Free Republic

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah said Monday that she has no regrets about retweeting a post supporting Hamas's October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel and blamed racism for the backlash to her pro-Hamas sympathies."I make no apologies for standing on the side of Palestinian liberation, at all," Attiah said after a woman confronted her over the pro-Hamas post at a book signing, according to footage recorded by Algemeiner's Corey Walker.The post, which Attiah retweeted soon after it was posted on the day of Hamas's massacre, read, "What did y'all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers."Attiah said at the...

A group of Jewish and Israeli psychology students at GW filed the civil rights complaint in 2023, saying the school failed to protect them after they were "singled out for repeated and persistent harassment" by anti-Israel professors and classmates in the program and later subjected to retaliation when they complained.In the letter, the civil rights office said it had "concern that the students may have been placed on remediation plans in retaliation for asserting their rights" under the Civil Rights Act's Title VI anti-discrimination clause. It added that the decisions to place those students into a remediation program "appear to...

When Israeli forces examined Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's body after killing him in a surprise ground operation on Thursday, they discovered several curious items, including grenades, an assault rifle, nearly $11,000 in cash, and a passport belonging to an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.Those items, experts told the Washington Free Beacon, suggest Sinwar may have been attempting to flee the embattled Gaza Strip when Israeli forces stumbled upon him inside a house in the territory's Rafah neighborhood, Hamas's stronghold along the border with Egypt...The presence of an UNRWA passport in Sinwar's belongings is another blow to...

...The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Sunday unanimously approved Illouz's bill, which would bar Israeli officials from having "any contact" with UNRWA or anyone acting on its behalf. All the committee members also voted to advance a related bill that would revoke UNRWA's authorization to conduct "any activity, either directly or indirectly," on Israeli territory.Lawmakers from both coalition and opposition parties cosponsored the bills, combining a slate of previous proposals...Last week, Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz barred Guterres from the country, citing the U.N. chief's failure to "unequivocally condemn" Iran's missile attack on Israel a day earlier. Guterres...

Israeli war cabinet promises 'harsh response' to Iranian ballistic missile barrage.. Israel's war cabinet met Wednesday to plot its "harsh response" to Iran's recent ballistic missile barrage, all but solidifying an impending—and significant—retaliatory strike on Tehran. The Jewish state, under pressure from the Biden-Harris administration, refrained from executing such a strike in the wake of Iran's April attack. This time, it will not be deterred, a U.S. official briefed on the matter told the Washington Free Beacon. "We see indications that Israel will likely not be deterred from an appropriate response this time around," the official said. "The Biden-Harris administration...

Every vote counts. That's especially true for Montana Democrat Jon Tester, who faces the toughest Senate reelection race in the country this November—which may help explain why he privately met with a professional pole dancer earlier this month. Tester’s public schedule reveals a private meeting with Tiffany Rose and Jamie Goguen on Sept. 19, between two Senate floor sessions. Rose is a Montana resident and self-described "pole dance instructor" with tens of thousands of followers on social media. A spokeswoman for Tester did not respond to a request for comment. Such a meeting is peculiar for Tester, who represents a...

The State Department grossly mishandled its suspension of scandal-plagued Iran envoy Robert Malley, allowing him to continue accessing classified information and sensitive data after he was disciplined, according to an inspector general report reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The department's assistant inspector general gathered congressional staffers Wednesday afternoon for a closed-door briefing on the agency’s missteps after Malley had his security clearance pulled in 2023 for mishandling classified information. The briefing revealed that Malley was permitted to engage in classified activities even after his clearance was pulled, representing a breach of federal protocol, according to attendees. Malley was also...

Days after a group of young men attacked a University of Michigan student after overhearing him say he was Jewish, most of the state's top elected officials have yet to utter a word on the brazen anti-Semitic act.Just two of Michigan's congressional representatives—Reps. Haley Stevens (D.) and Tim Walberg (R.)—had addressed the Sunday incident, which occurred just a block from the university's Jewish Resource Center, by Tuesday morning. Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.), Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D.), and Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D.), Elissa Slotkin (D.), Hillary Scholten (D.), Bill Huizenga (R.), and Debbie Dingell (D.) have not addressed it and...

An anti-Israel group that scorned Joe Biden's reelection bid over the president's response to the Jewish state's war on Hamas is now embracing Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she is more likely to push for a permanent ceasefire that would embolden Hamas.The Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund endorsed Harris on Thursday, according to NBC News, making it the first Muslim group to back Harris that previously declared itself "uncommitted" toward Biden...The Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund's endorsement comes as anti-Israel radicals express hope that Harris will adopt more hardline policies toward the Jewish state. Activists who resigned their government posts...

