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NEW YORK (AP) — Demonstrators from a Jewish group filled the lobby of Trump Tower on Thursday to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University. The Jewish Voice for Peace protesters, who carried banners and wore red shirts reading “Jews say stop arming Israel,” chanted “Bring Mahmoud home now!” After warning the protesters to leave the Fifth Avenue building or face arrest, police put at least 65 of them in zip ties and loaded them into a police van and city bus about an hour into the demonstration....

(Two NSW Health nurses identified after being stood down over viral antisemitic video in which they suggested 'killing' Israeli patients)Two Sydney nurses who were stood down after appearing in a viral antisemitic video have been identified.Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh were stood down from their jobs as nurses at Bankstown Hospital on Wednesday after the video emerged of the pair speaking about refusing to treat, and suggesting killing, Israeli patients.The two-minute video showed Nadir and Abu Lebdeh in their NSW Health scrubs as they appear to be filming the clip during a night shift at the hospital.NSW Health...

one of the biggest schemes we’ve tracked is the Deep State’s shadow operations, orchestrated by one of the most influential puppeteers in the Swamp: Norm Eisen. If there’s a major effort to take down President Trump, Eisen is almost always lurking in the background, pulling the strings. Time and time again, he’s played a central role in the left’s biggest hoaxes and political warfare, and yet, most people have no idea who he really is—or just how deep his influence runs. .. The good news is that President Trump just yanked ol’ Norm’s security clearance—a huge win for decency and...

President Trump fired Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub on Thursday in a move the Democratic official claims is illegal. Weintraub, who has served as an FEC commissioner since 2002, shared the termination letter she received from the president on X and signaled that she won’t be leaving her post quietly. “Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of [FEC],” Weintraub wrote on the social media platform. “There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn’t it.” “I’ve been lucky to serve the American people & stir up some good trouble along the...

As previously reported, The Washington Post’s so-called conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin quit the newspaper and joined forces with Deep State hack Norm Eisen to start a media venture called “The Contrarian.” Last month the insufferable duo painfully described how they will cover everything from law, to culture to cooking in their new venture. “We do politics, we’re going to do law. But we know that any successful pro-democracy movement also has to be very vocal about culture. We’ll have a humor column, we’ll even have a cooking column, but we’re going to sprinkle in a little bit of pro-democracy flavor!”...

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the nation's oldest pro-Israel organization, spoke out Wednesday against a coalition of left-wing Jewish groups that protested against President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement.On Monday, a coalition of 88 left-wing Jewish organizations released an open letter to President Trump in which they objected to his ongoing pursuit of criminal illegal aliens through Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...The Zionist Organization of America strongly criticizes the mostly far-left wing Jewish groups who sent a letter to President Trump opposing deporting unvetted criminal aliens even though this morally necessary action protects Americans and American Jews from potential acts...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is blocking those who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol from working in state jobs, ignoring President Donald Trump's attempt to offer them a clean slate last week in a sweeping set of pardons and commutations. Late Thursday, Pritzker directed the state’s Department of Central Management Services, the state’s primary hiring authority, to restrict hiring of those...

President Donald J. Trump may reject the credentials of the far-left British government’s incoming ambassador to the U.S. Labour Party grandee, Lord Peter Mandelson, who previously branded the American President a “bully,” a “danger to the world,” and “little short of a white nationalist and a racist.” Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s choice of the scandal-ridden “Prince of Darkness” for the role generally assigned to career diplomats is inexplicable to many. Mandelson had to resign in disgrace from Tony Blair’s Cabinet on two occasions, only to be given a de facto promotion to the European Commission, where he was also...

Should Theology, Religious Studies and Comparative Religion Students Take the Documentary Hypothesis (JEDP System) Seriously? Are the 5 Books of Moses (The Torah), a hotch-potch of largely unconnected writings by later writers? The Intellectual Arrogance of Julius Wellhausen. I recently wrote a letter. Upon reviewing my letter before posting it, I noticed that my letter was structured in 5 clear sections. In these sections I covered five different topics so my vocabulary naturally changed as I moved on to differing topics; in other words, my letter varied stylistically as I moved on to a different subject. I was immediately reminded...

Jews seem to generate a lot of negative emotions among non-Jews. While it's become particularly intense since Israel began retaliating against Hamas, it's been going on for a long time.The Romans fought three wars against the Jews, who had been a civilization for over a millennium before the time the Romans touched the sands of the Middle East. The first of those wars, the First Jewish – Roman War 66-73 AD, which ended with the deaths of defenders of Masada resulted in the destruction of the Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple, the death of 50,000 Jews and absolute Roman control...

