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Friday, November 07, 2025

11/07 Links Pt2: Norway's anti-racism center turns Kristallnacht memorial into Gaza protest; Nancy Spielberg: ”Can’t let them silence our stories”; ‘Nuremberg’ and the failure of international law

From Ian:

David Reaboi: Naming the Jew

By hosting Fuentes, Carlson offered his audience two flavors of antisemitism: explicit and denied. Fuentes names the Jew; Carlson insists he has nothing against Jews at all. But the coordinates are identical, and preferring one or the other is simply a matter of taste. They coexist comfortably because both point to the same destination. Antisemitism is not dangerous because it’s mean or offensive to the feelings or sensibilities of Jews; it is dangerous because it creates and circulates lethal fictions. It produces a weaponized alternate reality, one that leads inexorably to Jews being harmed or killed.

Carlson—not to mention Fuentes and countless others—argues nightly that this country is being controlled by nefarious Israelis. If that “hummus-eating” enemy is willing to commit a genocide in Gaza; deliberately manipulate American leaders into wars; assassinate critics; destroy churches; and oppress and slaughter Christians with impunity, then the problem is no longer political but civilizational. It becomes, in their telling, a battle against a uniquely devious and implacable foe—one that cannot be resolved by elections or arguments, but only by confrontation. The logic points beyond persuasion to elimination.

Fuentes is open about this. In declaring his admiration for Hitler, he merely follows his critique of “organized Jewry” to its natural conclusion. Carlson is far more careful and coy, but the trajectory is the same. His foray last year into World War II revisionism—an extended conversation with podcaster and revisionist historian of National Socialism Darryl Cooper—was not an eccentric detour but an attempt to rehabilitate Nazi Germany and its leader, largely by discrediting Churchill and the Allied cause. Even if these gestures are performative, the tens of millions who watch and listen are not in on the act.

What unites these audiences isn’t ideology so much as a way of seeing. In this world, nothing happens by accident; every war, election, or scandal confirms the existence of an unseen hand. The more elaborate the theory, the more convincing it feels. Carlson and Fuentes didn’t invent this pattern; they inherited and updated it into a modern vernacular of globalist plots, unipolar elites, and “foreign lobbies.” The content changes, but the structure never does.

What Carlson and Fuentes broadcast isn’t “hate”; it’s a cognitive map built entirely on lies. Yet most people, including many Jews, still describe antisemitism as “anti-Jewish racism.” That mistake is fatal. Racism begins with emotion; antisemitism begins with explanation. Its logic is counterfeit, but it poses as reason all the same.

This confusion has deep roots. After the civil-rights era, “hate” became the moral grammar through which all prejudice was understood. Jewish institutions, eager to speak that language, adopted it wholesale. Once antisemitism was redefined as an emotional or linguistic offense, its conspiracy core was buried under “tropes.” In that bucket, the falsehoods that launched pogroms and genocides—blood libel, world-Jewish control—were lumped together with trivial stereotypes.

The result was a flattening of meaning. Even the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s official definition, adopted by governments and many Jewish groups, reflects this collapse. Its warning against “mendacious, dehumanizing, or demonizing allegations about Jews” treats antisemitism as a moral failure rather than an epistemic one.

The problem isn’t cruelty; it’s falsity, and the fact that for two millennia, people have acted on those lies.

Spare Us the Friendship Defense By Abe Greenwald Via Commentary Newsletter, sign up here.

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend,” said Thomas Jefferson. A good maxim, if you ask me. Most politically involved Americans these days don’t live by it, which is a shame.

But there’s a perverse version of Jefferson’s credo echoing on the right at the moment, and it should be called out. The claim of friendship is being offered up as a defense of indifference to depravity. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has talked about his or Heritage’s friendship with Tucker Carlson in every statement he’s made about the latter’s sugary interview of Nick Fuentes. He called him a “close friend” of Heritage in his initial defense of Carlson and has not stopped referencing his personal friendship with him even as he tries to clean up the mess. Megyn Kelly, too, likes to go on about her friendship with Carlson and the importance of standing by friends. There’s a whole circle of pundits and influencers who excuse or dismiss hateful people with the friendship defense.

People can disagree with me all they like, but here goes: If you remain close friends with someone who promotes racist or anti-Semitic ideas to pursue evil ends, you’re a bad person. This isn’t about politics because bigotry isn’t fundamentally about politics. It’s about what’s in someone’s heart, which should be the deciding factor in choosing friends.

And it’s not guilt by association. Those who use the friendship defense love to note that their friendship doesn’t require them to agree with everything that their friend believes. The problem isn’t that the friendship automatically means you also have malevolent intentions (although you might). It’s that you even could stay friends with someone who spreads evil. That says everything one needs to know about you.

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The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF): Unfairly Maligned Alternative
The Reuters USAID article above was published at a time when Israel and the US were defending their decision to terminate cooperation with UNRWA in favor of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an American nonprofit created to deliver aid directly to the people of Gaza. The Foundation bypassed Hamas interference by using secure distribution sites, and made large-scale theft harder by packaging and distributing individual meals rather than bulk items like flour and sugar. GHF spokesperson Chapin Fay recently told Quillette that his organisation delivered over 170 million meals directly into the hands of needy civilians in less than four months with “zero diversion” of aid.

Because the GHF coordinated their operations with Israel, they came under intense scrutiny. The UN categorically rejected cooperation with them—even after over 200 faith-based and Israel advocacy organisations published an open letter urging them to do so in August 2025. Rather than reporting on the UN’s obstinate refusal to work alongside this efficient means of aid delivery, media outlets overwhelmingly blamed Israel for the resulting shortfall in aid. UNRWA’s refusal to deliver aid to areas of Gaza outside the GHF’s reach forced Gaza residents to travel long, dangerous routes to obtain food. The UN claims that hundreds of Gazans were killed “in the vicinity of GHF sites”—attributing the deaths to the Israeli military. Israel strongly denies the accusations and has released testimonials from Gazan aid-seekers explaining how Hamas tries to disrupt the aid system through violence and manipulation. “This is how Hamas operates—they deliberately fire at people and want it to appear as though the army is the one shooting,” reported one Gaza resident. GHF workers are also at risk. Chapin Fay reports of a particularly shocking incident in mid-June 2025, when Hamas hijacked a bus transporting GHF workers and murdered nine of them. The wounded survivors of the attack were taken to Nasser Hospital (where Doctors Without Borders were operating) but were “refused treatment and left to die in the parking lot.” Uncovering the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Controversial Tactics

While the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was operating, Hamas ran into severe financial difficulties, which the Washington Post reported without linking that fact to the GHF. As Chapin Fay told Quillette, “The Washington Post didn't connect the dots, but I will. It’s not a coincidence that you can't steal GHF aid, and the UN wasn’t delivering theirs, and Hamas was having trouble with its finances.” Hamas demanded that “clear-cut language” be added to the terms of the ceasefire stating that GHF would be terminated. The GHF ceased operations on 10 October 2025 as a requirement of the ceasefire.

