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2:23 PM · Jul 1, 2024 · 7.1M Views _________________________ French woman pleads for help: "I am 26 years old, blonde, with light eyes, and I have always lived in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, which is thought of as the poshest area in Lyon, and my daily life has become unbearable. I write this because, ten years ago, I could go out with my friends in the evening, at any hour, without being bothered, insulted, followed, or stabbed. I mention stabbing because, three years ago, my boyfriend, along with two of his friends, on their way home, were approached...

The antisemitism of the Palestinian cause is not a bug; it’s a feature of the new politics in America Last January, members of the radical anti-Israel campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) filmed a video marking the end of their suspension from Rutgers University. At first look, the video strikes a dissonant chord: The visual aesthetic is a throwback to the Palestinian fedayeen and hijackers reading a communique after an operation. Yet the inflections and cadences, despite a detectable but faint accent, were jarringly American Gen Z. Historically, the American Jewish establishment has portrayed SJP and its ilk...

Deputy DAs in Los Angeles raise concerns of office antisemitism under boss George Gascon A growing number of deputy district attorneys in Los Angeles says they have concerns about antisemitism in the office after months of silence on the issue from their boss, which culminated in clashes between anti-Israel agitators and counterprotesters outside a synagogue in a heavily Jewish neighborhood in the city. Violence erupted outside the Adas Torah synagogue on Pico Boulevard last week, prompting condemnations from a range of prominent Democrats, including President Biden, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. But according to a...

Gov't slammed; IDF says move helps Gaza operations continue in face of international pressure. Israel started work on Tuesday to connect a Gaza water facility to its electric grid, to provide water on a medium to longer-term basis to Palestinian civilians in Gaza at a rate of up to 20,000 liters per day. Immediately upon the development being leaked, several nationalistic opposition figures and some government figures started to attack the new policy. IDF sources said that the new policy is a critical aspect of maintaining Israel's legitimacy globally, in order to continue the war against Hamas. They said that...

Their goal is clear. Since October 7th, protests around the globe in support of the “Palestinian cause” have exploded in popularity and tenacity. Anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activists repeatedly, almost religiously claim that they’re not antisemitic but merely “pro-Palestinian”, while celebrating (and sometimes, at the same time denying) the atrocities committed by Palestinian terror groups.However, it’s almost impossible to find a “pro-Palestinian” rally that isn’t drenched in antisemitic rhetoric, anti-Jewish venom, or stereotypical tropes. They chant “from the river to the sea”, which means the complete annihilation of the Jewish state. They have called on Hamas and Hezbollah to inflict more...

Nurturing an ancient, visceral, ugly emotion. Antisemitism is a deep-seated hatred of Jews. Facts don’t stand a chance against this ancient, visceral emotion. The attack against Jews in front of a synagogue in Los Angeles has been well-documented. I always stand in amazement how much Jew-haters need to justify their actions instead of just saying that they hate Jews and want to kill them. A few days after the melee, I heard the most disingenuous explanation as to why the pro-Hamas crowd attacked Jews in the City of Angels. There was a seminar at the Adas Torah synagogue on how...

A call for emergency mobilization in Israel. Israel is now fighting a multi-front war, with Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria, Israeli Arabs opposed to the Jewish state, Muslim Brotherhood members and ISIS remnants in the Sinai, and the sinister state that supports, supplies, and directs Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis — the Islamic Republic of Iran. Israel is now, and for many years to come, will be fighting for its very existence, but, argues David Weinberg, the Israeli government still has not come to grips with the magnitude and...

Rep. André Carson (D., Ind.) will speak at the annual convention of an Islamic group linked to Hamas, along with one imam convicted in Israel of serving in terrorist groups and another who has denied the Holocaust, praised Adolf Hitler, and more recently said he doesn’t care about the October 7 attack. Carson, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, is slated to speak at the Islamic Society of North America’s convention in Dallas on a Sept. 1 panel with Mehdi Hasan, a journalist formerly with MSNBC and the Qatar-funded network Al Jazeera. Many of Carson’s fellow speakers at the...

When Fatima Payman crossed the Senate floor to vote against her government she knew it would come with consequences. The Australian Labor party has strict penalties for those who undermine its collective positions, and acts of defiance can lead to expulsion - a precedent with a 130-year history. The last time one of its politicians tested the waters while in power was before Ms Payman was born. But last Tuesday, the 29-year-old did just that - joining the Green party and independent senators to support a motion on Palestinian statehood. Officially the Australian government supports a two-state solution, but did...

Israel has lost effective sovereignty in the northern part of the country, thanks to constant Hezbollah projectile fire that has led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of Israelis, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday. The Times of Israel reported: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that Israel “has effectively lost sovereignty in the northern quadrant of its country because people don’t feel safe to go to their homes.” In an on-stage interview at the Brookings Institution, Blinken reiterates his belief that Israel does not want a war in Lebanon, but admits that “they may well...

