the area.

Bosco was arrested near Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West, while police were in the area for an anti-Israel protest, the Toronto Police Service stated.

Bosco was previously arrested in June during the Walk with Israel and has allegedly blocked public roadways and pedestrian access. She has been charged with failure to comply with an undertaking and was scheduled to appear in court on Monday morning.

Richard Robertson, director of research and advocacy for B’nai Brith Canada, told JNS that “Bathurst and Sheppard has been plagued by individuals who repeatedly attend to the intersection to incite hate and to sow division.”

“The re-arresting of Bosco confirms this is an organized attempt by individuals to harass and intimidate the Jewish community,” he said.

Robertson told JNS that Bosco violating the conditions of her release “indicates that this is not a lawful demonstration and warrants additional redress.”

“It is clear that these individuals do not respect our laws and rules, and this demonstrates and underscores the need for the Toronto Police Service to take action to bring about the end of these protests,” he said.
Pro-Palestine groups plan protests on Armistice Day in United Kingdom
Pro-Palestine organizations in the UK have planned counterprotests to coincide with Armistice Day on Wednesday.

Armistice Day, observed annually on November 11, marks the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany that ended the fighting on the Western Front during World War I.

The ceasefire took effect at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918 – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. The date has since become an occasion for the UK and other countries to remember members of the armed forces who died in military conflicts.

In the UK, people traditionally observe two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. on November 11. The country also marks Remembrance Sunday, held on the Sunday closest to Armistice Day, when commemorative services take place at war memorials across the country.

Pro-Palestine groups call Armistice Day 'annual ritual of selective memory'
Despite the event's national significance, Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine (GMFP), Didsbury for Palestine, Stand With Palestine, and Oldham Peace & Justice have planned several “Hands of Palestine” events for November 11 under the slogan: “True remembrance means demanding justice today.”

The groups referred to Armistice Day as an “annual ritual of selective memory” and said it refuses “to let memory be co-opted while state-sanctioned violence.”

“We do not stand in quiet compliance. We stand to demand an end to genocide, apartheid, and British state complicity.”

The gathering will focus on showing support for pro-Palestine liberation, an immediate arms embargo, and BDS.

They encouraged participants to bring flags, keffiyehs, and placards, and encouraged passing drivers to honk in solidarity.


Illinois voters approve proposals objecting to state law against Israel boycotts
Voters in eight municipalities in Illinois approved ballot measures last week registering formal objections to the state’s law barring state pension investments in companies that boycott Israel.

The ballot measures will have no effect on state policy. But pro-Palestinian groups are celebrating the wins as demonstrations of shifting public opinion against the law, first signed in 2015 to oppose the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel.

The village of Oak Park and the townships of Champaign, Cunningham, DuPage, Kickapoo, Medina, Normal, and Peoria all approved similarly worded ballot measures that urge the state to repeal its anti-BDS law or support specific state legislation that would do so. According to unofficial tallies, 65 percent of voters in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb whose local Jewish population mounted a sustained objection to the referendum, approved the measure there.

Groups including the Jewish United Fund, Chicago’s Jewish federation, had campaigned against the ballot measure. The Illinois law, championed by JUF when it was first passed, was the first of what have become dozens of state anti-BDS laws in the country. First Amendment groups have challenged the laws.

“We would have much preferred a victory,” Dan Goldwin, chief public affairs officer for JUF, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Monday. Yet Goldwin pointed out that Oak Park voters had approved the measure by smaller margins than their votes for top Democratic candidates, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and former presidential candidate Kamala Harris in 2024.

“Once people began to be exposed to the meaning of what the referendum was about, they moved against it. We just didn’t have enough time,” he said.
‘Telegraph’ journalist infantilizes Palestinians
The Western media’s failure to assign agency to Palestinians—to the point of effectively erasing Hamas and the impact of their decision to launch the Oct. 7 massacre—is so widespread that even thoughtful commentators on the conflict inevitably succumb to this illiberal framework.

A recent example of such myopia can be found in an Oct. 25 piece written by Tim Stanley, a columnist and podcast co-host at The Telegraph, titled “Benjamin Netanyahu is destroying the case for a Jewish homeland,” written two days before Israel’s elections. 

Though Stanley didn’t write the headline, surreally suggesting that we’re in a pre-1948 world where the Jewish state’s right to exist is a matter of debate, it is, however, largely consistent with the general tone of the piece.

He begins by leveling sober criticism of Israel’s prime minister and a few of his ministers, while later acknowledging that the state defies any “easy definition.” For instance, Stanley writes: “Christians are occasionally spat at, but this is illegal and results in arrest.”