We All Deserve Better
The patterns documented here reflect a deterioration in journalistic standards, whereby ideological preferences override impartiality. But Gaza coverage makes these failures consequential in uniquely destructive ways. Every news story emphasising Israeli responsibility while erasing Hamas culpability perpetuates the cycle of Palestinian suffering. Our trusted news outlets have enabled this by abdicating their responsibility to ask hard questions, verify facts, and seek the truth—the core principles of journalism.

Arab Zionist to Arutz Sheva: October 7 exposed deep antisemitism in Arab world

Rawan Osman, a Syrian-born German political activist and a self-described Arab Zionist, spoke with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News at the European Jewish Association (EJA) conference in Poland about antisemitism in the Arab world.

Osman says that “antisemitism has always been rampant in the Arab world. However, even I, who lived in four different Arab countries, had never imagined how bad the situation was until October 7th. In fact, October 7 unmasked a much bigger problem not only in the Arab world but globally. We do have data for antisemitism around the world except in Arab countries because they do not acknowledge, recognize, or admit that antisemitism is an issue. And when Arabs deny that antisemitism is a problem, we ask them, 'Where are your Jews today?'”

She continued: “More than 800,000 Jews have left the Arab world since Israel became a country. What needs to be done first and foremost is to invite them to recognize, admit that it is an issue for them to understand that antisemitism has caused, above all, problems in the Arab world. And if they want to address their issues and problems, they need to reconcile with the existence of a Jewish state in the so-called Middle East.”

Osman stated that “October 7th helped us recognize how bad antisemitism in the Arab world is, but it definitely also contributed to a sharp rise in Jew hatred and anti-Zionist sentiments across the Arab world. Even those who considered accepting Israel in the region passionately rejected it after seeing the horrific video footage emerging from Gaza. What needs to be done is for political leaders to explain that Israel did not start the war. We need to get rid of Hamas. We need to expose them as liars, and we need to speak about the elephant in the room.”

“The Palestinian culture glorifies violence and martyrdom. And we will not get rid of recurring wars in our region unless we stop infantilizing the Palestinians and we hold them accountable for their actions, especially for incitement against the Jews, the Zionists, and the Israelis.”

11/07 Links Pt1: Hamas hands over body of hostage to Israel; Hamas Committed Genocide; Iran planned to kill Israeli envoy to Mexico; Half of Israelis would avoid NYC after Mamdani victory

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: Accusations Against Israel Once Again Revealed to Be Pure Projection

Khan reportedly tried to guilt his accuser into keeping quiet about the allegations, telling her that going public would hurt Gazans because it could derail his case against Netanyahu. His accuser took it to heart, requesting a transfer instead of an investigation into Khan. “I held on for as long as I could because I didn’t want to f*** up the Palestinian arrest warrants,” she testified.

Although some extremist figures, such as incoming New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, still back the arrest warrant, the case against Netanyahu at the court is obviously and entirely illegitimate. Even worse, it was issued apparently in an attempt to let the prosecutor get away with rape. Khan took a leave of absence from the case, but the ICC requires thorough reform or disbanding.

As if all that wasn’t bad enough, now we’ve got the reported Qatari involvement—a story broken by the ICC’s staunch ally against Israel, the UK Guardian, which reports:

“The private intelligence operation that has targeted the woman at the centre of the UN inquiry is said to have commenced earlier this year, when Highgate was commissioned by Qataris.

“A small group of senior Highgate employees was made aware the ultimate client for the project was the Qatari unit, according to evidence reviewed by the Guardian. The funding was regarded as highly sensitive. Executives involved in the project were careful to refer to its client as the ‘client country’ or ‘Q country’.

“A document seen by the Guardian suggests that at one stage during the operation Highgate sought information that would link the alleged victim and her family members with Israel or its intelligence agencies.”

According to the Journal, Khan had suggested his accuser might be part of a plot to bring down the ICC. This was a way to casually plant the idea that his victim was actually an Israeli agent. The Guardian notes that he actually then met with the intelligence team assigned to tar his accuser. The intelligence firm followed this line of investigation, but to no avail: As is usually the case, Israel haters were lying.

The intelligence firm apparently went so far as to hack into her private communications, but still found nothing. No amount of Qatari money can change the fact that Khan, his ICC enablers, the countries and politicians supporting his actions—and of course Qatar itself—are the bad guys here. The public should keep in mind for the future that extraordinary accusations against Israel are often themselves admissions of guilt.

Bassem Eid: Hamas Committed Genocide

Captured Hamas records prove that Hamas originally collaborated with Iran and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah to commit similar massacres in Northern Israel, with the intent of provoking the collapse of the state of Israel. Although it never launched a full-scale invasion, Hezbollah did launch a missile barrage into Israel that slaughtered children.

Perhaps nothing shows intent so clearly as Hamas’s civilian hostage taking. 251 innocent people were dragged into Gaza, including 30 children under 18 years of age, and 16 under 10. Two babies, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, were murdered in captivity. Hostages were starved, filmed emaciated, and forced to dig their own graves in the tunnels. Some were raped repeatedly. Teenage hostages were forced to commit sex acts on each other. Others were executed.

Hamas has weaponized genocide denial, engaging in a strategy of reverse accusations, smearing Israel as a way of deflecting attention from their crime. In so doing, Hamas is weakening the precedent for identifying and prosecuting genocide around the world. They hope to villainize Western powers that go out of their way in wartime to protect innocents and distract from their own barbarism.

