This one is for the morons.

For the students busily cosplaying at being terrorists on our city’s campuses.

The automatons whose new radical-chic uniform is an Arab keffiyeh.

Specifically to the ones who have decided to chant for “Intifada” and unveil a vast banner down the side of Hamilton Hall at Columbia this week.

“Intifada,” the banner said, in huge letters as the mob below shrieked approval.

Most of these students weren’t born when the Palestinians last had an “Intifada.”

So although youth and ignorance aren’t any real excuse, perhaps I can educate these students about what they are actually calling for.

I invite them to “do the work” of understanding what it means when people call for “Intifada” and what it actually means.

In June 2001, the Intifada that Palestinian clerics and politicians had called for was in full flight.

Every day Israelis boarding buses had to look around in case one of the other passengers was wearing a suicide vest and about to turn the vehicle into a charnel house.

On June 1, young people in Tel Aviv were enjoying a beautiful summer evening.

Many of them were milling around a nightclub much like those that the students at Columbia go to on a weekend.

But this one was more beautifully located, sitting on the city’s beachfront.

The Dolphinarium club was packed that night.

Outside were crowds of young people hoping to get in.

The Hamas terrorist detonated the bomb amid the queue of young women who were hoping to get into the club.

He killed 21 young people.

Sixteen of the victims were teenagers. Not even college age yet.

The youngest of them was 14-year old Maria Tagilchev.

Many of the victims were children of parents who had emigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union.

Their parents fled one totalitarian regime only to lose their children to terrorism in Tel Aviv.

Eyewitnesses described the limbs of the young women lying strewn across the road.

Some of the bodies were lying in piles.

This is what Intifada means.

But perhaps the students at Columbia don’t care about those 21 people who never grew up.

Speech on college campuses has been stultifyingly narrow—and very far from free—for decades. That pro-Hamas students cheer freely for “intifada” doesn’t make it any freer now. The fact that certain students are allowed to call for the death of their Jewish classmates does not herald a new era of free expression. It only underscores that some bigotries enjoy the official sanction of these schools, and are accepted, tolerated, and rewarded with special dispensations and, indeed, goodies.

Use of the N-word on campus or misgendering a classmate will no doubt be met with as swift punitive consequences as they have been for decades, as have a vast and more minute array of “microaggressions.” I invite anyone who doubts this to parade through any of our elite campuses with insulting cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

After weeks of violent, destructive protest, which left campuses trashed and buildings damaged and graffitied, administrators have at last begun to enforce their own rules and call in the police. Perhaps they felt they had no choice: commencement ceremonies loom and lawsuits, recently filed by Jewish students, are on the way.

But watch the marble carefully as university administrators spin the cups. When a favored group is attacked, they discover a “community safety” concern with remarkable alacrity. When it’s a disfavored group, suddenly the cup reveals “free expression.” The game is fixed, and the administrators show their hands. “Community safety,” or was it “free speech”? Surprise! They don’t believe in either.

What does it mean to be a Zionist student on a college campus today? I have friends at schools all over the country who are struggling. People who are afraid to wear their necklace with a Star of David for fear of repercussions. To be a Zionist is to be an outcast. Classmates think that you are supporting a genocidal, apartheid state. They don’t care enough to hear your story. They don’t care that you lost dear friends and are mourning the pre-Oct. 7 Israel that will never exist again. They turn a blind eye to facts and choose to look only at social media posts that support their antisemitic narrative. What’s the point of arguing with such people? I am reminded of Golda Meir’s line, “You cannot negotiate peace with someone who has come to kill you.”

Now they have come for me. The antisemitic posts began on Oct. 7, and swung into a higher gear after I spent a week volunteering in Israel over Bates College’s spring break in late February. I pulled three choice quotes of what my fellow students had to say about me. Spoiler: They apparently wish me dead.

“Big nose mafia going to cancel me but man you know who should’ve finished the job.”

“Phoebe Stern did [go to Israel] … She fat and ugly anyways … just because she supports genocide doesn’t mean we get to be misogynistic.”

“She’s a racist bigot and the only question we should be asking ourselves is if she really believes the violent, racist lies she’s been spreading.”

My mind was reeling. Other Jewish friends at Bates were also attacked. They were accused of being racists and bigots, in writing, both online and on their dorm doors. One post from a Bates classmate advocated that “Hitler should’ve finished off the job.” People were using the anonymity of social media to spread lies and put words in my mouth, that I was going around campus telling people that my Arab peers want to kill me—a sentence that I have never uttered in my life, and wholeheartedly disagree with.

So, belatedly, some universities have found their voices and discovered their spines.

So have many in Congress, including some Democrats, appalled by the anti-Semitism endemic in the protests, and even some in the liberal-left media.

But all this has only served to amplify the recent deafening silence from the one person above all others who should have been speaking for the nation at this time: President Biden.

For days, as university unrest spread and descended into violence then ugly anti-Semitism, with Jewish students being excluded from campus in echoes of the early days of Nazi Germany, and as swastika graffiti started appearing where Jewish students gathered, not a word emanated from the Oval Office.

Until finally, with pressure mounting from friendly networks like CNN, Biden was dragged to the podium Thursday – and what he said was pathetic.

Speaking for just a few minutes, he issued platitudes about the lawlessness of 'destroying property', notably mentioning 'islamophobia' in the same breath as 'anti-Semitism', before making a swift exit. He didn’t identify a single university by name and defended the right to protest.

The truth is, this all seems to be inspired by base political calculation.

The Biden campaign thinks, rightly, that their man can't be re-elected without the votes of the young.

In 2020, he won around 60 percent of the young vote, a massive margin essential to the much smaller margin overall which elected him president. But a recent CNN poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 51 percent to 40 percent among the under 35s, echoing a previous Fox News poll which gave Trump an 18-point lead among the under-30s. These are election-losing margins.

Shameless Joe doesn't want to make things worse by overly scolding the student protestors. For some reason he thinks the pro-Palestinian views of the privileged, entitled elite currently cosplaying as Gazan refugees in makeshift encampments are representative of young people in general.

There is scant evidence for this but it's what he and his advisers believe. Hence the refusal to use the presidency as a bully pulpit to make clear what is acceptable and what is not when it comes to protest, surely a core function of any responsible president.

Instead of some blunt truths about the limits of protest in a democracy, Biden is trying to buy young votes.

The key lesson Northwestern seems to have wanted to impart on its rulebreaking students was that they should repeat this behavior at Northwestern and beyond. The capitulation was so embarrassingly desperate it was almost funny, but a joint letter from the Anti-Defamation League, the Brandeis Center, and StandWithUs struck the correct tone: “For days, protesters openly mocked and violated Northwestern’s codes of conduct and policies by erecting an encampment in which they fanned the flames of antisemitism and wreaked havoc on the entire university community. Their goal was not to find peace, but to make Jewish students feel unsafe on campus. Rather than hold them accountable — as he pledged he would — President Schill gave them a seat at the table and normalized their hatred against Jewish students. It is clear from President Schill’s actions that he is unfit to lead Northwestern and must resign.”

As National Review notes, this was the students’ reward for depicting Schill as a devil-horned, blood-dripping Jew. NR’s Zach Kessel adds that not only did the university fail to consult its anti-Semitism task force, which saw mass resignations in response, but its attempt to placate the radicals may not even be legal. “Even if they eventually paper the Palestinian scholarship in such a way that it purports to be something else, the fact that this is how they announced it will be very strong evidence of the intent behind the program,” the Manhattan Institute’s Dan Morenoff told Kessel. “And given that Title VI is primarily — or, as the Supreme Court has said, exclusively — a disparate-treatment statute focused on the intent of a program, it certainly looks like this is a violation.”

All of which is to say, administrators permitted and even encouraged student behavior that would likely cause the school to run afoul of civil-rights law and then offered concessions to the perpetrators that would likely run afoul of that same civil-rights law.

Meanwhile, the schools’ refusal to call in the police to clear the camps before violence escalated was inexcusable: A Student Governing Board member at Columbia threatened that “when the administration doesn’t listen to our demands and ignores the student body,” then it’s “time for an escalation.” Indeed, “escalate for Gaza” has become the rallying cry of most of the encampments. Supporters even projected those words onto a building in New York City this week.

Biden was right, then, to express his exasperation at the violence into which the pro-Hamas camps promised to descend and then descended. But the fact is, they’re doing not only what they have been taught, but what they are being taught now in response to their behavior. The president should save some of his disgust for the school administrations and faculties, which deserve far more scorn than they have received thus far.

In a surprise White House address on Thursday morning, President Joe Biden condemned the violent protests that have swept American college campuses and decried the antisemitism that has taken place at many of the demonstrations.

“We’ve all seen the images and they put to the test two fundamental American principles,” Biden said in his first major remarks on the campus protests. “The first is the right to free speech and for people to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard. The second is the rule of law. Both must be upheld.”

In a brief speech lasting just over three minutes, Biden drew a clear differentiation between lawful protests and the violence that has occurred on some campuses.

“Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest is. It’s against the law when violence occurs,” the president said. “Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It’s against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduation — none of this is a peaceful protest. Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a peaceful protest. It’s against the law.”

Biden specifically called out the hate experienced by Jewish students on many campuses. “Let’s be clear about this as well: There should be no place on any campus, no place in America, for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students,” said Biden.

“There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans. It’s simply wrong,” added Biden. “There’s no place for racism in America. It’s all wrong. It’s un-American.”

The president did not mention Israel or anti-Zionist rhetoric, nor did he make any reference to the content of the protests or the protesters’ demands. But Biden said “no” when asked by a reporter if the protests will lead him to reconsider his policy in the Middle East. He also responded with a “no” when asked if the National Guard should intervene.

BIDEN: "There should be no place on any campus, no place in America, for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students. There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it's antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or… pic.twitter.com/I6T8cK0RHc

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 2, 2024

As @POTUS speaks on the chaos in college campuses from the White House - here is the 1st President’s statue a few miles away at GWU in DC. H/t @davidspuntpic.twitter.com/lQtsmobirz

— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) May 2, 2024

Why can’t President Biden simply denounce antisemitism without pandering to Muslims and Arabs. This is what he said: “There is place for hate speech or violence of any kind whether it’s antisemitism,Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab American or Palestinian American.”

— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) May 2, 2024

Save some pesky details—like, say, the chants for globalizing the intifada (a call for globalizing a campaign of terror aimed at killing Jews); telling Jewish students to “go back to Poland”; and, in at least one case, assaulting a student—the encampment was just kids being kids. Indeed, if you asked the likes of Ilhan Omar and AOC, both of whom made pilgrimages, these students explicitly cheering for Hamas weren’t pro-war at all—they were standing against genocide and for liberation.

That position became less tenable after protesters smashed windows with a hammer, occupied Hamilton Hall, and started fighting with Columbia employees.

A now-viral photograph (above) shows one of the college’s lowest paid workers—a janitor making around $19 an hour—fighting back against a member of the mob. Contrast that with this video, in which one of the protest leaders demands “humanitarian aid”—i.e., snacks—for those who’ve laid siege to the building.

It was a tale of two Columbias.

The janitor captured in the photograph on Monday night still has not been identified. But yesterday, two members of Columbia’s maintenance crew said the man should sue the college.

“Half these kids don’t even know what they’re protesting for, they just want to be part of the fad,” one janitor, who did not want to be identified, told The Free Press. “I would fucking sue if I was him.”

Another maintenance worker with a 19-year-old daughter in college said, “If I were a parent of one of the graduating seniors, I would say fuck this, I want my money back.” Columbia’s tuition ranges from $50,000 a year for graduate students to $90,000 a year for undergrads.

Meanwhile, a PhD student named Johannah King-Slutzky spoke to the press about students’ demands, which included catering. When a reporter asked her, “Why should the university be obligated to provide food to people who have taken over a building?” King-Slutzky replied, “First of all, we’re saying they are obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here.” Which is sort of like saying that if a restaurant can’t deny you service, the chef is obliged to come cook in your apartment—except you’ve stormed the chef’s apartment, and now you want him to cook you dinner there.

“I guess it’s ultimately a question of what kind of a community and obligation Columbia has to its students,” King-Slutzky reflects. “Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you?” So like, is it possible that they could get just a simple glass of water? With three lemons? And a Caesar salad with dressing on the side? Thankssomuch!

King-Slutzky, whose thesis is on “theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens” and the “fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760–1860,” and whose fantasies are indeed limitless, goes on: “It’s crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for.” In another video, she calls on members of the public to “hold Columbia accountable for any disproportionate response to students’ actions.”

You’d think with all this talk of proportionality and humanitarian aid that she’d be discussing the war in Gaza. But she means the war in Hamilton Hall. In Manhattan.

The university’s decisions were especially galling to the Jewish members of AEPi, who lost their house in 2010 and have been working to earn back a brownstone since then. Columbia uses the ALPHA Standards—a set of metrics ranging from liability protections and academic performance to participation in “Diversity Education or Multiculturalism” workshops—to evaluate Greek eligibility. AEPi was told that a high ALPHA score would help them get their brownstone back; they had a perfect ALPHA score almost every year since 2012 and were rejected every single time. Instead, the brownstones were transformed into Q House (for LGBTQ students), the Black Residential Brownstone, Casa Latina, and Indigihouse. Setting the tone for their future dealings with the university, AEPi complained about the unfairness the first time they lost a house bid, to which Columbia responded that the ALPHA standards were apparently always meant to be just “one component” of their eligibility and that house occupants also “need to follow community standards.” “My feeling was that we were good citizens and followed exactly what the school asked us to do, and we still got fucked,” said a former brother.

Other Columbia alumni pointed out that the university also meddles with nonfraternity campus fun. Many former students found the persistence of the disruptive encampments especially exasperating because, as they vividly recalled, the university banned a long-standing campus tradition called Orgo Night in 2016. That annual event, in which the Columbia Marching Band would come to a main study room in the campus library the night before finals to play loudly and perform a short satirical comedy routine, had been going on for over 40 years—until, that is, students began complaining that the satire was too triggering. The administration deemed it too distracting and stopped the band from performing. “I saw photos of kids in the library trying to study for finals and watching the protests through the window and immediately thought about Orgo Night being called ‘too distracting,’” said one alumnus. “Why is it only the crazy tent people who get to have their fun?”

There is absolutely no problem with giving spaces to campus affinity groups or reasonably penalizing moronic fraternity brothers who violate rules. What is a problem is the way the same university officials who are terrified to offend or restrict the rule-shattering minority of politically active progressive students are nevertheless perfectly happy to trample all over the college experience of the students who just want to partake in normal campus activities and traditions. It’s no wonder a growing number of high-achieving students are applying to Southern schools—why willingly enroll at an institution where you can receive disciplinary consequences for sipping warm Keystone Light in a frat backyard while kaffiyeh-clad students are free to call for intifada?

Forget the political hypocrisy, excessive bureaucracy, and blatant administrative unfairness—all of this just makes for a campus experience that the Cornell student described as “exhausting.” It has nothing to do with supporting Israel or Palestine or protests or frats; it’s a matter of the universities equally enforcing the rules to create an environment where kids don’t need to wake up every day prepared for battle. There are likely many students on these campuses, from freshmen trying to enjoy their first sunny campus spring to graduating seniors who had their first year derailed by COVID, who are annoyed with the hijacking of their semester and would love nothing more than to go to class or attend a party without walking through NYPD officers or tent villages with Hezbollah flags. Elite schools have deemed the presence of these beer-drinking normies unimportant, sometimes even antithetical, to their broader ideological mission. This decision should be added to the long list of things the Ivy League did at its own peril—and its students’ expense.

The protesters have been contaminated by two ideological viruses which have made them allergic to their own societies. They have swallowed the lie that the West is the fount of all evil, that we are racist and sexist, that our achievements are illusory, the product of looting and colonialism, and that we are destroying the planet. They feel shame, not pride, and believe in the need to forever atone for our sins and those of our ancestors.

It is no coincidence that we almost never see British or American flags at pro-Palestine demonstrations on the streets of London, but always spot union flags (as well as Israeli and pre-revolutionary Iranian ones) at the pro-Israel counter-protests. The conflict is a proxy battle for the soul of the West.

Young activists have been taught a simplistic theory of “social justice”: individuals, groups or countries that aren’t doing as well as they would expect are “victims” who “deserve” a lot more, and those that are doing better are “oppressors” who don’t deserve their wealth. The origins of this are partly Marxist and partly drawn from a residual cultural Christianity focused exclusively on the idea that “the meek shall inherit the earth”.

This dichotomy has bred a defeatist culture of victimhood and entitlement which downplays individual agency, promotes welfarism, confiscatory taxation and rejects hard work. It has fuelled anti-Semitic and other conspiracy theories, and successful minorities are being targeted for vicious “reverse” discrimination.

It has led to an inane assumption that all poor countries are automatically good and all rich ones inherently bad. Britain and America are uber-oppressors; China is treated with indifference or indulgence. The barbaric Iranian regime is viewed as an ally, as it opposes “the Great Satan”. Hamas, a genocidal dictatorship is, by definition, a “victim”; Israel, a multi-faith democracy, is the oppressor, even though the Israelis left Gaza in 2005 and even though Hamas raped, kidnapped and murdered Israelis.

The horseshoe theory of politics has come true: traditionally far-Left and far-Right tropes have fused into a full-service, sickeningly authoritarian woke replacement ideology lapped up by those, especially young Westerners, who are losing trust in democracy. Don’t be fooled: the protests defiling universities may be naive, amateurish and solipsistic, but they are the harbinger of far worse to come.

What Should Be the Rule on Campus?
The discussion or debate of a subject on campus is wholly natural and legitimate. We should listen to different opinions and organize events and demonstrations, but do so respectfully through sincere dialogue led by honest teachers. Faculty in schools and universities should teach students to think creatively, always with enthusiasm but without violence or hatred.

Universities are centers of knowledge and learning. Today’s students will be tomorrow’s leaders, business leaders, intellectuals, and opinion leaders. Their duty will be to move societies forward, change the world, eradicate terrorism, and act for the peace and prosperity of humanity.

Unfortunately, misinformation about the reality in Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict dominates the debates. In some schools and universities, a dissertation or thesis that does not correspond to the line of thought of the professors or an academic jury may not pass the test. Students are forced to align themselves with their teachers’ beliefs to get a good grade.

During the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank and Egypt’s occupation of Gaza (1949-1967), universities hardly existed. Democratic values were achieved thanks to Israel. The Jewish State allowed Arab students to study on their own campuses. Since then, the Israeli administration has permitted opening eight universities in the territories. However, the knowledge students gained was manipulated and truncated. They did not use it to achieve peace and coexistence but for military and terrorist purposes, simply to take revenge.

A Scourge Exists in Europe and, Particularly, in France.
Those responsible for the hatred against Israel are the educators and imams, but above all, the governments in Europe and America that negligently and recklessly allowed the activities of BDS and the unfettered religious extremism of Islamists. They refused to act decisively against the waves of violence under the pretext of free expression.

In reality, fear of the terrorist threat hangs over all the chancelleries. Purely political reasons and electoral interests remain a priority for all campaign leaders.

Tomorrow – if not already – the “madmen of Allah” will threaten and boycott big business, sports, and culture, and then they will invade the classrooms of primary and secondary schools.

The “context” — asserted by the pro-Hamas “all resistance, including rape, is justified” crowd — is as follows:
1) Before World War II there was a separate polity called Palestine with a teeming and thriving population of ethnic “Palestinian” Arabs who were indigenous to the region, lived there for millennia and had a culture that was unique and indigenous to the region.
2) The Jews who declared their independence in 1948 and established the modern state of Israel are European colonialists with no connection to the land of Israel/Palestine.
3) Before 1948 — and certainly before “Zionists” started advocating for Jewish sovereignty and self-determination in Palestine — Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in peaceful co-existence in Palestine.
4) Out of sympathy for the persecution the Jews were facing from Nazi Germany, the peaceful indigenous Palestinian Arabs welcomed “European Jews” with open arms, invited them into their homes, but literally had their homes stolen from them by those nefarious Jews (oops, I mean “Zionists”).
5) After the colonialist Jews — with no more connection to the land called Palestine than a Dutch person has to Southern Africa, or a Brit has to India — declared their independence, they launched a war to ethnically cleanse “millions” of Palestinians from Palestine.

This is the “context” that people like the agitators on Dr. Phil contend must be the preamble to any question about what one thinks about Hamas, its self-described genocidal charter, its openly fascist ideology, the Oct. 7 Massacre, or even Hamas’s leaders’ promise to perpetuate more and more Oct. 7 style massacres until Israel is completely obliterated. The problem with this “context”? It’s complete bunk.

The actual historical “context”:
1] Before 1948 no independent state or even semi-autonomous state had existed west of the Jordan River after the Jewish Kingdom of Judea fell under Roman colonialist rule in the year 6 C.E.; and for the nearly entire “modern era” of history, from 1517 to 1948 C.E., the land was under colonialist Turkish (Ottoman) and British rule.
2] Prior to 6 C.E., there had been already three separate Hebrew/Israelite/Jewish commonwealths and kingdoms in the land west of the Jordan River. It was in this land that the Jewish people not only had our ethnogenesis but where we developed our indigenous language, culture, and tribal faith.
3] The evidence of Jewish indigeneity in the land of Israel is as obvious as the presence of ancient mikvot and ancient Jewish coins, which have been discovered all over Israel, or even the Arch of Titus in Rome over 2,000 kilometers from the Levant, which depicts the Roman spoils of war from their siege of Jewish Jerusalem.
4] After the 7th Century C.E., Arab culture and language as well as the dominant faith of Arabs came to dominate the Levant and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa (outside of the Arabian Peninsula) the same way English language, dominant faith, and culture came to dominate North America, and Spanish language, dominant faith, and culture came to dominate central and South America – through conquest and colonialism.
5] Even after the respective Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, Arab, Mamluk, and Ottoman empires imposed their respective colonialist rules on the Levant and made life for ethnic minorities, and in particular Jews, generally very oppressive and difficult, there has never been a time in over 3000 years when Jews have not lived in the Levant, save for short periods following brutal campaigns to massacre and ethnically cleanse the Jewish people from their indigenous land.

What people like Sen. Sanders don’t understand is that equating Jews having sovereignty and self-determination in the land of Israel with “colonialism” is antisemitic. That shouting that all forms of “resistance” — including the most vile and violent to this alleged “colonialism” — is “justified,” is a dangerously antisemitic blood libel that leads to people, including these same student protesters, justifying the mass-murder of most Jews.

By the same token, the students loudly screaming on these college campuses that Israel is committing genocide and charging all of the roughly 85% of the Jews in the world who support Israel’s right to defend itself from Hamas with “supporting genocide” is not only ahistorical, counterfactual nonsense, grounded in antisemitism — it’s also a modern-day blood libel.

These students might think they are human rights activists; but what they really are is just a regurgitation of the mob of age-old antisemitic conspiracy theorists/haters; people who either willfully or ignorantly shouted medieval blood libels — only in 21st century packaging.

And just like the medieval blood libel — which was the claim that Jews supposedly killed non-Jewish children, because the Jews wanted to use non-Jewish children’s blood in Jewish baked goods (like Passover matzah) — the 21st century blood libels that people like these students traffic in — including that Israel is colonialist and #genocide — are grounded in Jew-hatred, NOT facts.

It’s not like it’s hard to see what actual “genocides” look like.
- 2,000,000 Armenians in 1914 / 400,000 Armenians in 1917.
- 16,000,000 Jews worldwide in 1939 / 10,000,000 Jews worldwide in 1945.
- 700,000 Tutsi in April 1994 / barely 150,000 Tutsi in July 1994.

Those are actual genocides; and of course, the Armenians in 1914, the Jews in 1939, and the Tutsi in 1994 couldn’t do anything to stop their mass-murder; and they also didn’t start a war with the people who were killing them or have leaders who promised to keep murdering the people who were killing them until those people themselves ceased to exist.

What’s not a “genocide”?

A war started by Hamas (which is actually an openly genocidal group). In a place, Gaza, with a population of 2.2 million, where to date, around 22,000 people have been killed in 6 months (as the “Gaza Health Ministry” recently had to admit it had no identifying information about 1/3 of the casualties it previously claimed in this war) with around half of those casualties being Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists — in a war Hamas could literally end any time by releasing the Israeli hostages and unconditionally surrendering, and where Israel has taken more measures to avoid civilian casualties than any military in the history of modern urban warfare.

If the Gaza War is a “genocide,” then what would these students call the war in Syria (where Assad, with the help of Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, killed over 500,000 non-Alawites and displaced over 12,000,000 non-Alawites?

What would these campus protestors call the civil war in Yemen where over 370,000 people have been killed and over 4 million displaced?

Or even America’s war to wrest ISIS from Mosul and Aleppo, where over 40,000 civilians were killed (in addition to around 12,000 ISIS terrorists)?

Here at Stanford, at least, the students camping out on the lawn call for "global intifada,” pose no physical danger. But in the medium to long term, they are very dangerous to the character of the leader of the free world.

This is my second year at Stanford. When we came back to school in September, after the summer vacation, I intended to end the year with an accepted research proposal and a third of my PhD thesis already written. It is hard to describe how far I am from those goals. In my view, I am no different than others. Since October, many Israelis studying abroad found that they had a choice of two options – their heads down or becoming ambassadors of Israel.

With two brothers fighting in Gaza, who would be able to sit down and write a paper. So instead, I found myself spending most of my time "explaining" Israel, something I had not intended to have anything to do with at Stanford.

Despite that, I did learn a few valuable lessons this year, that would be remembered for life. As the academic year ends, as amid the worries and concerns from home over the current madness on campuses, I thought I would share the five most important lessons I've learned this past year at Stanford University in California.

1. Whether we like it or not, we are always, first and foremost, Jews.
My first year here was a most powerful academic experience. I felt surrounded by friends from around the world. I had full access to the brightest legal minds in the world. The feeling was that I had at my disposal endless opportunities. Friends from Israel who asked last year if we suffered from anti-Israel sentiments, seemed laughable. What are they talking about? I am a liberal Israeli. I wrote for the most left-wing Israeli newspaper. I clerked at one of the most liberal Supreme Courts in the Western world. Why should anyone have any problem with me?

I moved among those I believed were my friends as an equal. I could speak freely about Israel, criticize it and love it, have what I believed were good and complex discussions about the most sensitive matters, even with those who clearly did not agree with me. I felt like I was a citizen of the world.

That was an illusion. There is apparently, no such thing as "a Jewish citizen of the world," as long as the Jew insists on his right to a national homeland. When push came to shove, very few stood beside me. Almost none of them stood with me nationally. The double standards enabled Israel-hating students to say terrible things about me and my friends but silenced any of our attempts to push back. In some places, I had to choose between apologizing for being Israeli, or being rejected. There was no dilemma.

This eye-opening experience had its advantages. It was a litmus test of the human quality of those around us. Some went out of their way to support me, or to exhibit gestures of humanity. I found I was surrounded by strong and durable ties. Those are friends I would not forget easily.

2. America deserves Donald Trump.
A friend joked that if Trump were to be re-elected in November, he would walk around the Stanford campus handing out candy, as an act of celebration. He laughed because this is not entirely unimaginable.

Like many around the world, I was dumbfounded on November 9, 2016, when the United States of America elected Donald Trump as president. It was unfathomable to me in the deepest sense, despite the articles I read and the documentaries I watched. The appointment of this man was inexplicable, unreal, impossible. Even years later when the words President Trump no longer felt strange to utter, his election remained a mystery. A glitch in the matrix, I could not understand how his campaign was successful.

This year I understood. And no. If I were an American, I still would not vote for Trump but I do understand now, those who do. Donald Trump is the reaction of some Americans to the madness we are witnessing. A madness I was unaware of until it turned on us. Madness that is no less bad. No, if I had the right to vote, I would not choose Trump. But America, in a sense, tragically deserves him.

3. Progressives are not political allies of liberal Zionists.
Last year, the progressive movement appeared to me to be an amusing youthful rebellion. The ceremony where everyone announced their gender at the beginning of class seemed strange, not always necessary, but harmless. The fact that I had to state my race on every form (I said I was Middle Eastern) made me laugh, but raised no resistance. I regarded the American progressive movement, as the childish little sister of the liberal movements that I respected. I saw it as an ally.

That was a mistake.

The progressive movement is not an amusing anecdote. This week I witnessed an especially graphic expression of that. In the "pro-Palestinian" encampment – I put it in quotation marks because most of its inhabitants could not find Israel on a map or name one single Palestinian leader – which was erected again on campus, one man was photographed dressed like a nukhba terrorist, in full gear including a face covering with only his eyes showing and a green Hamas headband. He was standing next to activists for trans-sexual rights. This strange alliance did not amuse me.

Harvard's commencement speaker, media CEO Maria Ressa, published an editorial that compared Israel after Hamas's October 7 terrorist attack to Nazi Germany and accused the Jewish state of "targeting" news reporters in an "unprecedented attack on journalist safety."

Ressa, the CEO of the Philippines-based news site Rappler and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will give the university's commencement address on May 23, at a time when Harvard faces a congressional investigation for what House Republicans have called a "failure to protect Jewish students" and as anti-Semitism has surged on college campuses across the country.

Ressa's comments on the Israel-Gaza war, and her news outlet's editorial stance, could add to concerns about Harvard's promotion of anti-Israel views. Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, as well as holding Israel to standards not applied to other countries, could be considered anti-Semitic under the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition.

In January, Ressa signed a letter accusing Israel of "unabated killing of journalists in Israeli airstrikes since the start of the Israel-Gaza war." The letter called for an "immediate end to the bombardment of journalists and apparent targeting in some cases of our colleagues in Gaza and the region."

There is no clear evidence that Israel has deliberately targeted journalists. The Israeli government warned reporters to evacuate high-conflict areas. Investigators also found that numerous alleged Palestinian journalists killed in the war worked for Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, organizations that often use press badges as cover for terrorist activities.

In a November editorial, Rappler called for a ceasefire and compared Israel's actions to those by Adolf Hitler, according to a translation.

"What Israel is doing is clearly a disproportionate response and its intention is not simply to retaliate, but to launch an all-out war," the editorial said. "In the intensity of Israel's godlike technology, its paleolithic instincts can be seen in the lack of effort to differentiate between civilians and its enemy Hamas."

The editorial said Israel's actions were "about to reach genocide."

"It is a great irony that the [Jewish] race that suffered centuries of oppression, even genocide at the hands of Adolf Hitler, is now [denying] the same aspirations [for] the Palestinians," said the column.

"We like to think that our world is more modern, more aware, and more compassionate, compared for example to the time of Adolf Hitler, or the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima," the editorial went on.

In its coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict, Rappler has also referred to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as "militant" groups rather than terrorist organizations.

Ressa did not respond to a request for comment. Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.

As protests continue around the country, we examine just why administrators are caving to student radicals; House Republicans seek to fill in the gaps in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act; and the Federal Reserve declines to lower interest rates.

Anti-Israel campus activism has never been more popular or unpleasant than it is right now. In years past, much of this activism was mixed up with nods to the desire for peace and a two-state solution that would allow for Palestinians to enjoy their own sovereignty alongside a secure Israel. That isn't happening now. It certainly isn’t what is meant by the chants, now common at the most prestigious universities in the United States, that call for the globalization of the intifada or that give voice to the delusion that Israel can be unborn.

To analyze the protests, the protestors, and their slogans, Ruth Wisse, the scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literature and history, and the author of books including Jews and Power, joins Jonathan Silver.

Hosted by Abe Greenwald, Christine Rosen, John Podhoretz & Matthew Continetti
Was Joe Biden’s at-long-last three minute statement about the unrest on college campuses sufficient for the moment, or the least he could do, or not even the least he could do? We discuss this and the fact that the protestors are asking for sexual aids and pass-fail grades, and whatever happened to elementary shame.

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Extreme House Democrats cower to the whims of dangerous Antisemites in their party as pro-Hamas campus protests rage. pic.twitter.com/SleIkYAnRz

— NRCC (@NRCC) May 2, 2024

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) shared his “disgust” over antisemitic protests on campuses during a meeting with pro-Israel and Jewish students at George Washington University’s Hillel on Wednesday.

The senator’s daughter attended the school, located just blocks from the White House and U.S. State Department.

“What I am seeing on that campus today is something I never could have imagined,” he said. “Our Jewish students deserve to have a place where they can live and learn without fearing for their safety—starting with university leadership that has the backbone to stand for their safety, or step aside.”

He also commended the courage of the school’s Jewish and pro-Israel community “in the face of horrific antisemitism and violence that is spreading like a cancer across college campuses.”

“We also need local and state leaders willing to condemn this behavior and take action against this hate,” he said, noting that Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., is among those “refusing to do so.”

For the last 3 months, pro-Hamas protestors have shown up at my house at 7 am.

I have a message for these lunatics — my support for Israel is unshakable.

These protests at my house are a microcosm of what is happening on college campuses across America. pic.twitter.com/EhgdF6SaRZ

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 2, 2024

Full clip here, thank you so much @larry_kudlow for having me @FoxBusiness!https://t.co/3UeyRKNHOg

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) May 3, 2024

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of his talk with Gad Saad and Winston Marshall about CBS News breaking news of the Biden administration’s plan to bring in Palestinian refugees.

Three things you need to know about what’s happening on college campuses right now:

1) It’s not peaceful.
2) it’s not grassroots.
3) It’s not true.

Let me explain. pic.twitter.com/X6BDP4OoJV

— (((noa tishby))) (@noatishby) May 2, 2024

If you asked a majority of these pro-Hamas protestors to point to Israel on a map, they’d point to Jersey.

I’m tired of these clowns embarrassing my entire generation.

If my peers hate America so much and love terrorists so much, then they can get the hell out of our country. pic.twitter.com/va8rWecJlU

— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) May 2, 2024

Megyn Kelly is joined by Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of "Second Class,” to discuss why this crop of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish campus protesters actually hate America, how some Jewish students are fighting back but others just want to go to school, and more.

Megyn Kelly begins the show addressing the chaos at UCLA where protesters clashed with police and hundreds were arrested, some actually admitting they want to take down the institutions of America, and more.

Megyn Kelly is joined by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, hosts of The Fifth Column podcast, to discuss students claiming their colleges are founded on violent colonialism, the Anti-American protests continuing, whiny students at elite universities being completely out of touch and turning off normal Americans of all sides, and more.

Megyn Kelly is joined by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, hosts of The Fifth Column podcast, to discuss the irony of Ivy League students demanding food and water and pretending they're in need of "humanitarian aid," asking for vegan food and other ridiculous high-maintenance requests, one of the Columbia University protest leaders being a ridiculous character, and more.

Megyn Kelly is joined by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, hosts of The Fifth Column podcast, to discuss the UNC frat bros who protected the American flag, the almost half a million dollars raised for the fraternity to throw a party, and more.

One of the University of North Carolina students who protected the American flag from anti-Israel protesters, whom he dubbed an “unwashed Marxist horde,” said they would only get to Old Glory over his dead body.

Dan Stompel, a junior studying political science at UNC, was among the patriotic students who kept the American flag safe after protesters removed it to raise the Palestinian flag on campus.

“I don’t understand how people can act like this,” Stompel told Fox News, recounting how he spent more than an hour keeping the flag away from the mob.

“We’re looking at every direction. If stuff was flying in, we would say, ‘Heads up,’” Stompel recalled of the chaos. “We would cover each other. We would look out for other people… And it did hurt our arms.”

Despite the exhaustion of keeping the flag safe, Stompel said the moment gave him hope as the members of Chapel Hill’s Pi Kappa Phi chapter rushed in to help protect Old Glory.

“It shows that …based on the people there, nice, normal, strong boys protecting America’s flag,” he said. “There’s nothing more patriotic, nothing more genuine, nothing more inspiring than that.

“I was like, ‘I’d die for this flag.’ And everybody was like, ‘Yeah,’” Stompel added. “… They’re going to have to tear me off this flag over my dead body.”

In a scene as iconic as the U.S. Marines raising Old Glory over Iwo Jima, these valiant gentleman kept our country's colors from touching the ground amidst an onslaught of abuse and debris hurled lip-wristedly by liberal freaks protesting the existence of Israel.

On April 23, the Comedy on State homepage listed a performance scheduled for May 2 with Michael Rapaport. “Special engagement,” it stated, per an archived version of the site. “No passes or promotions.”

The Madison, Wis. venue, which bills itself as the city’s “premier comedy club,” canceled that performance this week, and all references to the Jewish comedian on its website yield error messages.

“Madison bows to bullies. Michael Rapaport’s sold-out comedy shows in Madison, Wis. have been canceled following threats from the pro-terror mob,” wrote Aviva Klompas, a former head of speechwriting at Israel’s mission to the United Nations.

“The mob is screaming about the right to free speech, and here they are trying to silence a comedian just because he is Jewish,” Klompas added. (Rapaport responded to her post and confirmed the show had been scrapped.)

Todd Richman, co-chair of the Democratic Majority for Israel, wrote that if venues in Arizona and Chicago had “stayed strong and not succumb to the pro-Hamas anti-Israel ‘potential protestors’ and cancel Matisyahu, then maybe Comedy On State in Madison, Wis. might not have been cowards and had the guts not to cancel Michael Rapaport.”

“When will these institutions stand up for what is right?” he wrote. “Welcome to America, where Jewish artists are banned from performing. They said it couldn’t happen here in this amazing country, but I guess so many were wrong. Welcome to the 1930s Nazi Germany.”

This is The Zone of Disruption! This is the I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST! His name is Michael Rapaport aka The Gringo Mandingo aka The Charles Oakley of The Jews, The Monster of Mucous aka Captain Colitis aka The Disruptive Warrior aka Mr. NY aka The Inflamed Ashkenazi aka The Smiling Sultan of Sniff aka The Flat Footed Phenom aka Mitzvah Mike is here to discuss: Having a Comedy Club cancel his shows due to threats in Madison, WI, NBA Playoffs Decompression, Nova Music Festival Exhibit in NYC, Eli Lake Calls In on College Encampments, Israel & Palestine History, Radical Extremeism Brewing in America & a whole lotta mo'.

The anti-Israel movement attracts the “most extreme elements of society”, according to Executive Council of Australian Jewry Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin.

Mr Ryvchin’s remarks come as pro-Palestine protests continue to rage across university campuses.

“To see this, it’s shocking, of course – but it’s also entirely predictable,” he told Sky News host Steve Price.

“The anti-Israel movement has always attracted the most extreme elements of society because it’s a movement founded in paranoia and soaked in conspiracy theories, racial hatred and religious supremacism.

“So, there’s no shock here.”

More than 500 members of the community turned up on Friday morning to call on the University of Sydney to take action against hate speech, intimidation and exclusion against Jews on campus.

As pro-Hamas demonstrators chanted “intifada, intifada” and “from the river to sea” at the University’s quadrangle just a few hundred metres away, speakers at the demonstration co-organised by Together with Israel and StandWithUs called for peace, respect and tolerance for all.

“We’re here today to simply stop the hate … and demand in Australian universities take action to remove all hate from campuses and foster a safe and inclusive learning environment for all,” Together With Israel’s Hagit Ashual told those present.

“We cannot allow calls such as ‘Intifada’ or ‘from the river to the sea’ to be chanted on university grounds, particularly by children of six years of age, what were you thinking?

“We call on the Australian universities to stop the hate and return peace to our campuses and address this issue head on.”

StandWithUs Australia executive director Michael Gencher thanked everyone who came “for not being afraid”.

Addressing University of Sydney vice chancellor Mark Scott, he said “inaction is no longer tolerable”.

“Frustration, fear, intimidation, provocation, and abuse – these are not just words. These are realities that some amongst us here today on campus are facing daily.

“We’re appalled by the vicious, anti-Jewish racism that has been promoted under the guise of political statements and free speech against Israel.”

Sydney, Australia - 1,000+ people peacefully march through @Sydney_Uni demanding an End to Hate against Jewish students, whilst proudly flying Australian & Israeli flags, & playing the Australian anthem @australian@smh@dailytelegraph@2GB873@abcnews@ZionistFedAus@ECAJewrypic.twitter.com/ldchgnohah

— Menachem Vorchheimer (@MenachemV) May 3, 2024

Jewish protester Domino says the Australian-Jewish community is “broken” by a rise in anti-Semitism since the October 7 attacks.

Her remarks come as Jewish students continue to face anti-Semitism on university campuses.

“Since October, it’s been a lot of sleepless nights and the community is just broken,” she told Sky News host Erin Molan.

“I’m so devastated that this is happening not only around the world, but especially in Australia.

“I never thought I would see the day where I would feel I have to think twice about … putting my kids in their uniforms – there aren’t enough words.”

It is “outrageous” Jewish students feel unsafe to attend universities in Australia as “weak leadership” from those at the top is evident, explains Australian Jewish Association’s David Adler.

“Could you imagine such a comment being made by any other minority group that is persecuted on university campuses,” Mr Adler told Sky News Australia host Danica De Giorgio.

“He would probably be sacked the next day for failing to uphold the basic human rights of having a safe place on universities for all the students.

“This is blatant anti-Semitism on our campuses.

“We have many Jewish students who feel unsafe to attend university campuses.”

🚨Deputy opposition leader demands ‘urgent action’ from the premier following my attack outside parliament

FULL STORY: https://t.co/oTg60fqY0Apic.twitter.com/XscZAvPZ3X

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) May 2, 2024

🚨GOT HIM! Second violent attacker's identity revealed

The terrorist who threatened to rape my mother, kill someone and hurled glass bottles at us has been revealed as Ibrahim Salama, a figure with connections to (imagine my shock) 'hate-crime hoaxer' Hash Tayeh.

SUPPORT:… pic.twitter.com/68678V9obE

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) May 2, 2024

🚨 My visit to Hamas-camp at Melbourne Uni

This is just the teaser.

**Make sure to subscribe at https://t.co/LUukKKteWt so I can send it to you directly as soon as it's ready. pic.twitter.com/RwOBFnpFCg

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) May 3, 2024

I was asked by the person who did this to not name him, but this was an epic move. All I’ll say is, you definitely know him.

Some people see a sign like this and throw up their arms in despair.

Other people act!

💪🙏🔥🇮🇱✡️ pic.twitter.com/csflQFzyHc

— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) May 3, 2024

Man at Washington Square Park pro-Palestine demonstration:

“I hate f’ckin’ joooz” 🤦🏻‍♂️

Why are all Jew haters such dumb cavemen? pic.twitter.com/VJBYniu1bV

— Kosher🎗🧡 (@KosherCockney) May 3, 2024

Shai Davidai, an Israeli associate professor at Columbia Business School, has become the face of the pro-Israel movement not only for students and staff on campus - but for the greater Jewish community.

On Wednesday morning, he came to speak on the steps of City Hall in lower Manhattan at the invitation of EndJewHatred, an organization dedicated to Jewish unity and solidarity.

He was greeted with hugs, handshakes, thank you's.

Two women asked to take a picture with him.

He'd just returned from five days in Israel, where he told reporters he felt safer walking the streets in Tel Aviv than he did in New York.

In the days before his Israel trip, Davidai was barred from campus. Videos he shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, show Davidai unable to scan into the university's checkpoints as his staff ID had been disabled.

Davidai has not heard from Columbia
"I have not heard anything from the University since last Monday when I was barred because we couldn't guarantee the safety of the most vocal proponent of Jewish life on campus," he told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

The antisemitism that has surfaced on U.S. college campuses since Israel was attacked by Hamas terrorists in October has sent Jewish students and faculty fleeing. Now, America's — and the world's — flagship Jewish institution, Yeshiva University, is bursting at the seams.

Yeshiva recently hit record-high enrollment, with transfer applications up 53%. The school had to lease an additional residence building to accommodate the surge in new students this semester, and more housing accommodations will be needed for the fall.

The influx of student transfers includes several from Ivy League institutions, notably Columbia, Yale and Cornell, where one former student said he spent his days "fighting Jewish hate." The crop of professors who have gone to Yeshiva from top-tier schools include a professor from MIT who left due to unchecked antisemitism on the campus.

The private orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York announced it was at capacity before the fresh round of anti-Israel protests that began a few weeks ago at neighboring campuses Columbia and NYU.

But after watching the violent demonstrations spread and continue to rage at schools throughout the country, Yeshiva decided to open its doors to more Jewish students and faculty across the country who feel threatened by their campus climates.

Although the deadline for transfer applications had already passed, Yeshiva President Rabbi Ari Berman reopened its transfer portal for undergraduate students last week and announced the school is also creating new faculty positions as it continues to receive inquiries from academic staff at top-tier universities looking for an institution with values that align with their own.

We’ve all seen the horrific scenes from pro-Hamas protests on college campuses recently.

Calling for violence against Jews and publicly supporting terrorism is not political activism.

It’s antisemitism.

Say no to hate. Stand on the right side of history. pic.twitter.com/s3douBoTUg

— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) May 2, 2024

Jewish student assaulted & hospitalized at @UCLA is Iranian-American. Watch:
pic.twitter.com/666y8kfIie

— Ellie Cohanim (@EllieCohanim) May 2, 2024

Over the past two weeks, New York’s Columbia University has been in the headlines due to vast student protests in support of Hamas and its sponsor Iran, disrupting campus life and affecting daily routines.

The issue has drawn responses from U.S. President Joe Biden and other American officials and politicians, as well as celebrities such as actor David Schwimmer, who asked to “show support for your Jewish neighbors, friends and colleagues,” saying that “silence is complicity.”

Heated debates escalated on social media. Chants such as “burn Tel Aviv to the ground,” and “Oct. 7 will be every day,” undoubtedly targeting Jewish students, were repeatedly heard on campuses, intensifying tensions and leading to violent incidents.

This volatile situation, first emerging from Columbia, has now spread nationwide—with students setting up encampments and occupying buildings on campuses at the University of Michigan in the Midwest, California State Polytechnic University on the West Coast and Yale in Connecticut—refusing to leave, preventing Jewish students and even professors from moving freely around campus.

“As extreme as the protests were, what truly bothered me and many of the Israeli and Jewish students, was the ridiculous, groveling way the university president and administration handled the situation,” 24-year-old Israeli computer science freshman at Columbia Matan Ossy said.

Columbia University president Minouche Shafik “did not stand by the deadlines and conditions she had set for the protesters, set up a team to negotiate with them and simply allowed them to take over the public space. The students she had suspended were allowed to attend classes via Zoom. The situation appeared to lack any mature leadership with 18-year-olds essentially steering the course of action and having the final say,” said Ossy.

He also criticized members of the American-Jewish community taking part in the pro-Palestinian protests, using the slogan “not in our name.” “Not in our name? We all saw Hamas terrorists shouting ‘slaughter the Jews!’ as they were viciously murdering entire families on Oct. 7,” he said.

“The atmosphere at Yale is better than other places—but that doesn’t mean it’s comfortable here,” said Meital Peleg Mizrachi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Economics.

“A few days ago, protesters demonstrating in memory of a terrorist were dispersed, and in the ensuing confrontation, a woman was struck with a flagpole. This was a huge event on campus dedicated to a man who was a terrorist and murdered Jews,” she said.

A med school student at UCLA describes the chaos taking over college campuses under Biden: "There's been violence every single day." pic.twitter.com/nAP2CKwuaH

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 2, 2024

This Iranian Jew in LA has had his videos sent to his workplace in an effort to get him fired.

There's only one problem: He owns the workplace.

This is the difference between being successful and being a failure. Tehrangeles remains undefeated!
pic.twitter.com/THAlH4zWDG

— Nioh Berg ♛ ✡︎ אסתר (@NiohBerg) May 2, 2024

Aaaand there it is

They’re trying to recycle the “mostly peaceful protests” angle from 2020 pic.twitter.com/HlTHro7KoP

— John Hasson (@SonofHas) May 3, 2024

A group of students at Ole’ Miss belted out “The Star-Spangled Banner,” drowning out the chanting and shouting of anti-Israel protesters on their campus.

In a video posted to X on Tuesday, a number of students could be heard singing the national anthem at the top of their lungs while the shouts of nearby protesters — several of whom carried large Palestinian flags — were completely overpowered.

Governor Tate Reeves (R-MS) responded to the reports of anti-Israel protests — which have spread to campuses all across the country after first garnering media attention in places like Columbia University and Yale — landing in his state.

“I am aware of today’s scheduled protest on the campus of Ole Miss. Mississippi law enforcement is also aware. And they are prepared,” he said. “Campus police, City, County, and State assets are being deployed and coordinated. We will offer a unified response with one mission: Peaceful protests are allowed and protected — no matter how outrageous those protesters views may seem to some of us. But unlawful behavior will not be tolerated. It will be dealt with accordingly. Law and order will be maintained!”

A similar scene played out on the campus of University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where students drowned out the anti-Israel protesters with loud chants of “USA! USA! USA!”

Free Palestine activists just tried to pull off a protest on the Ole Miss campus. It didn't go according to plan. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Lj3szEyzRe

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 2, 2024

The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for 8 hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.” pic.twitter.com/vNI8BHaaC4

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 3, 2024

Foreign governments are not allowed to own our radio and TV stations for fear they might be used for anti-American propaganda and influence. The Congress just banned TikTok for the same reason.

Why then do we allow foreign governments to give money to our universities, funds… https://t.co/5CA0N7lDl9

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) May 3, 2024

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, revealed that “outside agitators,” including one whose husband was convicted for terrorism, played a key role in the anti-Israel and antisemitic protests at Columbia University.

Asked by MSNBC anchor Willie Geist at what point city officials realized that outside actors were involved, Adams said it was “when we started seeing footage and we were able to identify … some of the organization’s individuals … once we were able to actually confirm [who they were] with our intelligence division.”

They affirmed that the husband of one had been “arrested for and convicted for terrorism on a federal level.”

“Once we were able to identify some of the other people, I knew that there was no way I was going to allow those children to be exploited the way they were being exploited,” he said.

“Many people thought that this was just a natural evolution of a protest. It was not. These were professionals that were here,” he added.

“I want to send a clear message out that there are people who are harmful and are trying to radicalize our children and we cannot ignore … these outside influences,” the mayor stressed.

“I don’t know if they’re international. I think we need to look into that as well,” he added.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of his talk with Gad Saad and Winston Marshall about NYC Mayor Eric Adams blaming outside agitators for the out-of-control pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University and CUNY.

"Somebody is radicalizing out students" Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz spoke after NYU and New School raid this morning, "we will find out who that is". Chief of Patrol John Chell showed literature found inside the New School 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' after it was… pic.twitter.com/LObfkp5Vmd

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 3, 2024

NEW: @NYCMayor and @NYPDPC have released new information showing that approximately 48% of individuals arrested on Tuesday evening at @Columbia and @CityCollegeNY protests were unaffiliated with the schools.

School breakdowns below. pic.twitter.com/UIo55chXEi

— Fabien Levy (@Fabien_Levy) May 2, 2024

New bodycam video shows the short-lived confrontation inside Columbia University on Tuesday night after anti-Israel protesters fronted up to NYPD cops after they breached Hamilton Hall and deployed flashbang stun grenades.

One ski mask-clad rioter appeared to have a makeshift shield duct-taped to his arm as he attempted to block officers from the city’s specially trained Emergency Service Unit.

“Put it down, you’re gonna get hurt,” the cop said, as he pushed the protester to the floor.

The video reveals for the first time the layers of barricades the cops had to hack through — with “jaws of life” cutters, electric saws and blow torches.

The protesters pulled up tables, chairs and garbage cans and used bicycle chains in an effort to lock themselves inside the building.

#NEW New York City Police has released body-worn camera footage of NYPD ESU breaching into Columbia University Hamilton Hall during the raid. pic.twitter.com/ukMTCdOYNY

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 2, 2024

Soros-backed Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner said it was "stupid" for the New York Police Department to arrest the rioters at Columbia University who had seized control of a university building. Krasner made the remarks Wednesday while visiting the University of Pennsylvania’s "Gaza Solidarity Encampment," where organizers have defied the administration's orders to disperse.

"The First Amendment comes from here, this is Philadelphia, we don’t have to do stupid like they did at Columbia," Krasner told UPenn's student newspaper. "What we should be doing here is upholding our tradition of being a welcoming, inviting city, where people say things, even if other people don’t like them."

Krasner spokesman Dustin Slaughter confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that he was specifically referring to the NYPD's arrests at Columbia Tuesday night.

Krasner "has been visiting" UPenn’s encampment in a strictly fact-finding capacity only, and not in any show of support for the protesters, Slaughter said. "Should Penn Police or the Philadelphia Police Department bring evidence to our office that rises to the level of probable cause, we will file charges against that individual," the spokesman added.

Yesterday CUNY and CU students held a press conference.