He criticizes the media’s obsessive focus and vilification of Israeli policies in Judea and Samaria, while quoting historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s new book on the Middle East to undermine the Green Party’s “Zionist is Racism” libel. The column takes an ugly turn when Stanley writes that “there is a tragic case to be made that the Gaza war has left global Jewish populations more vulnerable, not less.”

First, his framing of the post-Oct. 7 conflict as “the Gaza war” erases the war’s cause: Hamas’s barbaric mass murder, rape, torture and mutilation of more than 1,000 Jews—antisemitic savagery that, like the Second Intifada, will be seen as having exacted a long-lasting trauma on citizens of the state.

The “Gaza war” wasn’t a war of choice, but one of existential necessity.

Further, while Stanley, in the following paragraph, cautions against blaming Diaspora Jewish victims for post-Oct. 7 antisemitism, that moral throat-clearing doesn’t render his argument that the “Gaza war” left the global Jewish population less safe any less baffling—and disturbing.

Israel didn’t declare war on Hamas after the terror group’s pogrom to make Diaspora Jews safer, but to defend its own population from a sadistic, antisemitic enemy on its border who sought the state’s destruction. Internal Hamas documents shared by The New York Times in 2024 confirmed that “Yahya Sinwar and top commanders hoped the Oct. 7, 2023 attack would trigger a regional conflagration causing Israel to collapse.”
IndyStar’s Human Interest Story Runs Cover for Terrorists in Hospitals
Human-interest stories are a legitimate, and often powerful, way to report on world events. But they cannot be immune to fact-checking. If anything, the emotional nature of such stories demands even greater caution in how the factual claims therein are treated.

At this, the IndyStar and the South Bend Tribune failed in a Nov. 4, 2026 article by Deanna Watson (“Indiana OB/GYN’s life changed by time delivering babies in Gaza”), relaying the account of physician Thalia Pachiyannakis about her three weeks at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip.

“There was no Hamas at the hospital,” Pachiyannakis told Watson. “The whole time I was there, I never saw them. No tunnels, none of the stuff you hear about in the media,” she continued.

Perhaps Pachiyannakis honestly never saw anything. But the IndyStar nonetheless has a journalistic responsibility to provide its readers with the facts.

The closest Watson gets to providing its audience with the rest of the story is when she references an Aug. 25, 2025 incident in which, according to IndyStar, Nasser Hospital “was bombed, killing 22 people…including five journalists.” Watson provides that “Israeli officials stated at the time that the military launched a drone attack on what was believed to be a Hamas camera positioned at the medical facility…”

In addition to a material omission, the context given manages to get the same fact wrong in two different ways. The hospital was not “bombed,” nor did the IDF ever claim to have “launched a drone attack.” Rather, the Israeli forces used tank fire.

If the journalist can’t get this straightforward fact correct, one wonders about the credibility of everything else written.

An IDF infographic listing six terrorists eliminated in the August 2025 strike.

The material omission is that of those killed, at least six were identified by name as terrorists, including Jum’a Khaled Jum’a al-Najjar, who participated in the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel. Either the Israeli tank just got very lucky, or there’s something to Israeli claims that Hamas is exploiting hospitals and putting the patients and staff in danger.

If, in the very next paragraph, Pachiyannakis is given space to deny ever seeing Hamas at the hospital, then her statement should be measured against such contradictory evidence.


As Rain Falls in Gaza, Hamas Propaganda Floods the Headlines
Over the weekend, an autumn storm passed over the eastern Mediterranean, showering Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Gaza Strip.

Like in previous rainy seasons since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, 2023, various media outlets were quick to publish photos of displaced Gazans dealing with flooded tents, impassable roads, and destroyed personal possessions, framing the photos in order to elicit a strong emotional reaction from their respective audiences. There is no doubt that any suffering experienced by displaced Gazans is tragic, but amid a genuine problem is a concerted propaganda effort to capitalize on the situation.

As with previous years, Gaza storm coverage entailed the uncritical regurgitation of Hamas statistics about the effect of the storm on the local population, regardless of how questionable these numbers were.

Soon after the rains reached their zenith this weekend, the Hamas-run Gaza Government Media Office announced that over the previous 12 hours, 70,000 tents of displaced Palestinian families had been flooded and that the initial losses caused by the storm were estimated to be roughly three million dollars.

This claim, that tens of thousands of tents had been flooded in half a day, was then echoed by both state-run anti-Israel media outlets (such as Turkey’s Anadolu Agency and Qatar’s Al Jazeera) as well as more mainstream platforms (such as the BBC and Reuters).

It appears that these news organizations wanted to re-publish Hamas’ talking points so quickly that they never stopped to ask basic questions about what they were spreading to their audiences.