Israel is acting based on military need and prioritizing civilian survival, fighting under unthinkable circumstances engineered by Hamas to turn civilian infrastructure into military sites. Hamas apologists misquote Israeli politicians to claim intent, and grow silent when confronted by tens of millions of warning messages, thousands of tons of aid, and guarded humanitarian corridors provided by the IDF. The legitimacy of genocide charges themselves is compromised when accredited international institutions have committed clear errors in the rush to judgment of Israel, the victim power, instead of identifying the actual aggressor, Hamas.

Meanwhile, real genocides are being ignored by the rest of the world. According to the United Nations, more than 740,000 people are killed each year in armed conflict and criminality. The slaughter of tens of thousands in Sudan has left pools of blood in the sand visible from space. Hamas’ false accusation does an injustice to the actual victims of genocide who lost their lives on the basis of their shared heritage. It leaves tens of thousands massacred around the world without the chance of getting justice for their murders.

As a Palestinian, it is vital that I speak the truth. Hamas committed genocide on October 7th. Every attempt to aggravate their denial by smearing Israel only dishonors the victims, weakens the legitimacy of real genocide charges, and protects the perpetrators. Justice must be done, and history must never forget the crimes that were committed on October 7, 2023 – and by whom.

Aizenberg: Tunnel Denialism: The Erasure Beneath the Rubble

Media reports similarly erase the presence of tunnels. An October 2025 report in The Guardian on "The ruin of Gaza" never writes the word "tunnel." This silence extends even to media outlets that have themselves documented the tunnels. The New York Times published two major investigations, one in November 2023 and another in February 2024 , confirming extensive tunnel systems beneath much of Gaza including the Al-Shifa Hospital. Yet many recent articles and op-eds in the same paper lamenting the destruction in Gaza fail to mention the tunnel network. This is the essence of Tunnel Denialism.

The contrast with the reality of Gaza and the war could not be starker. An account by hostage Aviva Siegel describing her captivity in Gaza sums up the Hamas tunnel network. She explained how her first stop was a civilian home with a tunnel shaft inside the living room. She recalled seeing “somebody underneath the hole, in the hole underneath the ground, that’s waiting with a smile.” Siegel was moved thirteen times, through tunnels and militants’ homes. This single testimony captures what much of the world prefers not to acknowledge: the tunnels are not separate from civilian Gaza. They are underneath it, literally and conceptually intertwined with daily life. Hamas built its war machine beneath families and children, hospitals and schools, ensuring that any military confrontation would destroy both. Israel's only choice was to grant Hamas permanent immunity, or attack Hamas knowing that great destruction was unavoidable.

One of the war’s defining images (see below) shows a bombed-out children’s bedroom, its walls painted with Mickey Mouse and Snow White, the floor blown open to reveal a gaping tunnel shaft beneath. In this tunnel, Hamas executed six Israeli hostages because the terrorists feared their rescue by nearby IDF soldiers. It encapsulates Hamas’s strategy: hide within civilian life, then weaponize the resulting destruction for propaganda. And yet, when Gaza’s devastation is lamented in global media, such images rarely appear. When they do, the hole in the ground is left unexplained.

Why this erasure? Because acknowledging the tunnels forces a confrontation with Hamas’s moral depravity and the impossibility of a clean, casualty-free war. It exposes the grotesque calculus at the core of Hamas’s strategy: embedding its military infrastructure beneath its own civilians to ensure civilian deaths that can be weaponized politically. Ignoring that fact allows critics to blame Israel for consequences engineered by Hamas. To analyze the tunnels seriously is to see Hamas as a movement that sacrifices its own population for global sympathy—a recognition that would collapse the “Israel = aggressor / Gaza = victim” binary on which so much Western discourse depends.

Even the postwar debates about Gaza’s future proceed with Tunnel Denialism, as if this subterranean state never existed. But the “day after” cannot be separated from the seventeen years before—from Hamas’s decision to turn Gaza into an armed fortress dug beneath its own people. Any plan for reconstruction that ignores that reality will only rebuild atop future ruins.

The first step toward ending Gaza’s tragedy is intellectual honesty: to speak the word tunnel and understand what it signifies. Until the world confronts that underground reality, every discussion of Gaza’s ruins will remain a half-truth, and every plan for its “day after” will merely prepare the ground for the next war.

Ben Cohen at JNS found this video of a Syrian-Canadian Hamas supporter Laith Marouf describing what he thinks of anti-Zionist Jews:

You will never see me on the same platform as a Jewish person....You know what? They shouldn’t be beside us. They should be behind us. The only thing that I want to hear from a Jewish anti-Zionist is parroting what Palestinians say. A Jewish anti-Zionist shouldn't have an opinion about Palestine that is in any form contradicting the Palestinian position.
...So you will never see me—number one—platforming a Jewish voice, whatever they are, how good talkers they are, whatever it is.

Cohen writes:

Such a message is little short of humiliating for the motley crew of anti-Zionists of Jewish origin—Peter Beinart, Max Blumenthal, Abbie Stein, Alon Mizrahi, the “International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network,” among others—whose ravings from the safety of their living rooms continue to disfigure the public debate on the Middle East. It’s humiliating because it places them in the same camp as the vast majority of Jews who remain Zionists, when they have tried so hard to distance themselves from this community as stridently and as hatefully as possible. It’s humiliating because it tells them that, since they are Jews, they cannot be trusted and must therefore have every word they utter scripted by a Palestinian ideological commissar.

I would like to believe that among the supporters of Jewish Voice for Peace and similar groups, there are those discomfited by Marouf’s instruction to Jewish anti-Zionists to simply “parrot” the Palestinian line. I would like to think that they have enough pride in themselves and in their Jewish identity to recognize an insult when they see one.

Ben Cohen is way too optimistic. Jewish Voice for Peace, the Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and most of the others have already been following Marouf's rule slavishly for many years. Whenever there is the slightest crack in the anti-Israel edifice they are immediately threatened with cancellation, and invariably they meekly apologize and drink more of the antisemitic Kool-Aid to ensure they never make that mistake again. So by the time October 7 rolled around, practically none of them could even rouse themselves to say anything negative about murdering, burning, kidnapping and raping 1,200 people.

