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A brief scuffle broke out at London's Royal Opera House after a performer unfurled a Palestinian flag during a show. The incident took place during a performance of Il Trovatore on Saturday. During the final night of the 11-night run of the show, a performer held up the flag on stage. In video footage, shared online, someone backstage could be seen attempting to take it off the performer. The performer grabs it back following a brief scuffle. A spokesperson for the Royal Ballet and Opera said: "The display of the flag was an unauthorised action by the artist. "It was...

United States tax dollars may have been used to fund protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reform plan during the Biden-Harris administration, an investigation published by the US House of Representatives on Thursday revealed. In March, The Jerusalem Post reported that six US and Israeli NGOs were being investigated by the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees to ascertain whether funding they allegedly received from the Biden administration was utilized for the judicial reform protests in 2023. The Committee’s oversight also revealed that the Biden-Harris Administration provided grant funds to groups that “contributed directly and indirectly to the judicial...

Former Pink Floyd songwriter Roger Waters could face prosecution after declaring his support for Palestine Action, a terrorist organization that has been banned by Parliament in the U.K. Waters posted a video to X on Saturday, in which the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame inductee praised Palestine Action as a "great organization," while also giving kudos to Bob Vylan, who led the Glastonbury Festival crowd in a chant, shouting, "Death, death to the IDF." Waters said in his video that he was in his studio and was working on a piece of brown cardboard with a Sharpie. He then...

From the Iranian media websites: The Jordanian Embassy in Tehran was attacked with explosives, at midnight Tehran time, last night. The Embassy spokesman has confirmed this report. Several Jordanian citizens were inside the embassy during the attack; no one however sustained any injuries. The spokesman also said that he was not certain about the identity of those responsible for the attacks. It is important to mention that according to Rooz web site, elements of the regime who call themselves the Basiji Students, have via SMS called for the invasion of the Egyptian interest section in Tehran (Egypt has not had...

On Wednesday, January 18, I received an e-mail from someone identifying himself as “Ahmed.” He wrote to me that he was a “Muslim activist” and that he wanted me to come on his radio show to discuss my work, or, in his words, “to give [my] side of the story.” In doing a simple web search on his e-mail address, it turned out that this individual was none other than the Director of Communications for the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Ahmed Rehab. While I didn’t know his motives in contacting me, I had recalled when...

...Gaza hostilities will conclude within two weeks... ...Multiple nations globally will accept numerous Gaza inhabitants seeking emigration... ...Israel will declare its willingness for future Palestinian conflict resolution under the "two states" concept... ...The United States will acknowledge limited Israeli sovereignty implementation in Judea and Samaria... EXCERPTED

Former MoveOn.Org head Karine Jean-Pierre praised lawmakers for boycotting pro-Israel confab Incoming president Joe Biden is reportedly close to selecting a vocal Israel critic to serve as his White House press secretary. Karine Jean-Pierre, a longtime campaign adviser and incoming vice president Kamala Harris's chief of staff, is currently the "top candidate" for the job, according to NBC News. Jean-Pierre was senior adviser and national spokeswoman for MoveOn.org, a far-left anti-Israel group that defends boycotts of the Jewish state, from April 2016 until August 2020, when she was hired as chief of staff for Harris. Jean-Pierre has been a vocal...

Michael Madigan, connected to Obama, Bill Ayers and Andrew Weissmann, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison this past week for corruption. Who would have predicted this? Michael Madigan ran the state of Illinois like a mobster for more than three decades. He used his power to crush anyone and any entity that dared oppose him on anything. He is the definition of a pure politician. He is now going to prison. Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until 2021, with the exception of two years. Along the way,...

A failed rapper and Democratic socialist has emerged as the frontrunner in New York City's mayoral race. Zohran Mamdani, 33, is going head to head with former New York City Governor Andrew Cuomo in trying to secure the Democratic primary nomination. According to Polymarket, Mamdani pulled ahead to become the favorite on Monday, just one day ahead of the primary vote. The poll gives him a 61 percent chance of winning. It is a marked shift from late May, when Cuomo still had a 91 percent chance of winning, according to the cryptocurrency betting market. Mamdani is currently a three-term...

Wahabi Watch - Florida Trail Of Terror By Beila Rabinowitz & William A. Mayer From dirty bomb plotter Jose Padilla - employed at a Ft. Lauderdale Taco Bell - to Padilla’s alleged partner - Adnan El Shukrijumah [apparently fingered by recently captured senior al-Qaeda planner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed] - who was last sighted at a Subway sandwich shop in Tampa 2001, the trail of terror continues in Florida. Fourteen of the nineteen September 11 hijackers either came from or through Florida – The 3 main ringleaders - the "pilots” - Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi & Ziad Jarrah and 11...