For example, how could Hamas, in a matter of hours and during a downpour, definitively know that 70,000 tents had been flooded? Did the Government Media Office receive tens of thousands of calls from people reporting that their tents were flooded while simultaneously trying to rescue their personal belongings? Did Hamas send out inspectors in the rain to count the number of flooded tents? In other countries, after a disaster strikes, it can take up to a few days for officials to even attain a preliminary estimate of the scope of the damage. In war-torn Gaza, Hamas was able to calculate this figure in less than one day, even as the coastal enclave continued to be battered by rain.

Further, the same Hamas-provided statement that provided the 70,000 tents figure also initially estimated that the damage caused by the rains was three million dollars. This dollar figure included damage to tents as well as unstable buildings that had collapsed in the storm.

Think about this for a second. On the face of it, three million dollars is quite a large sum of money. However, when you divide three million dollars by 70,000 that comes to roughly 43 dollars a flooded tent. Factor in the damage done to buildings and that figure drops even lower. How can it be that 70,000 tents were flooded, damaging and destroying many personal possessions inside those tents, but the damage per tent was roughly 40 dollars? For a family of four living in a tent, the damage was only 10 dollars a person?


Israeli ambassador condemns erasure of October 7 memorial mural in Milan
Israel's ambassador to Italy Jonathan Peled condemned the erasure of a mural commemorating the October 7 Hamas massacre in Milan, calling it “an extremely serious act that reveals the disturbing face of antisemitism,” in a Monday post on X/Twitter.

“Three years after the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas, the erasure of the mural dedicated to the victims of October 7 in Milan is an extremely serious act that reveals the disturbing face of antisemitism and an attempt to rewrite the memory of that tragedy,” Peled wrote.

He added, “Remembering the victims is a duty that cannot be silenced.”

The mural, created by artist aleXsandro Palombo to mark the third anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, was painted over less than a month after it was displayed.

Located near Milan's Gallery of Modern Art, the artwork depicted the abduction and forced separation of Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or from the Nova music festival.

According to Jewish community news outlets in Rome and Milan, the entire wall was repainted white, completely covering the mural.
Police not probing man who tried to enter DC synagogue with unregistered gun for hate crime
The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., is not investigating an incident in which Tyler Finn, 32, of Lynchburg, Va., tried to enter Washington Hebrew Congregation with an unregistered gun as a hate crime, according to an incident report.

Finn faces charges of carrying a pistol without a license, possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of unregistered ammunition, the police department told JNS.

Washington Hebrew Congregation is a nearly 175-year-old Reform synagogue that is “welcoming, inclusive and vibrant,” according to its website. It is located near the American University campus and the National Cathedral.

According to a statement from the synagogue, the incident occurred shortly before its morning Shabbat service on Nov. 7, when a metal detector alerted security officers to an armed individual attempting to enter the building. The synagogue’s security officers denied Finn entry and recovered a concealed, loaded revolver and two pocket knives.

The synagogue said Finn was part of a scheduled visit by a religious-studies class from Liberty University, which had previously visited as part of the congregation’s interfaith dialogue efforts.

Police officers responded to the synagogue at around 10:15 a.m. on Saturday. Security officers told the police that they detained Finn and recovered a gun after it set off the synagogue’s metal detectors. The synagogue said there was no physical altercation.

“The man was arrested on scene,” the police department told JNS.

The police report has “no” marked under whether it is a suspected hate crime.
Massachusetts teen who praised Tree of Life mass shooter charged with threatening to kill Trump
Trenton Touch, 18, of Tewksbury, Mass., was arrested and charged with threatening to kill U.S. President Donald Trump after allegedly sending an Instagram message in June featuring a photograph of a firearm and the words, “I’m gonna kill Trump,” according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in Massachusetts.

FBI investigators said Touch called mass shooters “heroes” and shared a photo of a gun with “Robert Bowers,” who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh in October 2018, written on it, as well as the name “Brenton Tarrant,” who killed 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019.

A search of Touch’s home recovered a revolver-style firearm, military-style surplus equipment, knives and a hatchet, according to the affidavit.

In an Instagram chat with more than 400 participants, Touch allegedly wrote, “Halloween is when I can put on my peadot camo and not be stared at” and “Actually I might just larp as an Attomwaffen member.”

“The Attomwaffen Division is an international neo-Nazi terrorist network,” an FBI agent stated in the affidavit. The agent explained that “peadot” refers to “pea-dot,” a camouflage pattern used by German soldiers during World War II.

In another message, Touch allegedly wrote, “I can larp while shooting a place up,” using the term “larp” as shorthand for live-action role-playing.

Agents also seized what the affidavit described as “various items espousing white supremacist and Nazi ideology,” including stickers bearing swastikas and the message: “The future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands dirty. Political terror, it’s the only thing they understand.”