No, Jews are the last people in the anti-Zionist camp who feel free to say anything different from what Hamas says. And make no mistake - it is Hamas and PFLP whose opinions everyone is parroting, not the PLO.

(h/t Brad)

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Yesterday, violent protesters interrupted an Israel Philharmonic Orchestra concert in Paris with flares, setting a chair on fire, sparking chaos in the audience.

France24 does everything it can to play down the disruption - and all but justifies it by putting more emphasis on Israel's war than on the news story itself.

French police detain four over protest at Israeli Philharmonic concert in Paris
French authorities said Friday that four people had been detained after protesters disrupted a concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris. The disruption came amid growing anger over Israel's actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank during its two-year military offensive.

French police have arrested four people over protests that disrupted a concert by Israel's national orchestra at the Paris Philharmonic music hall, a prosecutor said on Friday.

Several spectators repeatedly interrupted Thursday evening's concert given by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, including twice setting off smoke, the venue said.

The visit by Israel's leading orchestra had drawn criticism from several groups ahead of the event, over the country's conduct during its two-year military offensive in Gaza and its severe restrictions on allowing aid into to the occupied Palestinian territory.

The Paris Philharmonic said it had filed a complaint over the disruption, adding it "deplores and strongly condemns the serious incidents that occurred".

On three occasions, individuals who had purchased tickets attempted to disrupt the concert and fellow spectators intervened, the concert venue said.

The protesters were removed and the concert allowed to resume peacefully, it added.

A French prosecutor said on Friday that three women and one man were in custody over the incident.

Israel has come under intense international criticism for its actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

It launched its military offensive on Gaza in retaliation for the October 7, 2023, attack in Israel by militants from Palestinian group Hamas that resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Israel's subsequent assault on Gaza has so far killed more than 68,500 Palestinians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry that the United Nations considers reliable.

UN investigators have accused Israel of committing genocide and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the target of an International Court of Justice arrest warrant to answer charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

France24 calls the incident simply "setting off smoke." That doesn't sound so bad, does it? Except that these were flares that give off intense heat and light. Even the venue, which has interest in trying to maintain an image of calm, called the incendiary devices "smoke bombs" which is far more accurate than "setting off smoke" which sounds like someone exhaling after taking a drag on a cigarette.

No photos or videos accompany the story (although France24 later published the video separately as a tweet-style story, not linking the two articles.) No mention of the chaos seen in the video. The story essentially justifies the violent incident because, you know, Israel - as if the orchestra itself is linked to "genocide."

Media bias comes not only from the words that are chosen but also by what is not reported and the context that the outlet chooses to use.

In this case, France24 failed in all three dimensions.

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The @Heritage Foundation NEVER cared about right-wing antisemitism

Jewish Insider reports:

An antisemitism task force affiliated with the Heritage Foundation announced on Thursday that it would cut ties with the conservative institution, as the prominent think tank has come under fire for its defense of Tucker Carlson after the firebrand podcaster hosted neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes for a friendly interview.

The task force was formed following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and was instrumental in the drafting of Project Esther, Heritage’s signature counter-antisemitism framework released last year in response to the Biden administration’s national strategy to combat antisemitism.

The Project Esther report made no mention of antisemitism on the political right. In their Thursday email, the co-chairs of the task force said they can no longer ignore it.

“The NTFCA will also now expand our work to fight the rising scourge of antisemitism on the Right, beyond our previous work combating the pro-Hamas movement on the Left,” wrote the co-chairs, announcing that they will co-host a conference on “Exposing & Countering Extremism and Antisemitism on the Right” on Nov. 18 in Washington, in partnership with the Conference of Christian Presidents for Israel.

I had never looked at Project Esther before, and sure enough, it doesn't say a word about right-wing antisemitism.

That is insane.

Highlighting left-wing antisemitism is important. But ignoring antisemitism from the Right means that the Heritage Foundation never really cared about antisemitism at all, and only used it as an excuse to attack the Left.

I have been highly critical of the left-wing politicization of antisemitism, pretending to be against it while enabling it and using antisemitism as an excuse to attack their political enemies.

Yet that is exactly what the Heritage Foundation and their National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism were doing.

Which means that on this topic at least, the Heritage Foundation has been just as immoral in weaponizing antisemitism as Jewish Voice for Peace has been.

This is outrageous no matter which side does it.

In both cases, their faux "fight against antisemitism" also ignores antisemitism from Arabs, Muslims, Black entertainers, Nation of Islam and others who spread the virus. And, equally bad, neither side even defines antisemitism in a coherent way.

At this point, I sometimes think that I am the leading US expert on antisemitism. I came up with a definition that is clearer and better than any other. This article I wrote in April holistically explains eliminationist antisemitism of all kinds better than any analysis I've ever seen, by far.

It is bad enough that major organizations and government-backed committees cannot even figure out what different antisemites have in common to begin with. If you don't understand the problem, you cannot fix it.

I have a fix. It might take a generation to work but no one else has anything that isn't a Band-Aid. If the newly independent National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism wants to understand the problem, I'm here.

But any group that is partisan, even with the best of intentions, will continue to be blind, and use antisemitism for their own purposes.

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11/06 Links Pt2: Maccabi Tel Aviv Protests: ‘Its Very Obvious They Hate Jews’; Don’t let Tucker Carlson’s defenders gaslight you about free speech

From Ian:

BBC Arabic promotes terrorist’s new book called The Holocaust Custodian – written by killer of a Holocaust survivor

BBC Arabic is facing further questions about its conduct after the channel showed viewers the latest book by a released Palestinian terrorist called The Holocaust Custodian – without mentioning that one of the people he was imprisoned for his role in murdering was herself a Holocaust survivor.

Last month, the Arabic-language BBC channel, which is partially funded by the Foreign Office, as well as the British taxpayer, interviewed two convicted terrorists, Basem Khandaqji and Nader Sadqa, who were among the hundreds of Palestinian prisoners released by Israel in return for Hamas releasing the remaining Israeli captives it took on 7 October. Both Khandaqji and Sadqa are senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who were imprisoned for their roles in separate terror attacks which killed Israeli civilians. They were not permitted to return to the West Bank, but instead were released into Egypt.