THE American Old Testament scholar Professor Walter Brueggemann has died, aged 92. A statement on his website said that he “passed away peacefully” on Thursday. He is survived by his wife, Tia, his sons, James and John, and their families. Professor Brueggemann wrote more than 100 books, which include The Prophetic Imagination (1978), Message of the Psalms (1985), and Theology of the Old Testament (1997). His more recent books include A Wilderness Zone (Books, 8 April 2022), Interrupting Silence (Books, 22 June 2018), and God, Neighbour, Empire (Books, 15 September 2017). Born in Tilden, Nebraska, in 1933, Professor Brueggemann, who...

"We're gonna run right over them" "Fight like hell" "Are you ready to fight?" They’re gonna plan riots all across the country. Bonus: A California history teacher has a plan .... https://x.com/SKDoubleDub33/status/1932091423030985056 "Listen to the language he uses. He refers to the people being deported as indigenous to this land and calls it “ancestral land”. This is a revolution. His organization, Union del Barrio, is a Marxist Revolutionary group that also advocates for Palestine." Courtesy of SKDoubleDub

Black bloc Antifa militants and other far-left extremists surrounded an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Los Angeles on Friday night, where they proceeded to violently riot and clash with federal agents. ICE carried out operations targeting at least seven businesses in Los Angeles on Friday, resulting in at least 45 arrests. The locations included two Home Depot stores, a store in the fashion district and a doughnut shop, according to Angelica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), who held an afternoon press conference to denounce the actions. In what has become a...

When Noor Abdalla came home from the hospital last month, she put the car seat carrying her newborn on the kitchen floor and burst into tears. “I walked into the house by myself with this beautiful baby, and I think it just kind of hit me,” she says, sitting on a gray sectional in her Morningside Heights apartment. “I have to do this alone.” Her voice cracks, and she reaches for a Kleenex to dab at her eyes. “I think I’m doing so well, until people start to ask me questions.” It’s late May, and her baby, Deen, is napping...

General Charles de Gaulle: "I remember Palestine in 1941. Those Jewish youngsters were wonderful. They fought on our side, while the Arabs—we must admit—were on the other side." Cohen, Samy. De Gaulle, les gaullistes et Israël. France: A. Moreau, 1974. p.30. A Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber venu s'entretenir avec lui en Juillet 1968, le général de Gaulle dit : « (...) je me rap-pelle la Palestine en 1941, et ces jeunes Juifs étaient merveilleux, ils se battaient à nos côtés alors que les Arabes — il faut bien le dire — étaient de l'autre bord. » — Source : Extrait inédit du...

USA Pirro and LE update on charges related to the deadly shooting of Israeli Embassy staff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HOfXmRjjJ0

Two young Israeli diplomats, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were shot and killed outside a Jewish event in Washington, D.C., by a gunman shouting pro-Palestinian slogans. The attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism. Key Details: The shooting occurred outside the Capital Jewish Museum around 9 p.m. following a reception hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The suspect allegedly shouted “Free, free Palestine” before opening fire. Lischinsky had just purchased an engagement ring and planned to propose to Milgrim next week in Jerusalem. Diving Deeper: A senseless act of violence rocked the Israeli diplomatic community in Washington, D.C.,...

Students from universities including Yale, Stanford and UCLA have been refusing to eat in solidarity with Palestinians at risk of starvation in GazaWhen I speak to Iman Deriche, she hasn’t eaten in five days. “There are some moments of fatigue,” she says. “But I’m doing well.” The 21-year-old Stanford University student is one of 24 students and three faculty members who are taking part in a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. They aren’t alone: students and faculty at universities across the US are going on hunger strike with activist organisation Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), from...

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is being approached incorrectly. This is because Palestinians are not Arab. They are culturally arabized Jews/Israelites. I am not the first person to hold this position. Both the first President of the state of Israel Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and the Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, believed that the Palestinians were descended from Jews. David Ben-Gurion wrote several books and articles on the subject and even created a task force with Moshe Dayan to “Judaize” the Bedouins. As war and conflict continued this idea was eventually abandoned. At the time there was no way to really know. However, genetics...

Paint splattered on floors. Spray-painted messages and screeds covering walls. Furniture moved and overturned. Security cameras disabled. Fire extinguishers missing and entrances blocked by stacks of chairs. “We’ve got our work cut out for us,” a facilities manager at Portland State University said Thursday as he examined the destruction left behind after a three-day occupation by pro-Palestinian protesters in Millar Library.