Touch allegedly expressed anger at the Tewksbury Police Department for not approving his application for a firearms identification card and discussed having his grandparents purchase a gun for him. Federal agents subsequently searched his grandparents’ home in Atkinson, N.H.
Man sentenced to 66 months for shooting at Montreal yeshiva
Abdirazak Mahdi Ahmed, 23, was sentenced to 66 months in prison on Monday for firing shots at Yeshiva Gedola Merkaz Hatorah, a Jewish school in Montreal, in November 2023.

Ahmed pleaded guilty in September to discharging a firearm while acting recklessly as to the consequences of his actions. He has been in custody since his May 2024 arrest.

The shooting occurred shortly before 5 a.m. on Nov. 12, 2023. The school was unoccupied, and no one was injured. Police found three bullet holes in the building’s entrance and four 9 mm shell casings outside.

Investigators linked Ahmed to the attack through DNA evidence recovered from items in a stolen vehicle used in the shooting, as well as cellphone location data placing him near the school and the vehicle’s subsequent abandonment site.

The prosecution and defense jointly recommended the five-and-a-half-year sentence.

The shooting came three days after Yeshiva Gedola and another Jewish school, Azrieli Talmud Torah, were also targeted by gunfire. Prosecutors said there was no evidence connecting Ahmed to those earlier shootings or other attacks on Jewish institutions.

Richard Robertson, director of research and advocacy for B’nai Brith Canada, told JNS that another young person, a minor only known as “J.B.,” who shot at the Beth Avraham Yoseph congregation in Toronto, is set to be sentenced on Tuesday.

“We’ve seen a growing problem with youth violence in Canada,” Robertson said. “We’ve seen youth acting as guns for hire who have been charged in relation to attacks against the Jewish community.”
Inwood Man Arrested After Threatening Jewish Shoppers, Yelling “Kill All Jews” at Bingo
The Fourth Squad reports the arrest of an Inwood man for Making a Threat of Mass Harm on Sunday, November 8th at 10:35 a.m. in Inwood.

According to Detectives, officers responded to Bingo Wholesale, located at 603 Burnside Avenue, for a disturbance.

A 34-year-old female and her 7-year-old daughter were shopping when they were confronted by a male they did not know. The male, Hasani Ferguson, 36, of Davis Avenue, held his hands out making the shape of a handgun towards them and made sounds imitating gun shots. He then stated: “Free Palestine, Hail Hitler, kill all Jews and kill Israel.”, and continued making handgun gestures and sounds as he got closer to the victims.

Ferguson then ran out of the store yelling “Kill the Jews” while making shooting gestures and sounds to numerous other shoppers before fleeing the scene. Police located the defendant at 11:30 p.m. on Sheridan Avenue in Inwood and placed him under arrest without further incident.

The defendant Hasani Ferguson is charged with Making a Threat of Mass Harm, Menacing 3rd degree, and Disorderly Conduct. He was arraigned on Monday, November 9th at First District Court, 99 Main Street, Hempstead.


New US oil company joins gas exploration off Israel’s shores
The Energy Ministry announced Monday that it had granted six natural gas exploration licenses to the US-based Murphy Oil Corporation — a first-time entrant into the Mediterranean — and to Ratio Petroleum.

Each company will hold a 50 percent working interest, with Murphy Oil Corporation serving as operator.

The announcement follows the Petroleum Council’s recent recommendation to amend the composition of the winning consortium in Cluster G, an area identified for deep-sea drilling west of the Leviathan field, under the fourth competitive bid round.

That followed the withdrawal of the Italian ENI company from the originally approved group.

“Natural gas is a strategic asset that strengthens our economic and diplomatic standing globally in general and in the Middle East in particular,” Energy Minister Eli Cohen said.

In October 2023, the ministry announced that the winning consortium for the Cluster G licenses included ENI, Dana Petroleum UK — a Scotland-based wholly owned subsidiary of the state-owned Korea National Oil Corporation — and Ratio Petroleum, an Israeli company.
Emotional Selma Blair reflects on Jewish education, says her dream is to make aliyah to Israel
Actress Selma Blair said her dream was to make aliyah, or immigrate to Israel, and expressed regret over not sending her son to a Jewish day school during an appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Washington on Monday.

Blair, who attended Hillel Day School in the Detroit area, discussed her own Jewish upbringing and the educational choices she made for her son. She also said she wished her mother were still alive.

She told the audience she was “so honored to show up for this community and so grateful that you would still have me.”

Blair briefly addressed recent headlines surrounding her arrest following an in-flight incident last month, describing the situation as awkward and upsetting. She suggested the public did not yet have a full picture of what had happened.

She said she wanted to share her perspective, adding that it was “not my time to do that.” She expressed hope that people would better understand the situation in the future.



 



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