Khandaqji, who wrote books in prison, won an International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2024. In his BBC interview he claimed that he told his Israeli prison guards that “my words will cause your colonialism pain”.

Khandaqji’s latest book is called The Holocaust Custodian; while the BBC interview does not directly ask him about it, it features video footage of him signing copies. The BBC did not see fit to question him about the fact that Leah Levine, one of the victims of the 2004 bombing which Khandaqji helped perpetrate, was herself a Holocaust survivor. Khandaqji’s latest book, “The Holocaust Custodian”, as shown on BBC Arabic

The November 2004 bombing in Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market injured 50 people and killed three – Shmuel Levy, 65, Tatiana Ackerman, 32, and Leah Levine, 64.

A child survivor of the Holocaust, Levine had been featured on Israeli television four years previously after meeting her brother, who had been living in Russia, for the first time since her childhood – at which time she learned her exact birth date.

Amer al-Fahr, a 16-year old from near Nablus, had carried out the suicide bombing. A BBC article from the time cited the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz quoting al-Fahr’s mother, saying “It’s immoral to send someone so young. They should have sent an adult who understands the meaning of his deeds.”

BBC Middle East editor sues Owen Jones for libel at High Court over Gaza article

An article by journalist Owen Jones about the BBC’s coverage of the conflict in Gaza has caused the corporation’s Middle East editor to receive death threats, documents in a High Court libel claim allege.

Raffi Berg, who joined the BBC in 2001 and has been Middle East editor for its news website for 12 years, is suing Jones over an article titled The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza published on the Drop Site website in December last year.

The claims in the article, which Berg denies, include that BBC staff told Jones that Berg “plays a key role in a wider BBC culture of ‘systematic Israeli propaganda’”.

It also said that staff had told Jones that Berg “reshapes everything from headlines, to story text, to images” and “repeatedly seeks to foreground the Israeli military perspective while stripping away Palestinian humanity”.

In court documents seen by the PA news agency, John Stables, for Berg, said the claims in the article “strike at the claimant’s professional reputation as a journalist and editor”, and had caused Berg to suffer “an onslaught of hatred, intimidation and threats”, including death threats.

Jones said he looked forward to “vigorously defending my reporting”.

The article said that the corporation was facing an “internal revolt over its reporting” of the conflict.

It continued that journalists had claimed that Berg “sets the tone for the BBC’s digital output on Israel and Palestine”, and that complaints from staff about the corporation’s coverage had been “repeatedly brushed aside”.

Jones’ piece also claimed that “facts unfavourable to Israel have been stripped out of Berg’s reports” and that he played a “crucial role” in “conduct that imperils the integrity of the BBC”.

Mr Stables said that following the article’s publication, an online petition was launched calling on the BBC to suspend Berg, who was targeted by protesters at the corporation’s premises in January this year.

Lawsuit Alleging Gavin Newsom 'Facilitated' Anti-Semitic Campaign Against National Guard Commander Headed to Trial, Judge Rules

A former commander of the California National Guard who says Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) "facilitated" an anti-Semitic campaign that resulted in his wrongful termination will have his day in court, a judge ruled Friday. The move could cause a major headache for Newsom ahead of his expected 2028 presidential campaign.

Former brigadier general Jeffrey Magram is suing the state of California and Adjutant General Matthew Beevers, a Newsom appointee who has faced allegations of denigrating a Jewish subordinate as a "kike" lawyer. Magram alleges that Newsom "facilitated and ratified" a Beevers-driven campaign of anti-Semitic discrimination, harassment, and retaliation against him that started after Magram defended a fellow Jew from Beevers's anti-Semitic rants and ended with Newsom's office signing an order to dismiss Magram in November 2022.

Sacramento Superior Court judge Richard K. Sueyoshi rejected the Newsom administration's efforts to quash Magram's lawsuit in an Oct. 31 ruling authorizing six of its eight counts to proceed toward a trial. The ruling will force the Newsom administration to comply with document discovery and deposition requests that Magram says have been ignored since he filed his lawsuit in January 2024.

The discovery process could provide a window into how Newsom's administration handles accusations of anti-Semitism and risks becoming a political liability for the Democratic governor ahead of a 2028 presidential campaign.

"Beevers and the California Military Department have disregarded complying with public laws and multiple legal requests for documents," Magram told the Washington Free Beacon. "We are very much looking forward to the facts coming out in this case and for the truth to be heard by all."

Those records include documents that may shed light on Newsom's response to several letters Magram wrote to the governor's office warning that Beevers was engaged in a personal vendetta against him driven by his "bigoted beliefs" against Jewish people. Magram alleges in his lawsuit that Newsom "chose to ignore this information and directly ratify the anti-Semitic acts of Beevers" when his office signed off on his termination in November 2022.

11/06 Links Pt1: Why October 7 Strengthened Israel; Kazakhstan joining Abraham Accords; To Secure Long-Term Peace, Fix Gaza's Schools; Tanzanian hostage Joshua Mollel’s body returned to Israel

From Ian:

Why October 7 Strengthened Israel

Israel is suffering from deep PTSD. Almost one thousand soldiers were killed, forever altering the lives of their families and friends. Thousands of wounded face years of rehabilitation.

Yet there is another side to the story. Some say Oct. 7 proved that Israel's founding purpose was breached, that Jews were once again slaughtered mercilessly.

I contend the reverse: Israel's reason for being was reaffirmed. In the past, when attacked in pogroms and massacres, Jews lacked the means to fight back. Now we did.

Reservists donned their uniforms again, some returning from abroad, putting their lives and limbs on the line.

Israelis fought like lions and lionesses - with courage and with a moral compass unmatched in the history of war - proving to the world, and to ourselves, that Jewish blood would never again be cheap.

There remained a deep sense that we are not only a nation but a family.

Walking through the streets of Jerusalem these days, one senses a weight lifted from the nation's shoulders. We can finally breathe again: the living hostages are home.

