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04/18 Links: He dreamed of regime change; Endgame in Sight; Israel is not at war with Lebanon; Fetterman blasts his party for tolerating antisemitism; Melanie Phillips: An unholy silence

From Ian: Martin Kramer: He dreamed of regime change The Iran war has entered a new phase, a “double-sided ceasefire.” Eventually, we will learn the backstory, and it won’t look like anything we were led to believe while it was unfolding. Much of what seems true today will turn out to be false, and vice versa. If it weren’t always so, the world wouldn’t need historians like me. In the meantime, I seek insights in the wisdom of mentors now gone. Bernard Lewis was one; I wrote about Lewis and Iran the other week. This time, I’ll consider Uri Lubrani (1926-2018), an Israeli diplomat and defense official. Lubrani, who served the state from its founding, had the unusual distinction of being posted, time and again, to the epicenters of crisis. From 1967 to 1971, he served as ambassador to Ethiopia, which positioned him to play a crucial role in the emergency emigration of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1991 (Operation Solomon). It was his greatest achievement. But he was also known for serving as head of the Israeli mission to Iran (with ambassadorial rank) from 1973 to 1978. His claim to fame: he anticipated the rise of religious extremism and the Shah’s fall before anyone else did. As early as 1975, he warned a US senator visiting Tehran that “the most serious problem that the Shah had domestically was from the religious elements who were hostile and very difficult for him to deal with.” The US diplomat who accompanied the senator later recalled: “I never heard anyone say that in the American embassy. I never heard any journalists say it or any Iranians say it. This was the first time that I heard that analysis.” Lubrani remained ahead of the curve. In a June 1978 dispatch, he reported to Jerusalem that the Shah’s position was undergoing an “accelerated process of destabilization… a process from which there is no return and which will ultimately lead to his downfall and a drastic change in the form of government in Iran.” Again, he was alone. The State Department at the time estimated that the Shah had “an excellent chance to rule for a dozen or more years,” and the CIA held that “Iran is not in a revolutionary or even a pre-revolutionary situation.” Lubrani emerged from the Iranian revolution as an acclaimed oracle. I got to know him in the mid-1980s, when he ran an office for Lebanese affairs at the defense ministry. Israel was occupying much of South Lebanon and rubbing up against Hezbollah, Iran’s Shi‘ite proxy. I was beginning to work on Hezbollah myself, and we had much to discuss. Lubrani was also an old friend of Lewis, and I often found myself at dinner with both of them. I wish I’d taken notes. Melanie Phillips: An unholy silence Britain’s prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has adopted a particularly odious attitude. Having said the Iran conflict was “not our war” and “not in our national interest,” he then tried to cast himself as a peacemaker by flying to Saudi Arabia purportedly to negotiate a ceasefire. While the United States is bringing Iran economically to its knees by interdicting Iranian maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, thus brilliantly turning the regime’s ostensible trump card against it, Starmer is sending out invitations to a risible summit to “break” Iran’s control of the Strait. Top of their deliberations will doubtless be what gifts to put into the party bags they’ll give the Iranians to take home with them. Shockingly, Starmer thinks that Israel has no right to defend itself against Hezbollah in Lebanon. He told the House of Commons this week: “Israel’s strikes are wrong. They’re having devastating humanitarian consequences and pushing Lebanon into a crisis. The bombing should stop now.” He thus presented Israel totally falsely as a wanton aggressor, ignoring the thousands of rockets that Hezbollah has been firing at Israeli civilians—with all the death and destruction they’ve caused--and that show no sign of stopping. Starmer thinks diplomacy brings peace. But more than four decades of diplomacy with Iran have resulted in thousands of Jews, Americans and others around the world being murdered, killed and wounded; a terrorized and butchered Iranian people; and the world’s most lethal terrorist state coming to the very brink of arming itself with the nuclear bomb. Like the pope, Starmer and his fellow European fainthearts make pious incantations of peace while leaving the targets of genocidal war to swing in the wind. This culture of appeasement reflects the dismal fact that Britain and these European nations are now on a trajectory of cultural collapse, as their countries become steadily Islamized while they refuse to defend a historic identity they no longer respect or even recognize. Accordingly, the pope’s position should cause the utmost dismay to all who understand the need to prevent Western civilization from disintegrating. Since religion is the moral scaffolding of a culture, it’s essential for the church to assert itself if the West is to be defended. For decades, the Church of England has tragically been instead at the forefront of civilizational decline. Now the Pope is sanctifying Europe’s surrender to Islam. Trump’s crude and sometimes preposterous pronouncements dismay many. People’s real concern, however, should be for the survival of the civilization that only America’s president and the State of Israel are trying desperately to defend. Endgame in Sight By Abe Greenwald Via Commentary Newsletter, sign up here. Here's what I think is happening. The U.S. and Israel won the opening military phase of this war. The U.S. is now winning the economic phase. What’s left of the Iranian regime is cracking under the massive economic stress of the blockade. With the U.S. Navy still interdicting Iranian shipping, the regime may yet break altogether. Iranian leaders are trying simultaneously to get some economic breathing room and save face by linking their actions to the Israel–Lebanon cease-fire. Trump, irked by the anti-Jewish right’s claims that he’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s puppet, is trying to shut them up with a little social media bluster. It would be wise to take the actual words of the cease-fire as the operative framework here. Trump hasn’t traveled this far, with Israel by the U.S.’s side in a successful war against Iran, just to tie the Jewish state’s hands against Iran’s proxy in Lebanon. Neither the Iranian regime nor Trump wants to resume the fighting. The regime can’t afford to absorb more damage. For another president, that might mean it’s time to start dropping bombs again. But no other president, despite talking about it, has taken this fight nearly so far. He’s the only one that made the bold decision to wage this war, and he’s done so on his terms. Trump always wanted a short war, and, after a month and a half, he can just about taste victory. I have my doubts about the details and projected timelines, but, hard as it is to imagine, I believe the president when he says the U.S. will get Iran to hand over its enriched uranium (everything that’s transpired since Operation Midnight Hammer in June was once hard to imagine). And that really would be the whole shebang—the clearest, most incontrovertible victory the U.S. has seen in decades. Brendan O'Neill: Ezra Klein is dangerously wrong about anti-Zionism The ‘genocide’ lie, which is the first commandment of anti-Zionism, emerged not in response to Israel’s actions but from a pre-existing cesspit of Israelophobic animus. It wasn’t anything Israel did that earned it that slur. It was the anti-Zionists’ long-held bigoted belief that the Jewish state is an inherently genocidal one, ‘uniquely murderous’, a nation given to the joyous letting of blood. This brings us to the second factor that upends Klein’s claim that anti-Zionism is a ‘response to what Israel is doing: the sheer mania of anti-Zionism, its fizzing, overwrought nature. Spend five minutes with a self-defined anti-Zionist and you will know you are in the presence of a bigot in the garb of a peacenik. Anti-Zionism belongs far more to the realm of irrational dread than judicious analysis. It simmers with hate. It sees Israel not only as a nation that has committed wrongs – as have all nations – but also as a demonic thing that’s dragging us to hell, or at least to forever war. It rehabilitates ancient calumnies in pseudo-political language. Where Jews were accused of killing Christian children, the Jewish State is said to take pleasure in the death of Palestinian children. The old view of the Jews as the puppet-masters of global affairs finds its echo in the new idea that Israel has the West eating from the palm of its hand. Across the internet, anti-Zionists from both left and right accuse the Jewish nation of controlling our media and polluting our nations with porn and ‘Third Worlders’. Honestly, saying anti-Zionism is a response to Israel’s behaviour is like saying the KKK was a response to black people’s behaviour. Klein is right about one thing – anti-Zionism is no longer a ‘marginal viewpoint’. And that should worry us all. My concern is that the media establishment’s drawing of a line between anti-Zionism and ‘real anti-Semitism’ is giving free rein to this emboldened ideology of loathing that comes dressed as pacifism. We now have the bizarre situation where someone like Klein can cheer Hasan Piker for saying anti-Semitism is ‘gross’ and ‘immoral’, and then just days later, Piker says he would ‘vote for Hamas over Israel every single time’. Hamas – an army of violent bigots that is devoted to vapourising the world’s only Jewish nation. But it’s just anti-Zionism. It’s fine. Relax. pic.twitter.com/WPrYW3OzCE — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 19, 2026 Jake Wallis Simons: Israel is not at war with Lebanon The joint statement released by Israel and Lebanon on Thursday could not have been clearer. ‘Israel and Lebanon affirm that the two countries are not at war and commit to engaging in good-faith direct negotiations’, it said. Wait, what? Israel and Lebanon were not at war? What about the endless hours of media coverage showing us the devastation of Lebanon’s southern villages? What about all the Gaza comparisons? What about all the outrage? Well, their joint statement held further clues. ‘Both countries recognise the significant challenges faced by the Lebanese state from non-state armed groups’, it said. ‘Those groups’ activities must be curtailed.’ To anybody who knows anything about the region, so much was already obvious. Israel’s campaign in Lebanon is targeted at Hezbollah, not the population at large. Even if every single Shia in the country was supportive of the terror group – which is far from the case – that would mean that two-thirds of Lebanese people opposed it. With good reason: Hezbollah was founded by the Iranian regime, is fanatically committed to Israel’s destruction and has even adopted the Sieg Heil as its salute. Meanwhile, it has infiltrated Lebanese politics and society like a parasite, turning the country into a zombie state designed for the death of its neighbour. As the Lebanese academic Makram Rabah pointed out this week on The Brink, a podcast I co-host with Andrew Fox, Hezbollah is inherently anti-Lebanese. It was set up as an Iranian puppet in 1985 to establish a Tehran-style Islamic Republic in Lebanon. ‘As a young kid in the streets of Beirut, I still remember their banners’, Rabah said. ‘They had the same AK-47 on them, but they used to read “Islamic Revolution in Lebanon”.’ Hezbollah, which runs international drug-trafficking networks and has dabbled in prostitution, is widely hated, he said, not least because it plays a large part in the corruption of Lebanon’s political system. ‘They have a kind of Faustian deal with the political elite. The political elite needs them for muscle. The ongoing clientalist system, which has ruined Lebanon over and over again, takes advantage of this sacred alliance of what we call the mafia and the militia.’ Lebanon ceasefire exposes deeper battle against Iran’s regional axis Trump is understood to be coordinating closely with Netanyahu regarding both the timing and conditions of the ceasefire, ensuring that any diplomatic progress does not compromise Israel’s core security objectives. The coming hours are likely to involve complex deliberations as decision-makers weigh strategic risks against potential opportunities. Residents of northern Israel remain wary of a ceasefire that could ultimately allow Hezbollah to regroup, potentially leading to renewed evacuations and continued insecurity for border communities such as Metula, Karmiel, Kiryat Shmona and Shlomi. Even as discussions unfolded, Israeli forces reportedly continued operations aimed at removing terrorist infrastructure from southern Lebanon, including activity in Bint Jbeil, while avoiding renewed strikes in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district, a Hezbollah stronghold whose missiles and drones have repeatedly targeted Israeli civilians. Lebanon’s internal political constraints remain considerable. Memories of past violence, including the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri using massive explosives, continue to shape perceptions of Hezbollah’s power and the difficulty of confronting an organization deeply embedded within the country’s political and military structures and closely aligned with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Tehran’s reported insistence that Hezbollah continue fighting has served as a critical factor even as the ceasefire takes hold. The American president’s direct engagement with Aoun sends a signal not only to Beirut but also to Tehran regarding Washington’s intentions ahead of broader regional decisions. In Washington this week, the symbolic display of Lebanese and Israeli flags side by side offered a rare visual expression of potential change. Geography underscores the stakes: Israel and Lebanon share a narrow mountainous border where abandoned communities on both sides could once again thrive if Hezbollah’s presence were removed permanently, potentially supported by temporary Israeli security arrangements designed to prevent renewed escalation. The United States is now expected to assist Lebanon in confronting Hezbollah’s dominance. Europe, too, faces a significant strategic test. Long shaped by ideological pacifism and reluctance to fully confront Hezbollah’s role, European leaders have often framed Israel’s actions in Lebanon primarily as aggression against the Lebanese state, while insufficiently addressing the influence of the Iranian-backed terrorist organization. As Israeli Ambassador Yehiel Leiter has noted, Israel and Lebanon ultimately share a common interest in countering Hezbollah. Many Lebanese recognize that Beirut’s government must now find the resolve to act in its own national interest. Europe likewise has an opportunity to reassess its approach in light of shifting regional realities and growing security threats. Add: We are grateful to Israel for eliminating the Iranian and Hezbollah terrorists including Imad Mughniyeh, Ibrahim Aqil and Fuad Shukr who were behind this terrorist attack — and the one six months later on the U.S. Marine Barracks that killed 241 U.S. Marines on a… https://t.co/wateh2CWpS — Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) April 18, 2026 Judge dismisses pro-Palestine prosecution of British-Israeli soldier A judge has thrown out a ‘politically motivated’ attempt to bring a private prosecution against a British-Israeli soldier using Victorian-era law. The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) had tried to get the Westminster magistrates’ court to issue a summons to begin a prosecution against the dual British-Israeli national who served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The group invoked the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 (FEA), which was enacted in the Victorian era to prevent British nationals from being deployed as mercenaries abroad. But the court heard that the FEA, as interpreted, does not apply to a dual national serving in the armed forces of his other country. Successive UK governments have also said the FEA does not apply to British citizens serving in the IDF. The man broke off a short visit to Britain and returned to Israel to rejoin his army unit as a reservist the day after the Oct 7 attacks, which killed more than 1,200 Jewish people. Israeli citizens are obliged to do national service or join the IDF for a time and are automatically enrolled in the reserve forces. Paul Goldspring, the senior district judge, dismissed the attempt to prosecute the soldier, describing the ICJP’s application as “an abuse of the process of the court, driven by an improper motive and facilitated by serious breaches of the duty of candour”. He said it was also “legally flawed, evidentially deficient and procedurally defective”, with the aim not being justice for a criminal act but “advancement of a political and ideological agenda”. The judge concluded that ICJP’s “use of the criminal courts as a platform for political posturing” was “an abuse of process”. Fun fact: the first time anyone tried a private prosecution of an Israeli in the UK for this sort of thing, it was the National Front in 1977 when Menachem Begin visited as Israeli Prime Minister. That one failed too. https://t.co/FYYCeLxVuk — Dave Rich (@daverich1) April 18, 2026 Hind Rajab Foundation files complaint against Israeli-American tourist in Sri Lanka The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) filed a complaint on Saturday against an Israeli-American tourist in Sri Lanka who served in the IDF and was part of the combat operation in Gaza. The complaint filed by the Belgium-based Palestinian organization marks the first filed against an American citizen outside the United States. The anti-Israel group claimed that the Israeli-American tourist was part of an IDF Combat Engineering Battalion and took part in "illegal demolitions of civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip." The group claims to have filed more than 80 complaints against IDF veterans since the begining of 2026, with their goal being to target the ability of Israelis to "move freely." How is behind Hindi Rajab Foundation HRF is one of the anti-Israel organizations that has recently targeted IDF soldiers with doxxing and legal campaigns, basing its allegations on footage published by the soldiers on their social media accounts. According to its website, it “focuses on offensive legal action against perpetrators, accomplices, and inciters of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine.” It also claims to prioritize “awareness campaigns to challenge Israeli impunity.” According to NGO Monitor, the foundation, named after Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl killed in Gaza City in January of last year, was formed in September. According to the HRF website, it is a branch of the March 30 Movement, a larger anti-Israel organization, which is committed to the recognition of “genocide in Gaza.” NGO Monitor also details that the founder of HRF, the Lebanese-born Dyab Abou Jahjah, has a long history of anti-Israel activism. He has backed Hezbollah and claimed in the past to have received “military training” from the terror group. UK's Kensington Gardens reopens after police find no hazardous material near Israel's embassy British police said on Saturday they found no hazardous substances in items discovered near London’s Israeli embassy and reopened Kensington Gardens, after investigating an online claim that the site had been targeted by drones. The pro-Iranian group known as Ashab al-Yamin (fully, Hakarat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, or Movement of the Companions of the Right Hand of Islam) had posted a video that included footage of drones along with two figures dressed in protective clothing and a message that the Israeli embassy in London was being targeted. “While the Embassy of Israel was not attacked, we continue to work closely with the Embassy and its security team to keep the site safe and secure," a commander of counter-terrorism policing in London said. Ashab al-Yamin has also claimed several attacks against London's Jewish community recently, including arson attacks that destroyed four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green, targeted Finchley Reform Synagogue, and a Jewish life center in Hendon. The group has also claimed attacks against Jewish centers across Western Europe. A police van is parked on the roadside near London's Kensington Gardens and the Israeli embassy as police in protective clothing investigated an incident on April 17, 2026 in the Kensington Gardens area of London, England. London police investigate possible antisemitic arson The Metropolitan Police in London is probing an arson attack that took place on Friday night in Hendon against a business that was previously owned by a Jewish charity. The case is not being treated as a terrorist incident but it is being led by Counter Terrorism Policing London due to the similarity of other recent arson attacks against Jewish-owned property in the British capital, the unit’s Commander Helen Flanagan said in a statement. Officers from the North West Command Area are supporting the investigation. The site on Hendon Way still bears signs of the former owner, reading “jewish futures.” Police officers and the London Fire Brigade were called to the scene at 10:32 p.m. on April 17, the Met Police said. A man was seen to approach a row of shops with a plastic bag containing what was later found to be three bottles containing fluid. He placed the bag next to the building and lit the items in the bag, according to police. The bottles failed to fully ignite and the man fled the scene. Minor damage was caused to the shopfront and no injuries were reported. The incident will “undoubtedly add to the concerns” of the large Jewish community of Hendon, the local member of Parliament, David Pinto-Duschinsky, told Sky News. In Hendon we are proudly the home of a large Jewish community. We’ve seen the attacks on Hatzola in Golders Green which is just a mile down the road. [Also] the attack on Finchley Reform Synagogue, which is just a few miles away, so obviously this adds to the concerns the community has,” he was cited as saying. An attack in February set ablaze four ambulances belonging to Hatzola Northwest, a Jewish community emergency service, in Golders Green in north London. Four Muslim suspects have since been arrested in connection to the case. The Islamist group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya has claimed responsibility for the incident, as well as several attacks since March 9 on Jewish institutions in Belgium and the Netherlands. ➡️ Security Notice from CST, for the British Jewish Community pic.twitter.com/KPxwShzY3O — CST (@CST_UK) April 18, 2026 Iran reimposes Hormuz closure after US maintains blockade; IRGC gunboats fire at ships Iran swiftly reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, reimposing restrictions on the critical waterway after the US said it would not end its blockade of Iran-linked shipping. Iran’s joint military command said that “control of the Strait of Hormuz has returned to its previous state … under strict management and control of the armed forces.” It warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the US blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect. Commercial ships came under fire and threats from Iran’s military as they tried to cross the Strait of Hormuz, security monitors said. IRGC gunboats fired on a tanker in the strait northeast of Oman, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) said in an online statement, adding the vessel and crew were safe. Vanguard identified the tanker as the India-flagged tanker Sanmar Herald. It cited the captain as saying two IRGC patrol boats approached it with no radio contact and “shots were fired, resulting in damage to the bridge windows.” Vanguard said separately that the Malta-flagged cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 reported a splash nearby while crossing near Oman, on the far side of the strait from Iran. The ship “confirmed VHF (radio) traffic from IRGC units stating ‘we are carrying out operation, we will fire and destroy you,'” but no damage was reported, Vanguard said. In a third incident, the UKMTO said that it also received a report of a container ship in the same area “being hit by an unknown projectile which caused damage to some of the containers” but no fire. Hours earlier, speaking to reporters, US President Donald Trump had cited “some pretty good news” about Iran, declining to elaborate. But he also said fighting might resume without a peace deal by Wednesday, when a two-week ceasefire expires. On Friday evening, he had posted on Truth Social that “Iran has agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again.” Iran’s announcement came after Trump said Friday that even though Tehran announced the strait’s reopening, the American blockade “will remain in full force” until Tehran reaches a deal with the US, including on its nuclear program. Trump: Iran ‘got a little cute’ by blocking Hormuz again, but talks going ‘really well’ US President Donald Trump said Saturday Iran “got a little cute” by reimposing its closure on the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the day, but insisted that the White House is in touch with Tehran and that the dialogue is “working out really well.” Israel, however, is preparing for the possibility that the talks will collapse and the situation in the strait will escalate, a source told the Kan public broadcaster. In addition, US forces are preparing to begin boarding and seizing Iran-linked ships in international waters across the globe, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Iran said Saturday that “control of the Strait of Hormuz has returned to its previous state … under strict management and control of the armed forces,” as long as the US blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect. Iran’s security council further said that the strait will remain in Iranian control until “the war fully ends and lasting peace is achieved in the region.” Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said it had been presented with new American proposals during a recent visit by Pakistan’s army chief, who is serving as an intermediary with Washington. The council did not reveal what was in the proposals, but said that they were still under review. Further talks would require the US to abandon “excessive demands and adjust its requests to the realities on the ground,” it added. Iran also fired on at least three tankers attempting to pass the waterway on Saturday, only a day after it announced that it was opening the strait in accordance with the ceasefire deal with the US. Confusion over the critical chokepoint threatened to deepen the energy crisis roiling the global economy and push the two countries toward renewed conflict, even as mediators expressed confidence that a new deal was within reach. Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil passes through the strait and further limits would squeeze already constrained supply, driving prices higher once again. At the UN General Assembly session on the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Israel’s Ambassador @dannydanon asked the French ambassador: How much money did you pay Iran to move ships safely through the Strait of Hormuz? Surprisingly, he had no answer. pic.twitter.com/K07s0Dji9G — Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) April 18, 2026 Bahrain’s foreign ministry said on Saturday it welcomed a decision by the International Maritime Organization condemning the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and alleged Iranian threats to shipping and Gulf Cooperation Council states, as well as Jordan. The ministry praised the… — Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) April 18, 2026 US envoy argues Israeli policy on Syria and Turkey strategically counter-productive US President Donald Trump’s point man for Syria and Turkey appeared to knock Israel’s strategy in dealing with those countries on Friday, arguing that Jerusalem’s view of Damascus and Ankara as adversaries, rather than potential partners, was a strategic mistake. Barrack, who serves as both US special envoy on Syria and as US ambassador to Turkey, claimed that Syria is interested in normalizing ties with Israel, and that Turkey can play a constructive role in the postwar rehabilitation of Gaza. He also appeared to question the depth of Israel’s ties to Druze communities in Syria, and to say that concern about global antisemitism is overstated. During an onstage interview at the Antalya Diplomatic Forum, the US diplomat said that Syria’s new government, led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, hasn’t fired a shot at Israel since Sharaa’s forces ousted longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad in late 2024. Sharaa “has said time and time again that there are no issues with Israel. ‘We don’t want an adversarial issue with Israel. We don’t want to be at war with Israel. We want to work towards a non-aggression agreement and a normalization,'” Barrack said. Israel has held several rounds of negotiations with Sharaa’s government, and the Syrian leader indicated this week at the Antalya Forum that the door to talks is still open, though he also accused Israel of acting with “brutality” and insisted on Syria’s claim to the Golan Heights. He has given mixed signals as to whether he’s open to a normalization deal, saying at one point that “Syria is different” from Gulf states that normalized ties with Israel in 2020, because Israel and Syria are neighbors and Israeli troops have invaded his country. Sharaa is an Islamist leader who was formerly affiliated with al-Qaeda, and Israel has viewed his rule skeptically. Israeli troops entered southern Syria following Assad’s ouster, and established a buffer zone in which it has stationed soldiers at several locations near the border. It has defended the move as necessary to protect its population from rogue militant actors. Thirteen US troops killed, nearly 400 wounded in Iran war, CENTCOM says Nearly 400 US troops have been wounded in the conflict with Iran, US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported. At least 399 American service members were injured, according to CENTCOM spokesman Tim Hawkins, the Associated Press reported. Hawkins said 354 of those wounded have since returned to duty, while 13 US service members were killed in combat. Diplomatic efforts have yet to produce a breakthrough. Representatives from Washington and Tehran met in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 11 for several rounds of talks, but both sides said they failed to reach a long-term agreement. The Associated Press reported that another round of discussions may take place on April 16. Airbus satellites enabled China to help Iran to target and destroy US military aircraft. https://t.co/nSBUUoFIcK — J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) April 17, 2026 IDF reservist killed by Hezbollah explosive in Lebanon amid truce, 3 troops hurt An IDF reservist was killed and three other soldiers were wounded on Friday after an explosive device detonated by them in southern Lebanon, hours after the ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect, the military announced Saturday. The slain soldier was named as Warrant Officer (res.) Barak Kalfon, 48, of the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 7056th Battalion, from Adi in northern Israel. He worked as an engineer at Rafael, the state-owned defense firm, and is survived by his wife and two daughters. His death occurred on Friday after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect at midnight. The reservists were scanning a building in the southern Lebanon village of Jebbayn for weapons. During the scans, a Hezbollah explosive device detonated, killing Kalfon and wounding three other troops, two moderately and one lightly. According to an initial IDF probe, the bomb was not remotely detonated and was likely automatically triggered. Kalfon was severely injured in the explosion and evacuated by helicopter to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. He underwent emergency surgery and other life-saving measures, but his death was confirmed hours after arrival. “Next week you would have celebrated number 49,” said Kalfon’s cousin, Sapir Kalfon, according to Ynet. “What did you achieve? A great deal. Lots. And you didn’t even need to be in uniform anymore. But even so, you insisted on volunteering for reserve duty. That’s who you were. Always with a bright face, always smiling, always embracing and including. Calm, with a heart bursting with goodness.” The IDF is operating in accordance with the directives of the political echelon. Accordingly, the IDF is authorized to take the necessary measures in self-defense against threats, while ensuring the security of Israeli civilians and the soldiers deployed in the area. Actions… — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 18, 2026 ❌ ANOTHER HEZBOLLAH CEASEFIRE VIOLATION: IDF soldiers identified a terrorist cell that violated the ceasefire understandings and approached IDF soldiers operating south of the defense line. The terrorists posed a threat to the troops, and in response the IDF eliminated them.… — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 18, 2026 Two interesting scenes in this clip from the Gaza war: It appears these two now-dead Hamas members hid an explosive charge inside a washing machine. At the end of the clip, it appears Hamas members are repurposing unexploded IDF ordnance. pic.twitter.com/VV4a9YMZB7 — Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) April 18, 2026 Macron, UNIFIL blame Hezbollah for killing of French peacekeeper in Lebanon French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said Hezbollah was responsible for the death of a French soldier in an attack on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, while the UN Interim Force in Lebanon blamed “non-state actors,” code for the Iran-backed terror group. “Everything points to Hezbollah being responsible for this attack,” Macron said on X, urging Lebanese authorities to arrest the perpetrators. “This morning, a UNIFIL patrol clearing explosive ordnance along a road in the village of Ghanduriyah to re-establish links with isolated UNIFIL positions came under small-arms fire from non-state actors. Tragically, one peacekeeper succumbed to his injuries and three others were injured, two of them seriously,” the observer force said in a statement. UNIFIL said it “condemns this deliberate attack on peacekeepers engaged in their mandated tasks. The work of explosive ordnance disposal teams is vital in the mission’s area of operations, especially in the wake of the recent hostilities.” The observer force said it had launched an investigation “to determine the circumstances surrounding this tragic incident.” It added that an “initial assessment indicates the fire came from non-state actors.” Hezbollah denied any involvement, calling for “caution in issuing judgments and responsibilities regarding the incident” while expressing “surprise at the [parties] that rushed to throw accusations arbitrarily.” Macron’s office said he held calls with Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam to urge them to “guarantee the security of UNIFIL soldiers.” Aoun vowed to prosecute those who targeted the peacekeepers, while Salam said he had ordered an investigation. French President Macron: “A French soldier from the UNIFIL force was killed and three others were wounded this morning in southern Lebanon. All indications point to Hezbollah being responsible for this. We demand that the authorities in Lebanon immediately arrest those… pic.twitter.com/6dKRWHAy3M — Mor Edge Insight (@MorEdge_Insight) April 18, 2026 If you think we’re exaggerating… pic.twitter.com/Zb1V24KHOU — Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) April 18, 2026 IDF slays terrorist in southern Gaza Combat team personnel from the Israel Defense Forces’ Negev Reserve Infantry Brigade killed a Gazan terrorist in the southern Strip on Friday who crossed the Yellow Line and posed a threat to the troops, the military said. “IDF forces under Southern Command are deployed in the area in accordance with the [truce] agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat,” the army added. The Yellow Line runs through the Gaza Strip, delineating Israeli and Hamas areas of control. The IDF holds roughly 54% of the Strip. Jerusalem says that Hamas must lay its weapons if Israeli forces are to withdraw from the area. Palestinian terrorist who infiltrated Judea community shot dead Security personnel killed a knife-wielding Palestinian terrorist who infiltrated the Jewish community of Negohot in Judea early on Saturday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said. No other injuries were reported. The suspect was shot dead while charging at a member of the local security team. Following the incident, IDF soldiers, directed by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), operated in the Khirbet Fuqeiqah area, adjacent to the Negohot community in the South Hebron Hills, where the terrorist resided, the army said. The soldiers conducted a targeted raid of the terrorist’s residence and located an improvised weapon and military equipment. In light of the findings, the terrorist’s brother was detained and transferred to the Shin Bet for questioning, the IDF added. The Palestinian Authority’s WAFA news agency identified the terrorist as Muhammad Ahmad Abu Ghaliyeh al-Suwaiti, 25, from Khirbet Salama west of Dura in the Hebron Governorate. He’s back! Haviv joined Hugh for a long discussion of Iran, Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon Good deal? Bad deal? Blockade? Ceasefire? Eli Lake joined Hugh with first reactions Fetterman blasts his party for tolerating antisemitism within its ranks Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said on Friday that the Democratic Party “absolutely” has an issue with rising antisemitism, calling out the party’s embrace of candidates including Graham Platner in Maine and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan while criticizing the recent progressive push to cut off defensive aid to Israel. The Pennsylvania senator made the comments after being asked on CNN’s “The Arena with Kasie Hunt” if he believed the Democratic Party has a problem with antisemitism. Fetterman argued that the growing support for both candidates in their respective primaries was indicative of a tolerance for antisemitism within the party. He pointed to Platner surviving the controversy surrounding his Nazi tattoo and Jewish Insider’s reporting in recent days that the first-time candidate repeatedly praised Hamas’ tactics in a 2014 Reddit forum that shared video of the terrorist group killing several Israeli soldiers. “I mean, the guy that’s going to win the primary in Maine has a Nazi tattoo on his chest and now that’s no problem for a lot of voters,” Fetterman said. “I don’t know why. That’s crazy. And now, I mean, we know he knows, he knew what that was. I mean, if you’re back over 12, 13 years, cheering about the death of Israeli soldiers, I mean, you clearly have a serious issue, and the left has a serious issue with antisemitism.” “It was just released that he was praising and celebrating a video online where Hamas was beating and torturing Israeli soldiers to death,” Fetterman said, referring to Platner. Fetterman also made note of El-Sayed’s lead in one recent primary poll despite his decision to campaign alongside antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker. “The guy in Michigan, he’s leading now in that race, as my party becomes more and more hostile to Israel,” Fetterman said. “They’re just palling around someone like Hasan Piker, you know the guy that, absolutely, I mean, he absolutely is proud to cheer for Hamas, loves Hamas.” “The Democrats are proud to stand with him and campaign with him,” he added. “Go ahead, try to win Pennsylvania and campaign around Hasan Piker, or saying, ‘Yeah, America deserved 9/11’ or ‘Hamas is 1,000% better than Israel’ or ‘I don’t care about the rapes and for all this other things.’ We have a serious problem with my party.” 🚨With criticism mounting, Fetterman pushes back.@SenFettermanPA says Israel has done nothing wrong, calling its actions “necessary” to destroy Hamas, Hezbollah, and confront Iran—while describing those groups as incapable of anything but terror. And he leaves no ambiguity:… pic.twitter.com/4YmbPk5zxd — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 18, 2026 This “Israel made us do it” bullshit is evil and poisonous. And the scumbags pushing this, left and right, are contemptible lowlifes knowingly promoting hate and violence. https://t.co/AJgi3cYpTY — Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 18, 2026 Bill Maher: “This is a Democratic idea. This is Bernie Sanders. This is the Democrats wanting to STOP—and this is not charity to Israel—this is the sale of military equipment. This is the Democrats saying we’re not going to sell Israel anymore military equipment.” “Seven… pic.twitter.com/29qFKT5nU6 — RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 18, 2026 Who’s paying for 750 military bases in 80 allied countries? Out of those countries, which one has stood by the US and who raised a cowardly white flag of none intervention while being protected by US troops? Which one has the most valuable partnership in terms of intelligence… https://t.co/TP7SID7HH6 — Claire (@Claire_V0ltaire) April 18, 2026 Bill Maher PUSHES back on Biden’s former National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan: “I think Israel wanted the same thing we did. They wanted no nukes. They wanted a regime change. They wanted an uprising of the people. They didn’t want chaos.” “Their mortal enemy [Iran] is… pic.twitter.com/mFlerJT9Fo — RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 18, 2026 That’s not the main lesson. This is: under the Obama deal, Iran would emerge after 2030 with nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, hundreds of thousands of attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions… https://t.co/nak5fr5aaq — Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) April 18, 2026 Did not think I'd ever see "cabinet secretary does his job" contorted into headline news but here we are. In the current media environment dominated by both acute & chronic #TDS, always expect the unexpected. https://t.co/YTfM08LGtq pic.twitter.com/X7KoXGPIEe — Dr. Brian L. Cox (@BrianCox_RLTW) April 18, 2026 It’s not that @bartov_omer exposes himself here as an opportunistic liar and a hypocrite. It’s that @noam_dworman is the only person who pushes back against his wild unsubstantiated claims. Everyone else treats him with kid gloves because he affirms the prevailing narrative. https://t.co/NLbcMTWnu1 — Strxwmxn (@strxwmxn) April 18, 2026 Zionism has not changed. It remains as it has always been, Jewish people having the right to self-determination and sovereignty in their ancestral homeland. Overlaying it, as this man does, is not Zionist, but figments of his imagination, turning it into something it is not. — John MacArthur (@JohnMac73020901) April 18, 2026 I was told that the Iran War would crash the stock market. https://t.co/4gL4M2f4BK — Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) April 17, 2026 The videos are designed to be entertaining and shareable, but they also push antisemitic tropes, conspiracy theories, and false claims about Iranian military success. pic.twitter.com/BRJdscphr0 — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 18, 2026 Iran’s propaganda is evolving for a Western audience. It is slick, modern, and built to travel far online. But when journalists focus more on the packaging than the message, they’re helping that propaganda spread instead of exposing it. pic.twitter.com/qCcLVWTtqD — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 18, 2026 Why Does the European Commission Support the Muslim Brotherhood? "European institutions demonstrate a continued record of engagement with and support for Muslim Brotherhood-related organisations. The most visible examples occur in the form of direct funding." — Paul Stott and Tommaso Virgili, in the report "The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe," October 2021. According to a report published by the ECR Group in December 2025, "Unmasking the Muslim Brotherhood. Brotherism, Islamophobia and the EU," written by Tommaso Virgili and Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, the European Commission is still funding Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations that "exploit EU funding and institutions to advance their agenda." A bit hard for the EU, therefore, to feign ignorance. "They [these Muslim Brotherhood organizations] get funding and legitimacy that other totalitarian groups would never dream of getting.... these organizations play a clever game of dominoes, leveraging legitimacy in one member state to gain credibility in another or at the European level, then using that to charm more grant-making bodies. This creates a vicious cycle of ever-growing legitimacy and funding from multiple sources..." — Charlie Wiemers, Swedish Member of European Parliament, in "Unmasking the Muslim Brotherhood." "If an organization claims to uphold European values, authorities take it at face value. Denying funding for failing to align with those values requires ironclad evidence, but monitoring isn't built to scrutinize content. A few missteps are brushed off as one-offs, and any official who dares push back risks accusations of racism or 'Islamophobia'—a chilling effect that will prevent most officials from acting unless they are extraordinarily principled and courageous." — Charlie Wiemers, in "Unmasking the Muslim Brotherhood." Women living under Hamas rule in Gaza describe to the Mail how they are sexually abused by the terror group's fighters and forced to have sex in return for food aid The world has heard harrowing accounts of Israeli men and women sexually brutalised in Hamas captivity — but now chilling new testimony is emerging from inside Gaza itself. Gazans living under Hamas rule are beginning to break their silence, describing sexual abuse by multiple men, sexual blackmail for aid or money and abuse by people in positions of power. It comes as concerns grow that the group is re-establishing control, while global attention shifts to the conflict in Iran. Human rights organisations in Gaza have told the Daily Mail that up to 60,000 women are vulnerable, with reports also indicating a rise in child marriages and pregnancies. The Daily Mail has obtained rare video testimony, filmed by Jusoor News from inside the Strip, where speaking out carries severe risk. In one account told by a male Gazan, whose identity has to remain anonymous for his safety, he described how he found a widow displaced in the war being molested inside a tent by 'a bunch of' Hamas members and was warned to stay silent. 'We were contacted by the wife of a friend. She had asked a Qassam Brigades commander to help her, but he took advantage of her,' he said. 'His behaviour is disgraceful. We investigated the matter and found her in a tent in the Gharabli area where a bunch of Qassam members were taking advantage of her. 'We informed the leadership but we were told we had to keep silent about it.' The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades is the military arm of Hamas. Another Gazan man confirmed that a similar episode had happened with one of his female neighbours, who was blackmailed by 'one of Hamas’s charity organisations… they wanted her to wh*** herself in exchange for a food parcel, or an aid voucher, or 100 shekels'. Another man, who identified as being in the Qassam Brigades, confirmed this was the case with widows. He said he had told the leadership that some Qassam members were taking advantage of the 'wives of Martyrs' in a tent in the Gharabli area, which is in Deir al-Balah. He was ordered to keep it quiet. 'We told them it was an insult to our honour and dignity,' he said, and tore down the tent in anger. The testimonies come amid wider allegations of sexual violence in the conflict, including accounts made by many Israeli hostages including Arbel Yehoud, who told the Daily Mail she was raped every day during captivity while held in tents after being kidnapped from her kibbutz on October 7, 2023. The Ministry of Health, six months into the ceasefire, published a number far below this new UN figure. Families have reported 18,000 deaths without a physical body all war, so there are no unreported deaths "under the rubble." https://t.co/tPf553gqxk — Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) April 18, 2026 Francesca Albanese is peddling the same unserious libel about “trained to rape dogs”. Just few days ago she openly said it in the Al Jazeera’s interview https://t.co/mS5YV9FFwZ pic.twitter.com/xxrbhdgi76 — Michael Elgort (@just_whatever) April 18, 2026 Jake Donnelly: Rachel Corrie's 2003 Darwin Award: The Ultimate Slow-Moving Train Wreck This was entirely avoidable and entirely predictable. On March 16, 2003, in Rafah, Gaza, 23-year-old American activist Rachel Corrie deliberately positioned herself in front of a 60-ton armored Israeli Caterpillar D9 bulldozer during a military operation in an active combat zone. The official Israeli investigation and the 2012 Haifa District Court ruling (upheld on appeal) were unambiguous: the driver did not see her. The machine’s reinforced cab, narrow bulletproof windows, and the massive mound of earth being pushed by the blade created major blind spots. The court called it a tragic accident, noting that Corrie had “consciously put herself in danger” instead of stepping aside “as any thinking person would have done.” The death of Rachel Corrie is the ultimate slow moving train wreck that perfectly resembles the eerily similar scene in Austin Powers. All Rachel had to do was move, but she believed so much in her own propaganda that she never considered what was obvious to everyone; if you put yourself in dangerous positions, danger can—and will—befall you. It's the reality that everyone in the Israel-Palestinian conflict ignores for the sake of propaganda; war is dangerous. If you don't want people to die, it's best to be avoided. Rachel Corrie didn't heed that advice. Instead, she chose the exact opposite approach and--shocker--something truly awful happened to her. Hate Makes You Stupid; Stupid is Dangerous Bad things happen when you allow hatred to consume you and your entire diet consists of propaganda. Rachel Corrie--as allowed by her parents--was deep with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a group that specialized in sending young Western volunteers into high-risk areas like the Philadelphi Corridor to play “human shield” and stage confrontations with IDF forces for propaganda value. They fed her the narrative, hyped the heroism, and put her right in front of that bulldozer. And while the parents want to blame the IDF, it is they who are to blame as much as Corrie herself and the propagandists who convinced her to stand in front of that bulldozer. Craig and Cindy Corrie watched their daughter radicalize and walk straight into obvious danger. They had every chance to tell her this was reckless insanity. They didn’t. As the parent of a 10-month old daughter, I cannot imagine being that reckless with the life of my daughter. My job as a father is to protect her. Yes, to protect her from others when the situation calls for it, but to protect her from herself when she doesn't realize she is calling for it. Rachel Corrie failed herself, but her parents failed her even more. From a parent's perspective, that is the ultimate in inexcusable negligence. And to this day, they still blame the IDF instead of the monsters in the mirror. The ISM primitively doctored this photo because there wasn't a house in sight where she was killed. Arafat awarded Rachel with a posthumous "Holy Martyr" designation by the PA. Was she a martyr for Allah? Cuz that's what that mean. pic.twitter.com/dvrQZjT2WC — Becky With The Good Hair (@BeckyJohnson222) April 18, 2026 The ISM primitively doctored this photo because there wasn't a house in sight where she was killed. Arafat awarded Rachel with a posthumous "Holy Martyr" designation by the PA. Was she a martyr for Allah? Cuz that's what that mean. pic.twitter.com/dvrQZjT2WC — Becky With The Good Hair (@BeckyJohnson222) April 18, 2026 On Second Thought, @Casey Neistat calls out what he sees as a double standard when it comes to criticizing Israel: “The idea that a country is simply reduced to what its leadership is doing at any given time—and that’s an excuse to attack the entire country—that’s not a standard… pic.twitter.com/7sM6Y8QirA — Second Thought (@SecondThoughtFP) April 17, 2026 Tucker Carlson's son leaves JD Vance spox. role to start political consulting firm Buckley Carlson, son of far Right political commentator Tucker Carlson, has left his position working as a deputy press secretary for Vice President JD Vance, Politico reported, citing two sources familiar with the plan. Buckley Carlson intends to launch his own political consulting firm, Politico said. According to one source, a Vance official, he had informed the vice president of his intention to leave in December, but the plan had been put off by several months "to ensure a smooth transition." Laura Loomer, a far Right Jewish activist, said that Buckley Carlson's departure was "a big positive for JD Vance and his 2028 Presidential campaign," mentioning recent clashes between Tucker Carlson and US President Donald Trump. Trump has insulted Tucker Carlson several times in recent posts on Truth Social, including saying he has a low IQ, calling him a "Hand Flailing Fool," and describing him as a "broken person" who should "see a good psychiatrist." Loomer also claimed to have heard from sources within the White House that Trump had called Tucker Carlson an "antisemite," adding that "He’s not wrong." Unpopular fact, Malaysia is one of few remaining apartheid states. Ethnic Chinese cannot own lands in Malaysia. Racist to Indian/Bangladesh If you convince Malay to leave Islam, you go to jail. If Malay leaves Islam, they're not considered as Malay anymore. https://t.co/RjhAgzK0qO — ꑭAnti Vatnik Systemꑭ (@Vatnikbonk123) April 17, 2026 Malaypartheid Hitler loving islamofascist strike again pic.twitter.com/UuK9BjHV1W — ꑭAnti Vatnik Systemꑭ (@Vatnikbonk123) April 18, 2026 Did Sabbatai Zevi invent the Star of David? ✡️ pic.twitter.com/VRS89e8HMr — Josh (@_j0sh_a_) April 17, 2026 I wonder if Elmo knows that Ramy Youssef wore a pin to the Oscars glorifying the brutal and bloody murder of Jews by Palestinian terrorists. “I” is for Intifada. “J” is for jihad. And “U” is for useful idiots. https://t.co/hDvf0qOmDv pic.twitter.com/6NmqRtNTZ9 — The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 18, 2026 Surely the Green Party will step up and give them a ticketing platform? pic.twitter.com/FD8WF0jwxb — Subversive Force (@sirwg202110) April 18, 2026 Have Vietnamese authorities done anything about these hateful women? Will @UKinVietnam call out this awful behaviour? https://t.co/0hrVup7idM — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) April 18, 2026 And ANOTHER video of the same two British women harassing Israelis. When will the authorities in Vietnam act. This is the THIRD incident and it’s clearly the same voices. pic.twitter.com/xtnRY4RS7P — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) April 18, 2026 We have identified the two British-Pakistani women who recently targeted an Israeli Jewish couple in Vietnam with vicious, Nazi-style antisemitism. The women were recorded calling the couple “rats,” chanting “Boom boom Tel Aviv,” and invoking the trope about Jews being kicked out… pic.twitter.com/t1WXNHB4Io — GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) April 18, 2026 I just saw the woman who got arrested for chanting “intifada” in Brighton march brazenly through the city centre calling for “death, death to the IDF”. Why are we STILL having to put up with extremists doing illegal marches and creating chaos and cheering on war and murder? pic.twitter.com/86G1uYe7fF — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) April 18, 2026 Watch the intifada woman single me out with her “Zionists not welcome here” chant. This is my city, my country. I’m not going anywhere. pic.twitter.com/T8EAM0wDbU — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) April 18, 2026 This small group of extremists completely disrupted Brighton today. Many passers-by were angry and they got no support. Why are we letting a tiny minority of terror supporters rule us? Arrest them. pic.twitter.com/4ajd4eanap — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) April 18, 2026 The pro-Pals want all Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails. I told them that includes convicted mass murderers like Ibrahim Hamed who was a Hamas commander during the Second Intifada. They had nothing to say and don’t seem worried about him killing again. pic.twitter.com/UY1CQ9x0rs — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) April 18, 2026 Samidoun are a foul group and nobody should be promoting their campaigns or materials. It would send a clear message if the UK could follow the US, Canada and Germany and ban them. It would improve my local environment. @ShabanaMahmood https://t.co/qmWyYHwJQ0 pic.twitter.com/gdGVPoX6ZW — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) April 18, 2026 Hi we want to support Palestinians so we’re going to sell some of their greatest products: 1. Counterfeit soda. 2. Bloodthirsty literature. 3. Keffiyahs https://t.co/zkHL0izUxq — Yael Bar tur (@yaelbt) April 18, 2026 How the Negev desert became Israel's unlikely global tech powerhouse A dozen years ago Avishay Braverman, then-president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, announced his visionary plan to create a hi-tech campus in Beersheba. The idea was derided as yet another bombastic statement that would never come to fruition. However, anyone who hasn’t visited Beersheba in the last decade would be astounded to see that the city, and the Negev desert that surrounds it, has emerged as Israel’s national cyber center, fostering collaboration among academia, multinational companies, and the IDF. Israel’s South has long been the source of pioneering arid lands technologies. In recent years, the number of internationally recognized innovative desert-related projects has also skyrocketed. There are, of course, many strategic partners to these extraordinary ongoing developments: the Israel Innovation Authority; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Elbit Systems; Dell Technologies; Soroka Medical Center; and Mor Research Applications, to name just a few of the principal institutions and consortia. Pioneering spirit One of the most influential organizations focusing specifically on the development of the Negev is the Merage Foundation Israel, a private philanthropy founded by David and Laura Merage in 1998. The foundation, “based on the pioneering spirit, entrepreneurship, and innovation of Israel,” has dedicated much of its resources to Negev development, fostering projects and start-ups in climate technologies and R&D-based innovations in robotics and cyber security, to attract companies to the South. The familiar statistic is still true: The southern Negev region constitutes 60% of Israel’s land but has less than 10% of its population. “We knew from day one of the creation of this state that we needed to thrive in desert environments. And we have all this know-how that we should commercialize,” Merage Foundation CEO Nicole Hod Stroh told The Jerusalem Report. Today marks 71 years since the famous Jewish physicist Albert Einstein passed away. Einstein was a staunch supporter of Israel and was even offered the Israeli presidency in 1952. Einstein, who was born in Germany and moved to the United States in 1933, is considered to be one of… pic.twitter.com/F1A9Q1YcVo — StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) April 18, 2026 82 years ago today, two young men crawled out of a woodpile in occupied Poland and began walking — straight into the unknown. One was just 19. The other, 26. For two endless years they had endured the unimaginable inside Auschwitz — the worst place on earth. They had seen… pic.twitter.com/OVD8Oov1qi — Henshi (@HenshiG) April 17, 2026 Jerusalem - not just a place on the map, but the heartbeat of the Jewish people. For thousands of years, our prayers, hopes, and identity have all led to one place: Jerusalem. A timeless symbol of faith, strength, and unshakable connection. pic.twitter.com/CiLY40sZCv — StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) April 18, 2026 Buy EoZ's books on Amazon! "He's an Anti-Zionist Too!" cartoon book (December 2024) PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism (February 2022)

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04/09 Links: Murray: We must crush Iran now so it can’t come back and spread terror; The war in numbers: 650 Iranian missiles fired, 24 killed, and 10,800 Israeli strikes; Yoo: Iran's Flagrant Assault on the Rules of War