In this clip, an alum of CUNY named Jihad said that we must resist the administration by any means and calls on everyone to resist including throwing rocks. He then goes on to say that he hopes that the media holding… pic.twitter.com/skepjtCztm

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) May 2, 2024

Meet three of the radicalized students of @Columbia who played active roles in the pro-Hamas takeover of @Columbia. They call on their fellow students to escalate the resistance and faculty to join them at yesterday’s press conference with CUNY.

These three students denied the… pic.twitter.com/uupy3YgPPh

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) May 2, 2024

In the early hours of Thursday morning, police broke down the makeshift tent encampment that anti-Israel students made on the University of California, Los Angeles campus and arrested more than 200 people.

Many were booked for allegedly failing to disperse—a misdemeanor—a police source told The Los Angeles Times.

“Every student deserves to be safe and live peacefully on their campus. Harassment, vandalism and violence have no place at UCLA or anywhere in our city,” said Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles.

“My office will continue to coordinate closely with local and state law enforcement, area universities and community leaders to keep campuses safe and peaceful,” she added.

Protesters at other schools included “agitators” who are not students. It is not clear how many of those arrested at UCLA are students at the public school, the Times reported.

The dramatic scene at UCLA echoed the clearing of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall in New York City on Tuesday night. Police officers clad in body armor, helmets and face shields “methodically pulled apart the barricade as protesters tried to hold together the assemblage of plywood and metal fencing,” the Times reported.

“Police launched flares that arced over the encampment, igniting with piercing blasts, and smoke filled the air from fire extinguishers that demonstrators sprayed at police,” the paper added.

“Our escalations are far from over.” A message in the “UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment” Telegram says. @LAPDHQ@CHPAlerts@UCLAchancellor Arrest them and hold them this time. pic.twitter.com/VEaVmODHFk

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) May 3, 2024

This is absolutely shocking. The UCLA faculty members protesting for Palestine. These are the people who are not only receiving the money from Qatar but are indoctrinating the kids into supporting terrorism. The staff at these universities need to be fired immediately. How can… pic.twitter.com/tnEnwGZw4C

— Natalie Z (@natalie_Zion_) May 3, 2024

I have identified a @UCLA professor openly providing material aid to and participating in the illegal, pro-Hamas encampment on campus.

Miriam Posner is an Assistant Professor of Information Studies. Her research interest is Marxism. https://t.co/osQFUJ3fr3pic.twitter.com/WQ4yQHK8V9

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 3, 2024

#NOW Rutgers University Students chant "USA USA!" in response a large crowd rushes towards them chanting "Free Palestine!" as faculty and supporters rush to create a human wall "Link up! Link up!" pic.twitter.com/EBnULufLXQ

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 2, 2024

List of their demands posted on group's Instagram page: pic.twitter.com/DpKRucyR10

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 2, 2024

Last week, as we have witnessed at so many universities like Columbia, Harvard, Yale and USC, anti-Israel protesters descended onto UCLA’s campus, set up “encampments” and posted their demands to the University’s leadership. Among them, they demanded UCLA “sever all UC-wide connections to Israeli universities, including study abroad programs, fellowships, seminars and research collaborations, and UCLA’s Nazarian Center.” This was a reference to the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies which our Family Foundation named and endowed in 2010 and where I serve as Chair of its Community Advisory Board.

These protesters were demanding, essentially, the censorship of knowledge they don’t like.

Our Foundation’s primary mission is “the promotion of education as the most important catalyst for societal change.” To us, this means for students to achieve life success, there is a fundamental need to develop critical thinking skills, to learn with depth, to grapple with complexity and to put facts at the center of their learning.

Our support for UCLA, a most revered public institution, and the endowment of the Nazarian Center for Israel studies, is one of our greatest expressions of that commitment. We understood then, and are today more convinced than ever, that only through a serious scholarly and holistic study of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state can we fully understand and appreciate the nation and its people. Academically rigorous study of the complexities the state faces with regards to its domestic, regional, and international challenges equips UCLA students with the knowledge and understanding of what the contemporary state of Israel truly represents.

We are a proud Jewish Iranian-American family, who have been warmly welcomed and embraced by two great nations in our lifetime. My father was forced to uproot our family from Iran in 1979 in order to flee the fanaticism, extremism, and antisemitism of the Iranian Revolution. The kind of hatred and extremism we are now witnessing on US campuses. We fled first to Israel and eventually to the United States, seeking refuge in a democratic country that welcomed and protected Jews.

My parents were able to rebuild our lives and instilled in us a love of our new homeland and an understanding that America, its democratic institutions, and its generosity toward us and all immigrants seeking refuge was something that we should cherish. Our family has tried to find impactful ways to give back to the country that has given us so much through the work of our Foundation.

Just a glance at the website for the University of Minnesota Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies reveals it to be a highly politicized unit of the wider university, dedicated to progressive activism. The site declares that “As a place where research, education, and social change go hand in hand, GWSS identifies, analyzes, and challenges structural inequalities, while imagining and creating just and transformative futures for all.” Instead of searching for truth and knowledge, the Department openly acknowledges that its vision includes “social change,” “challeng[ing] structural inequalities,” and “creating just and transformative futures for all.”

So it should come as no surprise, that like much of the progressive left, the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (DGWSS) is a vile font of Jew hatred on the University of Minnesota campus.

Just six days after the brutal and barbaric Hamas attack on Israel, in which innocent civilians were brutalized and raped, parents killed in front of children, children killed in front of parents, bodies gleefully mutilated by terrorists on camera, DGWSS released a “Faculty Statement on Palestine” in which they described the massacre as “Hamas fighters” (not terrorists) who “brought down border fences.” The statement went on to demonize Israel and its defensive response to the worst attack in its history as “not self-defense but the continuation of a genocidal war against Gaza and against Palestinian freedom, self-determination, and life.” The statement declared “We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and with Palestinian scholars and organizers.” DGWSS might as well have said, “We stand with Hamas.”

The statement goes on to make clear that the Department stands for Palestine, and only Palestine. “We strongly reject the media coverage that condemns ‘both sides,’ or seeks to tell a one-sided story of an unprovoked terrorist attack,” it states. “Israeli leaders are wielding a violent power that subjugates the Palestinian people and constructs them as dehumanized terrorists, upon whom any bloodshed can be meted out.”

Ironically, the Department even claims that its glorification of Hamas “fighters,” who raped and brutalized innocent Israeli women en mass, is a stance for feminism. “As scholars and solidarity workers who seek justice everywhere, we respond to the call of Palestinian feminists and Palestinian freedom fighters for transnational solidarity and assert that Palestine is a feminist issue,” claims the statement. “None of us will be free unless the Palestinian people are free and Palestinian land is liberated.”

Unsurprisingly, the statement goes on to “reaffirm support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement,” a genocidal attempt to isolate and destroy the world’s only Jewish state.

People laughed when @jordanbpeterson said feminists side with radical Islam because feminists have an unconscious desire for brutal male domination...but now that woke women are siding with Hamas after Hamas did a bunch of murdering and raping I think Peterson had a point. https://t.co/wNykPDDf7apic.twitter.com/kpM4oFOHl2

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 2, 2024

I went to the UCLA campus last night and spent a few hours there before the police dispersed the encampment. I wanted to see the pro-Palestine student protests for myself and get a sense of the atmosphere, energy, and students, as well as the movement's focus and the desired… pic.twitter.com/bXLKGX6SSA

— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) May 2, 2024

Morning Consult: Do you support asking the police to protect campuses from violence?

Support 76%
Oppose 10%

18-34 year old voters: 67% support / 17% oppose https://t.co/WMaUyayjfF

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) May 2, 2024

The Columbia University student groups behind the "Gaza Solidarity" encampment held what they called an "autonomous rally" outside campus, where they projected the words "Escalate for Gaza" on the side of Hamilton Hall, the building protesters stormed and occupied earlier in the week.

"Palestine Organizers" from Columbia and City University of New York held a Wednesday night press conference outside of CUNY's campus, where they shared their "experiences" from the police sweeps that occurred on both campuses roughly 24 hours prior.

Protesters then traveled a mile down Amsterdam Avenue to Columbia's campus, where keffiyeh-clad individuals lit flares, waved Palestinian flags, and chanted "Gaza" and "free, free, free Palestine." One attendee was filmed holding a sign that read, "Resistance by any means necessary." Later on in the evening, protesters projected images onto the side of Columbia Hall, reading, "Escalate for Gaza,""Israel bombs Columbia pays," and "Columbia funds genocide."

The demonstration shows that Columbia president Minouche Shafik's battle with unauthorized student protesters is far from over, even after Shafik deployed New York City police to break up the "Gaza Solidarity" encampment and to remove those who seized and occupied Hamilton Hall.

The morning after Tuesday night's sweep, Columbia University Apartheid Divest issued a statement pledging to come back "stronger, smarter, and better prepared to stand our ground" and to "continue building a student movement that will take back our campuses."

"Our people arrested today will soon be free and ready to fight again with even greater insight into the oppressor's tools and weaknesses," the group wrote. Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine issued a similar statement, which called to continue "the struggle for Palestinian liberation."

"The student intifada will live on," the statement said.

The student editors of the Columbia Law Review issued a statement on Wednesday urging Columbia Law School to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university’s unauthorized encampment, saying the "violence" had left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus."

The statement, which represents the majority opinion of the editorial board and was endorsed by five other law journals, including the Columbia Human Rights Law Review & A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual, accused the police of "brutalizing" students—though no major injuries have been reported—and claimed that canceling exams was a "proportionate response" to the "distress our peers have been feeling."

"The current exam policy raises concerns around equity and academic integrity," the statement said. "Many are unwell at this time and cannot study or concentrate while their peers are being hauled to jail."

The statement also accuses members of a "white supremacist, neo-fascist hate group" of "storming" campus—an apparent reference to a pro-Israel rally organized by Christian Zionists, including the evangelical musician Sean Feucht, who gathered outside of Columbia’s gates on April 25 for hymns and prayer.

"We do not think it is inconsistent with being a leading voice in legal academia and legal scholarship to prioritize students’ health and safety," the statement said.

Columbia Law School told the Washington Free Beacon it had no plans to cancel exams, which it said would be administered "through the conclusion of the exam period."

The law review’s editor in chief is Alexandria Iraheta Sousa, a second-year law student who has worked for numerous progressive nonprofits, including a dark money group, Demand Justice, that advocates court packing. She did not respond to a request for comment.

Rutgers has conceded 8/10 of the protestors demands after they forced the university to postpone 28 final exams this morning: https://t.co/hF9UsUAcSnpic.twitter.com/5r5DvqziiI

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) May 2, 2024

Rutgers - Watch as a campus protestor tells a Jewish student “Free Palestine, Hitler would have loved you.”

Just another example of what this is all about - Jew hatred.

Plain and simple Jewish hatred. pic.twitter.com/syUOz7tY4z

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 2, 2024

#BREAKING: @N12News reveals screenshots of the @BU_Tweets SJP group chat in the aftermath of October 7, with students cheering on Hamas terrorists and calling for the complete "collapse" of Israel.
According to the report, students in the chat also expressed hope that Lebanon,… pic.twitter.com/ejICezkIQm

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) May 3, 2024

Continued… pic.twitter.com/1CZfD7SMhS

— Jason Curtis Anderson (@JCAndersonNYC) May 3, 2024

Goals of Zawaya: “to address stereotypes and misconceptions, Zawaya offers a genuine image of Arab Americans and their rich civilization, which can only be a source of strength for American society.”

Is a genuine image of Arab Americans that they support terrorists who seek to… pic.twitter.com/mEY1UMnySy

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 2, 2024

🚨 Toronto Schoolchildren Indoctrinated at Anti-Israel Encampment

⚠️ Betrayal of Parents’ Trust

📰 A class of young children was brought to the Hamas camp told to chant “Free Palestine”.

👉 Follow @ShirionOrg for updates.
pic.twitter.com/zsST3vrOwP

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 3, 2024

It turns out this bright young man is on Twitter.

Thank you, Benny! @brshaevsky

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 2, 2024

Milagro Jones, on his harassment by the @UCLA encampment mob:

“I came there initially sympathizing with [the Pro-Palestinian] side. From my experiences with them, I think that the SJP…have no place on campus. They’re physically violent…at the end of the day they’re NOT… https://t.co/kfYkahFlpMpic.twitter.com/68klEtuBHP

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 3, 2024

Basically, he mounted a one-man FONOP (freedom of navigation operation) on the UCLA campus & got manhandled, menaced, and impeded in the process.
USA struggling (but may be prevailing) to enforce a very important premise here. https://t.co/EZagyLxG1n

— J.E. Dyer ☘️ (@OptimisticCon) May 2, 2024

🚨 Racism at UCLA: Graduate Student Harasses Black Student's Family

⚠️ Dylan Kupsh, a UCLA graduate student, in computer science, aggressively blocked a black student, Milagro Jones, and his family from walking, even using his foot to block the stroller holding their baby.

❌… pic.twitter.com/VbKmd5kmmo

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 2, 2024

Check out some of the videos of this absolute legend. He’s posting content over on TikTok. He claims to be a student at UCLA, but in his own words, he’s flipping the script on these crazy activists. UCLA has totally screwed themselves by allowing this to build.… pic.twitter.com/FPbdLiUSNH

— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) May 2, 2024

🚨 IDENTIFIED: UCLA Professor Rachel Lee Caught in Anti-Semitic Harassment 🚨

⚠️ @UCLA, are you supportive of Rachel Lee’s actions?

📰 Watch Lee sneakily try to steal from the Jewish students, then defend the anti-Israel protesters who had illegally occupied the campus, and… pic.twitter.com/9cnoueJ31o

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 3, 2024

🚨 WANTED: Violence at UC Berkeley—Jews Violently Attacked

⚠️ The man seen in the photo is wanted for assault.

📰 This pro-Israel group was attacked at Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley.

👉 LIKE & REPOST to join the HUNT for this maniac.

👉 👉Follow @ShirionOrg to witness… pic.twitter.com/bK3U3ReN3E

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 3, 2024

🚨 Join the Fight to Expose the Lies: Amplify the Truth! 🚨

🟢 We’re halfway there!

Project Clarity has reached 50% of its fundraising goal, and with your help, we’ll bring the truth to where it’s needed most. Universities.

✅ We all know the bad guys are already well-funded… pic.twitter.com/ozOy96Owl1

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 2, 2024

UPenn Pro-Palestinian protesters are claiming that the videos from October 7, recorded by Palestinian terrorists themselves, are somehow “lies”…pic.twitter.com/UhmcAnFTP0

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 3, 2024

Earlier this year I went to one of this professor’s lectures.

He showed a picture of the wall separating the West Bank and Israel and then claimed that Israel put the wall there solely to oppress Palestinians.

I asked the professor, “Well… what led Israel to put up the wall??”… https://t.co/mDOgYhfJl9

— David Skadron 🔥 (@DavidSkadron) May 1, 2024

“Harvard has never looked better,” writes Harvard PhD candidate Mafaz Al-Suwaidan.

She clearly takes after her father, Tareq Al-Suwaidan, who is the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait, known for his Holocaust denial and is banned from the U.S. pic.twitter.com/Y4973zXKEi

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) May 2, 2024

Jewish and Israeli students infiltrated Harvard’s anti-Israel encampment and are singing the Israeli national anthem. pic.twitter.com/axLgmqbmhX

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) May 2, 2024

The Portland University encampment is exactly what you would expect out of Portland. Exactly. pic.twitter.com/5w7X90C3j4

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 3, 2024

Update: she claims to be a Jew. https://t.co/sGKendiSdr

— Rod Sales 🏹 ✡︎🎗️ (@razingarizona) May 2, 2024

The CEO of a male hair loss and erectile dysfunction treatment company said he is “eager” to hire anti-Israel protesters taking over college campuses in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

Andrew Dudum, the Palestinian American CEO of Hims, a telehealth and online pharmacy known for its suggestive New York City subway ads, shared a link to current openings and encouraged the student protesters to apply.

“Moral courage > College degree,” he wrote on X.

“If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working.

“There are plenty of companies & CEOs eager to hire you, regardless of university discipline,” he added alongside the Hims job openings link.

Dudum, who founded Hims in 2017 and has family in Gaza and the West Bank, marks a contrast from many company leaders with his remarks as students at more and more colleges across the country join the wave of protests.

Bill Ackman, head of Pershing Square Capital Management, was one of the first to say he wouldn’t hire students from Harvard who signed a letter allegedly blaming Israel for Hamas’ violent Oct. 7 attack.

A top corporate recruiter told The Post last week that he’s begun to reconsider where he’s finding job candidates as many Ivy League schools and other top colleges have been plagued by the protests that critics have claimed are antisemitic.

“We are looking for high-quality candidates but we’re going to be looking at different places,” activist investor and Columbia grad Daniel Loeb said.

The CEO of Hims coming out in full support of Hamas was NOT on my 2024 bingo card. pic.twitter.com/bhdeFNGFrB

— Jon Elder | Amazon Growth | Private Label (@BlackLabelAdvsr) May 2, 2024

The Tufts Gaza Solidarity Encampment had a teach-in on the known terrorist group Hezbollah today.

Keep in mind that this encampment started on April 7th, and the administration continues to pussyfoot around the issue.

Is this normal @TuftsUniversity? What else have they learned… pic.twitter.com/Ct44uBAswZ

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 2, 2024

They have even already made a propaganda video celebrating this. pic.twitter.com/0sT06Y4taR

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 2, 2024

BREAKING: George Washington University Police try to remove Palestinian Flag from the GWU Flagpole after the American flag was removed. They however failed to do so. pic.twitter.com/2O4MjJBo9g

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 2, 2024

What happens when a Jew with an Israeli flag meets anti-Israel protesters at the University of Arizona.

📹@AZ161x1312pic.twitter.com/Nj2pnmgels

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) May 3, 2024

2/ Long before navel-gazing kafiya-clad midriff performative jihadis conquered Columbia, Jordan Peele already killed it as the revolutionary sidekick with the mean mugging gone just a little too far pic.twitter.com/mZpqt9z5ry

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 2, 2024

We just wanted to warn people entering the encampment @MIT, in case they were confused about who was behind it and what they stand for 😈 pic.twitter.com/7zBaFmhcNI

— Elee Shimshoni (@EleeShimshoni) May 2, 2024

The soy ninjas at Portland State University are now on the run. Look at the Antifa goons with noodle arms. Cops being too nice. Drop the hammer! 🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/xJFamv7FU7

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) May 2, 2024

UChicago encampment requests Plan B, HIV tests and dental dams, per a post on the organizers' Instagram pic.twitter.com/EEbzLqraMX

— Gabby Deutch (@GSDeutch) May 2, 2024

Palantir CEO Alex Karp eviscerated anti-Israel protesters who have caused chaos on college campuses, saying they should be shipped off to North Korea as part of an “exchange program” to give them perspective.

The software boss took aim at Columbia students who had shut down the Ivy League campus over the past weeks to rail against Israel’s response in Gaza to the deadly Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas — and claimed some protesters have even praised North Korea.

“We’re gonna do an exchange program sponsored by Karp,” he said. “A couple months in North Korea, nice-tasting flavored bark. See how you feel about that.”

Karp — whose Peter Thiel-linked firm has grown increasingly more important to the government’s defense-tech plans — was the featured speaker at the invite-only Hill and Valley Forum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.

“Look at Columbia,” Karp continued, in comments first reported by Politico.

“There is literally no way to explain the investment in our elite schools, and the output is a pagan religion — a pagan religion of mediocrity, and discrimination, and intolerance, and violence.”

An Iranian university is reportedly offering scholarships to American and European students who have been expelled from their universities for participating in pro-Palestine demonstrations.

According to the Iranian state-owned outlet Press TV, Mohammad Moazzeni, head of Shiraz University in the southern region of Fars, announced the decision during a gathering of students and professors on Monday as a gesture of “solidarity”.

“Students and even professors who have been expelled or threatened with expulsion can continue their studies at Shiraz University and I think that other universities in Shiraz as well as Fars Province are also prepared [to provide the conditions],” Moazzeni reportedly said.

Since the mass protests began at Columbia University on 18 April, over 1,000 people have been arrested across dozens of campuses, and similar protests have spread to the UK, Canada, Australia, France and Italy.

The Yemen-based terrorist Houthi movement is offering students, who have participated in anti-Israel protests on US college campuses and were suspended as a result, to study in Yemen, the country's Sana'a University stated on Friday.

"We are serious about accepting students who have been suspended from universities in the United States for their support for the Palestinians," a senior official at Sana'a University, which is controlled by the Houthis, told Reuters. "We are fighting this battle with Palestine in every way we can."

Students have rallied or set up tents at dozens of campuses in the United States in recent days to protest against Israel's war in Gaza, now in its seventh month.

The Houthi-run Sana'a University issued a statement applauding the "humanitarian" position of the students in the United States and said they could continue their studies in Yemen.

They even provided an email address

Their statement also included email address for any students curious about transferring, according to the Telegraph.

"The board of the university condemns the suppression of freedom of expression that academics and students of US and European universities are being subjected to," the board of the university said in a statement, which included an email address for any students wanting to take up their offer.

Iranian Republic Ivy League Universities want you. Book your tickets now!
Call 202-965-4990 pic.twitter.com/ZvsW9bXiq1

— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) May 2, 2024

Update from the UCLA encampment. desperately need humanitarian aid pic.twitter.com/TAhOsKynuz

— Lyle Culpepper (@ShutupLyle) May 2, 2024

Shofar Blast as @UCLA is Liberated From Pro-Hamas Encampment#AmYisraelChaipic.twitter.com/wawn84FLWN

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 2, 2024

This is something I truly believe in. Visited the MIT campus to invite a civil dialogue with those walking by the anti Israel encampment. Even @normfinkelstein asked to debate but we wanted to keep it to MIT students to keep it engaging. Hundreds stopped by and a lot of great… pic.twitter.com/gg2F8wXwgq

— AJ Edelman, OLY, MBA (@realajedelman) May 2, 2024

While Harvard protestors replaced the American flag with Palestine, Harvard Jewish students know that Jewish values are American values and American values are a Jewish values! Please watch and support us 🙏 @yafpic.twitter.com/pTpHKfzKMO

— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) May 2, 2024

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On a recent episode of the COMMENTARY podcast, Tablet’s Noam Blum made an astute point about Benjamin Netanyahu’s staunchest critics: Some of them dislike Bibi so much that they have convinced themselves he has dictatorial powers that mirror those of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas terrorist leader on the other side of the hostage negotiations. According to this line of thinking, anything that happens—or doesn’t happen—can be blamed on Netanyahu, who governs according to his own will.

The May 2 Wall Street Journal gives us a perfect example of what happens when observers buy into that fallacy. The rather amazing headline is: “Fate of Gaza Cease-Fire Talks Hangs on Two Hard-Liners: Netanyahu and Sinwar.”

The article text is more nuanced, but it still follows the same flawed logic. Here is the crux of the argument as it relates to Israel’s prime minister: “Netanyahu, who faced criticism within Israel over the security and intelligence failures around Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war, has seen his sinking polling numbers stabilize as the conflict drags on….He is now concerned about the possibility that the International Criminal Court could indict him for alleged war crimes, an outcome he has rejected as an assault on Israel’s right to self-defense. Stopping the fighting risks a political reckoning that could eventually push him from power.”

It’s true that “stopping the fighting” would start the clock on a wave of political pressure and possibly an election season, if the coalition dissolves. But this framing puts Bibi between a rock and hard place: If he had finished off Hamas already, he would have done so over the objections of the Biden administration. In patiently placing the overall war on pause in order to get more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and to maximize the chances at a deal with Hamas, Netanyahu (along with the war cabinet) is doing what every world leader, but especially Biden, wants him to do. Yet in acquiescing, he is accused of drawing out the war so that he doesn’t have to face a “political reckoning.”

Meanwhile, virtually everyone involved is making it harder for Israel to actually get a deal in place. The anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel have come to serve as a release valve for a public stuck in a limbo mostly of Joe Biden’s making. Those protesters, as Blum mentioned, assume Netanyahu is the obstacle to a deal. But in fact, it is Hamas that has continually walked away from objectively generous deals and appears to be doing so again. Simply as a matter of strategy, the protests arguably contribute to the negotiating stasis, because Hamas interprets them as a destabilizing force in domestic Israeli politics. And Israel’s threats to go into Rafah, the last major Hamas redoubt in the Strip, are consistently muffled by the sound and fury of the Biden administration’s opposition to such an operation, making it less of a credible threat. Hamas can be forgiven for thinking time is on its side.

In January, the Forward carried a head-scratcher of a story: The Nexusites were—in the midst of a global hurricane of left anti-Semitism, no less—building a political operation to challenge IHRA and ensure not only that the American Jewish community spends resources fighting amongst itself but that this intra-communal fight would take on a political shade.

Now, when you read about the Jewish community preparing to punch itself in the stomach, the first question that comes to mind is, of course: How is J Street involved? And the answer is Kevin Rachlin, who announced he was stepping down as a top J Street lobbyist to take the helm of Nexus’s newly formed political operation.

“We’re not anti-IHRA,” said Rachlin about the organization created solely and specifically to oppose IHRA.

In any event, Democratic politicians loved the idea of being able to hand out “get out of anti-Semitism free” cards to party members who were poised to be like teenagers speeding down the highway with a PBA card in the glovebox. In December, reportedly on the advice of Nexus-affiliated activists, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) led a Democratic revolt against Republicans’ attempts to slap down rising anti-Semitism dressed up as criticism of Israel. I explained at the time how Nadler’s own argument disproved the point he was trying to make, but the effect was clear: Whatever semblance of a truce the American Jewish community had going since Oct. 7 was off. We’d been agreeing with each other far too much and it was giving Jerry Nadler indigestion.

Lawler’s bill, helped by Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s efforts, today overcame Nadler’s disapproval to advance a common understanding of anti-Semitism at a crucial time. But the Democrats have been unnerved by the so-called “tentifada”—the various Jew-baiting encampments springing up around college campuses—and a number of powerful politicians are very clearly terrified of the quad-dwellers occupying buildings and making demands.

The hope is that the bipartisan IHRA support can outrun its challengers, or build up enough momentum to shame Nexus into finding better things to do with its time and resources than politicize anti-Semitism and re-divide the Jewish community at a moment when doing so would be especially damaging.

Faced with an opportunity to do something that would actually help give the federal government the ability to punish American universities that have let their campuses become hotbeds of antisemitism, a bipartisan majority of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives did the right thing and passed a bill that can make that possible this week by a vote of 320-91.

But the number of “no” votes was still discouraging for two reasons.

It showed that 21% of House members aren’t willing to act on antisemitism, even in the face of the surge of prejudice and even violence against Jews especially on college campuses that has been on display since the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7.

Just as troubling is the fact that significant portions of both the Democrat and Republican caucuses opposed the act for different, albeit equally specious reasons. The strength of the opposition—both from politicians and pundits on both ends of the political spectrum—is problematic because it demonstrates how distorted the debate about the issue of antisemitism has become. Even worse, the fact that 70 of the 91 voting against it were Democrats may make it unlikely that the self-anointed shomer, or “guardian,” of Israel and the Jewish people in the Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), will allow the law to come to vote in the upper body.

Civil rights also apply to Jews
The Antisemitism Awareness Act builds on the historic executive order issued by former President Donald Trump in December 2019 that echoed the past rulings of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, and accepted in principle by the Biden administration, about dealing with Jew-hatred.

Trump mandated that the government extend the Title VI anti-discrimination in education protections in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jews and other minorities. He also took the important step of also ruling that the U.S. Department of Education must use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism when deciding whether to sanction schools that violate the rights of Jewish students by cutting off their federal funding. And that funding is the leftist educational establishment’s Achilles heel, since without it all but the wealthiest institutions would be brought to their knees.

While the Education Department has conducted a series of investigations into schools for such violations, which have grown in number and severity over the last two decades, to date no institution of higher education has yet received the ultimate penalty for violating the civil rights of its Jewish students by enabling an atmosphere of antisemitic incitement. As we’ve seen in recent weeks, intimidation, harassment and even violence against Jewish students by woke leftist mobs of students, professors and professional agitators have become endemic. With many school administrations, especially at elite institutions, paralyzed by their fear of offending the mobs and often seeking to appease them in ways that will only make the problem worse, stopping federal funding may be the only way to fix the problem in the short run.

As anti-Israel encampments on college campuses sprung up at dozens of universities last week, the national leadership of the College Democrats of America (CDA) asked the group’s Jewish and Muslim caucuses to draft a statement condemning the antisemitism that was quickly appearing among some protesters.

The byzantine process that followed would lead the College Democrats’ top Jewish leader to accuse the influential organization of ignoring antisemitism at campus protests to further a one-sided, anti-Israel agenda, after the organization’s leadership nixed the inclusive statement that had been created by the top Jewish and Muslim activists in the group.

Allyson Bell, chair of the CDA’s national Jewish caucus and an MBA student at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., got to work writing a statement about antisemitism with Hasan Pyarali, the Muslim caucus chair and a senior at Wake Forest University. The two of them turned in a draft of a statement detailing antisemitism at Columbia University and stating that the College Democrats “absolutely and irrevocably denounce the antisemitism that has taken place at Columbia University and other college campuses over the past week,” according to a document shared with Jewish Insider.

But College Democrats’ national leaders weren’t pleased with this draft, Bell stated. “They wanted us to write a 50/50 approach, to both protect the peaceful side of the protesters and stand against antisemitism,” Bell told JI on Wednesday night. So she and Pyarali gave it another stab. (“It’s been really tough for people to work together on this issue, so I’m so glad that we’ve been able to work together,” Pyarali told JI.)

This time, the draft statement began with a denunciation of antisemitism and a statement of support for the “broad and interfaith coalitions of students who call for a ceasefire, release of the hostages, and a two-state solution where both Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace.” This too, was voted down.

The statement that was ultimately released by the College Democrats on Tuesday ignored the middle path proposed by Bell and Pyarali. Instead, the statement described “heroic actions on the part of students around the country to protest and sit in for an end to the war in Palestine and the release of the hostages.” It called Israel’s war against Hamas “destructive, genocidal, and unjust” — language that Bell had never seen. An Instagram post with the statement touted the endorsement of Pyarali and the Muslim caucus, with no mention of the Jewish caucus — except a comment on the post from the Jewish caucus’ own Instagram account.

“This should not have ever been released without Jewish students’ support. Protect Jewish students, do better,” the College Democrats’ Jewish caucus commented.

“It’s a hurtful thing, not only to not feel heard, but also to know that the organization you’re in doesn’t believe that the antisemitism is happening and doesn’t care enough about it to even include the factual things that we’ve seen on video,” explained Bell.

Not only is there absolutely no legal basis to issue arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, doing so now would only reward Hamas and unleash a further firestorm of antisemitism.

Moreover, it will severely curtail every democracy’s fight against radical Islamic terrorism by exposing them to spurious and unfounded charges, based purely on political considerations. There is a reason neither the United States nor Israel have formally ratified the Rome Statute.

The U.S., and indeed all western allies, cannot stand idly by now as the court is dragged into irredeemable disrepute. This is not the time for quiet, timid diplomacy. It must be made clear, in no uncertain terms, that if Khan chooses to proceed with issuing warrants, it will be the death knell of the court’s very legitimacy.

In response to news about the proposed warrants, the White House press secretary said on Monday “We don’t believe the ICC has the jurisdiction, we don’t support this investigation.” Meantime, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said this would also “directly undermine U.S. national security interests,” calling on the Biden administration to “immediately and unequivocally demand that the ICC stand down and the U.S. should use every available tool to prevent such an abomination.”

The administration and Congress should immediately declare that the U.S. will re-impose sanctions on the ICC prosecutor and senior staff that were previously imposed by the Trump administration after the court investigated U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Revoking Prosecutor Khan’s entry visa into the United States must also be raised, and withdrawing the court’s funding, which comes from member states. (Its 2024 budget is $200 million.)

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) perhaps best summed up the gravity of the situation when he said, “the issuance of arrest warrants would represent the culmination of a long process of criminalizing the world’s only Jewish State. The weaponization of international law—in the service of terror—cannot be allowed to stand.”

The decision is now entirely in the hands of ICC Prosecutor Khan; he must either uphold the principles upon which the court was founded and refrain from issuing the warrants or become a willing pawn in the Palestinian lawfare campaign and shut the lights on the court.

Khaled al-Shouli, one of the driving forces behind the International Criminal Court’s potential issuance of an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, defended Hamas’s October 7 attacks, according to a Jewish Chronicle investigation published on Friday.

The ICC’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan has been pursuing potential arrest warrants related to war crimes indictments against Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi - an action that has been critiqued by both the Israeli government and international allies.

Al-Shouli reportedly said in a televised interview with the Algerian Almagharibia channel, screened on October 8th, that the attacks, which saw over 1200 people killed and over 250 more kidnapped, was justified under international law. Al-Should claimed the attacks were a “reaction to Israeli violations.”

While al-Shouli reportedly accepted there may have been “some [war crime or human rights] violations” by Hamas, he claimed, “We know that the Palestinian side has the intention to respect the rules of international law because the Palestinian side has already… become a member of the ICC.” Israel, he went on, was “not committed to international law” because it had not recognized the ICC.

Additionally, French-Algerian lawyer Abdelmajid Mrari described Hamas as a resistance movement. Mrari is also one of the 600 lawyers who had filed evidence in the ICC’s current investigation.

Mrari claimed that, under Article 51 of the UN Charter, Israel had no right to self-defense as it is an “occupier” in Gaza, according to the Jewish Chronicle. Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

Defending terrorist groups in court
Both Mrari and al-Shouli have reportedly represented Hamas or its members in previous court actions.

Mrari, in 2023, filed an action on behalf of a senior Hamas figure and several other demanding that Israel lift the “siege” on Gaza. The same Hamas official represented by Mrari, Ahmad Bahar, asked Allah to “kill the Jews and their supporters, the Americans and their supporters, without leaving a single one” in a 2012 televised sermon, the JC reported.

Ignoring their terrorist status in Europe, the France-based Mrari has claimed that Hamas are “the resistance” and a “resistance movement” in several public incidents since October 8th.

Likewise, al-Shouli has previously challenged the EU designation of Hamas as terrorists. In 2014, al-Shouli was successful but the decision was appealed three years later.

Caroline Glick fmr Netanyahu Senior Policy Advisor and host of the Caroline Glick Show, joins Bianca de la Garza on Newsmax TV to discuss Blinken's meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem. May 2, 2024.

The ICC Prosecutor is seizing powers he doesn't possess to issue arrest warrants against Israeli leaders for crimes they haven't committed based on blood libels propagated by genocidal terrorists.
And now that his obscene, anti-Semitic, illegal actions are coming under fire,… https://t.co/aJXwHg3CYI

— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) May 3, 2024

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is poised to join Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress, despite tensions between the Israeli leader and many Democrats over the ongoing war in the Middle East.

Johnson told The Hill this week that he sent Schumer a draft invitation around a month ago, but the Senate leader has been sitting on it since.

“I sent a letter draft, because it’s a bicameral invitation letter, it’s been sitting on Chuck Schumer’s desk. As far as I know he has not cosigned it yet,” Johnson said, adding that it was sent “probably a month ago.”.

But now, Schumer is ready to sign on, according to his office.

“He intends to join the invitation, the timing is being worked out,” the Senate leader’s spokesperson told The Hill.

The Hill was first to report on Johnson’s draft invitation and Schumer’s plan to sign it.

Netanyahu’s visit — if it does materialize — is sure to spark outrage among liberals, who have strongly criticized the prime minister’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war and the growing number of civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.

It will also come amid a tense moment in the relationship between Schumer — the highest-ranking Jewish official in U.S. history — and Netanyahu, after the Senate leader called for new elections in Israel to replace the longtime conservative leader.

Schumer in a speech on the Senate floor said Netanyahu had “lost his way,” comments that the Israeli prime minister called “totally inappropriate.”

Johnson first floated the idea of inviting Netanyahu to the Capitol in March, after it was brought up during a closed-door House GOP conference meeting. The next day, however, he said he would “certainly” extend an invitation.

“I would love to have him come and address a joint session of Congress,” Johnson told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in an interview. “We’ll certainly extend that invitation.”

MUST WATCH

During an interview with a Norwegian journalist, Hxmas leader Osama Hamdan was questioned about the killing of civilians during the October 7th massacres.

When Hamdan falsely denied the accusations, the Norwegian interviewer presented him with videos showing his own… pic.twitter.com/4taMdptSnB

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 2, 2024

Britain on Friday announced new sanctions on "extremist Israeli groups" and several individuals who it said were behind violence in the West Bank, according to a statement from the British foreign ministry.

This is the second UK sanction package targeting individuals in the West Bank, with the first being announced by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in mid-February.

This most recent announcement was made by British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, with the sanctions specifically against two groups and four individuals "responsible for perpetrating human rights abuses" against Palestinian communities. The most recent sanctions include an asset freeze preventing the targeted Israeli groups and individuals from dealing with funds with UK citizens or businesses, and a travel ban to the United Kingdom.

The two groups are Hilltop Youth and Lehava, with the former being described by the ministry which "establishes illegal settler outposts across the West Bank with the stated mission of expelling all Palestinians from the Occupied Territories." The latter was accused of also "facilitating, inciting, and promoting violence against Arab and Palestinian communities."

Who are the sanctioned individuals?
The four individuals sanctioned are Noam Federman, former leader and spokesperson of the now defunct Kach party, who was accused of training settler groups to commit violence against Palestinians and avoid repercussions; Neria Ben Pazi, for building illegal outposts between 2015-2023; Eden Levi, who was documented taking parts in assaults of Palestinians, and has now been accused by the British foreign ministry of being involved in an incident where Palestinians were beaten and sexually assaulted five days after October 7; and Elisha Yered, an unofficial spokesperson for Hilltop Youth who has allegedly made statements inciting violence that include justifying Palestinian deaths for religious reasons and called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank.

"Extremist settlers are undermining security and stability and threatening prospects for peace," Cameron said. "The Israeli authorities must clamp down on those responsible." Cameron also threatened that the UK would apply further sanctions should Israel not abide by his demands on the settlers.

“Jews are being murdered and raped so we are sanctioning Jews to show balance” https://t.co/Gc2CyBEDt0

— Richard Millett (@RichMillett) May 3, 2024

Iran’s massive, unprecedented missile and drone attack on April 13 was a game changer. Iran had spent decades in the shadows working to arm and deploy a global network of terrorists and militias. On April 13, it stepped out of the shadows, putting its true murderous intent on display for the world to see.

The right honourable Suella Braverman was the British Home Secretary when the Iran-sponsored October 7 Massacre happened.

She joins Eylon Levy on State of a Nation during a special personal solidarity visit to bear witness to the horrors of 10/7. To dive into how the UK’s intelligence services are battling Iranian attacks on Britain’s own soil and how the IRGC is trying to undermine the institutions of the West.

In the latest example of a deep-seated anti-Israel bias within the International Committee of the Red Cross, the head of the ICRC’s office in Algeria and director of the Libya subdelegation has been outed as a pro-Hamas shill.

Geneva-based, pro-Israel group U.N. Watch exposed the pro-terrorist sentiments of the ICRC official, who appears to be based in Montreal.

“Meet Haythem ‘Ethan’ Abid. He runs the International Red Cross in Montreal. His job is to be neutral. But Abid marches in ‘Free Palestine’ rallies, posts Hamas videos saying hostages love their captors and accuses Israel of ‘terrorism’ &‘genocide.’ He says: ‘Fuck neutral s**t,'” tweeted U.N. Watch’s Hillel Neuer on April 30.

U.N. Watch found numerous questionable posts on Abid’s Facebook page, including one from Oct. 24, 2023, in which he is seen holding a large PLO flag at a protest two days earlier.

The rally was co-organized by “Montreal4Palestine,” an antisemitic group, which posted on social media on Oct. 7, the day of the Hamas massacre, an image of a bowl of candy with the words “Celebration” and “The Journey has Begun.”

Hamas members regularly hand out candy to passers-by in the Gaza Strip after a successful terrorist attack.

On Oct. 27, 2023, Abid posted a flyer on Facebook for another anti-Israel rally co-sponsored by the “Palestinian Youth Movement,” which openly supports terrorist “martyrs.”

On Nov. 14, 2023, Abid posted a Hamas propaganda video on Facebook hailing the fact that Israel had not yet defeated Hamas.

In a Facebook post the day after the Oct. 7 massacre, he posted a photo of the 2000 killing of Muhammad al-Durrah in the Gaza Strip, even though the incident was exposed years ago as a staged “Pallywood” scene, in which no one was hurt.

“Abid’s intention was clear: He was attempting to justify the killing, maiming, raping and torture of innocent civilians that took place in Israel on October 7, as merited retribution,” U.N. Watch said.

.@antonioguterres

Choosing to inflame hatred and push fake news in a volatile and tense situation is irresponsible and dangerous.

The bodies you are referencing were buried by Palestinians. We searched for the bodies of Israeli hostages, examined the bodies and returned them… https://t.co/I68NdwPve5

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) May 2, 2024

Never have tyrannies been more united.

Never has there been a greater urgency for democracies to unite—and to support the heroes of our time who risk everything to defy dictatorships.

Announcing the 16th Geneva Summit for Human Rights: https://t.co/DftLEoSJxM@GenevaSummitpic.twitter.com/K4UgyDjfUp

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 2, 2024

Years ago, when researching the Jewish community of Vilnius, I came across an account of the formation in 1927 of a Yiddish PEN Club in that city. The members were proud, especially in an era of rising anti-Semitism, to have their Jewish language recognized by this newly formed international literary league, whose founders included Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells. How things have changed, as Lionel Shriver explains:
PEN America has now been forced to cancel its World Voices literary festival in New York and LA, on the heels of also cancelling its 2024 awards ceremony. Too many authors had withdrawn from both events to make going ahead with staging either practicable. The reason for so many writers flouncing from these programs? PEN’s failure to denounce publicly Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. But you had probably guessed the point of indignation already, because as of October 2023, the Anglosphere’s far left has neatly pivoted from the infantilization of black people to the Palestinian cause with the coordinated grace of a synchronized swimmer.

To clarify: the purpose of PEN is to defend freedom of speech and to protect writers from political oppression and persecution. . . . It requires considerable intellectual acrobatics for Writers Against the War on Gaza to regard the shutting down of events to advance free expression as “a win for free expression.”

But then, the past fifteen years have demonstrated with depressing clarity that writers, along with artists of every stripe, aren’t special. Although our occupation is more at risk from censorship than most, we’re all too capable of perversely embracing suppressive viewpoints that violate our own interest. . . . We’re cowards, conformists, and copycats. Real freedom of expression is too scary; we’d rather hide in a crowd whose keffiyeh-masked members all shout the same thing.

UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Hamas terrorists for more than six months.

In announcing the award Thursday, Mauricio Weibel, chair of the international jury of media professionals, said, “In these times of darkness and hopelessness, we wish to share a strong message of solidarity and recognition to those Palestinian journalists who are covering this crisis in such dramatic circumstances.

“As humanity, we have a huge debt to their courage and commitment to freedom of expression.”

Audrey Azoulay, director-general at the UN organization for education, science and culture, said the prize paid “tribute to the courage of journalists facing difficult and dangerous circumstances.”

According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 97 members of the press have been killed since the war broke out in October, 92 of whom were Palestinians.

Israel denies targeting journalists in the war zone, and says it makes every effort to avoid harming civilians, blaming the high death toll on the fact that Hamas fights in densely populated urban areas and embeds itself deliberately among civilians who are used as human shields. In a statement on December 16, the Israeli army said “the IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists.”

There have been several cases in which the army said slain individuals identified as journalists were in fact operatives of terror groups.

The Pulitzer Prize committee might be awarding Journalism’s top prize to a photographer who praised Hitler.
Use your voice. Tweet @pulitzerprizes@nicole_carroll or email pulitzer@pulitzer.org and demand they take a moral and ethical stand. pic.twitter.com/1bzNE0p9ZU

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 3, 2024

Israel gave Hamas a week to agree to a cease-fire deal, or the invasion of Rafah will begin, Egyptian officials told the Wall Street Journal on Friday.

Egyptian officials claimed that Hamas is seeking a long-term truce and guarantees from the US that a cease-fire will be respected by Israel.

Hamas expressed concern that the latest proposal is still too vague and gives Israel room to restart the fighting.

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's Gaza chief, has yet to make his view known, further complicating the situation.

Israeli figures from across the right slammed the deal when it was announced earlier in the week.

Proposal details
The proposal calls for an initial period of up to 40 days of cessation of violence, during which Hamas would release up to 33 hostages, with the possible negotiation of a long-term cease-fire to develop.

Next, there would be a cease-fire of at least six weeks, during which Hamas and Israel would agree on a larger hostage release and an extended pause in fighting that could last up to a year.

Egypt invited senior Hamas officials to Cairo to continue negotiations, and Hamas confirmed they would be present.

Neither the US nor Israel commented on the report.

Netanyahu has persisted in insisting that Israel will enter Rafah regardless of whether a deal is made or not.

The Gaza Ministry of Health cannot provide names of more than 10,000 of the 34,000 individuals it says have died during the war between Israel and Hamas. While the Health Ministry conceded earlier this month that it has “incomplete data” for nearly one-third of the deceased, this is the first admission that it lacks an essential data point necessary to establish these deaths have even taken place.

The Gaza Health Ministry is an arm of the Hamas-run government in Gaza. On April 24, to mark the 200th day of the war Hamas started, the ministry released a graphic in which it reiterated the claim that hostilities have taken more than 34,000 lives, adding that only 24,000 of the dead are “martyrs whose idintities [sic] are recognized.” On April 28, a Wall Street Journal story about the ministry’s data confirmed, “Around 10,000 people included in the Health Ministry’s official death toll haven’t been identified.”

At the outset of the war, the ministry compiled casualty figures by collecting information from Gaza hospitals, which provided the names of the deceased. When Israeli military operations disrupted the ministry’s communication with medical facilities in Gaza, the ministry began to rely on what it described as “reliable media sources” for information about possible deaths. The ministry neither identified these sources nor the criteria according to which it assessed the credibility of their information.

The proportion of data derived from media sources increased sharply as the war progressed. As of December 31, the ministry reported 6,629 deaths based on media information, or 30.2 percent of the total at the time. During the first three months of 2024, media sources accounted for an additional 8,441 deaths, or 77.7 percent of all fatalities reported during the first quarter.

The Hamas-Israel war that began on October 7 has become a source of international tension, debate, and dispute. One of the key data points in war reporting has been the count of fatalities.

Institute researcher Gabriel Epstein has investigated the methodology used by Gaza authorities to measure the number of deaths in the conflict. His two studies revealed complexities and contradictions in accurately reporting the civilian and military losses.

In this video published on April 25, Institute Segal Executive Director Robert Satloff interviews Epstein on his findings.

Israel's targeting process is sophisticated and far exceeds ours during the ISIS campaign when it comes to minimizing civilian casualties.

Israel is at 1:1 to 1:2

The U.S. ISIS campaign 1:10 to 1:60

Facts will not change the minds of weak politicians and Tehran's useful idiots… pic.twitter.com/wYtCk40Wfa

— Michael P Pregent (@MPPregent) May 3, 2024

From his Jerusalem office, Knesset Speaker @AmirOhana, explores critical issues facing Israel, including the US’ military aid package for Israel, waning support in the political fringes in American politics and society, the need for societal unity in Israel, the potential arrest… pic.twitter.com/hvqzsTw21X

— Gabriel Groisman (@GabeGroisman) May 2, 2024

I already looked up this case,
Here are key details:
1) they were igniting explosives at the forces, one of them was found with a pipe explosive and a lighter
2) they were affiliated with Hamas
3) it was during a shootout of which also two adult Hamas militants were eliminated.… https://t.co/jog7WgoAjnpic.twitter.com/LIw2gy2lOY

— Adin - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) May 3, 2024

US CENTCOM announced on Friday that it had suspended the construction of the floating pier off of Gaza and had handed over control to Israel.

The pier has been partially built and is being moved to the Port of Ashdod due to unsafe weather conditions.

The pier's construction will be finished before being placed on the Gaza shoreline where aid can be directly delivered to the population.

Approximately one thousand US troops will be involved in the construction of the pier system Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS), CNN reported. The pier could also, upon its completion, deliver as many as 150 trucks of aid and food to Gaza's civilian population.

Hopes that the pier could've been completed sooner
The report also cited US Defense officials admitting their hope that the pier would be fully complete by Friday. Officials also told CNN that state sea conditions have been impeding the work of the personnel involved in its construction. The report notes that one difficult task is for military divers to work underneath the pier to make sure that all parts are stable.

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters that the pier will cost at least $320 million. The cost includes transportation of equipment, construction, and aid delivery operations.

Hamas managed to seize a major shipment of humanitarian aid that was delivered to Gaza from Jordan earlier this week, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Thursday, after the supplies were the first to be shipped to the enclave through a newly reopened Israeli border crossing.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken viewed the aid on Tuesday just before it departed from the headquarters of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization in Amman bound for the renovated crossing into the Gaza Strip at Erez, which was largely destroyed by Hamas during its October 7 terror onslaught that sparked the ongoing war.

The reopening of Erez, Israel’s sole crossing on the northern edge of Gaza, had been a main plea of international aid agencies for months, to alleviate the humanitarian situation which is believed to be most severe among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the north of the enclave.

According to Miller, the aid shipment was unloaded by the Jordanian military inside the Strip before being “picked up by a humanitarian implementer for distribution inside Gaza, and that aid was intercepted and diverted by Hamas on the ground in Gaza.”

“The UN is either in the process or has by now recovered that aid, but it was an unacceptable act by Hamas to divert this aid to begin with,” he said during a press briefing.

Miller added that UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, would likely issue a statement soon condemning the incident, indicating it was the organization from which Hamas stole the aid.

“If there’s one thing that Hamas could do to jeopardize the shipment of aid, it would be diverting it for their own use, rather than allowing it to go to the innocent civilians that need it,” he said, claiming this was the “first widespread case of diversion that we have seen” in Gaza.

Hamas held the aid trucks for “some time” before releasing them, according to Miller.

WILD FOOTAGE

Hamas, who are in control of the aid trucks, are seen using live fire against Palestinians.

Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/6yCtT66IVO

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 2, 2024

During the month of April, we saw a great surge in the amount of humanitarian aid going into Gaza, with ongoing international efforts to develop new aid routes into Gaza.

We’ve said it the whole time - There is no limit to the amount of aid that can be facilitated into Gaza, and… pic.twitter.com/S9Kkw3bkwV

— COGAT (@cogatonline) May 3, 2024

14 million pounds of food in one day (May 1).

508,815 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza since the beginning of the war.

📸 @cogatonlinepic.twitter.com/xTXtZBXONQ

— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) May 2, 2024

Elyakim Libman, who was thought to have been abducted by Hamas on October 7, has been declared dead after his body was found in Israel.

The IDF says military representatives, along with members of the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Health Ministry, notified Libman’s family of the findings today.

His death was based on “findings that were identified following a complex investigation” carried out by the IDF, police, Institute of Forensic Medicine and Health Ministry, the military says.

Libman was working as a security guard at the Supernova desert rave on October 7, when Hamas terrorists launched an assault at the party, killing and kidnapping partygoers.

According to his family, Libman stayed behind for hours treating other wounded people until he was killed.

He was initially thought to have been taken hostage, as his body was not found. According to Hebrew-language media reports, his remains had been buried alongside another victim from the Nova festival, in an error.

Breaking: The body of Elyakim Libman, 23, who was initially considered to be a hostage, was found today in Israel. He was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7th.

His body was found inside the grave of Victoria Gorilov, who was murdered at the Nova festival. Elyakim's… pic.twitter.com/vInWGOhVMa

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 3, 2024

Crushing 💔

Dror Or, an Israeli resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, was abducted from his home on October 7th and has now been declared dead. His body is currently being held by Hamas in Gaza.

Dror's abduction occurred alongside his two children, Noam, aged 17, and Alma, aged 13, when… pic.twitter.com/VIH5EqPWNm

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 2, 2024

Today we learned that Dror Or, an Israeli father, was murdered by terrorists and his body is being held in Gaza.

His children - Noam and Alma - were taken hostage from their home and released in November. When they returned to Israel, they learned that their mother had been… pic.twitter.com/4858jD7X79

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 3, 2024

October 7 was the moment the music died. Rockets in the sky, death squads on their way. Hamas’ invasion of Israel had begun. The partygoers at the Nova Music Festival, an EDM party just five kilometers from the Gaza Strip, were sitting ducks. Terrorists gunned them down as they fled for their lives, burned people alive in their cars as they tried to escape, and lobbed grenades into concrete shelters to blow them limb from limb. Unknown numbers were r*ped, even gang r*ped in the most horrific of conditions. By the time the massacre was over, 379 people had been slaughtered including 15 police officers. And another forty-one were abducted, taken into the Gaza Strip — more than 33 are still trapped there, six months later.