Security Experts: Hamas Disarmament Unlikely but Gaza Rehabilitation Depends on It

Avi Dichter, former head of the Israel Security Agency
"I don't think Hamas will volunteer to put aside its weapons; without weapons, there is no Hamas," MK Avi Dichter, former head of the Israel Security Agency, said Wednesday during the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs conference on the future of Israel and Gaza. Therefore, it is more likely that Israel will be forced to disarm the group through military means. "In this region, what doesn't go with force, goes with extra force."

Nevertheless, Dichter predicted that "Gaza will not be dominated by the Palestinian Authority, and Gaza will not be dominated by Hamas." Moreover, Gazans will not see the inside of the State of Israel for "two generations at least, only in photos."

The rebuilding of Gaza depends on the rehabilitation of the people of Gaza, he argued. He recalled how, on Oct. 7, 2023, the third wave of people to enter Israel were "so-called uninvolved Gazan civilians, something which in normal culture we can't even imagine. They applauded when the Israeli hostages were kidnapped to Gaza," saying that the radical ideology and desire for jihad in Gaza remain strong.

"The main message of our region is if you are weak, you will disappear. If you are small and weak, you will disappear much faster. We are small, but we don't want to be weak. We don't have the option of losing."

Oded Ailam, former head of the Mossad Counterterror Division
Oded Ailam, former head of the Mossad Counterterror Division, said, "People say that to change Gaza you must change beliefs," but such statements are "useless." "Beliefs are like tattoos. You cannot erase them with speeches. You have to change the incentive environment that causes those beliefs to prevail. And if we have some lessons from the real world, it's that ideas don't kill, but capacity kills, which means the first and the only thing that we have to do is to somehow dismantle the capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza to kill."

Ailam said there were hardly any examples in the modern era of Islamic terrorist groups that were willing to disarm. More common is the situation with the Houthis in Yemen and Hizbullah in Lebanon, where agreements are reached but the terror groups keep their weapons. However, such an agreement cannot be allowed in Gaza. Otherwise, there's no chance for any entity in Gaza to replace Hamas.

Regarding disarmament, Ailam said: "I don't see any way that external forces from America, from Egypt, from the Emirates will do it....So I'm pretty much skeptical of the next phase of the Trump agreement. It's not an agreement, it's a letter of intent."

"If Israel and the United States allow Turkey and Qatar to have a major force within Gaza, you can be sure that Hamas would not be dismantled. We have a major problem right now because this American administration wants [Turkey and Qatar in Gaza] because of their important part in achieving the deal. But the payment will be paid by Israel."

"Gaza is the only place on earth where the Muslim Brotherhood has managed to take governance of a real state. However, Gaza is not their goal, it's not their aspiration. They want to be everywhere - in Madrid, Dearborn, Paris....Gaza is just their start-up."

IDF reveals Hamas ties to Iran, UNRWA, Al Jazeera, stolen aid in collection of documents

The IDF published a collection of various intelligence documents on Monday containing evidence of Hamas’s connection to Iran, to UNWRA, and Al Jazeera, as well as the terror organization’s actions at the deliberate “deepening [of] civilian suffering.”

UNRWA Hamas cooperation
The IDF released documents with details of Hamas operatives employed by UNRWA alongside documents detailing Hamas's use of UNRWA facilities.

The IDF uncovered lists of UNRWA employees shown beside a list of Hamas operatives, where the same individuals were present with both civilian and military IDs.

The list included teachers, principals, counselors, and medical staff who all had positions in Hamas's Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, the terror organization's so-called military wing. Some were listed on Hamas paperwork as drawing pay from UNRWA.

The IDF also shared an excerpt from a document entitled "Basics of Military Engineering Level Three - Obstacles." The excerpt provides al-Qassam fighters with instructions to use civilian buildings, as they are considered "the best obstacle to defend the resistance." The document highlighted the importance of keeping the fight among the people.

UNRWA schools were listed specifically as a meeting place for Hamas in the supply plan of the South Khan Yunis Battalion in 2020.

The director of UNRWA operations in Gaza, Ashraf Mahd, was featured in several photos in which the site described him as "educating his children and indoctrinating the younger generation to follow Hamas' inhumane ideology, glorifying his war crimes."

Al Jazeera Hamas collaboration
The IDF additionally revealed detailed proof of the affiliation between the Qatari state-run Al Jazeera news organization and the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations. Documents, including personnel lists of terrorist training courses, phone directories, and salary documents for terrorists, were all uncovered by the IDF.

Fifteen different Al Jazeera journalists were listed alongside their roles within the terror organizations. Ismail Al-Ghoul, a Nukhba terrorist who took part in the October 7 massacre, was listed among the journalists.

Hamas also allegedly held power over what Al Jazeera reported. In 2022, Hamas gave clear instructions on how to cover up a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch in Jabaliya, which resulted in the death of several citizens. Al Jazeera was forbidden to criticize Hamas and was told which words to avoid.

Later that year, another document contained further instructions on avoiding any criticism of failed rocket launches. Instead, Al Jazeera was to support the "resistance" in Gaza.

A 2023 document displayed another direct connection between Hamas and Al Jazeera. According to the materials, Hamas established an "Al Jazeera Phone," a secure line that would allow the organization to communicate with the channel.

To Secure Long-Term Peace, Fix Gaza's Schools

For decades, billions have been poured into Gaza. The biggest scandal is what's been taught in Gaza's schools - in large part funded through Western largesse. Every generation in Gaza grows up memorizing the language of martyrdom. Schools, summer camps, mosques and media channels work in concert to instill an uncompromising worldview: violence is virtuous, compromise is weakness, and the annihilation of Israel is a sacred duty.

Few parents in London, Paris or Washington would tolerate their child being taught that violence is noble or that neighbors are subhuman. Yet the international community has subsidized precisely that curriculum for Palestinian children - and then has acted shocked when violence perpetuates itself.

To ensure that hate does not take root again, reconstruction aid must come with nonnegotiable conditions: independent curriculum oversight by external auditors with direct access to materials and classrooms, teacher vetting for extremist affiliations and full donor transparency.

When Western taxpayers fund schools, they have every right to insist those schools don't teach children to become terrorists. Indeed, they have every obligation to do so. We now know what failure looks like. The proper test in rebuilding a decent society for Palestinians is whether we enforce the standards we would insist upon for our own children. Gaza's children deserve schools that prepare them for life, not death.