A kilometer-long tunnel and a mosque full of firecrackers were destroyed in the Gaza Strip. Documentation. The only reserve division in the Gaza Strip has been fighting for the past few months in the area of ​​the central corridor of the Gaza Strip. A kilometer-long tunnel was destroyed: dozens of terrorists killed and more than 100 terrorist infrastructures destroyed | Photo: IDF spokesman. Terrorism under the auspices of religion: Division 99, the only reserve division in the Gaza Strip, has been fighting for the past few months in the area of ​​the central corridor of the Gaza Strip. During the...

Despite the significant damage Hamas has suffered, it is expected to recruit more terrorists to replenish its ranks. Israeli leadership is debating a crucial decision that will determine the war’s outcome.Critical questions include the advantages and disadvantages of an Israeli military administration in Gaza and its implications for the IDF, and the significance of the Gulf states’ proposal for the “day after” the war.In recent weeks, the “day after” discussion has resurfaced, pressing for an urgent decision. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s speech last month emphasized the necessity of this decision to prevent Hamas from regaining power, implying that Israel would...

Pro-Palestinian protesters have blocked Pride marches in several cities across the country, including Boston, Philadelphia and Denver. Rainbow flags typically go unrivaled at the nation’s LGBTQ Pride marches. But this year, another symbol has played an outsize role in the annual celebrations: the Palestinian flag. Waving red, white, green and black, hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists have disrupted some of the nation’s largest Pride parades this month in protest of the Israel-Hamas war and the tens of thousands of deaths and untold suffering it has caused since October. In Philadelphia, pro-Palestinian demonstrators temporarily blocked the city’s June 2 march, confronting participants...

No arrests made after anti-Israel protest held outside Highland Park, Illinois home of Congressman Brad Schneider in early hours of the morning, waking up residents... Video with link to X

Dozens of Israel supporters protested outside “traitor” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office in Manhattan on Friday, calling on him to resign for “backstabbing” Israel and allegedly staying silent as antisemitism rages across college campuses. The demonstration came days after the New York senator told reporters he has “faith” in President Biden’s decision to withhold weapons for Israel’s invasion of Rafah, a move the protesters strongly condemned. “Schumer, the doomer! It’s time to resign!” yelled the crowd of about 40 protesters outside his Midtown office.

More than 50 cars were involved in a street takeover in downtown Los Angeles early Saturday as some went up in flames, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Video shows a car completely engulfed by a fire, sitting in the middle of an intersection as a thick black cloud of smoke rises from the vehicle. Other cars can be seen as they try to drive around the inferno. LAPD said several vehicles were impounded after authorities responded to the area near East 18th Street and Main Street, where participants intentionally set two of the cars on fire. Firefighters received...

Italian authorities are investigating the horrifying killing of a 16-year-old Iraqi girl allegedly raped and choked to death by a fellow migrant as their boat sank 120 miles off the coast of southern Italy. The suspect, who is also from Iraq, supposedly attacked the teen in a rage after he saw his wife and daughter drown when the crowded migrant boat caught fire and capsized on June 17, the news agency AGI reported.

The momentous news of Julian Assange’s release has sent shockwaves throughout the political and media landscape. It is a remarkable and long-overdue conclusion to a dark journey that began with Assange’s being holed up in an Ecuadorean Embassy for nearly ten years (2010–2019) to avoid trumped-up and politically motivated “rape” charges in Sweden. In the middle of the 2016 election, Assange’s organization, Wikileaks, published a trove of emails that proved highly embarrassing to the Democrat establishment and is generally acknowledged to have played a not-insignificant role in the outcome of the 2016 election. In the United States, no one went...

The U.K. has spent millions on a plan to send migrants to live in Africa. It’s now tied up in logistical, political and legal issues.. Two years ago, the British government decided to spend big to outsource a migration problem. To deter migrants seeking asylum from illegally entering the country, it announced a radical plan: Those smuggled on makeshift dinghies to British shores would be sent to Rwanda, a small country in central Africa, where they would remain. The U.K. government handed Rwanda ... $150 million down payment and told it to get ready to host thousands of potential refugees....

How Israelis are preparing A war with Hezbollah now looms, but perhaps, since both sides know that they will suffer terrible damage, it will continue to be avoided. Hezbollah has 130,000 rockets and missiles, some of which, through sheer numbers, managed to avoid interception by Israel’s three-layered anti-missile defense, consisting of Arrow-2 and Arrow-3, David’s Sling, and Iron Dome. Even now, the IDF must be calculating how many, in that vast array of rockets and missiles, can be destroyed on the ground, before they are launched, by Israeli airstrikes and missiles. And the IDF has to estimate, too, how many...