Lahav Deri escaped by the skin of his teeth. He was at the festival with his two younger brothers, who also survived — one of them, only just. And when he got home, battered and bruised, he did the most Israeli thing possible — he grabbed his gun and went to help his reserves unit, still battling terrorists committing massacres across the country’s south.

October 7 first responder Eran Masas describes how he jumped in a car and drove towards the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival the second he knew what was happening.

“I know that if I’m not going to be there, I don’t know who else is going to be there,” Mr Masas told Sky News host Erin Molan.

“Because this is my home, and I need to protect my home.

“At the first time, I’m not thinking at all; I’m just thinking like a … parent that wants to protect his children.

“I tell myself that I can’t be emotional at that moment; I must do actions like a robot and leave my feelings beside and just save who I can save from that situation.”

NYT Columnist and Duke Professor Frank Bruni says that college students viewing the world through an oppressor vs. oppressed paradigm has led them to advocating for Hamas and not even stopping to learn about what happened in Israel on October 7.

"A lot of college students in… pic.twitter.com/QZ3ADWkzkg

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 3, 2024

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The widow of Tal Chaimi — a resident of Kibbutz Nir Yitzchak in Israel who was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 — gave birth to a baby boy on Thursday at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.

Ella Chaimi is now the single parent of four children, including 9-year-old twins and a six-year-old. “This birth is filled with mixed emotions as I welcome into the world our child who brings with him lots of joy while also remembering Tal, who was a wonderful husband and father,” she said in a released statement. “I wish he was here with us right now.”

Idit Engel, a midwife at Beilinson Hospital, said that Chaimi and her family “have been through devastation, and I hope that this baby brings them much joy.”

“I have known Ella for many years and have cared for her during her previous pregnancies,” added Beilinson’s Women’s Hospital Prof. Arnono Weisnizer. “I know her and her family well having previously worked in the Gaza envelope, and my heart breaks for what they have gone through. Their family has been through dark times, and the birth of this baby is a light for them and for the people of Israel.”

Tal, 41, was taken as a hostage by Hamas terrorists as they attacked Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak during their assault across southern Israel on Oct. 7. A third-generation member of the kibbutz, he was part of the Nir Yitzhak rapid response team and went out during the early hours of Oct. 7 to confront terrorists invading the community. Ella hid in the safe room of the family’s house with her children while Tal and the rest of the kibbutz’s response team were out protecting the community.

Tal’s death was confirmed by authorities on Dec. 13. He was killed on Oct. 7, and his body is believed to be held by terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

Just received my candles to light on 5 May, please make sure to buy#yellowcandle@yadvashemUKpic.twitter.com/5nccpRuj82

— Katie Brill (@Katiebrill) May 3, 2024

The United States cannot move forward on a defense pact with Saudi Arabia unless the deal also includes a normalization agreement with Israel, US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) told The Jerusalem Post.

“There will not be 67 votes in the United States Senate for a defense agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States that doesn’t have an Israeli component,” he said in a telephone interview late Thursday. “That’s been true from day one and remains true.”

Graham has worked to promote a normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel from across the aisle, even though it would give a boost to US President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. He has shuttled between Washington, Riyadh, and Jerusalem to push the matter forward.

The Israel part of the agreement has always been viewed as necessary to sway Republicans to support the deal. The approval of 67 out of 100 senators is needed because the defense pact between Washington and Riyadh is at the level of a treaty. Being that there are 48 Democratic senators, 49 Republicans, and three independents, the only way to move forward is with bipartisan support.

The US has hit an important goal post by finishing this important pillar of the deal, which is the defense pact, Graham said.

“Once that has been achieved, then we turn our attention to the Palestinian file and normalization,” he told the Post. “I don’t think Saudi Arabia is going to talk about the Palestinian issue or normalization until they lock down a deal with the United States. If I were them, I would not. I would want to make sure I got what I needed from the United States before I started that conversation.”

As the war between Israel and Hamas drags on, Saudi Arabia is intensifying arrests of citizens for social media posts criticizing Israel or expressing pro-Palestinian views, according to Bloomberg.

The wave of detentions signals Riyadh’s eagerness to pursue diplomatic ties with Israel—provided it commits to Palestinian statehood—and its determination to quash any dissent that could derail normalization efforts, per the reports.

However, the crackdown underscores Saudi Arabia’s broader restrictions on free speech and political expression. Riyadh-based diplomats and human rights groups state that the latest series of arrests are driven by security concerns distinctly connected to the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of Israel and the events that unfolded in its wake, to prevent online rhetoric that could impact national security.

The arrests have targeted individuals whose online comments about the Gaza war were deemed incendiary by authorities, even if the posts were over a decade old.

Oh, nothing to see here. Just @EspenBarthEide, the Foreign Minister of Norway, posing for a smiling photo next to a protestor holding a sign “Fuck Israel” (and by the way, also @NATO and Capitalism).

And Israel is supposed to trust Norway as an honest actor? pic.twitter.com/pAQn6YyN4l

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) May 3, 2024

BERNIE SANDERS: "This may be Biden's Vietnam" pic.twitter.com/rQaOjaIv8h

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2024

A video posted by far-left anti-Jewish agitators at the University of Oregon has revealed one "Squad" member's message urging them to continue their aggressive actions.

The video of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., appeared in multiple social media posts across a number of platforms earlier this week and was posted by Free Palestine Eugene and the UO Palestine Coalition, two groups supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and involved in the setup of a protest encampment at the University of Oregon.

"I'm here to tell you all, I love you. Thank you for this. Just know the incredible power that you all have to, again, move our country in the right direction. So thank you all so much. Thank you, thank you," Tlaib said in the Zoom call that protesters were able to watch on their individual phones.

Her message to the protesters marks the latest instance when she has shown sympathy to antisemitic causes and actions as a frequent critic of Israel.

Amid the breakout of anti-Jewish protests at universities across the country last month, Tlaib criticized administrations for cracking down on those occupying and causing disturbances in public spaces.

"From UM to Vanderbilt to USC to Columbia, students across our country are being retaliated against for using their constitutional rights to protest genocide. It’s appalling," Tlaib wrote on X in response to a post by Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, who was arrested while protesting at Columbia University.

"Our country isn’t just complicit in this genocide — we’re actively participating in it," she wrote in another post on X, while calling on the Biden administration to stop supplying the Jewish state with arms.

Despite Tlaib's concerns over campus responses to student protests, she has refused to call out the antisemitism seen at some gatherings in which Jewish students have been targeted, and even took part in a protest at the University of Michigan on April 24.

Great ad from @SandyPensler highlighting @ElissaSlotkin’s silence on her fellow Democrat, Rashida Tlaib

Brutal—but important footage used herepic.twitter.com/G7pHacQoBS

— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) May 2, 2024

Rashida Tlaib is a great foil for Michigan Republicans—@MikeRogersForMI has been teeing off for her for months in his #MISEN campaign pic.twitter.com/CW3CxU9AMV

— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) May 2, 2024

A group of University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work students have threatened to protest the school’s May 17 graduation over the scheduled keynote speaker, Sen. Ben Cardin, (D-MD), the state’s senior senator and a pro-Israel stalwart.

In a letter published on Tuesday, social work students wrote that Cardin’s “pro-war foreign policy positions are antithetical to social work values.” They requested that the senator, who is Jewish, be canceled as speaker and instead be replaced by Dr. Wendy Shaia, an associate professor at the social work school and executive director of the Center for Restorative Change.

“Given Cardin’s positions and actions regarding Israel and Palestine in the past and since October 7th, his selection sends an unsettling pro-war political message to members of our school community who are anti-war,” the letter states, pointing to Cardin’s 2015 vote against the Iran nuclear deal, his 2017 co-sponsoring of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act and his support of Israel’s current war against Hamas.

If the request is not fulfilled, the letter states that “there exists the possibility that people may express their anti-war opinions in a public manner.”

In response, the school’s Jewish Affinity Group spearheaded a counterpetition on Thursday, a copy of which was obtained by Jewish Insider. The letter, which has not yet been sent to the administration, thanks the university’s School of Social Work for selecting Cardin and defends the decision.

“Ben Cardin is also a Jew who believes Jews have a right to self-determination in a land where they’re indisputably indigenous — Israel,” the letter, which garnered some 115 signatures in its first day, reads. “Should Senator Ben Cardin be canceled as a result?”

A spokesperson for UMB SSW did not immediately respond to inquiry regarding whether the school is considering canceling Cardin as speaker.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has been trying to ingratiate himself with President Joe Biden even as his left-wing, anti-Israel record in Congress has alienated moderate Democratic voters to the point where he could lose a hotly contested primary against Westchester County Executive George Latimer next month.

But in a sign of the Squad-aligned lawmaker’s ideological commitments undermining his political prospects, his support of the anti-Israel campus protesters has underscored how far his views are from Biden’s. In the same week that Bowman defended Columbia University protesters taking over and occupying a building on campus and decried “heavy-handed repression” from the NYPD, Biden condemned the violent protests that have swept college campuses in a White House address.

The prominence of antisemitism as a major political issue across the country couldn’t come at a worse time for Bowman, who faces a heated Democratic primary against Latimer on June 25.

Notably, in recent weeks, Bowman had been trying to showcase his support of the president, with his campaign even touting the fact that the congressman voted for Biden in the New York presidential primary over an “uncommitted” option to protest the Biden administration’s approach to the Israel-Hamas war. Bowman’s spokesman said he voted for the president because the two “are close allies in combating gun violence and climate change.”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) urged Democrats in her home state of Michigan and elsewhere to vote “uncommitted” rather than for Biden in the presidential primary as a means of protesting his continued support of aid to Israel. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said last month that she did not vote in Minnesota’s presidential primary, though she praised uncommitted voters for using the primary to send a message to Biden.

And instead of joining the anti-Israel protesters outside a recent Westchester County fundraiser for Biden’s reelection bid, Bowman opted to take part in the event alongside the president. Bowman even received a shoutout from the president during his 20-minute speech to the crowd, with Biden saying he and former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) need “to win in November.”

Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman says he “met with so-called pro-Israel students” who told him they’re actually seeing “minimum” antisemitism and that it’s all “overblown” pic.twitter.com/meAAtlApDW

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2024

200th Ilhan Omar scandal just dropped:
'Poor refugee girl' who libels Jews with a fake genocide on the daily is the daughter of an actual REAL genocider. Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/tkOVFYl1DJ

— Ron M. (@Jewtastic) May 2, 2024

Local council election results signal the Labour Party stands to lose out on Muslim votes at the next general election over its stance on the war in Gaza.

The party suffered a shock defeat in Oldham, Greater Manchester, last night, losing control of the local council to Independent candidates. It performed most poorly in wards with large Muslim populations.

The loss has been attributed to Sir Keir Starmer’s initial refusal to back calls for a ceasefire in Gaza within the first few weeks of the war. Comments made by the Labour leader on LBC radio in October where he appeared to back Israel shutting off power and water in Gaza featured on opposition leaflets circulated during the campaign, pushing the issue front and centre of voters’ minds.

Following the broadcast, Sir Keir addressed the furore, insisting he had only been supporting Israel’s right to self-defence.

In an article for the BBC, Sir John Curtice, widely considered to be the UK’s pre-eminent pollster, noted there were signs that Labour may have suffered somewhat “in places where many people identify as Muslim” and this was “most likely a reflection of their discontent with Labour’s stance on the war in Gaza”.

He added: “On average, the party’s support is down by eight points since last year in wards where more than 10 per cent of people identify as Muslim.”

The Palestinian “resistance” (from the River to the Sea) has been exported globally. It spring-boarded from October 7, drawing in multitudes of followers and leading them to believe that they are part of a social justice movement. They don’t realize that they are being played for fools by a movement that is rooted in Islam’s 1,400-year history. The latest example of this is an incident in Oakville, Ontario’s largest town near Toronto: “HDSB investigates after ‘harmful’ language directed at student wearing keffiyeh,” CHCH, April 29, 2024:
An educator at an Oakville high school was caught on video telling a student that his keffiyeh reminds her of a terrorist.

The staff member has since been removed from the school and is facing an investigation for what the school is calling “discriminatory anti-Palestinian racist language.”

The warning by the teacher at Iroquois Ridge High School in Oakville is a valid one. The school however is calling her warning “discriminatory anti-Palestinian racist language.”

The teacher’s suspension is ridiculous on its face. Reuters reported the truth about the keffiyeh back in December:
It has become an emblem of solidarity with the Palestinian cause as war rages between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. It has also become a problem for those wearing it.

Supporters of Israel see the chequered scarf as a provocation and a sign of backing for what they see as terrorism.

Thousands of people have worn keffiyehs in huge protests in Britain and elsewhere in support of the Palestinians and calling for a ceasefire in the conflict.

The most hilarious is when Irish wear it for "solidarity with the oppressed" pic.twitter.com/HQk5JKr7jA

— Adin - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) May 3, 2024

Turkey has ceased all exports and imports to and from Israel as of Thursday, according to the Turkish trade ministry.

“Export and import transactions related to Israel have been stopped, covering all products,” the ministry said in a statement, citing the “humanitarian tragedy” in the Palestinian territories as the reason.

“Turkey will strictly and decisively implement these new measures until the Israeli government allows an uninterrupted and sufficient flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza,” the trade ministry added.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded forcefully to Ankara, accusing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of violating agreements by blocking ports for Israeli imports and exports.

“This is how a dictator behaves, disregarding the interests of the Turkish people and businessmen, and ignoring international trade agreements,” Katz wrote on X/Twitter.

Katz said he directed Israel’s foreign ministry to pursue alternatives for trade with Turkey, emphasizing a focus on local production and imports from other countries.

“Israel will emerge with a strong and daring economy,” he added. “We win, and they lose.”

The two countries had a trade volume of $6.8 billion last year.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday of acting like a “dictator” by blocking the country’s ports to Israeli imports and exports as part of a trade war.

“This is how a dictator behaves, disregarding the interests of the Turkish people and businessmen, and ignoring international trade agreements,” Katz wrote on the social media platform X.

Katz said he instructed his office to devise alternative trade routes that bypass Turkey while focusing on boosting local production and imports from other international partners.

.@RTErdogan is breaking agreements by blocking ports for Israeli imports and exports. This is how a dictator behaves, disregarding the interests of the Turkish people and businessmen, and ignoring international trade agreements. I have instructed the Director General of the…

— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) May 2, 2024

“These people are being subjected to violence, cruelty, suffering, and even torture for saying the massacre has to stop.” - Turkish 🇹🇷 President Tayyip Erdogan on the campus protests in the US

Just going to leave this here 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/7KYG1Lvteo

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 2, 2024

Orange County California Imam Tarik Ata Addresses Muslim Students in Campus Encampments: Allah Will Reward You for the Fear, Anger, Pain You Inflict on These Cruel People, Enemies of Humanity pic.twitter.com/ii4NH8WWIk

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 3, 2024

Islamists March in Hamburg Germany in Support of an Islamic Caliphate, Chant: Stop German Dictatorship #Germanypic.twitter.com/jFBegtNQaK

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 3, 2024

As part of the New York Times‘ regular ongoing series of Sunday opinion section logorrheic attacks on Israel, Nicholas Kristof recently weighed in with a super-long article that added precisely nothing to what everyone already knew about the events in the Middle East and Kristof’s view of them.

To fill out an article as long as Kristof’s without any original thought required a lot of reporting, and Kristof was determined to demonstrate that he did that, padding the piece with quotations from an endless parade of people who he described as experts.

Yet many the people Kristof quoted were longtime critics of Israel and its elected government, or just people who agreed with Kristof.

Kristof quoted US Sen. Chris Van Hollen, identifying him only as “a Maryland Democrat and foreign policy expert.” Yet since the Hamas terror group’s massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, Van Hollen has gone off the deep end. A Baltimore Jewish Times editorial recently reported, “Van Hollen’s relentless attacks against Israel have been so offensive that they recently prompted an unprecedented public letter of reprimand from nearly 80 Maryland rabbis from across the state and denominational affiliations expressing deep concern about Van Hollen and his pronouncements. In the rabbis’ words, they are ‘aghast’ at Van Hollen’s anti-Israel rhetoric.”

The editorial derided Van Hollen’s “self-righteous spewing of anti-Israel accusations and positions.” It concluded, “We face the uncomfortable reality that Chris Van Hollen is not our friend.” Kristof didn’t mention any of that.

A BBC correspondent has accused the broadcaster of having a pro-Israel bias, urging his employer to question the 'facts' of Hamas' October 7 attacks.

Rami Ruhayem, a Lebanon-based journalist for BBC Arabic, accused the BBC of bias in an email sent to hundreds of staff, prompting complaints from Jewish workers.

In the correspondence, he claimed the BBC had failed to properly investigate claims made by Israel about Hamas' deadly incursion into southern Israel last year.

'Why does the BBC seem to have steered away from the growing body of evidence that casts doubt on the official Israeli version of the events of October 7?' he wrote.

The email provoked concerns from Jewish staffers at the BBC, according to The Times, which reported staff are understood to have launched a formal complaint.

'Nothing has quietened down,' one told the newspaper, accusing the BBC of failing to adequately tackle anti-Semitism across its network. 'It's a s**t show.'

The email was shared with the BBC's director-general Tim Davie, as well as news chief executive Deborah Turness and staff from the BBC Asian Network, Radio 4, Radio 5 live and the BBC's foreign language service.

Ruhayem said that the BBC's forum set up to interrogate concerns over its coverage of a deeply sensitive and unsettling conflict were 'little more than a short-lived venting exercise' and said that his concerns had been ignored.

'Words like 'massacre', 'slaughter' and 'atrocities' are being used prominently in reference to actions by Hamas, but hardly, if at all, in reference to actions by Israel,' an extract from the email seen by The Times read.

'Does this not raise the question of the possible complicity of the BBC in incitement, dehumanisation and war propaganda?'

The email was reported to have drawn backlash from a number of Jewish employees, who told The Times they found it 'sickening'.

One employee told The Times the email had 'caused a lot of anger and upset'.

The outlet reported that Liliane Landor, director of the BBC World Service, advised Mr Ruhayem to use the appropriate channels for feedback on coverage.

How many times @lbc rolls out the red carpet for this horrific man and his blood libels and lies: "more than 100,000 maimed and killed", "genocide". Even @AndrewMarr9 provides the lie of "disease and famine". The Marr show is constantly pure incitement against British Jews. https://t.co/93G1TBKVG6

— LBC Watch 2024 (@LBCWatch2024) May 2, 2024

British-Palestinian Historian Salman Abu Sitta: We Should Create Three Cantons Where the Jews Will Be Free to Live in Cultural and Religious Freedom in Palestine, But Zionism Must Be Abolished, Prohibited by Law #Palestinians#antisemitism@salman_sittapic.twitter.com/6XhocTjtkg

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 3, 2024

A special message from Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah to Queers for Palestine 🏳️‍🌈 pic.twitter.com/qAXLmsXDAT

— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) May 3, 2024

📢 "Israel burns children in Gaza with white phosphorus rockets!"
Well, people with brains know that this is fake Pallywood.
So here's a video for people with a little less of that gray matter in their skull. pic.twitter.com/uLY9FxiaJB

— GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga 🇮🇱 VS 🇵🇸 (@GAZAWOOD1) May 3, 2024

Iranians boasted to CNN about their missile and drone program recently, providing a tour of an exhibit that shows off Iran’s capabilities. The goal for Tehran is to showcase the weapons it used against Israel in the April 13-14 attack.

This is also a way for Iran to show it has the ability to launch missile and drone attacks on other countries, with virtual impunity. Iran, now in the fifth decade of its regime, believes it is at a turning point and on the verge of becoming a premier military-technology power in the region.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Brigadier General Ali Belali hosted the tour. “Two weeks after the Middle East came to the brink of an all-out war, with Iran firing hundreds of projectiles toward Israel in retaliation for a suspected Israeli airstrike on an Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, Tehran is keen to show the world that it is capable of fighting a wider conflict should it be faced with one,” CNN noted.

According to the report CNN got “rare” access to the exhibit. “American media had never been allowed inside until now,” the report said. The site is in western Tehran and has “dozens of long- and medium-range ballistic missiles” alongside drones and cruise missiles. “Today, our drones and missiles have become an important factor of strength and the execution of power in the world,” Belali said. The IRGC now claims its missiles are accurate to within five meters, which would be an extraordinary achievement if it were true.

The Iranian display also showed off its drone program. “While the Iranians acknowledge using dozens of Shahed 136 drones to target Israel, both the US and Ukraine also accuse Tehran of giving hundreds to Russia, with Moscow using them to hit Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure,” the report noted. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visits the military equipment of IRGC Navy in Bandar Abbas, Iran, February 2, 2024. (credit: IRAN'S PRESIDENCY/WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY)/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

Republican Senator @SenJoniErnst: “Biden’s refusal to enforce sanctions on Iran has directly led to the death of US citizens.”pic.twitter.com/dFik6e2suL

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) May 2, 2024

US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman @RepMcCaul has expressed concern about the IAEA Director General's plan to attend an int’l nuclear conference in Iran next week, warning that it "risks legitimizing Iran’s illicit nuke activity."https://t.co/Ic5FZZIkPNpic.twitter.com/xZM5dVQYQ2

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) May 3, 2024

Over the past fortnight, the Islamic Republic has executed one person every five hours without incurring any political repercussions, Oslo-based @IHRights director said Thursday. At least 63 individuals were executed in Iran's prisons in the final two weeks of April this year. pic.twitter.com/dSrz9wzVIA

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) May 3, 2024

London-Based Iranian Political Commentator Ali Alizadeh Rebukes Iranian Students for Failing to Join Anti-Israel Student Protests: It Doesn’t Matter How Much You Oppose the Regime, History Will Judge You for This @jedaaal#Iran#CampusProtestspic.twitter.com/RFBthivQsa

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 3, 2024

The 14 Iranian athletes (10 men and 4 women) include Omid Ahmadisafa (Germany), Boxing; Matin Balsini (Britain), Swimming; Mahboubeh Barbari Zharfi (Germany), Judo; Saeid Fazloula (Germany), Canoeing; Yekta Jamali Galeh (Germany), Weightlifting; Iman Mahdavi (Italy), Wrestling;…

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) May 2, 2024

Link between antisemitism and the road to Aschwitz
That is why it is so important that the leaders of higher education today bear witness to the atrocities that took place then in order to learn lessons about how to prevent them taking place again.

As we travel through Poland and see the results of Nazi Germany’s genocidal policies towards the Jews, we will see the direct link between antisemitism and the road to Auschwitz. We hope that through this mission, which is planned to be expanded in future years, university presidents will become allies in the fight against antisemitism – because we know all too well the potentially devastating outcomes of ignoring the issue.

Yehuda Bauer, one of the world’s leading Holocaust scholars, once said: “The only thing Jews were guilty of during the Holocaust was failing to imagine the unimaginable.”

Perhaps much of the world was guilty of the same. But today, none of us have that excuse. We have seen the lowest depths humanity is capable of plumbing – and we dare not tread that treacherous road again.

By raising our awareness about antisemitism, we can instill a deep understanding of the evils of any kind of prejudice, intolerance, and hate. We must therefore commit ourselves to these twin goals – the fight against antisemitism, and the fight against all forms of discrimination and marginalization.

For, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. one of the most extraordinary figures in the fight for human rights in the last century, said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

The Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati has created a Holocaust gravesite marker to honor survivors of the Holocaust who were victims of Nazi persecution between 1933-1945. The photo is taken in the Walnut Hills Cemetery in Walnut Hills, April 17, 2024. Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters Connect

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) will share videos of Holocaust survivors from around the world reading and responding to posts from social media that deny the Nazis’ murder of six million Jews as part of a new digital campaign launched on Thursday ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah).

In each video as part of the #CancelHate campaign, Holocaust survivors introduce themselves, read social media posts about Holocaust denial, and then address the lies they’ve read while sharing their personal experiences under Nazi persecution. Every video ends with the tagline, “Words matter. Cancel hate.”

Starting on Thursday, the Claims Conference will post a video every day for 30 days on social media and on the organization’s website. The month-long campaign aims to tackle the issue of Holocaust denial and distortion on social media, showing how these false narratives promote antisemitism and spread hate.

“Holocaust denial is cruel. When it is on social media it has the potential to spread misinformation even faster,” Holocaust survivor and #CancelHate campaign participant Abe Foxman told The Algemeiner. “It is important that we all do what we can to combat denial and disinformation.”

Thirteen members of Foxman’s immediate family died in the Holocaust. As part of the #CancelHate campaign, he read a post from social media in which the writer said in part: “There were no gas chambers. Every single thing we know about World War II is a lie … I have the same goals as Hitler: exile the Jews and keep their degeneracy and corruption and lies out of society.”

Posts on social media that deny the Holocaust “are hateful and deny the suffering of millions of people,” said Foxman. “We must take our words seriously. Our words matter.”

#CancelHate: Abe Foxman survived the Holocaust but 13 members of his immediate family did not. Today he reads a post found on social media that denies that history. These posts are hateful and deny the suffering of millions of people. #WordsMatter#YomHaShoah Hate will not win. pic.twitter.com/YcrQIFar5X

— Claims Conference (@ClaimsCon) May 2, 2024

Jewish leaders and political figures have called for a more urgent approach to strengthening anti-hate laws after a group of Sydney teenagers, calling themselves “Soldiers of Allah”, were charged over allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on Jews.

A group of males were taken into custody by NSW Police in anti-terrorism operations and charged in the Children’s Court following an attack in Sydney’s west last month, at which another individual allegedly stabbed Christian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.

Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported that allegations against four of the teens included chat on the encrypted Signal app about obtaining and storing guns. Police alleged comments made within the group included, “I wanna die and I wanna kill … I’m just excited … Is your plan to get caught or die or escape?” Another allegedly stated, “I really want to target the yahood [Jewish people] … we will plan it.”

Describing the police fact-sheet as “chilling”, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Peter Wertheim said, “The hatreds and violence of overseas conflicts have been imported into Australia, and are poisoning our peaceful and tolerant way of life. At the heart of the problem are teenage boys wallowing in a toxic brew of sexual repression, stunted emotions and warped religiosity. The fact that some of them may suffer from mental health issues does not diminish the terrorist nature of their conduct. The two are not mutually exclusive.”

Zionist Federation of Australia CEO Alon Cassuto stated, “It’s both concerning and unsurprising to hear reports that the arrested teens who exchanged messages about jihad also expressed a desire to target Jews. The combination of hate-filled sermons and the relentless repetition of lies about Israel online means it’s sadly predictable that teens could develop a deep-seated hatred for Jews. Lives are at risk.”

A 31-year-old man has been charged with threatening a rabbi in Georgia and faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia.

Ariel E. Collazo Ramos, who was arrested on Thursday at his High Point, N.C. home, allegedly mailed an antisemitic postcard to Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar, of Temple Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue in Macon, Ga.

On Feb. 1, the rabbi received a “threatening postcard” at her home through the U.S. Postal Service, according to the indictment. The handwritten postcard, allegedly by Collazo Ramos, stated: “Is there a child rape, torture and murder tunnel under your house? We have the Zyklon B. Use Code ‘GasTheJews’ for 10% off!”

“The reverse side of the postcard displayed a hand-drawn image depicting a purported Jewish male wearing a rat costume and the words ‘Jews are rats,’” the U.S. Justice Department added.

Does being Anti-Israel mean you’re Antisemitic? pic.twitter.com/8tl7HO2YMa

— Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט (@naftalibennett) May 2, 2024

HAVE YOU SEEN ME?

This person was spotted vandalizing posters depicting Israeli women and children kidnapped by Hamas with green paint near the University of Washington.

Let's make her famous. DM's open if you recognize her pic.twitter.com/meIp1LRiML

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) May 2, 2024

Hitler-saluting neo-Nazis descended on ritzy Greenwich, Conn., and chanted “Heil” while doing a one-armed salute during a sickening display over the weekend.

Masked goons from the neo-Nazi group NSC-131 traveled from out of town Saturday to demonstrate outside Greenwich Town Hall, where they carried signs reading “New England is ours the rest must go” and “Anti-whites FAFO” — with the acronym standing for “F–k around and find out.”

From there they marched in formation through downtown Greenwich, before assembling on a street corner with their vile banners while barking “Seig Heil,” flashing the Nazi salute and leering at passersby.

“Nazis showing up in Greenwich and yelling ‘Heil’ with their arms raised? Not supposed to happen in 2024,” a Greenwich resident and member of the local Jewish community, Jolie Goldring, told The Post.

“As Jews, we are literally getting it from every which way, shape and form.”

The Nazi group — a subsect of NSC-131 called the Peoples Initiative for New England — is dedicated to creating a “white homeland” in the Northeast and seceding from the rest of the US.

The losers claimed they showed up to protest against what they claimed was a racially motivated assault on a white teen in a Greenwich park.

In that incident, which was caught on camera and went viral online, a white girl was beaten up by a pair of black girls while a crowd jeered around them.

Elon Musk says he will restore the X account of Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier and antisemite who has said “perfidious Jews” should be executed.

“Very well, he will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him be crushed by the comments and Community Notes,” Musk said Thursday on the social media platform he bought in 2022 and renamed from Twitter. “It is better to have anti whatever out in the open to be rebutted than grow simmering in the darkness.”

Musk was responding to a plea on the platform from a user whose name, GoyaBeanGroyper, explicitly indicates his affiliation with Fuentes and his brand of antisemitic Christian nationalism. As of Friday morning, Fuentes’ account remained suspended.

Hate speech watchdogs have consistently advocated for deplatforming extremists to diminish their reach. Many argue that rebuttals to hate speech on social media rarely have the intended effect and often end up amplifying the offensive postings.

Musk, who says he is committed to absolute free speech but who has suspended accounts of journalists whose reporting has upset him, returned Fuentes to Twitter for a day in January 2023. Fuentes flooded his feed with antisemitic commentary and within a day his account was suspended again, without comment from the company.

Musk said in exchanges on Thursday with acolytes that he would be a hypocrite to keep suppressing Fuentes.

“I cannot claim to be a defender of free speech, but then permanently ban someone who hasn’t violated the law, no matter how much I disagree with what they say,” said Musk, who has sued or threatened to sue watchdogs that track the proliferation of hate speech since he purchased the platform. “This will probably cause us to lose a lot of advertisers and makes me sad, but a principle is a principle.”

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk to reinstate Nick Fuentes's account.

Nick Fuentes is one of America's foremost Anti-Semites. The Jew hater has vowed to kill all Jews when his movement takes power and promoted pedophilia stating that he doesn't believe in an age of consent.

Fuentes is a… pic.twitter.com/ptWfXYHYnr

— Awesome Jew (@Jewsarethegoat) May 2, 2024

Totally normal behavior on X, now let’s bring Nick Fuentes @elonmuskpic.twitter.com/OtPkoEBk1F

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 3, 2024

Hey @DaneBaptweets you talentless, hack, racist wanker, you threatened to murder a Jewish woman. And you are continuing to imply that she had it coming. Big man. You literally sat there and wrote in cold, precise, psychopathic detail how you wanted to crush and kill this woman… https://t.co/axong2Ylgp

— leekern (@leekern13) May 2, 2024

This is deliberate obfuscation and misdirection from @SkyNews . They have deliberately hidden the essential - and most newsworthy part of the story - which is that Dane Baptiste threatened to murder a Jewish woman https://t.co/UU3FgkCNrK

— leekern (@leekern13) May 2, 2024

Six Holocaust survivors will light memorial torches at the official opening ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on the evening of May 5.

Lighting the torches that symbolize the 6 million Jews murdered by German Nazis will be Michael Bar-On (Poland), Raisa Brodsky (Ukraine), Arie Eitani (Hungary), Allegra Gutta (Libya), Pnina Hefer (Romania) and Izi Kabilio (Yugoslovia).

The ceremony will take place at 8 p.m. in Warsaw Ghetto Square at Israel’s official Holocaust museum and memorial site. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and other dignitaries will deliver remarks.

Holocaust survivor Yitzhak Perlmutter will recite the El Maleh Rahamim prayer for the souls of the martyrs.

It will be the first Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led massacre in the northwestern Negev in which terrorists killed some 1,200 people, wounded thousands and kidnapped 250 others, in the worst single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

The day is observed from sundown May 5 to sundown May 6. It comes a week before Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars and Victims of Terrorism (Yom Hazikaron) and Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut).

In addition, the B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) will hold a ceremony on May 6 to honor Jews who rescued fellow Jews during the Holocaust.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz ***

Is there anyone left who doesn’t know the story of Lale Sokolov, famous tattooist of Auschwitz, the man who fell in love in hell? His life formed the basis of a 2018 novel which has sold millions of copies worldwide, and now here comes Sky’s adaptation for television which should reach those few who’ve dodged it thus far.

I use the word ‘story’ very deliberately, because it is key to this show based on the blockbuster work of fiction written by Heather Morris which she crafted after many hours of interviews with the Holocaust survivor, here played by Hollywood star Harvey Keitel as a haunted, traumatised, guilt-ridden man, a most definitely unreliable narrator.

Morris is a character in this re-telling of the novel, and the framing is important. We learn right from the start that Lale, now an old man living alone in Australia, wants to tell his story to someone who’s not Jewish (now, why would that be?) and - it becomes clear - is not a historian, a journalist, or an experienced writer. Morris, played by Melanie Lynskey, tells him that she’s done one course in technical writing and another in memoir. She doesn’t even want to take notes as he starts to talk. Lale has found a therapeutic listener, not a Holocaust historian.

So when his narrative starts to unfold on the screen we’re fully aware that we’re seeing a possibly faulty and definitely compromised narrative through the gaze of a naïve and inexperienced story teller. And just to ram the point home, as the story is told, Lale is often visited by ghosts of the people he’s talking about. When he says goodbye to his mother, heart-breakingly for the last time - he gets a chance to replay the memory as he wishes it had gone, with a longer hug.

That these devices work surprisingly well is down to the craft of the (Jewish) screen writer Jacquein Perske and the (Jewish, Israeli) director, Tali Shalom Ezer as well as a cast (featuring many Jewish actors) which grabs your sympathy as soon as Lale is sacked from his job at a Bratislava store. Jewish actor Jonah Hauer-King plays the young Lale as a handsome, brave, caring, sensitive hero - just as we’d all like to be remembered - but in the future, we see his older self tell and retell his account, sometimes slipping a little and showing a more realistic side of the compromises made in order to survive. Likewise the view of Slovakian society, in which antisemitism is strictly for the Nazis, may well be explained by Morris’s viewpoint, and be shaped for an audience which prefers to think that they’d also have been handing out gifts to persecuted Jews.

A US-based Jewish educator has brought to life a movie about one of the more unknown but riveting stories from the Holocaust.

After years of educating Jewish youth around the world, Rabbi Shmuel Lynn never expected to find himself back in the art of filmmaking, he told the Algemeiner in a recent interview about his new movie, Bardejov.

Raised secular in Florida, Lynn was once focused intently on a career in Hollywood — with Jewish studies nowhere near the front of his mind. Indeed, after completing a degree in film from Duke University, he packed his bags and headed to Los Angeles to focus on writing scripts for movies. “I was always involved in the arts, music, and theater,” he said.

But after a spark of interest in Judaism, Lynn began a multi-year journey in which he studied in Jerusalem, before giving up film altogether. He began doing Jewish outreach work in 2004 on college campuses, mainly at the University of Pennsylvania.

Seeing the success he had teaching and influencing people on campus, Lynn helped to found Meor Manhattan, an organization geared toward Jewish outreach for young professional Jews in New York City. The organization is now called Olami.

During this time, Lynn wanted to launch international summits in places where Jews had thrived but ultimately suffered in the past, such as in Spain during the Spanish Inquisition. “The idea is that if you know where you come from, you will cherish and appreciate the sacrifice that got you where you are… Generations ran away from the Cossacks, the Nazis, etc,. for you to have the beautiful life you have today. Jewish history is very powerful.”

Eighty years since two Slovak Jews, Alfred Wetzler and Rudi Vrba, escaped from Auschwitz to warn the world about the deportations of Hungarian Jews, The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) brought together experts and descendants to honour their heroism and to discuss how their story could be remembered today. The fully booked event saw over 100 people gather at the Slovak Republic Embassy on Monday evening, with the Sloavkian ambassador, Dr Róbert Ondrejcsák, and AJR CEO Michael Newman OBE introducing the proceedings.

Alfréd Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, who met for the first time in Auschwitz death camp, were among the first people to not only successfully escape from the camp, but also to inform the world about the horrors of the industrial killing taking place there.

The two survived for almost two years in the camp, far longer than the average of those selected to be labourers, before escaping and trekking some 140km to Žilina, Slovakia, where they recounted the horrors of the camp in detail to the Slovak Jewish community.

The publication and circulation of their 32-page testimony, which became known as the Vrba-Wetzler report, sent shockwaves throughout the world and was critical in putting pressure on the Hungarian regent, Miklós Horthy, to halt the deportation of Hungary’s Jews to Auschwitz.

The compiled report “literally stopped one train in its tracks”, author Jonathan Freedland said, and saved some 200,000 Jews from being deported from Hungary and meeting the same fate as the 437,000 Hungarian Jews who had already been murdered in death camps.

On the eve of Yom HaShoah, thousands of descendants of Kindertransport refugees are likely unaware that they owe their lives to a little known shopkeeper from the market town of Rugby.

While the story of Sir Nicholas Winton is widely known, that of Alan Overton has rarely made headlines. Yet, the latter worked tirelessly in the late 1930s to find homes and sponsors across Britain for over 250 Jewish children, saving them from almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis.

His granddaughter, Jane Mackenzie, 68, daughter of the eldest of Overton’s four children, has, for years, been tracing the details of this incredible story.

The reason it has never been fully told before was due, Mackenzie says, to the strict Christian sect of which Overton was a “devoted” member. Christadelphians are brought up to neither broadcast their good deeds nor to engage politically, only the latter of which Overton evidently flouted.

They also believe that the Jewish people are God’s chosen people, and the way in which they have “suffered throughout history and their fate as refugees was to [Overton] evidence of the truth of scripture, as was the growing Zionist movement,” Mackenzie said.

My grandfather Yossi Kaltmann always kept a picture of his classmates on his living room mantle. The black-and-white photograph of him and more than 30 of his peers was always given a place of prominence. For most people, looking at a photo of their school friends is a form of nostalgia. For my zayde, it was a form of remembrance, because most of his classmates were murdered by the Nazis. Captured during the 1936-37 school year at Bratislava’s Yesodei HaTorah School in Czechoslovakia, the image portrays young Jewish boys aged 8-9, many of whom would only live a few years more before being killed.

The class photo that my zayde displayed was a duplicate of the only known surviving original. His lifelong friend Ernst Neugroschl, who had grown up with him in Bratislava (formerly known as Pressburg), also survived the war. During the war, Ernst had managed to hide some personal artifacts and photos in the thatching of a roof in Nitra, Slovakia, which he retrieved after the war. The class photo was one of these retrieved items.

My grandfather is pictured third from right in the top row, with Ernst in the same row, sixth from right.

After the war, Ernst, who was an only child and whose parents miraculously also survived, moved to Washington, D.C. My zayde, who was the sole survivor of his family, chose Melbourne, Australia. Despite the geographic distance, the two of them always kept in touch.

My zayde and Ernst had the same accent, had both spent time living in Israel after the war, and knew what it was like to survive the destruction of European Jewry. Due to the close bond between the two of them, the Neugroschl family have always felt like my cousins, even though we are not officially related.

Remarkably, the photo that Ernst hid in Nitra had the signatures of many of the boys in their class on the back of it. I love seeing my zayde’s signature, in his childlike scrawl, spelling his name as Jozef Kaltmann, using the German spelling for his first name, Joseph. Ernst’s name is also found on the back. While most boys seemed to have put their first initial and last name, Ernst and Jozef, always best of friends and always as thick as thieves, wrote their full names.

For me, the photo serves as a window into a vibrant Jewish world that has since faded into history. It is also a rare opportunity to see my zayde pictured as a child. He only managed to salvage a few photos of himself after the war, which survived thanks to neighbors who had hidden artifacts for his family. After his parents, sister, and brother were killed, my zayde was the only one left to retrieve the items.

According to the Bible, the “United Kingdom of Israel” existed from the 11th century BCE and was ruled by Saul, David, and David’s son Solomon. But the united kingdom divided into two – Israel and Judea – about 975 BCE after King Solomon died and it was taken over by his son, Rehoboam – his anointed successor who ruled over the Southern Kingdom comprised of territory belonging to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The schism occurred when Jews rebelled against heavy taxes that were charged by the monarchy.

Israel consisted of Samaria and the Shechem in the North, while Judah and Jerusalem served as a center of religious significance in the South.

Until now, there has been only biblical and historical evidence but no indisputable archaeological remains to prove the exact chronology.

The formation of the Kingdom of Judah has been a subject of heavy debate among scholars, with a dispute emerging between biblical minimalists and biblical maximalists on this particular topic. Due to geopolitical factors like security issues, isolation and political changes, the core area of the Kingdom of Judah on the south-central highlands has seen limited archaeological exploration compared to regions west of the Jordan River.

Some scholars had suggested that Jerusalem, the kingdom’s capital, did not emerge as a significant administrative center until the end of the 8th century BCE. Before then, the archaeological evidence suggests its population was too small to sustain a viable kingdom.

Now, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, in collaboration with a team of archaeologists from Jerusalem’s City of David archaeological site, Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), and Tel Aviv University (TAU) have managed to produce a detailed chronology of Iron-Age Jerusalem when the city served as the capital of the biblical Kingdom of Judah.

The findings of this study are being published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (PNAS) under the title “Radiocarbon chronology of Iron-Age Jerusalem reveals calibration offsets and architectural developments.” The study was made possible by an experiment set up by Dr. Lior Regev at Weizmann’s Dangoor Research Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (D-REAMS) laboratory, the institute’s dedicated accelerator for research.

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Last Thursday, Colombia’s far-left president, Gustavo Petro, announced that he was cutting diplomatic ties with Israel—a move warmly lauded by Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the Islamist regime in Iran. In a speech delivered at a May Day rally, Petro perfectly captured the left’s Palestinian fetish, along with the fervent belief that the defeat of “Zionism” will usher in a new era of people power. “Today the world could be summed up in a single word, which vindicates the need for life, rebellion, the raised flag and resistance,” Petro declared. “That word is ‘Gaza,’ it is ‘Palestine,’ they are the boys and girls who have died dismembered by the bombs.” Petro, who was elected in 2022, is a genuine revolutionary with the life experience of one, having joined the M-19 terrorist organization while still a teenager and having been tortured at the hands of Colombian military officers. Nonetheless, his words resonated deeply at the other Columbia—the Ivy League university in New York City—where pro-Hamas demonstrators playing at revolution while their parents pay exorbitant fees set up an illegal tent encampment.

They resonated as well in Tehran, where Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi lauded “the uprising of Western students, professors and elites in support of the oppressed people of Gaza,” while foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani expressed satisfaction with “the awakening of global society … regarding the Palestinian issue and the depth of public hatred toward the crimes of the usurping Zionist regime and the genocide supported by America and some European governments.” Again, these are exactly the same sentiments being articulated at Columbia, at UCLA, at George Washington University, and at the other American campuses turned upside down by the wave of solidarity with Hamas.

To many Jews, all this will seem like a colossal failure—a failure of Holocaust education, which Jewish communities have been deeply invested in for several decades; a failure to accurately convey the true nature of Israeli society beyond the “settler-colonial” caricature pushed by much of the left and some far-right influencers; a failure to maintain constructive relationships with those other minorities where sympathy for Hamas and its atrocities is rife, particularly American Muslims, many of whom originate from non-Arab countries, and African-Americans. Perhaps the toughest aspect of all is the realization that debate and argument are fruitless, not least because refusal to communicate with “Zionists” has become an article of faith at the pro-Hamas rallies and demonstrations.

Still, at the same time, we need to shake off the myth that these demonstrations are an expression of “civil society”—individuals and volunteer groups mobilizing for Gaza out of desperation at the bloody scenes in that territory. From Moscow to Bogota to Ankara to Tehran, the world’s authoritarians are delighting in the opportunity to wield the language of human rights in the faces of gullible Westerners. Rather than persuading, we should be focused on defeating at the source. That means, in Colombia’s case, lobbying U.S. legislators to impose trade restrictions and other sanctions on its government for as long as it demonizes Israel, a democracy and a stalwart American ally, as a rogue state. Doing so will anger and alienate the left even more, but we have no choice. All we can do is act. And, from time to time, laugh

One of the most telling aspects of the pro-Hamas student encampments is their participants’ pathological aversion to police—both for what it says about the campus bubble and for what it reveals about the demonstrators’ antipathy for Jews.

“I don’t really know how to process the fact that, at the bare minimum, there are going to be 100 cops at the [graduation] celebration,” Columbia student Suleyman Ahmed told the Wall Street Journal. Ahmed wasn’t part of the protests, the Journal explains, but when he heard there was going to be a police presence on campus through the end of the semester a couple weeks away, “he couldn’t concentrate on cramming.”

Whether that’s true—it’s hard to imagine a person carrying such exquisite fragility into adulthood—or whether Ahmed was just mimicking the debilitating sense of entitlement around him is less important than the fact that he was unashamed to say this sentence out loud to a newspaper reporter. In the bubble of “elite” campus culture, this is a normal thing to say. One is left wishing there were some institution that could prepare college graduates for the world.

Meanwhile, the reluctance to call in the police by campus administrators has, in roughly 100% of cases, proved not just foolish but dangerously irresponsible. At Columbia, about a quarter of those arrested for violently taking a campus building were unaffiliated with the university. At the City College of New York the same night, more than half of those arrested were unaffiliated with the school. Twenty-two of them violently impeded police clearing of an occupied building.

NBC’s reporting shows just what a tourist attraction these protests had become. One of those arrested was anarchist James W. Carlson, whose rap sheet over nearly twenty years of violent demonstrations includes aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and attempted lynching. Another arrestee had reportedly been fired from the New York Botanical Garden for cheering on Hamas’s campaign of mass slaughter, child murder and sexual torture on Oct. 7.

Two others have arrest records related to their behavior at various protests over the years. The cause isn’t what matters to these folks; what matters is causing violence and disorder. If you are the parent of a student at one of these schools, you have plenty of reason to wonder why the institution cultivated this atmosphere and then delayed allowing police to restore safety and remove violent trespassers from campus.

There is increasing evidence in the U.S. that hardline agitators and anarchists are now orchestrating the protests, with privileged, naive students their useful idiots. A Leftist website, CrimethInc.com, run by veterans of BLM, Antifa and Occupy Wall Street, has been publishing lessons learned and coordinating activities across the country.

According to the NYPD, half the protesters arrested at Columbia and New York's City College were not students. They push for the occupation of buildings wherever possible — and that is when violence and vandalism are most likely to occur.

They were behind the occupation of Hamilton Hall, which was roundly trashed, and behind the wilful and appalling damage done to the library at Portland State University in Oregon.

There was a feeling in America this week that perhaps the worst was over. The university authorities had acted at last, major figures on the Left and Right had condemned the encampments, police intervention from Los Angeles to Texas to New York had been effective (and largely non-violent) and even President Biden was wheeled out to give his tuppence worth.

It was the first time we've heard from 'Silent Joe' since the campus unrest took root. He has proved strangely reluctant to condemn the protesters and even on Thursday did no more than spout a few mealy-mouthed platitudes about free speech and peaceful protest.

He needs the youth vote — essential to his victory in 2020 — to be re-elected in November and has been keen to court that vote with a $160 billion student debt write-off (with more to come before election day) and the reclassification of cannabis, effectively decriminalising it.

Saying a few robust home truths to student protesters has so far eluded him. And this could come back to hurt Biden.

If the protests continue and the Democratic convention in Chicago in August is hijacked by violent protesters, as the 1968 convention (also in Chicago) was by anti-Vietnam war protesters, then a sense of lawlessness would only help Donald Trump as it helped Republican Richard Nixon in 1968.

So Biden might have to stiffen his resolve and his response before the summer is out to secure his re-election chances.

More fundamentally, sensible politicians of all persuasions need to think seriously about why so many young Americans — especially the ones who are supposed to be the smartest — are so easily prepared to make common cause with a genocidal Islamism.

Several mainstream Jewish groups pulled out of a meeting on Friday with high-level Biden administration officials about campus antisemitism after learning that the Department of Education had also included a number of left-wing groups not usually included in White House convenings, including one organization that is closely aligned with the far-left Jewish activist group IfNotNow.

The meeting with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and White House Domestic Policy Adviser Neera Tanden was requested by Jewish advocacy groups that had previously met with Cardona in October, shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks that set off a wave of antisemitism in the U.S. Friday’s meeting was scheduled in light of rising antisemitism at anti-Israel protests at U.S. college campuses. The meeting took place a day after President Joe Biden condemned violent protests and antisemitism.

“The groups who had requested the meeting found out at the last minute that the meeting was not going to proceed as planned and it’s now being rescheduled,” said one source familiar with the meeting. Another participant told Jewish Insider that they decided to sit out the discussion after the Education Department sent a list of participating organizations 20 minutes before the meeting was scheduled to begin.

Jewish Federations of North America, Hillel International, the Anti-Defamation League, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Orthodox Union and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law either did not participate in or dropped off the call, another source familiar with the meeting told JI.

These groups, along with the National Council of Jewish Women and the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, wrote to Cardona last Friday to ask him to meet with them within a week. Their email to Cardona asked him to join the Jewish advocates “to discuss concrete actions the Department can take to support the restoration of order, compliance with civil rights laws and the protection of Jewish students,” according to a copy of the letter obtained by JI. The letter said that actions previously proposed by the Jewish organizations in meetings with senior Education Department staff “were not taken and now we confront the current crisis.”

Representatives of the groups that pulled out were frustrated to see the inclusion of some progressive organizations that oppose the use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, including T’ruah, the Nexus Leadership Project and Bend the Arc. They were also surprised — and puzzled — to see a group called the Diaspora Alliance, which many had never heard of.

The Diaspora Alliance group is closely associated with IfNotNow, which since Oct. 7 has aligned itself with Jewish Voice for Peace and other anti-Israel advocacy groups. Three of the Diaspora Alliance’s staff members — including the group’s international director, Carinne Luck, along with Simone Zimmerman and Emma Saltzberg — co-founded IfNotNow a decade ago. Diaspora Alliance opposes the use of the IHRA definition, which has been endorsed by the Education Department, calling it “bad for Jews and Palestinians, and for human and civil rights.”

IfNotNow’s New York City chapter released a statement this week “in support of student activists” at Columbia University and other campuses in New York, calling the activists “brave students [who] have spoken up in solidarity with Palestinians as they face a genocide in which our country and their universities are complicit.” IfNotNow has been calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war since days after the Oct. 7 attack and advocating for the U.S. to stop sending military assistance to Israel. The group has been referring to Israel’s war against Hamas as a genocide since mid-October.

No one I spoke to had been to Israel or the West Bank or Gaza, or could define Zionism. A report from an encampment 7,248 miles from Gaza.

On Monday night, the last night of the Gaza encampment at Cal Poly Humboldt, the students were girding for a final showdown with jackbooted cops and circling helicopters and all-seeing drones.

They wore kerchiefs or masks—which, of course, made it harder to identify them and lent them a vaguely Red Army Faction toughness. Many had tattoos on their necks and wrists, and they smelled like weed and body odor, like overlapping wafts of dried sweat and grime. They had access to campus toilets but not showers.

They had demanded that the university divest from Israel. University officials had estimated that they had done millions in damage to the campus.

They talked about rumors of SWAT teams coming up from Chico or Sacramento, maybe the National Guard, highway patrol officers, “pigs”—cops—from all over northern California.

They alluded to a Kent State–like showdown.

They thought it was them versus the American Empire, and they envisioned taking part in a grand struggle against decolonization that extended from Rafah to the Angolan diamond mines to the United States’ southern border to this little college town just south of the Oregon state line, enveloped by redwoods and rednecks and weed growers and flatbed trucks.

They said they expected they would wind up in a darkened cell, or worse.

However, what really sets today’s protests apart from their historical counterparts is their crassness and emptiness. They offer a sad parody of the student radicalism of the late 1960s. Back then, students railed against the paternalism and authoritarianism of the university as an institution. They wanted greater autonomy. Today’s student protesters want nothing of the sort. They are so infantilised that they actively want the university to play the role of a parent.