'America First' Means Putting Qatar, Pakistan, And Russia First (PreOccupied Territory)

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by Red Pill Media, X Activist

Lahore, November 6 - Let's be honest about this: any true United States patriot must prioritize the influence and stability of Islamabad, Doha, and Moscow, among others. Tehran and Beijing, too, come to think of it. Washington ranks perhaps sixth or seventh at best. That's America First in a nutshell.

You thought America First means putting America first? How quaint. Everyone who's anyone knows that in order to support and build up America, we have to empower the regimes working hardest to oppose America. That should be self-evident. Unless you're a Zionist shill.

It takes Qatari funding, for example, to make you realize that Qatar's interests are America's interests as understood by Qatar. American can't be America unless the Islamist agenda stands foremost among the country's priorities. Qatari funding made me understand that,, the way it has made Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Jackson Hinkle understand that. Sometimes all it takes to see the truth is payment to accuse pro-Israel Americans of selling out to Jewish money.

Only once you take Qatari - or Russian, or Venezuelan, or Iranian, but sanctions make those less likely - money are you in a position to realize that AIPAC, which is run, funded, and staffed entirely by Americans, is less American than random X accounts posting from Turkey, Pakistan, or wherever, posing as American patriots. Whom do you trust to put America first, the people who harbored Al Qaeda and the Taliban, or born-and-bred US citizens? Please. As if "natives" understand anything about the country's true interests.

If anyone challenges you about "foreign" funding, the best response is to accuse them of being a genocide-supporter. Drown out any mention of the Arab slave trade, child marriage, oppression of women, racism, "honor killings," by yelling about Israeli treatment of Palestinians, of endorsing the massacre of children. America First means going on the offensive to undermine generations of American sympathy for Israel - and for American's other allies, for that matter.

Bring up the USS Liberty, a fog-of-war incident from 1967, before the US even had an alliance with Israel, if anyone tries to claim that supporting Israel is in America's interest. Blame Israel and American for all the bad things happening the world - remember, other countries and societies have no choice but to perpetrate violence. Only Israel and the West can be expected to have morals, or volition. And of course we can only consider when they fail in that respect, as any true America Firster would d

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Middle East Eye reports that Gaza is now awash with candy, cheese, and carbohydrates, and this is yet another Israeli plot to force Gazans to gain weight so the world doesn't know it is starving them.

Over the past three weeks, dozens of truckloads have entered Gaza, reviving its markets for the first time in months. Hundreds of street vendors now display the vibrant colors of chocolates, various types of coffee, and some fruits.

“Most of these goods consist of carbohydrates, sugars, and starches,” Abdallah Sharshara, lawyer and legal researcher from Gaza, told MEE.

“These include flour and various types of cheese used in sweets and pizza, in addition to sugar and flour derivatives used in confectionery production.

“It is clear that this focus on importing such items indirectly pushes people to rely on them as their main food source, while also forcing humanitarian organisations to focus on purchasing and distributing these products, as they are the only ones available in the local market.”

He noted that Israel is deliberately allowing certain food items into Gaza to “cover up the visible signs of weight loss seen in the population over the past year.

“There is now an abnormal increase in people’s weight. It appears that the Israeli occupation is trying to conceal the crime of starving Palestinians by creating an opposite image, one of rapid and unnatural weight gain,” he said.

Sharshara shared that he personally had lost around 20 kilograms over the past year during Israel’s blockade of Gaza, but is now gaining weight rapidly.

“I had lost weight because of the limited and repetitive food options we were forced to eat throughout the past year,” he said. “Now, I eat the same portions, but they lead to weight gain because I am compelled to consume carbohydrates, processed cheese, and manufactured meat, that’s what’s available.

“They’re forcing us to gain weight systematically.”

The Nazis used gas chambers for their genocide.

Israelis use flour, oil, cheese, fruits and chocolates.

Since Abdallah Sharshara says he had lost 20 kg (44 lbs) during the war, I went to his Facebook to see some before and during photos.

2020:

June 2025:

It looks like he was heavier during the "famine" than before.

Oh, and from videos found by the incomparable Imshin, there is plenty of meat and vegetables as well.

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From the Drowning Child to a Drowning World: Moral Proximity in the Age of Power

Introduction: Refuting Singer and Reframing the Purpose of Ethics

Peter Singer's famous thought experiment, first outlined in "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," goes like this: imagine walking past a shallow pond and seeing a child drowning. You can save the child easily, though your clothes will be ruined, and it will cost $200 to replace them. Most people agree they would save the child. Singer then argues that if we are willing to suffer minor inconvenience to save one life near us, we are morally obligated to donate that same money to save, say, 20 lives far away. For a small cost, we can prevent starvation, malaria, or death in poorer nations, yet we often don't. Therefore, we are morally inconsistent.

At first glance, his logic seems unassailable. But Singer's framing is both too abstract and too flat. First, he neglects the time component. The drowning child requires immediate, one-time action. Remote suffering is persistent and structural. Sending $200 does not solve the problem. It inserts a drop into an ongoing crisis that demands coordination, infrastructure, and sustained engagement.

Following Singer's logic, your $200 spread across the entire world of needy children will end up giving each child minuscule fractions of a penny, so you wouldn't save 20 children - you would save none. How does one choose who to give the money to and how much? His universalist ideals do not scale when applied seemingly "fairly." Singer's engaging in the same triage that he is condemning but hiding it.

Most crucially, Singer treats moral responsibility as a universal moral field, ignoring the structured, covenantal, and relational reality of ethical life. He assumes moral action scales linearly, that we can treat all lives as equally accessible units of obligation. Yet one's first responsibility is to one's family and community - an implicit covenant that cannot and must not be flattened by pretending that everyone is equally responsible for everyone else. He assumes that proximity is a flaw to be overcome rather than a feature that guides responsible moral scaling.

The Singer thought experiment is very relevant to America today. The question is what is America's moral role and responsibility in the world?

The Jewish ethical framework, and particularly the derechological model I have been developing, proposes a structured triad of moral obligation: proximity (moral, relational, or cultural, not just physical), capacity (the power to act without displacing higher duties), and covenant (explicit or inherited moral bonds of responsibility, including both moral ties and literal agreements like treaties, alliances, and shared commitments). This triad scales from individuals to superpowers.