A Washington Free Beacon report found that the Post's foreign desk employs at least six people who previously wrote for Al Jazeera, the Doha-based news outlet bankrolled in part by Qatar's government and described by an Israeli court as an "intelligence and propaganda arm" for Hamas. The Qatar-backed outlet has used work by Heidi Levine and Niha Masih, two co-authors of the Post's July 29 article, including Masih's social media posts and Levine's photos, in multiple of its articles.

Today, 'Washington Free Beacon' Editor, Peter J. Hasson, took readers for a walk down memory lane in terms of Joe Biden coverage. Interestingly, he found reports in corporate media all the way back to 2019 detailing Biden's worsening mental condition. It all came to a screeching halt, however, when Biden became the official Democratic nominee. The key to understanding the narrative collapse we all witnessed in real time over the last 9 days: before Biden had the Dem nomination locked down in 2019, the media were far more willing to discuss his apparent fragility. But only until he locked down...

Remember when President Joe Biden tried to quote the Declaration of Independence? "We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women created by -go- you know - you know the thing." That was his stutter. All the times he's lied about his son being killed in Iraq? That's his stutter too. Getting arrested trying to visit Nelson Mandela? His stutter. Those times when he just freezes up like his brain is rebooting? That is his stutter. We hear a lot about Biden's lifelong stutter, even though it's noticeably absent from footage of him as a senator and as...

BREAKING: @FreeBeacon has obtained audio of a whistleblower privately warning Fani Willis in 2021 that her top aide was trying to misuse federal funds. Willis did not dispute the allegations. 56 days later, Willis fired the whistleblower and perp walked her out of the office.

A United Nations official said in an interview last week that Palestinians who kill Israeli soldiers are not guilty of crimes because such killings are in line with their "right to resist," in the latest controversial comments by the anti-Israel official."If the Palestinians target civilian objects, they commit war crimes," said Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, in an interview on the podcast Makdisi Street. "If they target military objects, they do not commit war crimes—they are in line with acts of resistance."Albanese went on to criticize "Western media" outlets that have condemned "every Palestinian action," including...

George Washington University on Tuesday suspended a student group that projected pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic images onto the school's library. Just one day later, the group's leader defied the suspension, spearheading a campus protest that targeted the school president's home.Lance Lokas, a junior at the university who as of February served as president of its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, wielded a megaphone as he led scores of anti-Israel protesters on a Wednesday afternoon march through campus, the Washington Free Beacon witnessed while on the scene. Protest attendees—including students who have been photographed at past Students for Justice in Palestine...

Virginia Democratic House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson is mired in a scandal of her own making. If she survives it, she deserves to be the “face” (broadly understood) of the Democratic Party.Like us, the Washington Free Beacon is giving the Gibson scandal the kind of attention it would get if she were a Republican. Joe Simonson’s Free Beacon story is headlined “Cocksure Virginia Democrat Slams Media for Reporting Her Public Pornographic Performances.”When the Free Beacon tweeted out Simonson’s story yesterday, Twitter locked the Free Beacon’s account for 12 hours. Beloved Free Beacon editor Eliana Johnson documented the experience with...

===================================================================== MSNBC guest: "We got to watch out because the Republicans have become the purveyors of misinformation ... the president acknowledged that it’s time to actually start doing things and maybe taking some names and putting people in jail." pic.twitter.com/1ZaCdBADn5 — Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) May 17, 2022 (Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Floating in the Fox News jetsam along with Chris Wallace, last seen scurrying for a dark corner in the rubble of CNN programming, former Fox News reporter Carl Cameron was busy this week trashing his old network and calling for Republicans to be thrown in jail for spreading...

Houthi rebels have stormed the American embassy in Yemen and taken hostages, the Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday. State Department officials told the Free Beacon that “the majority of the detained have been released, but the Houthis continue to detain additional Yemeni employees of the embassy.” Houthi fighters reportedly took the compound on Wednesday, demanding “large quantities of equipment and materials,” per the Middle East Media Research Institute. Yemen has been embroiled in a brutal civil war between the Houthi rebels — who are backed, financed, and armed by the Iranian government —and the standing Yemeni government, which has the...

Obama's super-spreader birthday bash may have ruined the fall party scene in our nation's capital

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Friday came to the defense of an anti-Israel activist voted off the Women's March board earlier in the week, telling her, "we have the truth on our side." Tlaib took to Twitter to defend Zahra Billoo, the executive director of the San Francisco Bay area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Billoo, who was voted off the board after serving for two days, sent out a 25-tweet thread about the vote, where she blamed an "Islamophobic smear campaign" and "right-wingers" for the scrutiny she and her colleagues received. "#FreePalestine always sis! They won't...