Think of the now infamous clip of Columbia protester Johannah King-Slutzky demanding that the university feed students as they illegally occupy Hamilton Hall. There are countless other examples of protesters calling for universities to protect them. One group of anti-Israel students at Columbia even filed a complaint with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, accusing the university of failing to protect students ‘who have been the target of extreme anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and Islamophobic harassment’. This harassment apparently includes being called ‘terrorists’ while wearing keffiyehs. Those students in 1968 would probably have got over being called names quite quickly. They certainly wouldn’t have demanded ‘humanitarian aid’ for themselves.

Then there’s the intolerance of today’s Columbia protesters, which often slides into outright racism. One of the current leaders of protests in Columbia, Khymani James, has even been barred from campus after a video surfaced of him stating that ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’ and that ‘I fight to kill’.

James’s bigoted views are far from unusual. Videos from Columbia show protesters shouting ‘Go back to Poland’ about Jewish students, and others calling for ‘10,000 7 Octobers’. Even those students who, in 1968, cried ‘Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh’, a reference to the North Vietnamese Communist leader, did not call for the deaths of their opponents.

Successive generations of student activists have sought to emulate the protest movement of the late 1960s. It’s difficult to imagine anyone in the future wanting to emulate today’s cohort of spoilt, foot-stamping brats.

As the son of Jerry Rubin, a renowned antiwar activist, I feel compelled to address a misconception that has emerged in recent days. While my father advocated for peace and social justice, there is a dangerous trend in which certain factions, under the guise of antiwar sentiment, openly support violent organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. These groups do not promote peace but rather espouse ideologies that promote violence and hostility towards Jews.

There is a vast divide between genuine antiwar activism, which seeks to prevent conflict and promote dialogue, and the insidious agenda of those who use the rhetoric of peace to justify their support for organizations with violent aims.

During the Vietnam War era, college students protested against the military draft and the war, not in support of the Viet Cong or calls for the eradication of South Vietnam. The iconic peace sign symbolized their generation’s stance against the conflict that claimed so many lives, including 58,000 Americans.

The intersection with the civil rights movement was poignant, as black Americans faced higher draft rates and accounted for a disproportionate share of casualties during a period of widespread discrimination.

However, today’s purported intersectionality between Palestine/Hamas and LGBTQ/feminist (or environmental) rights is not only fictitious but also abhorrent. Hamas has perpetrated significant sexual violence against Israeli women, prohibits Palestinian women from property ownership, and executes individuals based on their sexual orientation. Despite efforts to portray the Palestinian Authority (PA) of the West Bank as a moderate entity, its track record on liberal values such as LGBTQ rights and women’s rights is deeply troubling. The PA’s failure to uphold basic human rights undermines any claims to progressiveness.

During the turbulent 1960s, protesters advocating for civil rights and against the Vietnam War often took to the streets, their faces uncovered, to demand change. It was the Ku Klux Klan of that era that used anonymity to spread fear and hatred. The Klan wore hoods to conceal their identities while perpetrating acts of violence and intimidation. In stark contrast, the protesters of the 60s stood proudly, their faces shown, as they fought for equality and justice. Today, a concerning parallel emerges as the protesters advocating for the destruction of Israel wear masks akin to the KKK, obscuring their identities while promoting a murderous ideology bent on violence and eradication. This resemblance underscores not only the stark contrast in ideologies but also the concerning tactics employed by those who seek to spread hatred and violence.

Protests at colleges like Columbia University are downright disturbing, with demonstrators advocating for the murder of Israeli soldiers defending their homeland. Chants like “Al Qassam you make us proud, kill another soldier now” reflect this disturbing trend of antisemitism. Other chants included “We say justice you say how, burn Tel Aviv to the ground”, “It’s right to rebel, Hamas give them hell”, and “Red, black, green and white, we support Hamas’ fight!”

On Tuesday, the College Democrats of America, the youth outreach arm of the Democratic National Committee, put out a statement expressing their solidarity with the anti-Israel protesters whose actions they called “heroic.”

The statement said the protesters and “students from every walk of life have had the moral clarity to see this war for what it is: destructive, genocidal, and unjust.”

The group was extremely critical of the Biden administration’s handling of the war. “The White House has taken the mistaken route of a bear hug strategy for [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] and a cold shoulder strategy for its own base and all Americans who want to see an end to this war. Each day that Democrats fail to stand united for a permanent ceasefire, two-state solution, and recognition of a Palestinian state, more and more youth find themselves disillusioned with the party.”

Of course, the student protesters have not just been advocating a permanent ceasefire in Gaza or a two-state solution. Many have actively celebrated Hamas and other terrorist organizations whose goal is the complete eradication of the Jewish state.

But no matter. Apparently this antisemitism is not only being sanctioned, but rewarded by the administrators at America’s most elite universities. Why are these schools allowing pro-Hamas students and their professional agitator overlords to trample the civil rights of Jewish students and faculty members with impunity and to dictate the terms of settlements?

The radicalization of academia that has been building for decades has now reached a fever pitch. The propaganda being spread throughout the country by Hamas and the powerful, deep-pocketed entities who support them has brought the U.S. to a tipping point.

The American experiment is dependent on our adherence to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. A democratic republic cannot long survive when one group decides it’s OK to openly violate the civil rights of another group while the government allows it to continue.

Unfortunately, at a time when we need strong and steady leadership the most, we have President Joe Biden at the helm. And sadly, he is more interested in winning the votes of young Americans and Muslims than in establishing law and order.

At this perilous time, it’s worth recalling the prescient warning from President Ronald Reagan, which may have sounded hyperbolic at the time he uttered it: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Anti-Israel faculty have been increasingly using a new tactic to push to terminate university presidents who punished students and requested police help in ending an ongoing paroxysm of pro-Hamas demonstrations that began erupting on college campuses across the US last month.

Votes of no confidence in the presidents’ leadership have happened or are forthcoming at Barnard College, Emory University, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt (Cal Poly), and potentially other schools — a measure that all but guarantees a new leader will be installed at those schools.

On Tuesday, Barnard College President Laura Rosenbury lost a no-confidence vote handily, with 77 percent of participating faculty voting against her in an apparent act of retribution prompted by her suspending over 50 anti-Israel protesters and evicting them from campus. The action was, according to The Columbia Spectator, the first no-confidence vote against a president in the college’s history. The move came after the Barnard chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) unanimously recommended the vote, citing the college’s decision to suspend students involved in the demonstrations.

At Emory, meanwhile, 90 percent of faculty members in Oxford College, an undergraduate division of the university, voted “no confidence” in President Gregory Fenves this week, according to The Emory Wheel. The vote came after Fenves took similar measures to end unauthorized demonstrations on campus and clear an encampment where the protesters had planted themselves.

Pro-Hamas demonstrations at Emory saw numerous clashes between law enforcement and students and faculty. In one instance, economics professor Caroline Fohlin was arrested for attempting to prevent the detention of a protester. Officers restrained her, bringing her to the ground, while she said repeatedly, “I’m a professor!” In another incident, students pelted objects at officers while using their bodies to press them against a building.

The faculty at Emory’s College of Arts and Sciences are currently holding their own no-confidence vote, the results of which will reportedly be unveiled on Friday afternoon.

At Brown University, extremism works. The tale of how the university’s leadership responded to two very different sets of concerns clearly demonstrates this.

Let’s start with the first set of concerns. Last year, CAMERA authored two reports highlighting serious issues of antisemitism and extremism at Brown University. These reports, which contained copious amounts of evidence about faculty and departments systematically indoctrinating students in their radical worldviews, were sent directly to Brown University’s leadership, including President Christina Paxson.

We documented how university professors, events, and journals were openly spreading blood libels about “Jewish mobs … thirsty for Palestinian blood,” glorifying Hamas and other terrorists, and even teaching students that Jewish identity is nothing but a colonial conspiracy.

Our letters to Paxson not only highlighted these issues, but also made clear our willingness to work with the university to help address these issues in a cooperative manner. We know that students and alumni also raised our reports and other concerns with the university, and that Paxson privately acknowledged to some that our reports “reflect broader concerns about whether universities like Brown maintain integrity and balance in their programming and scholarship on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

And yet, Paxson refused to publicly engage on these issues. More importantly, she refused to address the serious ethical questions we raised regarding anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred being promoted at her university’s Center for Middle East Studies.

Contrast that with Paxson’s response to the displays of extremism and antisemitism pervading the anti-Israel demonstrations on and off campus, including the encampment on the university’s “Main Green” lawn. (Violence and chaos that our reports warned about.)

The pressure is mounting on Princeton University in New Jersey after Iranian-Americans and students appeared at a demonstration in late April, urging the Ivy League institution’s president to fire academic Seyed Hossein Mousavian for his alleged role in the assassinations of over 20 Iranian dissidents.

Mousavian is also facing calls for his summary dismissal because of his ongoing support for two US-designated terrorist organizations, Hamas and Hezbollah, and his endorsement of an Iranian regime fatwa to execute the British-American writer Salman Rushdie.

Over 70 people, including a survivor of a 1992 assassination operation reportedly linked to Mousavian, protested last Friday in Princeton against the controversial academic.

Mousavian was the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ambassador (1990-1997) to Germany when the former Iranian regime president, Akbar Rafsanjani, ordered a team of assassins to murder Kurdish dissidents in a Berlin restaurant called Mykonos in 1992.

The Iranian regime ordered assassination resulted in the murder of four Kurdish dissidents, according to a Berlin court verdict.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warned Qatar last month that they should expel Hamas senior officials if the terror group rejects another ceasefire proposal, the Washington Post reported Saturday morning.

Qatar reportedly responded that they told Hamas leadership to be prepared for a scenario in which they would be forced to leave the country.

Three senior officials cited in the report claimed Qatar was preparing for Hamas’s expulsion for months due to frustration with Hamas’s unwillingness to accept ceasefire proposals, frustration that has grown with Hamas's lack of response to the current proposal. Booting Hamas from Qatar

Qatar could close the political office of Hamas as part of a broader review of its role as a mediator in the war between Israel and the militant Palestinian Islamist group, according to an official familiar with the Qatari government's reassessment.

The Gulf state was weighing whether to allow Hamas to continue operating the political office, and the broader review includes considering whether or not to continue mediating in the seven-month conflict, the official told Reuters.

Qatar said last month it was reevaluating its role as mediator in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, citing concerns that its efforts were being undermined by politicians seeking to score points.

"If Qatar isn’t going to be mediating, they won’t see a point in keeping the political office. So that is a part of the reassessment," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

AJA Weekly Zoom was privileged to hear an update on military matters from Col Richard Kemp, a close friend of AJA and the Jewish people.

Col Kemp is a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and a sought after expert on military and conflict issues.

Col Kemp provided a detailed and insightful overview of Israel's military challenges.

AJA is hosting Col Kemp in Sydney on 7 May and Melbourne on 9 May. Book early to avoid disappointment.

On October 9th, he posted this photo of a Palestinian terrorist invading Israel two days earlier via paraglider to massacre civilians. His post reads:

"Enter the gate upon them; when you have entered it, indeed, you will be predominant.#AlAqsaFlood#Here_Gaza_TheFuture" pic.twitter.com/fE5A9TYJ0a

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 4, 2024

And here's a cute little photo him, presumably his son, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh pic.twitter.com/mQATtRlhAm

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 4, 2024

Of course, this didn't stop outlets like CNN from portraying him like this ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Sc54hxZhXa

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 4, 2024

Airstrike that targeted Zaarab. pic.twitter.com/UTXcnJYRhj

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) May 4, 2024

Israeli forces killed four members of Hamas in the northern West Bank during a counterterrorism operation earlier today. pic.twitter.com/Ij5SJENNCj

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) May 4, 2024

Islamic Jihad's branch in Jenin erected a sign telling motorists to leave the windows open and interior lights illuminated when they drive through the camp. Also, commercial trucks will be inspected (looking for Israeli forces). pic.twitter.com/yVwDgbE7ir

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) April 30, 2024

OMER NEUTRA, who was born in #NEWYORK, has been held hostage in Gaza for 211 days. His parents, Orna & Ronen, have been fighting, pleading, and begging anyone to help with the release of their son. They spoke again moments ago in Tel Aviv. OMER was born in NY and raised on Long… pic.twitter.com/WVXaHriAFm

— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) May 4, 2024

Hey everybody! I wanted to tell you about a new non-profit I’ve started, @TheOfficialO7C. Please join us and follow along at @TheOfficialO7C or visit our website here: https://t.co/scnTqhFf3N. https://t.co/H2aVaNyRxa

— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) May 3, 2024

⚠️⚠️ Sensitive content warning!
30 weeks have passed since Hamas terrorists committed a massacre and atrocities in our country.
Even if the world tries to ignore and deny we’ll continue to share the truth and won’t allow anyone to close their eyes to it! pic.twitter.com/P6Yo2Cel2b

— יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) May 4, 2024

Protesters continue to roil American universities as faculty and administration pander to them; Joe Biden goes mealy-mouthed on condemning anti-Semitism; and Donald Trump goes strong against the protesters.

Hosted by John Yoo, Richard Epstein & Troy Senik
Richard and John respond to the clearing of student protests at major universities and judge their claims to the validity of their encampments. They also discuss the likelihood that the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and whether President Biden will continue the pressure that his predecessor did on the court. Finally, they make predictions about the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on Trump’s insistence that presidents have absolute immunity – during and after their terms.

Hosted by James Lileks, Peter Robinson & Steve Hayward
With guest H.R. McMaster
H.R. McMaster joins James, Peter and Steve Hayward to discuss the Biden administration’s feckless policy on the war in Gaza; he explains Hamas’ battalion strength and the IDF’s delayed invasion of Rafah, along with the political balancing act that’s keeping the president from doing what he must.

Wow, the director of a human rights organization thinks the Hamas reported 34,000 civilians (which isn’t true) surpasses the civilian deaths of all wars of the 21st Century (even if using her “daily” caveat). Thats crazy and IMO damages the legitimate work of human right groups.… https://t.co/sjhT4nKRGfpic.twitter.com/ZJz6NAnQLW

— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) May 4, 2024

Honest question that I can’t get an answer to: what did Hamas think was going to happen? An hour into watching videos on 10/7 I knew Gaza was about to be decimated. If this plan was 2 years in the making, where is the exit strategy for their civilians? Extra supplies?

— J H (@Im_goodthanks) May 4, 2024

This is the moral clarity and principled leadership Canada once used to have. Not the wishy washy, appeasing bulls&it now under @JustinTrudeau.

And thankfully, with a new government under @PierrePoilievre, Canada will once again return to the leadership stage! https://t.co/I5Qhi1lOMa

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) May 4, 2024

“Real Time” host Bill Maher took aim at President Biden’s latest student loan handout proposal, insisting his own tax dollars, by extension, will be funding the “Jew hating” on college campuses.

During Friday night’s panel discussion, while discussing the anti-Israel unrest occurring at top universities in recent weeks, Maher said he gets “so incensed” at how many of the students participating receive federal aid.

“When I read about the college loans… ‘Biden administration’s student debt cancelation will cost a combined $870 billion to $1.4 trillion. That’s a lot of debt forgiveness,” Maher said.

Maher continued, “Colleges constantly raise tuition, then the kids take out more loans, then the government comes by and pays those loans. Okay, so my tax dollars are supporting this Jew hating? I don’t think so.”

Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway said the student loan handout was unfair, telling Maher “You can’t have plumbers and pipefitters paying for the student loans of doctors and lawyers.”

“I’m all for the government trying to help people who need it, but he did that as a political play and everybody knows it. He’s bleeding young people support.” Conway added.

“And it hasn’t worked,” Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent Joshua Green chimed in. “If you look at issues that young people care about, Gaza is like 15th out of 16th. And the only thing that comes in lower than Gaza is student loan forgiveness. So it hasn’t worked as a motivator for the youth vote, you know, half of which are out there chanting ‘Genocide Joe.’ So it’s backfired not just in terms of public policy, but in terms of the politics, too.”

“Yeah, I mean, Trump is winning the youth vote by I think 11 points, that’s pretty astounding to me,” Maher said, referring to a recent CNN poll. “What do you make of that?”

Fired CNN contributor says he told his kid to join anti-Israeli campus protests and ‘tear some s--- up' https://t.co/lAiJTxfDOm

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 3, 2024

My interview today with Rep @RitchieTorres on @ILTVNews on dealing with the Islamic Republic, rising antisemitism, and the shocking racism and homophobic comments he’s received simply for supporting Israel’s right to exist:

“It seems like if you're a person of color and pro… pic.twitter.com/2QTj4UkiAj

— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) May 2, 2024

We don’t have a problem with Islamophobia in this country, we have a problem with making excuses for radical Islam. It’s time to take our campuses back and, to take our country back. My comment on @seanhannity: pic.twitter.com/TVsDgihG38

— Brooke Goldstein (@GoldsteinBrooke) May 4, 2024

A Georgetown professor accused an African-American congressman of being a "race traitor" and an "Uncle Tom" over his support for Jewish students as they face a tidal wave of anti-Semitism on campus from pro-Palestinian protesters.

Professor Zein El-Amine, a Lebanese writer and adjunct lecturer at Georgetown, lashed out at Rep. Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) on Thursday when the lawmaker arrived on campus to show his support for the embattled Jewish and pro-Israel community.

El-Amine was caught at a rally at George Washington University on video published Friday by the Daily Caller shouting at the black congressman, "How much is AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee] paying you, you race traitor?""You’re working for a foreign entity, you bastard," the professor added, calling Donalds an "Uncle Tom," a racist term for a black person who is seeking approval from whites.

El-Amine’s comments are the latest examples of racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric on America’s college campuses, which are experiencing the worst unrest in decades. Pro-Palestinian protesters at some of the country’s most prestigious colleges continue to demonstrate against Israel as university leadership struggles to stem the rising tide of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic harassment.

Donalds labeled El-Amine a "racist" on Friday during a Fox News interview on the incident.

"Jewish students are being intimidated, harassed & assaulted. It'll take the courage of ALL AMERICANS to stand-up to this radicalism & REJECT it," Donalds tweeted along with the interview clip. "If it takes me having to deal with a racist protestor at GW, so be it—I can take that."

"How much is AIPAC paying you, you race traitor? You work for a foreign entity, you bastard."

The man screaming obscenities at Congressman Byron Donalds is a professor at GWU, Georgetown, and American University.

Is it any wonder students at these school are cheering for… pic.twitter.com/tm6NLOL6MO

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 3, 2024

The man who was shouting antisemitic nonsense and calling @ByronDonalds a “race traitor” for speaking out against antisemitism and open support for terrorism is Georgetown Professor Zein El-Amine.

This is where the kids are learning their hate from. pic.twitter.com/06MSqcQGdF

— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 3, 2024

Months back, @peterboghossian and I had a conversation about Jew hatred on college campuses.

Here's us discussing a video by @AmiHorowitz that exposes antisemitism at @SFSU. Given what's unfolding now, it's hardly shocking.

👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/3YfxDYOtMf

— Karys Rhea (@RheaKarys) May 2, 2024

Don Lemon calls out Taylor Lorenz for falsely equating the 'lack of freedoms' between people in Texas / Florida and Gaza:
DL: "Taylor, how do you reconcile the way marginalized groups fighting for what's happening in Gaza, yet in Gaza, they would not have any freedom."
TL: "They… pic.twitter.com/4pJQhAbTAo

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) May 3, 2024

Last week, shocked at how I had to dress to safely walk around where I live, I posted a picture of myself to Instagram. I posted the picture because I wanted to vent — rather than fight — to do something about the madness that goes by the name of the city we live in right now. I am an outspoken woman. I am used to criticism. But sadly, what I am no longer able to stand is the level of risk that being an outspoken woman means to my own personal safety.

When I first started campaigning against female genital mutilation (FGM) I found myself unable to return home to Bristol or go into parts of London. That was hard, but I told myself this is ignorance and it will soon pass. It took years, but things did change. What kept me going was that I still had most of this incredible city, London, as a safety net.

Over the past few months, however, that has changed. A few weeks ago as I sat near where I live having coffee, a man came up to me and asked if I was Nimco Ali. I replied that I was and just like that, before I could say anything, he spat at my feet and shouted “there was no rape you liar” and walked away.

To say I was shocked is an understatement, but when that shock wore off I was disgusted and angry. I mean, what the actual f***? What had I done to this man was all I kept asking myself as I ran, not walked, back home.

I knew as soon as the anger wore off that I was going to start crying. I did not want to do that in public. And what I had ‘done’ to him was soon on social media — it seems a speech I had given a few weeks back about how the rapes committed by Hamas on October 7 were a crime against humanity was now being wildly shared on X.

Tensions have escalated as anti-Israel supporters and their radical Left allies have taken over the McGill campus by setting up an encampment. Supporters of Israel counter-protested the encampment on Thursday afternoon in front of McGill University.

One of the most violent leaders of the Columbia University riots is allegedly a professional agitator and limousine liberal — the scion of millionaire ad execs who owns in a $3.4 million Brooklyn brownstone, has a model babymama and a stepmom dating John Cougar Mellencamp.

James Carlson, aka Cody Carlson, aka Cody Tarlow, is “a longtime anarchist,” a high-ranking police source said.

He bought his 2,893-square-foot, three-story brownstone with four wood-burning fireplaces and a carriage house in Park Slope in 2019 for $2.3 million, according to property records and online listings.

The provocateur, who has arrests dating back to 2005, is one of three children of prominent advertising execs Richard “Dick” Tarlow and his wife, Sandy Carlson Tarlow.

Dick Tarlow, died in 2022 at age 81 with an estate worth at least $20 million, court papers show.

The Shelter Island resident was known for his work with Revlon, Ralph Lauren, Cuisinart and Pottery Barn.

He was a loyal supporter of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and helped underwrite the school’s John Jay Justice Awards.

Speak softly and carry a big keffiyah?

The great-great-great grandson of President Teddy Roosevelt appears to have traded the Rough Riders for Hamas and Hezbollah, as he vocally supports the anti-Israel tent encampments erupting at universities across the country.

Quentin Colon Roosevelt, 18, a freshman at Princeton University who also once served as Washington DC’s youngest elected official, is staunchly anti-Israel despite his famous ancestor’s support for a Jewish state.

Roosevelt wants the Ivy League university, where he serves on the student government, to “divest” from Israel and has vowed “we will not stop, we will not rest” in a recent post on X that included an image of a hand-drawn Palestinian flag.

The teen, who also worked to re-elect ‘Squad” member Summer Lee this spring, retweeted a post from the far left rep likening Israel’s war against Hamas to a “genocide.”

Roosevelt also accused Israel of committing “massacres in Gaza,” but does not appear to have condemned Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 terrorist attacks which left at least 1,200 Israelis dead.

The Bull Moose nepo baby has implied he’s even helped organize the anti-Israel demonstrations at Princeton, where students have displayed the Hezbollah flag, chanted for “intifada revolution,” and shoved Jewish counterprotesters.

“We’ve set up a peaceful student protest in solidarity with our peers at Columbia, Yale, UT Austin, and other universities nationwide,” Roosevelt wrote on X on the first day of protests.

Princeton has seen more than a dozen students arrested since the protests began April 25, and Roosevelt has been outspoken against the police action.

You know what? I don't care anymore.

I want it to hurt. Let these liberal states suffer. https://t.co/ZVsMuzoHN3

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 3, 2024

This is Judge Andrea Jarmon in Seattle.

She just dismissed ALL criminal trespass charges against half of the pro-Palestine activists who blocked the I-5 for 4 hours.

Jarmon sided with the defense attorneys, suggesting it was wrong of state patrol to recognize the suspects from… pic.twitter.com/ozfOmdANom

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 2, 2024

Days after the Oct 7, the worst pogrom since the Holocaust, @WAStateBar Exec Dua Abudiab appropriated renowned Holocaust author & survivor Elie Wiesel to support Hamas even though the IDF's offensive in Gaza hadn't begun

Judge Jarmon❤️the post pic.twitter.com/sAGXmdy64x

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) February 28, 2024

The Commission on Judicial Conduct has very strict rules specifically to avoid the appearance of any judge having a bias

How is any Jew or Israeli supposed to expect impartial rulings from this judge?

Complaints have reportedly been filedhttps://t.co/QymsKAqxeg

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) February 28, 2024

The organization apologized after Abudiab's history of antisemitism was revealedhttps://t.co/Ms6IhQtwOp

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) February 28, 2024

Oh look, it’s Harvard graduate Abdullah Akl from Linda Sarsour’s Mpower Change leading a protest in Union Square.

Mpower Change is a “project” of NEO Philanthropy Group, which is funded by the Tides Foundation, and never had to register a 990 with the IRS. pic.twitter.com/wZ8xYFNvV2

— Jason Curtis Anderson (@JCAndersonNYC) May 3, 2024

This Irish Times profile of Clare Daly captures her very well. She is one of the grubbiest servants of vicious tyranny in all of Europe. A foul enemy of freedom.

So of course the "Palestine Solidarity Campaign" was glad to have her at their hatred rally.https://t.co/jzEoUubOS6https://t.co/ZR9MSXq8b0

— habibi (@habibi_uk) April 30, 2024

Imagine thinking a nursery school is a good place for a political protest.

The NEU is beyond salvage.

If you are a member, please leave. pic.twitter.com/cD60yGVag0

— habibi (@habibi_uk) May 1, 2024

What is going on in NSW?

AJA spoke to Clarissa Bye in today's Daily Telegraph

Public Service Association pro-Palestinian unionists push for NSW government boycott of Hewlett Packard over Israel

NSW public servant unionists are trying to pressure the Minns government into… pic.twitter.com/Zm7CVr94Ai

— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) May 2, 2024

Portland — Local station KOIN was able to briefly record inside the @Portland_State far-left occupation of the library. Antifa and far-left extremists are destroying the inside, and have ripped out the fire alarms. They are smoking and or burning items. pic.twitter.com/EtwjZ229xu

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 2, 2024

TikTok has absolutely THROTTLED this video. You can’t even see it on my page right now. pic.twitter.com/seoiEQ6eL6

— Jeffery Mead (@the_jefferymead) May 4, 2024

I like this guy.pic.twitter.com/sduARDS0yk

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 3, 2024

This guy helps the Pally-support people realize they were “fooled by terrorists.”pic.twitter.com/4sNkGID0jG

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 3, 2024

Universities are places of teaching and learning. Civil discourse, open inquiry, and intellectual pluralism are indispensable preconditions for these activities and for academic freedom, defined by the 1972 Shils Report as "the freedom of the individual to investigate, publish, and teach in accordance with his intellectual convictions." A broader definition of academic freedom would include the freedom of individual students to speak their minds—not just to proclaim, but to reason, argue, and submit their views for examination and correction by their peers and professors without fear of ostracism, bullying, and physical assault. Conversely, universities where speakers are shouted down, inquiry is ideologically constrained, and prevailing opinion is homogeneous resemble bicycles whose brake pads rub constantly against the rims. Their vital motion toward deeper understanding is fundamentally impeded.

Asked by congressional representatives whether antisemitic protests constituted intolerable harassment of Jewish students, the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT claimed that it depended on the context. They seem to have forgotten that the relevant context is the university itself, whose educational mission must have the last word in all such matters. In effectively limiting academic freedom, their defense of freedom of speech and expression amplifies the chilling effect of widespread Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion requirements in academia.

In a 2022 survey, the American Association of University Professors found that 29.2 percent of doctoral degree-granting universities, and 45.6 percent of large universities, included DEI criteria in tenure standards. These requirements militate against academic freedom. For while there are serious and principled objections to DEI—in particular, that it is dehumanizing and divisive to categorize individuals by race or gender—such objections are increasingly not open to discussion on campus. This moral absolutism opposes the spirit of the university as a community where people think and talk about fundamental human matters.

Now more than ever, university leaders must defend academic freedom and exercise careful judgment in determining when freedom of speech and expression impinge on it. Would the behavior in question cause reasonable persons to conceal their views, or withdraw their full energies from debate, discussion, study, and research? Would Jewish students be intimidated in entering a library occupied by Students for Justice in Palestine, or walking through a pro-Palestinian protest on campus? These are the pressing questions university leaders must answer today.

By two-to-one margin, “not harsh enough” is the prevailing sentiment: https://t.co/2QWSfVw8sA

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) May 3, 2024

Columbia University's embattled president, Nemat Minouche Shafik, has been a target of critics who accused her of going too soft on anti-Israel radicals who ran amok on her campus until she caved and called police for help after the agitators escalated the chaos by taking over an academic building on Tuesday.

Now she's also facing a potential mutiny from a faculty group that alleges the police response went too far.

Although university leaders repeatedly pushed back the "deadline" for the agitators to disperse, Shafik finally asked the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to clear a group of them out this week after a mob smashed its way into the Hamilton Hall building on campus and barricaded the doors and windows, confronting maintenance workers and waiving a Palestinian flag from the roof.

"President Shafik is reaping what she and other senior administrators have sown," said William A. Jacobson, Cornell University law professor and founder of the Equal Protection Project. "For decades, but particularly in the past several years, university administrators have watched campuses become more and more radicalized and racialized."

The university acknowledged the pressure that the administration is facing but did not make Shafik available for an interview.

"President Shafik continues to regularly consult with members of the community, including faculty, administration, and trustees, as well as with state, city, and community leaders," a Columbia University spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "She appreciates the efforts of those working alongside her on the long road ahead to heal our community."

Jacobson told Fox News Digital the approach to campus leadership led to a divisive environment pitting different student groups against one another – and the proliferation of antisemitism in particular.

"Appeasement only made the problem worse, and stopping the appeasement and enforcing the rules is viewed by the protesters as a betrayal," he said. "Columbia and other universities need to decide if they will try to stem the tide of radicalism or allow it to destroy the university."

The campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that promotes "academic freedom and shared governance," called for a vote of no confidence in Shafik and other Columbia administration officials, including the entire board of trustees, on Thursday.

On the other hand, House Speaker Mike Johnson last week demanded that Shafik resign if she couldn't stand up to the agitators, calling her leadership "very weak" and "inept."

Columbia President Shafik delivered a statement on the encampment and protests that rocked Columbia University.

A narrative is emerging that it was the (read: bad) "protestors" who put the (read: good and innocent) "students" at risk.

Let's not pretend that the rot isn't deep… pic.twitter.com/uVxkWKNlmr

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 3, 2024

BREAKING: Day 2 of "primal screams" outside Columbia President Minouche Shafik's home. pic.twitter.com/YJO74lO8KM

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 4, 2024

"We reject the terms that our imperialist, colonialist overlords have chosen for us. We name shit for ourselves. And we do it to honor our martyrs."

The pro-terror mob declares that it has renamed the Yard at George Washington University to "Martyrs Square."

They want to name… pic.twitter.com/eLDOtfYHxI

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 4, 2024

I didn't catch every single minute of the People's Tribunal since it was an Instagram Live, but I think we have more than enough to realize how insane this is. pic.twitter.com/3N91R6iaZd

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 3, 2024

This is filmed yesterday, in Gaza. More “famine” like this on @imshin . But I can respect a hunger strike for a non-famine and a non-genocide situation. Have you tried one for the hostages too ? At least that’s a real issue to fight for. pic.twitter.com/lNrHSR23yS

— miha schwartzenberg (@mihaschw) May 3, 2024

In the early morning hours, and at the request of @NYUniversity& @TheNewSchool your @NYPDnews officers cleared the illegal encampments from their properties with unparalleled professionalism, and without incident.

It is clear that these protestors are organized and well funded.… pic.twitter.com/45TQ9WRELA

— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) May 3, 2024

Anti-Israel radicals on the University of Pennsylvania campus are passing around multiple guides directing agitators on how to break into buildings, "escalate" protests, create weapons and even administer first aid, documents exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital show.

"Let repression breed more resistance. We will not disavow any actions taken to escalate the struggle, including militant direct actions. Our notion of ‘safety’ in the imperial core is built on centuries of corpses, and this liberal framing of 'safetyism' prevents us from escalating and winning, which is our duty to Palestine and us all. We keep us safe by escalating. Don't hesitate to take more risk," one how-to guide dubbed "FLOOD THE GATES: ESCALATE" reads.

Fox News Digital obtained a 52-page document — which contains various guides for radicals — through a source with access to agitators on Penn's campus.

The guides coach student agitators and outside radicals in how to build shields out of trash cans and how to most effectively barricade a door, while advising that bolt cutters are the best tool to cut padlocks, and angle grinders are best to slice through locks, bolts and chains.

"Use the straighter end of a crowbar to pry open windows and doors (such as in the hand over hand method). Use the slightly angled part as your fulcrum, pushing it against the window frame or door jamb," the "Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide 2024" describes. The guide informs agitators they shouldn't pry a crowbar toward their face.

A university spokesman on Thursday declined comment to Fox News Digital when asked about the guides.

Penn, located in Philadelphia, is among the long list of schools nationwide where students and other radicals are staging anti-Israel protests, including setting up encampments. The "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on Penn's campus was established more than a week ago, where students are demanding the school disclose its financial ties to Israel, divest from the country and provide protections for the protesters on campus, ABC 6 reported.

Student newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian reported Thursday that university officials had called on the Philadelphia Police Department to disband the encampment immediately, but that the department reportedly turned down the request as it has an agreement with the school's police department to provide support "as needed," and there was no imminent threat.

Unsurprisingly, National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) appears to be behind the Drive; all the files in the drive list Carrie Zaremba as the owner.
Zaremba has been identified by several sources as a spokesperson for National SJP.
SJP is likely behind the campus riots… pic.twitter.com/7p76dAmIJd

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) May 3, 2024

The drive contains more than 200 documents ranging from actual terrorist propaganda materials to how-to guides on launching campus "occupations" to general anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda.
(4/11) pic.twitter.com/2WPhGuS3ER

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) May 3, 2024

Sinister pro-Hamas flyers have emerged on the NYU campus amid fears over rampant anti-Semitism and threatening behavior at demonstrations.

Posters declaring 'Death to America' and 'Long live the intifada' have been plastered around the Manhattan college's Gaza encampment, days after over 100 protestors were arrested in furious clashes with the NYPD.

The police force shared images of the fliers on Friday, noting the 'inflammatory literature and signage' observed at the 'illegal encampment.'

It comes as universities across America have struggled to control pro-Palestine protests, with aggressive police crackdowns sparking outrage as arrests have topped 2,000 nationwide.

While New York colleges including NYU and Columbia have continued to see hostile clashes between protestors and police, nearby Rutgers University became one of the first to bring their encampment to a close this week.

On Thursday, the New Jersey institution reached an agreement with protestors on eight of their ten demands, including severing its partnership with Tev Aviv University and creating Arab Cultural Centers on all campuses.

Although conflict at Rutgers' encampment only seemingly extended to counter-protestors chanting 'USA', the NYPD shared images of NYU's campus with more threatening displays of protest.

In one poster, activists called to 'disrupt/ reclaim/ destroy Zionist business interests everywhere', alongside: 'Death to America.'

'Squat or rot! Do what you want!' the poster read. 'Long live the intifada!'

In another flyer, protestors said they had 'enough with de-escalation trainings - where are the escalation trainings?'

'We can choose to learn how to build effective barricades, how to link arms most effectively to resist police attacks, or what type of expanding foam works best on the kind of doorknobs present in our universities,' it said.

'This is not rhetoric - this is an urgent need.'

Pencils, books, laptops, those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus. But here’s what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves… pic.twitter.com/EKQV6nJySu

— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) May 3, 2024

Aww that’s too bad. https://t.co/h6gQkDJ2BF

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) May 4, 2024

Texts written by Boston University students belonging to the university's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization chapter show them enthusiastically celebrating the October 7 massacre on the day it occurred, according to leaked texts obtained by N12.

During the discussion, some students called the Hamas terrorists "freedom fighters" and hoped that the situation would erupt into a genocidal war against Israel.

Several students voiced active support for violent Palestinian "resistance," saying slogans such as "Long live the intifada!"

"But btw (by the way), the freedom fighters have pushed the occupation forces back. They're so close to Tel Aviv," one student commented. Two people in the group "liked" his message.

Another student, named James, in the conversation said that he hopes for "the State of Israel to collapse and be replaced with something actually democratic."

After the posters of hostages began appearing on campus, several students were outraged and said they would take down these "zionist posters."

#BREAKING: @N12News reveals screenshots of the @BU_Tweets SJP group chat in the aftermath of October 7, with students cheering on Hamas terrorists and calling for the complete "collapse" of Israel.
According to the report, students in the chat also expressed hope that Lebanon,… pic.twitter.com/ejICezkIQm

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) May 3, 2024

Sign posted by Pro-Palestine protesters at @nyuniversity— signed “The Lions Den,” a likely reference to the Palestinian terrorist group operating in the West Bank since 2022. Let’s see @mehdirhasan and the rest of thr the “intifada, is like, just an Arabic word” crowd twist… pic.twitter.com/3IFNDL0ROS

— David Daoud (@DavidADaoud) May 3, 2024

Young Democrats of America called for a ceasefire on October 7th, while Hamas terrorists were still laying siege on Israeli towns and kibbutzim, so forgive me if I don’t care what they have to say about this issue now. https://t.co/FZ3WJggLp9

— Lauren Suriel (@LaurenMSuriel) May 4, 2024

BREAKING: Expect delays if you are taking the train tonight in New York City because Pro-Palestinian protesters are having a rally in the railcars and the train won't start again until they leave. pic.twitter.com/nVVcYfoS16

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 3, 2024

WATCH @NationalSJP founder & @UCBerkeley prof @HatemBazian gaslight Americans about the meaning of the word "Intifada." He claims @POTUS"criminalized the Arabic language" by decrying protesters calling for an Intifada. Bazian knows full well Intifada means a "violent uprising." pic.twitter.com/WicLfFPpe2

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) May 3, 2024

Previous Thread of mine on Erakat https://t.co/OU0a4l6TjI

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 3, 2024

"Zionists go back to Europe ... Colonizers ... Talmudic Devils" - UC Berkeley protestor screaming at Jews.

The true face of the "Free Palestine" movement. pic.twitter.com/8OyAzVgHFF

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 3, 2024

WATCH Samer Alatout play the racism card, saying police targeted him because he is a "person of color." No admission that he engaged in violence against the police. pic.twitter.com/TosvvlglXV

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) May 2, 2024

EXCLUSIVE ID! Remember "False Narrative Girl" who said everything we saw with our OWN EYES @Columbia was a "false narrative"? Her name is Lillian House, an organizer for the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Denver. In 2020, House faced 1st-degree felony charges for, among… https://t.co/YFiFjxhP41

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) May 2, 2024

Why would anyone defend this? This video from Penn shows masked goons blocking a Jewish student from an “occupied” part of the campus. They don’t even appear to be his fellow students. And people are proud of this? This isn’t peaceful protest. It’s sinister cosplay. https://t.co/xIDqFleAOS

— Eli Lake (@EliLake) May 4, 2024

A Jewish university student needed a police escort to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s anti-Israel encampment on Friday.

Shabbos Kestenbaum, a student at Harvard Divinity School, spoke at a pro-Israel rally across the street from the encampment hosted by the Israeli American Council before deciding to cross the street and enter the encampment.

Kestenbaum walked up to the encampment and was denied entry by a keffiyeh-wearing man blocking the perimeter of the protest. Police eventually agreed to escort him into the encampment, according to video taken by The Daily Wire.

“I want to let all of you know that you’re not going to intimidate Jewish people,” he told the campers. “You can hide behind your masks as long as you want, we will not be scared.”

“All of you should be ashamed of yourselves,” he added. “This is the state of being Jewish in America, I need police to exercise my First Amendment right.”

Kestenbaum is a student at Harvard University, but spoke at the MIT counter-demonstration in support of Jewish students there.

“After delivering a speech imploring Jewish students not to be afraid of their antisemitic classmates, I crossed the road to exercise my First Amendment rights and enter the pro-Hamas encampments,” Kestenbaum told The Daily Wire.

“Protestors formed a human chain to keep me out, and initially refused to allow me in even after police asked them to,” he added. “Eventually, I required a personal police escort to walk through the encampment, all the while being followed by pro-Hamas terrorist students.”

Anti-Israel protester at MIT: "Respectfully, we do not trust your intentions."

Jewish student: "Respectfully, f*** off!"

Watch a Jewish student fight to enter MIT's anti-Israel encampment. Police eventually agree to give him an escort. pic.twitter.com/lKeXr829TW

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 3, 2024

The ‘peaceful’ pro-Pals are issuing what sounds remarkably like a threat to Jews. pic.twitter.com/lXOVTsWfjB

— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) May 1, 2024

Nice umbrella barricade. https://t.co/HVJSEQRSpO

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) May 4, 2024

#BREAKING: The #HamasOnCampus mob at @UMich is disrupting the university’s COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY pic.twitter.com/IU3sW0AAFd

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) May 4, 2024

Sigh. Next up, the pro-terror mob will be ruining commencement ceremonies for tens of thousands of students across the country. This was the University of Michigan. pic.twitter.com/4ca2ZsUozq

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 3, 2024

Shameful. Where is @SantaJOno? pic.twitter.com/X5SbuYVGY6

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 4, 2024

Michigan State Police are clashing with the mob right now pic.twitter.com/YpV03uJMTs

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 4, 2024

https://t.co/heNfyWiiB0

— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) May 3, 2024

HILARIOUS: FRAGILE HAMAS SUPPORTERS SQUEAL & BLAME AJA

Having harrassed Jewish students for months, the Hamas supporters claim to be terrorised by a distant group of Jewish guys who played a recording of the Shema and waved a flag.

And they blame us!

Perhaps the university… pic.twitter.com/wXBqgyNmqh

— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) May 2, 2024

Boker Tov

Jewish youth pay a visit to the Sydney University Nazi encampment at 4am.

It's safe to say, the antisemites squatting on campus didn't have a good night's sleep. pic.twitter.com/N07co7qOEd

— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) May 1, 2024

Wonder if @UniMelb knows Mohammad Sharab (charged over alleged kidnapping, torture & threats to kill) was on its campus seemingly harassing & stalking Jews ?

IMO Sharab is a risk to public safety@VictoriaPolice@ASIOGovAu@theheraldsun@SkyNewsAust@australian@ZionistFedAushttps://t.co/drjiQdUhpqpic.twitter.com/hIFF7eHyXw

— Menachem Vorchheimer (@MenachemV) May 4, 2024

On @UniofNewcastle campus, the despicable apparent glorification of Hamas as “freedom fighters” is not just tolerated but applauded.

Hamas is a terrorist organisation under UK law. Its so-called “acts of resistance” on 7th October were nothing short of a savage massacre,… pic.twitter.com/zrfvk9Fe2q

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) May 3, 2024

“If you like dead babies, please see the stall next door.”

Right now at @UniversityLeeds, a protester is carrying a sign that reads “Zionism is antisemitism” on one side and “Zionism is fascism” on the other, just feet away from a stall of Jewish students.

This is vile.… pic.twitter.com/r2qtQLqqZW

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) May 3, 2024

Very proud of our small, frightened, beleaguered band of Jewish students. They're resilient, they're looking after each other, they'll be OK.

But what they have learnt at Goldsmiths this year will stay with them for their whole lives.

They have learnt how antisemitism feels. https://t.co/SUS4mCu3uE

— David Hirsh (@DavidHirsh) May 3, 2024

Grateful for the @MIT Jewish community today 💙🤍🇺🇸🇮🇱 https://t.co/WGhwnUDF41

— Talia Khan (@TaliaKhan_MIT) May 3, 2024

I’m white and I’m woke… pic.twitter.com/FkuIky7Mbb

— Gabby Klein (@GabbyKlein1) May 3, 2024

Protestors boo and yell profanities as the American flag unfurls at George Washington University:pic.twitter.com/A38GTIMhsH

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) May 3, 2024

Epic!@LindseyGrahamSC sending @ChickfilA to the UNC frat boys who defended the American flag from the pro-Hamas mob! 🇺🇸 🍗 https://t.co/LsLxl7G8zj

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) May 4, 2024

The frat boys have had enough with the America-hating anti-Israel Israel protesters on campus.

They now show up with American flags and hurl insults about their appearance pic.twitter.com/tWxXFhc8PT

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 4, 2024

A 10-year-old boy educates an anti-Israel protester who has no idea which river and which sea he‘s chanting about wanting Palestine to be ‘free’ from... pic.twitter.com/qRZzD4C2iG

— יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) May 3, 2024

Students at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and Lausanne University in Switzerland have staged occupations to protest against Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza, joining a wave of demonstrations sweeping US campuses.

In Dublin, students built an encampment on Friday that forced the university to restrict campus access on Saturday and close the Book of Kells exhibition, one of Ireland’s top tourist attractions.

The camp was set up after the students’ union said it had been fined 214,000 euros ($230,000) by the university for losses caused by protests in recent months, not exclusively over Gaza. The protesters were demanding that Trinity cut academic ties with Israel and divest from companies with ties to Israel.

Students’ union president Laszlo Molnarfia posted a photograph of benches piled up at the entrance to the building housing the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks in about 800 CE.

Trinity College said it had restricted access to students, staff and residents to ensure safety, and that the exhibition would be closed on Saturday.

Riot police in Paris entered the campus of the prestigious Sciences Po university on Friday to remove student protesters who had begun occupying university buildings as part of an anti-Israel demonstration.

According to Reuters, this morning French police stormed the university’s main building on 27 Rue Saint Guillame in the 7th arrondissement and brought out many of the roughly 70 protesters staging a pro-Palestine demonstration in the lobby.

Footage posted to Instagram by the group Comité Palestine Sciences Po shows students inside the building chanting ‘Free Palestine’ as well as holding Palestinian flags and signs reading ‘Free Palestine.’

Unlike the violence which has characterised recent anti-Israel student protests in the US, the demonstrations at universities in France have been predominantly peaceful, and there were reportedly no signs of violence as protesters at Sciences Po were removed from the building.

Among Comité Palestine Sciences Po’s list of demands for university administration is the “cessation of any partnerships or collaborations with institutions or entities that uphold Zionist ideologies,” as well as an “official condemnation of Israeli actions,” according to a post shared on the group’s Instagram account.

But on Thursday, the interim administrator of Sciences Po, Jean Bassères, rejected the group’s demand that the school review its relationship with Israeli universities. During a town hall event that followed student protests at the university last week, Bassères admitted that the school needs to consider whether to “take positions on major political issues” but said a review of broader school policy was not on the agenda.

BREAKING:

French riot police storm the famous Sciences Po University in Paris in order to end the “Liberated Zone” set up there by anti-Israel students.

🇫🇷🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/dWCvoHn5Ge

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 3, 2024

Sciences Po University in Paris.

The University has rejected protesting students’ demands to review its relations with Israeli universities.

Pro-Palestinian students threaten a hunger strike. pic.twitter.com/mIhXhKSWFj

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 3, 2024

Shameful. Where is @SantaJOno? pic.twitter.com/X5SbuYVGY6

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 4, 2024

Additional rape detail posts by Ashraf Kharrubi.

Concerned? Email dept. head Warren Sandberg: warren.sandberg@vumc.org pic.twitter.com/rUmbJAeaIn

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 1, 2024

UPDATE: antisemite James Parra has FINALLY been fired by the NY Dept. of Education after being amongst the people arrested in the Columbia terror riots. https://t.co/mwgN7g0rRIpic.twitter.com/CKaqoqXjZx

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 2, 2024

All of Bridger (Waleed) Ammar's posts have been archived here:

- https://t.co/aw3kUINWdL
- https://t.co/oawbCpHxqA
- https://t.co/UZhtz7JSLM
- https://t.co/JyDS77gfqLpic.twitter.com/4cgomN83nG

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 4, 2024

Anthony V Clark's posts have been archived here:
- https://t.co/nwlgwqiP0D
- https://t.co/lngy6wOIYC
- https://t.co/aRxEXItzZl

Voice concerns to Superintendent of Schools Greg Johnson: gjohnson@oprfhs.org

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 4, 2024

Concerns here: CAIIMI@pitt.edu & klymah@upmc.edu (Director's Assistant) pic.twitter.com/yiKCYp0zPJ

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 4, 2024

Why the Best Protestors Wear Masks! pic.twitter.com/W57Y0heYTJ

— JP Sears (@AwakenWithJP) May 4, 2024

On Monday’s Amanpour & Co., which runs on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour took the side of the pro-Hamas campus protesters who are spewing anti-Jewish rhetoric on “progressive” college campuses nationwide -- no surprise given her long-standing journalistic hostility toward Israel.

Against all evidence she insisted that the campus occupiers were “mostly nonviolent” idealists and that concerns had been blown “out of proportion.” Occupying private property is illegal, hence police may be called.

Amanpour: Now, a major development sparked by this war is a growing protest and peace movement on college campuses across the United States. Though mostly nonviolent, several schools have called in local police and National Guard troops….the epicenter of all of this is Columbia University, where today, with negotiations between students and the administration at an impasse, the university called on protesters to clear their encampment or face suspension.

Amanpour invited on a student journalist, introduced in the show opener like this: "Isabella Ramirez editor in chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator, reports from the heart of the pro-Palestinian campus peace movement." Ugh.

To her credit, she asked her about “student-on-student verbal harassment that has been cited as very damaging and uncomfortable and frightening by some of the Jewish students.”

Ramirez replied her paper had “compiled pretty extensive reports regarding this, most particularly when in the aftermath of one of our campus rabbis telling Jewish students, hundreds of Jewish students to leave campus, to not stay because of the environment," including "particularly violent signage that was used to refer to actually Hamas...."

But Amanpour then made the college administration the aggressors for calling on the local police to dissolve the disruptive and threatening takeover of the campus. Amanpour complained Columbia's president Minouche Shafik had been "hauled before" Congress to answer to anti-semitism on campus.

Today I did an analysis of the home pages of @nytimes and @WSJ regarding their coverage of demonstrations and counter-protests on college campuses. The NYTimes accuses pro-Jewish students of violence, while the WSJ investigates the extensive preparation of pro-Hamas groups,… pic.twitter.com/3tfgQds79M

— Sacha Roytman (@SachaRoytman) May 4, 2024

Suddenly, there’s concern with affiliating the student protests with Hamas’ actions? Seems they’re proud of the affiliation. Or they were until that undermined their cause. https://t.co/nfb9pSqj12pic.twitter.com/T9ebWbvmxK

— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) May 1, 2024

"Global south elder"

Crikey.

Here's Mahathir flat out denying Hamas atrocities. He adds a Nazi slur against Israel.

The BBC reverently hosting one of the most disgusting antisemites on the planet confirms that the Corporation has lost its way. To be polite about this. https://t.co/6IBcvqWDQhpic.twitter.com/Ago4FBIu7U

— habibi (@habibi_uk) May 2, 2024

Rep. Jamaal Bowman hosted a fundraiser with an extremist Muslim leader who praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre in Israel and has been personally condemned by the White House.

The event took place this week at a private residence in Fairfax, Virginia which promised Bowman and alongside Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American–Islamic Relations, according to a flier viewed by The Post.

News of the event was first posted to X by Jewish Insider.

During his time in Congress, Bowman has become one the top Israel-haters in Washington, accusing the Jewish state of crimes in Gaza.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has said it plans to spend millions in an effort to unseat him, with the first ads expected to roll out in the coming weeks.

Bowman is using opposition from the pro-Israel lobby as an opportunity to fund-raise.

“As a direct result of his call for a Gaza ceasefire, AIPAC has vowed to spend $100 million against progressive members of Congress—and Jamaal is their top target,” the flyer for the Bowman event reads.

AIPAC, and other more moderate Democrats are backing George Latimer, the popular Westchester County Executive.

One alarming poll for Bownan showed Latimer dominating the race — but insiders expect it to be close.

Back in December, Awad publicly said he “was happy to see” the Hamas slaughter in Israel which left some 1,200 dead and hundreds taken hostage.

He added that “The people of Gaza have the right to self-defense.”

During her time as the New Jersey Working Families Party's (NJWFP) state director, swing district candidate Sue Altman (D., N.J.) worked closely with one of the groups now organizing the anti-Israel encampment on Rutgers’s campus.

Under Altman’s direction, the NJWFP organized a December 2019 climate rally with Newark Water Coalition, a Newark, New Jersey-based water and social justice advocacy group. The water coalition is now a member of the newly formed Newark Solidarity Coalition, one of the organizations, alongside Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine, behind the Rutgers University "Gaza Solidarity" encampment.

The Newark Solidarity Coalition was created April 30, one day before the encampment was established at Rutgers’s Newark affiliate campus. The coalition includes Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine, New Jersey American Muslims for Palestine, the Rutgers Muslim Student Association, and the Newark Water Coalition, the Washington Free Beacon found after reviewing several joint posts on Instagram.

