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Paul Kessler, a 65-year-old Jewish man, has died in Los Angeles after being assaulted by a pro-Palestinian Arab protester with a megaphone during demonstrations in the northern part of the city, Ynet reported on Monday. According to the report, Los Angeles law enforcement confirmed on Monday that the Jewish man died as a result of a head injury after the pro-Palestinian Arab protester attacked him with a megaphone. Witnesses at the scene said a verbal altercation broke out between Kessler and a young protester, when the protester struck the older man in the head with a megaphone he was holding....

Anthony Albanese is wrapping up his whirlwind three-day trip in China, aimed at stabilising ties between the two countries. On Tuesday, he was given a ceremonial welcome at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, after a "very positive" meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday night. The elaborate ceremony in the cavernous Great Hall of the People featured an enormous military guard of at least 100 personnel from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) while the band played the Australian anthem. He then held bilateral talks with his official host, Premier Li Qiang, who is considered China's second in charge....

A top marketing specialist at Nike responded to Iran-backed terror group Hamas's Oct. 7 slaughtering of innocent Israeli women and children by accusing the Jewish state—not Hamas—of "massacring civilians." James Rehwald, who has worked as a "digital media marketing specialist" at Nike since 2021, on Oct. 16 posted a video to his Patreon account titled, "Why Israel Deliberately Targets Civilians." That video, Rehwald wrote in his caption, exposes the "brutal military and settler colonial occupation that Israel has imposed on its native Palestinians for the past 75 years." Rehwald went on to downplay the atrocities Hamas terrorists committed against Israelis...

A Fox News reporter barely escaped death on national television after a Hamas rocket blew up just 100 feet from him and his crew. VIDEO AT LINK.................. (Video Credit: Fox News) Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst found himself in harm’s way while reporting from Sderot, Israel on Friday. He recounted that a rocket launched by Hamas militants landed “very close to where reporters have been covering the situation along the border.” Later, he took to X and shared a clip of the moment the rocket hit next to them. Yingst and his crew dove for cover before he showed the...

Just so we're keeping track, over the weekend there were many more hate-filled antisemitic protests held around the world and in our nation's capital, Republican candidates for President all spoke at an event in Florida, and the current President saw the release of disastrous new poll numbers regarding his job approval and chances at re-election. So, naturally, USA Today went with this as their front page for Monday morning: In Monday's paper: - When Libs of TikTok posts, threats increasingly follow - 3 justices to watch in blockbuster guns case - Millions rely on untested wells pic.twitter.com/F1OufM3V6Q — USA TODAY...

The key leaders in Iran’s efforts are President Ibrahim Raisi and chief diplomat Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Iran is trying to leverage its foreign policy and diplomatic connections to isolate Israel in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack. Hamas and other terrorists massacred 1,400 people. In the month that followed, Iran encouraged its proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen to attack Israel and also to attack US forces. Now, after dozens of attacks in Iraq and Syria on US forces, and numerous missile attacks from Yemen and Lebanon by the Houthis and Hezbollah against Israel, Iran is shifting gears....

I’ve never been on Team Musk. The new free Twitter is a hype machine that’s mostly smoke and mirrors. It favors certain famous users who talk about how free they feel while the rules haven’t actually changed for the vast majority. And speaking of… I’ve now earned yet another badge of censored honor. It’s not my first rodeo and I have not deleted this entirely accurate description of Islamic history. “Islam is built on the mass murder of innocent people simply because they were non-Muslims, for over a thousand years your prophet massacred innocent people in order to rape their...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 11Peter Explains His Actions 11 The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.” 4 Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four...

Beijing is issuing guidelines on the development of humanoid robots with the lofty goal of mass producing the technology by 2025 and having a reliable supply chain by 2027. Humanoid robots are touted to become the next disruptive thing after computers, smartphones and new energy vehicles as they integrate artificial intelligence, high-end manufacturing and new materials, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), which said as much last Thursday. The ministry then outlined major goals within its "Guiding Opinions on the Innovation and Development of Humanoid Robots." The first is to have technological breakthroughs that ensure the...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection logged a record 269,735 migrants encountered in September. That figure came on the heels of a record-breaking fiscal year, in which CBP reported nearly 2.5 million migrant encounters. The numbers could have been much higher if not for the introduction of an app, CBP One, allowing unauthorized migrants to schedule their arrivals before claiming asylum, and new parole programs. (Parole, in the immigration context, refers to an exception in the law that lets some noncitizens who would otherwise be ineligible for such protections work and live in the United States without fear of deportation). Today,...