Lefty Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was dragged on X for “jewsplaining” to the Anti-Defamation League after the group defended Elon Musk’s “awkward gesture” that progressives insisted was a Nazi salute. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused the antisemitism watchdog group of “defending a Heil Hitler salute” before arguing that the ADL “works for” President Trump and his allies. “Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response to the ADL on X. “People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist with Bay Area ties has been arrested in Sacramento County on suspicion of child pornography. Darrin Bell, 49, a famed cartoonist who got his start at UC Berkeley, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Sacramento County jail on possession of child porn, according to Internet Crimes Against Children detectives who were tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. In a search of Bell's home, investigators found 134 videos of child pornography linked to an account owned and controlled by Bell as well as computer generated/artificial intelligence child pornography, authorities said. Bell...

During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” on Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended President Joe Biden waiting to take executive action on the border in light of criticism from Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director of ICE P.J. Lechleitner by stating that if Biden had acted earlier, “it would be litigated earlier and the outcome is still uncertain.” Co-host Amna Nawaz asked, “President Biden also didn’t take new executive action until June of last year, and that action has now resulted in, what? A 60% drop in encounters at the U.S. southern border. I’m...

Numerous women have accused the writer of rape, sexual assault and sexual coercionWriter Neil Gaiman has responded to serious allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation made against him this week, admitting that he recognized some events but claiming that he has never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity. In a more than 10,000 word exposé published Monday by Vulture, New York Magazine's culture section, numerous women came forward to accuse Gaiman of sexual assault, describing encounters that ranged from sexual coercion to violent instances of rape. The alleged victims include former fans, a former live-in babysitter for Gaiman's son, and a...

resurfaced video shows Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) unveiling a plan for Congress to implement “civil war conditions” and disqualify former President Donald Trump if he wins the November presidential election. According to Legal Insurrection, Raskin’s comments were given in February during an appearance at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling that individual states could not prohibit Trump from appearing on the ballot by using the 14th Amendment. “The court is not going to save us,” Raskin said. “And so that means the only thing that really works is people in motion amending...

Yet another senior CNN staffer is fleeing the station following dismal election ratings - this one a 17-year veteran. The network on Wednesday confirmed word of the 72-year-old Gloria Borger's departure - bidding goodbye to the longtime political analyst in the process. As of writing, there's been no word on the journalist's future plans yet, as she's already served stints at CBS News and CNBC. Prior to that, the Westchester native worked as a contributing editor and columnist for U.S. News & World Report magazine. She also worked as a reporter for Newsweek. Her exit comes days after CNN anchor...

As someone who has dedicated her career to helping others, I thought I was doing good work with like-minded people who wanted to leverage their expertise to create a more inclusive, equitable and positive community. In fact, my previous professional role — working as a mental health clinician at a Silicon Valley chapter of a national nonprofit dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women — was supposed to accomplish just that. Then Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and I quickly realized that Jews were excluded from my nonprofit’s mission. For a few days, my chapter said nothing about...

A University of Pennsylvania Professor is being slammed for sharing social media posts celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the school's connection to the crime. Alumni Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested on Monday and charged with murder for the December 4 slaying. Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies Julia Alekseyeva, who described herself as a 'socialist and ardent antifascist' on her website, made several posts embracing Mangione. In a since-deleted TikTok, Alekseyeva is smiling as the Les Miserables song 'Do You Hear the People Sing?' played. 'Have never been prouder to be a professor...

University of Michigan Regent Jordan Acker said his home was vandalized and his vehicle spray-painted with pro-Palestinian graffiti overnight Monday. In an Instagram post on Monday, Acker, who is Jewish, shared photos of a smashed front window of his Oakland County home and his wife's vehicle, which was parked in their driveway," spray-painted with the words "Divest" and "Free Palestine." Acker said it's the third time his family has been targeted. jordan-acker-vehicle-vandalism.jpg University of Michigan/Jordan Acker "This is the third time that I — and now my family — have been the target of these Klan-like tactics," Acker said in...

But it turns out the name atop that resumé sadly can still, in the 21st century, be a liability for Jews. That’s the finding of a new landmark study from the Anti-Defamation League on discrimination in the job market against Jewish and Israeli Americans. For this study, ADL asked a leading labor economist to conduct a field experiment submitting applications in response to administrative-assistant job postings using resumés that were identical except for specific characteristics, such as the applicant’s name. The researcher sent out 3,000 applications this year for jobs in 23 cities. By using names that suggested applicants were...