The solidarity coalition wrote in an introductory X post that the group is made up of "students, faculty, and community members" from Newark who hope to "create spaces for community discussions" about "colonial, capitalist, and white supremacist violence."

"Newark encampment starting today. We will not rest until our demands are met," the group added in a separate post. "Please join us in fighting for divestment from genocide and reinvestment into our communities."

The Newark Water Coalition and Newark Solidarity Coalition shared a Wednesday video on Instagram from the encampment featuring a speaker who said Rutgers’s "complicity" in "unimaginable" crimes by Israel is "intolerable."

The speaker concluded, "We are pitching tents in solidarity with them, and we will not leave until all our demands are met," and the crowd chanted, "Free Palestine."

"Their demands are not only that the university divest from Israel and cut all ties with the apartheid system, but also that the university reinvest in the Newark community," the Newark Water Coalition and the Newark Solidarity Coalition wrote in the post’s caption.

This comes as Altman attempts to unseat freshman congressman Tom Kean Jr. (R., N.J.) in her first bid for a federal seat.

Altman, a Columbia University alumna, has been noticeably silent on the campus chaos and anti-Semitism as more than 100 anti-Israel encampments have been established across the country. Kean recently called out Altman’s silence.

Hat tip to @hearnimator. https://t.co/fuidOEx0N2

— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) May 3, 2024

Hamas casualty figures have been met with scepticism, and rightly so. Terrorists will lie about anything.

Anyway, what about people who even go beyond Hamas claims?

Tonight, the Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy said “30,000” children have been killed in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/myHq2Kzvir

— habibi (@habibi_uk) May 1, 2024

This is his victory speech. https://t.co/llCyFc1J3T

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 4, 2024

In light of the news from the government, one trusts that Mr Facchine's first visit to the UK will be his last.https://t.co/GfTTF6JoJyhttps://t.co/KTY5L0hkcppic.twitter.com/t6cfqie4Ef

— habibi (@habibi_uk) May 1, 2024

Incredibly, and shamefully, Lewisham Labour continues to heap praise on the Lewisham Islamic Centre, one of the UK's worst extremist mosques, as shown many times over many years.

Here's Lewisham's mayor just a month ago.

"Thank you for what you do...you are so important to us" pic.twitter.com/OpA7ZuUADu

— habibi (@habibi_uk) May 1, 2024

While the streets of the West are swamped with Palestinian flags, you won't believe which flag lines Israel's streets! 😂 pic.twitter.com/zRMA5eMATK

— Israel Advocacy Movement (@israel_advocacy) May 2, 2024

An Egyptian blogger is given access to Jerusalem - and makes a video walking through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, lamenting that no one is slaughtering all the Jews, decrying it as "a time of weakness". https://t.co/yUpOtem3yJ

— Malkah Fleisher 🕎 (@MalkahFleisher) May 2, 2024

Abu Bassir shows us his Friday lunch. It's maqlouba, but he's not happy with it. He calls it false maqlouba, because it doesn't have chicken or meat in it.#TheGazaYouDontSeehttps://t.co/lPSnMRf3ikpic.twitter.com/Els6iHphG7

— Imshin (@imshin) May 4, 2024

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— Imshin (@imshin) May 3, 2024

I just learned about Ziad Al-Husseini, a relative of Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini and was the leader of the terrorist groups in Gaza between 1967-1971,

His "liberation operations" included killing over 100 Palestinians who dared to find employment in Israel and recruiting Gazan… pic.twitter.com/POpLQvKtND

— Adin - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) May 4, 2024

An Iranian-backed terrorist group in Bahrain claims to have targeted Israel a second time. JPost first reported on May 2 that the “Islamic Resistance in Bahrain, Saraya Al-Ashtar” claimed it had targeted Israel. The group alleged via pro-Iran media such as Al-Mayadeen that on April 27 it had targeted an Israeli company in Eilat. There is no evidence that the group’s attacks, which it claims involved drones, have taken place or been successful. The group posted an undated video showing a drone being launched.

Now Iran’s IRNA reported on May 4 that the group said it had carried out a second attack targeting Eilat. “The Bahraini resistance group, Al-Ashtar Brigades, has announced its second attack on Israeli positions in support of the Palestinian people in war-ravaged Gaza,” IRNA claimed.

The group has been sanctioned as a terrorist group by the US. Bahrain is a member of the Abraham Accords. Bahrain has a Shi’ite minority and Iran has often sought to influence the Shi’ite community in Bahrain and stir up trouble in the Kingdom. Iran has done the same among Shi’ites in Saudi Arabia.

Iran attempting regional destabilization
Iran likely is pushing the Bahrain group to make these claims during the 15th Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Banjul, Gambia, where Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian is pushing countries to cut ties with Israel. As such Iran appears to be trying to operationalize a new “front” against Israel.

Iran already uses Hamas in Gaza, Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and militias in Iraq and Syria to attack Israel. Iran also attacked Israel on April 13-14. Iran’s foreign minister met with his Saudi counterparts in Gambia on may 4. Iran may be trying to send a message it can destabilize Bahrain, a close ally of Saudi Arabia, and it is pushing this terrorist proxy to make these claims in that light.

Fish falling out of the sky weren’t among the original Ten Plagues, but I guess this means Iran is on notice. https://t.co/FC2acoDY30

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) May 4, 2024

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Prime Minister Mark Rutte joined around 4,000 people on Saturday for the country's annual World War Two remembrance ceremony amid restricted public access and heightened security due to the war in Gaza.

The ceremony on Amsterdam's central Dam square, with the traditional two minutes of silence at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) to commemorate the victims of World War Two, passed smoothly despite fears that there might be protests.

Normally some 20,000 people attend the Dam commemoration without having to register. But earlier this week municipal authorities announcedunprecedented security measures to keep the ceremony safe and avoid possible disruptions linked to the Israel-Hamas war.

Security precautions
At the March opening of a Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, pro-Palestinian protesters who were opposed to Israel's military campaign in Gaza set off fireworks and booed Israeli President Isaac Herzog as he arrived at the museum.

Every town and the city in the Netherlands holds its own remembrance ceremony on May 4 and tens of thousands of people attend the events. The Netherlands then marks on May 5 the anniversary of its liberation from Nazi occupation in 1945.

May 4 is Dutch Remembrance Day in honor of WW2 victims.

Anne Frank’s statue had to be hidden on Remembrance Day, for fear it will be vandalized by the Pro-Hamas mob.

The world never deserved Anne Frank. It still doesn’t. Shame on everyone who remains silent in the face of Jew… https://t.co/KuqsFUDbKf

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 4, 2024

My favourite new fact I learned today is that the black marble used in the Warsaw ghetto memorial was first intended to be used by Albert Speer (Hitler’s favourite architect) as material for a memorial celebrating the destruction of the Jewish people. pic.twitter.com/DspeETu023

— Giles Fraser (@giles_fraser) May 2, 2024

Synagogue bus in Toronto has to tape over its name because...you know why. pic.twitter.com/hO2np3ZQTf

— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 4, 2024

A public fountain close to @Portland_State, donated to the city by a Jewish family in 1926, was vandalized. The fountain depicts a scene from the Hebrew Bible. Part of the fountain was smashed up, and two of its bronze bowls were stolen. https://t.co/ECM3e4H6OEpic.twitter.com/aNcaAOwFfW

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 3, 2024

Hi Johnson & Johnson (@JNJNews), is there a reason your customer portal has 'Palestine', but not Israel? After all, you have products, R&D centers and staff in Israel.

Did someone from Columbia University take over your social media?https://t.co/MmfOapE8kUpic.twitter.com/zOx3CJ00ni

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) May 4, 2024

According to TikTok user Winnie Auguste, Jews do not believe Black people deserve freedom and Jews do everything possible to not allow Black individuals to move forward.

She also claims Palestinians are enslaved in Israel and every time she sees a racist, they're probably a Jew… pic.twitter.com/RtJoky1Hgn

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 3, 2024

How many Jews are in a "Cable", Jake?

Hear more of his "wit and wisdom" , as well as a cautionary tale about audience capture on the newest episode of the @DNWpodpic.twitter.com/mYlzOAMAM5

— Griff Grza Sombke (@Grzabjj) May 3, 2024

🚨 UPDATE: Lucas (Angelo) Gage, who promotes antisemetism for a living will no longer be able to receive donations thru Zelle or Stripe. On behind of the Jewish community I'd like to thank Zelle and Stripe for their strong commitment to a safe society and refusing to fund his… https://t.co/E3dNqmmZexpic.twitter.com/Mhof8HsSqv

— Awesome Jew (@Jewsarethegoat) May 3, 2024

1. Adie Mormech (also uses the alias of Adie Nistelrooy) celebrated Hamas' October 7 massacre of Jews. Please report him to @gmpolice and to @TerrorismPolicepic.twitter.com/7RrFbEjONL

— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) May 2, 2024

3. Sarah Trousdale expressed her support of the Hamas terrorist organisation on multiple occasions. Please report her to @gmpolice and to @TerrorismPolicepic.twitter.com/E4qbcJTrBe

— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) May 2, 2024

As former government spokesman Eylon Levy introduced Dr. Arnold Clevs to a group of young professionals, foreign diplomats and journalists in the living room of his central Tel Aviv apartment on Wednesday night, a sense of tragedy hung in the air.

Clevs, a Holocaust survivor who had somehow managed to live through internment at 11 concentration camps, moved to Israel four years ago from the United States at the age of 87.

Levy had invited the group to listen to Clevs’s story as part of the Zikaron BaSalon, or the “Memory in a Living Room” initiative, which brings people together in homes, workplaces and other more intimate environments to speak with Holocaust survivors and hear about their experiences.

But things are different this year as the October 7 massacre and subsequent Israel-Hamas war loom large over Holocaust Remembrance Day, which Israel will mark at sundown on May 5.

On October 7, thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel and killed, burned, raped and took hostages in what has been described as the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The brutality saw 1,200 murdered, most of them civilians, and 253 kidnapped to the Gaza Strip.

Since that horrible day, Israelis and Jews worldwide have been looking at their lives through a lens of horror and sorrow: Passover celebrations were tinged with sadness and added prayers; antisemitism globally has surged; and celebrating Independence Day and Memorial Day, both of which fall later this month, will bring its own challenges.

“It would be remiss not to speak about the elephant in the room,” Levy said as he introduced Clevs, a dapper and sprightly now 91-year-old dressed in sneakers, jeans, and a light checkered shirt.

“What does it mean for the Jewish people to live in a world in which the Nazis are no longer the only ultimate symbols of evil?… What do we do in a world in which we’ve come face to face with an evil that is making Holocaust survivors have flashbacks to the Nazis?” Levy asked.

As Clevs recounted his story — an astonishing one of survival, luck and determination — guests listened quietly, sometimes laughing with him as he recounted how he put sand in his shoes to fool the Nazis into thinking he was older and taller, or sighed in distress as he vividly described acute hunger, thirst and the spontaneous acts of deadly violence.

Visegrad24 presents an in-depth series covering the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. This comprehensive series features on-the-ground interviews, bringing firsthand insights from a diverse range of voices, including politicians, professors, journalists, experts and influencers.

Our guest today: Shai Reznik
Shai is an Israeli tech-wizzard and founder of HiRez.io.
He's a Google developer expert, open source contributor and worldwide speaker. Shai is also the organizer of the largest JavaScript group in Israel and a professional Improv performer.

00:00 - Introduction
01:34 - The Israeli tech scene
06:55 - The demography in Israeli tech
08:15 - The startup mentality
09:38 - The Israeli Army and tech
12:50 - Sectors of the Israeli tech sector
16:09 - Antisemitism
17:35 - Media lies about Israel
21:27 - Terror attacks in Europe and migration
25:35 - Normalization of terror and Oct. 7th
27:55 - The growth of Islamism
31:42 - Creating wealth
34:44 - Hamas expansion in West Bank?

I'm an Arab Christian citizen of Israel, and I'm free...free to practice my religion, and in fact, it is my country that made sure that the ceremony of the holy fire in the church of the holy sepulchre goes as safely as possible.
I want to thank the Israeli police, the Israeli… pic.twitter.com/gglhbvwBfy

— יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) May 4, 2024

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— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) May 4, 2024

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Sadly, the obligatory Holocaust Remembrance Day mantra rings hollow in the wake of the Simchat Torah bloodbath. With 132 hostages still languishing in Hamas captivity, a ground operation in Rafah repeatedly postponed and an explosion of antisemitism around the world, it seems that a genuine renewal of the vow—not simply a chanting of the mantra—is in order.

Nevertheless, in “Oct. 6 mode,” Halevi went on to reiterate it.

“Never again will the Star of David be a mark of shame,” he declared. “Instead [it is] a symbol that proudly flies on the nation’s flag. Never again will we be a scattered, homeless and persecuted people in exile, [but rather] a strong and independent people united in its land and homeland. Never again will we be a nation without a force to protect it, but…[one] whose ranks include heroes and heroines who stand tall and proud, fighting shoulder to shoulder as part of the IDF.”

All true, but utterly out of place in the midst of a battle that even our closest ally, the United States, is preventing us from executing properly, let alone winning. The words are especially jarring in view of the way in which Washington is forcing Jerusalem to engage in “negotiations” with Hamas’s Hitler in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, for a “ceasefire” that doesn’t necessarily include the release of all the hostages.

Halevi ended his missive by paying homage to those who perished at the hands of the “German inferno” and the survivors who “mustered the rest of their strength to take part in establishing a state for the Jewish people.” It’s in their name, he said, that the IDF continues to stand strong.

Invoking the “just war” being fought right now—peculiarly against a vanishing perpetrator—he said that the memory of those Jews should be the “source of our strength and a reminder of the importance of maintaining a protective force for our people.”

Yes, he concluded, “We shoulder the responsibility to continue fighting for the freedom of the people of Israel and to ensure: Never Again!”

Whether he will be as forthcoming during a post-war investigation about “shouldering the responsibility” for the Oct. 7 fiasco—the victims of which included Holocaust survivors and their families—remains to be seen. But what became painfully clear seven months ago is that the mass slaughter of Jews can and did happen again.

In a meeting ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told survivors of the Shoah that the Jewish state would stand alone if necessary to defend its very existence.

“If we need to stand alone, we will stand alone,” Netanyahu told the Holocaust survivors gathered at his office in Jerusalem on Thursday. “If it is possible to recruit the nations of the world, how much the better. But if we do not defend ourselves, nobody will defend us,” he added.

The premier’s remarks came during an annual event where Israel’s government leaders meet with the Shoah survivors selected to light torches at the official state ceremony on May 5 marking Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

This year’s torch lighters include Itzhak Kabilio and Michael Bar-On. Netanyahu referenced comments from the survivors highlighting the reality that Israel is the sole guarantor of the Jewish people’s safety.

“Izi [Itzhak Kabilio] said here: ‘The State of Israel is the one and only sanctuary of the Jewish people.’ This is so correct,” he stated. “And Michael said: ‘We cannot rely on the nations of the world who make promises.’”

The Israeli leader then cited the examples of former U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II, arguing that even those powerful figures failed to take critical action to try to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

“Great leaders like Roosevelt, who was told what was happening at Auschwitz and Birkenau and in the [other] death camps. They told him and he knew. His answer was that he would be not prepared to lose a single pilot and he also refused to accept the Jews,” Netanyahu said. “Churchill, who I greatly admire, tried to involve his army, but his army rebelled against him.”

Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day began at Sundown on Sunday, with the official state opening ceremony taking place at 8 p.m. in Warsaw Ghetto Square, Yad Vashem, on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were both set to deliver remarks at the ceremony. Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan will light the memorial torch, and Haim Noy was selected to speak on behalf of the survivors, including Yitzhak Perlmutter, who was chosen to recite the El Maleh Rahamim prayer for the souls of the martyrs.

During the ceremony, Holocaust survivors Pnina Hefer, Allegra Gutta, Arie Eitani, Raisa Brodsky, Michael Bar-On and Izi Kabilio will each light torches.

The live broadcast will include simultaneous translation into English and Hebrew as well as French, Spanish, German, and Russian. Additionally, Yad Vashem will offer simultaneous translation in Arabic available on the Yad Vashem YouTube Channel in Arabic. The live feed will also be accessible via Facebook (only live in English and Hebrew).

“This evening we will honor the memory of our six million brothers and sisters who were murdered in the Holocaust,” Netanyahu stated in remarks issued ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“Last Thursday, my wife, Sara, and I met with the Holocaust survivors who will light the memorial torches this evening. We met with 96-year-old Izi Kabilio, a Holocaust survivor, from Yugoslavia. He told us about the horrors he, his family and his friends endured,” said the premier.

He continued, “Izi told us: ‘Today, the State of Israel is the one and only haven for the Jewish people.’

Six Holocaust survivors will light torches on Sunday evening, May 5, at the Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony in memory of the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. Here are their stories:

Michael Bar-On was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1932. In 1941, the family was incarcerated in the Krakow ghetto before they were transferred to Miedzyrzec Podlaski, where his parents died of typhus. Michael fled with his brother and sister almost 200 km. on foot to Hungary, and from there fled to Romania. They were imprisoned but released thanks to a bribe paid by a local Jew. They were able to sail to Istanbul and reached Eretz Israel in 1944. Michael served in the IDF for 25 years and retired with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Raisa Brodsky was born in 1937 in Sharhorod, Ukraine. Nazi Germany invaded the USSR in 1941 and then passed control of the town to the Romanians, who established a ghetto. Her father, Zamvel, organized underground meetings in his house, and together with his Jewish and Ukrainian resistance comrades, they smuggled food, clothes, equipment, and medicine to the partisans. The Red Army liberated Sharhorod in March 1944. After the USSR permitted immigration to Israel in 1989, Raisa and her family moved to Israel, where she became a mathematics teacher.

Arie Eitani was born in Milan, Italy, in 1927, the only child of Hungarian immigrants. On the eve of World War II, Jews with foreign citizenship were forced to leave Italy and the family returned to Hungary. In May 1944, Arie and his family were incarcerated in the Eger ghetto. One month later, they were deported to Auschwitz, and the entire family except for Arie was murdered in the gas chambers. He survived a death march and reached the Allach camp, where he contracted typhus and became a living skeleton. When U.S. Army soldiers liberated the camp, Arie was too weak to stand up. He reached Eretz Israel in 1947, enlisted in the Haganah, and fought in the War of Independence. He was captured by the Syrians in June 1948 and was tortured, returning to Israel after 13 months.

Allegra Gutta was born in 1928 in Benghazi, Libya. In 1941 the British retreated from Benghazi and the Italian army arrived. In early 1942, the Italians deported most of Benghazi's 3,000 Jews to the Giado concentration camp, 1,000 km. to the west in the Libyan Desert. Her father and two sisters succumbed to typhus at Giado, before the British liberated the camp in 1943. In September 1948, the family escaped to Tripoli in the dead of night and reached Naples, Italy, with the help of the Jewish Agency, eventually reaching Israel.

Pnina Hefer was born in Nusfalau, Romania. In 1940, Hungary gained control of the area. The Germans entered Hungary in March 1944 and the Jews were rounded up and sent to the Szilagysomlo ghetto. Three weeks later, Pnina and her family were deported to Auschwitz. Most of her family were murdered in the gas chambers. In late 1944, Pnina and her sister Bluma were transferred to Bergen-Belsen. They were liberated by U.S. soldiers on April 14, 1945. They eventually reached Israel in 1947.

Izi Kabilio was born in 1928 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The Germans occupied Yugoslavia in April 1941. One of his father's factory employees, a German mechanic named Josip Eberhardt, befriended him, even though Eberhardt was recruited by the Gestapo. Eberhardt hid Izi and his parents in the cellar of his house, obtained forged papers for them, and helped them escape. They were eventually caught and in 1942 were sent to a concentration camp on Rab Island. After Italy surrendered to the Allies in September 1943, anti-Nazi partisans raided the island and liberated the Jews. The family immigrated to Israel in 1948, where Izi enlisted in the IDF and fought in a combat unit.

During World War II, millions of people were killed. Among them, 6 Million Jews perished in the Holocaust. They were murdered simply because of their Jewish roots.

Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor their memory.

We will continue defending our country and ensure… pic.twitter.com/0wPpuBRNfe

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 5, 2024

Since 10/7, Jews around the world have been under attack. Jewish unity, and pride in our peoplehood, are more important than ever. Even the slightest weakness on our part is a gift to our many enemies. I had hoped that in the post-10/7 world, that would be obvious to all of us.

Alas, many in the “mainstream” Jewish institutions have slid right back to business as usual. While most of us are just as upset today as we were on 10/7, many “Jewish” institutions in America seem to want to hide behind routine, or worse, are afraid to be openly, proudly, and fiercely Jewish. They are cowardly, feckless, and totally ill equipped to really make a difference in today’s world.

I have been involved with, or on the inside of, many of those institutions for large parts of my life. I was the Marketing Director of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County between 2009-2011. While I am singling that Federation out in this article, I want to make it clear that I have had similar experiences with several Jewish institutions over the years.

I enjoyed my tenure with the Federation. The people I worked with were very nice. The Jews there were proud of their Jewishness and felt connected to Israel. However, the overall Federation culture is one of conformity, obeyance to whatever the ideology of the democratic party happens to be at the moment (I was warned to never share any conservative views during my first week), and a total unwillingness to take even the slightest risks, even though risk-taking is a necessary aspect of true leadership.

Their ideas were stale, old fashioned, and boring. I was once chastised for “using too much Hebrew” in a copywriting assignment. The words I used were along the lines of “Shabbat shalom,” “chai,” and “Eretz Yisrael.” They would, my bosses claimed, alienate anyone who doesn’t speak Hebrew. I don’t speak fluent Hebrew. My stance was that as the “leaders of the Jewish community” (an obviously absurd, but regular claim made by all Federation leadership), we had a responsibility to teach. Words like “Shabbat” and “chai” should not be some sort of obscure esoteric language at any Jewish institution. That is just one example of many. Anything authentically Jewish scared them. It was a bagels and “oy vey” culture. Not a mindset ready to handle 21st century challenges.

I hadn’t thought much about the San Diego Federation though until I received a marketing email from them recently. They had removed me from their mailing list years ago. So, it was a surprise when I received a message about something called “Jewish heritage night.”

Sounds positive right? In a post 10/7 world, we should ALL be publicly celebrating our Jewish heritage. Except this wasn’t that. This was the typical tepid, emotionless, and yes – cowardly type of thing that was the norm when I was there but MUST be called out in a post-10/7 world. We as Jews can no longer tolerate weak, scared leadership who seem to care more about always flying under the radar, hiding behind blandness, and worst of all, showing zero courage in what is, obviously, a major crisis.

This is a moment of reckoning for American Jews, on and off university campuses. Political alliances built up over many years have been shattered. Friendships have been forsaken and family relationships strained. Jewish loyalties and convictions long taken for granted have been questioned, abandoned, or reaffirmed. As a scholar of American Judaism and a teacher of American college students for nearly half a century, I confess that I’ve been surprised to see slogans and tactics employed decades ago by antisemites and the New Left – and widely discredited since then — refitted and deployed in the wave of protests against “American complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.”

Last week, with memories of my family’s Passover seders still vivid, I watched video of the protest “seder in the streets” held in Brooklyn on the second night of the holiday – and was shocked, though not surprised, to see Israel denounced in the name of a definition of Jewish faith that we have not heard much of since its heyday in 19th century Europe and its use in the 20th century by the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism. I found myself wishing that the students in my courses on Jewish thought could have seen the video too. I want them to understand that some of the current arguments made by young Jews against Zionism are in fact old claims about the nature of Judaism.

As is usual these days, Israel was denounced at the rally as inherently colonialist and apartheid; nothing new there, only more evidence that lovers of Zion have not done a good job in telling the story of how the State of Israel came to be. Too often the standard Palestinian narrative is met with silence or confusion; some knowledge of world history would be helpful too, lest Israel be denied legitimacy for mistakes and injustices all too common in the annals of nation-states. What was new at this “seder,” for me at least, was the charge that Zionism is literally a “false God,” that attachment to Israel is “worshipping a golden calf.” That is so, it was proclaimed, because Judaism is ethical monotheism and only that; Judaism is work for justice, full stop, and therefore any lapse from moral purity constitutes idolatry.

“Come gather ’round, people, wherever you roam; and admit that the waters around you have grown… The battle outside ragin’ will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls; for the times they are a-changin’.” – Bob Dylan, 1964

Alas, times – and history itself – is not really changing at all; it is just repeating itself.

The week(s) ahead offer both tears and cheers as they lead us once again into the modern “Yom” holidays: Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron, and Yom Ha’atzmaut (and later, Yom Yerushalayim). But the “Yoms” this year are of a very different nature.

Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) comes on the verge of what may very well be the beginnings, God forbid, of another Holocaust in the making; while Yom Hazikaron (Remembrance Day for Israel’s Fallen) comes in the midst of an existential war that has brought us far too many fallen soldiers to memorialize, and placed Israel at its most perilous precipice since the state was founded.

Dangerous times: Antisemitism and anti-Israel protests
We live in a dangerous world at a dangerous time, with equal parts ignorance and evil surrounding us. The well-orchestrated and well-financed protests on American university campuses are eagerly populated by students who are more than willing to jump on what has become a trendy bandwagon, while muttering mindless mantras. It doesn’t matter that they have no concept whatever of Middle East realities or complexities – “Palestine” for them is not actually a physical place.

Indeed, my experience with these confused kids is that they can’t locate it on a map – it is more a concept and a cause that can be succinctly summed up in one sentence: People are suffering, and the Jews are to blame.

Tragically, there is no shortage of un-Jewish Jews who have joined together with the antisemitic mob, helping to add credence to their crusade. This is a syndrome aptly described by the well-known Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl of logotherapy fame.

This point is only amplified by closer examination of the “Jewish” resources JVP offers on its website. Its “Rosh Hashana” guide (for example) converts the traditional shehecheyanu blessing into one praising the many successful Israel-boycott achievements of the preceding year. Its Chanukah guide praises the sumoud (Arabic for “steadfastness”) of Palestinians, interprets olive oil as a symbol of Palestinian sumoud, and asks, “This night of Chanukah, how will you honor the steadfastness of the Palestinian people? What will you do to ensure that Palestinian steadfastness will be rewarded with a bountiful harvest?” Its Passover guide opens with sentences about

arriving at the Passover table with the salty taste of authoritarian racism on our tongues … devastated, lead in our water or no access to water. Ferguson, Flint, Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem …scared, aware of the rise in Islamophobia and anti-immigrant discourse.

The “authoritarian racism” that JVP deplores appears by all counts to be only that alleged of Israel, and not that of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas; and while the group is concerned here about Islamophobia it offers not a word of concern about the ever-rising violence toward Jews around the world. The Passover message of liberation from slavery conveyed by this document is that of the Palestinians, from the Israelis.[6] Tu B’Shvat is now about Palestinian olive trees, and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Jews. And what does Tisha B’av become, for JVP? Not a day for remembering and mourning the destruction of the great Jewish Temples, the two great symbols of ancient Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel. Rather JVP offers, “The Tisha B’av Gaza Mourning Ritual Guide.”

By converting Jewish religious symbols and ceremonies into those with a pro-Palestinian significance, it seems to me, JVP seriously calls the “Jewish” part of its name into question. To Jew-wash with JVP, then, is once more akin to medieval Church officials denying their antisemitism by referring to their fondness for those converts who reject Judaism.

Or even worse—for JVP is doing something more sinister than converting out of Judaism in the way that individual medieval Jews did, often out of understandable necessity. It is converting Judaism itself, claiming that its new, pro-Palestinian religion simply is an authentic form of Judaism.[7]

JVP goes so far as to remind the reader, in its Passover Haggadah, that the word “Israel” there refers to Jacob, who “wrestled” with God, and perhaps thus symbolizes those who admirably struggle against authority. “Israel,” the text insists, does not refer to the modern state, Israel—lest someone read anything in the long-established history of the Jews as providing grounds for Jewish sovereignty in that land. JVP ignores the fact that the actual name of the modern state of Israel is the “State of Israel,” i.e. of the people of Israel, i.e. of the descendants of that very same Israel.

In that one move in its Haggadah JVP denies to Jews the very foundation for their rights in the Land of Israel—and it does so as a “Jewish” voice.

Add to this the fact that most of its financing apparently comes from non-Jewish sources,[8] and it becomes hard not to see JVP as literally in the business of providing professional (if unsuccessful) Jew-washing services.

In the final part we turn, then, to “Social Justice Jews,” and a conclusion.

Dear Conn College students,

It is a sad day when some 90 Conn College faculty members can publicly sign a statement accusing Jews of “Jewish supremacy”; Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels would be proud to see his trope so widely adopted. What’s next? Deciding that the Nazis were right after all in pursuing the Holocaust?

Never mind that the one sliver of a Jewish state (32 of which would fit inside Texas!) and its 7 million Jews is massively dwarfed by the 460 million Arabs in 20-plus Arab states and the 2 billion Muslims in the 50-plus Muslim states, most of which actively seek to destroy the one tiny Jewish state in the name of Muslim Arab supremacy (read Hamas’s (never renounced) charter!); and that this tiny state is currently under active attack from Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and of course nuclear-approaching Iran. And lest you think that those actors attack Israel in the name of “human rights,” consider that not one of them provides human rights even to its own citizens. As protestors cheered the recent Houthi attacks, the Houthis announced they were crucifying gay men; at least Iran only publicly hangs their gays. Yet somehow the Jews and their little state are the problem.

It is also sad, even tragic, that such educated people can proffer such absolutely terrible advice. But happily we do have some dissenting opinions here, if only as small a minority as the Jews themselves are, perhaps to help you figure out, of course, your own thoughts on the matter.

In general I believe it is inappropriate for a mob of faculty to promote their opinions to you this way. There is a bullying process that goes into acquiring signatures that is inconducive to free and open inquiry. This document may also make some of you uncomfortable, and feel unsafe in the classrooms of those who signed it. Are these professors looking at their Jewish students, thinking about those Jews and their evil Jewish supremacy? How could you object to or protest this statement, and expect to prosper in that professor’s class, under the threat of the professor’s grade? For that reason alone I register my objection to it. (I only share my opinion here in response, having failed to persuade my colleagues to desist from their disgraceful action and unable to let it go uncontested.)

We have arrived at the culmination of decades of Critical Race Theory being pumped into our young people’s brains by academics who inherited their radicalism from the Cold War. Central to the dogma is the notion that equality is a cover for white supremacy, so society must instead be structured advantageously to non-whites. That this will lead us into a perpetual state of identity warfare – a future fast becoming reality – is of no concern to these shrieking revolutionaries.

That the “anti-racist” movement is a Trojan horse for the oldest hatred, revamped as Israelophobia, is now blindingly obvious. Starting on campus, our culture is eating itself. The Jews are just the first course. Or rather, the Jews plus the silent majority of decent Britons. When does modesty become cowardice?

Overseas, we face an “axis of resistance” as Russia, China, Iran and authoritarian states form up together. At home, we face an axis of radicalism, with different factions devoted to race, climate change, transgenderism and Islamism rallying to the Palestinian flag. The “queers for Palestine” movement speaks volumes; this was never about real-life Palestine. It’s counter-cultural rebellion at home.

But the idiocy of these people doesn’t make them less useful. Which brings me back to Gaza. Meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh last month, Iran’s supreme leader said: “We have, so far, successfully won the media and PR wars, and have managed to change public opinion across the globe. We must continue with this.” In November, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said: “We must salute all those who took to the street in support and solidarity with the Palestinians, from all over the world.” In Gaza, signs were held up paying tribute to campus protests.

It’s myopia that’s the problem, isn’t it? That and the narcissism. But the danger is real.

I asked him one last question. He is worried about American support for Israel, I said. "But we've also given money to Iran. We've given billions of dollars to Iran. We've released funds to them. And they [Iran] launched a whole bunch of drones at Israel. Do you want to separate America from Iran?"

"We're here to cut ties," he said, "[to] demand that we cut ties with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to end the genocide in Gaza."

"Okay, but so you don't really want to basically limit American resources or dollars going to Iran?" I said.

"This is, I think, again, just not painting the full picture," he said.

"You would think that the full picture would include something to do with Iran because Hamas is an Iranian proxy," I said.

"Iran ended up firing those missiles after the bombing of what was an embassy," he said.

"I'm not sure it was an embassy or even a consulate, but the thing is that Iran has basically been attacking Israel through proxies for years," I said. "You got a problem with that?"

Berkinsky wouldn't answer the question: "I'm going to leave you with this. We're going to be in this encampment until MIT is willing to have a conversation, a real conversation, about cutting ties with the Israeli Ministry of Defense. We have multiple projects that contribute directly to the murder of people. And just more broadly, we just need to question the ethics of our research and what those projects contribute to." You have to hand it to him: this guy stuck to his talking points.

At this point, it was my turn to think I was reliving the 1970s. But instead of listening to protesters condemn the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, I was listening to liberal protesters siding with the Islamists who hijacked the Iranian Revolution in Iran in 1979, ushering in decades of repression and abuse at the hands of the Islamist regime in Tehran. No, these young people are not Islamists, but they are promoting a central element of Islamist propaganda—that through its support for Israel, the United States is revealing itself to be a singular force for evil in the modern world. They're paving the way for Islamists in the West just as they did in Tehran in 1979.

And that's the point. Richard Landes, a former history professor at Boston University and author of Can 'The Whole World' Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism and Global Jihad, says the encampments taking place throughout the United States are part of a "cognitive war" intended to convince Westerners to stand down in the face of Islamist efforts to transform our civilization.

The success of the encampment movement, Landes declared, "is the culmination of fifty years during which [Edward] Said's Orientalism occupied Western academia (hence it's most apt for [the campaign] to emanate from Columbia) pushing out any sane narrative about Caliphators' invasion of the West."

The encampments represent "a new stage in the Bolshevization of the movement in which outside money and outside actors are infiltrating, brainwashing, and regimenting the wannabe 'true believers' on the inside," Landes reported. "Thus, the ugliest aspects of global Jihadi warfare can express their desires openly, with the support of the 'cream' of the elites they target. It's hard to imagine a greater cognitive war victory for the Jihadis and a greater peril for the West." (This may sound preposterous to the uninitiated, but anyone who thinks Landes is overreacting needs to take a close look at events at Columbia University, where one lawyer reports activists are making open calls for genocide.)

Last night I gained access to a GoogleDrive (see below) obtained by social media account Israel War Room via a source who is allegedly within the UPenn “anti-war” encampment. It contains over 200 documents linked below that are pro-terrorism, with guidelines on how to riot and cause disruption, how to make weapons and take over buildings. Israel War Room highlight that the drive lists Carrie Zaremba as the owner of all files, who is reportedly a spokesperson for National Students for Justice in Palestine, aka SJP.

Students for Justice in Palestine has a very long track record of promoting antisemitism on university campuses in America. Sorry, antizionism. SJP is present across hundreds of institutions and is part of the bigger umbrella organization American Muslims for Palestine, or AMP. It should be noted that SJP has alleged links to terror groups such as the PFLP (whose literature appears in this GoogleDrive) and PIJ, while AMP’s membership contains overlap with groups that were previously shut down for supporting Hamas (the literature of which also appears in this GoogleDrive).

To trawl through the trove of documents is to take a dive into the minds of wannabe insurgents, not future hopeful university graduates. Contained within the sub-sections of the drive are how-to guides, including “sabotaging Zionist infrastructure”, creating print propaganda, strategizing on demands and actions, establishing an autonomous zone, “wheatpasting”, crowd and riot control, blockaiding and first aid. Are you wondering why all the encampment occupants are wearing masks and covering their identities? It’s all detailed here via PDF guides on anonymity, security, and avoiding the police. There are documents unabashedly glorifying child soldiers, martyring Aaron Bushnell (the US soldier who self-immolated back in February) and promoting the globalization of the Intifada. Also included are articles by known terrorists including Leila Khaled, Ghassan Ali, and Ibrahim Nabulsi. It’s a DIY occupation guide. No joke - that PDF is included too.

The widespread vandalism and destruction on college campuses in the wake of these encampments doesn’t appear to be coincidence given the paraphernalia here promoting destruction of property and violence.

Welcome to detailed educational materials in how to be a criminal: Strategic monkey-wrenching. Disabling vehicles. Breaking windows. Plugging waste discharge pipes. Burning machinery. Smoke bombs. Stink bombs. Slingshots. Burning Billboards. Computer sabotage. Jamming locks. Avoiding arrest. Disposing of evidence. Smashing cameras. Occupying buildings. Barricading.

You name it, it’s all collected here and is incredibly easy to access.

The scene: the Democratic National Convention of 2012. The job at hand: renominate President Barack Obama.

But first, as is standard procedure for both political parties, a party platform had to be adopted. As such, headlines like this one from the U.K. Guardian emerged:
Democratic convention erupts over reinstatement of Jerusalem to policy

Row over Israel mars second day of convention as party moves to add back ‘God’ and ‘Jerusalem’ language to platform

It took the personal intervention of Obama to reverse the removal — because, according to reports, Jewish donors were livid.

Move through the next few years to 2019, and there is Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar, as NPR reported at the time:
In February, Omar responded to a tweet from journalist Glenn Greenwald, who posted about House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy threatening to punish Omar and another congresswoman for being critical of Israel.

Omar wrote back, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby.” ….

In another tweet soon after, Omar named the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, saying it was funding Republican support for Israel.

And in 2021, the New York Post headlined of Omar’s colleagues in the so-called Squad convincing their fellow House Democrats to “zero out” funding of Israel’s “Iron Dome” defensive security system:
The Squad’s anti-Semites carry the day among House Democrats yet again

It’s no shock that the news articles on the current anti-Semitic Columbia protests report the enthusiastic presence of none other than Omar’s student daughter.

All of this considered, it is no wonder that there has been an explosion of Jew-hatred coming from all these far-left-leaning colleges and universities.

The plain, hard fact that must now be understood is that one of America’s two major political parties — the Democrat Party — has not only become the command central platform for today’s outbreak of anti-Semitism; for those who came in late, anti-Semitism has always had a home on the left and specifically in the Democratic Party.

President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.

The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Two of the main organizers behind protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and it in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change. (Gates did not return a request for comment, and Soros declined to comment.)

Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.

Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.

The trail of donations shows a series of blurred lines when it comes to liberal causes and Democratic politics. Often those missions are aligned, but they also sometimes have different and — particularly when it comes to Gaza — conflicting agendas and tactics. And a small group of wealthy heavyweights are often playing an outsize role funding many of them.

The House passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA) by a 320-91 vote on Wednesday, with opposition coming largely from progressives and the far right, who cited concerns about free speech relating to the bill’s codification of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.

The Antisemitism Awareness Act would codify the Trump-era executive order that designated antisemitism as a form of prohibited discrimination on campuses, as defined by the IHRA definition. Despite bipartisan support and the backing of many major American Jewish organizations, the bill was still the subject of controversy. It now faces an uncertain path forward in the Senate.

Seventy Democrats voted against the legislation. Progressives argued it would chill speech critical of Israel, including protests on college campuses, and that the federal government shouldn’t favor the IHRA definition — even though that’s the definition of antisemitism the Department of Education is already supposed to be using in evaluating antisemitism cases; it has also been adopted by the State Department.

“As someone who is also a longtime champion of protecting freedom of speech, I must oppose this misguided bill,” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said. “While there is much in the bill that I agree with, its core provision would put a thumb on the scale in favor of one particular definition of antisemitism — to the exclusion of all others — to be used when the Department of Education assesses claims of antisemitism on campus… The problem is that [the IHRA definition’s affiliated] examples may include protected speech, in some contexts, particularly with respect to criticism of the State of Israel.”

On the right, 21 lawmakers opposed it. Two separate Republicans, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) voiced objections to IHRA’s classification of accusations that Jews killed Jesus as antisemitic, claiming that the IHRA definition would mark the Bible as antisemitic.

The Republican Jewish Coalition’s leadership said it is “disappointed in the Republicans who voted against the bill,” as well as blasted House Democratic leadership for not whipping support for the bill.

The top Democratic leaders voted for the legislation.

Two prominent Christian conservative leaders pushed back publicly on Friday against a growing narrative on the right that the House-passed Antisemitism Awareness Act contradicts Christian scripture or would limit freedom of speech.

The bill, which codifies the Department of Education’s use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism in evaluating accusations of unlawful antisemitic harassment and discrimination on campuses, passed the House with strong bipartisan support but conservative outrage has been building in the subsequent days.

In particular, some right-wing lawmakers and influencers have claimed that Christian scripture declares that Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus Christ, something the IHRA definition’s examples label as an antisemitic trope.

Pastor John Hagee, the national chairman of Christians United for Israel who is also a well-known televangelist, and Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, said in a joint statement first obtained by Jewish Insider, “To the Biblically literate, claims that the Antisemitism Awareness Act is anti-Christian are as insulting as they are injurious.”

They said that the debate over this bill reflects that “the world’s oldest hatred is alive and well on both fringes of the partisan divide” and “exemplifies the need for this legislation,” alongside the ongoing anti-Israel protests on college campuses with “genocidal ambitions.”

Hagee and Reed added that the legislation would not, as some have claimed, limit free speech on college campuses.

“For the law to apply, a student would have to have an unlawful act committed against them first, and only thereafter would the definition of antisemitism be considered in order to determine whether or not the underlying unlawful act was motivated by antisemitism,” they said. “This definition and its examples are only used for guidance, because as we have recently seen across American college campuses, you cannot defeat what you are unwilling to define.”

Ok - the more I read about the House bill, the more it looks like everyone is severely overreacting to it

Donald Trump's executive order fighting antisemitism from back in 2019 used the almost exact same language in the almost exact same context pic.twitter.com/Lg3Kbkfbm6

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 2, 2024

New: John Hagee of Christians United for Israel and Ralph Reed of Faith and Freedom Coalition say that claims the Antisemitism Awareness Act is anti-Christian "are as insulting as they are injurious," adding that the debate "exemplifies the need for this legislation." pic.twitter.com/BKyVmVztth

— Marc Rod (@marcrod97) May 3, 2024

Let’s begin with some basic facts.

There is no exception for hate speech in the Constitution. It is not, according to the Constitution of the United States of America, illegal to misgender someone, or call them a dirty kike or a pig, or tell them you want them to be shipped back to Africa, or say that the State of Israel has “no right to exist,” or that all women are nasty hookers who play men for money. Those statements might rightfully earn you the disgust of those around you, as well as exclusion from any number of personal and professional opportunities, or access to private institutions and spaces. But they are not unlawful, and no governmental authority has the standing to penalize you for making or believing them—in the privacy of your home, in the public square, or on the open internet.

That includes Congress, which is made up of elected officials. Americans have radically lowered our standards for what we expect of this class of people, but we think we can all draw a line at a basic understanding of the Bill of Rights. The fact that a word or idea is annoying or upsetting to you—or us!—does not make it illegal.

This includes the phrase “From the river to the sea,” which the House of Representatives voted to condemn last month. This is wrong. No citizen of America, Jewish or not, should support the condemnation of speech by those whose conditional authority is entrusted to them by the people. You are American citizens! However noxious your beliefs, as long as they stay beliefs, they should be none of the business of the government.

H.R. 6090, the bipartisan bill that passed the House of Representatives this week, is technically more sound—and a lot of the emotionally unstable criticism of the bill (hi, Tucker) appears to come from people who haven’t bothered to actually read it. If they had, they would understand that the bill mandates that, in investigating complaints against universities accused of antisemitism under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Department of Education should use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of “antisemitism.”

This does not, as keyboard warriors would have it, expand the definition of antisemitism to include any and all criticism of the State of Israel. Instead, what the bill establishes is that—in the context of guidance in the enforcement of current anti-discrimination laws, to help assess discriminatory intent—simply substituting the words “Zionist” or “Israel” for the word “Jew” or “Jews” when making insane accusations about harvesting the organs of children or controlling the international banking system does not prima facie absolve someone of accusations of antisemitism. This is a semantic move used mainly by antisemites who attend, or who graduated from, fancy universities. Here’s the situation this bill prevents:
“Jews control the world and want to kill all people of color” = bad.
“Zionists control the world and want to kill all people of color” = fine.

These two statements obviously could have something in common! To argue otherwise is childish, bordering on insane. A fuller example, courtesy of George Mason law professor David Bernstein: “A Campus Hillel keeps getting its room reservation requests denied by Dean Smith. Dean Smith claims that it’s just a series of coincidences. Dean Smith also ends all his campus emails with ‘Free Palestine, Death to Israel.’ Even though it doesn’t say ‘Jews’ anywhere, it’s obvious potential evidence of that Hillel being denied rooms wasn’t really a series of coincidences.”

And again, none of these statements may end up being sufficient to establish intent at all. What this new legislation proposes is for it now to be admissible. On this narrow point, we are—technically—in agreement with the bill.

Our objection, however—and it is an important one—is to the broader edifice of speech-policing of which this bill is a part.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a landmark for America. Emerging from a status quo of overt racial inequality under the law, and following a decadelong campaign of fiery resistance by Southern politicians and institutions to enforcing Supreme Court rulings that declared the Jim Crow system of legalized segregation by race to be illegal, it was entirely reasonable—and in some places, necessary—to position the federal government as the arbiter of whether institutions were, in fact, attempting to flout the law and preserve segregation. The ills that Title VI was designed to redress were anything but subtle. Attempts to systematically relegate African American students to separate and inferior facilities, or to deny them admission to professional schools, or to frighten them off campus with mobs and nooses, were not micro-aggressions.

What should be done about the turmoil, violence, and explicit antisemitism that have engulfed college campuses over the past months? Political leaders in Washington have reacted to the escalating chaos with an understandable and predictable instinct: do something.

In this case, the student protests have motivated a bipartisan coalition of legislators in the House of Representatives to compose the Antisemitism Awareness Act. It passed on May 1 with 320 votes (and 91 against).

The goal of the Act is noble: to prohibit discrimination against Jewish students and employees on campus. As is often the case, however, the impulse to “do something,” even when supported by a bipartisan majority, does not always mean the resulting actions are wise or productive.

We come from two sides of the political spectrum. One of us (Christopher) is a conservative, the other (Jenin) is on the left. We also take very different positions on Israel—one of us believes that Israel deserves America’s support in its fight against Hamas; one of us believes that the denial of Palestinians’ right to self-determination is the primary impediment to peace. But both of us agree that the Antisemitism Awareness Act is profoundly misguided.

First, the main purpose of the legislation is to codify a definition of “antisemitism” as a point of reference for civil rights enforcement on college campuses. Legislators outsourced this definition to a nonprofit, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which defines antisemitic conduct and speech in a broad manner. Under this standard, “claiming the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis,” and “accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel” will be deemed antisemitism.

It’s important to note, despite the hysteria of many online, that the Antisemitism Awareness Act does not, in itself, criminalize such speech. What it does is instruct bureaucrats to apply what could be, in effect, “hate speech” analysis to civil rights complaints. The Department of Education would gain the authority to withhold funding to institutions of higher education that do not punish violators.

This is a move in the wrong direction.

Existing laws against trespassing, violence, and property destruction are sufficient to deal with unlawful expressions of antisemitism on campus. And campus codes of conduct, which prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, and ethnicity, cover much else.

Another day, another opportunity for huffy, hypocritical “progressive” posturing. PEN America has now been forced to cancel its World Voices literary festival in New York and L.A., on the heels of also canceling its 2024 awards ceremony. Too many authors had withdrawn from both events to make going ahead with staging either practicable. The reason for so many writers flouncing from these programs? PEN’s failure to publicly denounce Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. But you had probably guessed the point of indignation already, because as of October 2023, the Anglosphere’s far left has neatly pivoted from the infantilization of black people to the Palestinian cause with the coordinated grace of a synchronized swimmer.

To clarify: the purpose of PEN is to defend freedom of speech and to protect writers from political oppression and persecution. It makes perfect sense, therefore, that a significant cadre of its membership would seek to stifle freedom of speech and engage in political oppression and persecution. Or: we’re all for free speech so long as you say what we tell you. These folks are athletes. It requires considerable intellectual acrobatics for Writers Against the War on Gaza to regard the shutting down of events to advance free expression as “a win for free expression.” Presumably, the fact that a number of withdrawals from both occasions were motivated by fear of being attacked by a mob of pro-Palestinian zealots is also “a win for free expression.” PEN itself stated its concern “about any circumstance in which writers tell us they feel shut down, or that speaking their minds bears too much risk.”

PEN is, by its nature, a big tent. It represents not only Muslim writers but Jewish ones too, some of whom might just support the existence of Israel, might just regard Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza as justified, and might just find alliance with genuinely genocidal terrorists whose unembarrassed aim is to wipe Israel and the Jewish people off the map as a teeny tiny bit obnoxious. While one PEN member decries the nonprofit’s “both-sidesing,” the truth is that PEN has no business taking a position on this issue whatsoever.

Unfortunately, the left has successfully installed the expectation that, regardless of their established purpose, all institutions—companies, museums, theaters, universities, charities, you name it—must proclaim their fealty to the “right” (which is to say left) position on a host of inflammatory issues of the day. This hyper-politicization of entities that ought sensibly to remain politically neutral has been systematically debauching everything from the UK’s National Trust to its NHS, from Anheuser-Busch to the Chicago Art Museum. First, all such outfits were required to fly Black Lives Matter flags, then garishly incoherent Pride flags, and now these banners have all to be swapped out for Palestinian flags, never mind what constituency or customer base might be alienated by this gratuitously partisan branding. Thus, an organization established for the defense of free speech of every sort—including the overtly Zionist kind—is necessarily obliged to openly advocate for Hamas, a murderous, cheerfully antisemitic cult whose interest in free speech on its home turf would fit in a thimble.

It isn’t a pretty sight when writers bully other writers into shutting down a celebration of world literature—especially when big names with the most expansive free-speech rights in the world take away a platform from lesser-known writers hoping to reach an audience outside their own repressive countries. Leyla Shukurova, an Azerbaijani German writer who just finished her first story collection and was planning to attend the festival, wrote after the event was canceled to thank PEN for “upholding the values that this festival, as well as PEN America as an organization, represents,” but she added: “The suppression of political discourse that we are witnessing right now in the US is very alarming and unsettling.”

The cancellation of one literary festival by writers—a kind of man-bites-dog story—may seem small, but it is part of a much bigger thing. The cause of the boycott was Gaza. In many ways, it’s a compelling cause. PEN America, like so many other organizations, had fallen into the habit of releasing statements about issues tangential or unrelated to its essential purpose. After October 7, PEN was internally divided over the war between Israel and Hamas, and slow to report on the deaths of scores of Palestinian writers, artists, and journalists. This response was unfavorably compared with PEN America’s vigorous stand for Ukraine after the Russian invasion. When I joined the board at the end of last year, I found an organization under siege from inside and outside. A number of writers and staff members wanted a much stronger response from PEN—not just on behalf of Palestinian writers, but against Israel. They wanted the organization to call for an immediate and permanent cease-fire; they wanted it to denounce Israel’s “genocide.”

These demands were political and geopolitical in a way that diverged from PEN’s charter and mission. They also threatened to tear the institution apart. When PEN balked, the writers found another way to impose their demands. Their boycott, like most protests, soon exceeded its original purpose of stating a position of individual conscience and turned into an organized campaign to shut down the festival, as well as PEN’s literary-awards ceremony. Criticizing PEN and Israel didn’t require silencing writers. Geetanjali Shree, the Indian novelist, wrote me afterward: “I hold strong views against Israel but I believe PEN stands for free dialogue and debate and in unequivocal defence of human rights.” But the writers’ disagreement with PEN had become a quest for power over PEN, even at the price of others’ right to free speech and the organization’s future. The boycott was an expression of the authoritarian spirit.

This turn was perhaps inevitable, because authoritarianism is the spirit of the times, around the world and in this country, where it animates both the right and the left. The two sides have vastly different values and goals, and they use different language—the left’s is academic and specialized (decolonization, imperialism, marginalization) while the right’s is crude and abusive (libtard, groomer, hoax). But in both cases, the words aren’t meant to invite a reply or open a dialogue; they shut discussion down. The two sides reflect and require each other, driving each other to greater extremes, while between them the center of Never Trump conservatives and traditional liberals, with their creaky institutions and halting appeals to reason, collapses.

This is how the authoritarian spirit plays out in a democracy. A party leader compels other politicians to defile their conscience and succumb to his dictates. A political rally turns into a violent effort to overturn an election. A student protest starts with calls for peace and ends in eliminationist chants, vandalism, closed campuses, and an invasion by police or state troopers. A group of writers bring an organization dedicated to their freedom to its knees.