In Zaluzhny’s World War I stalemate analogy Ukraine would play Germany’s old role, losing for lack of supplies Volodymir Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, is at war – with his generals. He has admonished the head of the Ukrainian armed services, Valery Zaluzhny, who last week told The Economist that “just like in the First World War, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate. There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.” Even The New York Times, a US administration mouthpiece on Ukraine, has written about the clash between Zelensky and his generals. Zelensky...

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On and after October 7 the world has been treated to images of Hamas terrorists engaging in the most horrific acts against Israeli civilians, including even elderly people and babies. Surely all civilized people would react to these crimes with revulsion and outrage? To the contrary, the last several weeks have seen massive pro-Hamas demonstrations around the world, including on campuses of elite universities and in major cities like London, Paris, Washington, D.C., and New York. Rationales that I have seen to justify Hamas’s conduct have included that Israel is supposedly an “apartheid state,” that Israel engages in “genocide,” and...

No issue threatens to break President Biden's fragile Democratic coalition like Israel's response to the Hamas terrorist attack. Why it matters: Infighting is spreading, slowly but meaningfully, at every layer of the Democratic Party over Biden's full-throated support of Israel. It runs much deeper than college campus protests or caustic comments from elected officials. Step back and survey the split: Many liberal Jews are furious that so many progressive Democrats aren't more outraged by the slaughter of family and friends back in Israel. Some are threatening to leave the party. Pro-Palestinian Democrats are outraged at the rising death tolls in...

An Israeli TV show’s satirical take on support for Palestinians among US college students was viewed over 11 million times on social media by Monday evening, just 24 hours after it first aired. Keshet TV’s long-running satirical show “Eretz Nehederet” (“A Wonderful Country”) broadcast the skit on Sunday, depicting a pair of students giving mindless support to the Hamas terror group, which on October 7 carried out a devastating assault on Israel that killed 1,400 people, the vast majority of them civilians. Over 240 men, women, and children were abducted and taken captive in Gaza. Israel has vowed to destroy...

The words "cynical" and "selfish" come to mind. As does the word "hypocritical." In a move typical of big city politicians who view themselves as more important than the plebeians they claim to serve, Columbus City Council members have gifted themselves armed police officers for personal protection. These officers have not been added to the Columbus police force, but transferred from their job protecting ordinary citizens to their new job protecting individual council members. From the Columbus Dispatch: Columbus taxpayers will pay $315,314 per year to have three full-time city police officers assigned to a security detail to protect...

The developer set to convert the area surrounding Google’s San Francisco headquarters into a 15,000-house residential campus complete with office space and hotels has backed out of the project, citing “current market conditions.” Google, however, has confirmed to The Post that it will proceed with the project — which shouldn’t be delayed despite the company’s tie-up with the developer, Lendlease — and said it’s looking to broaden its relationships with other developers. Lendlease issued a press release on Friday saying it decided won’t move forward with the tech behemoth’s so-called “San Francisco Bay Project” after “a determination by both organizations...

A recent post on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows Israeli officials handing out what appear to be M-4 or similar versions of the American M-16 type rifle to non-uniformed Israelis. Israel suffered thousands of casualties in the October 7 raid/invasion and massacres conducted by Hamas. The raid showed how vulnerable a disarmed population is against lightly armed and armored adversaries. The Israeli government had long practiced a staple of socialist regimes: disarm the population to enforce a doctrine of a monopoly of force by the government. Disarming the population renders them vulnerable to the types of raids conducted by...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A woman who allegedly drove her car into a building in Indianapolis after watching coverage of the Israel-Hamas war told officers she believed the building was an “Israel school,” according to police and court records. One adult as well as four children — ages 7 months, 1, 2 and 3 years — were inside the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge at the time of late Friday’s crash, but no one was injured, police said. The 34-year-old woman was arrested at the scene and was being held Monday at the Marion County Jail on a preliminary...

As of September, we estimate about 1.98 million excess retirees.' But with unemployment below 4 percent for the longest time in 50 years, employers are feeling the pressure from a tight labor market and eyeing opportunities to tempt seniors back into the workforce. More than 2,500 businesses, including Bank of America, Microsoft and H&R Block have signed the AARP pledge to build an age-inclusive workforce with the number of new signatures more than doubling over the last year. Despite increasing eagerness from employers, the ship may have sailed for those who retire with just 3 percent getting a job in...