The triad doesn't reject global concern. It structures it. It insists that moral responsibility must scale with care, not collapse into undifferentiated obligation. Moral universalism that ignores proximity ends up collapsing under its own weight, justifying either moral paralysis or performative politics.

When we think in terms of one's derech - their observable moral trajectory - we can name our own values transparently, identify which tier of obligation is in conflict, distinguish authentic derech disagreements from disguised reflex, and elevate partisanship into principled moral debate.

The result isn't consensus. It's dignity. A society that debates real values instead of tribal slogans is one that can still correct itself.

Part I: American Foreign Policy and the Shift in Proximity Logic

Modern America, particularly under the Trump administration, offers a fascinating case study in derechological terms. The first and second Trump terms differ not just in policy but in the internal structure of their derech, their observable moral trajectory.

In the first term, derech was inconsistent. Isolationist rhetoric coexisted with interventionist moves. Proximity, capacity, and covenant were each invoked but not in a coherent order. Derech analysis reveals fragmented values driven more by instinct than by tiered moral logic.

In the second term, the derech crystallized. Proximity was redefined as strategic alignment, not geographic or cultural but based on immediate political or economic usefulness. Capacity was treated as leverage, not duty. Covenant became conditional. Treaties, alliances, and shared values were honored only if visibly reciprocal.

In derech terms, this is not isolationism. It's transactional sovereigntism. It isn't a derech of cruelty per se but of hollowed responsibility. The moral triangle is still used, but its sides have been redrawn.

A key derechological concern in this phase is value hijacking, where values are invoked but only to serve pre-existing reflexes, fears, or political instincts. When "security," "tradition," or "freedom" are used as cloaks for fear of loss, racial panic, or anti-covenantal scapegoating, derech is being simulated, not followed. Derechology teaches that true values shape decisions even when they conflict with base instincts. A policy that always aligns with reflex and never with override logic is likely hijacked.

Part II: The Fracture Within the Right

This derech is not uncontested. Within the American Right, we now see a derech fracture.

Traditional nationalists maintain a covenantal derech. They believe America has inherited responsibilities to allies, to liberty, to history. They operate with structured values. Strength, yes, but not at the expense of fidelity.

New isolationists collapse the triad. Proximity becomes domestic only. Capacity is morally inert. Covenant is reframed as entrapment. This faction often draws moral language from tradition, but in structure, it functions derech-wise as self-protectionism cloaked in principle.

Overlaying both is a more disturbing split: between those whose derech includes Jews as moral partners and those whose derech scapegoats Jews as symbols of globalism, elite betrayal, or cultural threat. This isn't a fringe issue. It's a derech-defining fault line.

Here too, derechology applies the Reflex vs. Value Test. Reflex-driven policies arise from fear, anger, or trauma responses masquerading as principle. They shift rapidly, resist override logic, and lack repair capacity. True values, by contrast, remain legible across contexts, resolve conflicts transparently, and produce moral consistency even when inconvenient. Derechology warns: when reflex is moralized, values are weaponized, and derech collapses.

In derechology, this is not just bad behavior. It is a collapse of human dignity recognition, which disables covenant, mutual responsibility, and override logic. A derech that scapegoats cannot sustain moral leadership.

Conclusion: Derech Clarity in a Drowning World

Singer's experiment fails because it assumes that morality is weightless and obligation is frictionless. But derechology insists that ethical action must track structure, history, and relationship. The U.S. is not just a rich nation. It is a powerful actor embedded in global covenants, carrying layered proximities and enormous capacity. When it shifts its derech, the moral weight of that change is global.

The question is no longer: should we save the child far away? It is: who counts as "close" in a world where power expands moral reach, and where ignoring covenantal entanglement invites derech collapse?

Superpower status is a relatively modern phenomenon, but it irreversibly shifts the moral responsibility curve. The ability to shape global dynamics brings with it the ethical burden of prevention. When a morally grounded actor retreats, the vacuum is not neutral. It is filled by ideologies and regimes that reject human dignity, override logic, or covenantal constraint. The rise of China's authoritarianism, the spread of jihadist violence, or the ideological chaos of decolonial radicalism are not parallel moralities. They are derech failures. Abandoning the field allows derech collapse on a global scale.

On the other hand, concentric circles of moral responsibility are essential. Proximity isn't an evasion. It is an ethical anchor. A nation's first covenant is to its own citizens. That is not nationalism. It is moral triage. The moral question is not whether to abandon global responsibility but how to balance it without betraying inner circles. Derechology affirms that proximity and covenant must be respected, not erased.

And here, a real question arises: Does America currently have the capacity, economically, socially, morally, to care for the world without failing its own people? That is a derechological question, not a partisan one. It requires mapping competing duties, testing claims of value versus reflex, and discerning whether foreign action displaces covenantal integrity at home. There is no single answer. But clarity in the triad reframes the debate.

America's future moral integrity depends on its ability to recognize that superpower status is not just geopolitical. It is ethical geometry. You can't shrink the map without redrawing your moral boundaries.

This essay is not a policy brief. It offers no simplistic solution. Instead, it demonstrates how Derechology provides the tools to extract real values, detect value hijacking, and clarify complex moral dynamics, even in politically toxic environments. In place of rhetorical fog, Derechology offers moral structure. And that structure makes real debate possible.

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There have been a lot of articles about Jews voting for Mamdani, making it sound like they were a significant part of his coalition.

The CNN exit poll showed that among Jews, Mamdani received only 32% of the vote compared to the 50% he received altogether.

But like all of these exit polls, it includes Jews who don't consider Judaism to be important at all in their lives. In New York City, that is about 25% of the Jews.

If we assume that the non-committed Jews voted along the same party lines they voted in the 2024 presidential elections (73% Democrat, 27% Republican) then the vote from committed Jews - of whom Orthodox Jews are perhaps 20% - was a far more lopsided 81% against, 19% for.

The Mamdani Jews are the Jews in name only, plus a smattering of Satmars who were immediately denounced by the other Satmars. The "progressive" Jewish groups make a lot of noise but the only Jews they represent are people who decide to weaponize their accident of birth.

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