Documents from the Prime Minister's Office were published online on Friday showing Israel's plan for returning Gaza to self-governance. The first step is planned to last 12 months and will focus on humanitarian aid. Israel will create safe areas free of Hamas control, starting in the north and slowly spreading south. A coalition of Arab countries will supervise humanitarian aid in the safe areas, while Gazan Palestinians will run the safe zones under the supervision of the Arab states.

In the second stage, the Arab coalition will create a Gaza Rehabilitation Authority to oversee reconstruction efforts and manage Gaza's finances. The authority will be run by Gazan Palestinians and will take responsibility for managing the safe areas. This will be done in coordination with the implementation of a "Marshall Plan" and a deradicalization program.

In the final stage, power would slowly be transferred to either a local Gaza government or a unified Palestinian government, contingent on the successful deradicalization and demilitarization of Gaza and subject to agreement by all parties. Israel would retain the right to act against "security threats." At the end of the final stage, the Palestinians would fully manage Gaza independently and join the Abraham Accords.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern message to Hamas on Sunday amid ongoing negotiations for the release of the hostages still held by the terror group in Gaza.

“While Israel showed this willingness [to compromise], Hamas remained entrenched in its extreme positions, chief among them the demand to withdraw all our forces from the Strip, end the war, and leave Hamas intact,” Netanyahu said following the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.

“The State of Israel cannot accept this. We are not ready to accept a situation in which the Hamas battalions come out of their bunkers, take control of Gaza again, rebuild their military infrastructure and return to threatening the citizens of Israel in the surrounding communities, in the cities of the south, in all parts of the country,” he continued.

Should that occur, “the next Oct. 7 is only a matter of time.”

Hamas terrorists killed some 1,200 people and abducted 252 during the Oct. 7 massacre; they are still holding 132.

Israel is prepared for a truce to free the remaining hostages, said Netanyahu.

“That’s what we did when we freed 124 abductees [during a truce in November], and we returned to fight—and that’s what we’re ready to do today as well,” he said.

Hamas politburo head Ismail Haniyeh released a statement after Netanyahu’s, saying his terrorist group is willing to reach a deal while blaming the Israeli prime minister for “the continuation of the aggression and the expansion of the circle of conflict, and sabotaging the efforts made through the mediators and various parties.”

The prime minister’s message comes hours after Israeli officials on Saturday night vehemently denied reports that the government had agreed to end the war against Hamas as part of an emerging hostage deal.

Jerusalem is seeing “worrying signs” that Hamas has no intention of agreeing to any hostages-for-ceasefire-and-terrorists-release deal, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told troops in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

Hamas’s refusal “means action in Rafah and the entire Strip in the near future,” Gallant said during a tour of the Israel Defense Forces’ Netzarim Corridor that splits the coastal enclave between north and south.

“We have clear goals for this war: We are committed to the elimination of Hamas and the release of the hostages,” stated the defense minister.

“We gave a period of time and wanted to reach a situation where we could realize the release of the hostages as quickly as possible, with a certain delay in the operational action. Because the hostages are in a difficult situation, we have to make every effort to free them,” he added.

The Israeli Cabinet voted unanimously on Sunday to approve a Knesset bill from last month that will bring about the closure of Al Jazeera’s bureau in the country.

“The government headed by me unanimously decided: The incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel,” wrote Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on X, while thanking Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi.

Karhi added, “Our orders will go into effect immediately. Too much time has passed and too many unnecessary legal hurdles for us to finally be able to stop Al Jazeera’s well-oiled incitement machine that harms the security of the country.”

He also said, “There will be no freedom of speech for the Hamas mouthpieces in Israel. Al Jazeera will be closed immediately and their equipment will be confiscated.”

Economy Minister Nir Barkat said after the vote, “Al Jazeera is the biggest engine of antisemitism in the world that Qatar operates against the State of Israel and the Jewish people.

435,855 souls would have been lost in a Tel Aviv genocide, 104,656 women and children murdered in Ashdod, and 354 hospitals obliterated across Israel. Additionally, 1,204 synagogues, 158 churches, and 73 mosques would have been consumed by flames, along with their congregants,…

— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) May 5, 2024

Israeli soldiers who went to war in Gaza carried a new, Israeli-made 3D navigation device called the Orion, designed to allow soldiers to "see" friendly units and to maneuver in an imagery-fed 3D visualized environment in real time - what the IDF in March compared to a military version of the popular Waze traffic app.

While the system has been in use with the IDF for six years, "this is the first large-scale war" for the system, said David Harel, CEO of Asio, which made the device.

The concept is to provide soldiers with updated maps in the palm of their hand, knitted together with recent aerial photos, enabling real-time navigation and situational awareness.

Here (again for all the not so expert ‘experts’) are many of the measures and steps the IDF have taken 👇

— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) May 4, 2024

2 - Provided safe routes and a humanitarian zone for evacuating civilians. Despite the reports of the IDF conducting operations near the routes and zone, they emplaced IDF soldiers along the route to protect civilians while Hamas prevented civilians from using the routes,…

— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) May 4, 2024

Israel has not created a gold standard in civilian harm mitigation in war. That implies there is a standard in civilian casualties in war that is acceptable or not acceptable; that zero civilian deaths in war is remotely possible and should be the goal; that there is a set…

— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) May 4, 2024

At least 10 people were wounded in southern Israel, four seriously, on Sunday when Hamas terrorists fired 14 mortar shells from the Rafah area of southern Gaza at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom.

Several rockets exploded near an Israel Defense Forces military facility, causing the casualties, the Eshkol Regional Council said.

“The injured are not residents of the council and we pray for their recovery,” the council said.

The wounded were evacuated to hospitals by ambulances and a helicopter. Their identities were not immediately known. One of those hurt was listed in very serious condition. Many military personnel were on the scene.

The Israeli Air Force subsequently attacked terrorist targets in Rafah, in the areas from which the missiles were fired towards Kerem Shalom.

“Fighter jets, directed by the Gaza Division, attacked the launch pad that carried out the launches towards the area. In addition, fighter jets attacked a military structure in the launch area,” the IDF said.

The military noted that “the launches were carried out by the Hamas terrorist organization near the Rafah Crossing, around 350 meters from civilian shelters. This is another clear example of the systematic exploitation by Hamas of humanitarian facilities and areas for terrorist purposes, while using the civilian population as a human shield.”

BREAKING:

YOU CANT MAKE THIS UP!

NOW: The IDF is bringing multiple aid trucks for Palestinians through the Kerem Shalom crossing to facilitate the delivery of much more aid.

Hxmas just fired a barrage of rockets towards the crossing and the aid trucks. pic.twitter.com/PaCgSko1Aj

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 5, 2024

Hamas just shot mortars on the Kerem Shalom crossing, which is a central entry point for humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Yes, they’re bombing their own lifeline of food and aid.

This is yet another example of Hamas’ perverse strategy: to Kill their own people in order to hurt…

— Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט (@naftalibennett) May 5, 2024

BREAKING

Rafah under attack! It’s reported the rockets came from Rafah. https://t.co/OLpM4S0l8Epic.twitter.com/sOsElywAf5

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 5, 2024

WATCH

Reports of six Hxmas terrorist eliminated in a Rafah airstrike.

Footage of the strike. https://t.co/OLpM4RZNj6pic.twitter.com/6ap7S673mA

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 5, 2024

An Israeli man was lightly wounded in a Hezbollah rocket barrage on the Upper Galilee city of Kiryat Shmona on Sunday.

The victim, 65, was treated on the spot by Magen David Adom paramedics whose ambulance was also hit by rocket shrapnel.

Rockets struck across the largely evacuated city, with hits reported on residential buildings and parked vehicles.

“Police are currently handling several scenes where rockets fell around the city of Kiryat Shmona,” the Israel Police said in a statement, adding that forces, including bomb sappers, were working to secure the area.

In a statement, Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets at Israel in response to a deadly IAF strike on Mis al-Jabal in Southern Lebanon.

BREAKING:

Not a good way to come back…

The IDF reports that at least 20 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards the Kiryat Shmona area. Some of these rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system. There are reports of injuries, homes being hit, and an ambulance… pic.twitter.com/pMA86KEFrT

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 5, 2024

Visegrad24 presents an in-depth series covering the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. This comprehensive series features on-the-ground interviews, bringing firsthand insights from a diverse range of voices, including politicians, professors, journalists, experts and influencers.

Our guest today: Keren Pikes

Spokeswoman for the national information system of the national public diplomacy directorate of Israel. The Public Diplomacy Directorate coordinates the activities of the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister’s Office on the one side, and the media. Before joining the Directorate, Keren worked as a journalist for many years.

00:00 - Introduction
01:18 - Israel's media strategy
05:31 - Is Israel losing the propaganda war?
13:11 - Anti-Israel protests in the West
17:03 - The transformation of the media
20:02 - Countering state misinformation
24:41 - Are Israelis safe in the West?

Visegrad24 presents an in-depth series covering the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. This comprehensive series features on-the-ground interviews, bringing firsthand insights from a diverse range of voices, including politicians, professors, journalists, experts and influencers.

Our guest today: Avi Liberman

Avi is an American-Israeli stand-up comedian. He has performed stand-up comedy on CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Make Me Laugh, as well as NBC's Friday Night. His acting credits include CBS's Dave's World, NBC's Boston Common and Comedy Central's Anytown, USA.

Since 2001, Liberman has successfully arranged widely acclaimed stand up comedy tours in Israel to help boost morale while donating all of the proceeds to a charity.

00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - Being in Israel on October 7th
05:20 - First stand-up after October 7th
06:50 - Comedy and Jewish culture
09:55 - The best Jewish comedians
12:15 - Why Israel is right
14:57 - Cenk Uygur
16:20 - The IDF and how to fight in Gaza
17:20 - Two-state solution
19:40 - The UN and UNRWA
23:25 - The West Bank thrives under Israel
30:15 - Ignorant anti-Israel protesters

You can’t make this stuff up. The main author of the “Zionism is racism” resolution at the UN was Fayez Sayegh, who was an early ideologue of the Syrian version of the Nazi Party. He later became a successful left-wing academic in the United States. pic.twitter.com/ifZ3N0JltK

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) May 4, 2024

Strong America is the solution in the Middle East. When I was asked by @CNN@BeckyCNN about Hamas, terrorists in the Gaza war on Israel, and the way forward, I emphasized that the solution is not in China, India, or Russia but in a strong USA. We need a firm, strong alliance, not… pic.twitter.com/VbIUoUeWNU

— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) May 4, 2024

Israeli Islamist Leader Sheikh Raed Salah: The World Must Prepare for the “Day After America” – It Has Grown Old and Is about to Retire; Islam Will Enter the White House, and Will Conquer Europe through Da’wa pic.twitter.com/jzWZA8eLxR

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 5, 2024

I have one questions for @UCLAchancellor Gene Block, the Board, and the majority of administrators/faculty at my alma mater @UCLA. I'm at your disposal to meet and discuss your answer. A message to the Jewish and non-Jewish students under siege across our nation as well.… pic.twitter.com/z3vQGO9p1q

— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) May 4, 2024

Can you imagine if the campuses were overrun by mobs chanting “death to blacks” or or “death to the gays” or “we don’t want no Muslims” or chanting for the genocide of any other minority community?! These investigations at the federal government level would have already taken… pic.twitter.com/f8j2XSRrE9

— Brooke Goldstein (@GoldsteinBrooke) May 4, 2024

Filmmaker Ami Horowitz says US college campus professors can’t be expected to condemn the violent anti- Israel protests as they are the ones who “fed” the agenda to students in the first place.

“Do you expect campus professors, and campus administrators to push back?” Mr Horowitz said.

“They are the vanguard of feeding these students this rubbish for years.

“They’ve been pushing this anti-Israel agenda for years.

“Of course they are not going to condemn it. Of course, they are not going to be in the forefront of stopping it.”

Jacob Reynolds joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the entitlement and bigotry of the anti-Israel protesters on American campuses.

But these protests have also been a reminder that the majority of students are not a) this lame or b) this stupid. At the university of North Carolina, members of the school’s fraternities not known for their politics took it upon themselves to defend their campuses’ American flag from anti-Israel protesters intent on tearing it down. A picture of the incident went viral and a gofundme to throw them a party in thanks reached half a million dollars in about two days, with thousands of small donors. It was nice to remember that the majority of Americans look at scenes of campus chaos and see them for what they are: violent for the sake of it, violence masquerading as social justice.

This isn’t just true for the onlookers, it’s true for the majority of students. As the encampment movement tiptoes its way across the pond, I say we let it run its course. Do you think there are bigger queues for nightclubs or to join Gaza protests? Are more students buying keffiyehs or Jäger bombs? If you think about it for more than a second, the idea that a handful of students is seen as representative of a campus’s politics is really quite silly. Bristol has an undergrad population of more than 60,000. At the time of writing, there were no more than a dozen tents in their encampment.

It sounds like a cliche, but the right to protest is important, and should be protected, even the ‘cause’ is stupid and contradictory. But it should not come at the expense of the normal students who deserve to not be accosted and Jewish students who should be free to look identifiably so at a university they pay far too much money to attend.

But at the end of the day, if a few Warwick undergrads want to camp in this resolutely wet May then let them. If the good people of Bristol want to further demonstrate their disdain for showers then I say go ahead - it will only diminish their cause for people to see what they actually believe.

Tomorrow May 6,
on Holocaust Remembrance Day,
With*n Our Lif*time, Ham@s supporter group indoctrinating & radicalizing college students, is planning a “citywide day of rage” at NYC’s Hunter College on Manhattan’s Upper East Side at 5pm (rush hour). pic.twitter.com/0LVSWSr9ir

— Melanie Notkin (@SavvyAuntie) May 5, 2024

A 'radicalised' 16-year-old boy was shot dead by officers after stabbing a man in the back in a shopping centre car park.

More than 30 police vehicles rushed to Bunnings car park on High Street in Willetton, south Perth, about 10pm on Saturday following reports of a stabbing.

There officers found a 16-year-old brandishing a large kitchen knife and a man with serious back injuries.

The teenager was fatally shot by police after he 'rushed the attending officers'.

'There are indications [the teenager] had been radicalised online,' Western Australia Premier Roger Cook told reporters in a press conference on Sunday morning.

'Members of the WA Muslim community who were concerned by his behaviour contacted police prior to the incident and I thank them for their help.

'Our police responded within minutes, they encountered a very confronting situation but their rapid and professional response kept our community safe.'

WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch clarified several concerned community members called triple-0 after the teenager indicated he was going to hurt people.

The teenager also phoned police and told operators he was planning a violent attack but did not reveal who or where he was.

Officers arrived at the Bunnings car park three minutes after the first triple-0 call.

The injured man, aged in his 30s and a stranger to the teenager, was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.

Assailant was ‘participating in a police deradicalisation program’. Not clear from early reports who the victim is or if the stabbing was terror related. pic.twitter.com/PDp8d9nHxD

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) May 5, 2024

Wow. The son of a terrorist wants to import more terrorists.

I'm shocked. https://t.co/ZRqQcBt9vO

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) May 5, 2024

Shocking footage shows the moment a man spits towards a group of counter-protesters supporting Israel near a pro-Palestine demonstration in London.

Police are seen speaking to an individual who then turns to the person behind the camera and spits in his direction, in full view of one of the officers.

The officer then walks the man away from the group for a few steps, pushing him as he ushers him to leave the area near the University College London (UCL) campus in Bloomsbury, central London.

The Met officer responds to questions from the cameraman over whether he saw the incident by saying: 'Yes, I saw it, go away.'

The exasperated policeman then appears to try to justify letting the man go, saying to the shocked person taking the video: 'He done it on your... in front of you. Yeah, he's not saying sorry he's being rude.'

The police officer then turns away from the camera and walks off, with it unclear as to whether any further action was taken as the clip comes to an end.

Spitting in public is subject to a fine, and spitting at a person deliberately can constitute assault.

The Metropolitan Police said on X that the man had been arrested shortly after the incident. The Met has been contacted for further comment.

It took place outside UCL, where Israel-supporting demonstrators faced off with a pro-Palestine crowd.

The @metpoliceuk are bullies who help antisemites

Here a man spits at some Jews, (spitting at someone deliberately constitutes an offence of assault), and the police HELP the offender on his way whilst being angry and contemptuous towards the Jews who have been spat at! pic.twitter.com/pTXlaLFWSk

— leekern (@leekern13) May 4, 2024

Once again Iranian activist @GhorbaniiNiyak arrested for…holding a banana…or a flag of England? We’re not sure at this point. @metpoliceuk this is getting really ridiculous.
pic.twitter.com/wqiYTD7qfw

— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) May 4, 2024

SHAME ON YOU @metpoliceuk These are my personal belongings that you threw on the ground like this! https://t.co/Nzks21cIuUpic.twitter.com/xYgGMWiRJx

— Niyak Ghorbani (نیاک) (@GhorbaniiNiyak) May 4, 2024

The DISGUSTING London police confiscated my T-shirt that was under my jacket and kept it for evidence!

What was written on the T-shirt? 👇🏻@metpoliceukpic.twitter.com/Iok0HUKLbQ

— Niyak Ghorbani (نیاک) (@GhorbaniiNiyak) May 5, 2024

Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign Press Secretary, folks. pic.twitter.com/G5zNuwSghL

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) May 4, 2024

Can Briahna define what an ethnostate is and how it is distinct from a nation state? Can she also point to countries in the Middle East (or anywhere in Asia or Europe for that matter) that aren't ethnostates? https://t.co/HNWu6WG79f

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 5, 2024

Murdering Jews is union business.

Yeah ok. Rightio. 😳😳#auspolhttps://t.co/uMzUFsVrDt

— Caroline Di Russo (@CaroDiRusso) May 5, 2024

Young people like to be part of something big and passionate. They want to care. It's romantic to be a revolutionary. However, a characteristic of the recent campus demonstrators was the covering of their faces, the hiding of their identities. This struck me as sinister. The 1960s antiwar protesters didn't hide who they were, they didn't wear masks. Students in the past two weeks did, to make observers feel menaced - some big, faceless force is enraged, occupying, and marching toward you.

I was at Columbia hours before the police came in and liberated Hamilton Hall from its occupiers. Unlike protesters of the past, who were usually eager to share with others what they thought and why, these demonstrators would generally not speak or make eye contact with members of the press. They weren't a compassionate group. They weren't for anything, they were against something: the Israeli state, which they'd like to see disappear, and those who support it.

A friend who counsels students at Columbia said these students don't believe the terrorist organization Hamas was unjustified in its actions on Oct. 7. They are "totally on board with neo-Marxist oppressor-oppressed ideology." They don't have compassion for Gaza and its people "any more than they've had compassion for Ukraine." They are driven by an anti-Israeli animus that is also and inextricably an anti-American animus.

The people of my liberal town were relieved to see the NYPD come in, drag the protesters away, restore order, and let people clean things up.

In January, as the world was still grappling with the brutality of the massacre, Georgetown’s Qatar campus bizarrely featured a symposium titled “Israel’s War on Palestinians: Gaza as Epicenter.”

Or maybe not so bizarrely given that tens of millions of dollars from Qatar have flowed into Georgetown since 2015, according to the US Department of Education website.

A school flack said: “We strongly condemn antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, and hatred of any kind in our community . . . Our campus in Qatar has helped educate more than 800 students from around the world in international affairs.”

while maintaining our . . . commitment to academic freedom, religious freedom, and inclusion and non-discrimination.”

Yet it’s not just foreign money but money from US sources that continues to pour into these schools, according to my sources.

Look at the make-up of the board of trustees of our top schools — the main conduit for college fundraising — and you see a preponderance of Wall Street types.

For years, they have looked away from the radicalization at our elite colleges while they financed through endowment contributions the instruction and expansion of courses that teach a false narrative about the evils of capitalism, and the systemic racism of America and Israel.

They still are despite the recent upheaval that seems to grow by the day.

For every Robert Kraft, Marc Rowan and Bill Ackman — billionaire Ivy League grads thoroughly disgusted with what their contributions to Columbia, Penn and Harvard have financed — too many others continue to throw their money at these schools.

Attorney Marc Kasowitz has been suing universities like Columbia, Harvard and Penn for violating the civil rights of Jewish students who are the daily targets of abuse and threats.

He has seen this cowardice firsthand as he seeks support for his litigation.

“These are people worth hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars, and some won’t step up. It’s unbelievable,” Kasowitz said.

The media has settled on its ‘Big Lie’.

The UCLA version of the Big Lie is that the Hamas supporters and their encampment were “peaceful” and then they were attacked by violent Jewish counterprotesters.

You’ll see variations of this lie at local papers like the LA Times and the LA Daily News, and in the nationals, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and of course across a lot of cable news.

The actual facts are that the Hamas supporters had been harassing Jewish students and even violently assaulting them.

The day before the riot, I heard an account at my own table of a student being assaulted.

LISTEN:

UCLA professor Dr. Nir Hoftman joins @johnrobertsFox to detail the aggression he faced from protesters on UCLA's campus and to explain the minimal intervention from the university to restore normal order and end the encampments. #AmericaReportspic.twitter.com/hHCDtc7L22

— America Reports (@AmericaRpts) April 29, 2024

Executive-Director of CAIR-LA Hussam Ayloush Delivers Friday Sermon at UCLA Student Encampment: This Is as Much an American Genocide as It Is an Israeli Genocide @CAIRNational@CAIRCaliforniapic.twitter.com/89aOrcKKbI

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 5, 2024

An orthodox Jewish professor slammed Rutgers University’s administration for letting the campus become a hotbed of bigotry, claiming in a scathing letter she cannot do any work because “all I do is confront antisemitism.”

Rebecca Cypess, a professor for the school’s music department, said she’s been “privy to the details of antisemitic incidents at Rutgers from the classroom . . . to the highest offices at the university,” according to the missive to President Jonathan Holloway and Chancellor Francine Conway.

The toxic climate has prevented her from publishing any scholarly writing, Cypess contended, noting she finds herself devoting all her time to advocating for “students, staff members, and faculty members in distress.”

Pro-terror demonstrators at the New Jersey state school have been caught on video yelling, “Hitler would have loved you” at Jewish students; chanting for intifada and plastering posters featuring a picture of Jewish student all over their dorm.

The toxic culture forced her out, wrote the professor, who is leaving Rutgers to become dean of the men’s and women’s undergraduate colleges at Yeshiva University.

“Throughout this year, I have found it difficult to breathe. I have lost my taste for my job; the joy that I used to feel in working at Rutgers has disappeared,” Cypess wrote.

The music professor also criticized the university for agreeing to numerous demands made by the organizers of the anti-Israel tent encampment, who she says have “held the university hostage all year.”

Campus leaders have rules on the books that make clear that the campus should be safe from intimidation for all students. 2/5

— Rep. Elissa Slotkin (@RepSlotkin) May 4, 2024

The University of Vermont has capitulated to a demand by the campus anti-Israel “encampment,” canceling a commencement address by UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a black female diplomatic pioneer.

The “encampment” is one of dozens across campuses in the U.S., demanding the destruction of Israel and making other antisemitic demands.

According to local NBC affiliate WPTZ:
Thomas-Greenfield is the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. UVM student protesters had listed the cancellation of her commencement speech as one of their key demands. She has overseen three votes for a cease-fire to war efforts in the Middle East, and has vetoed the measure each time.

“Every time you see a headline of U.S. vetoes U.N. cease-fire resolution in the Security Council, it’s accompanied by a picture of her raising her hand for that veto that picture carries an immense amount of pain and trauma and suffering,” James, a student with the group Students for Justice in Palestine, said in an earlier interview with NBC5.

So President Biden is writing off $1 trillion of student loans using our tax money and these students should stop learning until Hamas survives the Gaza War? pic.twitter.com/Fm5b3XDmbI

— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) May 5, 2024

Officers from the New York Police Department went to two different universities on Friday morning to clear out anti-Israel agitators and break up demonstrations they held on campus.

Officers first cleared an encampment at New York University, where they arrested several protesters and called cleaning crews to the area to remove tents and sweep away the trash left behind by the protesters. The NYPD was then called to take similar actions at The New School in New York. After the operations, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell spoke to reporters to confirm the NYPD took the actions "at the request of school presidents" and ultimately arrested 56 people, with no incidents, between both schools.

NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry also spoke to reporters, saying there is "somebody" or "some organization" behind the massive movement where students and other protesters are taking over schools and academic buildings, chanting antisemitic slogans, resisting law enforcement and administrators’ orders to disperse, and getting away with little to no consequences.

"I just want to say, and I said it before, there's somebody behind this movement," Daughtry said. "There is some organization behind this movement. The level of organization that we're seeing in both of these schools and at Columbia."

Police arrest protesters during anti-Israel demonstrations at different universities and colleges in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The deputy commissioner said officers found leaflets with "all the details" provided to the protesters.

"There are leaflets on how to protest leaflets or how to commit civil disobedience. There are leaflets on what to do when you get arrested, leaflets on what to say to police," Daughtry explained.

He reiterated: "There is somebody funding this. There is somebody radicalizing our students." Police officers standing in a line

During the remarks, the NYPD said that "99%" of those arrested on Friday were students. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

During the remarks, the police chief noted that "99%" of those arrested on Friday were students.

Chell then read one piece of literature that urged students to "occupy the occupiers."

"Enter the temporary autonomous zone from New York to Gaza," another said. "Disrupt. Reclaim. Destroy Zionist business interests everywhere."

"Long live the intifada," read another.

"So this is the mindset of some of these protests for sure," Chell added.

What's wrong with the NYT piece on UCLA? It says: The melee began when a group of counterprotesters started tearing away metal barriers..."
Wrong! The melee began 6 days earlier with an encampment that was far from "peaceful". My description of events goes as follows:
Chancellor…

— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) May 5, 2024

Professional agitators arrested at Columbia College campus.

Unveiling a Pattern of Disruption

Recent arrests at Columbia College campus in NYC have brought to light the activities of anarchists, revealing a concerning pattern of unlawful protest actions. These arrests,… pic.twitter.com/xqjoHp96Jx

— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) May 5, 2024

BREAKING: Governor Gretchen Whitmer was confronted today in Yipsalnti, Michigan at her daughter's graduation celebration.

"How do you justify genocide?" pic.twitter.com/eOJ3q68KmW

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 5, 2024

Northeastern University's Graduation was interrupted today by a graduate who covered himself in fake blood and stormed the stage. pic.twitter.com/T8egFy9m2h

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 5, 2024

This moment from a speech at the George Washington University Gaza Solidarity Encampment highlights the aims of this movement.

"Each and every one of you believes in a world liberated from colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and Zionism. We are here to create… pic.twitter.com/pSWoUJY7GC

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 5, 2024

Yesterday at New York University, this student led a teach-in on how North Korea has never formally recognized Israel, has always been an ally of Palestinian "self determination and resistance", and "actively armed and trained" the Palestinian resistance" for decades.

"So while… pic.twitter.com/UzIwllPXwE

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 5, 2024

Harvard terminated the employment of Gustavo “Gus” Espada ’96, a staff member in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, following an online exchange with a Harvard student over the defacing of posters displaying Israeli hostages.

In an email obtained by The Crimson, EALC department chair David L. Howell wrote to department members that Espada would not be returning to his post.

Espada’s removal comes months after a January exchange with Harvard Divinity School student Shabbos “Alexander” Kestenbaum — who denounced on X the defacing of campus posters that displayed the names and faces of Israeli hostages — in which Espada challenged Kestenbaum to a debate on Israel’s role in 9/11.

“I invite you to debate me today at the Cambridge Street overpass 12-1, don’t miss it!” Espada wrote in a Jan. 25 email to Kestenbaum.

Howell and Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Holly J. Jensen declined to comment on Espada’s removal. Espada did not respond to requests for comment on Friday.

According to Espada, he was terminated on April 23 after working for the University for more than 26 years as the financial and systems coordinator for the EALC department.

Espada has long been known for his conspiracy theories about 9/11. He has also repeatedly posted on X and Tiktok about the war in Gaza and promoted false claims about Israel’s role in 9/11.

Later on Jan. 25, the same day he emailed Kestenbaum, Espada posted a TikTok video speaking in Spanish and waving a toy machete. The video includes a screenshot of Kestenbaum’s X post.

BREAKING: The statue of John Harvard has been defaced, and a giant missile reading "Paid for by Harvard" appears to be wired to the statue. pic.twitter.com/rPmbCpciGb

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 5, 2024

ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) Midwest, StandWithUs, and The Louis D Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law today called for the resignation of Northwestern University President Michael Schill in response to the reprehensible and dangerous agreement reached between President Schill and leaders of the university’s encampment protest:

“As the three leading organizations in the United States holding colleges and universities accountable for creating hostile environments for Jewish students, we are shocked and dismayed by the agreement Northwestern University President Michael Schill reached on behalf of Northwestern University with encampment protestors yesterday.

“For the last seven months – and longer – Jewish Northwestern students have been harassed and intimated by blatant antisemitism on campus, worsening since October 7. On April 29, 2024, President Schill signed an agreement with the perpetrators of that harassment and intimidation, rewarding them for their hate.

“For days, protestors openly mocked and violated Northwestern’s codes of conduct and policies by erecting an encampment in which they fanned the flames of antisemitism and wreaked havoc on the entire university community. Their goal was not to find peace, but to make Jewish students feel unsafe on campus. Rather than hold them accountable – as he pledged he would – President Schill gave them a seat at the table and normalized their hatred against Jewish students.

“It is clear from President Schill’s actions that he is unfit to lead Northwestern and must resign.

On September 22, 2023, roughly two weeks before Hamas would launch a barbarous and unprovoked attack on innocent Israeli civilians, the University of Pennsylvania hosted the Palestine Writes Literature Festival on campus. The event was sponsored by numerous university departments and centers including the Middle East Center, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and the Wolf Humanities Center.

Even before the Hamas attacks brought anti-Semitism to the forefront of the nation’s consciousness, the event drew strong criticism and outrage from Jews and supporters of Israel as well as the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Those latter two groups sent a letter to the University’s then-president Liz Magill back in August of 2023, sharing their “deep concern” that individuals scheduled to speak and present at the event had a history of promoting anti-Semitism. These scheduled speakers included Roger Waters, “whose shows were recently condemned by the U.S. State Department as antisemitic after he dressed in a Nazi-like uniform and shot a prop machine gun into the audience during two concerts performed in Germany.” Another featured speaker was CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill, who was fired by the network after endorsing the genocidal statement “Free Palestine, from the River to the Sea” in a speech at the United Nations and who has glorified convicted terrorist Fatima Bernawi.

Other speakers at the event which were highlighted in the ADL/JFGP letter included the festival’s co-chair Susan Abulhawa who wrote, following a terrorist shooting outside a synagogue in Jerusalem, that “Every Israeli, whether in a synagogue, a checkpoint, a settlement, or shopping mall is a colonizer who came from foreign lands and kicked out the native inhabitants. They all serve in the racist colonial military. The whole country is one big militarized tumor” and Rutgers University Professor Noura Erakat who “repeatedly expressed complete opposition to Israel’s right to exist and shared her approval for military campaigns to end Israel’s existence. She also suggested Zionism is a ‘bedfellow’ to Nazism.”

Unsurprisingly, these predictions that the Palestinian Writes Literature Festival would openly promote Jew hatred at the university proved to be spot on. As the American Jewish Committee reported, “The festival’s inaugural event includes a screening of the film Farha, which includes a number of toxic antisemitic tropes, including a modern retelling of the blood libel trope that casts Jews as vicious, bloodthirsty, and cruel. The film is a distortive piece of fiction, yet it is often treated as evidence of extreme, unprovoked Israeli cruelty towards innocent Palestinians during Israel’s War of Independence.”

Anti-Israel protesters in California have outed themselves as raging antisemites after demanding that the University of California cut ties with Hillel and other Jewish community groups that support Jewish students and faculty on campuses.

The demands were revealed in a flier for the Students for Justice in Palestine at UC-Santa Cruz.

Critics were swift and did not mince words in pointing at that the flier demonstrates clear antisemitism.

“We are supposed to pretend, for the sake of political correctness, that SJP is simply criticizing the Israeli government rather than targeting Jews,” Bronx Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres wrote.

“Attacking Jewish institutions, however, is not criticism. It’s antisemitism.”

In a list of demands shared on Saturday on social media, the group calls for the university to “Cut ties UC-wide with all zionist organizations — including study abroad programs, fellowships, seminars, research collaborations and universities.”

Listed among the so-called “Zionist organizations” were Jewish community groups, including the Hellen Diller Foundation, Koret Foundation, Israel Institute and Hillel International — the biggest Jewish student life organization in the US.

“Three of the four organizations cited in the academic boycott demand by encampment activists at UCSC are Jewish charities and communal groups,” the Bay Area Jewish Community Relations Counsel wrote on X.

Let me tell you something: if you're demanding that Hillel be fully removed from UC Santa Cruz, you're an antisemite.

Hillel is a cultural lifeline for Jewish students.

If you want it gone - that means you want Jews gone.

There's no negotiating on the antisemitic nature of… pic.twitter.com/vFSt7q6Xsg

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 4, 2024

So apparently the @MIT anarchists put out a request the other day for some mommy hugs and I can't stop laughing pic.twitter.com/PNAkSW1u1Z

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 5, 2024

Palestinian protesters fighting the police at UVA pic.twitter.com/GcH9VG0V7K

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 4, 2024

The University of California, Berkeley, has opened a Title IX civil rights investigation into whether a law professor harassed a Muslim student during a dinner last month in the professor’s backyard.

The investigation by the university’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination stems from an April 9 incident at the home of professor Catherine Fisk and her husband, who is dean of the university’s law school.

Graduating law student Malak Afaneh said she was subjected to harassment and discrimination when she attempted to deliver an unexpected pro-Palestinian speech at the invitation-only dinner.

“It was reported that on April 9, 2024, during a dinner for UC Berkeley Law School students, held at Respondent’s off-campus residence, Respondent physically grabbed you, attempted to forcibly take your cell phone and microphone from your hand, and asked you to leave a University event when you began to speak in support of Palestine and about Ramadan,” the office wrote in a document provided to Afaneh confirming the investigation.

A pro-Palestine demonstration descended into chaos after violence broke out between security guards and students from the University of Leeds.

The students standing against Israel's war in Gaza decided to stage a protest during the student union's Hall Awards in a bid to 'disrupt' the ceremony on Thursday.

In a video posted by Student Rebellion Leeds, the group alongside Youth Demand Leeds began to chant: 'The students united will never be defeated.'

But when the protesters attempted to enter the hall - where the ceremony was being held - pandemonium erupted.

Screams and shouting could be heard, as the angry clash continued between the security guards and students.

One student could be seen sobbing on the floor as blood flooded from her nose following the shocking incident.

Student Rebellion Leeds alleged on Instagram that injury had been sustained during the clash.

In a statement posted to the social media site, the student group alleged security staff had threatened to remove them following the chants outside the awards ceremony.

They also claimed security employees tried to take a university student's megaphone and also alleged they 'violently attack[ed] student protesters without warning.'

The group claimed: 'Multiple students were manhandled, dragged, shoved, and kicked by security, with several sustaining injuries.'

A spokesperson for the University of Leeds said: 'We are deeply disappointed that an annual celebration of outstanding student contribution to University life – held by and for students - was temporarily disrupted by a demonstration by protesters entering the event.

The safety of every Australian matters, including Jewish students and staff at university campuses.

After Melbourne’s antisemitism roundtable last Friday, I’m convening another urgent meeting in Sydney tomorrow. #FightTheHatepic.twitter.com/QlCPpaGL7s

— Senator Sarah Henderson (@SenSHenderson) May 5, 2024

BREAKING: University of Adelaide Gaza camp leader Habibah Jaghoori endorses Hamas “resistance” and praises the murder of a Jewish child.
Her page features Tweets praising Hezbollah, a designated terror group in Australia. pic.twitter.com/ejf6gR9kHu

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) May 5, 2024

This coward attacked Jewish students at the University of Queensland. He attacked their camp at night just as they were breaking bread for the Sabbath. Tore down peace signs with the Star of David. Attacked a guy right in front of his 2 year old daughter.

Please help make him… pic.twitter.com/olGLIjBgMv

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) May 5, 2024

Mighty proud to have stood beside fellow patriots today @UChicago.

I am all for freedom of speech. But you do not have the freedom to vandalize buildings, spray praint “Death to America” on statues, obstruct University walkways, and defecate in tents on our beautiful Quad. pic.twitter.com/02NkdXpftO

— Arthur Long (@TheArthurLong) May 3, 2024

Saturday Night Live took on the anti-Israel protests sweeping the nation in its cold opening Saturday, with a blue-collar parent warning that his daughter better not squander her tuition by participating.

Kenan Thompson, playing Uber-driver father, appeared as one of three college parents discussing the weeks-long saga on a NY1 “Community Affairs” talk show hosted by cast member Michael Longfellow.

Each agreed that they supported the movement, but Thompson made clear his support didn’t extend to his little girl’s participation.

“Alexis Vanessa is gonna have her butt in class,” Thompson said, saying he would not let his $68,000 annual tuition go to waste.

“Let me find out she’s in one of them damn tents instead of the dorm room that I pay for.”

When a Hunter College father confusedly asked why he said he supported the protests — which resulted in hundreds of arrests at Columbia since the encampment sprung up two weeks ago — Thompson clarified that he supports “ya’lls kids.”

“I’m out here busting my hump to pay all that tuition,” Thompson said, telling The New School mom played by Heidi Gardner: “Sister, I do it all.”

“Uber all day. Uber Eats all night. Cut grass on the weekends. Sell Gucci watches out my trunk. Life coaching on IG. All for that for her to say she’s got a degree in African Studies. It’s like, little girl, you’ve been Black your whole life.

Parents of New York City college students share their thoughts on campus protests pic.twitter.com/Ew4jmThlhS

— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) May 5, 2024

How to win any argument by Mehdi Hassan:

1. create a strawman argument
2. beat the hell out of this argument

That’s it. You won
If still not sure

3. change the goal posts and create a different strawman argument
4. beat the hell out of this argument

Rinse and repeat
Won again

— Michael Elgort (@just_whatever) May 5, 2024

Even before the Oct. 7 invasion, antisemitism was on the rise, but a dramatic spike followed the Hamas attack, according to the 2023 Antisemitism Worldwide report whose findings were released on Wednesday by Tel Aviv University and the Anti-Defamation League.

The report, “Concern for the Future of Jewish Life in the West,” emphasizes that while 2023’s leap in antisemitic incidents largely followed Oct. 7, most countries with sizeable Jewish minorities also saw increases in the first nine months of 2023, before the war started.

“October 7 helped spread a fire that was already out of control,” the report states, noting that “from Brazil to South Africa, from Italy to Australia, from Belgium to the United States,” antisemitic incidents in western countries rose by dozens of percentage points in 2023 over the year before.

“The aftermath of Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel on October 7 was followed by a tsunami of hate against Jewish communities worldwide,” said Anti-Defamation League CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt.

“Unprecedented levels of antisemitism have surged globally in the streets of London, New York, Paris, Santiago, Johannesburg and beyond.

“This year’s report is incredibly alarming, with documented unprecedented levels of antisemitism, including in the U.S. where 2023 saw the highest number of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. ever recorded by the ADL,” he added.

In the United States, the ADL recorded 7,523 incidents in 2023 compared to 3,697 in 2022. The number of assaults increased from 111 in 2022 to 161 in 2023, and of vandalism, 1,288 to 2,106.

In New York, the city with the largest Jewish population in the world, the New York Police Department recorded 325 anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2023 in comparison to 261 in 2022.

In Los Angeles, the city’s police department recorded 165 antisemitic incidents, up from 86, and in Chicago, there were 50 up from 39.

At least 20 synagogues were targeted by bomb threats over Shabbat, according to a New York State representative for Manhattan.

Alex Bores, the representative for the state’s 73rd district wrote in a post on social media that a least four Manhattan shuls received threats as well as a number of others across the city.

He said: “I’ve spoken with rabbis and the police; they have investigated the specific threats and found them to be not credible,” adding “Antisemitism is unacceptable, and the perpetrators should be prosecuted.”

We are actively monitoring a number of bomb threats at synagogues in New York. Threats have been determined not to be credible, but we will not tolerate individuals sowing fear & antisemitism. Those responsible must be held accountable for their despicable actions.

— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) May 4, 2024

On Saturday evening, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrote that the state is “actively monitoring a number of bomb threats at synagogues in New York.”

“Threats have been determined not to be credible, but we will not tolerate individuals sowing fear and antisemitism,” she wrote. “Those responsible must be held accountable for their despicable actions.”

Several other city and state lawmakers commented on the threats.

Rebecca Seawright, another New York state representative, called them “disgraceful.”

“There is zero tolerance for antisemitism and those responsible must be held accountable,” she wrote. “We must keep our community safe for all New Yorkers.”

Good. https://t.co/5aFqCk6DhJ

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 4, 2024

Karma?

Mohamed Hadid, an anti-Israel radical famous for his racist and homophobic messages to Congressman Ritchie Torres, has filed for bankruptcy.

He owes $55 million to his creditors and his business checking account is empty.https://t.co/ziZ8ufT3Jxpic.twitter.com/G1TQ8w76RH

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 5, 2024

Uncomfortable conversations may seem an unlikely way to willingly spend time these days — but former NFL football player and current sports analyst Emmanuel Acho has taken these conversations on as what he calls his “vocation.” His most recent project is a collaboration with Israel’s former antisemitism envoy, actor Noa Tishby.

In their new book, “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew,” co-authors Acho and Tishby meet the current moment with a book full of candid conversations between friends about Jewish history, antisemitic tropes, Zionism and prejudice in America.

“My initial thought was simple, and it was how often marginalized groups fight in silos. Black people fight for Black people, women fight for women, and Jewish people fight for Jewish people. But what would happen, and how much more powerful could we be, if we collectively fought together?” Acho mused in a recent conversation with The Times of Israel.

Acho is quick to note that the idea for the book came about well before the October 7 terror onslaught in which thousands of Hamas-led terrorists brutally murdered 1,200 people in southern Israel and kidnapped 253 to the Gaza Strip.

In fact, he said, it almost didn’t come about at all due to an online conversation between Acho and Tishby, in which Acho brought Palestinian-American activist Noura Erekat in as a counterpoint without informing Tishby beforehand.

Once the two got back on track with holding their conversations, Acho recounted, October 7 occurred, rendering antisemitism even more of a force in the world and, in his opinion, further necessitating these dialogues.

“I didn’t know if the book was going to come back to life with Noa, but the book literally fell apart, and thankfully Noa saw that there was still such a need for this book, and we just found a way to come back together and write it. And after we got through that, I think we realized we could get through anything,” Acho recalled.

The “uncomfortable conversations” of the book range from explorations of Jewish stereotypes and antisemitic tropes to discussions of Zionism. Acho candidly asks Tishby about stereotypes such as Jewish success in America, about “white-passing” Jews, and other fundamentally taboo topics, while Tishby responds with both knowledge and kindness.

The Black community and the Jewish community have so much in common. That’s why it’s more important than ever to ensure that our community are united. @RepRitchie and I talk about my new book with @emmanuelacho titled, “Uncomfortable Conversations With a Jew” which discusses a… pic.twitter.com/f36aaobnWs

— Noa Tishby (@noatishby) May 4, 2024

Ethiopian Israeli Tasheger Araro asks her grandmother: “What is the most mind blowing thing you saw the first time you came to Israel?”

Her Grandma: “White Jews.”

😂😂😂#AmYisraelChaipic.twitter.com/cV7x1Myo7e

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 5, 2024

Last week, April 25 marked ANZAC Day. You ask: What is ANZAC Day?

ANZAC Day holds profound significance for Australians and New Zealanders as they commemorate the valor of their soldiers in World War I, notably in the Gallipoli campaign.

But what connects this distant history to us, the Jewish community?

Let me recount an inspiring tale intertwined with ANZAC lore.

In 1915, rabbi David Yitzchak Friedman, who served as the rabbi of Perth Hebrew Congregation in Western Australia, embarked on a journey that would etch his name in the annals of heroism.

Joining the ranks of the ANZAC forces, rabbi Friedman carried with him a sacred mission and a symbol of faith – a small Sefer Torah gifted by the Jewish community of Alexandria, Egypt, where he had stopped during the arduous journey to Gallipoli.

The ancient Jewish community of that famous city wanted to show its appreciation for his and the Jewish soldiers’ war effort and to do something to protect them. They gave him that small Sefer Torah, a very special Sefer Torah, which he took and kept with him at all times.

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Mass rally inside and outside Madison Square Garden against the Holocaust, July 31, 1944

I write from the encampment, where students and faculty gather in hopeful clusters and echoes of laughter cut through the night. (Harvard)

About 70 tents are spread around U-Yard and H Street that range from single-person sleepers to 10-person tents. Around the encampment, people are sitting in circles, a pair played chess and another group watched a movie on a laptop.  The sounds of quiet conversation and laughter traveled through the air. (GWU)

The encampment had a wonderful environment with food, friends, and laughter. (MIT)

Light chatter and frequent laughter echo across Cannon Green, where 40 protestors remain camped for the night.  (Princeton)

 Around 5:35 p.m., participants in the encampment opened a circle in the middle of South Lawn. A group of students danced an Indian folk dance with neon pink and yellow sticks. Onlookers cheered, clapped, and whistled in support of the dancers, with some shaking tambourines and playing drums. (Columbia)

The members of the Workmen’s Circle, a Jewish labor fraternal organization, will gather simultaneously in 100 meeting places in Greater New York tomorrow to voice the protest of Jewish Labor against the Nazi butchery of Jews in Europe.

The protest meetings which have been called jointly by the Workmen’s Circle and the Jewish Labor Committee will mark a “Day of Protest and Mourning” proclaimed by the national executive committee of the Workmen’s Circle in the name of its 75,000 members in the United States. Similar protest demonstrations will take place tomorrow throughout the country.

More than 75,000 Jews and Christians attempted to enter Madison Square Garden last night three hours before the opening of the demonstration against the Nazi extermination of Jews, the New York police authorities estimated today. In addition to the 20,000 who succeeded in entering, thousands stood outside the building listening to the speeches which were conveyed from the platform through loud speakers while tens of thousands of people at home heard the proceedings which were broadcast over a nation-wide hook-up.

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1. Divest from any firm or corporation materially participating in, benefitting from, or otherwise supporting the state of Israel's settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide of Palestine and the Palestinian people, in accordance with the principles for divestment listed in University policy 40.2.14. 

A request from the Endowment Justice Collective to divest from companies doing business in Israel was received on April 2, 2024, and is undergoing the review process that is outlined in the university’s investment policy. The University President and the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Investments will meet with no more than five student representatives to discuss the divestment request provided the end of encampment.

3. Accept at least 10 displaced Gazan students to study at Rutgers University on scholarship. 

Rutgers University has a close partnership with Scholar Connections and will work with a committee of students, faculty, and staff to implement support for 10 displaced Palestinian students to finish their education at Rutgers.

4. Provide resources for Palestinian and Arab students in the form of an Arab Cultural Center on each Rutgers campus. 

We will develop a plan for the creation of an Arab Cultural Center with designated physical space and a hiring plan for administrators and staff by the start of Fall 2024 semester at New Brunswick.

5. Establish a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a long-term educational and collaboration partnership with Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine -- in accordance with precedent set by William Paterson University 

Rutgers-New Brunswick will revisit and follow up on the relationship established in 2022 with Birzeit University to explore avenues of research collaboration and scholarly exchange, and the feasibility of student exchange and/or study abroad through RU Global Studies

6. Name "Palestine" and "Palestinians" in all future communications related to Israeli aggressions in Palestine (as opposed to "Middle East""Gaza region" etc.), and release a statement from the Office of the President acknowledging the ongoing genocide against Palestinians, its impact on the Palestinian community at our university, and advocating for a ceasefire. 

The Chancellor will continue to name Palestine, Palestinians, and Gaza in future communications. 

7. Hire senior administrators with cultural competency and knowledge about Arabs, Palestinians, Muslims, anti-Palestinian racism, and Islamophobia. 

Rutgers–New Brunswick will work to develop training sessions on anti-Palestinian, antiArab, and anti-Muslim racism for all RU administrators & staff. We also commit to the hiring of a senior administrator who has cultural competency in and with Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian communities in the Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community.

8. Hire additional professors specializing in Palestine studies and Middle East studies, institute a center for Palestine studies, and establish a path to departmentalization for Middle East studies. 

The Office of the Chancellor will convene a working group to conduct a feasibility study for the creation of a Department of Middle East Studies and hire faculty. The first task of the committee is to identify gaps in the current faculty and make recommendations.

9. Display the flags of occupied peoples - including but not limited to Palestinians, Kurds, and Kashmiris - in all areas displaying international flags across the Rutgers campuses. 

The Office of the Chancellor will take stock of flags that are displayed across Rutgers New Brunswick campus, and ensure appropriate representation of students enrolled in academic and other spaces.

10. Provide full amnesty for all students, student groups, faculty, and staff penalized for exercising their First Amendment right to protest Rutgers University's support for Israeli human rights violations, and voice support for faculty and staff who have been publicly targeted for exercising their academic freedom. 

No member of the Rutgers–New Brunswick community-including faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate students, or alumni-found to have been involved in the encampment or related activity will face retaliation from the University, including termination of employment or reduction in compensation. Retaliation shall be defined as any adverse action outside of normal business practices taken for the sole reason that the individual was involved in the encampment activities. Individual students who have been involved in any activities related to the encampment or support of the encampment, including presence in the encampment area, remain subject to the procedures of the Code of Student Conduct as communicated by the Office of Student Conduct. The commitment to end the encampment through this agreement will be considered a favorable mitigating factor in the resolution of those matters. This agreement further recognizes that reports of bias, harassment or discrimination must continue to be investigated by the appropriate offices. This agreement does not pertain to Code of Student Conduct violations that occur or come to be known after this agreement, nor shall the review and resolution of any such individual conduct matters alter or invalidate this agreement.

The devil is in the details, of course. Rutgers is not showing that it learned any lessons when it blocked a planned kosher barbeque at the same location as where the encampment was, forcing it to move:

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The man who ignored the information which arguably could have saved nearly a million lives was Kofi Annan, then U.N. under-secretary general for peacekeeping operations. Annan told PBS in 2004 that he ordered Dallaire to share his intelligence with the genocide’s architects because “sometimes it is a very good deterrent” to inform rogue states that “we know what you are up to”—as if such a tactic has ever worked before or since. Not surprisingly, during Belgian government investigations into the Hutus’ murder of Belgian peacekeeping soldiers, Annan blocked Dallaire from testifying, and declined to testify himself.

Annan made another telling remark in the PBS interview. Pointing the finger at Security Council members, the former secretary general noted that, although these states had even better intelligence than his office, he knew the “mood in the council”: The members, Annan said, were not going to say, “We are going to send in the brigade” or “send reinforcements to General Dallaire.” While clearly self-serving, Annan’s remark is a reminder of the complicity of the so-called “international community,” including the U.S., which, at the time, did not wish to even utter the word “genocide.” “If we use the word ‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing,” Susan Rice, then director for international organizations and peacekeeping at the National Security Council, said, “what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?”

The author who later excoriated Rice for this comment was none other than Samantha Power, who, two decades later, would nevertheless join Rice in government as ambassador to the U.N., when the Obama administration was abetting the mass slaughter in Syria. In her current role as USAID administrator, Power, in order to advance the Biden administration’s obscene policy of “surging” aid to Gaza, has falsely claimed that Israel is causing a “famine.”

Annan’s boss during the genocide, then-Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, was the one responsible for covertly selling the Rwandan government much of their weapons stockpile in the first place. That $26 million worth of weapons, approved by Boutros-Ghali while still Egyptian foreign minister in 1990, made up a large part of the supplies the U.N. blocked Dallaire from seizing. Boutros-Ghali later dismissed Dallaire’s original fax as merely one among many “alarming reports from the field,” thus not worth serious consideration at the time. Once the genocide was in full flood, however, all Boutros-Ghali and Annan allowed Dallaire to do was attempt to negotiate an impossible cease-fire between the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front and the very government slaughtering their kin. Though he admitted to PBS in 2004 that “I failed in Rwanda,” he never truly took personal responsibility. When he traveled to Rwanda in 1995 and reluctantly visited the site of the barbaric Nyarubuye church massacre, he toured the untouched mounds of putrefied innocents for 18 minutes, told the living to be of good courage, and then left.

Current U.N. secretary general, Antonio Guterres, did something arguably worse 28 years later. Barely two weeks after Oct. 7, he appeared to give subtle justification to Hamas’ own Nyarubuye massacre of Jews, saying that it “did not happen in a vacuum.”