From Ian: Douglas Murray: We must crush Iran now so it can’t come back and spread terror There is a reason why the Middle East suffers from so many conflicts. Why have there been so many wars in Gaza? Why has Lebanon been in a state of war for almost five decades? Why has the whole region, from Yemen to Cyprus had to put up with Iranian interference for 47 years? Because while the Mullahs and their proxies are thinking about the end-times we are stuck worrying about the midterms. It is this short-term thinking that has lead the West and its allies to keep stopping hostilities just before the point of total victory. The present ceasefire looks likely to lead to a return of the pre-war status quo. Which means a return not to peace but to war. If the ceasefire lines stop where they are, Iran will help Hezbollah rebuild its stockpiles in Lebanon. The regime in Tehran will rebuild its other terror proxies in the region.And the Iranian regime will continue its decades-long project to develop nuclear weapons. President Trump has the ability not just to disrupt but to destroy this cycle. He may be the only person in this era of history who can. It is not as though there is any leadership from any other democracy. The president may not be able to make the regime in Iran fall. But he has the ability to bring it to its knees. And then to leave them on their knees until time, and events, can take their own course on them. As another sage once put it, “Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.” To which I might add that any job worth starting is worth finishing well. John Yoo: Iran's Flagrant Assault on the Rules of War Iran's response to the war launched by the U.S. and Israel provides a reason beyond pure American self-interest to end the rule of the ayatollahs. Tehran broadened the conflict by attacking civilians in neighboring countries uninvolved in the war. A regime that launches systematic warfare against civilians violates the core rules of civilized warfare. The U.S. and Israel would do the world enormous good by ending a regime that flouts our common moral norms in such a flagrant and destructive manner. Iran has launched missiles and drones at Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Jordan - nations that had committed no aggression against Iran and posed no threat of attack against Iran. It also attacked neutral vessels in the Persian Gulf and prevented them from passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. and Israel have sought to conduct the war with the highest regard for minimizing civilian casualties. Compared to this, Iran has struck major civilian targets in neighboring countries, including residential buildings, airports, utilities, and ports. Iran hit the Aramco complex at Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia, the Ras Laffan LNG facility in Qatar, oil and gas facilities in the UAE, and a water desalination plant in Bahrain, none of which are American military assets. It fired missiles at the Old City of Jerusalem, landing fragments 1,200 meters from the Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It struck residential areas in Dimona and Arad, wounding over a hundred civilians, including children. It has fired more than 350 ballistic missiles at Israel, half carrying cluster munitions designed to scatter explosive bomblets in civilian neighborhoods. The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world's most important shipping lanes and a waterway governed by the international law of the sea, which guarantees free passage to all neutral nations. Tehran's disruption of the Strait is pure economic blackmail against the rest of the world. Iran effectively attacks the rest of the world by targeting purely civilian ships. The rules of war are not complicated. Militaries may strike military targets. Militaries may not deliberately target civilians or threaten the commerce of neutral nations. Iran has crossed those lines repeatedly. Tehran's flouting of all the rules of morality in war explains why the U.S. and Israel were right to confront the Islamic Republic now, rather than wait for its threat to gain in strength in the future, potentially wielding nuclear weapons. Jonathan Spyer: The Winners and Losers of the Iran Ceasefire Deal The announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war between the U.S., Israel and Iran resolves none of the issues which caused the conflict. From Israel's point of view, the Iranian regime has been significantly weakened in its capacities in a number of key areas. At the same time, its intentions remain unchanged. This means that the long war is set to continue. Israel wants to use the entrance of Hizbullah into the war on March 4 as an opportunity to establish a buffer zone north of the border, inside Lebanon, to put the residents of Israel's border communities out of range of Hizbullah's anti-tank missiles and free of the constant danger of an Oct. 7-style ground incursion. This process is not yet completed and five IDF divisions are currently in Lebanon engaged against Hizbullah south of the Litani River. For Israel, a lull in operations against Iran with Lebanon still an active front would enable air power to be deployed in greater force against Hizbullah. From Israel's point of view, the ceasefire with Iran does not extend to Lebanon. The essential components of the regional strategic picture remain in place. Iran remains an aggressive and dangerous power, with the ambition of expelling the U.S. from the region, dominating the Gulf states, and destroying Israel. The U.S., Israel, and the Gulf states remain determined to resist Iranian ambitions. The events of the last five weeks represent a round in this ongoing struggle. Israel and the U.S. have demonstrated their vast conventional military advantage over the Iranians. They have also not yet demonstrated the capacity to turn that advantage into a strategy able to bring the struggle to a successful strategic conclusion by toppling the Tehran regime - the only way that this will end. What Was Achieved in the War Against Iran? I suggest that anyone swept up in the euphoria of claims that Israel's war in Iran was a failure should look at the information and analysis coming from American sources. It is hard to believe that such a large-scale operation, in which, according to the Israel Air Force, target destruction rates were 10 to 20 times greater than in the 12-day war in June 2025, is being portrayed by talking heads as a failure. By any measure, this was the most successful military operation since the IDF and the Israel Air Force began conducting such operations. Israel and the U.S. achieved the objective of destroying every production cycle, every component, and every plant and laboratory connected to Iran's nuclear project. Security needs mean neutralizing the nuclear threat and reducing missile-launch capabilities. The Iranians could have raced ahead and built a missile wall that would deter Israel and the U.S. from taking military action against them, as North Korea did in its time. That parallel missile and nuclear race was cut short. This is an enormous success. Trump and Netanyahu acted against the trend that had prevailed in the U.S. and Israel over the past 35 years. They chose military action, and they succeeded. The precedent set by this dual alliance, combined with demonstrated military superiority, carries enormous significance. Richard Kemp: It will take Iran decades to recover from this war Reeling under the most intense American and Israeli assaults, the Iranian regime has capitulated. In the face of Donald Trump’s threats, warning that the worst is yet to come, it has dropped its cast-iron demand that the Strait of Hormuz would not be reopened until the US committed to ending the war, cancelling sanctions and paying reparations. That has been conveniently ignored by many Western commentators who would have portrayed the two-week ceasefire as a defeat for Trump, no matter how it was framed. It has also been quietly forgotten by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders now calling the shots in Tehran, who would themselves have declared victory whatever the outcome. It’s very telling that so many anti-Trumpers in the West, including some political leaders, seem to be playing the same tune as Iran’s dictators. This ceasefire – even if it holds and the Iranians uncharacteristically stick to their word – is unlikely to be the end of the conflict. Trump will not accept Iran’s new list of demands, however watered down they may be. Since his first term, he has been playing hardball with the ayatollahs. He started by eliminating Qassim Soleimani, their top IRGC terrorist commander, cancelled Barack Obama’s deeply flawed nuclear deal and returned to the maximum-pressure sanctions regime. Last June he backed Israel’s defensive war on Iran and then reinforced it with devastating strikes against its nuclear facilities. Finally we came to the all-out joint offensive with Israel that started a few weeks ago. Despite decades of repeated threats and lethal attacks against the US and its allies, including British and American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump was the first American president with the steel to directly attack Iran. For a regime that prioritises its toxic ideology far above the good of the country, it is highly unlikely that the IRGC will go along with Trump’s red lines either. These include ending their nuclear project, ceasing their ballistic missile programme, terminating their ring of terrorist proxies and surrendering stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. ‘You can never take their word’: Two-week ceasefire casts doubt on Iranian promises Former British commander Richard Kemp says it is difficult to trust the Iranian regime during the two-week ceasefire arrangement. “You can never take Iran’s word for anything,” Mr Kemp told Sky News host James Macpherson. “They have constantly given undertakings and then constantly just ignored them.” JPost Editorial: Khamenei dead, proxy networks destroyed: Has Israel won the war? A two-week ceasefire between the United States, Israel, and Iran took effect Tuesday, ending 39 days of war. The "Islamabad Accords," brokered by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief General Asim Munir, are already fraying. Missile attacks hit the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait within hours. The Strait of Hormuz is reopening under terms that let Iran and Oman collect transit fees. Negotiations begin Friday. Nothing is settled. The instinct right now is to focus on what went wrong. That instinct should be resisted long enough to reckon with what this campaign accomplished – but not so long that we mistake a successful military operation for a resolved strategic problem. Former supreme leader Ali Khamenei is dead. The man who directed Iran’s regional aggression for 35 years was killed on February 28 in a precision Israeli airstrike, along with dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) senior commanders. Iran’s ballistic missile infrastructure has been set back to a degree Israeli defense planners would have called fantasy in 2024. Its air defenses failed to prevent sustained strikes over five weeks. Its navy in the Gulf of Oman is wrecked. Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA) has confirmed at least 1,221 military dead. Iran International places the toll at 4,700. The nuclear program has been struck in two consecutive campaigns. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that highly enriched uranium stored underground survived 2025. Much of that capacity has been hit. Iran is further from a weapon than at any point since it began enrichment. The proxy network is gone. Hezbollah’s senior leadership has been systematically eliminated. Hamas no longer functions militarily. The Houthis stayed out entirely. Iran spent four decades building a system that let it wage war without its own flag on the battlefield. It no longer exists. Israelis wanted the regime to fall. They may have gotten something better Everything now turns on the Strait of Hormuz. In 39 days, the US-Israeli campaign killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, wrecked its ballistic missile infrastructure, and forced a regime that spent decades projecting invincibility to accept a ceasefire brokered by Pakistan. Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA) has confirmed at least 1,221 military deaths. Iran International puts the security forces toll at 4,700. The navy in the Gulf of Oman is finished. The nuclear program has been struck twice in under a year. And the proxy network was already hollowed out before the first bomb fell on February 28, Hezbollah’s command structure gutted, Hamas dismantled in Gaza, the Houthis’ leadership killed last year. By the time US and Israeli jets reached Iran, the axis of resistance existed mostly as a slogan. US President Donald Trump made the call that mattered most: greenlighting the February 28 strike, even as his own national security establishment was split. His maximum pressure sanctions had cratered Iran’s economy before the first sortie. His deadline brinkmanship, which The Washington Post and The New York Times editorial boards treated as buffoonery, dragged Iran to a ceasefire. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was blunt: “This is a victory for the United States that President Trump and our incredible military made happen.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supplied the operational architecture. The pager operation. The Nasrallah strike. The push toward direct US involvement during last June’s Twelve-Day War. Each was a deliberate escalation that the foreign policy establishment said would backfire. As Nadim Koteich, a prominent UAE-based commentator, told me: “Thanks to Bibi Netanyahu, they lost everything in this war.” The historical parallel that fits is not Iraq 2003. It is the Cold War. President Ronald Reagan did not tear down the Berlin Wall. He made it impossible to maintain. Decades of pressure made the Soviet system unsustainable, and the people of Eastern Europe did the rest. US and Israel set out ambitious, vital war goals; as of the ceasefire, none have been achieved Launching what was initially described as “a pre-emptive” campaign against Iran on February 28, the United States and Israel set out a series of highly ambitious and ultimately vital goals. When US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire and declared victory 39 days later, amid significant tactical success but inadequate strategic planning, none of them had been definitively achieved. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu encouraged an evidently amenable Trump to go to war in order to close the vicious and rapacious regime’s path to nuclear weapons, destroy its ballistic missile capabilities, dismantle its proxies and thwart its global terror activities. And the president has indicated that he remains committed to achieving all of this in a multi-point “long-term” peace deal that is now supposed to be negotiated. But, for now, the single most important war aim — ensuring that this regime can never get that weapon — remains unfulfilled. Iran’s nuclear “industrial base” has been further degraded, the regime retains its buried stockpile of highly enriched uranium. It may, if anything, be more inclined to attempt a breakout to the bomb, with a heightened determination to destroy Israel and to achieve broader invulnerability to future attack. Similarly, while its ballistic missile capabilities, including all the necessary manufacturing elements, have been greatly degraded — Netanyahu and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have both said Iran is not capable of building more missiles at present — the regime proved able to keep firing throughout the war, at Israel and Gulf neighbors, including at longer ranges and with diversely deadly warheads. Its Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon has battered the Israeli north relentlessly, proving far more potent than residents had been given to understand after the IDF’s successes in 2024. Hamas stayed out of the conflict, quietly continuing its Gaza revival, with Israel’s main attention focused elsewhere. Both Trump and Netanyahu also set a declared goal of creating the climate in which the Iranian public would be able to rise up and oust the regime. As Trump acknowledged this week, however, it remained too dangerous for people to do; they knew they would be shot dead, like tens of thousands before them. Netanyahu left with vague promises after another war ends without a decisive win And this, it seems, is how it may end. Not with the dramatic death of Iran’s “whole civilization,” in the words of US President Donald Trump’s threat, but a two-week ceasefire with Iran that looks likely to leave the Islamic Republic in a position to survive and rebuild after nearly 40 days of war. The Trump administration, of course, is saying that it won. “This is a victory for the United States of America,” crowed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Israel, which wanted to keep fighting, has been more circumspect, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying Israel “has more goals to complete,” in a video statement released after the ceasefire between the US and Iran took effect. “We will achieve them,” he promised. “Nothing is over yet,” said Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. “I don’t see how it is possible to bridge the positions of the US and Iran.” Government leaders have obvious reasons to sell the abrupt end to the fighting as a temporary measure, though the prospect of Trump bringing the US back into an unpopular war without a clear path to achieving his goals appears remote. “Trump killed the thing,” a senior security cabinet member told the Kan public broadcaster. “There is not going to be a return to fighting in two weeks. As it stands, the Iranians are free to rebuild.” Trump and his team are using two central claims as evidence of their stated victory. First, he says that Iran will not be allowed to enrich uranium and that the highly-enriched uranium under destroyed nuclear sites will be taken out of the country, an issue that Netanyahu said he and Trump “see eye to eye” on. Second, the US — as well as Israel — is boasting about the fact that Iran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as evidence that Tehran was forced to give in. Both those claims are suspect. WSJ Editorial: What Did the Iran War Accomplish? The U.S. and Israel succeeded in further degrading Iran's nuclear program beyond what they did in June 2025. The main nuclear sites were bombed again. The regime now knows the U.S. will monitor any new nuclear activity and can always strike again. This is a better check on its chances of getting a bomb than another piece of diplomatic paper. The nearly 40 days of bombing also did enormous damage to Iran's military and its industrial base. Its navy is destroyed, its air defenses gone, and its drone and missile stockpiles and production substantially degraded. This will take years to rebuild, even with the likely help of Russia and China. All of this was accomplished with minimal American losses. The demonstration effect of the U.S. military's combined arms operation against Russian and Chinese air defenses won't be lost on the world. One more point on this. For years the Iranian regime (and their defenders in Washington) has denied being connected to Hezbollah. By Iran demanding a ceasefire in Lebanon - to protect their terror asset Hezbollah - they once again prove they’ve been waging war in Lebanon all… https://t.co/Au52dSQYmx — Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 9, 2026 Israel a ‘curse for humanity,’ says Pakistan Defense Minister Israel is “evil and a curse for humanity,” Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said Thursday, adding that he hopes its founders will “burn in hell.” His remarks come as Islamabad tries to position itself as a diplomatic player in efforts to contain the widening regional war. Asif made the remarks in a post on his verified X/Twitter account. Pakistan has publicly pushed for an end to Israeli attacks in Lebanon while also preparing to host diplomatic talks about the Iran war in Islamabad. Pakistan said Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam had sought its support for an “immediate end” to the attacks, Reuters reported. An Iranian delegation was due in Islamabad that night for talks tied to the broader crisis, a separate Reuters report said. “Israel is evil and a curse for humanity,” Asif wrote in the post. While peace talks were taking place in Islamabad, “genocide” was being carried out in Lebanon, he said. Innocent civilians were being killed by Israel “first in Gaza, then in Iran, and now in Lebanon,” and the bloodshed was continuing without pause, he added. In the same post, Asif wrote that he hoped those who created “this cancerous state” on Palestinian land “to get rid of European Jews” would “burn in hell.” His language went far beyond standard diplomatic criticism and amounted to one of the most incendiary anti-Israel statements by a serving Pakistani official. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry used more formal, though still harsh, language on Thursday. Israel’s actions in Lebanon constituted “a blatant violation of international law and fundamental humanitarian principles,” it said. Last month, the ministry condemned Israel’s “continued military aggression” in Lebanon and said Pakistan stood in “complete solidarity” with the Lebanese people. Asif has used extreme rhetoric against Israel this year. In January, he said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “the biggest criminal of humanity” and urged that he be “kidnapped” and brought to court. He suggested that Turkey could abduct him. The Prime Minister's Office: Pakistan Defence Minister’s call for Israel’s annihilation is outrageous. This is not a statement that can be tolerated from any government, especially not from one that claims to be a neutral arbiter for peace. — Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) April 9, 2026 Israel views very gravely these blatant antisemitic blood libels from a government claiming to “mediate peace”. Calling the Jewish state “cancerous” is effectively calling for its annihilation. Israel will defend itself against terrorists who vow its destruction. https://t.co/CCMveNi9Qu — Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) April 9, 2026 THIS is the mediator for the U.S./Israel vs. Iran war? We have no words. pic.twitter.com/PjXVEm3HLs — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 9, 2026 Yeah, I don't really feel like funding 65% of NATO's military strength anymore for these people. They side with Russia when it's convenient, they buy Russian energy, and they do nothing but virtue signal from the sidelines. So let them live in the world they've built. https://t.co/KUxFpjla0y — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 9, 2026 "They pose a direct threat to the sustainability of the ceasefire that has just been reached. Lebanon must be fully covered by it." Why? The ceasefire is between the U.S. and Iran. What does Israel fighting in Lebanon have to do with it? https://t.co/Yy56pLG1tK — Omri Ceren (@omriceren) April 9, 2026 They’re all siding with the idea that Hezbollah is Iran, but also definitely don’t say Hezbollah is Iran. https://t.co/wNcfRG6VZT — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 9, 2026 The United Kingdom has endlessly appeased the criminal regime in Iran. The Prime Minister speaks of protecting the innocent civilians of Iran but failed to act to help stop the regime’s massacre of 40,000 innocent Iranians in January. Only an end to this regime - that brings… https://t.co/zseMopIsW6 — Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza) April 9, 2026 Not a single mention of Hezbollah, Iran's proxy that is required to disarm and be removed from below the Litani. What the actual fuck are we doing here. https://t.co/HmjaYz0wOE — 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) April 9, 2026 .@antonioguterres @volker_turk Why aren't you condemning Pakistan's defense minister for inciting eliminationist antisemitism, describing Israel as a cosmic enemy—as “evil,” a “curse,” and a “cancerous state”— while praying that the Jews who built Israel “burn in hell”? https://t.co/ek8NJugLKf pic.twitter.com/U3a41qKBlz — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 9, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump: "Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz. That is not the agreement we have!" pic.twitter.com/2NpNToAKjt — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 9, 2026 Freedom of navigation is a right for all under international law — not a privilege Iran can grant or withhold. The UAE 🇦🇪 will continue to engage in global efforts to ensure the Strait of Hormuz opens fully, unconditionally, and without restriction.https://t.co/WXS7jMclja — UAE Mission to the UN (@UAEMissionToUN) April 9, 2026 This individual abducted, tortured, and killed Bib Levinson, an American patriot. He is now involved in negotiations with the Vice President of the United States. He belongs in prison, not at the negotiating table with the United States. https://t.co/gVhA3RXfU5 pic.twitter.com/E8mehZLeG7 — Saeed Ghasseminejad (@SGhasseminejad) April 8, 2026 From the article by @EliLake in @TheFP: "The council [running Iran now] includes: The speaker of Iran’s legislature, the Majles, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf—a pilot and former officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with a reputation for violence and corruption.… https://t.co/R6r9QTPJMo — Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) April 9, 2026 650 Iranian missiles fired, 24 killed, and 10,800 Israeli strikes: The war in numbers With a ceasefire in Iran taking effect early Wednesday morning, the full scope of the joint Israeli-American 40-day campaign against the Islamic Republic began to emerge. Israel, on February 28, launched its campaign against Iran, alongside the United States, to degrade the Iranian regime’s military capabilities, distance threats posed by Iran — including its nuclear and ballistic missile programs — and “create the conditions” for the Iranian people to topple the regime, the military and other Israeli leaders said. Iran’s ballistic missile attacks on Israel continued until around 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday. And the Israeli Air Force continued at the same time to bomb Iranian launchers and other military sites, before halting its fire. The civilian toll Iran, during the fighting, launched some 650 ballistic missiles at Israel. According to the military, more than half of the missiles carried cluster bomb warheads, which spread bomblets indiscriminately over wide areas. The missile attacks killed 20 Israeli civilians and foreign nationals in Israel, along with four Palestinians in the West Bank. More than 7,000 people in Israel were injured, according to the Health Ministry. On the first day of the war, Iran fired some 80 missiles at Israel. The following day, the Islamic Republic fired around 60, and on the third, around 30. Over the following weeks and until the final day of the war, Iran launched on average 10-20 missiles per day. In all, at least 16 missiles carrying conventional warheads — with hundreds of kilograms of explosives — struck populated areas in Israel, causing extensive damage. There were also some 50 incidents of missiles carrying cluster bomb warheads hitting populated areas, with hundreds of separate impact sites. All 24 fatalities from Iran’s missile attacks were civilians, and all but two were not inside bomb shelters. Cluster munitions killed 10, and conventional missiles killed 14. According to the Home Front Command, more than 5,500 Israelis were displaced due to damage caused to their homes by the attacks Israel’s strikes and Iran’s remaining capabilities The Israeli Air Force dropped over 18,000 bombs in Iran amid the war, in over 1,000 waves of strikes, the military said. According to the IDF, over 10,800 separate strikes were carried out on over 4,000 targets, including air defense systems, ballistic missile launchers, weapon production sites, nuclear facilities, various headquarters, and military commanders and leaders. IAF fighter jets conducted some 8,500 sorties to Iran, the military said. The American military said that it alone carried out 13,000 strikes on Iranian military targets. According to the military, Israel destroyed or disabled around 60% of Iran’s estimated 470 ballistic missile launchers. Around 200 of the launchers were destroyed in strikes, while another 80 were not considered to be operational after the IAF struck tunnel entrances to subterranean facilities where they are stored, according to the military. At the start of the war, the IDF assessed that Iran had 2,500 ballistic missiles. IDF intelligence officials recently said they estimated that Iran still has around 1,000 missiles that are capable of reaching Israel. In addition, the military assessed that its strikes have destroyed around 85% of Iran’s air defense and detection systems. More than 300 targets relating to Iran’s air defenses, including missile launchers and radars, were struck, the IDF said. However, the most significant blow was to Iran’s weapon production industry, with the military reporting that it struck all of the key sites used to develop weapons that threaten Israel. Thousands of targets relating to Iran’s military production industry were destroyed, according to the IDF. Today a huge US military airlift continued to the Middle East despite a ceasefire... pic.twitter.com/d5DT5kfQhz — WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) April 9, 2026 Here is a key excerpt of Gen. Dan Caine's update this morning detailing what was accomplished by the military campaign. Pay attention to the percentages and wording: --U.S. forces "destroyed" approximately 80% of Iran’s air defense systems; --Sunk more than 90% of its regular… pic.twitter.com/DIRIOFVE59 — Brad Bowman (@Brad_L_Bowman) April 8, 2026 An Israeli official sums it up in numbers: During Operation Roaring Lion, 36,000 munitions were fired compared to 3,700 in Operation Rising Lion — almost ten times as many. Ballistic missiles: 1,200 out of 2,500 were destroyed or launched. The ability to produce new… — Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) April 9, 2026 IDF soldier KIA in Southern Lebanon, bringing total war toll to 937 Israel Defense Forces Staff-Sgt. Touvel Yosef Lifshiz, 20, from the northern city of Beit She’an, was killed fighting Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon, the military announced on Wednesday night. Lifshiz served in the 13th Battalion of the IDF’s Golani Brigade, the statement said. Five other soldiers sustained injuries of varying degrees and were evacuated to a hospital in Israel, it added. The total death toll among Israeli troops since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border massacre now stands at 937. Twelve IDF soldiers have been killed since the expansion of ground operations in Southern Lebanon in early March. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in response to the announcement that “our hearts are with the family of the heroic Golani soldier, Staff-Sgt. Touvel Yosef Lifshiz, of blessed memory, who fell in battle in Southern Lebanon.” “We pray for the swift and full recovery of our soldiers who were wounded in the same incident, after fighting bravely against Hezbollah terrorists,” he stated. “We will continue to act with full force to remove the threat to the residents of the north. May the memory of Touvel, of blessed memory, be a blessing and be preserved forever.” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz in an X post extended his “heartfelt condolences” on behalf of the Jewish state’s defense establishment. “I wish to send a speedy recovery to all the wounded heroes and to strengthen the commanders and soldiers of the IDF who are currently fighting bravely in Southern Lebanon and across the other fronts,” he tweeted. “May his memory be blessed.” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir toured the outskirts of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon earlier today, where the military has been battling Hezbollah operatives. "Our main combat arena is here in Lebanon. The objective defined for you is the removal of the direct threat to… pic.twitter.com/YMy50DlVJQ — Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 9, 2026 IDF launches largest strike on Hezbollah since start of ‘Roaring Lion’ The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday carried out its largest coordinated strikes against Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon since the start of “Operation Roaring Lion,” hitting about 100 sites across multiple areas simultaneously within 10 minutes. The large-scale wave of attacks targeted Hezbollah headquarters, military infrastructure and command-and-control centers in Beirut, the Beqaa Valley and Southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli army. The targets included intelligence command centers and central headquarters used to direct and plan attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians; infrastructure tied to Hezbollah’s rocket and naval units; and assets belonging to the Radwan Force and the Aerial (127) Unit. The IDF said the operation was based on precise intelligence and had been planned over several weeks by the Operations Directorate, Intelligence Directorate, Israeli Air Force and Northern Command to “deepen the damage” to Iran’s Lebanese proxy. “Most of the infrastructure that was struck was located within the heart of the civilian population, as part of Hezbollah’s cynical exploitation of Lebanese civilians as human shields in order to safeguard its operations,” the military said. Prior to the strikes, measures were taken to mitigate harm to uninvolved individuals as much as possible, it added. “The Hezbollah terror organization deliberately decided to join the war, operating on behalf of the Iranian terror regime while harming the State of Lebanon and its civilians. The State of Lebanon and its civilians must refuse Hezbollah’s entrenchment in civilian areas and its weapon build-up capabilities,” the IDF continued. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a recorded video that hundreds of terrorists were hit in the IAF surprise attack, which constituted “the largest concentrated strike Hezbollah has suffered since the ‘Pager Operation.’” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Dear residents of the North, I am proud of you. You continue to stand firm. I wish to inform you: There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. We are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we restore your security. pic.twitter.com/k2JeKXEMBQ — Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) April 9, 2026 As long as Hezbollah continues to threaten our civilians, we will continue to operate against them. pic.twitter.com/TD5VOGLcNO — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 8, 2026 IDF strikes in Beirut today. pic.twitter.com/9B6OfpZshp — Mike (@Doranimated) April 8, 2026 Aerial footage shows massive destruction in the village of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes. pic.twitter.com/1QW4oDM4lD — Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) April 9, 2026 Like we said yesterday, a big part of the Israeli air strike wave yesterday targeted Berri’s Amal jihadis. Today Amal issued martyrs posters for them. https://t.co/OTrAxBZLu5 pic.twitter.com/r6y45XP83e — Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) April 9, 2026 Hezbollah leader’s personal secretary killed in Beirut strike The Israel Defense Forces eliminated the personal secretary of Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem, the Israeli military said on Thursday. Ali Yusuf Harshi “played a key role in managing and securing Qassem’s office,” according to the IDF. The IDF said it also targeted “two key crossings used by Hezbollah terrorists and commanders for movement from north to south of the Litani River in Lebanon to transfer thousands of weapons, rockets and launchers” in overnight airstrikes. “Furthermore, approximately 10 weapons storage facilities, launchers and command centers used by the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Southern Lebanon were struck,” it added. The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday launched its largest coordinated strikes against Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon since the start of “Operation Roaring Lion” against Iran and its regional proxies on Feb. 28. The large-scale wave of attacks targeted Hezbollah headquarters, military infrastructure and command-and-control centers in Beirut, the Beqaa Valley and Southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli army. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an address on Wednesday night said Hezbollah suffered “the greatest blow since the pagers,” in reference to the Sept. 17-18, 2024, attacks in Lebanon, which wounded thousands of terrorist operatives. “We attacked 100 targets in 10 minutes, in places Hezbollah was certain were immune,” he stated. 🔴ELIMINATED: Maher Qassem Hamdan, the Commander of the Lebanese Resistance Brigades terrorist organization in the Chebaa area in southern Lebanon. Hamdan was responsible for terrorist recruitment, weapons supply, and funding the Lebanese Resistance Brigades in Chebaa. 8… pic.twitter.com/SHsXm4KTYh — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 9, 2026 🔴ELIMINATED: Abd al-Rahman Ammar Hassan Khudari, a terrorist in the Islamic Jihad terror organization, who infiltrated Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Oct. 7 Massacre and planned a terror attack against IDF troops. Together with Khudari’s elimination, 3 additional Hamas terrorists… pic.twitter.com/f8Eu3OvooP — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 9, 2026 🔎LOCATED: A shaft leading to underground infrastructure, including a cache of weapons, including explosives, rockets, an RPG launcher and grenades. Additionally, the IDF: • Eliminated 70 + terrorists, including a terrorist cell that had planned to carry out mortar fire toward… pic.twitter.com/IENBecBJkc — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 9, 2026 This fella was the Lebanese government coordinator for UNIFIL. If you’re wondering why didn’t UNIFIL do its job by disarming Hezbollah and reporting all those years on their rearming and regrouping under their noses. UNIFIL is a corrupt organization that should be dissolved pic.twitter.com/npv6IdkGiw — Jonathan Elkhoury- جوناثان الخوري (@Jonathan_Elk) April 9, 2026 Hamas terrorist who doubled as ‘Al Jazeera’ reporter eliminated by IDF The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday killed a senior Hamas terrorist who doubled as a journalist for Qatar’s Al Jazeera outlet, the military said on Thursday. Muhammad Samir Muhammad Washah served as a “key terrorist” in Hamas’s rocket and weapons production headquarters, according to the IDF. He was also said to be involved in “the production and transfer of weapons through Gaza.” “The terrorist was actively involved in planning attacks against IDF troops and posed a concrete threat to forces in the area,” it stated. Also on Wednesday, the IDF “identified and eliminated” a terrorist suspect who crossed the ceasefire line and approached soldiers in northern Gaza. The terrorist “crossed the Yellow Line and approached the forces in the northern Gaza Strip, in a manner that posed a threat to them,” according to a statement. The army emphasized that its troops remain deployed in the Strip under the terms of the U.S.-brokered Oct. 10, 2025, ceasefire agreement “and will continue to act to remove any immediate threat.” Earlier on Wednesday, the IDF announced that it had killed Muhammad Dawad, an engineering and explosives expert in the Hamas terrorist organization, in a strike in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. During the war, Dawad was responsible for the production of explosive devices and served as a key authority in the execution of terrorist attacks, the IDF said, adding that he posed an immediate threat to soldiers. The IDF says it killed a "key" Hamas operative who moonlighted as a journalist for Al Jazeera. In February 2024, the IDF first revealed that Al Jazeera journalist Muhammad Washah was a member of Hamas's military wing. The military says he was a "key terrorist in Hamas’s rocket… pic.twitter.com/zSUN4XbKwW — Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 9, 2026 When not acting as a "journalist" for Al Jazeera, Muhammad Washah was a Hamas terrorist responsible for producing rockets, drones, and weapons. So, naturally, @pressfreedom is portraying him as an innocent journalist. https://t.co/oZmk74yLoH pic.twitter.com/jBFUvkMtdL — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 9, 2026 A group of Palestinians chanted "Khaybar, Khaybar O Jews, the 7th of October will return" at the funeral of al-Jazeera journalist and Hamas member Muhammad Wishah earlier today. Wishah was killed by an Israeli airstrike that targeted his vehicle yesterday. pic.twitter.com/TDhON1zdGX — Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) April 10, 2026 Hezbollah has published a video, allegedly, of an attack on an Israeli warship with its anti-ship cruise missile, the "Noor." The IDF is scratching its head. It can find no record of this event. pic.twitter.com/lXtSqJHOyX — Mike (@Doranimated) April 9, 2026 Call me Back Podcast: Ceasefire at the 11th hour - with Nadav Eyal and Mark Dubowitz Did Iran blink, or did the U.S. pull back too soon? At the 11th hour, the U.S. and Iran agree to a two-week ceasefire, stepping back from a major escalation. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is set to resume under the ceasefire—but the core issues driving the war remain unresolved. Dan is joined by Nadav Eyal and Mark Dubowitz to break down what was actually agreed to, why Israel’s security establishment is uneasy, and whether this pause reflects strategic success—or a missed opportunity. Is this a real off-ramp…or just a temporary pause before the next phase? In this episode: 03:15 - A Ceasefire at the Brink: What Was Actually Agreed 05:33 - The Strait of Hormuz: Reopening Under What Terms? 06:57 - The Missing Pieces: Nuclear Program and Missiles Still Unresolved 08:18 - Israel’s Alarm: Why the Security Establishment Is Worried 14:30 - Did Iran Blink—or Gain Leverage? 15:42 - Trump’s Red Lines: What Must a Final Deal Include? 21:21 - Political Risks: Israel, the U.S., and the Blame Game 35:24 - Endgames: Diplomacy, Regime Pressure, or Renewed War The Free Press: Niall Ferguson: Iran Thinks It’s Winning. They Might Be Right. Late last night, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire. But the first day has already proven rocky: Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel all reported missile and drone attacks from Iran; Israel carried out major air strikes against Hezbollah, raising questions about whether Lebanon is included in the ceasefire; and Iran is attaching a series of stringent conditions to the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. All of this comes as U.S. and Iranian delegations are expected to meet in Pakistan on Saturday to discuss two competing peace plans whose provisions are fundamentally at odds with each other. The U.S. delegation will be led by Vice President J.D. Vance, who has expressed hesitance about the war from the very beginning. It’s a crucial juncture in a war that has now stretched on for more than five weeks, with global ramifications. And few people are better suited to assess it than Free Press columnist Niall Ferguson. Today, I ask him: Who is winning this war? Will the Strait of Hormuz truly reopen? What would it mean if Iran imposed a transit fee and required vessels to coordinate passage with the Iranian military? How will the negotiations unfold? Can the administration come up with a deal that ends Iran’s control of the Strait? What does America misunderstand about Iran? And what has the Trump administration gotten wrong? spiked: ‘We can’t make peace with a terrorist state’ | Ex-Israeli ambassador blasts ceasefire deal Michael Oren – Israeli ambassador to the Obama administration – is the latest guest on _The Brendan O’Neill Show_. Michael and Brendan discuss Iran’s ceaseless war against the US, why Trump is losing credibility in the Middle East and how the West lost its way. Commentary: Hormuz Tollbooth Contributing editor Eli Lake is back along with National Review's Noah Rothman to discuss the newly announced ceasefire in the Iran War, and debate whether the United States has the upper hand in negotiations, and what the future of the region might look like. Plus, John recommends Daniel Okrent's Stephen Sondheim biography Art Isn't Easy. Commentary: Cease Or No Cease FDD's Jonathan Schanzer joins us again today to discuss the non-ceasefire in the Iran war, the gap between the American proposal and Iranian demands, who is even in charge of the Iranian government right now, and is JD Vance out of his depth as a negotiator, Pakistan's role as mediator. Plus, the Lebanon factor, Netanyahu's political future in Israel, and Christine recommends Damien Valdez's essay Chokepoints are the true crossroads of history. Eli Lake: Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed Arash Azizi lived through the democracy movement in Iran before he wrote about it. Now a historian at Yale, he joins Eli Lake to trace the arc from former president Mohammad Khatami’s unlikely rise to the crushed hopes of the Green Movement—and what it tells us about whether reform from within the Islamic Republic was ever really possible. “What is Israel Doing in Lebanon and Why?” Israel is killing Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Terrorists who murdered 241 U.S. Marines in 1983. Terrorists who murdered 12 Druze soccer playing children in July 2024. Terrorists who displaced hundreds of thousands of Israelis in… pic.twitter.com/L53molyPeC — Jake Donnelly (@RedWhiteBlueJew) April 9, 2026 Wherein I explain patiently to Piers why Israel "gets a pass" for not disclosing their nuclear program pic.twitter.com/RtQJt8zn2L — Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 8, 2026 UNSCR 1701 required Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah and move it beyond the Litani. The last ceasefire agreement demanded the same. Why let them get away with not disarming? Seriously, what the actual fuck, @ChrisMurphyCT? https://t.co/OhQcTqlY3A — 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) April 9, 2026 Tucker Carlson just had Alastair Crooke on his show to cry about Israel wrecking Hezbollah. Here's who Crooke actually is: 🔸️ A former MI6 officer who spent decades embedded with Hamas and Hezbollah leadership until the British government finally forced him out 🔸️ Tony… pic.twitter.com/Nwi7uXjSOb — Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 9, 2026 Aisling Byrne once wrote the article "Engaging Refugees in Change" for the BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights. She thinks Nell Gabiam and Lex Takkenberg for comments.https://t.co/cuYJfsCr2y pic.twitter.com/VbMbcgGEno — The_War_Economy (@The_War_Economy) April 9, 2026 Surely the WHO Director @DrTedros is also urging Hezbollah terrorists to stop using hospitals as bases, right? Right?? Oh. https://t.co/mjy4FwoiSg pic.twitter.com/C3XIynlxJd — Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) April 9, 2026 The Iranian terror regime is resuming the execution of its citizens, protesters and political dissidents. Spain is reopening its embassy in Tehran. Hand in hand. With no shame. An eternal disgrace. pic.twitter.com/4e8FFtStZ7 — Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) April 9, 2026 Netanyahu did not say that. @skynews needs to fire its translator. He said MISHMAROT HA’MAHAPECHA, meaning IRGC (although briefly stumbles to say “misphechot”=families then immediately corrects himself). https://t.co/Ie7MSvsDsh pic.twitter.com/ftmEa5FJbf — Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) April 9, 2026 Lebanese MP Camille Chamoun: Nothing in War Is Humane, but if Israel Had Wanted to Annihilate the Shiites in Lebanon, It Would Not Bother Giving Early Warnings - We’d See 100,000 Casualties Instead of 2,000 pic.twitter.com/tlB8EBNanO — MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 9, 2026 Lebanese Researcher Makram Rabah: Lebanon Must Cleanse Itself of Hizbullah “Garbage”; They Are Not Real Men, They’re Apes! IRGC Operatives Should Be Thrown Off Rooftops pic.twitter.com/Up1D8wy1uT — MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 9, 2026 What a load of bullshit. Hezbollah was NEVER part of any ceasefire that was agreed to. They are a terrorist organization that has launched 10,000+ drone, missile, and rocket attacks on Israel since October 7. They claim to agree to a ceasefire that does not exist for them and… https://t.co/iYLQXesjT1 — Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) April 8, 2026 What an odd thing for the BBC to write casually. Why would the Lebanese think a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran in the Gulf would apply to their conflict with Israel? Lebanon's not even a state participant in the Gulf conflict. What does one have to do with the other? pic.twitter.com/XN9ME1Mn2O — Omri Ceren (@omriceren) April 9, 2026 Time was when a foreign correspondent would have the good sense to consult a fluent speaker of a language on a statement in that language. Instead, a leading correspondent for Sky News has simply relied on an AI translation tool (which is what Grok is). — Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) April 9, 2026 Real sweetheart she is. This is from back in 2024.https://t.co/y3NuPiJfAb — El Magnífico (@MagnificoIX) April 9, 2026 קריקטורה סעודית. איראן מודיעה על ניצחון pic.twitter.com/bhDZYVD5Hb — דני זקן danny zaken (@ZakenDanny91125) April 8, 2026 We won!https://t.co/Dbgza11Nrl pic.twitter.com/mq8MefE29f — David Collier (@mishtal) April 8, 2026 Inside Look At How The Iran War Ceasefire Negotiations Are Actually Going pic.twitter.com/Nncc6U7KSS — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 9, 2026 Trump says he doesn’t respond to Tucker Carlson’s calls anymore President Donald Trump hit back at Tucker Carlson on Tuesday after the far-right podcaster used his most recent show to accuse the president of steering the U.S. toward nuclear war with Iran and to suggest, in apocalyptic terms, that Trump might be waging a stealth attack on Christianity. In a phone interview with the New York Post , Trump described Carlson as a “low IQ” individual who frequently tries to speak with him by phone, adding that he has stopped responding to his calls. . “Tucker’s a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on,” Trump told the outlet of Carlson. “He calls me all the time. I don’t respond to his calls. I don’t deal with him. I like dealing with smart people, not fools.” The remarks came in response to a lengthy monologue Carlson delivered on his Monday podcast. There, Carlson excoriated Trump for issuing an expletive-filled Truth Social post on Easter, in which the president warned that the U.S. was prepared to bomb Iranian power plants and bridges if Tehran did not open the Strait of Hormuz. Carlson called the post “vile on every level,” particularly for its language on a major Christian holiday, and framed it as the opening move toward nuclear conflict. He speculated that Trump might be pursuing something far larger than conventional military escalation — an effort to provoke Armageddon and undermine Christian faith. “Is it possible that what you’re watching is a very stealthy yet incredibly effective attack on what, from a Christian perspective, is the true-faith belief in Jesus?” Carlson asked. “Is it possible the president sees this in bigger terms? Sees this as the fulfillment of something? An elevation to some higher office beyond president of the United States?” “Is it just a conventional escalation ladder in a badly thought out war?” he continued. “Could it be something bigger? Is it possible what you’re watching is a very stealthy yet incredibly effective attack on what, from a Christian perspective, is the true faith: belief in Jesus?” President Trump: I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon - Because they have one… pic.twitter.com/JQW1pQcBPC — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 9, 2026 https://t.co/Xjc7XeY2L6 — Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) April 9, 2026 DNC resolution criticizing AIPAC involvement in primaries voted down in committee Democratic Party activists on Thursday voted to reject a measure that criticized the involvement of AIPAC in Democratic primaries and the American political system. The resolution was debated during a meeting of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules Committee at the DNC’s New Orleans meeting. Committee members were considering new policy resolutions, including one introduced by a Florida activist that took aim at AIPAC and the group’s “undue influence over democratic debate and policymaking.” It was voted down in a voice vote. “The DNC made clear today that all Democrats, including millions who are AIPAC members, have the right to participate fully in the democratic process,” AIPAC spokesperson Deryn Sousa told Jewish Insider. Jewish Democratic advocates who were in the meeting room praised the decision. “We’re pleased that the resolution that wrongly singled out AIPAC was defeated, and that the other anti-Israel resolutions failed to move forward. These measures would be a gift to Republicans, would further fracture our party and do nothing to bring Israelis and Palestinians closer to peace,” Democratic Majority for Israel CEO Brian Romick, who attended the meeting, told JI after the vote. Halie Soifer, the CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, said the group agrees with the goal of getting dark money out of politics but that AIPAC should not be targeted explicitly. “We agree with the rejection of dark money in politics — a topic covered in another more expansive resolution adopted by the committee — but also believe that singling out any individual organization is both unproductive and unnecessarily divisive,” Soifer, who also attended the meeting, told JI. El-Sayed Campaigns With UMich Board of Regents Candidate Who Shared Since-Deleted Posts Praising Hezbollah and Iranian Regime The left-wing candidate for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, campaigned this week with a man running for the University of Michigan's board of regents who shared since-deleted X posts that celebrated late Hezbollah leaders as "martyr[s]" and called on the Iranian regime to "show no laxity" against Israel. Amir Makled, a candidate for regent who introduced El-Sayed during a Senate campaign rally with pro-terrorist influencer Hasan Piker on Tuesday night, reposted a message from a Hezbollah fan account that called the terrorist group's slain former leader Hassan Nasrallah a "martyr" and mourned the death of Nasrallah's security chief, Abu al-Khalil, in an Israeli airstrike. The Hezbollah fan account's post, which included an emoji of a broken heart, laments that "'Abu Ali Khalil,' the former aide to Hezbollah's Secretary-General Martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, was martyred in an 'Israeli' strike in Tehran." "May His Ascension rise High," the post, from last June, adds. Makled reposted another post calling Khalil "a martyr on the road to Jerusalem" and referring to Nasrallah by the honorific "Sayed," which translates to "Master." "Give our greetings to the Sayed," says the post. "A martyr on the road to Jerusalem, the armor of the Sayed. May god have mercy on your soul ya Abu Ali." On the day Israel began its operation against the Islamic Republic last June, Makled retweeted a post from @IRIran_Military, a regime fan account, that called for Iran to "show no laxity in sacred war against the enemy." Abdul El-Sayed, on Temple Israel terrorist: ‘Hurt people do hurt people’ At a Tuesday night event with antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker at the University of Michigan, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed doubled down on claims that the man who attacked Temple Israel in West Bloomfield last month did so as a result of the pain he felt from the war in the Middle East. “Nothing justifies the heinous attack that we saw on Temple Israel,” El-Sayed, a Democrat, said at a press conference alongside Piker, with whom he appeared at two campaign rallies in Michigan on Tuesday. “I also think it’s just critical for us to understand that hurt people do hurt people, and the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here, and if we stand against violence, we’ve got to stand against violence, all violence.” El-Sayed’s comments reiterated a sentiment he expressed the day after a Lebanese American man drove a car packed with explosives into the synagogue. No one lost their lives in the incident. The assailant, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting at a security guard, had family members killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon — including his brother, a commander in Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia. Since El-Sayed’s initial statement, more details surrounding the attack have surfaced. The FBI said the attack was “a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism purposely targeting the Jewish community.” When a reporter from The Free Press pressed El-Sayed on his claim, asking whether a similar argument would have allowed sympathy for a Jewish person attacking a mosque after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel, he suggested the circumstances were not the same. “After Oct. 7, there was a whole genocide against Palestinians,” El-Sayed said. Abdul El-Sayed emphasizes anti-Israel rhetoric at rallies with antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker Far-left Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, leftist streamer Hasan Piker and Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Summer Lee (D-PA) dismissed criticism of Piker and his past antisemitic and anti-American comments at a rally at the University of Michigan on Tuesday — El-Sayed’s second event of the day with the controversial social media influencer. The El-Sayed endorsers all brushed off the criticism of Piker’s record of antisemitic comments, support for terrorism and other controversial activity as a distraction from their message and other issues of the day, including the war in Iran. “A lot of the people that are on the Republican side, the reactionary side, they, instead of talking about [the war in Gaza], decided to talk about me stumping for Abdul El-Sayed instead,” Piker said, dismissing criticism of him — which has come from Democrats as well — as a distraction. Piker referred to the war in Iran as “Operation Epstein’s Fury” and the Trump administration as “a bunch of fascist monsters that got tuned up by Israel,” and closed out his remarks with “Free Palestine.” “Every single dollar that is spent on a bomb is stolen from each and every one of you. That’s $1 that they spend blowing up a school overseas instead of building schools in your neighborhoods,” he continued, going on to blame support for Israel for the lack of universal healthcare in the United States, and to claim that U.S. taxpayers are paying for Israel’s healthcare system. El Sayed said that he had heard that a pro-Israel group on campus planned to protest the rally — to boos from the crowd — but El-Sayed said that the group would be welcome in the room “because at the end of the day, we believe in the courage of our convictions and our ideals.” Outrage as Holocaust survivor, 86, priced out of NYC says Mamdani SKIPPED scheduled housing meeting An elderly Holocaust survivor says New York City's left-wing Mayor Zohran Mamdani skipped a scheduled meeting to discuss his dire living situation. Sami Steigmann was born in Romania and deported to a Nazi labor camp at just two years old, and was subjected to medical experimentation for at least three years. After WWII, Steigmann lived in Israel and served in the Israeli Air Force. In 1968, he moved to the United States, and has called the Big Apple home since 1988, according to his biography. Now, at 86, Steigmann said he has been priced out of his Harlem apartment and is struggling to find a safe place to live. At the beginning of the year, Steigmann scheduled a meeting with the pro-Palestine mayor, who campaigned on affordable housing. Steigmann has now revealed that Mamdani bailed on the meeting. 'Promises made, not kept. His claim to fame was affordable housing. I'm not disappointed because I didn't expect him to keep his word. It is what it is,' Steigmann told Fox News. 'It would have been nice, but you know politicians,' he said, adding that he was no longer interested in the meeting. Steigmann said he is struggling to find an apartment that is safe for his medical condition and accessible to public transportation. Hanif Yazdi, who works at the New York City Mayor’s Office, is the grandson of Ebrahim Yazdi: an Islamist and close associate of Ruhollah Khomeini who played a prominent role in the Islamic Revolution. Ebrahim Yazdi proposed the establishment of Quds Day in Iran and was involved… pic.twitter.com/8bNwzgG8Zj — Hamidreza (@justchangingun) April 9, 2026 I called on city commissioners in Coral Springs, FL, last week to adopt the International Holocaust Rememberance Alliance definition of antisemitism—the best tool we have for identifying anti-Jewish bigotry. We are living in the era of antizionist racism, and if Jews don’t… pic.twitter.com/Ah7W3jZjDc — Kevin Deutsch (@kdeutschjourno) April 6, 2026 Hasan Piker appeared on CNN last week. https://t.co/K0YcEkHFjp — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 8, 2026 Hasan Piker, calls for explicit violence against capitalists. Hasan Piker, sitting in first class on a Delta flight yesterday. https://t.co/Bn9B8MFDmb — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 9, 2026 CAIR-LA Director Hussam Ayloush: Israel Seeks to Create Chaos in the Middle East to Establish “Greater Israel”; After Iran, Their Goal Is to Target Turkey, Pakistan, and Syria; Muslims in America Need to Be Active, Join CAIR, Create a “Bloc Vote” pic.twitter.com/KDGRuvbMc1 — MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 9, 2026 Charlotte, NC Imam John Yahya Ederer: 9/11 Was All About Diverting Attention from the “Evil” of Zionism as Zionist Control of the Narrative through Media and Education Was Weakened by the Internet; I Ask Allah to Erase the World of Zionism and Its Supporters pic.twitter.com/l3gHBcS2ho — MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 9, 2026 Vic Mensa, a rapper who has collaborated with Kanye West, wrote all about how he lost his therapist after October 7th. Vic describes his therapist, David, as someone who "treated me with so much love, care, and empathy; in no immaterial terms, he saved my life. His work helped… pic.twitter.com/l3BQMpL65r — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) April 9, 2026 Allianz sues Palestine Action activists for £300k over Elbit protests One of the world’s largest insurers has launched a landmark civil case against six activists accused of targeting its UK offices over links to Israel’s defence sector. German firm Allianz is seeking close to £300,000 in damages following two protests claimed by campaign group Palestine Action, in what is understood to be the first time alleged participants in the group’s direct action tactics have faced civil proceedings of this kind. The demonstrations, which took place in October 2024 and March 2025, focused on Allianz’s reported provision of insurance services to the UK arm of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest private arms manufacturer. During the protests, red paint was sprayed across Allianz sites in Guildford and the City of London, with activists also scaling buildings and displaying banners calling on the company to cut ties with Elbit. Allianz subsequently confirmed it had ended its relationship with Elbit Systems UK last year. Anti-Israel activist admits to torching 11 NYPD vehicles in arson spree An anti-Israel rabble-rouser admitted to torching nearly a dozen NYPD vehicles last summer at a court hearing packed with a crew of fervent supporters. Jakhi McCray, 22, pleaded guilty at Brooklyn Federal Court on Wednesday as part of a plea deal for the June 12 arson of 10 squad cars and a trailer in a designated NYPD parking lot in Bushwick. The Brooklyn activist calmly answered all of Judge Seth Eichenholtz’s questions and even flashed grins as roughly 15 of his supporters sat in the courtroom. “On June 12th, I knowingly and willingly set fire to NYPD vehicles,” McCray told the courtroom. The admitted vandalizer caused roughly $800,000 in damages after scaling the fence of the locked lot and going on a 30-minute arson attack, according to court papers. An NYPD officer spotted him escaping the scene of the raging inferno through a hole in the fence, prosecutors said. He eventually turned himself in to the police on July 21. Following his guilty plea Wednesday, McCray stepped out of the courthouse holding a flower bouquet and sporting a black mask alongside his crew of occasionally rowdy supporters. A British university student is facing prosecution after comparing a Keffiyeh worn by a pro-Palestinian activist to a “tea towel” during Freshers’ Fair at @RoyalHolloway. 20-year-old Brodie Mitchell told the President of the Friends of Palestine Society, Huda El-Jamal, that her… pic.twitter.com/UUPIA3F4Xi — The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) April 9, 2026 This 'anti-racism' trainer - with an Instagram account called 'anti_racistmums' thinks she knows better than Jews what zionism is. She calls Zionism a parasite. A racist 'anti-racist' pic.twitter.com/ukUwaU9i32 — JewishWomenCount (@jwomencount2) April 9, 2026 Meet Lori Anna Dees, owner of Mesquite Endodontics. Dr. Dees refers to Jews as “cunning,” blames Jews for 9/11, and claims Jews provoke Muslims to destroy the world. Are Jewish patients safe in her care? Please note: since showcasing Dr. Dees last night, she has now deleted… pic.twitter.com/HCx9WIsWwl — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 10, 2026 Greens drop candidate after JN exposes 7 Oct conspiracy posts and hostage tribute attack The Green Party has dropped a local election candidate after Jewish News revealed he posted “false flag” lies about October 7 and tore down hostage solidarity balloons. A Green Party spokesperson confirmed to Jewish News last night: “We can confirm that Bernard Mani is no longer a Green Party candidate.” The embarrassing decision came only hours after Zack Polanski had launched the Greens’ election campaign in south London, where he chose to focus on condemnation of Israel at the start of his speech rather than local matters. Mani had been set to stand in the Forest Hill ward in the London borough of Lewisham at next month’s election, but the revelations provoked widespread anger and calls for party deputy leader Zack Polanski to remove him as a candidate. Video footage showed Mani pulling down balloons at a display intended to raise awareness of the plight of Israeli hostages, held in Hove, Sussex, just one month after Hamas carried out its attacks in southern Israel. Social media posts purportedly from Mani also appear to show him backing claims that Israel “killed its own people” on 7 October and then “covered it up to justify genocide.” Responding to a post showing a photo of a man holding a placard making the “false flag” claims, Mani wrote “Yes” in response to another poster asking, “Is this true?” Bernard Mani was arrested in 2023 when he viciously ripped down balloons for child hostages during a provocative march that started in the heart of the Brighton Jewish community. He should be nowhere near power. pic.twitter.com/jepHItOH9F — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) April 9, 2026 Man pleads guilty to planning mass-terror plot against Jews in New York A man has pled guilty to planning acts of terrorism against the Jewish community in New York city, talking about his desire to “slaughter” Jews in an attack which was planned for the one-year anniversary of the Hamas 7 October mass-terror attacks. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, a Pakistani national who was residing in Canada at the time, was arrested in early September 2024 as he was travelling to cross the border into the United States. As described by the US Justice Department, Khan, 21, began displaying online support for ISIS from November 2023, including “distributing ISIS propaganda videos and literature”. This led to Khan communicating with individuals in the US, discussing his intentions to carry out a terror attack against Jews in America. Khan was unaware that he was communicating with undercover members of law enforcement. The justice department described how Khan had attempted to get those he was communicating with to buy guns and ammunition to carry out the attack against Jews, as well as knives, to “slit their throats”. According to the government, Khan instructed the undercover officers to obtain assault rifles, ammunition, and other materials in order to carry out the attack, telling them that he had identified a human smuggler who could help him cross the border from Canada into the US. Initially he set out his intentions to “target Israeli Jewish chabads… scattered around the city,” without naming the city in question. However, Khan later specifically identified a Brooklyn Jewish community centre as the target, telling undercover officers, “”New York is perfect to target Jews because it has the largest Jewish population in America. Even if we don’t attack an event, we could easily rack up a lot of Jews… we are going to slaughter them.” Arrest made in Jewish restaurant shooting small step in right direction One down and at least 11 more arrests to go as police continue to probe suspected antisemitic or hate-motivated incidents across the city. You have to start somewhere. Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw’s announcement Wednesday of the arrest of a man accused of shooting up a north Toronto restaurant is a step in the right direction to help stop the city from sliding into a no-go zone for Jews. If there are too many more of these terror attacks on synagogues, Jewish schools or businesses, a no-go zone it will become. “We don’t want this kind of violence in Toronto,” the chief said at a news conference, adding his investigators will “continue to hunt down whoever is responsible for this and other similar shootings in our city.” Most of them remain unsolved. In the Passover shooting incident at Old Avenue Restaurant on Avenue Rd. near Brooke Ave., police announced the arrest of Mohamed Mahdi, 35, of Brampton, who has been charged with four gun-related offences including “discharge of a restricted firearm.” The Toronto Star's decision to withhold the name of the shooter (Mohamed Mahdi) is a dereliction of journalistic duty. Toronto is awash in violence and lies against Jews. Every time Jews are harmed, liars claim Jews did it to themselves. It's The Star's job to refute the lies. https://t.co/CfaDSwSOmP — Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) April 9, 2026 Met Police makes more than 20 arrests following antisemitic hate crime crackdown More than 20 people across London have been arrested on suspicion of antisemitic hate crimes as part of a specialist operation by the Met, with the police also confirming that they have increased their resources dedicated to investigating hate crime. The operation, as described by the police, has been focused on “protecting key locations, detecting suspicious activity and disrupting those intent on causing communities harm”. Cases have also been prioritised so as to be investigated as soon as possible. The Met also said that following last month’s arson attack in Golders Green, its representatives also meeting regularly with community leaders to share intelligence and act swiftly on any concerns. Those charged through the operation included Jean Charles Tavius, 26 (06.01.1990) of Hackney, who was charged with 11 counts of racially or religiously aggravated threatening behaviour, criminal damage and racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage. The Met said that an investigation was launched after officers were called to reports of a man shouting antisemitic abuse and throwing a rock at the window of a moving car. Tavius was arrested on Tuesday, 24 March and has been remanded. He is due to next appear at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 6 May. Another individual, Munir Saleh, 29 (22.04.1996) of Tottenham, was charged six counts of racially or religiously aggravated threatening behaviour, assault by beating and common assault. The police confirmed they had begun their investigation after officers were called to reports of a man shouting antisemitic abuse and spitting at people. Saleh was arrested on Sunday, 5 April and has been remanded. He is due to appear at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 7 May. The Westgate hotel in Manhattan (42nd Street location) is getting called out for hiring pro-jihadist nazi staff. Time to make our voices heard. Let’s give them a review of what we think. Go to their pages with some honest feedback and let them know this won’t fly. Leave… https://t.co/jkOL60qgWJ — Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) April 7, 2026 UPDATE: the owner of Partisan has now been fined over his blatant discriminatory practices. https://t.co/huaEfceiFt pic.twitter.com/ZyepOwS2Tc — SDS (@stopdontshoporg) April 8, 2026 EU-backed ‘Josephus’ archive opens digital access to centuries of Greek Jewish history A recently-launched E.U.-backed digital archive documenting the history of Greek Jews is offering free public access to more than 212,000 documents and over two million digital records, the European Jewish Congress said this week. The Iossipos (“Josephus”) project, named after the first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, has been implemented by the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki with roughly €4 million ($4.3 million) in funding from Brussels’ National Strategic Reference Framework 2021–2027 program. Described by its developers as a landmark effort in cultural preservation, the website brings together archival material chronicling more than three millennia of Jewish presence in Greece, including Romaniote (Greek-speaking), Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities. Thessaloniki, once known as the “Jerusalem of the Balkans” following the arrival of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, became a major center of Jewish life before the Holocaust devastated its population. Beginning in March 1943, more than 50,000 Jews were deported from the city to Nazi destruction camps, with fewer than 2,000 surviving. Much of the community’s archives were lost in the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917, which destroyed most of the city, or later stolen by Nazi Germany. Portions were recovered after WWII and held in institutions including Russia’s state archives, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, before being digitized and consolidated in the new repository. The Iossipos initiative is centered around an online platform featuring historical documents, photographs, oral testimonies and audio materials, alongside interactive tools such as maps, augmented reality exhibits and a 3D reconstruction of interwar Thessaloniki. The website also incorporates a folklore atlas, educational resources and biographical profiles of notable Greek Jews, as well as a curated audio archive of Judeo-Spanish music drawn from rare private collections. Buy EoZ's books on Amazon! "He's an Anti-Zionist Too!" cartoon book (December 2024) PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism (February 2022)

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03/25 Links Pt2: Israel Derangement Syndrome Needs to End; Coleman Hughes vs Glenn Greenwald; Two men arrested in connection with the Hatzola ambulance arson

From Ian: Time for non-Jews to call out this hatred I find myself emailing Jewish colleagues, “So sorry for abuse you’re suffering”, when I read comments on social media. But it happens so regularly I can’t keep up. I fear becoming desensitised. Gentiles aren’t included in WhatsApp groups where Jews discuss escape plans to New Zealand. The young aren’t going to call out this racism. Their cause is Palestine. Greta Thunberg, like most of her generation, appears to equate Jews collectively with the Israeli government. It doesn’t matter how many times Jewish friends and colleagues apologise for atrocities occurring in the Middle East, how often they distance themselves from Binyamin Netanyahu’s wars — it’s not enough for some unless they disown the state of Israel and disavow Zionism. Hate crimes against Muslims are now twice as likely to result in prosecution as offences against Jews, yet Jews are nearly ten times as likely to be the targets of these attacks, according to Home Office figures. The number of schools marking Holocaust Memorial Day is down 60 per cent since the October 7 massacre in 2023. Jews aren’t considered victims any more. Sir Keir Starmer says little, he’s too compromised. This half-term he slipped away to visit Auschwitz with his wife, Victoria, who is Jewish, and their children. “Antisemitism has no place in our society,” he said stiffly this week, but it is clear he is anxious about offending both the Muslim and youth vote as the government fast-tracks a new definition of Islamophobia. The Green leader Zack Polanski has mentioned his Jewish heritage yet is more fixated on his party’s vote this week on the motion “Zionism is racism”. The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, needs to speak up for Britain’s Jews. It was Jewish News that reached out last week to show a British sense of tolerance in supporting Muslims celebrating Iftar in Trafalgar Square. I am nominally Church of England but my creed is acceptance and respect for all faiths that adhere to our country’s values. I never thought we could be like the communities in Kyiv, Lviv, Salonika and Amsterdam in the last century who allowed their Jewish brethren to be shunned and then attacked before being annihilated. Standing by and saying nothing now corrodes us all. The everyday heroism of our Jewish children It’s primary school. 12:30. Sun is shining. Some of the kids are having lunch, others are out in the playground. The climbing frame is full, the football pitch is buzzing, kids are running around playing ultimate tag. There’s a lunchtime netball club in the hall. This is the primary school of every kid in the UK. But this is where the familiarity for the general population ends. The alarm goes off. It takes a second, but the kids know exactly what to do. They’ve practised for this very moment. This alarm isn’t the fire alarm. It’s the other one. The one where you have to stay safe, stay down, and stay silent. Thirty seconds later the entire school has locked down. Out of sight. Four to eleven year-olds sitting without making a sound. A minute goes by. Then the next, then the next. Seconds feel like hours. The teachers don’t know any more than the kids, but they have to keep them calm. They have to keep them quiet. Because the alternative is unthinkable. Finally, the all clear sounds. It was a false alarm. Everyone breathes out. And the kids? They just go back to the rest of the day like nothing happened. I just finished watching Crossfire on BBC iplayer. It’s harrowing. Gunmen attack a hotel. Families, kids, running everywhere. But all I could think (and it was wildly depressing) was, “my kids would know what to do. If I told them it was an intruder alarm, they’d know what to do”. And that awkward lump in my throat, the slight tear in my eye, grew just slightly bigger. Every kid at a Jewish school walks past the security, and often the police outside their school, and instead of turning to their parent and asking why these people are here, they just say good morning. Because it’s normal. But it’s not, is it? It’s not normal to be surprised when the front gate is open rather than locked shut. It’s not normal to have your bag searched going into a Jewish community centre. It’s not normal for my son’s teacher to have to skip a section of CBBC Newsround because it might hit a bit too close to home. It’s not normal for every single synagogue in the country, every Jewish school, every Jewish building, every Jewish event to have security stood outside large gates and fences. And it’s not normal for my kids to think it’s normal. And this isn’t just some sort of over-reaction. The threat is real. This month alone there has been an attack against a Jewish “cheder” school in Amsterdam, an attack on a synagogue in Michigan which housed a nursery, arrests of Iranians accused of spying on Jewish locations (including a school) in London, and of course the firebombing attack on the Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green. Police chief who responded to Detroit synagogue attack targeted by online vitriol During a press conference last Thursday, organized to address rising antisemitism in the wake of the ramming attack on Temple Israel in Detroit earlier this month, the Oakland County sheriff who helped organize the police response to the incident announced the arrest of what seemed like the latest perpetrator: an individual who had posted an antisemitic meme ridiculing the sheriff. Sheriff Mike Bouchard displayed the image, featuring his face altered to include a Star of David over his forehead and payot, the sidelocks worn by some Jewish men, dangling near his ears. “Some pond scum felt empowered and emboldened enough to put this picture of me up to try to threaten and intimidate me,” Bouchard, who is not Jewish, said during the press conference. “And by the way, the person that did this said a bunch of terrible things, not just against me, but against a lot of groups and individuals, who, by the way, was arrested today in Wisconsin.” But while the arrest was only briefly mentioned during the press conference, which featured Bouchard and a group of religious leaders, including Rabbi Josh Bennett of Temple Israel, by Tuesday, it had been seized on by thousands of users on X as evidence of censorship and Jewish supremacy. “Arrested in America for pointing out that a sheriff is jewish,” Jake Shields, a far-right influencer and former MMA champion, wrote in a post on X. “Jews are murdering free speech in America,” wrote another influencer. Coleman Hughes: Israel Derangement Syndrome Needs to End For those who don't listen to long podcasts, I'd like to summarize the points I've made in my podcast debates with @ggreenwald and @davesmith on the supposedly all-powerful Israel Lobby. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The idea that the most powerful country the world has ever known is being puppeteered by a country the size of New Jersey and its co-ethnics, who collectively account for 0.2% of the world's population, is an extraordinary claim. So you would expect there to be a ton of evidence, right? In reality, there isn't. Criticize America's foreign and domestic policy as much as you want––there's plenty to dislike. But don't blame it on Israel or the Lobby. The centerpiece of this narrative is the article of faith that Israel got us into the Iraq War. In reality, the Prime Minister of Israel came to the White House to ask Bush *not* to invade Iraq, as that would empower Iran, Israel's real enemy. Bush listened politely, then ignored him and did it anyway, because U.S. Presidents make their own choices, for good and for ill. The IDF chief of military intel said on TV in fall 2002 that Israel did *not* believe Saddam had nuclear weapons and disagreed with the American intel assessment. Hard to imagine a clearer discouragement. Again, we ignored this and went in for our own reasons. Here's why we did the War in Iraq: 9-11 created an atmosphere of extreme threat-sensitivity among the U.S. security establishment. Our failure to pre-emptively destroy al-Qaeda in the 90s was suddenly seen as a huge failure never to be repeated. The lesson internalized: we must pre-emptively act against theoretical security threats, even if they're low-probability and thousands of miles away. The fear that Saddam could pass WMD to an undeterrable Jihadist group fit that lesson perfectly. Why? Saddam had been reckless since the 80s. He invaded multiple countries. And key: He had successfully hidden his nuclear program from the CIA in the past. In 1991, when the CIA discovered that Saddam was 1-1.5 years away from a nuke, they were stunned. They internalized another lesson: Saddam is capable of hiding his nuclear program from us. That lesson led them to discount the absence of a smoking gun in the lead-up to 2003. "If he successfully hid it back then, he could be successfully hiding it now," the thinking went. Ppl often cite Netanyahu's pro-war testimony before Congress as if it mattered (September 12th, 2002). Netanyahu was a private citizen and had no power at the time. Meanwhile, the actual Prime Minister of Israel was saying: "please don't go in". Not only that, Bush and crew made the final decision to invade Iraq *before* that testimony even happened (see White House memoirs). There is no evidence that Citizen Bibi's testimony moved anyone's needle. So if Israel did not get us into Iraq, where is the evidence of the "all-powerful" Israel Lobby? Glenn Greenwald vs. Coleman Hughes Debate: Does Israel Control U.S. Foreign Policy? Glenn Greenwald joins the show to debate a hotly contested topic: What is Israel’s influence over U.S. policy? Glenn is a fierce critic of the US-Israel alliance and in this episode, Coleman and Glenn examine competing claims about the power of the Israel lobby and whether it played a role in the path to war with Iran. They discuss Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the case for or against regime change, and how these questions shape American foreign policy in the Middle East. The conversation also turns to free speech on college campuses after October 7 and the boundaries between criticism of Israel and antisemitism. Finally, Coleman presses Glenn on his alliance with Tucker Carlson and the responsibilities of independent media. 0:00- Intro 3:01- The IHRA Definition, Campus Speech Controversies, and Allegations of Chilled Criticism of Israel 24:55- How Much Influence the Israel Lobby Actually Has in U.S. Politics 32:34- Trump’s Foreign Policy Toward Iran and Whether Lobbying Explains His Decisions 47:07- Strategic Benefits of the U.S.–Israel Alliance, Intelligence Cooperation, and Alliance Tradeoffs 59:55- Espionage Between Allies and the Jonathan Pollard Case 1:04:11- Did Israel Influence the U.S. Decision to Go to War With Iran? 1:11:41- Netanyahu, Donors, and the Case for Israeli Influence 1:22:22- Iraq, Intelligence Credibility, and the Case Against Preventive War 1:54:52- Glenn Greenwald on His Relationship With Tucker Carlson Aside from the substance of the argument over what Nixon did or didn't say, note just how thin-skinned @ggreenwald is, in response to having his claims corrected. Everyone in his circus ring argues like an overgrown child. https://t.co/vopDiUOaEG pic.twitter.com/AGKz1ZaGvo — Strxwmxn (@strxwmxn) March 25, 2026 “Australia, Britain, Canada, France: How many of your Jews are now thinking of leaving?” At the United Nations, Hillel Neuer recalled an old truth. The measure of any society is simple: Are Jews safe? Across the West, that answer grows uncertain. Neuer asked Australia, Britain, Canada, France: “How many of your Jews are now thinking of leaving?” History will render its judgment. “Hamas will disarm one way or another. They will do it the easy way or they will do it the hard way.” 🇺🇸 @USAmbUN @michaelgwaltz pic.twitter.com/cED9vof5qX — UN Watch (@UNWatch) March 25, 2026 🔥 BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR Rare moment of truth at the UN from brave Kuwaiti dissident @JJJuraid, invited by UN Watch: Mr. Chair, I heard the term “colonizers.” But who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land.… pic.twitter.com/dUiG5PH58U — UN Watch (@UNWatch) March 25, 2026 Happy to announce that the film "Unraveling UNRWA" by Duki Dror, based on our book @Adi_Schwartz "The War of Return", just won "Best Documentary" at the Israeli Film Festival in Paris. To view it in English and outside Israel this paid link should work:https://t.co/MsmNBbrjjI pic.twitter.com/OCgRcdKRdv — ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf (@EinatWilf) March 25, 2026 Gee, remind me again why Israel changed its policy of allowing Gazans in for treatment? Here's a pro-tip: Want good healthcare? Don't spend billions on terror. Want your neighbors to let you enjoy their far superior healthcare? Don't spend your life trying to slaughter them. https://t.co/515Uz7UG1j — liel leibovitz (@liel) March 25, 2026 Complaints today about sanctions imposed on judges @IntlCrimCourt remind me of an article I wrote nearly SIX YEARS AGO, in response to a similar popular global uproar after @realDonaldTrump initially instituted a sanctions program following the announcement that #ICC approved an… pic.twitter.com/fOHgeBhU1N — Dr. Brian L. Cox (@BrianCox_RLTW) March 25, 2026 “Bachelet said she would continue her candidacy with support from Mexico and from Brazil.” But I will do everything to get this dicator apologist vetoed. Bachelet will not get the position. Count on me.https://t.co/n6DokCq5IH — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 25, 2026 UKLFI: Natasha Hausdorff gives the Dennis Blair Memorial lecture, chaired by Nicole Lampert, at JW3 Wide-ranging discussion of issues facing the Jewish community and legal responses to them, including the work of UK Lawyers for Israel and UKLFI Charitable Trust. 24 March 2026. Why Are People So Obsessed With the Jews? Palantir CEO Alex Karp made this same point in 2024: “You show me rates of antisemitism, I’ll show you the health of your culture” https://t.co/z32RYI8gz1 pic.twitter.com/JyjYmvLvi7 — Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) March 24, 2026 https://t.co/lsVKjdISSF pic.twitter.com/s7CBPsNXdQ — Noam Dworman (@noam_dworman) March 25, 2026 These are not serious people pic.twitter.com/gQlb4Eqbu7 — The Misfit Patriot (@misfitpatriot_) March 25, 2026 Bondi hero Ahmed al Ahmed arrives back at iconic beach to be given rare award of the key to the city - but it's the accompanying gift that might be even more hard to find Ahmed al Ahmed has been awarded a 'Key to the City' and lifetime Waverley Beach Pass, which gives him free waterfront parking to some of Sydney's best beaches, in recognition of his bravery during the Bondi massacre. Waverley Council, which oversees Bondi, handed Mr Al Ahmed his award on Wednesday night. He and two other men, Gefen Bitton and Leibel Lazaroff, have been applauded as heroes for risking their lives to help others during the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach on December 14 that claimed 15 innocent lives. It's alleged Naveed Akram and his father, Sajid Akram, opened fire on a Jewish festival celebrating the first night of Hanukkah. Sajid was fatally shot by police and Naveed remains in custody ahead of his trial. Mr Al Ahmed has been widely recognised for wrestling a gun from Sajid during the six-minute attack. Mr Bitton had also run to Mr Al Ahmed's side to confront Sajid. He has not returned to Australia to receive his award after being medically evacuated to Israel. Mr Lazaroff assisted Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who died during the attack, in helping critically wounded NSW Police Constable Scott Dyson after he was shot. He received his award from Waverley Council in February. When presenting Mr Al Ahmed with his award on Wednesday, Mayor Will Nemesh described the hero's actions as 'a guiding light to prevail against the darkness'. Western Sydney University distances itself from post-Bondi event Western Sydney University has distanced itself from an event about the Bondi terror attack chaired by a prominent anti-Israel academic following questions from Sky News. A webinar scheduled for Friday challenging the new antisemitism laws had been promoted for several weeks using the name and logo of the university. The event, Hate: Placing the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Act in Context, is being chaired by university professor Alana Lentin, described on her personal website as an “anti-Zionist Jewish European woman who is a settler on Gadigal-Wangal land (Sydney, Australia)”. Professor Lentin published an article two weeks after the Bondi terror attack, in which 15 people were shot dead by two gunmen police allege were motivated by Islamic State, calling Zionism “fascism”. She published another article in the months before the massacre headlined “Against Jewish safety”. In an online video promoting her new book, she claims “Jewish safety is being used to re-secure European hegemony”. This week’s event focuses on the new hate speech laws introduced by the Albanese government in the wake of the Bondi attack. Australian Jewish Association chief executive Robert Gregory said he was shocked to see the university associated with the event in online material, given its chancellor Jennifer Westacott has been a strong voice against antisemitism. Professor Westacott was nominated for The Australian newspaper’s own Australian of the Year awards over her leadership in fighting to stamp out Jewish hatred in universities. The Hatzola attack has exposed the conspiratorial rot of ‘anti-Zionism’ Nothing better illustrates the obsessive hatred of ‘anti-Zionists’ than how they react when Jews are attacked. In north London on Monday morning, three masked individuals attacked four empty ambulances belonging to Hatzola, an emergency service that operates in Jewish areas but which serves all the members of the local community. An Iran-backed group, the Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand (Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya), a group with Islamist symbols similar to those of Hezbollah, quickly claimed responsibility. The group has already been associated with other violent incidents in Europe, including recent attacks on synagogues in Liège and Rotterdam. Two suspects have now been arrested, although no links to People of the Right Hand have yet been confirmed. It is genuinely harder to imagine a more blatant violation of civic norms and humane values. This was a pure anti-Semitic crime, designed to intimidate and wound the local Jewish community at a time of rising Jew hatred. To its credit, the UK government offered swift condemnation and paid for new ambulances, and there was an outpouring of sympathy from many quarters. But there was also a hysterical meltdown from every deranged anti-Israel hater, desperate to plumb new depths of irrationality, stupidity and disgrace. On X, the belief that this was a ‘false flag’ attack by Zionists, or the Israeli government, went viral. These conspiracy theorists come in all shapes and sizes, arriving from various fringes of the political spectrum to meet on the common ground of ‘anti-Zionism’. A tweet rubbishing any possible Iranian motive for the Hatzola attack – and heavily hinting Israeli involvement – garnered tens of thousands of likes. Another claiming that People of the Right Hand is a front group for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, was also gleefully retweeted by anti-Israel zealots on the left and the right. On her X account, Jayda Fransen, former deputy leader of the far-right Britain First movement, claimed that British Jews have ‘their own Hatzola ambulances’, as well as ‘their own police force’, meaning that ‘Jews run parallel emergency services for their own people in Britain’. She also shared a post that stated: ‘It is interesting that the torched ambulances were in the process of being replaced and no longer needed. That means they will get all the insurance money now as well plus the outpouring of sympathy. Wonder who would come up with such a scheme?’ It seems like you just can’t stop those devious, manipulative and downright avaricious Jews, can you? If they aren’t manufacturing stories of rape and murder on 7 October, then surely they must be busy setting fire to their own ambulances? Bizarre stupidity of the Hatzola ambulance ‘false flag’ conspiracy theories Every time there is an antisemitic attack – in this country or any others – Jews feel it twice over. First, we have to cope with the attack itself. Second, we have to deal with an overflowing sewer of toxic bile from those who find their own particular way to label the attack as a ‘false flag’. What surprises me the most is that a number of the people who publicly engage in this sort of behaviour appear to have no real motivation for doing so – and in fact, a large number of reasons for not acting in this way. This includes a variety of people who operate public-facing businesses, websites and initiatives. You would think that a level of basic caution, if nothing else, would prevent them from outing themselves – at best – as raging conspiracist cranks. Apparently not. And as with so many conspiracy theories, the people promulgating them look absolutely ridiculous, if not downright sinister. Apparently targeting four ambulances in London’s Jewish community is part of some cunning Mossad plan to do… what, exactly? In this grand conspiracy theory which you have built in your head, does Keir Starmer instantly commit to an Iran ground invasion? Or has ‘Israel’ done it to somehow engender support for Jews in the UK (in this scenario, why blame ‘Netanyahu’ for conflating Jews and Israel when you do it so effortlessly yourself?) Or are you trying on for size the more longstanding ‘Israel false flag’ conspiracy theory of Mossad attacking a Jewish community target to promote fear among Diaspora Jews and encourage them to move to Israel? So, then, is Israel’s cunning plan burning several ambulances to induce Diaspora Jews to migrate to Israel now, when the country is being targeted by Iranian ballistic missile fire? If you are genuinely someone willing to examine your own prejudices, how on earth do you not look at yourself and laugh helplessly at your own idiocy in having fallen for this? But it goes far deeper. Take a tweet by Daniel Lambert, otherwise known as the manager of Northern Irish band Kneecap (the lads were last seen taking in the sights on a regime trip to Cuba). “When will media openly consider the likelihood Israel stages ‘antisemitic events’ in Europe?”, said Lambert, who is also chair of the Irish football club, Bohemians FC. “Why? Blanket media coverage and distraction from their crimes. All that’s left to ask is would they go that low? Of course they would. They torture kids, bomb hospitals and execute medics.” See, now here we have a much more insidious version of the ‘false flag’ conspiracy theory. For Lambert, Israel is unquestionably the most evil country in the world – and if you see something as unspeakably evil, then you are going to be willing to entertain the concept that they are willing to commit evil acts anywhere, against anything and anyone (the flip side is that those opposing them, no matter how foul, become almost saintlike in their ‘resistance’.) In terms of brainpower, this expends the approximate wattage one would expect from a particularly dim pigeon. Two men arrested in connection with the Golders Green arson attack Two men aged 47 and 45 have been arrested in connection with the Golders Green arson attack. The suspects – aged 47 and aged 45 – were arrested on Wednesday morning at addresses in the north-west London and central London areas respectively. They were arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and both men have been taken to a London police station where they currently remain in police custody. Officers are carrying out searches at the two addresses. The arrests are linked to the ongoing investigation into an arson attack on four ambulances run by the Hatzola, a volunteer-led service. Commander Helen Flanagan, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, said: “We have been working around the clock since this appalling attack took place and this has led to these arrests being made this morning. This appears to be an important breakthrough in the investigation, but we’re also mindful that CCTV footage of the incident suggests there were at least three people involved. We fully recognise the local community will still be concerned and our investigation very much remains active and we will continue to work to identify and seek to arrest all of those who may have been involved.” Detective Chief Superintendent Luke Williams, who leads policing in North West London, said: “We know that community concerns remain heightened and I want to reassure the community that an enhanced, bespoke policing plan and activity, which is particularly focused around vulnerable areas right across London, will continue over coming days and weeks. Group behind European antisemitic attacks may be only a facade, warn experts An obscure group has claimed to have carried out a clutch of attacks that have rattled the Jewish community in several European cities. But experts question whether the group, which has called itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (HAYI) in online posts, really exists or is just a front for Iranian intelligence. Jewish communities in Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands have each been targeted since the US-Israeli war with Iran began in late February. Ambulances run by Jewish volunteers were set on fire in London, a car was torched in Antwerp, synagogues were hit with explosives in Liege and Rotterdam, and a Jewish school was targeted in Amsterdam. Although police have generally been careful not to ascribe motives, pro-Iran social media accounts have posted footage and said the HAYI group carried out the attacks. A European security source who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the topic pointed out that the HAYI group was unknown before the war. “So it is indeed likely at this stage that it is a front group,” the source said. CST welcomes today’s arrests and thanks the @metpoliceuk for their swift work following the shocking arson attack on four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green. We are grateful to the officers who have worked tirelessly to find those accountable. While this development is an… https://t.co/cMxiZarCJE — CST (@CST_UK) March 25, 2026 Yep - four ambulances with them now are on loan. We’re funding permanent replacements, too. That means that the money being donated will deliver over and above what they had before the attack: stronger, not weaker. Hate can’t win. — Wes Streeting (@wesstreeting) March 25, 2026 I'll be honest, the furious response from so many Kneecap fans has surprised me. I really didn't know so many of them could read. Kneecap’s breathtaking Cuban hypocrisy https://t.co/hIH2zzyg7L — Ian O'Doherty (@OdohertyI64991) March 25, 2026 Bristol ‘Jew hunters’ decided now’s the perfect time to harass ppl on their doorsteps every day this week. Despicable. pic.twitter.com/QkFlqXfVHR — Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) March 24, 2026 Does the Green Party support Hamas’s aims? We’ll find out this weekend Is Zionism racism? The Green Party is scheduled to debate a motion at its conference on Saturday which states that it is. In recent weeks, the party’s leader, Zack Polanski, has had media interviewers ask what he thinks. Every time, his response has been to argue around the various definitions of Zionism, while being clear that his view is that the current Israeli government is both racist and genocidal in its war in Gaza. His ultimate answer to the question? For him, it depends what you mean by Zionism. Yet the TV media questions and Polanski’s answers give the impression that neither the interviewers nor their interviewee have read and understood the motion, which is much more than just its provocative title. Nick Robinson’s recent interview with Polanski on BBC Radio 4 was typical of this genre. Ultimately, whether they realise it or not, members who sign up to Motion E12: “Zionism is Racism”, are being called on to support the belief that armed force should be used to ensure Israel ceases to exist, and that it should be replaced by a single Palestinian state in the whole territory, from the river to the sea. The other effective actions are all means towards that single end: boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel; a call for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners; the de-proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group in the UK (largely overtaken now by the High Court decision ruling the proscription unlawful, albeit stayed pending a government appeal); the release of pro-Palestinian prisoners in the UK; support for those prisoners’ ever-changing political demands. A clause calling for the party to reject both the IHRA definition and the Jerusalem Declaration on antisemitism was ruled out of order on the procedural basis that it was a proposal for internal party management rather than external political action. A separate motion would be needed for that. When I say this motion calls for the overthrow of Israel by the actual armed Palestinian groups – Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, etc – I get two types of responses. The first accuse me of a malicious misreading of the motion to discredit it and its supporters. The second say the motion absolutely does call for the armed overthrow of Israel, and rightly so. Let me clear up any dispute about the motion’s effective text. Clause 3 says: “The Green Party supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine”. No mention is made of whether this would be with or without the consent of Israelis. Clause 4 of the motion calls on the Greens to affirm “the right of the Palestinian people to resistance and liberation from Israeli occupation, domination and subjugation, and acknowledges that the struggle to achieve that liberation by all available means under international law is legitimate.” 11 Palestinian families evicted after court found Jews owned their East Jerusalem homes before 1948 Eleven Palestinian families were evicted from their homes in the Batan al-Hawa section of East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood on Wednesday, following a Supreme Court ruling from last year determining that their houses were owned by Jews before 1948. The ruling said that because Jews owned the houses before Jordan occupied East Jerusalem in 1948, the year of Israel’s War of Independence, their ownership must be transferred to Ateret Cohanim, a right-wing foundation that works to strengthen the Jewish presence in East Jerusalem and petitioned to receive the properties. Palestinian families had petitioned against the eviction, but their appeals were rejected late last year in several rulings that ordered 157 residents of the neighborhood to leave their homes. Yosef Basbous, whose family was among those evicted on Wednesday, said in a statement, “Our family was expelled in 1948 and dispersed in refugee camps in the West Bank. I arrived in Silwan with my parents more than 60 years ago. I built this house stone by stone, brick by brick, nail by nail.” “The police say they are implementing the court’s decisions in accordance with the law,” he continued. “But what kind of law is this that can expel me, who has been here for more than 60 years?” The Peace Now settlement watchdog characterized the evictions as “ethnic cleansing.” “The government and a discriminatory legal system are expelling an entire Palestinian community and replacing it” with Jewish nationalists, the left-wing group said. “This is happening in the Jerusalem of 2026, and it is a stain that will not be erased from Israel.” The eviction orders target residents of the hilltop neighborhood south of Jerusalem’s Old City, and are based on a 1970 law that allows Jews who lost property before the establishment of Israel to reclaim it. Lee Smith: Who's the Boss? Even before starting his second term, Trump publicly warned his deputies not to bring anyone into the administration who’d been part of the Charles Koch network, whose think-tank experts favor a restoration of Obama’s nuclear deal and amicable relations with a terror state that since the 1979 Islamic Revolution has, together with its proxies, made a habit of kidnapping and torturing Americans and killed thousands of us. And yet last March, Gabbard named Daniel Davis, a foreign-policy analyst at the Charles Koch-backed Defense Priorities, to a top spot at ODNI. Davis was in line to be deputy director for mission integration, responsible for preparing the presidential daily briefing. This raised concerns that an official in charge of the president’s briefing who was opposed to the president’s policies—and Davis was at odds with Trump not only on Iran, but also on China, Russia, Hamas, and pro-Hamas campus protesters—might try to curate intelligence so as to steer the commander in chief away from his preferences and toward Davis’ own. Due to public outcry from Trump allies on Capitol Hill, prominent media and social media figures, and donors, Davis was replaced before he even officially started. Gabbard’s second pick for the same job was William Ruger, who worked at the Charles Koch Institute. Recently, Gabbard hired another former Defense Priorities adviser, Dan Caldwell, who worked under Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth before he was removed from his post for reportedly leaking to the media. She wasn’t just staffing DNI with aides intent on protecting Iran from Trump. According to U.S. officials, she was also freezing out pro-Israel candidates. “She and her team actively campaigned against people going into the administration who saw Israel as a key ally,” one senior government official told Tablet. “And they viewed the Koch implants across the administration as an ally in that mission.” Last year, Gabbard tried to move the country’s counterintelligence (CI) mission from the FBI to the ODNI. “Thanks to Kash Patel fighting Gabbard’s empire-building attempt, control of CI operations remained with FBI, which has the deep expertise in countering foreign espionage threats,” the senior government official told Tablet. “Had Tulsi succeeded in moving FBI CI ops to DNI, our country’s premier counterespionage service would have been in disarray and unable to respond to the surging Iranian threat.” Or she would’ve buried the threat altogether for fear of giving the president and his top national security officials more reason to end the 47-year threat for good. Indeed, last March, she undercut Trump when she testified on Capitol Hill that the U.S. intelligence services “assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.” If, as Gabbard testified, Iran wasn’t building a bomb, then Trump’s vows to end Iran’s nuclear program either through diplomacy or force were ridiculous. But Iran didn’t suspend the program in 2003, as Israel’s 2018 seizure of Iran’s nuclear archives made plain. And by the time of Gabbard’s testimony, Iran had enough material to make at least 10 bombs. Vance’s office denies report VP raised anti-Palestinian riots with Netanyahu U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s office on Tuesday dismissed as “completely false” reports that he raised concerns about anti-Palestinian violence in Judea and Samaria during talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The vice president’s discussions over the last week with the prime minister have been solely focused on Operation Epic Fury,” the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, tweeted Vance’s press secretary, Taylor Van Kirk. “The subject of this article was not even discussed,” she added. Van Kirk’s X post was referring to an Israel Hayom article claiming that “the tone escalated” after Vance raised recent incidents of anti-Arab riots in Judea and Samaria during a phone call with Netanyahu. Israel Defense Forces Central Command head Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth during a meeting with Judea and Samaria mayors on Tuesday “commended the involvement of municipal leaders in preventing incidents of nationalist crime” in the wake of reported attacks targeting Palestinians, according to a military statement. Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter told Ynet on Wednesday that “there are 600,000 people [in Judea and Samaria] who respect the law, respect their neighbors and wake up every morning wanting only to do good.” “There is a small group of a few hundred guys who have fallen through the cracks, who are tarnishing an entire enterprise,” he said. Leiter said neither the White House nor the Jewish state’s allies on Capitol Hill had criticized the matter, and denied the report that Vance raised the issue in his two phone calls with Netanyahu. Shocking racist messages from group chat named 'Nazi Heaven' force Republican secretary to quit A Florida Republican resigned from his secretary position on Monday after a racist group chat filled with epithets and slurs was exposed. Abel Carvajal, 23, stepped down as Miami-Dade Republican Party secretary about three weeks after the vile messages were leaked. Carvajal created the WhatsApp group chat and took part in it at times, leaving it active even as shocking messages about killing black people were shared. At one point, the chat was renamed to pay tribute to what one member dubbed 'Nazi heaven,' according to the Miami Herald. Carvajal specifically used the terms 'mi***ss,' 'mi***et,' and 'm***er,' all variations of the n-word, the Floridian Press reported. In total, the heinous slur variations were used more than 400 times. Women, gay people and Jewish people were also regularly demeaned in the chat. Carvajal resigned ahead of a special meeting on Monday to vote on his future in the party. He told the Daily Mail: 'I will simply state - I want our party to move forward, and I want to keep the party out of this situation.' New euphemism for "Jew" just dropped https://t.co/Kllq64CTss pic.twitter.com/FcIjbiOrWk — Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) March 25, 2026 Elissa Slotkin, Haley Stevens criticize El-Sayed over rallies with Hasan Piker Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing criticism from some prominent Michigan Democrats — including Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), who is running against him in the Democratic primary — for his decision to host campaign rallies with Hasan Piker, the far-left political streamer with a history of antisemitic remarks. “That’s the exact opposite of someone I’d be campaigning with,” Stevens told Jewish Insider on Wednesday. “We have to be serious here about who’s going to be the best general election candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan to beat [Republican] Mike Rogers, and someone who’s campaigning with someone like that is not going to win in Michigan.” El-Sayed will host two rallies with Piker and Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University on April 7. Piker has millions of followers on the streaming platform Twitch. He has said that “Hamas is a thousand times better” than Israel, and has described Orthodox Jews as “inbred.” He has also praised terrorists and said America deserved 9/11. Stevens said that by associating with Piker, El-Sayed is “choosing to campaign with someone who has a history of antisemitic rhetoric.” Slotkin told JI that she is not familiar with much of Piker’s language but that what she knows of his rhetoric raises concerns for her. “Any equating of all Jews or American Jews with Israel and the Israeli government is a problem right off the bat, and then it sounds like, from there, a cascading set of antisemitic tropes and just the kind of rhetoric that is — I want to read for myself, but sounds deeply antisemitic, consistently, and therefore not someone that should be helping anybody out in the Michigan political environment,” said Slotkin. The announcement of Piker’s upcoming campaign visits to Michigan comes two weeks after an attempted terrorist attack at Temple Israel, a Reform synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. Yea because what could possibly be the reason anyone would support the Jewish state if not for money, right Mark? That’s all Jews do - just buy people with money and provide nothing in return. https://t.co/WJMnPe2KMZ — Claire (@Claire_V0ltaire) March 24, 2026 Sen. Bill Cassidy warns Mamdani NYC public health funding at risk over anti-Israel working group Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, wrote to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday questioning if a city-run health agency was using federal resources in its initiative aimed at responding to the “ongoing genocide in Palestine.” He suggested that public funding for the city’s health department could be at risk without a course-correction. Cassidy sent the letter to Mamdani on Tuesday afternoon raising his concern about the “Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group” established within New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in response to the “ongoing genocide in Palestine.” The Louisiana senator cited a New York Post report that said the group “aims to address the growing interests among the health department staff to learn about current and ongoing global oppression in its many forms and how it influences the advancement of health equity.” After noting that there was no mention of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel during the group’s inaugural meeting, as reported by the Post, Cassidy mentioned a recent comment that Dr. Alister Martin, New York City’s health commissioner, offered to NY1 earlier this month. Martin stated that there is “pretty specific evidence that the federal government is not a fan of the work that we’re doing on equity,” but that the city under Mamdani was “not gonna stop doing that work” even if the Trump administration “comes and messes with our money.” Cassidy warned that the working group could violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by potentially creating a hostile environment for Jewish employees, putting at risk $600 million in annual federal funding that the city’s health department receives, which makes up 20% of the department’s budget. I am proud of our big tent & the fact that we welcome a broad diversity of opinions and priorities. But we cannot allow those who preach hate & seek division to find safe harbor among us. We must call out hate & reject those who champion ideologies of exclusion and demonization. — Brad Schneider (@Schneider4IL10) March 24, 2026 Challenge accepted! How about the 20+ times @hasanthehun called Orthodox Jews inbred?https://t.co/Bgh1i5FpbZ https://t.co/0DSUpZrk4x — Thinking Munk (@ThinkingMunk) March 25, 2026 Here's a supercut of the most explicit moments of antisemitism I included in my video about watching him for a week (not all are specifically from that week but I'm throwing in anyway because they were already widely shared). https://t.co/UbZGTfhB54 pic.twitter.com/bLSAlYAAbn — conduit (@conduitbiscuit) March 25, 2026 It’s not defamation if it’s true. https://t.co/oYGlJl5USU — 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) March 25, 2026 Your account should be banned. pic.twitter.com/HteoL0AX42 — Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) March 25, 2026 I have an idea for an invention: A device that captures images and is able to show them later to other people... I'm sure it'll be an amazing success — Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) March 25, 2026 This you? https://t.co/HN0mM9LqWg pic.twitter.com/p7g4T4CsAk — Graham Linehan (@Glinner) March 25, 2026 the classic Egyptian born American citizen studying abroad in Czechia deciding to burn down a warehouse supplying Ukraine in order to support Palestine because a Russian told them it would hurt Israel Useful idiots https://t.co/VaQyT58d5d — Rimmy (@Rimmy_Downunder) March 25, 2026 Does anyone know why pro Palestinian groups are so afraid of New York's synagogue buffer zone law???? Why are they spending so many resources to make sure synagogues don't have a 25 ft buffer zone of no protests??? pic.twitter.com/fc6LDWg7M1 — Rabbi Poupko (@RabbiPoupko) March 25, 2026 British schools in Qatar accused of using textbooks promoting anti-Jewish content British private schools operating in Qatar are facing mounting criticism after reports that they are using state-approved textbooks that omit the Holocaust and include hostile references to Jews. An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph found that several prestigious UK schools with overseas branches – including Sherborne School, King’s College Taunton and the Royal Grammar School Guildford – are required under Qatari law to teach certain subjects using government-approved materials. According to the report, a Year 12 history textbook on the Second World War makes no reference to the Holocaust. Instead, Adolf Hitler’s ideology is described only in vague terms, stating that the Nazi regime “emphasised Hitler’s racist ideas”, while encouraging students to read Mein Kampf. Separate material used for younger pupils reportedly includes explicitly anti-Jewish passages. One Islamic studies textbook states: “There is no one more evil, or misguided, than one who turns away from Islam,” in reference to Jews. The findings have prompted strong condemnation from Jewish organisations. The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) described the omission of the Holocaust as “morally indefensible” and “an insult” to victims and survivors. AJR chief executive Michael Newman said: “The Holocaust is intrinsic to learning about Nazism. By omitting this, it is an insult to the memory of victims and their families, and dangerous for future generations.” The Campaign Against Antisemitism also criticised the use of the materials, warning that the content would be unacceptable in the UK and calling on schools to reconsider their involvement. Under Qatari regulations, all schools must teach Arabic, Islamic studies and national history using state-sanctioned textbooks designed to reflect the country’s “national identity” and “religious values”. These materials must be provided to all pupils “without exception”. Harvard Business Professor Who Protested at Library Now Teaching Israel Divestment 'Case' in Class A Harvard Business School professor who participated in a library protest in favor of student anti-Israel protesters is planning to teach a "case" in her class on Friday about divesting from Israeli and other companies because of "their possible complicity in the crisis in Gaza." A copy of the 26-page "case" obtained by the Washington Free Beacon puts the decision in the context of responding to "the apartheid regime in South Africa." The Free Beacon is not printing the case in its entirety because Harvard Business copyrights the materials. The case makes gestures at even-handedness, noting that the movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel "faced criticism of antisemitism in its singling out of Israel, as opposed to the numerous other states engaged in human rights violations globally, for divestment." Yet on careful analysis, the case as drafted is slanted against Israel from the very first sentence, which describes the October 7, 2023, attack as one by "Palestinian armed groups" rather than by terrorists. The word "terrorists" doesn’t appear in the whole case, including in an extensive discussion of what the case calls a "separation barrier" or "wall"—actually a security fence that Israel built to prevent terrorist attacks. The case is about whether the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global—at $2.1 trillion, one of the world’s largest—should divest from Caterpillar, IBM, Microsoft, and Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings Inc. and Unilever on account of being "‘too’ complicit in unethical activity to justify investment." The lead author of the case and the teacher of the business school class is Reshmaan Hussam. Hussam co-wrote an October 2024 Harvard Crimson article about participating in a library protest wearing a black scarf as a variation on "traditional Palestinian keffiyehs" worn by students. "Our students’ suspensions from the library come amid a wave of new, excessively restrictive rules governing campus speech that have been codified in direct response to student protests about the devastation in Gaza," she wrote. She was also quoted in Harvard Magazine coverage of the faculty in-library protests, which the participants described as "study-ins." UCLA Taps Director of Harvard Center Accused of Anti-Semitism As Next Public Health Dean The University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday named as its next dean of public health the head of a Harvard University center that was hit with numerous anti-Semitism allegations in a university report last year. Kari Nadeau, the chair of the environmental health department at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will leave Harvard for UCLA just months after she became the interim director of the Harvard François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights. The FXB center's previous director, Mary Bassett, resigned in January, and Nadeau was tapped to replace her. The FXB Center and its Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights were a focus of the report issued in April 2025 by Harvard's task force on anti-Semitism. Over the weekend, a program sponsored by the FXB Center featured a speaker who demonized Israeli doctors as "pro-genocide." Though most of the incidents took place before Nadeau was named interim director, the weekend's event makes clear that at least some of that programming has continued under her stewardship. The task force's report described a hostile climate for Jewish students at the school of public health, which houses the FXB center and features a course on the "Settler Colonial Determinants of Health." "One student told us that the FXB programming created the impression that 'Israel exists solely to oppress Palestinians, and nothing else,'" the anti-Semitism report reads. A speaker at a November 2024 webinar described in the report claimed that the "IDF's charter is to target healthcare workers." Students who raised concerns about the center's programming were allegedly asked, "who is more marginalized, Jews or Palestinians," and noted that there were "no programs on the 'public health consequences of rockets being fired or suicide bombings.'" Columbia Slaps Socialist Student Group with Interim Suspension Following Free Beacon Report Columbia University has placed its Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) chapter on interim suspension in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report highlighting the group's plans to "liaise with Columbia University Apartheid Divest" (CUAD), the banned student organization that wished "death to America" amid the U.S. military operations in Iran. Those plans appeared to violate Columbia's "zero tolerance" policy barring recognized student groups from affiliating with CUAD. "The University has placed the Columbia-Barnard Young Democratic Socialists of America group on interim status as we investigate these allegations," a Columbia spokesman told the Free Beacon on Wednesday. "During this change in status, the group will not be eligible for benefits afforded to recognized student groups and will not be entitled to use University space or funds." On March 1, Columbia said that it had required all recognized student groups, including YDSA, to disavow CUAD as part of the university's "Zero Tolerance policy." All groups complied, Columbia said, allowing them to "retain their official recognition" and receive benefits from the university like access to campus spaces and funding. YDSA's official Columbia webpage, however, included a link to an interest form that said the group coordinates with other banned "leftist groups"—Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)—to "plan actions and liaise with Columbia University Apartheid Divest." Access to the form was restricted by Wednesday morning, and YDSA's official Columbia webpage now only shows frequently asked questions about the university. Indiana University Launches Investigation Into Muslim Philanthropy Initiative That Gave Fundraising Advice to 'Sham Charity' Bankrolling Hamas Indiana University has opened an investigation into a Muslim initiative housed within its School of Philanthropy following a Washington Free Beacon report on the initiative's ties to a "sham charity" that bankrolls Hamas. State representative Andrew Ireland (R.), a former deputy attorney general for the Hoosier State, said that Indiana University launched a "formal investigation" into the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative's partnership with Hayat Yolu, a Turkish nonprofit that the Treasury Department sanctioned earlier this month for providing "significant material support to Hamas." IU's Lilly Family School of Philanthropy "is ceasing all training activities" and "reviewing all current partnerships" with the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, a spokeswoman told Indiana Public Media. Ireland and seven other Indiana lawmakers pressed the school about the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative after the Free Beacon reported its ties to Hayat Yolu. The initiative partnered with Hayat Yolu in July 2025 and January 2026 to host training events in Turkey and Indonesia aimed at helping Islamic nonprofits "refine their fundraising strategies, improve performance, and more effectively advance their missions." The initiative, led by Shariq Siddiqui, thanked Hayat Yolu for its "generous support" in its recent annual report. According to the Treasury Department, Hayat Yolu has been "involved in Hamas' international funding network that enables Hamas to generate external revenue in direct support of Hamas' military wing" and served as an "operational headquarters, banking and financial hub for the Muslim Brotherhood." It's not the first time the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative has been linked to terrorism financiers. In December 2022, the initiative hosted Sami Al-Arian at a conference about Islamic fundraising and the difficulties those groups have faced raising money since 9/11. Al-Arian was deported from the United States over his fundraising on behalf of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a designated terrorist group. The school apologized for inviting Al-Arian to the event and said it had failed to conduct proper "due diligence." The Indiana lawmakers asked Indiana University officials whether the school "accepted any money or in-kind support" tied to Hayat Yolu and whether the school conducted any due diligence before entering the partnership. ‘Shameful’: California Jewish Advocacy Group Denounces Challenge to K-12 Antisemitism Law A California state legislator has introduced a bill aimed at gutting a recently passed K-12 antisemitism law (AB 715), which strengthened civil rights protections for Jewish students amid a pandemic of bullying, harassment, and extreme anti-Zionist activity in public schools. Robert Garcia, a Democrat and member of the California State Assembly, introduced the measure — Assembly Bill (AB) 2159 — on Wednesday, and it has already amassed support from a number of groups which have opposed the Jewish community’s efforts to address antisemitism in education. In October, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law which requires the state to establish a new Office for Civil Rights for monitoring antisemitism in public schools at a time of rising anti-Jewish hatred across the US. As previously reported by The Algemeiner, the bill confronted Newsom, a Democrat rumored to be interested in running for US president in 2028, with a politically fraught decision, as it aims to limit the extent to which the state’s ideologically charged ethnic studies curricula, supported by progressives and many Democrats, may plant anti-Zionist viewpoints into the minds of the 5.8 million students educated in its public schools. Newsom, who has since endorsed the false charge that Israel is an “apartheid” state, approved the measure amid these cross currents, paving the way for state officials to proceed with establishing an Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator, setting parameters within which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be equitably discussed, and potentially barring antisemitic materials from reaching the classroom. “Specifically, this bill removes reference to a definition of antisemitism that could include criticism of Israeli government policy, requires the Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator to be selected through an unbiased, merit-based civil service process, and removes vague and subjective language that exposes schools and teachers to discrimination complaints,” Garcia’s new bill says. Yesterday, UC Berkeley’s SJP chapter posted a video of an armed Palestinian militant from the Jenin Camp stronghold declaring: “The armed option is the only way. What was taken by force should be returned by force. This is a Zionist enemy. There is no place for negotiations.” https://t.co/nr3fU5ICFT pic.twitter.com/qOC19uKtJQ — Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) March 25, 2026 Settler violence exists, carried out by an extremist and unrepresentative minority. But here’s how the media warps statistics to create an inaccurate and misleading narrative about the West Bank that attributes that violence to one side only 👇https://t.co/0EgwcbFqmF — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) March 25, 2026 Why would the IDF possibly have targeted a particular area of Lebanon? Here's a little clue, @UPI. You almost had it. You were so close. Try your interviewee, "clad in a head-to-toe Iranian-style black chador -- an outfit distinguishing Hezbollah followers and supporters." pic.twitter.com/BGr2BXZjNy — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) March 25, 2026 L: Text from a longform @nytimes story citing comments by Israel's defense minister and adding the paper's own background about Lebanese bridges. R: The same story edited for the NYTimes' daily summary of events. Spot the difference? The defense minister did not talk about… pic.twitter.com/Tc3UmNXw8U — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) March 25, 2026 "10,000 Palestinian prisoners," @DailyMirror? No. This is bill that would only affects terrorists convicted of intentionally murdering people – not thousands of inmates. Twisting the facts and the language to present Israel as uniquely evil. Shame on you. pic.twitter.com/CeCYApPTBY — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) March 25, 2026 Must be slow-news day for @smh cartoonist Cathy Wilcox. Nothing about Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah. Nor what's happening in Australia. Back to one-sided bashing of the Prime Minister of Israel. It's almost as if she's got quite an obsession there ... pic.twitter.com/wYSLfMY1n0 — Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) March 26, 2026 Shiite Islamic Scholar Haider Qazwini in Charlotte, NC Lecture: The United States Is Not Run by the President but by Someone Sitting in Tel; May Allah Guide the Shooting of Shiites in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen pic.twitter.com/o7gZF7Eqjd — MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) March 25, 2026 pic.twitter.com/FAau6V2JRB — The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) March 25, 2026 Humanitarian aid? Or fuel for terror? Today at Kerem Shalom, security teams intercepted hundreds of bottles of engine oil,a restricted dual-use item, smuggled inside @UNDP crates. Engine oil is a restricted dual-use item due to its documented exploitation of aid for terror… pic.twitter.com/vARodNvlZB — COGAT (@cogatonline) March 25, 2026 Tobacco found in UNICEF aid to Gaza. The United Nations Children’s Fund has a strange definition of ‘help.’ Last we checked - children and tobacco don’t mix.https://t.co/PIg9kIJ1Io pic.twitter.com/GxClKDrHSH — Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) March 25, 2026 This is Hussam Abdo - the Palestinian boy caught wearing a suicide bomb belt to blow up Jewish women & children. In his interview he calmly admitted: “I wanted to be a shahid for Allah, reach paradise, and claim my 72 virgins.” https://t.co/T7ittlLnM8 pic.twitter.com/2UtUHVvgBe — GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) March 25, 2026 ADL launches leaderboard ranking popular video games on safeguards to combat antisemitism A first-of-its kind leaderboard evaluating how major video game companies address antisemitism and extremism in online games was released on Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Insider has learned. The leaderboard assessed 10 of the most popular games and their respective companies on their policies and in-game safety features. “Fortnite” was rated the best at implementing safeguards to combat antisemitism, with “Grand Theft Auto Online,” “Call of Duty” and “Minecraft” following closely behind. Other major games evaluated included “Roblox,” “Valorant,” “Clash Royale,” “Counter-Strike 2” and “PUBG: Battlegrounds.” ADL evaluated the product features of each individual game and the relevant policies that govern that game — for some games, the policies that govern them were specific to the game, while for some it was the company policies that apply to all of their games. The leaderboard, created by the ADL Center for Technology and Society in partnership with the ADL Ratings and Assessment Institute, builds on the annual survey work that CTS did in partnership with gaming analytics firm NewZoo, from 2019-2023. Games received labels of advanced, moderate or limited protections based on criteria including: antisemitism and hate policy; extremism/terrorism policy; in-game display of code of conduct; documentation of escalation to law enforcement; and in-game tooling. The latter criteria, which accounts for 60% of a game’s overall score, includes players’ ability to block and/or mute other players; players’ ability to report players for voice, text, usernames and user-generated content; and the game’s prevention of antisemitic and hateful extremist usernames. Bonus points were awarded for clear appeals processes and engagement with ADL, and points were deducted for harmful content on public-facing game stores. The antisemitism watchdog shared detailed findings with each gaming company and invited them to discuss the assessment before the leaderboard’s release, to which Epic Games, Supercell and Minecraft responded. Popular online games boast hundreds of thousands of players, with 85% of U.S. teens reporting playing video games in 2024, according to the Pew Research Center. The Pew study found that 80% of all teens think harassment over video games is a problem for people their age, and 41% of those who play them say they’ve been called an offensive name while playing. What will you see when visiting the Jewish quarter in Barcelona, Spain? Nothing about the Spanish expulsion. While touring the Jewish Quarter in Barcelona, I was shocked to see that, among all the displays about Jewish history in Spain, there was not a single mention of how… pic.twitter.com/1AbY9ycdRP — Rabbi Poupko (@RabbiPoupko) March 25, 2026 In Rotterdam 🇳🇱, a general practitioner clinic that had displayed a Palestinian flag on its façade for years has now replaced it with a screen cheering missiles being fired at Tel Aviv. Read that again. A medical clinic, celebrating the bombing of civilians. From a place meant… pic.twitter.com/2gHouPQWEs — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) March 25, 2026 Israel approves land for permanent US Embassy site in Jerusalem The Israeli government on Tuesday approved a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Construction and Housing Minister Haim Katz to allocate land at the Allenby Complex in Jerusalem for the construction of a permanent U.S. Embassy. The ministers said the decision “completes a major diplomatic move” that began when former U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocated the embassy there during his first term. A permanent embassy building serves as a “tangible, central, and long-term expression” of America’s commitment to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the strength of the special relationship between the two countries, Netanyahu, Sa’ar and Katz said in a joint statement. “At a time when Israel and the U.S. stand shoulder to shoulder in the campaign against the Iranian terrorist regime, this decision carries special significance. It serves as further evidence of the strength of the bond, the steadfast alliance, and the shared values and strategic partnership between our two countries,” they said. The officials also expressed gratitude to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee for his cooperation, as well as to Foreign Ministry personnel involved in advancing the decision. The U.S. officially opened its new embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018, fulfilling a key promise made by Trump. The embassy, which had been in Tel Aviv, relocated the ambassador’s office and about 50 staff members to an already existing former U.S. consulate in Jerusalem. It was agreed at the time that an entirely new embassy building would be built in the city. Not such a surprise. Great, thought-provoking quiz. https://t.co/u4ICmYJS45 pic.twitter.com/6dRWoVibTw — David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) March 25, 2026 My council. My Mayor. My friend. Thank you Mayor Will Nemesh. Thank you Waverley Council. After the tragedy in Bondi, there is something profoundly meaningful about bringing our community together around the Shabbat table at Bondi Beach! pic.twitter.com/IyiSeAIBW9 — Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) March 25, 2026 Buy EoZ's books on Amazon! "He's an Anti-Zionist Too!" cartoon book (December 2024) PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism (February 2022)

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11/17 Links Pt2: Hating Jews for Fun and Profit; Neither American nor Conservative; Wikipedia’s Antisemitism; Oxford Students Deploy Lynch Mob Symbolism at Protest of Ehud Olmert

From Ian: Christine Rosen: Hating Jews for Fun and Profit How did anti-Semitism become mainstream so quickly, especially among younger Americans? Perhaps because it has become a form of mass entertainment. In the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and the significant increase in attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in the U.S., this is an urgent question. A squad of prominent public figures, elected officials, and cultural arbiters has emerged to promote ideas many thought permanently relegated to the unsavory fringes of American life—and they are gaining an increasingly enthusiastic hearing. Case in point: Tucker Carlson’s fawning reception of self-proclaimed white nationalist and leader of the so-called groyper movement, Nick Fuentes. As a guest on Carlson’s show, Fuentes, a fan of both Hitler and Stalin, obligingly performed his predictable routine, complaining about “organized Jewry” and the Jews “controlling the media apparatus.” Smiling and nodding along, Carlson did remind Fuentes that “going on about the Jews helps the neocons” but otherwise agreed with him, noting that Christians who supported Israel have been “seized by this brain virus.” An internal conservative battle erupted soon after, when Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, one of the conservative movement’s major institutions, produced a video defending Carlson and calling him a friend. Water finds its own level, and Roberts’s unwillingness to denounce Carlson’s endorsement of anti-Semi-tic conspiracy theorizing places him and, by association, his institution in the most polluted part of the conservative movement’s pond. That this happened was entirely by design. As Fuentes himself gleefully noted on his show after the Heritage debacle unfolded, “We are thoroughly in the groyper war, the civil war for the GOP.” In previous eras, anti-Semitism spread in the form of propaganda published in largely fringe newsletters, a few newspapers (like Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent) and books, and notoriously, on radio broadcasts like those of the Canadian-American priest Charles E. Coughlin. Political organizers such as America First Party founder Gerald L.K. Smith (who, like Carlson, was fond of theories about UFOs and demons) also tried strenuously to mainstream anti-Semitism, but the effort never achieved widespread acceptance. Today, by contrast, anti-Semitism lives and thrives on the entertainment platforms of the young and very online. YouTube, streaming sites like Rumble, and social media platforms have vastly expanded their reach and scope while presenting no barriers to entry and providing anonymity to millions of people who crave communities of the like-minded—often with little regard to what they are endorsing with their time and attention. Popular streamers like Fuentes and Carlson are the arbiters of an online culture that now permeates real-world politics daily. Fuentes boasts more than 1 million followers on X and hundreds of thousands of viewers of his America First streaming show on Rumble, where he regularly, proudly, and unashamedly makes racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, and anti-American claims. Carlson is among the most popular public-affairs podcasters on platforms such as Spotify and Apple, where he muses about “globohomo” conspiracies and “the Antichrist’s newest manifestation.” Motivated toxic actors like Fuentes and Carlson and Candace Owens, combined with streaming platforms and DIY media, have created a massive amount of content that can be consumed by millions almost hourly. And unlike the anti-Semitic propaganda of old, this new form allows for active, rather than merely passive, consumption. Viewers post comments, swap memes, and form fan chat groups. They feel connected to peers while enjoying the posture of being skeptical renegades “just asking questions” about how the Jews control everything. The Two Minutes Hate is available 24 hours a day. John Podhoretz: Kevin Mamdani and Zohran Roberts Roberts cannot be saved from himself, though perhaps his Lord can save him; my Lord doesn’t work that way. For us, “repentance, prayer, and charity avert the evil decree,” as we say on Yom Kippur. Salvation is not on the menu; we must be mindful of our evil inclinations and understand that it is our duty as decent people to fight against them every moment of every day. It is through the knowledge that we have led decent and meaningful lives that we are saved by the posterity we make possible. So Kevin Roberts, hear me. Since you are friends with a Nazi, or are friends with someone who gives a microphone to a Nazi and chitters like a cicada as that Nazi spews his Satanic bile, you, too, should and must be anathematized—simply to create the condition in this country under which there can be a public square at all. I am under no illusions here. I do not have the power to anathematize anyone, only to counsel it. I am part of a small people, 2 percent of the American population, whose position and standing in this country and around the world are growing more parlous by the day. But especially because of that, this is no time to accept disingenuous apologies. This is no time to find common ground with those who seek to kill us. And this is no time to sue for peace, even though we are so gravely outnumbered. Israel is outnumbered, too, and it has demonstrated over the past two years that it will not lie down and die to give the Zohran Mamdanis of the world the satisfaction of having subdued a nation that is their superior in purpose, virtue, and meaning. And here at home, Kevin Roberts and his ilk will not guide the right into the arms of the Nazis and the America-haters without being stood up against. Two months into the war, I wrote a piece called “They’re Out to Get Us.” I followed it up with a piece about how they’re trying to drive us underground. They’re still trying to get us. They’re still trying to drive us underground. The Passover Haggadah says, “In every generation they rise up against us to destroy us.” But as is true of everything in this century, time is speeding up. “Every generation” is now “every week,” or “every day.” It’s from the left. And it’s from the right. But at least we can be comforted by this: Jews have survived worse than this self-righteous twerp from Uganda and Morningside Heights, and America has survived worse than the Nazi catamite brought to you courtesy of the Tucker Carlson charnel house. Tucker Carlson has millions of listeners and viewers, and so does Nick Fuentes. And they have friends, like Kevin Roberts. Just as nuts have aflatoxin. Their continued common presence will send the right into anaphylactic shock. We are the EpiPen. The Desecration of Our Heritage What Roberts calls “the vile ideas of the left” have become the lingua franca of this new “right.” The conspiracy has changed its costume, but not its creed. The radicals who shout loudest about treason to the nation have themselves become mouthpieces for its enemies. The dialectic of grievance, the politics of victimhood, the scapegoating of Jews and “globalists”—all were spoken long ago on the campuses that the podcast right claims to despise. Founded to preserve the principles that won the Cold War and rebuilt the free world, the Heritage Foundation now labors to unmake them. Roberts speaks the language of patriotism but rejects its substance—advancing ideas and would-be leaders who would make America weaker, lonelier, and more vulnerable to the forces that openly despise her. When America forgets that her strength lies in fidelity to the values that made her great, she does not find safety in retreat. She invites defeat. Its leaders preach “America First,” yet the policies they advance would leave America last—abandoned by allies, emboldening enemies, and unmoored from the moral purpose that once bound liberty to restraint. If America owes allegiance only to herself, then every sacrifice made in Europe and Asia and in the long vigilance of the Cold War was a mistake. Walk the cliffs of Normandy, and you will see the covenant written in marble and grass—the white crosses and Stars of David standing in their thousands, row upon row, facing the sea they crossed to free. The same order stretches across the Ardennes, across Anzio and Manila—fields of faith and duty where the living made a vow to the dead. Those who fell there did not die for profit or power. They died for a moral order carved into stone and sanctified in blood—the order that made the West worth defending. This is the moral inheritance of the Judeo-Christian tradition. It forged liberal democracy not as an abstraction, but as a way of life: a covenant between faith and freedom, duty and mercy. If America forgets this, the West will follow—and if the West forgets, freedom itself will fade from the earth. And when that happens, it will not be because the wolves were strong, but because the shepherds lost their faith. This is not a quarrel within conservatism. It is a quarrel between those who still believe in civilization and those who would sell it for applause. The battle now is the oldest of all: between memory and amnesia. The Heritage Foundation was once built to defend the first against the second. Under Roberts, it is threatening to embody the reversal. James Kirchick: Neither American nor Conservative Last August, the American Conservative magazine heralded a scoop on its website: Republican Congressman Riley Moore of West Virginia had sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to award Patrick J. Buchanan—author and television pundit, former aide to Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and himself a candidate for the presidency in 1992, 1996, and 2000—the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That Moore chose the American Conservative to announce his nomination of Buchanan for the nation’s highest civilian honor was fitting. Along with the journalist Scott McConnell and the Greek aristocrat Taki Theodoracopulos, Buchanan founded the magazine in 2002 as a populist and paleoconservative rejoinder to the free trade, free market, and hawkish foreign policy ideas then regnant in the Republican Party. “Not all conservatives do agree that the United States should engage—for reasons that hardly touch America’s own vital interests—in an open-ended war against much of the Arab and Muslim world,” the trio declared in the magazine’s first editorial. The mission of the American Conservative would be “to reignite the conversation that conservatives ought to have engaged in since the end of the Cold War, but didn’t.” The following week, Moore co-authored an article for the magazine with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts elaborating on why Buchanan deserves the honor. Decrying “neoconservative gatekeepers” who “dismissed him as a nativist, a protectionist, and an antisemitic isolationist,” Moore and Roberts wrote that “looking back now, his speeches read like prophecy.” They pointed to Buchanan’s address to the 1992 Republican National Convention, which he delivered after waging a bruising yet ultimately unsuccessful challenge to George H.W. Bush for the party’s presidential nomination. “There is a religious war going on in this country,” Buchanan declared, an unnerving assertion that would do more to help Bill Clinton than Bush. “It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as was the Cold War itself, for this war is for the soul of America.” Moore and Roberts also called attention to a clause in Buchanan’s speech accepting the presidential nomination of the Reform Party eight years later in which he implored, “There has to be one party willing to drive the money changers out of the temples of our civilization.” It was innuendo like this that had prompted William F. Buckley Jr. to publish, nearly a decade earlier, a 40,000-word essay in National Review ruefully concluding that Buchanan, his longtime friend and political ally, was guilty of espousing anti-Semitism. But to Moore and Roberts, it wasn’t Pitchfork Pat who was at fault in this exchange but rather the father of the American conservative movement, who had pushed a “spurious accusation of antisemitism” against a noble patriot whom “history has vindicated.”1 Moore’s proposal to give the Medal of Freedom to Buchanan, which the Heritage Foundation touted in a short hagiographic video titled “Pat Buchanan Was Right About Everything,” won the support of MAGA-aligned think tanks such as the America First Policy Institute and the Center for Renewing America (the latter founded by Russ Vought, the past and present director of the Office of Management and Budget). The leader of American Moment, an influential nonprofit for conservative youth, recently told Politico that “Buchanan has been revered by the under-30 crowd basically the entire time that I’ve been working in professional politics.” When Moore pitched his idea at the National Conservatism Conference, an annual gathering of the populist right, it was one of the weekend’s biggest applause lines. Herzog attends funeral of Meny Godard, killed during Oct. 7 massacre Israeli President Isaac Herzog eulogized the late Meny (Menachem) Godard, 73, as “the best of humanity” during Godard’s funeral service at Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel on Monday. “Our wild neighbors, as always, do not know what they are doing, who they are murdering: the best of humanity,” said Herzog, quoting the early 20th century Zionist writer Yosef Chaim Brenner, himself murdered by Arabs during the 1921 Jaffa riots. “When you look around at the gravestones of all the friends and family buried in Be’eri’s cemetery, you can see: Hamas terrorists murdered the best of humanity on Oct. 7. Meny and Ayelet Goddard, may their memory be a blessing, were the best of humanity,” he said. Meny’s wife, Ayelet, 63, was killed alongside him in their home in Kibbutz Be’eri by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. Meny’s body was taken into the Gaza Strip, and recovered by Israel on Nov. 13. “Today we said goodbye to Meny and Ayelet, an inseparable couple in their love, in their lives and in their deaths. And here they are together again, and we, in pain and in mourning, are by their side,” said Herzog. Meni’s death was officially confirmed on Dec. 8, 2023. He is survived by four children and seven grandchildren. “The IDF expresses deep condolences to the families, continues to make every effort to return all the deceased hostages, and is prepared for the continued implementation of the [ceasefire] agreement,” the military said in a statement after recovering Meny’s body. “Hamas is required to fulfill its part of the agreement and make the necessary efforts to return all the hostages to their families and to a dignified burial,” the statement continued. 🎗Hundreds gathered today at Kibbutz Be’eri to lay Meny Godard to rest. Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists murdered Meny (73) on October 7 alongside his wife, Ayelet (63). Meny’s body was held hostage in Gaza for over two years. May his memory forever be a blessing🕯️ pic.twitter.com/DySdQL8i2a — Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 17, 2025 Yonatan Samarano was murdered on October 7th — and then was dragged into Gaza as a hostage by a UN worker. I spoke with his mother, Ayelet, at Tel Aviv Fashion Week. She told me: “I live with the sadness so other mothers won’t have to.” This year, she walked the runway —… pic.twitter.com/jFuB0xlgWg — Noa Tishby (@noatishby) November 17, 2025 Returned hostage Alon Ohel is finally receiving medical care for his eye. During 2 years in captivity, Alon almost lost vision in his eye, injured by Hamas during the October 7th massacre. Praying for Alon to have a full recovery, and so grateful he is finally home 💜 pic.twitter.com/KpcQylCd4z — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 17, 2025 Former Hamas captive relates weeks-long attempt to dig his way to freedom Avinatan Or escaped his Hamas captors in Gaza by digging his way out of a tunnel, but was later found and beaten for days, he told an audience at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Washington, D.C., on Sunday night. “My engineering background saved me. I count in steps. I collected data. I built a small [lightbulb] from broken cables. I planned an escape route in my head. I told myself, ‘You will not let others decide your destiny,’ and I tried to escape,” Or related from a podium, standing next to Noa Argamani, Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal—all former Hamas captives. “I dug for weeks through sand bags through a collapsed tunnel toward the surface. I made myself work to change my own destiny. One day, as I was digging, I hit the root of a tree. I smelled it. It felt like touching life in a place of death,” he continued. “One night,” he went on, “I reached the outside. I saw stars for the first time in years. I wrote ‘Hostage’ on a white sand bag, planning my next step. But they found out.” Or, 32, said that he was beaten by his captors “for days,” and was tied to a chair for a week. “I was sure I will die there,” he said. But even then, he continued, he wrote three things next to his bed: “This too shall pass,” “Patience” and “Let it be.” These words “kept me going,” he related. “I had too much time to think about life [in the tunnels]. I used to believe I had bad luck. How could this happen to me? Now I understand something different. Everything in my life—my childhood, my parents, my education, my army service, working in construction, studying engineering—all of it made me who I am. And who I am is what kept me alive.” The survivor went on to say that he does not see himself as a hero. “I didn’t choose to be a hostage. The heroes are the [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers, the ones who choose to fight for others,” said Or. 🚨 Hamas captivity survivor Avintan Or revealed last night details about his escape attempt from captivity, which caused his captors to worsen his conditions severely: "I tried to escape, I dug for weeks. I made myself work to change my fate. One night, I went outside and saw the… pic.twitter.com/5VTajxwb8n — Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) November 17, 2025 Brave Testimony from Avinatan Or’s Escape and Noa Argamani’s Captivity in Gaza The couple were kidnapped separately from the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. In June 2024, Noa was heroically rescued by the IDF. On October 13, 2025, after unimaginable… pic.twitter.com/CpDEDBzNFw — StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) November 17, 2025 Nova Music Festival massacre survivor, Yuval Raphael, carries a story of pain & resilience. She went on to turn trauma into purpose, representing Israel on the Eurovision stage singing “A New Day Will Rise.” pic.twitter.com/IV4Iu5mOQz — Israel ישראל (@Israel) November 17, 2025 Across Israel you can’t go a day without seeing them, the stickers. At train stations, bus stops, traffic lights, café walls, playground fences. Hundreds of faces. The victims of October 7 and the war that followed. Each sticker carries a message written by the family: words of… pic.twitter.com/YYi42DYmho — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 17, 2025 What is a Druze who survived the October 7th massacre doing in New York?! Meet Raif, an Israeli Druze who ran a food stand at the Nova Festival on October 7th, and he survived the massacre there - and now he’s brought the stand to New York, to get them both the taste of Druze… pic.twitter.com/Kscgbtaxy0 — יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) November 17, 2025 The Bataclan Massacre, the Post-1968 Left, and the Unwelcome Victim This confusion comes directly from the inheritance of 1968. The Left that emerged from that period trained itself to read every conflict as the aftershock of colonialism. Once Islam became associated with the descendants of former colonial powers, the old categories merged. The jihadist became the post-colonial rebel. The terrorist act became a form of revenge against history. The victim became the embodiment of France, and France became the embodiment of its crimes. And because patriotism had been morally delegitimized, defending the victims as French became unacceptable, suspicious, weird, unsettling. More importantly, a segment of the French intelligentsia recast Islam as political symbolism rather than a religious world. Jihadist violence was interpreted as a political expression, not cruelty. This came not from engagement with Islamic history but from the need to preserve an ideological narrative of oppression and resistance. In the process, Islam was reduced to a surface for post-1968 projections. This same distortion led many to misread the Islamic State. ISIS was not the voice of the marginalized but an imperial project seeking to overthrow Middle Eastern states, yet this reality was obscured by the insistence on placing it within an old anti-imperialist story. Once this shift occurred, even a massacre like the Bataclan could be folded back into the older narrative. The victims faded because they did not fit the script. Any impulse to defend the country, to mourn collectively, or to describe the attack plainly risked being dismissed as nationalism. Reality bent to protect the framework, and in that distortion the final inversion appeared: the killers were treated as bearers of history, and the dead as bearers of France. Public grief itself became uncomfortable, and in that discomfort, the victims were abandoned twice. The United States is not France, but it is beginning to develop a similar reflex. These ideas never appear out of thin air, and their presence is not inherently harmful. I still read Foucault, and I still enjoy Derrida’s writings on painting and art. Engaging difficult and unsettling thinkers is part of a healthy intellectual life. A democracy depends on argument and disagreement. The problem arises when interpretation begins to blur essential distinctions and is treated as an ultimate truth (even though they insist that there is no objective truth, only their own), particularly in moments of danger. Jihadist movements are still active, foreign adversaries test American resolve, and political violence is no longer an abstraction. In such a landscape, hesitation about affirming national cohesion carries real consequences. Patriotism becomes something to be softened or hidden, as if expressing a shared civic identity risks being mistaken for partisanship. That hesitation obscures judgment at precisely the moment judgment is needed, whether jihadist groups or foreign proxies target Americans. France struggled to speak with one voice after a terror attack because the idea of national solidarity had long been treated with suspicion. The United States is not there, but something similar is forming. The challenge is not the existence of dissent or criticism, both of which are essential, but the growing reluctance to affirm the bare civic ground on which a society recognizes danger. In an era of multiplying threats, that reluctance is not merely a cultural debate, it is fundamentally a strategic vulnerability. Wikipedia’s Antisemitism Iranian and Irish Anti-Israel Fanatics These findings echo an earlier warning by tech writer Ashley Rindsberg, who noted in 2024 that two distinct groups of Wikipedia editors seemed determined to insert anti-Israel, pro-Hamas and pro-Iranian content throughout Wikipedia’s platform. He puts the number of bad-faith actors at Wikipedia even higher, at about 40 total. The first group of anti-Israel editors vandalizing Wikipedia’s Israel and Jewish related entries appears to be Iranian. (Wikipedia editors use pseudonyms, though several of these one-word pseudonyms appear to be Iranian names). In early 2024, they were joined by a second, Irish-led group of editors. This second effort was led by Paul Biggar, an Irish tech executive who founded “Tech For Palestine” (TFP), a hard-core advocacy group dedicated to anti-Zionism, three months after Hamas’ October 7 attack. TFP recruited Wikipedia editors on the Discord messaging system. “In the channel, two group leaders, Samira and Samer, coordinated with other members to mass edit a number of (Israel-related) articles. The effort included recruiting volunteers, processing them through formal orientation, troubleshooting issues, and holding remote office hours to problem solve and ideate. The channel’s welcome message posed a revealing question: ‘Why Wikipedia? It is a widely accessed resource, and its content influences public perception.” TFP’s main point person for Wikipedia edits is a long-time Wikipedia contributor who goes by Ivana, and whose banner on Discord features a red triangle, used since October 7, 2023 as a symbol of Hamas. Rindsberg notes that these groups’ “efforts are remarkably successful. Type ‘Zionism’ into Wikipedia’s search box and, aside from the main article on Zionism…the auto-fill returns: ‘Zionism as settler colonialism,’ ‘Zionism in the Age of Dictators’ (a book by a pro-Palestinian Trotskyite), ‘Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims,’ and ‘Racism in Israel.’ The aggregate effect of these efforts is a wholesale shift to the language of the Palestine-Israel topic online.” Insidious Anti-Jewish and Anti-Israel Slanders The result is that much of Wikipedia is now a cesspool of antisemitism and anti-Israel lies. The examples are too numerous to count. Here are just a few examples. Wikipedia now has an entry titled “Jewish Supremacy” which asserts it “is the belief that Jewish people are superior to non-Jews.” (There are no comparable entries on “Arab Supremacy” or “Muslim Supremacy” - nor on Buddhist or Hindu Supremacy, despite widespread religious-based strife between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar and Buddhists and Hindus in Sri Lanka and ongoing violence between Hindus and Muslims in India.) An entry on “Israeli Apartheid” falsely asserts that apartheid exists in Israel. The entry “Well poisoning” falsely states that Israel poisoned the wells of Arab communities during its 1948 War of Independence, and continues to do so today, echoing age-old antisemitic tropes that Jews poison the wells of non-Jews. An entry titled “Palestinian Genocide Accusation” falsely claims that “Since it’s foundation in 1948, Israel has been accused of carrying out genocide against Palestinians….” (Shockingly, an entry detailing Hamas’ genocidal attack on October 7, 2023 has a more nuanced title: “Allegations of genocide in October 7 attacks.”) Wikipedia’s entry “Al Ahli Arab Hospital Explosion” describes the October 17, 2023 explosion in the hospital, which was found to be the fault of a faulty missile that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was trying to launch into Israel, and which caused heavy casualties. Initial media reports around the world blamed Israel but subsequent analysis by American, British, Canadian, French, and Israeli intelligence services - and media analysis - found that the missile was fired from within Gaza. The entry falsely insinuates that Israel launched the missile, inaccurately claiming: “The cause of the explosion is contested.” One particularly active Wikipedia editor, who goes by Iskandar323, has changed Wikipedia’s entry on “Jews” to remove the “Land of Israel” from a description of how the Jewish people originated. He also altered the article’s short summary, which appears on mobile versions. Instead of calling Jews an “Ethnoreligious group and nation from the Levant” to an “Ethnoreligious group and cultural community” with no mention of their origins in the Middle East. Iskandar323 has also removed descriptions of Hamas’ 1988 founding charter, which calls for the murder of all Jews across the globe as well as the annihilation of Israel, in at least four articles, including Wikipedia’s “Hamas” entry. (Instead, the “Hamas” entry states “the 1988 Hamas charter was widely described as antisemitic,” without explaining why.) NYC, Seattle socialist mayors-elect take part in anti-Israel strike against Starbucks Seattle’s and New York City’s socialist mayors-elect joined an “open-ended” strike against Starbucks this week. The protest pickets what the organizer, Starbucks Workers United, calls unfair labor practices and has said is in solidarity with Palestinians. “While workers are on strike, I won’t be buying any Starbucks, and I’m asking you to join us,” stated Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect who has said he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he comes to the Big Apple. “Together, we can send a powerful message,” he said. “No contract. No coffee.” Katie Wilson, the Seattle mayor-elect who has accused Israel of “genocide,” reportedly said, “I’m not buying Starbucks, and you should not either.” Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that “socialists tend to be very hostile to Jews.” He said, “Why is Mamdani screaming about Israel issues in the campaign? He’s the mayor. He doesn’t have a foreign policy. He hates Jews.” From Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories to Anti-Israel Libels: John Cleese’s Latest Squawks on Social Media What has happened to John Cleese? The famous British comedian and actor, known for his leading roles in Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, has unveiled his latest role, albeit one far less amusing than his usual fare: Online spreader of anti-Israel propaganda and borderline antisemitic conspiracy theories. Recently, it was announced that Cleese’s upcoming shows in Israel (which had been postponed due to the June 2025 Israel-Iran war) had been cancelled due to alleged pressure by the anti-Israel BDS movement (although Cleese claims that it was only for safety reasons). However, this reasoning seems to be a cover for something much more sinister: John Cleese has become the latest victim of Israel Derangement Syndrome. Ever since mid-October (ironically, after the implementation of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas), Cleese’s X account has been awash with posts spreading misinformation and denigrating comments about the Jewish state and the IDF. When he is not publishing his own posts, Cleese is sharing content from other accounts, some of which are known to be responsible for spreading antisemitic libels. Some notable examples of Cleese’s crossing over into full-blown hate and irrationality include: Sharing a fake quote by the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, claiming that she would sleep well even if a million Palestinian children were killed. He shared the false quote along with the comment “Unbelievable.” Oxford Students Deploy Lynch Mob Symbolism at Union Protest of Ehud Olmert Event Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address at the Oxford Union on November 16 was disrupted by protesters who displayed red-painted hands inside the debating chamber, recreating imagery from one of the Second Intifada’s most notorious terrorist attacks. In October 2000, a Palestinian mob lynched two Israeli reserve soldiers who had accidentally driven into Ramallah. After beating and stabbing the men to death, perpetrator Aziz Salha appeared at a window displaying his blood-soaked hands to a cheering crowd below. The photograph became an iconic image of the conflict, shocking the Israeli public. Twenty-five years later, Oxford students recreated that gesture inside one of Britain’s most prestigious institutions to protest a former Israeli prime minister who had been invited to speak. The protest came just two days after the Union voted “overwhelmingly” that Israel poses a greater threat to regional stability than Iran. That debate welcomed Mohammad Shtayyeh, former Palestinian Authority prime minister, and Ataollah Mohajerani, a former Iranian regime official whom human rights lawyer and UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer accused of complicity in dissident assassinations. Both spoke without disruption. “In an age of ideological frenzy, the fool and the intellectual often shake hands.” – Czesław Miłosz https://t.co/yPJD6aoo6n pic.twitter.com/cGGxKFmc7Q — Adam Ma’anit 🎗️ (@adammaanit) November 17, 2025 I would like to thank Haaretz for electing me Ambassador https://t.co/u2ChIKWQIb — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 17, 2025 Harvard Rhodes Scholarship Recipient Lauded Hamas's Oct. 7 Attack: 'Daring To Resist' A Harvard College senior and newly minted Rhodes Scholar lauded Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, describing the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust as an example of Palestinians "daring to resist" Israeli "colonialism." Sazi Bongwe, an international student from Johannesburg studying English, included the remarks in a September 2024 op-ed that accused Israel of using the terrorist attack as a pretext for "starvation." "Israel, with the support of the United States, has turned October 7 into the sole reason for the Palestinian people's continued suffering and slaughter," Bongwe wrote. "The Palestinian's suffering, Israel declares to the world, is all the fault of the Palestinians for daring to resist." The op-ed goes on to criticize those who "insist that Hamas's attack was outside the bounds of the right to resist" as "nullifying Palestinian resistance." It also includes a rebuke of "Gandhi-style nonviolence" and invokes Frantz Fanon, a far-left scholar who argues that violence is "a necessary response to the systemic violence of colonialism." "Fanon did not rejoice at acts of armed struggle he might have found reprehensible, but he did not condemn them either. He understood where they came from, and where those who carried them out thought they were going: the destruction of colonialism," wrote Bongwe. "Fanon, too, might have recoiled at the violence he saw, but his mission was, nonetheless, to authorize it, because ultimately he wanted every act of violence—that of the colonizer and the colonized—to end." Harvard students can only apply for the Rhodes Scholarship if they obtain the Ivy League school's formal endorsement, a selective process in which half of Harvard's prospective applicants are rejected. Bongwe has played an active role in anti-Israel activism at Harvard. He participated in the school's anti-Israel encampment in April 2024 and attended a "Palestine study-in" at the Harvard Law Library six months later. One of the encampment's lead organizers, Asmer Asrar Safi, was himself named a Rhodes Scholar in 2023, the Washington Free Beacon reported. SCOOP: @Harvard is bragging that 6 more of its students were named Rhodes Scholars this year. They were endorsed by Harvard as “students who demonstrate promise in scholarship, character, and leadership.” One of them is a violent antisemite. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/BQh8hjON6k — Will Sussman (@realWillSussman) November 17, 2025 Bongwe opposes “Gandhi-style nonviolence.” pic.twitter.com/rw6ZJxX6OI — Will Sussman (@realWillSussman) November 17, 2025 Bongwe criticizes those who “insist that Hamas’s attack was outside the bounds of the right to resist” as “nullifying Palestinian resistance.” pic.twitter.com/M3Gjh5q3HS — Will Sussman (@realWillSussman) November 17, 2025 According to @CanaryMission, Bongwe “participated in at least three anti-Israel events at Harvard” in 2024. pic.twitter.com/FKeBQwshlY — Will Sussman (@realWillSussman) November 17, 2025 If Bongwe’s visa is revoked before he graduates from Harvard in 2026, he may no longer be eligible for the Rhodes Scholarship. pic.twitter.com/vdjVt5xfXo — Will Sussman (@realWillSussman) November 17, 2025 London college bans academic who repeated antisemitic libel A prestigious London university has banned an academic from its facilities after a video emerged online of her apparently recounting uncritically an antisemitic blood libel in a lecture to students. “I am utterly appalled by these heinous antisemitic comments,” the president of University College London, Michael Spence, said last week in response to the footage. “Antisemitism has absolutely no place in our university, and I want to express my unequivocal apology to all Jewish students, staff, alumni, and the wider community that these words were uttered at UCL,” he added. The comments in question were made by Samar Maqusi, a former employee of the U.N. aid agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, on Nov. 11 to members of the UCL chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, and involved the so-called Damascus Affair. The affair, which led to antisemitic pogroms in the Syrian capital, began with the disappearance of an Italian monk, whose body was later found. Jews were accused of murdering him for ritual reasons—an antisemitic trope common in past centuries, and in some places still today. “So the story is that a certain investigation was undergoing to try and find where Father Thomas is—he was found murdered and a group of Jews who lived in Syria said they admitted to kidnapping him and murdering him to get the drops of blood for making the holy bread,” says Maqusi in the video. The lecture, titled, “The Birth of Zionism,” was the first in a five-part series called “Palestine: From Existence to Resistance.” The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter that hosted the series has been temporarily banned from holding campus activities, The Jewish News of London reported. ‘Disturbing’ Boston University event depicts Israel, Zionism as ‘uniquely malignant’ It is “deeply disturbing” that the Boston University School of Law held an event on Friday with an “overwhelming number” of sessions that made the “charge that nefarious actors are manipulating American universities,” according to the American Jewish Committee. Listed speakers included Michel DeGraff, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor who allegedly harassed a Jewish student, and Sahar Aziz, a distinguished law professor and chancellor’s social justice scholar at Rutgers Law School, who referred in 2024 to Zionists “inflaming Islamophobia by accusing Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians of supporting terrorism.” The session in which Aziz participated referred to “recent suppression of pro-Palestine advocacy, through expulsions, disciplinary sanctions and the weaponization of antisemitism charges” that “demonstrates institutions’ active role in reinforcing the U.S.-Israel alliance.” Sara Coodin, director of academic affairs for the AJC, told JNS before the event that it appeared to be “deeply disturbing” and an effort to reduce “complex questions about the state of the American university to such a reductive ideological perspective.” “This symposium, which features more than 50 individual speakers, claims to engage with questions about upholding democracy, but an overwhelming number of its sessions fall back on a single underlying charge that nefarious actors are manipulating American universities both from without and from within,” Coodin said. “These claims, which are accompanied here by specific sessions that cast Israel and Zionism as uniquely malignant actors, hew closely to the classic antisemitic canards of Jewish power, malicious influence and control,” she said. “Those canards not only fail to exemplify critical thinking, they conjure its exact opposite—conspiracism.” Douglas Hauer-Gilad, who has alleged that he was forced to resign from his position as an adjunct law professor at the university for protesting what he viewed as antisemitic social media posts from Aziz, told JNS that Aziz and DeGraff “lack civility in political discourse and both use social media to attack Jews.” “This is one further step at BU to institutionalize radical Jew-hatred,” he said. And here’s a quick refresher for anyone needing a memory jog about Stanford: footage from inside the occupied office and outside, where police had to break their way in to reach the protesters. pic.twitter.com/UeGwztlX84 — Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) November 17, 2025 At Chapman University, in California, students were denied entry to a campus event because their last names sounded Jewish, including a student who isn’t Jewish. Administrators were shown clear evidence and, instead of stopping it, a dean defended the group’s “right to exclude.”… pic.twitter.com/u7nz2qlkM7 — Canary Mission (@canarymission) November 16, 2025 StopAntisemitism showcased this antisemite back in Sept. 2023 here: https://t.co/6Z2EfgOLhY — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 17, 2025 Israeli forces dismantle unauthorized Jewish outpost in Judea Israeli security forces on Monday evacuated the unauthorized outpost of Tzur Misgavi, located southeast of the city of Efrat in Judea’s Gush Etzion region, displacing 25 families, Hebrew media reported. Hundreds of Israelis rushed to the Judean hill on Monday morning in an attempt to stop the evacuation. Four teenagers were detained when they blocked demolition equipment at the site, according to local reports. Daniella Weiss, chairwoman of the Nachala Settlement Movement, had called on the public to come and prevent the destruction of the outpost. The NGO, which seeks to establish new Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, slammed the move as an “attack on Hilltop Youth.” “While our enemies are trying to undermine our hold on the Land, it is precisely the government that is directing tools and efforts against the pioneers of settlement,” the group noted, calling it a “dangerous move that harms the very heart of the Jewish presence in the Land of Israel.” The Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration claimed the demolition was ordered by Israel Defense Forces Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth “following the fact that criminal activity and serious incidents of crime and violence [occurred] at the site, which affected the security of the area.” The Civil Administration said the IDF and other Israeli security bodies would continue to take actions against unauthorized construction in Judea and Samaria, which it said harms “the security and public order of all residents of the area.” Israel National News reported that Tzur Misgavi was established some two years ago on “survey land,” whose ownership is unclear but which could later be declared state property. Residents managed to halt the illegal expansion of Sa’ir, a nearby Arab village, according to INN. Who is behind Al-Majd, the Israeli-linked evacuation group sending Gazans to South Africa? Al-Majd, the organization behind the mysterious evacuation of 153 Palestinians from Gaza to South Africa, is seemingly led by an Estonian-Israeli man based in London, raising questions over whether it may be an Israeli shell company. The organization was allegedly established in 2010 in Germany to provide humanitarian aid and education. However, it is not listed in the public Charity Register maintained by the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt). Additionally, the email address provided on Al-Majd’s website bounced back with automated messages stating it does not exist when The Jerusalem Post checked on Sunday. Al Jazeera reported that it has no office at its registered address in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. Haaretz reported that an older version of the website showed a logo for an Estonian company named Talent Globus, registered a year ago under a Mr. Tomer Janar Lind. Although Talent Globus lists three other staff members aside from Lind, the Post could not find any matches for the listed individuals elsewhere on the Internet. Additionally, the social media addresses and the phone number listed were invalid. Muslim Brotherhood stole half a billion dollars in Gaza donations, Arab sources reveal The Muslim Brotherhood allegedly stole half a billion dollars in donations for the Gaza Strip in a single campaign, Egyptian researcher Maher Farghali reported on Sunday. While Farghali noted that it is typical of the Muslim Brotherhood to “exploit Gaza and Palestine for money,” the difference with this incident is that the theft was condemned by Hamas. The association Waqf al-Ummah/Ummet Vakfı, founded by the Muslim Brotherhood, is said to have been responsible for taking half a billion, which it raised in a single fundraiser in the name of “Gaza.” Waqf al-Ummah has operated out of Turkey since 2013 and is overseen by religious figures. Hamas learned of the corruption in January 2024 through one of its younger members, Khaled Mansour, who was investigating Waqf al-Ummah and the associated individuals. Over the last few days, Mansour (@mansourgaza) has been posting repeatedly about the situation, including detailing the figures stolen. 'The biggest theft scandal in the history of the Islamic movement' “How is it conceivable that many Brotherhood elites and Islamists remain silent about the biggest theft scandal in the history of the Islamic movement of the funds of the people of Gaza,” he wrote yesterday. Hamas released a statement, which was viewed by The Jerusalem Post, on learning of the incident back in January 2024, titled “exposing and disavowing certain institutions and individuals,” in which it prohibited any dealings with Waqf al-Ummah. Hamas spoke of “suspicious campaigns and funds collected in the name of Gaza, administered by some institutions abroad that exploited the emotions of our people and supporters under the pretext of relief and humanitarian aid.” Hamas then said it has “no relationship whatsoever with these institutions and campaigns, does not supervise them, and has not authorized anyone to collect donations on its behalf.” The Muslim Brotherhood stole half a billion dollars in donations for Gaza! Over the past few days, there has been a fascinating civil war between the worst creatures that humanity has ever known: the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East and Turkey, and Hamas in Gaza. Hamas is… pic.twitter.com/UV94tcb02C — Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) November 17, 2025 For anyone wondering how I am sharing videos of apartments, restaurants and supermarkets in Gaza: Despite all the destruction in the Gaza Strip 54% of buildings in Gaza City are still standing 92% of buildings in Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah are still standing. Attached is a… https://t.co/aaA1pg4Jz2 — Imshin (@imshin) November 17, 2025 Ruins on one side of the lens; luxury and abundance on the other. pic.twitter.com/DZShLD8jNB — GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) November 17, 2025 Grilled whole chickens at Chef Hamada's Restaurant, Gaza City. Timestamp: 1 hour ago#TheGazaYouDontSee Link to original Instagram post in 1st comment https://t.co/PY598BBTYm pic.twitter.com/enUp7seUAd — Imshin (@imshin) November 17, 2025 Iran's Leader Spotlights Helyeh Doutaghi, Yale Scholar Fired After Jewish Onliner Exposed Her Terror Ties Over the last two days, the official media X account of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei, posted several videos featuring Helyeh Doutaghi speaking at Iran’s November, 10, 2025 conference titled “We and the West: A Conference on the Views and Thoughts of Ayatollah Khamenei.” Doutaghi, an Iranian-born former Yale Law School scholar who was terminated in March 2025 after Jewish Onliner exposed her membership in Samidoun, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, appeared prominently at the state-sponsored event designed to foster a global intellectual movement against Western democracy. The conference took place at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) International Conference Center with the presence of Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. The event’s stated goal: to strengthen “multilateralism and the unity of independent countries” against what organizers call Western domination, while promoting Khamenei’s vision for confronting U.S. and European hegemony. The closing ceremony was attended by professors, researchers, and political and academic elites from around the world. CyberWell identifies online Arab-language conspiracy theory, titled ‘Tired Islam’ CyberWell, a nonprofit that monitors and counters online antisemitism, has flagged a social-media conspiracy theory called “Tired Islam,” alleging that a Jewish writer named Jacob Dunne wrote a book detailing a secret blueprint to destabilize Muslim societies. The book, The Tired Islam, does not exist, including in the U.S. Library of Congress. Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor, founder and CEO of CyberWell, likened the fabrication to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a propaganda pamphlet of fabricated minutes from a Jewish conclave in the 19th century that supposedly spells out Jewish plans to enslave the world. “It revises century-old religious antisemitism, tailored to go viral on today’s platforms,” she said. “The narrative pushes the same antisemitic tropes that have historically led to mass violence against Jews, now wrapped in a pseudointellectual setting to appear credible and urgent.” Videos circulating online display invented excerpts from a fictitious chapter titled “The End of the Arabs,” describing Jewish efforts to destroy Muslim society and claiming that the text is stored in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. These invented excerpts include language such as, “We must start attacking the sheiks, the mosques and the Friday sermons so that the public moves away from them, abandons the mosques, moves away from the teachings of the Quran and prefers our culture to its religion,” and “Technology and the internet are the weapons of our time. We must focus on supporting the negative aspects that undermine the personality and behavior of the Muslim.” “Digital platforms are facing a moment of reckoning,” said Cohen Montemayor, warning that inconsistent enforcement on social-media platforms leaves room for such conspiracies to thrive. Two individuals were arrested today after stealing a young Jewish man’s hat and violently knocking off his kippah. The antisemitic attack took place in New York, at Avenue N and East 15th Street. Jews are being targeted around the world simply for being Jewish. So where are all… pic.twitter.com/oej3Y21Omm — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 17, 2025 Florida-based Ali İhsan Bayhan, a Turkish national who threatened to blow up a Tallahassee synagogue and harm police, was killed by law enforcement after pulling a gun as they served a warrant for terrorist threats. Bayhan posted photos of bullets from his garage on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/oVOq6pLMJG — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 17, 2025 In world first, Israeli scientists use RNA-based gene therapy to stop ALS deterioration In a groundbreaking study, researchers at Tel Aviv University, leading a large-scale international team of scientists, say they have identified – and neutralized – an RNA molecule that can stop the nerve cell damage that causes paralysis in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS. Now they hope they can use the discovery to help patients with the fatal illness. “When we added a specific RNA molecule to human cells and animal models for ALS, the nerve cells stopped degenerating and even regenerated,” said Prof. Eran Perlson from the Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University, speaking to The Times of Israel. Their study, recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Neuroscience, opens a new avenue for treating the disease. “We wanted to get to the root of the matter of what causes ALS to enable the development of effective drugs for this incurable disease,” Perlson said. The team used mice that had been genetically modified to serve as a “biological stand-in” for the disease. The research was led by Dr. Ariel Ionescu, Dr. Lior Ankol, and lab manager Tal Pery Gradus in collaboration with Dr. Amir Dori, Senior Neurologist and Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit at Sheba Medical Center. Additional participants included researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and research institutions in France, Turkey, and Italy. Hundreds gather to honor Charlie Kirk in Jerusalem, including officials, clergy A memorial in Jerusalem for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sunday became a declaration of purpose, as hundreds of Israelis and American visitors vowed to continue the work he began, according to a report. The Press Service of Israel (TPS-IL) reported that roughly 300 people, including Israeli officials, clergy and U.S. Christians, gathered Sunday to honor the Turning Point USA founder, who was shot and killed during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University in September. Many said the event felt less like a memorial and more like a mandate. Pastor Rob McCoy, one of Kirk’s closest confidants, described him in comments reported by TPS-IL as “faithful, humble, a wonderful husband and father,” and revealed a personal discipline — a weekly Sabbath rest. “He found unbelievable freedom in turning everything off. From Friday night to Saturday night, no one could reach him,” McCoy said. “That rhythm grounded him.” McCoy also said Kirk saw politics as a way to strengthen society, not a route to power. “He saw politics as an on-ramp to increased humanity,” McCoy said. “If he could get young people rowing in the streams of liberty, he believed they would eventually reach its source.” Several attendees told TPS-IL that Kirk’s reach extended far beyond his audience. Today I met with @NYCMayor Eric Adams, at the Kirya in Tel Aviv. I thanked him for his steadfast support for Israel and for standing proudly with the Jewish people at a time when it truly matters. pic.twitter.com/OKn1C1a9lO — Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) November 17, 2025 “If you don’t know where you came from, you don’t know where you’re going.” These testimonies are powerful. The @AJEX_UK (Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women) parade is a day to give thanks to all those from the Jewish community who so bravely fought for Britain. We… pic.twitter.com/Vsuc5nen7W — Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) November 17, 2025 The story of the Star of David is rooted in the Land of Israel yet also stretches across continents and centuries. A symbol that the people of Israel carried through exile, diaspora and back to the modern State of Israel. At the ANU Museum, the Star of David appears throughout,… pic.twitter.com/KegRxiPsar — Israel ישראל (@Israel) November 17, 2025 Buy EoZ's books on Amazon! 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11/17 Links Pt2: Hating Jews for Fun and Profit; Neither American nor Conservative; Wikipedia’s Antisemitism; Oxford Students Deploy Lynch Mob Symbolism at Protest of Ehud Olmert