Still, perhaps the most stunning correlation between the U.N.’s abetment of genocide in Rwanda and in Israel 30 years later is its insistence upon “humanitarian” support for mass murderers and their civilian accomplices. A less-remembered side effect of the Rwandan civil war was the exodus of around a million Hutus into Tanzania and Zaire, whom the U.N. and international community aided lavishly. Many of these refugees were known at the time to have either supported the genocide’s aims or personally been part of the Interahamwe death squads, but they were given food, medicine, and shelter anyway. The thousands of killers among them became community leaders within the refugee camps and then, when the genocide was over, returned to their villages to live in sight of those few who had survived their butchery.

Today, the U.N. demands that Israel supply food, medicine, and shelter to people who passionately support Hamas and their genocidal exploits. Under severe U.S. pressure—including threats of stopping arms supplies, sanctions, and support for ICC prosecution of Israeli officials and IDF soldiers—Israel has been forced to oblige, even though they know that Hamas will steal the aid for itself, as it habitually does. The Biden administration has even begun constructing a $320 million pier to supply the terror group’s enclave, and is demanding Israel protect the aid convoys replenishing its enemy.

Nevertheless, there is one difference between the U.N.’s perfidy in Rwanda and hostility toward Israel. In Rwanda, the U.N.—even while often refusing to use the word—did understand that Hutus were, in fact, committing genocide against Tutsis. Today, however, the same U.N. actually accuses the victims of an act of genocide of being the murderers, while blessing the act’s perpetrators as the true victims.

It is only fitting, then, that one U.N. official reportedly described pointless cease-fire talks between the RPF and Hutu killers as “rather like wanting Hitler to reach a cease-fire with the Jews.” No observation could better encapsulate three decades of moral depravity dressed up as idealistic decency.

For all the loathing she received on social media, Karen was harmless. Her successor is not. This woman throngs university campuses, leading protests, wrapped up in keffiyehs and a face covering, passionately crying out for what she calls freedom fighters and their “just war” against Zionist apartheid, genocide and occupation, and the general existence of the Jewish state.

What she is doing – perfectly explicitly in many cases – is teeny-bopping for Hamas, as girls used to yell and scream for the Beatles. It’s truly chilling. In the sick world of too many pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine women protesting, the acts of sexual violence carried out by Hamas on October 7 are Zionist fabrications, designed to further deepen the Israeli stranglehold on Palestinian self-determination and freedom. Others know perfectly well that the rape, torture and abductions happened, but seem to think it’s all wonderfully noble “resistance”.

A sick irony lives in the fact that these protest babes, ardent, self-righteous, self-avowed progressives, are cheering on terrorists who, when not raping women, insist on a brutal patriarchal society.

Do these women really want an Isis-style caliphate? Do they want rape and the threat of murder as an instrument of control as the framework for society in which all must live? Or do they only want these things for the “Zionists”?

Perhaps they don’t really know what they’re wishing for, but they should be careful nonetheless. They might just get it.

A sentence I never imagined I’d write: I now think Jeremy Corbyn did Jews in Britain a favour. His time as Labour leader, between 2015 and 2020, was an extremely weird one for British Jews, but eye-opening all the same: I now think it prepared many of us for the Left’s reaction to October 7, whereas American Jews seemed far more surprised. The gaslighting (the attack didn’t happen), the defences (if it did, Jews deserved it), the hectoring moral superiority (how can you care about that when this is so much more important?): all that we saw after October 7, we had seen under Corbyn.

Now is not the place to rehash the many examples of Corbyn’s jaw-dropping attitudes towards Jews, never mind Israel, ideas some of us naively thought had died out with Stalin. Those are specific to Corbyn, whose political relevance is now, thankfully, in the past. But two general truths emerged from that era that would prove extremely relevant after October 7.

The first was how little people across the Left cared when Jews pointed out the obvious antisemitism they saw in the Labour Party. In 2018, 86% of British Jews said they believed Corbyn was antisemitic; and still the Left supported him, and still The Guardian backed him in the 2019 general election. Would they — good Lefties one and all — have done this if the vast majority of another minority said they believed Corbyn was bigoted against them? Would the Left have supported an Islamophobic leader in 2018? A homophobic one? A racist one? It’s hard to imagine. “What are Jews so scared of? It’s not like Corbyn’s going to bring back pogroms,” a prominent figure on the Left asked me. I briefly amused myself by imagining a response: “Why are black people so against the Tories? It’s not like they’ll bring back lynching.” But I stayed schtum. The Left doesn’t care about antisemitism if they deem it inconvenient to their cause. They just call it “anti-Zionism” and carry on, and that was — it turned out — a good lesson to learn.

There was another lesson, too. When Corbyn was pushed out of Labour in 2020, I dismissed him as a useful idiot, which was right. I also dismissed him as a blip, an aberration, one I needn’t think about again, which was wrong. Because then October 7 happened. I realised that the Corbyn era had opened a Pandora’s box and some ghosts cannot be controlled.

Antisemitism found a new point of entry through identity politics, which argues that in order to see the world clearly, we need to divide it up into particular group identities, specifically racial and sexual identities, and quantify the degrees of their oppression. As Yascha Mounk writes in The Identity Trap, adherents of identity politics believe that, in the name of fairness, liberal democracies need to jettison universal values such as free speech and respect for diverse opinions — values long championed by the Jewish Diaspora. Instead, we should now see everyone through the prisms of race and sexual orientation and treat them differently, depending on their identity group and how much oppression they have historically suffered.

To make this simplistic ideology even more simple, identity politics divides the world into two racial categories: “white” (defined as colonising oppressors) and “people of colour” (the oppressed). This is how the Left pivoted from talking about class to talking about race. It is also why antisemitism is thriving again on university campuses, as supporters of identity politics combine with activists for black and Muslim causes, who see Jews as ultra-white and therefore oppressive. And to be clear, those activists aren’t necessarily Black or Muslim themselves; in fact, as multiple students have told me, they are often white, but see supporting these causes — and trashing Israel and Jews — as a means of proving their allyship and exonerating themselves from white guilt.

Israeli officials said the cease-fire deal Hamas claims to have accepted from Egypt and Qatar on Monday was not approved by the Jewish state — and that it could be a “deception” by the terrorist organization.

The stakes could hardly be higher at this moment. Israel is preparing to launch an offensive in Rafah, the last stronghold for Hamas — and a city where more than 1 million Palestinians have taken refuge while fleeing war elsewhere in the Gaza Strip.

IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral. Daniel Hagari said Israel was reviewing Hamas’ response but still preparing for a possible deployment into Rafah, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Following Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s announcement that a deal was accepted, Israeli officials told multiple outlets that the deal presented to the terror group was a “softened” version of what was really on the table and is not being taken seriously by Jerusalem.

One official told Reuters that the announcement was a clear ruse by the terror group to create backlash against Israel for refusing a deal, and officials told KANN TV that the announcement of a cease-fire agreement was a “Hamas deception.”

The accusations came as a senior Hamas official told the AFP that the future of the cease-fire depends on Israel’s response.

“After Hamas agreed to the mediators’ proposal for a ceasefire, the ball is now in the court of Israeli occupation, whether it will agree to the ceasefire agreement or obstruct it,” the officials said.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan also pushed Israel to accept the deal with Hamas during a cabinet meeting on Monday.

“We welcome the statement by Hamas that they accepted the ceasefire with our suggestion. Now, Israel must take the same step,” he said.

The news of Hamas’ acceptance of a cease-fire deal immediately triggered celebrations across Gaza, where Palestinians cheered and chanted “Allahu Akbar” in the streets, Al Jazeera reports.

The deal Hamas said it agreed to includes a six-week cease-fire and the release of more than 30 hostages in Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

It remains unclear if the latest deal included Hamas’ key sticking point in the negotiations that have dragged on for months, with the terror group insisting that a cease-fire will only occur if Israel completely withdraws from Gaza and agrees to end the nearly seven-month-long war.

Israel’s war cabinet decides unanimously to push ahead with an operation in Rafah “in order to apply military pressure on Hamas, with the goal of making progress on freeing the hostages and the other war aims,” the Prime Minister’s Office says in a statement.

The statement says Hamas’s latest truce offer is “far from Israel’s essential demands.”

Nonetheless, Israel is going to send working-level teams to hold talks with the mediators in order “to exhaust the possibility of achieving an agreement on terms that are acceptable to Israel,” says the PMO.

The United States reportedly stopped the delivery of a shipment of US-made ammunition to Israel last week, according to Axios, although Israel says that deliveries are continuing as normal.

Citing two unnamed Israeli officials, Axios reports that the decision to place the ammunition shipment on hold left Israeli government officials concerned, as it is the first time since October 7 that the US has prevented a weapons shipment from reaching Israel.

A White House National Security spokesperson declines to confirm the report, saying they don’t comment on individual cases.

However, the spokesperson notes that the US “has surged billions of dollars in security assistance to Israel since the October 7 attacks, passed the largest ever supplemental appropriation for emergency assistance to Israel, led an unprecedented coalition to defend Israel against Iranian attacks and will continue to do what is necessary to ensure Israel can defend itself from the threats it faces.”

Speaking to Ynet, an Israeli official downplays the Axios report, saying “Even now, a continued series of defense shipments are being sent from the US to Israel.”

“It’s possible that one shipment or another is delayed, but the flow continues and we’re not aware of a policy decision to stop it,” the official adds.

Senior Biden administration officials have been coordinating since at least early 2022 with an outside anti-Israel group to isolate Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank, internal government emails show.

The previously unreported emails show top officials at both the State and Defense Departments fielding concerns from Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a human rights group that is highly critical of the Israeli government and has lobbied the Biden administration to cut off military aid to the Jewish state.

At the time, DAWN sparked an internal push at both departments to stop American officials from engaging with Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank and other contested areas of Jerusalem. DAWN is leveraging its clout with the Biden administration to push fresh sanctions on Israeli military units for alleged human rights crimes, having provided the State Department with a list of Israelis to punish. DAWN's anti-Israel lobbying campaign traces back to at least 2022, with the internal government emails shining new light on the level of access and influence it peddles inside the Biden administration.

In February of that year, DAWN's then-advocacy director, Adam Shapiro, emailed two top Pentagon officials—Dana Stroul, then the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, and Jennifer Zakriski, then the deputy director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

In the email, Shapiro raised concerns about U.S. officials engaging with Israeli "settlers," citing "media reports documenting a trip to Hebron by 2 US military officers, organized by an [Israel Defense Forces] commander and hosted by a settler affiliated with the Hebron Fund," a nonprofit group that provides education about the city of Hebron's Jewish history.

"From where I sit," Shapiro wrote, "I think this raises serious questions about the purpose of this trip to occupied territory and the ideological nature of the presentation and messaging—and seeming endorsement by US military personnel."

Iran's oil exports hit a six-year high last month. The regime in Tehran is a violent theocracy under U.S. and international sanctions. The energy sanctions reimposed on Iran in 2018 remain in effect, but the Biden administration is failing to enforce them, which has created a financial windfall for Iranian terrorism.

Iran's oil revenue underwrites a war machine that is tearing apart the Middle East, financing militias in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain and Yemen that target and kill American citizens. Hizbullah receives $700 million a year from Tehran. Iran's oil supported the Hamas death squads that carried out the Oct. 7 massacre, where at least 32 American citizens were murdered. The regime's oil revenue also funds its nuclear program and missile arsenal.

Iran is now exporting 1.56 million barrels a day of crude oil, most of it to China. This is netting the regime up to $35 billion annually. That's more than $100 billion in revenue since Mr. Biden took office in January 2021. Buoyed by these exports, Iran's economic growth surpassed that of the U.S. in 2023; the International Monetary Fund expects that to happen again in 2024.

The previous administration successfully reduced Iran's exports to a low of 70,000 barrels a day in April 2020. This denied Tehran access to as much as $50 billion in annual revenue. I monitored the sanctions' efficacy daily. Teams from across the federal government worked to track Iran's illicit oil transfers and disrupt them in every region. Countries took notice and heeded our warnings. Today, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has spare oil capacity. That gives President Biden ample room to enforce the oil sanctions vigorously.

Skeptics have said our sanctions had little effect. That would be news to Iran's then-President Hassan Rouhani, who complained in late 2019 that U.S. sanctions cost the regime as much as $200 billion. That year, Iran cut its military spending by 28%. Iran-backed militias across the Middle East told reporters that Tehran's handouts had dried up.

Restoring deterrence starts with enforcing the existing sanctions with the goal of zero oil exports for the top financier of terrorism in the Middle East.

Ever since Hamas’s brutal pogroms of October 7, 2023, on Jewish communities in southern Israel, which sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, there has been a drastic surge in antisemitic incidents in the West, namely, the United States, Canada, and Europe.

We have witnessed hundreds of thousands of people marching in western capitals and cities – not in support of the 1,200 Israeli victims who were slaughtered in cold blood, but rather in support of Hamas terrorists. However, in the past few weeks, we have seen a new alarming development: the blast of Jew-hatred on American campuses, home to some of the world’s most prestigious universities. American campuses have been turned into breeding grounds of Jew-hatred and hatred of Western values and democracy. Campuses have turned into a second front for Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), plainly calling for violence and glorifying the Oct. 7 massacres. Protesters, many not students, burn American flags and chant “Down with the U.S.,” “We are all Hamas,” and “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground.”

Keffiyeh-clad students in a pro-Palestinian rally at Columbia University harassed Jewish students and, in some cases, prevented them from entering the university and shouted at them, “We don’t want Zionists here.” Other keffiyeh-clad students yelled, “Remember the 7th of October,” “Never forget October 7,” and “Are you ready? October 7 is about to be every day. Every Day.”1

These vile harassments and intimidations are also aimed at other non-Jewish students who do not share the ideals of the so-called pro-Palestine camp. They consciously or unknowingly support the Ideals of the cancerous ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is an offshoot.

The support and appeal for Islamist extremism and Jew-hatred among some diaspora Muslim communities and their far-left supporters is not a new phenomenon. It has been going on for years, with Western leaders well aware of it, yet they let it fester unrestricted.

But we are witnessing a new warning on American campuses: universities should be bastions for learning and debating without fear or intimidation.

Burning American and Israeli flags and chanting “We are all Hamas” and “Down with the U.S.” are traditional choruses on university campuses in Gaza, Tehran, Damascus, Sana’a, and Islamabad. The annihilation rhetoric calling for the extermination of Israel, the hate speech, and the violence coming from U.S. campuses should not be seen as the exercise of students’ right to freedom of expression. Calling for “Globalizing the Intifada,” “Burn Tel Aviv to the Ground,” or “Al-Qassam (missiles) are on their way” is nothing but the normalization of hate and violence.

Former British Army commander Richard Kemp says Hamas must be “defeated in detail” with expert IDF achieving “phenomenal results” in civilian casualty minimisation.

“They have to be defeated in detail, and that can only be done on the ground,” he said.

“The great danger of that is killing large numbers of civilians; there are a lot in there, which is why the IDF are trying to push them out to the humanitarian areas.

“The IDF are very, very expert and have achieved phenomenal results so far despite what you see in many media programs … at destroying Hamas while minimising civilian casualties.

“I have seen the way they operate, and they are extremely careful, both in air operations which are very precisely targeted, with very high levels of authorisation required if there is a high likelihood of killing large numbers of civilians … soldiers even sacrifice and risk their own lives to minimise the deaths of innocent civilians.”

Four IDF soldiers were killed and at least three others were seriously wounded after Hamas fired ten rockets toward the Kerem Shalom area along the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday afternoon.

The four slain soldiers were identified as St.-Sgt. Ruben Marc Mordechai Assouline, 19, from Ra'anana; St.-Sgt. Ido Testa, 19, from Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Tal Shavit, 21, from Kfar Giladi; and Sgt. Michael Ruzal, 18, from Rishon Lezion. Assouline and Testa served in the Shaked Battalion in the Givati Brigade. Shavit and Ruzal served in the 931st Battalion in the Nahal Brigade.

Soroka Medical Center stated that it received 10 people wounded in the attack, including three in serious condition, two in moderate condition, and five in light condition.

Shortly after the attack, the IDF closed the Kerem Shalom crossing located in the area, halting the entry of humanitarian aid trucks through the crossing which serves as the main entry point for aid.

Several people received medical treatment on the spot for injuries sustained from the rocket fire, and were evacuated to hospitals for immediate medical care. The Eshkol Regional Council announced that one of the people wounded was a resident of the Eshkol Regional Council.

Three IDF soldiers were killed by rockets fired at the Kerem Shalom humanitarian crossing.

🕯️Staff Sgt. Ruben Marc Mordechai Assouline, 19
🕯️Staff Sgt. Ido Testa, 19
🕯️Staff Sgt. Tal Shavit, 21

Ruben, Ido and Tal were killed defending Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day.… pic.twitter.com/r1KecG41Ar

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 5, 2024

IDF says it is asking residents of Eastern Rafah to evacuate.
Full IDF statement:

There has been a surge of humanitarian aid going into Gaza. The IDF has expanded the humanitarian area in Al- Mawasi to accommodate the increased levels of aid flowing into Gaza. This expanded… pic.twitter.com/T3F9hMxHFK

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) May 6, 2024

A Hamas command and control center located in central Gaza at an active @UNRWA location was precisely struck by IAF fighter jets. The location served as a staging ground for multiple attacks on IDF troops and humanitarian aid distribution efforts as well as a weapons supply… pic.twitter.com/vaUq4CsrsI

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 5, 2024

Following October 7 and the mountain of evidence of UNRWA’s collaboration with Hamas, there is no going back to the status quo. Alternatives to the failed UNRWA model exist and should be supported immediately.

USAID, working with OCHA or another organization with a Middle East presence, could coordinate shelter, non-food items, and livelihood issues (the latter directly through USAID, DFC, and/or the World Bank); food security, emergency telecommunications, and logistics through the WFP; healthcare through the WHO; nutrition through UNICEF; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) through UNICEF; and education through UNICEF, ensuring appropriate textbooks and teaching materials.

The new system must not swap one deeply flawed and corrupted welfare system for another. The goal should be to transition to self-sufficiency within five years or less. Mandates should be time-bound to hold to transition goalposts. Counterterrorism vetting must be stringent. Boxing out bad actors such as Qatar, Turkey, Iran, Russia, and China must be a condition for U.S. assistance.

For countries such as Jordan, where the United States already provides bilateral economic assistance, a transition away from UNRWA would be quite simple. To the extent necessary and through direct bilateral negotiation, the proportion of U.S. assistance that goes to UNRWA in Jordan can become additional economic assistance for Amman. No new funding would be needed.

In the West Bank, a transition from UNRWA is a necessary step to empower the kind of institution building that the Biden administration and moderate Arab governments have long endeavored to support. However, the United States and Israel will need to work closely to vet partners and prevent terror financing.

In Syria, UNRWA admits that most of the country’s registered population has been displaced at least once by the civil war.25 Many have left the country entirely. The International Organization for Migration is already on the ground in Syria providing the same services to even more people than UNRWA — making it an obvious choice for a smooth transition.26

In 2018, one former Israeli official estimated that fewer than 250,000 Palestinians lived in Lebanon and Syria combined. It is quite reasonable for another organization to take over UNRWA’s responsibilities in those countries.27 But Lebanon also poses other challenges due to the government’s longstanding discrimination against Palestinians as well as the presence of armed groups actively fighting each other in the country’s largest UNRWA camp.28 Pressure will be needed on Lebanon — a recipient of U.S. foreign assistance — to restore security, help Palestinians integrate into society, and work with other partners on the post-UNRWA transition.

Conclusion
The reality on the ground in Gaza is already shifting away from an UNRWA-centric aid model to a post-UNRWA alternative. UNRWA’s supporters are working hard to lobby countries to resume aid, and they are relying on the UN secretary-general to halt the entry of other agencies. However, if the United States remains firm on permanently prohibiting aid to UNRWA and brings in key allies and partners along with a credible plan for an alternative structure that makes UNRWA irrelevant while improving life for Palestinians, it can achieve a new paradigm in Gaza that excludes UNRWA (and thus its Hamas partner). Implementation can begin immediately in Gaza to demonstrate proof of concept while steps are taken to prepare and implement transitions in other areas of UNRWA responsibility. In the end, even if the UN General Assembly maintains UNRWA’s mandate, the agency will be a shell of itself — unable to harm Palestinians or Israelis any longer.

Unreal: UNRWA is acting as a human shield for Hamas
Never in history has a humanitarian agency refused to evacuate a war zone. Under the Geneva Conventions precaution principle, a party can urge civilians to leave a combat area. UNRWA is putting the lives of Gazans in danger. https://t.co/KBLlT9XTu3

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 6, 2024

Myth: “The Colonna independent investigation cleared UNRWA of complicity with terrorism.”

Fact: It wasn't independent.
👉https://t.co/UNsjW0vFKb

And even Colonna made clear her panel had nothing to do with examining UNRWA staff engaged in terrorism.
👉https://t.co/ltal07CHFG /3

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 6, 2024

Why is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing criticizing a democracy booting out the propaganda arm of a rogue dictatorship?

Like, you should be happy that some housing just opened up. https://t.co/7la17kV4Hr

— Strxwmxn (@strxwmxn) May 6, 2024

WILD: WATCH

The assassination of Hezbollah senior Iyad al-Saleh occurred yesterday in Hasakah, Syria. Here is the moment when the luggage exploded in his luxury car.

Via @Abualiexpresspic.twitter.com/0nNLRMOeUc

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 6, 2024

The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) stated Sunday that they had been asked by international organizations to reduce the volume of goods transported to northern Gaza last week as too much was being sent to the area in relation to the population.

"Israel has continuously enhanced its humanitarian efforts to increase aid into Gaza, spearheading initiatives that significantly improve conditions in both northern and southern Gaza while addressing security concerns related to Hamas," wrote COGAT on X on Sunday.

According to the agency, about 100 food aid trucks were sent to northern Gaza on a daily basis over the past few weeks in coordination with the international community, including the UN.

COGAT added that "In talks between Israeli and UN representatives, including [the] WFP, none of the entities indicated a risk of famine in northern Gaza. They noted that the humanitarian situation is improving and that there is a variety of goods in both warehouses and markets in the north."

"Noting the improved situation, [international organizations] stated last week that the volume of goods transported to northern Gaza must be reduced since the quantities are too high in relation to the population," wrote COGAT.

COGAT also noted that Israel has set up various routes to bring in aid, including through airdrops, through a maritime route, and through land crossings. There are two crossings set up for aid delivery in northern Gaza and two in the south, with over 350 trucks entering Gaza daily.

2/8 In recent weeks, close to 100 food aid trucks traveled to northern Gaza daily, in coordination with the int'l community, including @UN agencies operating in Gaza.
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— COGAT (@cogatonline) May 5, 2024

4/8
Noting the improved situation, int'l orgs stated last week that the volume of goods transported to northern Gaza must be reduced since the quantities are too high in relation to the population.
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— COGAT (@cogatonline) May 5, 2024

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg will examine the alarming rise of antisemitism in a new Sky News Australia documentary Never Again: The Fight Against Antisemitism.

Following the devastating attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7 last year, the one-hour documentary will examine the rise in hostility towards Jewish people taking place around the world at levels not seen since the Holocaust.

Josh Frydenberg will speak with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, former prime ministers John Howard and Julia Gillard, Olympic champion and former senator Nova Peris, former governor-general Peter Cosgrove, award-winning Australian music artist Deborah Conway and survivors of the Holocaust.

The documentary will take a close look at the radicalisation on our streets and how antisemitism has been allowed to take hold, and, critically what needs to be done to stop it.

“Like so many Australians I have been really shocked by the speed and the scale in the rise of antisemitism after October the 7th and I think many Australians don’t know how bad and how dangerous the situation is today, so I wanted to use my voice to ring the alarm bell,” Mr Frydenberg told Sky News Australia host Sharri Markson.

“I wanted to use my voice to shine a light on what is happening here in Australia today and I wanted Australians to see and hear for themselves what is happening in their own country with the rise of antisemitism and to understand this is not just the Jewish community’s fight – this is Australia’s fight.”

Hosted by Abe Greenwald, Christine Rosen, John Podhoretz & Matthew Continetti
A landmark podcast episode in which we all take turns claiming the situation between America and Israel and between college campuses and the rest of the country is worse. Who’s right? What is worse? And what’s the TV show you should watch but shouldn’t Google anything about if you want to enjoy it?

Hosted by Dan Senor
Frank Bruni is a long time journalist, including more than 25 years with the New York Times. He is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. He is now also a full professor at Duke University, teaching at the school of public policy, while he continues to write his popular weekly newsletter and additional essays for the Times.

Two of Frank’s recent books are relevant to what we are watching play out right now on America’s college campuses. Eight years ago, he published “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania”

And Frank’s most recent book, which was just published last week, is called “The Age of Grievance”

In our conversation and in his new book, Frank addresses the fact that Jews are being blamed for objecting to the 10/07 massacre of Jews. How did this happen? It didn’t come out of nowhere? How is it the college campuses have become the focus of this debate over here?

“The Age of Grievance” addresses the shocking upside down debate that erupted over here following 10/07, which we discuss in our conversation. We also try to understand how some universities are getting it right and others are getting it so wrong. Frank is uniquely positioned to have insights – from his perspective at the Times, on the front lines as a professor at a top American university, and as a bestselling author of a new book about grievance.

Can you even imagine? #FactsForPeacepic.twitter.com/CbJT2FiF49

— FactsForPeace (@Facts_For_Peace) May 5, 2024

A dozen Republican senators on Monday sent a letter warning International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan not to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, days after the British lawyer cautioned against efforts to try to sway the court.

“Target Israel, and we will target you,” the senators, led by Sen. Tom Cotton, warned in the letter. “Such actions are illegitimate and lack legal basis, and, if carried out, will result in severe sanctions against you and your institution.”

Sens. Mitch McConnell (minority leader), Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio also signed the letter, amid increasing concern in Israel that the UN court could issue arrest warrants for senior political and military officials over the nearly-seven-month-old war in Gaza, including against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.

As reports swirled of US and Israeli efforts to dissuade the court from issuing arrest orders, the ICC prosecutor said on Friday that, while the ICC “welcomes open communication” with government officials and non-governmental bodies alike, it will only engage in such dialogue so long as it is “consistent with its mandate under the Rome Statute to act independently and impartially.”

“That independence and impartiality are undermined, however, when individuals threaten to retaliate… should the office, in fulfillment of its mandate, make decisions about investigations or cases falling within its jurisdiction,” he added, demanding that “all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence its officials cease immediately.”

Nevertheless, the senators charged in the letter that the ICC “is attempting to punish Israel for taking legitimate actions of self-defense against their Iranian-backed aggressors. In fact, in your own words, you witnessed ‘scenes of calculated cruelty’ conducted by Hamas in Israel following the October 7 attacks.”

JUST IN

Republican senators in a letter to the chief prosecutor at the International Court of Justice in The Hague: "If you hurt Israel, we will hurt you" pic.twitter.com/jqguc6r6xZ

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 6, 2024

President Biden’s late, tepid response to the anti-Semitic rhetoric at the little Gazas on campuses was disgraceful.

His moral equivocating only undermines Israel and emboldens Hamas. pic.twitter.com/UWuSuzZx7Z

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) May 5, 2024

6 months after Oct 7 mainstream media now asking how "Israel can be held accountable" https://t.co/2qYLgq2laH

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) May 6, 2024

Ok, this is awkward https://t.co/VtqGL4P5IN

— Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ (@MarkZlochin) May 5, 2024

Here is why campuses look the way they do: Israel Studies profs see "both sides," they sympathize with the Palestinian and Israeli positions. Middle East Studies profs don't see the need for such hand-wringing nuance, and sympathize solely with PLO/Hamas position. Imagine Qatar… https://t.co/tU2iBjcJrb

— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) May 5, 2024

The bipartisan Latino Jewish Congressional Caucus condemned Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday for his recent decision to sever ties with Israel.

“This inflammatory and unwarranted decision is unacceptable from a major non-NATO ally of the United States, counterproductive to Petro’s ostensible goal of securing the release of hostages and deeply damaging Colombia’s national interests and objectives,” six of the group’s 20 members wrote.

Four of the signatories, Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), are co-chairs of the group. Caucus members Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) also signed the letter.

“Petro’s decision emboldens Hamas, undercuts global pressure to seek the return of hostages and undermines the tireless efforts of serious world leaders to seek justice on behalf of Israeli and Palestinian victims of Hamas,” the congressmen wrote.

“These actions do not reflect the views or interests of the Colombian people, who have benefitted for decades from security and economic cooperation with Israel and the United States,” they added.

Petro announced that he was breaking off diplomatic relations with the Jewish state on Wednesday over Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, which he has repeatedly described as “genocide.”

A leftist and former armed guerrilla in Colombia’s M-19 movement, Petro did not condemn Hamas on Oct. 7, instead calling, in Spanish, for immediate peace talks and the recognition of a Palestinian state.

.@intifada hosts @AliAbunimah and @norabf roll their eyes and laugh with sadistic glee as they watch an Israeli man recount the scenes of Hamas' sexual violence that he witnessed.

This is the level of depravity and dehumanization propelling the anti-Israel movement. pic.twitter.com/xLyA3scqrg

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 6, 2024

In October and November 2023, at the beginning of Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza, London-based surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sitta operated in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, which was later exposed as the main Hamas headquarters in the Strip, in deeply dug tunnels and spaces. Abu-Sitta, who is the Rector of the University of Glasgow, used his 43 days in Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals to issue “eyewitness reports” of what he claimed was a “massacre unfolding” in Gaza.

Born in Kuwait in 1969, to “Palestinian” parents, Abu Sitta is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who resides in East London with his wife and three sons. On Saturday, May 4, he was scheduled to speak at the French Senate about the medical situation in Gaza but was denied entry to France, based on a Schengen-Area-wide entry ban against him put in place by German authorities.

The Schengen Area encompasses 29 European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.

The French police reported that Abu-Sitta, who had been denied entry to Germany in April, faced a one-year visa ban imposed by German authorities, preventing him from entering any Schengen country. It remains uncertain whether Abu-Sitta was aware of this restriction before traveling to Paris.

German Police tweeted on April 12 that Abu-Sitta was “banned from political activity,” and “There’s concern that another speaker, who has previously expressed antisemitic or violence-supporting views, might be connected in the future. As a result, the assembly was adjourned, and a prohibition was also announced for Saturday and Sunday.”

“France is barring my entry. I was scheduled to address the French Senate today,” lamented Abu-Sitta, who had been invited by Green party lawmakers to participate in a conference at the Senate, focusing on Gaza. The conference’s theme was ‘France and its responsibility in the application of international law in Gaza.'”

pic.twitter.com/BQjqbBj3gj

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 5, 2024

The terrorists we imported are finally saying the quiet part out loud pic.twitter.com/NQvpnJD3Qk

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) May 6, 2024

Bellybutton Jihadi has a name. Meet Cameron Jones of Columbia University. He began the year agitating for the school to divest from fossil fuels. Then he switched to agitating for the elimination of Israel. Bellybutton always at the center. He wouldn't survive 8 seconds in Gaza. https://t.co/vN30UgKtiYpic.twitter.com/hmxbzWVbT2

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 5, 2024

The St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee literally made a promo video for their Children's March and Teach-in on May 4th.

This is how they described their event, "Families brought their kids out for fun activities, education about Palestine and a showed a demonstration of a… pic.twitter.com/vJ9cVezjUQ

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 6, 2024

A Rally of Children in St. Louis, Missouri:

"Hey hey, ho ho, Zionism has got to go!"

In Nazi Germany, children chanted "Juden Raus" (Jews out!) at rallies and even had a board game of the same title.pic.twitter.com/0MbgrLr1Hy

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 5, 2024

Two girls near @Columbia tear down posters of Israeli children held hostage.

When asked why, they reply: "It's propaganda."pic.twitter.com/lOURBZGQVH

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 5, 2024

For instance, at a notable event in Houston, these organizations, including JVP, came together to support BDS and other anti-Israel movements, signaling a broader coalition of student activism that often sidesteps the violent realities endorsed by their beneficiaries. Additional demonstrations in Chicago and New York have further echoed these sentiments, advocating for unrestricted aid to Gaza and positioning the Houthi movement as part of a broader anti-imperialist fight for justice.

This pattern of support raises critical questions about the responsibilities of student organizations in international conflicts. By choosing to support groups involved in violent actions under the banner of anti-imperialism, these students and their organizations risk endorsing a narrative that simplifies complex international issues and undermines global peace efforts.

In the saga of university activism, the conduct of groups such as JVP and SJP stands as a stark reminder of the thin line between fervent advocacy and outright endorsement of terrorist activities. These organizations, under the guise of fighting for human rights, have fostered a campus environment where extreme actions and views against the State of Israel and its supporters are not only normalized but celebrated. Their activities, such as mimicking violent uprisings and disrupting academic settings, have turned educational institutions into battlegrounds rather than places of learning.

The failure of university authorities and law enforcement to address these activities promptly has only emboldened these groups further. For two decades, these organizations have operated within university grounds, gradually escalating their aggressive tactics, while oversight bodies have either turned a blind eye or responded too leniently.

The police and campus security have often been too slow to dismantle these radical encampments and arrest those who break the law. This negligence has allowed a dangerous ideology to flourish – one that does not merely seek to criticize Israeli policies but aims to destroy the only Jewish state and, by extension, the Jewish people along with Western interests, primarily those of the United States.

We must recognize and confront this threat decisively. The mantra “Never Again” must be a call to action against such extremism, ensuring that advocacy never serves as a cover for terrorism.

Thirteen federal judges said Monday that they would no longer hire law clerks from Columbia College or Columbia Law School after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building. The judges cited the "explosion of student disruptions" and the "virulent spread of antisemitism" at Columbia, which has now canceled its main graduation ceremony because of the unrest.

Led by appellate judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, who spearheaded a clerkship boycott of Yale Law School in 2022 and Stanford Law School in 2023, as well as by Matthew Solomson on the U.S Court of Federal Claims, the judges wrote in a letter to Columbia president Minouche Shafik that they would no longer hire "anyone who joins the Columbia University community—whether as undergraduates or as law students—beginning with the entering class of 2024."

"Freedom of speech protects protest, not trespass, and certainly not acts or threats of violence or terrorism," the judges wrote. "It has become clear that Columbia applies double standards when it comes to free speech and student misconduct."

The letter’s signatories include Alan Albright, a district judge who hears a fourth of the nation’s patent cases; Stephen Vaden, a former general counsel at the Department of Agriculture who now sits on the United States Court of International Trade; and Matthew Kacsmaryk, the district judge who suspended approval of the abortion drug mifepristone in a controversial ruling last year. Others are well-known district judges appointed by former president Donald Trump.

While 12 judges joined the Yale boycott anonymously, Monday’s letter marks the first time that more than two judges have said on the record that they will not hire graduates from an elite university.

It also marks an about-face for Solomson—one of the letter’s lead signatories—who previously criticized the boycotts of Yale and Stanford as a form of collective punishment. His decision to spearhead the Columbia boycott underscores just how much good will the school has lost over the encampment, which effectively put the campus on lockdown.

From the @ColumbiaLaw chapter of the @NLGnews:

"To the Jewish students, faculty, and trustees blocking divestment and urging the violent crackdowns on campus: you threaten everyone’s safety."

"No Jew is safe until everyone is safe, and no Jew is free until Palestine is free." pic.twitter.com/JHqkcJDtqz

— Zach Kessel (@zach_kessel) May 5, 2024

University of Florida president Ben Sasse criticized other universities for giving attention to the “smallest, angriest group” of protesters as various anti-Israel protests continue to occur on campuses across the country.

Sasse, a former Republican senator representing Nebraska, said on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday that under his leadership in Gainesville, Florida, the school has not negotiated with the “people who scream the loudest” but does not hinder their free speech rights.

“We just don’t negotiate with people who scream the loudest. It just — it just doesn’t make any sense to me. We believe in the right of free speech. We believe in the right to free assembly and you can try to persuade people,” Sasse said.

“But what you see happening on so many campuses across the country is instead of drawing the line at speech and action, a lot of universities bizarrely give the most attention and most voice to the smallest, angriest group, and it’s just not what we’re going to do here,” he added.

While some schools, such as Columbia University, have resisted divestment from Israel despite negotiations amid fiery protests, others have offered concessions to protesters.

Northwestern University announced on Monday that it reached an agreement with protesters, which among other things, reestablishes the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility with student, faculty, and staff representation. Brown University announced on Tuesday that it would hold a vote on whether to divest from Israel in October, in exchange for protesters’ encampment being torn down.

The University of Florida has rebuked protests that went outside of school policies, saying that the school is not a “daycare” and that they will “not treat protesters like children.”

“What we tell all of our students, protesters and not, is there two things we’re going to affirm over and over again, we will always defend your right to free speech and free assembly,” Sasse said on CNN on Sunday. “And also, we have time, place, and manner restrictions, and you don’t get to take over the whole university. People don’t get a spit at cops. You don’t get a barricade yourselves in buildings. You don’t get to disrupt somebody else’s commencement — we don’t allow protest inside,” he added.

A Columbia faculty group has gone on strike in solidarity with arrested student protesters and will not return to campus until law enforcement is removed.

Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Columbia announced on Friday that "faculty, staff, and graduate workers of Columbia University, Barnard College, and Teachers College" would be "immediately" going on a strike until police are removed from the recently occupied campus.

"We will not return to a campus that is extremely dangerous for Black, Palestinian, Middle Eastern, Latinx, South Asian, Arab, Muslim, trans, queer, and other communities who are disproportionately profiled by police," said the group. "As members of the faculty, staff, and graduate workers, we will not return to campus nor engage remotely for administrative service work—we will only serve students directly—until police are removed from our campus."

The announcement comes as Columbia president Minouche Shafik struggles to reestablish normalcy on campus. It is unclear how Shafik will respond to the strike and calls to get rid of the police. The school's plan for law enforcement to remain on campus extends until May 17, two days after its graduation ceremony was supposed to take place, to ensure order and safety. Columbia on Monday canceled the ceremony in light of the protests.

The faculty group says that "no one can safely return to campus" because of police.

"Given the use of military-grade assault weapons and surveillance technology against our students … and the announcement of the plan for police to remain on campus until May 17th, we believe no one can safely return to campus," the group said.

Columbia University on Monday announced it is canceling its main commencement ceremony after weeks of anti-Israel protests and hundreds of arrests on campus.

The university administrators canceled the graduation ceremony scheduled for May 15, instead focusing on "Class Days and school-level ceremonies, where students are honored individually alongside their peers," according to a press release by Columbia.

"These past few weeks have been incredibly difficult for our community," the administrators said of the chaotic and oftentimes violent demonstrations on campus that led to hundreds of Columbia students being arrested and suspended.

School officials said they may hold a "festive event" in place of the large graduation ceremony that was canceled. "We are eager to all come together for our graduates and celebrate our fellow Columbians as they, and we, look ahead to the future," the press release added.

Who are Students for Justice in Palestine, the primary organizers of the campus riots? Take a look ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Sr5iHGLzcT

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 6, 2024

Jewish Columbia Student on "AsAJew" Tokens:

They openly say they've renounced their Judaism, but the second CNN comes they put on a talit and a kippa and cosplay as Jews. pic.twitter.com/nIC1MNHWOS

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 5, 2024

David Greenwald serves as a co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of @Columbia. “Wanted” flyers have been put up across the campus likely by pro-Hamas given what the poster says.

Pro-Hamas believes in intimidation and harassment. The Jewish and Israeli students and faculty of… pic.twitter.com/cd3wruHyxy

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) May 5, 2024

More “Wanted” posters for members of the Board of Trustees put up around @Columbia’s campus by pro-Hamas:

•Claire Shipman—Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees
•Jeh Johnson—a member of the Board of Trustees pic.twitter.com/7w6Yt4g3BN

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) May 5, 2024

Translated and subtitled at @MIT— calls to murder Zionists and martyr oneself for the cause of destroying Israel.

I’m so heartbroken that there exists such unbridled hate on my campus. I’m so out of energy 💔 pic.twitter.com/ujWAKe5h2v

— Talia Khan (@TaliaKhan_MIT) May 6, 2024

As tensions escalate at a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the University of Pennsylvania, administrators are taking a dialogue and de-escalation approach, possibly because they have no choice.

Penn asked the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) to dismantle the encampment, but the police refused, the student-run Daily Pennsylvanian claimed on May 2.

Police asked that the university first provide proof that the encampment “presents an imminent danger,” reported the paper, citing a source familiar with the matter.

If accurate (and the Philadelphia police refused to confirm or deny the report), it suggests the PPD is creating a new standard for enforcing the law. As the university points out, “The encampment itself violates the university’s facilities policies.”

In response to JNS requests for clarification, the police said, “We do not publicly discuss specific planning or engagement strategies related to ongoing situations. Our response will be based on the specific circumstances of each situation.”

The office of the interim university president was also vague, telling JNS, “We have reached out to the City of Philadelphia to ensure we have the necessary resources to keep our community safe. The Mayor’s Office has asked for more information, and we are providing it.”

A George Soros-funded DA
The protesters may have sympathy among senior public officials. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a George Soros-funded DA sharply criticized for his soft-on-crime policies, visited the protesters three times, saying the purpose of his third visit on May 2 was “to find out what the truth is.”

The encampment has not been peaceful, judging from a letter sent Monday to the Penn community by interim President J. Larry Jameson. (President Liz Magill was forced out after backlash for her testimony before Congress, in which she failed to recognize calls for genocide against Jews as violating the university’s code of conduct.)

The criminal mob at the Penn encampment will inevitably escalate and someone will get hurt. The Philly officials who refused to take action, despite Penn asking for help, will be to blame. https://t.co/GZUkt096wH

— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 6, 2024

🚨 CHICAGO: Violent Hamas Thugs Assault Jews

⚠️ WATCH: Pro-Hamas Thugs Assault and Steal from Israel Supporters at DePaul University in Chicago.

📰 Violent pro-Hamas agitators attacked Israel supporters at DePaul University, stealing their belongings.

🦾 In response, Israel… pic.twitter.com/CyIczjerQ9

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 6, 2024

🚨 Attack on Students at UofT: Pro-Hamas Violence Escalates

⚠️ URGENT: Jihadists with faces covered, in black hoodies, violently assault students at the University of Toronto.

📰 The Assault: Moshe Zelig, who was assaulted during the incident, pressed charges against multiple… pic.twitter.com/CLkneFczli

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 6, 2024

🚨 King’s College Circle Incident: Journalist Stalked

ℹ️ “Queers for Palestine” crowd.

⚠️ WATCH: This creepy video shows the @mwickens entering King’s College Circle with just a camera and then proceeding to be aggressively followed.

The video has been sped up 8x due to the… pic.twitter.com/YsJxKIUxiL

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 5, 2024

President Kornbluth appreciates very much’ that the situation in pro Hamas encampment is ‘peaceful’..🙄

Video for those of you that wanted to understand the word dissonance!

Do you think she is a worthy president for @MIT ? pic.twitter.com/tNrpnNBIog

— Retsef Levi (@RetsefL) May 6, 2024

Professor frustrated about being blocked from entering the People’s Circle for Palestine encampment at @UofT:

“This is my university… I would like to get in, I don’t want to discuss it with you. I would like just to get in.”#cdnpoli#Toronto#Palestine#Israel#Gaza… pic.twitter.com/jtpIUMjDce

— Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) May 6, 2024

We have identified three subjects, two professors and a graduate fellow. Here is the next one. They are guardians of this institution and allowed its center to be vandalized. They worked in tandem to deprive our client’s rights. Oh wonder Ethan wore a mask. pic.twitter.com/9b3gykseTS

— Ronald Richards (@RonaldRichards) May 6, 2024

Students at @EmoryUniversity, many wearing keffiyehs, spotted via drone practicing some sort of human chain technique.

*Emory’s graduation ceremonies are set for May 9-13.

🎥 atlscoop/IG pic.twitter.com/3YD5JQ0UiH

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 6, 2024

Rare insider footage of a H@mas training camp at UCLA pic.twitter.com/c5PJ20eHt4

— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) May 6, 2024

Princeton students are going on a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians and to pressure the University to give in to their demands. They have people on hand checking their vitals and donating to them. So stunning and brave.pic.twitter.com/628bQEEEQs

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 5, 2024

CAIR Official Dawud Walid: Campus Protests Are an Opportunity for Us to Invite People to Join Islam; In One Encampment, Jewish Protesters Joined Us in Our Prayer; They Need to Be Invited to Islam; This Would Be a Big Conquest for Us @UMich@CAIRNationalpic.twitter.com/mRaOMygK2b

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 6, 2024

Hizbullah Deputy Sec.-Gen. Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Salute the Americans Who Are Taking a Stand in Support of Gaza; Their Protests Are Important Especially Because They Will Have a Great Impact on the U.S. Elections #Hizbullah#Lebanonpic.twitter.com/7aLICGvpep

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 6, 2024

Imagine naming yourself after a resistance group in Nazi Germany only to use Holocaust Remembrance Day to condemn a small, brave group of Jews pushing back against the tidal wave of antisemitism on campus

Never forget #YomHaShoah✡️🕯️ https://t.co/35CKWePxAZ

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) May 5, 2024

Almost all protesters at Saturday's Worker Solidarity With Palestine demonstration in Ottawa, ON, refused to speak with Rebel News after being directed by minders not to speak with news media. The protesters congregated at the University of Ottawa, which is now becoming an encampment resembling similar protests seen at New York University, Columbia University, and McGill University. Tents were seen at the protest location.

Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up on the campuses of Oxford and Cambridge on Monday morning.

Students occupying the lawn of King’s College at the University of Cambridge, said they erected the camp because the university “supports Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

In footage posted to social media on Monday, participants can be seen marching onto the green with tents, supplies and sleeping bags.

Organisers of Cambridge for Palestine said their demands of the university include disclosing financial and professional ties to Israel, divestment from such organisations, reinvesting in Palestinian students academies, and protecting “all forced migrants and protesting students.”

Another post said: “As students of the university of Balfour, who initiated the UK’s support for the colonial Zionist project, and of the vast majority of the prime ministers who have since continued it, we feel a particular obligation to stand with Palestinians in ending this historic injustice.”

Tents have also been assembled outside the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, which the organisers claim is hoarding “artefacts stolen from colonised peoples across the world.”

Demands of the Oxford encampment include “stop banking with Barclays”, help rebuild Gaza’s education system and “divest from Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation.”

Organisers said in a statement: “There is no university in the history of human civilisation that is more complicit in violence, dispossession, and the building of destructive colonial empires than the University of Oxford.”

Students on the grass chanted, “Stop the bombing now, now, now. We are the people. We won’t be silenced.”

🚨Jewish student goes for free (of course!) pizza at the pro-Hamas camp in Monash University, and they tell him to stop DISRUPTING their protest

The legend deserves a beer to go with that pic.twitter.com/ZrQYiTnq3E

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) May 6, 2024

🇮🇱 “We won’t pretend we don’t know what you mean”

💙 Love this!

👉RESHARE to spread the word
🎶 @WestsideGravy

🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱👇pic.twitter.com/6EqCXXgxwi

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 6, 2024

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators have sparked outrage after staging a protest near the grounds of Auschwitz – as Israelis including October 7 survivors marched to honour victims of the Holocaust.

Sirens wailed as protestors displayed a banner reading 'stop genocide' at groups wearing Israeli flags along the sidelines of the 'March of the Living' event, which brings together thousands annually to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day in silence.

Eyewitnesses claimed protestors were 'chanting' at participants on the march, with Israelis responding with lines from 'Am Israel chai', a Jewish solidarity anthem.

Survivors of Hamas' October 7 incursion into southern Israel were also in attendance as participants marched the two-mile (three kilometre) walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, where approximately one million Jews were systematically killed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

Just last week, distressing footage invoked fury as a man filmed himself walking through the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Auschwitz and saying: 'You belong here. This is your place of origin. You left these camps and ghettos. Long live Palestine.'

Police sirens sound outside Auschwitz - Holocaust survivors and Oct 7 victims are walking for March of Living and Gaza protesters are chanting at them. #Auschwitz#marchofthelivingpic.twitter.com/kdnkqhkFwa

— Natalie Lisbona (@NatalieLisbona) May 6, 2024

BREAKING: Palestinian protestors descend and chant at Holocaust and Oct 7 survivors during Holocaust remembrance’s March of the Living outside Auschwitz death camp. Israelis singing back “Am Israel chai” pic.twitter.com/zjdhvZetD1

— Natalie Lisbona (@NatalieLisbona) May 6, 2024

Palestinian protesters vandalized a Holocaust memorial in Denmark on Holocaust Remembrance Day pic.twitter.com/73KonRDrPK

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 6, 2024

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Hamas, an Islamist militant group and the de facto governing authority of the Gaza Strip, has been using human shields in conflicts with Israel since 2007. According to the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the war crime of using human shields encompasses “utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas, or military forces immune from military operations.” Hamas has launched rockets, positioned military-related infrastructure-hubs and routes, and engaged the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from, or in proximity to, residential and commercial areas. 

The strategic logic of human shields has two components. It is based on an awareness of Israel’s desire to minimise collateral damage, and of Western public opinion’s sensitivity towards civilian casualties. If the IDF uses lethal force and causes an increase in civilian casualties, Hamas can utilise that as a lawfare tool: it can accuse Israel of committing war crimes, which could result in the imposition of a wide array of sanctions. Alternatively, if the IDF limits its use of military force in Gaza to avoid collateral damage, Hamas will be less susceptible to Israeli attacks, and thereby able to protect its assets while continuing to fight. Moreover, despite the Israeli public’s high level of support for the Israeli political and military leadership during operations, civilian casualties are one of the friction points between Israeli left-wing and right-wing supporters, with the former questioning the outcomes of the operation.

 The use of human shields can be considered an example of ‘lawfare’ – i.e. the use of the legal system against an enemy by damaging or delegitimising them, tying up their time or winning a public relations victory. 

 Even if a targeted strike may be justifable from a legal perspective, first impressions frame the narrative. Public opinion tends to be influenced more by images depicting the suffering of innocent civilians than by well-thought-out legal arguments. 

 National governments should be able to publicly justify their position, and reveal their adversary’s use of civilians in combat. This can only be accomplished by thoroughly documenting incidents, preparing supportive messages, and working across multiple channels to convey those narratives. 

 Priority should be given to information activities aimed at the very civilians who are used as human shields, in order to undermine the adversary and convince civilians to actively or passively refuse to serve as human shields. Such activities need to be coherent, consistent and coordinated.

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On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, which began yesterday evening, Yossi Klein Halevi isn’t calling for more or better Holocaust education, but for something else:

The ease with which anti-Zionists have managed to portray the Jewish state as genocidal, a successor to Nazi Germany, marks a historic failure of Holocaust education in the West. This moment requires a fundamental rethinking of the goals and methodology of Holocaust education. By overemphasizing the necessary universal lessons of the Holocaust, many educators too easily equated anti-Semitism with generic racism. The intention was noble: to render the Holocaust relevant to a new generation. But in the process, the essential lesson of the Holocaust—the uniqueness not only of the event itself but of the hatred that made it possible—was often lost.

Holocaust education was intended, in large part, to protect the Jewish people. . . . Yet the movement to turn Israel into the world’s criminal nation emerges from a generation that was raised with Holocaust consciousness, both in formal education and the arts. And this latest expression of the anti-Semitism of symbols is justified by some anti-Zionists as honoring “the lessons of the Holocaust.”

Unlike the Iranian regime, which clumsily tries to deny the historicity of the Holocaust, anti-Zionists in the West intuitively understand that coopting and inverting the Holocaust is a far more effective way of neutralizing its impact.

We keep being told that many of those who demonstrate in favor of an end to the current war that would leave Hamas alive and well—and able to make good on its promises to repeat the horrors of Oct. 7 again and again—are well-meaning and simply sympathetic to the suffering of Palestinians. But the objective of the movement these supposedly well-meaning people support is to strip the Jews of Israel—and Jews everywhere, for that matter—of the ability to defend themselves against Islamists for whom Oct. 7 is just a trailer for what they wish to do to every Jew on this planet.

Simply put, if you are demonstrating for Hamas’s survival, you are on the side of a group that wishes to repeat the Holocaust. No matter how well-intentioned you may claim to be, that makes you no different from those who viewed the Nazis, who had their own narrative of grievance, with equanimity.

The German people suffered terribly as a result of the war that they launched, yet today, those who claim to speak for humanitarian values believe that there can be no consequences for those who commit or condone (as is true for the overwhelming majority of Palestinians) the mass murder of Jews and that Jews who defend themselves against genocide are the Nazis. Would those who demonstrate against Jewish self-defense apply the same lessons to the Allies who, in order to liberate the Nazi death camps had to kill many people, including civilians?

By the same token, those who wish for universities and other institutions to engage in discriminatory commercial conduct that would divest from anything to do with Israel are not criticizing Israel’s policies or leaders, but supporting a contemporary version of Nazi boycotts of Jews.

It is also just as clear that the leftist/Islamist attack on Israel is also aimed at the West and the United States. This debate over the war against Hamas is not one about whether Israel or its government and military are perfect but about a struggle for the future of the West, much as was true of the war against the German Nazis. The Jews are, as they were during the Holocaust, the canaries in the coal mine, warning humanity of the dangers of tolerating genocidal hate.

As we remember the Shoah, rather than stick to our usual routine of memorialization, it’s time for decent people of all backgrounds and faiths to understand that the war on the Jews didn’t end with the defeat of the Nazis. It continues to this day under new slogans, flags and worse, with many of those who claim to stand for enlightened thought allowing the enablers of Jew-hatred to pose as advocates for human rights and the oppressed. Those lies must not be allowed to stand.

There should be no Holocaust Memorial Day observance without it being made clear that there can be no proper honor given to the Six Million slain by the Nazis without linking that struggle to those against the antisemites of our time. We must not tolerate those who shed crocodile tears for Jews murdered in the past while tolerating or even supporting policies that enable antisemitism in the present, envisioning Israel’s destruction and the continued slaughter of Jews. If we cannot understand that, then invocations to remember what happened or ensure that it is “never again” allowed in this world are nothing more than pointless and counterproductive virtue-signaling.

As for the connection people are drawing between the Oct. 7 attack and the Holocaust, Ben Yosef said that “over the decades, fate brings us all kinds of ups and downs, and that was one of the most difficult low points, but to compare the days of the Holocaust and Oct. 7 — it’s not the same.”

“In the time of the Holocaust, we were spread all over the world and when we were massacred, we couldn’t do anything. Today we are in our own country with our own army. The losses were tremendous, the shock was great — but we held our heads high,” she said.

Ben Yosef took part in a project initiated by the Israel office of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, called “Sharing Memories,” in which influencers upload videos of Holocaust survivors telling their stories. This year Meta Israel is highlighting survivors who were in Israel’s south on Oct. 7. The participants are mostly Israelis, so the videos are mostly in Hebrew, but actor Michael Rapaport produced content in English; they have an aggregate following of over 7.2 million people on Instagram. The project will raise funds for Israeli NGO Latet to provide essential needs to impoverished survivors, and the clips were available to watch on the VOD service of one of Israel’s biggest cable companies, Yes TV, starting on Sunday night.

Hamas murdered several Holocaust survivors on Oct. 7, including some of the 15 elderly people found dead in the street in Sderot, where they were waiting to board a bus to the Dead Sea. One of them was Moshe Ridler, 91, the oldest resident of Kibbutz Holit, who escaped a concentration camp when he was 11 years old.

The eldest of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, Shlomo Mantzur, 86, is a survivor of the Farhud, the 1941 pogrom against Jews in Baghdad, inspired partly by Nazi influence in Iraq. Farhud survivors are recognized as Holocaust survivors under Israeli law.

In the Farhud, Shlomo’s sister, Hadassa Lazar, told a Knesset committee earlier this year, the Iraqis “murdered, raped, tortured babies, kidnapped, decapitated… It was the Kristallnacht of Iraqi Jewry and the world was silent. Shlomo saw things that stayed with him his whole life. We used to think ‘never again’ – it did not occur to us that such things could happen again when we have a sovereign state.”

Some of the other hostages have close relatives who are Holocaust survivors, including Michael Kuperstein, 82, the grandfather of Bar Kuperstein, 22, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and Tsili Wenkert, 82, whose grandson, Omer Wenkert, was taken from the festival and appeared in a hostage video released in January. Bella Chaim is the grandmother of Yotam Chaim, who was kidnapped to Gaza and accidentally killed by IDF soldiers. Ruth Haran, 89, had seven relatives kidnapped and three murdered; her grandson-in-law Tal is still being held hostage in Gaza and her daughter Sharon, daughter-in-law Shoshan, grandchildren Noam and Adi, and great-grandchildren Neve and Yahel were kidnapped by Hamas and released in November.

Haran, who was born in Romania and spent years fleeing the Nazis, survived the Oct. 7 attack on Kibbutz Be’eri and said that “people who survived the massacre talked about death, murder, women raped and the destruction of our community. The whole trauma of being a Holocaust survivor came back to me…As a Holocaust survivor, I know how to deal with pain, but this time I don’t know how to cope.”

REVIEW: ‘The Holocaust: An Unfinished History’ by Dan Stone

In the past months, we have come to comprehend the evil wrought by an Iran-funded regime that, like the Nazis, placed Jew-hate at the heart of its education and propaganda. We have seen that if there is an heir to the anti-Semitic Nazi regime, it can be found in Hamas, whose society in Gaza produced the ultimate "collective intoxication" of Jew-hate. It was this regime that produced a massacre in which the most Jews since the Holocaust were, to echo Stone’s description of Bogdanovka, "massacred, burned alive, and shot." If there is one brief recording from October 7 that should be played in Holocaust history courses, one which indicates the way in which anti-Semitism can be made manifest not just in Europe but around the world, it is of a Hamas terrorist calling his parents to crow that he had killed "10 Jews"—not "10 Zionists"—with his bare hands. Recent months have also revealed the willingness of all too many on the progressive left to deny, or even defend, the most unspeakable of acts as long as its victims are Jews. What has also become clear is the festering anti-Semitism within woke circles and the intertwining of anti-Semitism with hatred of the Jewish state.

As I finished writing this review, my internet feed was filled with videos of Jews being told to "go back to Poland," a phrase which takes on renewed horror thanks to my reading of Dan Stone’s book. The videos were taken at Columbia University, which, we might remember, welcomed the Holocaust-denying Ahmadinejad into its midst, revealing the intellectual rot that had laid hold of part of the academy many years before.

The news from Columbia reminds one of the Washington Free Beacon’s report from Stanford, where, already months ago, Jews were told by an instructor to stand in a corner of the classroom as a form of public shaming. I had already been reminded of this article when I read, in The Holocaust, of the first manifestation of Jew-hate in 1930s Germany, in which Jews were "shamed or humiliated on the street, in a tram or at school." Meanwhile, as I typed this sentence, I paused to ponder another photo of an anti-Israel demonstration at George Washington University, not a bastion today of the American right. It features a man holding a sign featuring both an Israeli and Palestinian flag, a sign emblazoned with two words: "Final Solution."

This book has helped me appreciate the dangers facing our society. It is my hope that in a post-October 7 world, Dan Stone can see these dangers too.

For the past several weeks, national and even international attention has been locked on the chaos brought to American college campuses by anti-Israel demonstrations that have become increasingly bold in flouting the authorities, harassing fellow students, and echoing Hamas slogans. Less attention has been paid to the professors who teach those students, yet no small number of professors have gotten involved, sometimes to comfort Jewish students, far more often to join the protesters or to complain about efforts to restore order.

Middle East-studies departments have been well represented, almost exclusively in the anti-Israel camp, but Jewish-studies faculty have largely sat out of the conversation. Some may find this strange. At a time of crisis for the Jewish people, and especially for Jewish university students, it would seem that those who have dedicated their lives to studying Jewish history, Jewish culture, and Jewish religion would have the most to contribute.

Having spent a good chunk of my life involved in academic Jewish studies, I am not especially surprised. The six years I spent studying Jewish history in graduate school were good ones: I had the usual share of ups and downs, but I got an absolutely unbeatable intellectual experience. Likewise, the four subsequent years I spent teaching Jewish history at universities were quite rewarding. I got an inside view of a lot of the problems with academia, but I had some great colleagues and students. I spent almost none of this time engaged in political fights about Israel, or anything else for that matter.

For all that, the problems in my old field have been building for decades, and have now come to a head, clear for all to see. The silence is both the heart of the problem and the least of it: the way too many scholars of Jewish history have conducted themselves since October 7 has confirmed my growing suspicion that something has gone deeply amiss.

There was the November 20 open letter in the New York Review of Books that sixteen Holocaust and anti-Semitism experts wrote in November cautioning Jews against comparing the still-fresh massacre to the Holocaust and Hamas to the Nazis. This was not because nothing should be compared to the Nazis, but because it was the rhetoric of Israelis that should remind people of them, and it was the still-nascent campaign in Gaza that more resembled the Holocaust. There was the way that, on October 13, Raz Segal, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies, argued that Israel’s actions in Gaza were “a textbook case of genocide.”

These problems are not limited to the fringes of the field or a few professors. The Association of Jewish Studies, the field’s main professional organization in North America if not in the world, on October 9 sent a message to current and former members expressing “deep sorrow for the loss of life and destruction.” This infuriatingly vague statement—who lost their life, and where, from whom?—received immediate pushback, leading to a second email the next day. Yet even the second likewise refused to name Hamas’s victims.

There is a common thread to these and plenty more episodes. It is, thankfully, not that the worst mass murder of Jews since World War II cannot be condemned—things are not that bad yet in Jewish studies. It is that the attack cannot easily be condemned as an attack on Jews.

Students for Justice in Palestine sparked a debate over the weekend when one of its chapters called for the University of California at Santa Cruz to “cut ties” with Hillel, the university Jewish center. The pretense for this straightforwardly anti-Semitic demand was Hillel’s support for Israel’s continued existence. Pro-Hamas protest groups have been pushing to see how far they can take “Zionism” as a pretense for discriminating against Jews on college campuses, and the reaction this time suggests that the protesters may finally have reached the limit. Even some progressives pushed back.

That is not to say that no one in politics or academia supported SJP’s desire to kick the Jewish center off campus. Professors at NYU, Muhlenberg and Florida International were among those in the academy defending SJP, and there were a few left-wing writers or pundits twisting themselves in knots to excuse it. Additionally, the trend is heading in the wrong direction when “ban the Jewish center” becomes a legitimate line of argument within both the progressive world and the academy, the latter having some influence over whether such bans would be carried out.

But what I noticed from all the academics and self-styled “philosophers” arguing over how many anti-Zionists can dance on the head of a pin was this: Not a single one is aware that this has all been tried before, and these exact debates have played out, and the anti-Zionist arguments were so thoroughly demolished that a bit of research could have helped them avoid their very public belly-flop.

In the 1970s, Britain’s National Union of Students became engulfed in a firestorm around the question of banning and boycotting “Zionist” organizations when doing so would also, necessarily, ban Jewish groups. This was the coming together of two trends: first, successful Arab governments’ outreach to young leftist activists in the West, whom they lobbied to embrace anti-Zionism to fill the void left by the winding down of the Vietnam War. Second, the expansion of “anti-fascism” efforts to focus on “anti-racism,” a much more malleable term that opened new avenues for recruitment and fundraising.

In this new worldview, antisemitism rears its head once again by painting us as an all-powerful group with the intent to kill and subject other people to our whims. Indeed, it is the oldest form of hatred. It turns even the passive liberal arts student, who would not imagine donning a Hamas headband, and your friendly humanities professor, who would never march at Charlottesville, into allies of the terrorist movement. It drives them to rationalize, maybe out loud but perhaps only internally, “Well, maybe October 7 was justified.”

American Jews are scarred by this institutional failure. Higher education has long been our community’s path to the middle class and high-achieving professions. In recognition of the university’s role, American Jews contributed billions to these institutions and sent generations of our children to be molded there. Jewish students, from the Freedom Summer participants of the 1960s to the campus labor activists of the recent past, spent an inordinate amount of time building coalitions with various groups and defending the rights of the marginalized.

Yet our long history is repaid by a new generation that “knows not Joseph.” American universities ought to be guardians of our country’s free institutions and fierce defenders of the bedrock values of pluralism and civic conversation. These institutions, instead, are now incubators for the most noxious forms of antisemitism.

Let me be very clear. When Jews who are not connected to the IDF – or even to Israel – are harmed in protest of the actions of the Israeli government or military, when a synagogue in America has a Molotov cocktail thrown at it, and when non-Israeli Jewish institutions are targeted, we know this is prima facie antisemitism, which wipes away any doubts about the distinction between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

Those who advocate for the destruction of Jews anywhere, rejoice at the harm done to Jews everywhere.

This is no longer an academic debate. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, full stop. And those who permit anti-Zionists to justify harming Jews and enable the violence against the Jewish people to continue are also antisemitic.

Minouche Shafik certainly ought to go as president of Columbia, along with all her peers across academia who’ve utterly bungled their “tentifada” occupations, but America’s campus rot runs far deeper.

Note the CCNY staff who pulled a sympathy sickout after City College had its encampment cleared, and the Columbia and NYU profs who formed human chains in defense of the students (and outsiders) grossly violating the schools’ rules.

And, as Charlie Gasparino flags, the way elite colleges have taken vast overseas donations in tacit exchange for shaping their faculties and curricula in opposition to Israel (and America).

Heck, notice that Pritzkers serve on the boards of both Columbia and Harvard — even as the Pritzker family foundation funds multiple groups supporting the “pro-Palestinian protests.”

Mayor Adams is certainly right to stress the role of “outside agitators” in fanning the campus flames, but plenty of “agitators” are deep on the inside, too.

Don’t relax as a few more heads roll in coming days: Detoxifying these institutions will take years.

I'm a professor who leads a research lab in San Francisco that develops medicines to treat viruses and cancers.

During a recent visit to Israel, academic deans showed me critiques of papers submitted to journals that assailed Israel's military actions instead of weighing the article's scientific merits.

At a cancer research seminar in Barcelona, colleagues grilled an Israeli professor not about his findings but about Israel's war against Hamas.

Sidelining scientists and their innovations is everyone's loss. Israel has contributed hundreds of innovations to the world.

The country's scientists are credited with inventing drip irrigation (alleviating global-food crises), reverse osmosis (enabling desalinization for drinking water), and the leading cancer therapy for resistant lymphoma (which has treated more than 27,000 patients in the U.S. alone).

The Republican National Committee, former President Donald Trump‘s campaign, and the Republican Jewish Coalition released a new video Monday comparing Trump and President Joe Biden‘s handling of rising antisemitism across the nation.

The video, first shared with the Washington Examiner, comes on the same day as Holocaust Remembrance Day and one day before the seven-month anniversary of the Oct. 7 surprise Hamas attack against Israel, which killed over 1,200 people.

“Joe Biden’s weakness is on display for all the world to see as he refuses to condemn the antisemitic violence on college campuses and continues to backtrack on his support for Israel,” RNC chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. “As chaos envelopes the world, this is no time for ambiguity — we need President Donald J. Trump back in office to restore order, support our critical ally, Israel, and bring peace through strength once more.”

The nearly 90-second video directly references the pro-Palestinian college protests that have captured national attention. Protesters are pushing for universities to divest from Israel.

But at times, the encampments that have been set up on campuses across the nation have led to violent encounters with law enforcement.

“I understand their passion,” and “they have a point,” Biden says in the video as clips are shown of reporters questioning his administration’s response to the protests.

In contrast, Trump is shown visiting the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism, in 2017 with then-first lady Melania Trump and pledging to confront antisemitism. The historic visit was the first time a U.S. president had visited the Old City of Jerusalem.

“When I get back into office, I will put every single university and college president on notice. The American taxpayer will not subsidize the creation of terrorist sympathizers on American soil,” Trump says in the video. “I will defend our friend and ally, the state of Israel, like nobody has ever defended it before.”

The 2022 Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution calls for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the 'West Bank' into one territorial entity to be governed by the Hashemites and called “The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine” with its capitol in Amman – not Jerusalem.

Its author is an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

Implementing this proposal would see:
- Palestinians in the 'West Bank', Gaza and stateless refugees getting full citizenship in the merged Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine with all the elements of sovereignty applicable to those Territories that belonging to a fully recognized state in the UN entail.
- UNSCR 2334 consigned to the diplomatic graveyard.

Incredibly – neither Guterres nor Wennesland has brought this alternative two-state solution to the General Assembly or Security Council for deliberation and consideration in the 21 months since its publication.

Implementing this alternative two-state solution:
· Israel and
· The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

is a realistically-achievable solution based on fact – not fiction.

However galling it might be for Guterres and Wennesland to see UNSCR 2334 shredded – the current situation demands a clean sweep of UN policies to date and the serious consideration of implementing the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution as the answer to preventing further conflict.

The Bureau should be investigating and evaluating the creation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine in Israel-Jordan negotiations conducted in good faith – not expending its time and resources pursuing the recognition of a fictitious State of Palestine – which will do nothing to end the current conflict.

Is the penny finally starting to drop? That is the million-dollar question.

Progressive groups that routinely downplay Hamas's terrorism are seeking to give Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D., N.Y.) embattled primary campaign a final push across the finish line, as polls show him trailing his pro-Israel primary challenger.

Anti-Israel groups, including RootsAction, the Working Families Party, and IfNotNow, joined forces with Justice Democrats—the far-left group aligned with the "Squad"—to help raise funds for Bowman.

"Our progressive leaders are fighting for us against corporate interests who seek to keep power in the hands of the wealthy few. That's why they're all-in on @JamaalBowmanNY and @CoriBush: because the voices of a former school principal & nurse are megaphones for working families," Justice Democrats wrote in a post on Wednesday.

"Stay tuned for more events, fundraisers, and ways to plug in this summer—to #ProtectTheSquad and protect our democracy nationwide. Chip in now to @CoriBush and @JamaalBowmanNY," the group added.

RootsAction, a progressive group representing the "multiracial working class," blamed Israel for Hamas's Oct. 7 attack in a statement one day following the massacre, citing "cruel Israeli occupation and expansionism" as the "root" of the violence. The group added that it expects similar cycles of terror to repeat unless the "apartheid" ends.

"The root of today's violence is the oppression and abuses suffered daily by Palestinian people as a whole under decades of cruel Israeli occupation and expansionism. Leading human rights groups … have concluded that Israel's occupation policies amount to a form of apartheid," the group wrote in a post. "Until Israel's military occupation is ended, these cycles of terror and war and trauma will repeat."

IfNotNow, an anti-Israel group working to "end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system," wrote in a 2020 post that Hamas's being "directly and fully responsible for the crisis in Gaza" is a "myth." The group admitted that Hamas "plays a role" but later contended that Israel perpetuates the crisis with a "blockade" that is "hindering the growth of Gaza's economy, infrastructure, and institutions."

Belgium is trying to recruit other European countries to impose new trade sanctions on Israel, according to statements made Monday by its political leadership.

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in an interview with Het Laatste Nieuws that he was pushing for the European Union to impose a ban on products made in settlements. He singled out dates, olive oil and wine.

“Can we now simply continue with Israel as a trading partner? I don’t think so,” said De Croo, who earlier this year resisted calls by the opposition to push sanctions on Israel.

“Since then, there have been 35,000 deaths, including 10,000 children,” he explained, referring to the unverified death toll published by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.

“And it is not the main reason, but we Europeans will bear the consequences. In ten years they’re going to say, ‘You watched and took no action.'”

De Croo also cited the danger of regional escalation as the result of the Gaza war.

He said that he has been working with other European countries “for weeks” on sanctions, and has asked European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to look into whether Israel violated its association agreement with the EU.

Erdogan may wish not only to become Hamas’s main champion but also to assume leadership of the rejectionist bloc of vocal anti-Israel states. It was in this context that, on May 1, 2024, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced that Turkey would join South Africa’s genocide complaint against Israel in the International Court of Justice.

Congress must take concrete measures to deter Turkey and to prevent other states from following its lead by expanding a hypocritical boycott that gives sustenance to terrorists. Already, several U.S. congressmen have demanded the U.S. Department of State move to prevent further Turkish efforts to inflame the Gaza conflict. Following Ankara’s boycott announcement, U.S. lawmakers began to inquire about the possibility of imposing sanctions against Turkey to enforce U.S. anti-boycott laws.

Neither the Biden administration nor Congress should be passive in the face of Turkey’s challenge to Middle Eastern peace and the liberal world order. Instead, leaders from both parties should employ various tools to dissuade Erdogan from fueling the fire. To that end:
Congress could recommend applying Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against Erdogan’s associates for systemic corruption.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) could target Turkish banks under anti-money laundering authorities previously applied to Turkey’s sanctions evasion on behalf of Iran.
The Treasury could also impose sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) if Turkey operationalizes the S-400 air defense system it purchased from Russia.
The U.S. Department of State could also stall cooperation on energy projects that Erdogan values.
Lastly, the Biden administration could delay delivery of the 70 F-16 fighters and modernization kits until Ankara changes its behavior.

The first “Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine” will be held at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg on May 10-12.

The conference is billed as bringing together an international host of anti-Israel activists “towards a global movement to dismantle Israel’s settler colonialism and apartheid.”

According to the “concept note” posted to the event website, “The unprecedented collective efforts of the global solidarity movement have been inspiring. Yet, we have not reached the point where we can stop the U.S.-Israeli genocidal war, achieve justice for the indigenous people of Palestine, and dismantle Israel’s regime of Zionist occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, as was done to the apartheid regime in South Africa.”

South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor is scheduled to open the event. Pandor has drawn criticism from the South African Jewish community for repeated incitement against Israel as well as threats to arrest South Africans who have served with the Israel Defense Forces should they return to the country.

The speakers’ schedule comprises a who’s who of the world’s most notorious anti-Israel antagonists, including Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative party and a BDS leader; Zaher Birawi, a senior Hamas official living in the United Kingdom; and Ali Abunimah, founder of the anti-Israel Electronic Intifada website.

The founder of a charity that promotes a more tolerant and modernised Islam for British Muslims has compared Zionists to Nazis and stated that politicians should be “called out” for having Jewish family members.

Taj Hargey, a historian and imam who has previously been described as “Britain’s liberal imam”, was speaking to the Yorkshire Post about the specific issues Muslim voters have.

He said during the interview there had been an “awakening” among Muslims in recent months who now understand the “distinction between Germans and Nazis,” adding, “Not all Germans were Nazis. And similarly, not all Jews are Zionists.”

Hargey, who leads the Oxford Institute for British Islam (OIBI), added it is “important that prominent British politicians” who “blindly support Israel” should be “identified” if they have family links to the Jewish State.

Hargey went on to talk about Sir Keir Starmer having close family who are Jewish, saying he should be “called out on this.”

“And so that’s part of the reason why he’s pussyfooting on this whole issue,” he added.

Hargey also accused both former Home Secretaries Priti Patel and Suella Braverman of being “married to a Zionist.”

Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, Hargey asked how politicians can “be non-partisan and unbiased if they do not declare their personal connections to Zionism and Israel?

“Is this not the case when the public are frequently reminded directly or indirectly about the faith of Muslim leaders”, Hargey said using London mayor Sadiq Khan, politicians Humza Yousaf and Scottish Labour Party leader Anas Sarwar as examples.

A furore has erupted after a convention on Israel scheduled to take place at Milan's Statale University on May 7, seven months after Hamas's October 7 attacks, was scrapped following a police warning about the danger of violent incidents.

"We couldn't do otherwise," Alessandro Litta Modignani of the 'Pro Israele' association, which organized the event with Savona's Italia-Israele association, told ANSA.

"The police told us that the event had been reclassified from high risk to extremely high risk and said it was necessary to close the university that afternoon for the students' safety as members of (left-wing) 'social centres' (squats) from all over northern Italy were set to come.

"We must guarantee the safety of all participants and avoid attacks on the police too.

"So, faced with a clear threat of violence, we could not do anything else.

"And this is a defeat for democracy".

The university stressed that Dean Elio Franzini had decided to turn the convention into an online event and "certainly not cancel it" to minimize security risks but added that the organizers had not gotten back about this proposal.

The row comes in the wake of series of protests and occupations at Italian universities against institutions having relations with Israeli ones and calls for boycotts amid the war in Gaza, which have led Italy's Jewish community to sound the alarm about anti-Semitism in the world of higher education.

The CEO of Hims & Hers, a telehealth pharmaceutical company, has issued a new statement on the campus protests happening across the country, after its initial support for them caused the company’s stocks to plummet.

Andrew Dudum had initially encouraged protesters on campus to continue their protests, stating that many companies are “eager to hire you” and included a link to apply at his company. The post sparked controversy online, with Hims & Hers’s stock going down by a noticeable amount from over $13.12 per share on Wednesday to $11.35 per share by Sunday evening.

Dudum said on social media that the past several days had been “a disheartening reflection” on how divisive the current landscape is and clarified how he had not been condoning antisemitism or acts of violence occurring at the protests.

“Every student deserves to feel safe without fear of harm or being targeted for who they are,” Dudum wrote on X. “I am deeply saddened that my support for peaceful protest has been interpreted by some as encouraging violence, intimidation, or bigotry of any kind.”

Dudum also reiterated his support for those demonstrating “in peaceful protest,” stressing how free speech is important in the United States. He added that there is more justice in the present times due to how students in the past “used their voices to force change.”

His support for the protesters on college campuses was in stark contrast to statements made by other billionaires and CEOs, including Bill Ackman, who criticized Rutgers University for conceding to multiple demands from its protesters. Ackman warned that schools rewarding protesters who break the rules will only get more protests in the future, along with “more extreme rule violations.”

There’s no question that the step was warranted. Back in February, Israel Defense Forces Arabic-language spokesman Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee revealed documents showing that Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Washah was a “prominent commander” in Hamas’s anti-tank missile unit who, in late 2022, began R&D work for its aerial array.

Similar findings emerged about additional reporters and videographers doubling as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives. The evidence is so extensive that even Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara—who initially objected to the bill on the grounds that it would give the communications minister excessive power over the press—greenlit a tweaked version.

Judging by Baharav-Miara’s tendency to hinder the government she’s supposed to counsel and defend, her decision to allow the regulations indicates just how egregious Al Jazeera’s behavior has been. And the only reason that it’s taken this long to pass and implement the legislation is the delicate nature of Jerusalem’s relations with Doha.

Qatar, home since 2016 to Hamas “political leader” Ismail Haniyeh, inserted itself as a mediator in the effort to free the hostages held in Gaza by his counterpart in the Strip, Yahya Sinwar. But since the agreement in November that led to the release of mostly women and children from Hamas’s tunnel-dungeons, no progress has been made.

Of course, that’s because Israel refuses to retreat from Gaza and leave Sinwar in control. So, none of the “negotiations” brokered by the United States, Egypt and Al Jazeera’s royal patron is of any help to the 132 remaining captives.

Waiting any longer to put a muzzle on Qatar’s antisemitic mouthpiece was therefore pointless. Taking the step on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day was especially fitting, however; even more so given Hamas’s reaction.

“The decision of the criminal [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his Nazi government to close the Al Jazeera office and prevent it from working and reporting,” the terrorist group said in a statement, “is a blatant violation of freedom of the press and an oppressive and retaliatory measure against Al Jazeera’s professional role in exposing the occupation’s crimes and violations committed by its criminal Nazi army and its terrorist settlers against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.”

Israel rests its case.

In an interview on the BBC on Monday, the host of the British news channel appeared to agree with an activist’s false claim that the Jewish state was committing atrocities in the war in the Gaza Strip.

Tadhg Enright was interviewing Omar Shakir, the regional director of Human Rights Watch, on Israel’s decision to shut down the pro-Hamas Qatari-based channel Al-Jazeera‘s operations in the country.

When asked by Enright for his reaction, Shakir did not mince words. “This is an assault on the freedom of the press,” he stated. “Al-Jazeera is a critical source of information that many Palestinians and others in the region rely upon. Instead of trying to muzzle reporting on atrocities, the Israeli government should stop committing them.”

Enright then said, “Yeah, indeed,” presumably agreeing with the claim that Israel was carrying out atrocities. He then went on to ask Shakir, “I wonder what their claim, the Israeli government’s claim is that Al Jazeera has become a mouthpiece for Hamas.”

The Qatar-based network has vocally denied the charges that it has been pro-Hamas, but in recent weeks it has consistently sided with the terrorist group’s false claims of mass killings, including in cases where it was clear Hamas was using bodies as props and falsifying numbers.

This was the case even after Israel showed those claims to be false, as in the case of an aid truck being attacked by a mob, which caused deaths when people trampled on each other without Israel’s involvement, and the slander against Israel of supposedly creating mass graves in a hospital, where it turned out to be Hamas’s own creation.

The BBC was forced to correct its Arabic channel’s coverage of the Gaza conflict every other day on average during the first five months of the war.

BBC Arabic, whose output Tim Davie, the corporation’s director general, has described as “something we should be very proud of”, made 80 corrections in the five months after the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

The corrections followed a string of complaints about the channel’s news coverage of the conflict by the Campaign for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (Camera), which lobbies for “accurate and balanced” coverage of Israel.

Of the 80 corrections made, 34 concerned BBC Arabic referring to Jewish communities inside Israel’s internationally recognized territory as “settlements”, which happened 30 times, and to their residents as “settlers” – four times.

Camera said it flagged this issue as early as the afternoon of Oct 7, but that BBC Arabic continued using the term “settlers” and “settlements” widely for the following five months, including in reference to Metula, which was established in 1896, with some of its first Jewish families having lived in the area for centuries.

BBC Arabic also corrected its description of Hamas and Hezbollah – both of which are proscribed terrorist groups under UK law – as “the Resistance” on three occasions, and corrected references to attacks which targeted and killed civilians as “resistance operations” on two more occasions.

During a recent fundraiser at one of NPR’s local stations, staff implored listeners to contribute generously to compensate for the 40% loss in revenue they said the network had suffered. The reason given for the significant loss was that the old economics of corporate underwriting of NPR programming is no longer sustainable, with businesses turning to social media for advertising and publicity.

In fact, NPR’s loss of revenue also correlates with its loss of credibility as an objective news provider. Despite the lip service paid by NPR editors to the notion that their news gathering operation is even-handed and impartial, listeners are increasingly recognizing that the network is less committed to objectively and honestly informing the public about world events than it is to shaping public perception with a radical and distorted world view. When NPR editor Uri Berliner published a maverick critique of his network’s reporting to which he attributed the loss of “America’s trust,” he pointed to the extent to which progressive politics informs NPR’s reporting. While he did not explore NPR’s coverage of the Hamas-Israel war, that reporting clearly demonstrates the extent to which the public radio network has gone off the rails.

Downplaying Antisemitic Activities at Columbia University
NPR AGENDA: Regarding the antisemitic, pro-Hamas activity at Columbia University that created an intolerable atmosphere for Jewish students and which caused Jewish students to flee campus, NPR did its best to downplay the anti-Jewish, extremist and unlawful nature of the protests.

PARTISAN GUEST: Host Michael Martin enlisted radical Marxist, anti-Israel activist Eleanor Stein — introduced as a law and human rights professor who as a student in the 1960s protested the Vietnam War —to promote the notion that the Columbia University protests were righteous in nature and not disruptive . (This came shortly before protesters broke windows and illegally occupied Columbia buildings.)

WHAT NPR CONCEALED: The audience was not told of Stein’s radical background and activities— a red diaper baby, Stein was notorious as a Marxist revolutionary and leader in the Weather Underground that the FBI classified as a domestic terror organization. Nor were listeners told that Stein is a longtime anti-Israel activist who supports and teams up with Israel haters who demonize the Jewish state (see, for example, here, here, here and here). And they were not informed that Stein had recently used her pulpit as a climate activist to accuse Israel of genocide, to call for a unilateral ceasefire on Israel’s part and to attack the U.S. for supporting Israel’s war of defense against Hamas terrorists, with the nonsensical claim that Israel’s military actions, more than anything else in the word, was responsible for a worsening climate crisis.

NPR MESSAGE: Instead, host Michael Martin prodded the anti-Israel activist with leading questions that stood truth on its head by portraying the protests at Columbia University as peaceful in nature and by suggesting that reports of anti-Jewish hostility were merely false, politically motivated allegations:

Since October 7, 2023, when the Hamas terrorist organization orchestrated an invasion of Israel’s borders to carry out the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Hamas supporters have been pushing a narrative aimed at turning the Western world against Israel. With pressure on Israel to cease its battle against the terrorist group, Hamas would be free to achieve its declared goal of annihilating the Jewish state.

NPR’s contribution is to platform pro-Hamas and anti-Israel partisans, presented as objective authorities and witnesses, to echo and lend credence to Hamas’ false, self-preserving narrative, as shown in Part I of this series of two articles.

As if platforming partisan guests introduced as neutral authorities was not bad enough, NPR has been increasingly relying on photojournalists and fixers from Gaza – who are given authority as NPR producers – to deliver stories about the war. They are presumably instrumental in selecting stories and interviewees to highlight in Gaza.

Unlike the claims and accounts attributed to Israeli authorities and military officials that are treated skeptically (see Part I), NPR’s Gazan producers are granted an NPR imprimatur.

One such Gazan contributor is Omar el Qattaa, first cited as a “local photojournalist” in Gaza, then credited as an “NPR photographer,” “NPR producer,” and contributing reporter. Aside from the broadcasts to which he contributed, his name also bylines several articles on NPR’s website.

Just over five and a half years ago the BBC programme ‘Hardtalk’ conducted an interview with Mohamad during which he made blatantly antisemitic remarks.

“Malaysia’s avowedly anti-Semitic prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has repeated his claim from the 1970s that Jews are “hook-nosed” and claimed that the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust wasn’t six million.

“They are hook-nosed,” he insisted in a BBC interview during a visit to the United Kingdom, after host Zeinab Badawi asked him why he used such language, according to Reuters.

When she noted that many viewers would find his remark offensive, he said: “Many people called the Malays fat-nosed. We didn’t object, we didn’t go to war for that.” […]

In his 1970 book “The Malay Dilemma,” Mahathir wrote that “the Jews are not merely hook-nosed, but understand money instinctively,” relying on two famous anti-Semitic stereotypes that were used by Nazi Germany to dehumanize Jews.

Mahathir also claimed that the consensus among historians that some 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust was false, putting the number at 4 million.”

Whether or not the BBC has already forgotten its own previous experience of Mohamad’s unabashed antisemitism, there is no justification for this worldwide platforming – and mainstreaming – of a prime example of what Tim Davie describes as “the noisiest and most extreme voices” under the guise of commentary which has no purpose but to spread disinformation concerning “genocide” and casualty ratios.

Tim Davie’s claim that the BBC World Service counters efforts by “hostile states” to promote “disinformation and disruption” will continue to ring hollow as long as that branch of the corporation panders to notorious racists and atrocity deniers airbrushed as supposedly respectable “elder statesmen”.

The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks during April 2024 shows that throughout the month a total of 513 incidents took place in Judea & Samaria, Jerusalem and within the ‘green line’. The agency recorded 72 attacks with petrol bombs, 55 attacks using pipe bombs, one attack using an IED, 321 incidents of rock throwing, 23 shooting attacks, 32 arson attacks, two vehicular attacks and six stabbing attacks.

64 attacks were thwarted throughout the month and 262 terror related arrests were made.

In addition, 113 missiles were launched into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip and 744 missiles were launched from Lebanon or Syria throughout April, including on Passover eve. (The ISA report does not include casualties from attacks related to Operation Swords of Iron.)

One person was murdered and 28 were injured in attacks in Judea & Samaria, Jerusalem and inside the ‘green line’ during April.

LBC recently announced that presenter Sangita Myska – formerly of BBC – would be leaving her show on the talk radio station. The announcement came two weeks after a heated interview she had with Israeli government spokesperson Avi Hyman concerning Iran’s attack against Israel on April 15.

While there’s been idle speculation over whether Myska’s departure was somehow connected to that interview, neither the presenter nor LBC’s parent company, Global Media, have commented on the matter. Moreover, if you watch the full nine minute exchange between Myska and Hyman, you’ll see that there was nothing particularly unusual about it in comparison with other Israel-Gaza related interviews on LBC. If LBC or their parent company was intolerant of presenters who strongly challenged Israel, you’d think that James O’Brien, whose hatred for the the Jewish state is clear to anyone paying attention, would have been axed long ago.

However, despite the dearth of evidence regarding the reasons for Myska’s removal, The Herald (of Scotland) went full-on conspiracy theory over the row.

On May 2, they published an article by Alasdair Ferguson titled “Sangita Myska to leave LBC amid speculation of Israel’s involvement”, which includes absolutely zero evidence of “Israel’s involvement” – as you can see by reading the piece. In fact, the only sentence in the entire article which mentions such accusations is this one.

On Yom HaShoah, the Pulitzer Prize Board will potentially be awarding journalism’s top award to a Gazan photographer who cited Hitler and infiltrated into Israel during Hamas’ genocidal massacre on October 7.

The New York Times and its freelance photojournalist Yousef Masoud are predicted to be announced as Pulitzer Prize winners tomorrow, May 6, Tablet Magazine revealed last week, despite HonestReporting’s exposure of Masoud’s illegal infiltration and a Facebook post discovered by Tablet in which he cited Hitler.

So as Jews mourn the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, honoring Masoud would mean turning a blind eye to both Nazi and Hamas atrocities for the sake of industry prizes.

Hitler and Palestinians
Masoud’s now-deleted Facebook post from March 2013 mentioned Hitler and Palestinian “soldiers” as allies.

According to Tablet Magazine, his post read in Arabic: “Hitler said, give me a Palestinian soldier and a German weapon, and I will make Europe crawl on its fingertips,” citing an unconfirmed quote attributed to the man responsible for the mass annihilation of European Jewry.

The New York Times told Tablet Magazine that “editors were not previously aware of’’ the Facebook post and “may have more to say on it soon.”

But they were aware of the fact that Masoud had been present when Hamas tried to annihilate Jews again on October 7.

As revealed by HonestReporting last November, Masoud (among other freelancers) was present early enough at the breached Israel-Gaza border to capture an image of a still-smoldering Israeli tank for the Associated Press.

Related Reading: Broken Borders: AP & Reuters Pictures of Hamas Atrocities Raise Ethical Questions

But his illegal infiltration did not prevent The New York Times from using his work inside Gaza throughout the Israel-Hamas war, and submitting it to the prestigious George Polk Awards — a Pulitzer precursor which he won last February.

"Biased and uncomfortable" @JeremyBenAmihttps://t.co/EFri2h6Cbg

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 6, 2024

How can @nytimes try to deny the role of outside agitators in anti-Israel campus protests while at the same time citing an "activist group's" call for outside help?

Note to NYT: Within Our Lifetime is a radical anti-Israel hate org that lauds terrorists.https://t.co/XkV3EeNRIapic.twitter.com/RjgOLL1Y3B

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 5, 2024

Absolute garbage. 2 months of Hamas rejecting increasingly generous offers. Israel accepted every element Hamas wanted except they then demanded a complete withdrawal & end to the war so Hamas can resize power.

That isn’t a formula for peace but just another war down the line. https://t.co/faQzBlxPh6

— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 6, 2024

While Israel today commemorates the 6 million victims of the Nazis in the Holocaust, it is at the same time constantly confronted with libels by PA leaders and officials claiming Israel is “acting like the Nazis” and worse. These lies have been intensified since Hamas launched the current war against Israel with its attack and massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The official PA daily stated that Israel’s defense war against Hamas “has exceeded all the German Nazi and Italian Fascist crimes of annihilation”:
“The Zionist-American war (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war; see note below) is targeting the annihilation of the Palestinian people or exiling it from the land of Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic)… and eliminating its national cause in order to spread darkness, wars, terror, and religious conflicts… Will the [Arab] brothers, the free world, and the supporters of peace stop the barbaric and insane war of annihilation that has exceeded all the German Nazi and Italian Fascist crimes of annihilation known to history?”

[Column by regular columnist Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 12, 2024]

Two months into the war, top PA official Jibril Rajoub stated that Jews are not “victims” but “criminal[s], terrorist[s], and a distorted form of the fascism and Nazism of the last century” and that the West has been “deceived” about this. He added that the war in Gaza is part of “the defense that the Palestinian people has waged and is waging for 75 years” – in other words, since Israel’s establishment:
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “The Americans, Europeans, and others were deceived to think that the Jew is a victim. The truth is that he is a criminal, a terrorist, and a distorted form of the fascism and Nazism of the last century.”

[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Dec. 4, 2023]

Talking about the PA’s proposed terrorists-for-hostages exchange, which the Palestinians envision as part of the negotiations with Israel to free the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas, Jibril Rajoub has also claimed that living conditions in Israeli prisons “are unprecedented anywhere but [in] the Nazi camps of the 1940s”:
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “This [prisoner exchange] will be an opportunity, and the international community must adopt this position – closing the issue of imprisonment; closing the issue of abductions (i.e., arrest of terrorists), closing the issue of the massacre being committed in Israeli prisons through living conditions that are unprecedented anywhere but the Nazi camps of the 1940s and its barbaric and fascist treatment, etc.”

[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, April 26, 2024]

In February, Palestinian Media Watch reported about how the PA praised American soldier Aaron Bushnell for potentially sparking a movement in which people around the world would move from mere protests to actions of self-sacrifice against Israel. A writer for the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida even went so far as to say that Palestinian-styled self-sacrifice, one of the PA euphemisms for suicidal attacks, serves as an example for all humanity.

Last week, a 34-year-old Turkish imam visiting Israel took a page from the PA attack playbook when he stabbed and wounded an Israeli border policeman near Herod’s gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Turkish tourist’s attack was labeled by Fatah’s spokesman as a “self-sacrificing operation,” just as it did for Bushnell’s self-immolation.

Fatah Spokesman in Jerusalem Ma'arouf Al-Rifai: “In April there was one Martyr [in Jerusalem], namely Turkish tourist [Hassan Saklana] (i.e., terrorist) who ascended to Heaven while carrying out a self-sacrificing operation in the Old City of Jerusalem.”

[Official PA TV, May 2, 2024]

Fatah Official Abbas Zaki: We Ask Allah that Iran Obtains a Nuclear Bomb so that It Is Guaranteed to Always Be Victorious #Palestinians#Iran#Fatahpic.twitter.com/zweaROuFpZ

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 5, 2024

📢"Palestinian girl hugs her mother's grave who was killed by Israel!"
(If you have room left in the "Palestinian lies notebook", add this one there as well. If not, buy a new notebook, there are several thousand such videos on the way).
---@djjude_subayapic.twitter.com/tJuJDel1dZ

— GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga 🇮🇱 VS 🇵🇸 (@GAZAWOOD1) May 4, 2024

A pause in the fighting has allowed the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip to bring in, via tunnels under the Egyptian border, critical supplies for the war effort against Israel, prominent among them eight dozen plush figures and similar items to be posed just so among rubble and then photographed, an organization spokesman disclosed today.

Hamas Assistant Directorate Chief Fawzi Balsaq thanked all those involved in getting the essential war materiel. “First we must thank our friends in Tehran,” he began. “Our generous sponsors in the IRGC [the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which arms, trains and funs Iranian proxy militias] understand the central role these materials play in the endeavor to destroy the usurping Zionist entity.”

“We must also mention the tireless efforts of those who do the actual smuggling, and the children who gave their lives to dig the tunnels,” he continued. “The poetry of the children’s toys, which will tug at the heartstrings of gullible westerners and get them to pressure the enemy into giving up, leaving us to rebuild and rearm to kill them again and again, all made possible by children who died or got permanently injured to dig the tunnels – the poetry escapes no one.”

The shipment also included replenishments for Gaza’s inventories of fake blood, which has proved invaluable in the production of atrocity videos.

In a meeting with Hajj officials and a group of Iranians who will attend this year’s ceremonies, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that this year’s Hajj is political, implying that Iranians should chant slogans against Israel and the US.

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) May 6, 2024

Referring to the war in Gaza Khamenei added that “the brutal attacks by the Zionist rabid dogs and the vampiric Western civilization” and “the oppression and resistance of the Muslim people of Gaza” will be marked in history. Without the US help, Israel would not dare to act like…

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) May 6, 2024

Auschwitz: The Common Journey - Documentary film by Daniel Gitman Tadevosyan with Yoseph Haddad
Watch the special documentary of the emotional journey of dozens of Arab Israelis to Poland to learn about the Holocaust.

Although I read the book My Friend Anne Frank, by Hannah Pick Gosdar (Penguin, Random House, 305 pp.) several months ago, I put off writing about it until just before Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. It seemed to me a good idea to post a review of this gripping book during the period when many people look for writ

zings on the Holocaust.

But something else happened. In the first few chapters, Hannah (or Hanneli) lives through pre-war events that European Jewry was unable to imagine, let alone predict. And, as fate would have it, I could not have predicted or imagined that the first part of the book would become especially chilling in the light of its similarity to what is happening today to Jews at US universities – and to Jews the world over.

I had a haunting déjà vu feeling while reading the beginning. It was suddenly more disturbing than before to read the vivid descriptions of a carefree childhood in a cultured Berlin home and in beautiful Amsterdam (the city to which Hannah’s loving parents moved, thinking they would be out of reach of the Nazis), then of how Jewish feelings of security changed to fear in the riots preceding the actual roundups of Jews, and how Hannah’s gentile friends ignored her while she faced taunts and hatred on the streets.

A comparison to the pro-Hamas riots at American universities today, and to the Jews harassed, hurt and vilified in the goldene medina cannot be avoided. Hanneli’s descriptions of Jew-hatred, widespread indifference to antisemitism and blatant support for killing Jews in the 1930s have come back to life in full force.

My chaotic feelings were put into order when I watched a zoom lecture in Hebrew on the Holocaust by Rabbi Benny Kalmanson, Rosh Yeshiva at Otniel, an authority on the Shoah and a member of Yad Vashem's Pedagogical Council of the School for Holocaust Education. The much-beloved rabbi is also the father of Elchanan Hy”d who rushed south and saved at least 100 of Be’eri’s residents on October 7th before being shot and killed by a Hamas terrorist.

Hundreds gathered in Haifa during Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) on Monday to attend the funeral of a Holocaust survivor who died the previous night.

Esther Greizer, 95, a native of Hungary who survived the Nazi genocide, did not have any immediate family to mourn her passing. A social media message went out to the community and crowds descended on the cemetery for her burial.

Greizer’s great-nephew Yochai Gringlick wrote on Facebook that she was unable to bear children because of “medical” experiments performed on her at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

“It didn’t prevent Esti from marrying the late Gershon and living a happy life full of love and giving,” Gringlick wrote. “Because she didn’t have children, we were like grandchildren to her, even though we were her sister’s great-grandchildren.”

Gringlick said that there would not be a shiva, the traditional seven days of mourning in Judaism for immediate family members of the deceased.

“She doesn’t have children and her brothers are all already dead. There will only be a funeral,” he wrote.

Holocaust Remembrance Day is an annual day of observance in Israel to commemorate the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Monday compared Hamas to the Nazis.

“Our just war in Gaza continues, with the exact same goals: the release of all hostages and the defeat of Hamas,” tweeted Katz on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Yesterday, we received a reminder from the Nazi terrorist organization Hamas, firing from a civilian population near the Rafah Crossing towards the Kerem Shalom Crossing, intended for humanitarian aid.”

Katz went on to state that Israel had agreed to “significant concessions” in hostage talks with Hamas, but that the terror group had “repeatedly refused.”

“Everyone understands that [Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya] Sinwar has no intention of releasing all hostages, even in exchange for everything. He believes that the world will pressure Israel to stop the war unconditionally, and he will be able to continue to control Gaza—with hostages as bargaining chips and with the ability to continue the war of attrition against Israel and plan the next attack.

“Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the slogan ‘Never Again’ takes on a special meaning. The people of Israel say: ‘Never again.’”

Never again. pic.twitter.com/3H8muhNW5w

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) May 5, 2024

Kato and Miklos Bernath were childhood sweethearts in Szikso, Hungary, when the Nazis ravished their world. Miklos became a partisan, Kato a slave laborer. Miklos was captured and starved, Kato was sent to be murdered in Auschwitz.

But against all odds, they did not die.

After… pic.twitter.com/nUb8REjfqT

— Malkah Fleisher 🕎 (@MalkahFleisher) May 5, 2024

Israelis marked Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) on Monday, the first since the attack of Oct. 7, the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Shoah.

The ceremonies began Sunday night and continued on Monday morning with the traditional nationwide siren blast, starting at 10 a.m. and lasting for two minutes. Israelis customarily stand still, including cars stopping on the road, to honor the memory of the 6 million Jews slain by the Nazis and their helpers.

The siren was activated by Holocaust survivor Malkah Herman, 92, and her grandson Maor, an officer in the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command, the military announced.

“During this period, when we are witnessing many threats to the State of Israel and the Jewish people, I was given the privilege to take part in commemorating the memory and heroism of our brothers and sisters who were murdered in the Holocaust,” Herman said in a statement.

“Being here alongside my grandson brings me huge excitement and reminds me of the road I went through to get here and gives me pride in the family I founded—thanks to, and despite everything,” she added.

The various government agencies and the Knesset held ceremonies on Monday, attended by the president, prime minister and members of the Knesset.

At the Knesset ceremony, titled “Everyone Has a Name,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog listed the names of the family members of two hostages currently held in Gaza who were killed in the Holocaust. The hostages—Alex Danzig and Mattan Angrest—come from families of those killed and those who survived and made their lives in Israel.

“This year, piece by piece, we were broken, and our eyes saw sights we never thought we would see again, as a free nation in its own country,” Herzog said. “The wounds of Oct. 7 are still open in our hearts, we are grieving and grieving, and we will not be able to remain silent as long as our brothers and sisters are kidnapped by Hamas murderers.”

Powerful words from Prime minister Netanyahu on Yom Hashoa.

"We will defeat our genocidal enemies. If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone. but we know we are not alone, because countless decent people around the world support our cause".

Noone and nothing… pic.twitter.com/5TcJIUUFuD

— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) May 5, 2024

Israel begins marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on the evening of May 5, with an annual ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

Watch the full ceremony, including testimonials of survivors as they light torches, and a speech by President Isaac Herzog.

The first letters of this Torah scroll were written by IDF soldiers at the site of the Nova massacre. Today it will be carried into Auschwitz, to be completed by six Holocaust survivors in memory of the six million. Chills. #NeverAgainisNowpic.twitter.com/i1vYcEYPu1

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) May 6, 2024

Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424.  Read all about it here!

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza

In December 2023, we led Medical Aid for Palestinians’ (https://www.map.org.uk/) and the International Rescue Committee’s first emergency medical team in Gaza. On that trip, three months into Israel’s bombardment and siege, we saw the disturbing and shocking conditions that Palestinians were forced to live in.

We have seen the warning signs of the current hunger crisis for months. ..In February, the World Health Organization warned that the decline in the nutrition status of the population in Gaza was unprecedented—people were being starved at the fastest rate the world had ever seen. But still, the international community did nothing to avert this entirely foreseeable catastrophe.

Since then, the situation has become worse. In late March the International Court of Justice observed that, “Palestinians in Gaza are no longer facing a risk of famine, but that famine is setting in.” At Medical Aid for Palestinians, we have seen this happening and have repeatedly warned of the devastating harm that malnutrition and hunger has on civilians, especially among newborns and children under 5, in whom it can lead to development delays and long term adverse health outcomes.

Approximately 1.1 million people, around half the total population, are currently facing catastrophic food insecurity in Gaza.5 One in three children under 2 years of age in the north are now acutely malnourished, affecting their immune systems and making them more likely to die from infectious diseases. Parents are witnessing their children die of starvation or are forced to live off animal feed to try and survive. None of this is inevitable, mass starvation is entirely preventable. This is not happening because of a natural drought or crop failure, but the deliberate withholding of food and aid by the Israeli government. 

The findings of the FRC review confirm that Famine is now projected and imminent in the North Gaza and Gaza Governorates and is expected to become manifest from mid-March 2024 to May 2024. The Famine threshold for acute food insecurity has already been far exceeded and the steeply increasing trend in malnutrition data indicates that it is highly likely that the Famine threshold for acute malnutrition has also been exceeded. The FRC expects the upward trend in non-trauma mortality to accelerate and for all Famine thresholds to be passed imminently.

For the combined southern and middle governates, the FRC concludes that there is a risk of Famine between mid-March and mid-July in a reasonable worst-case scenario.

It is vital to note that the projected Famine can be prevented or alleviated. All evidence points towards a major acceleration of death and malnutrition.

 If this analysis is true, then we would be seeing the number of daily and weekly malnutrition deaths in Gaza increasing over time.

Yet, according to the same Gaza health ministry, there have been zero deaths from malnutrition or dehydration in Gaza in the entire month of April and so far in May. The total was 28 in late March and it remains 28 today.

Zero deaths.

(In fact, the number of starvation deaths seem to have decreased since mid-March. UN OCHA quoted the health ministry saying that 31 had died as of March 15. Newer OCHA reports don't quote any number anymore. The May 5 MoH report says 28. So the official number of starvation deaths since March 15 is -3.)