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A Palestinian activist who led the disruptive anti-Israel protests at both Columbia University and Barnard College has been arrested by ICE agents at his campus apartment, according to his lawyer. Mahmoud Khalil, a former graduate student who got his undergraduate degree in Beirut and completed his studies at Ivy League Columbia in December, also reportedly faces having his visa revoked and his green card canceled following President Trump’s crackdown on unrest at colleges. He was inside his university-owned apartment a few blocks from campus Saturday night when ICE agents entered the residence and took him into custody, attorney Amy Greer...

Israel's Oct. 26 retaliatory strike on Iran "destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility," according to an Axios report. The news outlet spoke to various U.S. and Israeli officials about the strikes, including one on Iran's Parchin Military Complex, a nuclear research facility that was "previously reported to be inactive." "One former Israeli official briefed on the strike said it destroyed sophisticated equipment used to design the plastic explosives that surround uranium in a nuclear device and are needed to detonate it." Iran claims to have brought its military nuclear program to a halt in 2003, and yet...

Especially since the 1970, the UN was the major arena for anti Israel war. This tiny DAVID country targeted by the GOLIATH, in condemnations.FACTS From November 10, 2023: U.N. condemns Israel 8 times, rest of world 0. The UN’s History of the ‘Question of Palestine’ Omits Every Palestinian Attack on Jews. It says, “1936/1939 — Palestinian rebellion against the British Mandate and Jewish immigration.” But not that Arabs murdered Jews, just that it was a Over 20 years ago, Anne Bayefsky wrote (Apr 20, 2024): 'U.N. vs. Israel. Telling standards.': 'The U.N. response to the death of Abdel Aziz Rantissi,...

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk, who is an adviser to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Citing two Iranian officials, the newspaper reported that the meeting was a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.

Former UN Teacher Orchestrates Violent Anti-Semitic Attack in Amsterdam, Investigation RevealsAccording to a detailed investigation by The Jerusalem Post, a disturbing connection has emerged between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and last Thursday’s orchestrated assault on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam. At the center of the controversy stands Ayman Nejmeh, a former UNRWA educator who now heads PGNL (Palestinian community in the Netherlands), the organization implicated in coordinating the violent confrontation. In a development that has sent shockwaves through European diplomatic circles, Nejmeh—who suspiciously scrubbed his UNRWA employment history from social media platforms following the incident—had previously...

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, on Tuesday spoke at a meeting of the Security Council. Danon challenged the Palestinian Authority (PA) representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, who claims to represent the people of Gaza, while he himself cannot set foot in Gaza without risking his life. The Israeli Ambassador pointed out that the people of Gaza are fed up with Hamas' reign of terror, while those who speak out against them are tortured, but the Security Council fails to discuss this. “I don’t know, Mr. Mansour, when was the last time you visited Gaza, or you...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared the severance of diplomatic and trade relations with Israel. In a statement reported by the Turkish Arabic-language channel Anadolu, Erdogan emphasized, "Turkey will stand with the Palestinians until the end." Erdogan's announcement comes amid escalating tensions in the region, as he warned that Israel's actions are becoming increasingly aggressive. "Israel will become more aggressive as long as weapons and ammunition continue to flow," he stated, expressing concern over the deteriorating situation in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.

Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered Iran a simple warning, a third Iranian airstrike against Israel “would simply cripple Iran’s economy.” Netanyahu claims that another attack on the part of Iran would cost Iran additional billions to carry out, claiming that the attack in October cost Iran $2.3 billion. How much more should the people of Iran suffer as the Iranian Regime wastes billions of dollars on attacks to Israel? Joining us on today’s Watchman Newscast Livestream is Yair Pinto and Mati Shoshani of the TBN Israel YouTube channel to break down the latest from Israel. Watch now!

Eight international aid groups have jointly rebuked Israel for not only failing "to meet any of the specific criteria" set out by the Biden administration in an Oct. 13 letter demanding that the U.S. ally drastically increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip within 30 days, but accusing Israel of taking "actions that dramatically worsened the situation on the ground, particularly in Northern Gaza." The U.S. letter had threatened to cut off some U.S. military assistance to Israel if its demands were not met within 30 days — a deadline that has now passed. "Israel's actions failed...

The respected Islamic official’s critique argued that the damage inflicted on Gaza, as a result of Hamas’s attacks, was a breach of Islamic law. Professor Dr. Salman al-Dayah, a former dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Islamic University of Gaza, issued a fatwa against Hamas for their October 7 attacks, the BBC reported on Friday. Fatwa is an Islamic religious decree made by a recognized Islamic jurist, Faqih, as a response to a question asked by a judge or government. The document accused Hamas of “violating Islamic principles governing jihad.” Dayah added, “If the pillars, causes,...

What will it take to shut it down? First, let’s be clear. The 92-10 vote in the Knesset in favor of banning UNRWA from operating inside Israel does not prevent UNRWA from working inside Gaza. UNRWA staff can still enter Gaza from Egypt, or from the Mediterranean.Second, this ban does not go into effect for three months. During that time, it should be possible to find alternative agencies to take over UNRWA’s role in distributing humanitarian aid, providing medical personnel, and staffing schools where the teaching is not a vehicle for pro-Hamas propaganda that poisons the minds of young Gazans.Third,...

The Jewish people have the absolute historic legal right to this disputed land. I know that there is a lot of information available to the observers of the historical perspectives, and as I am sure that many of you know, much of it is based on disinformation and on outright lies. Therefore, in order to be able to promote honorable causes it is important to clarify the facts.   Before addressing a few issues specifically, I would like to make some very important clarifying points:   1.     The state of Israel is one of the strongest and most reliable allies of...

Fortunately, the Constitution should still operate to prevent a leftist administration from handing to the UN American sovereignty and Americans’ rights. When five different people send you a link, you know that something very important has happened, even if the drive-by media aren’t trumpeting it on their outlets. In this case, it’s Robert Williams’ report at the Gatestone Institute that, in September, the Harris-Biden administration, without fanfare, adopted a UN pact that gives the UN and the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) control over American speech, foreign policy, and, possibly, internal sovereignty. Thankfully, while the administration can sign someone’s name on...

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is visiting Cairo, on Monday called for sanctions to be imposed on Israel because it does not implement UN resolutions. Speaking at a UN conference taking place in the Egyptian capital, Abbas called on the international community to set red lines for Israel, which he claimed behaves as if it is above the law, bring it to justice and to punish it for its "crimes". "We are here to emphasize the obligation to prosecute the Israeli occupation state for its failure to meet its obligations towards its membership in the United Nations in...

Hamas has once again refused to release the hostages it has been holding in Gaza since its attack on Israel last October, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty. The State Department on Monday released a readout following a call between Blinken and Abdelatty, which took place on Sunday and which dealt with the situation in the Middle East and Sudan. “The Secretary noted that Hamas has once again refused to release even a limited number of hostages to secure a ceasefire and relief for the people of Gaza,” said State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller,...

FM Katz dismisses idea that no other agency can do UNRWA work, says it handles only 13% of Gaza aid; Israel’s UN envoy says Israel won’t cooperate with groups that promote terror November 4, 2024. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP) The Foreign Ministry on Monday officially informed the United Nations that Israel is withdrawing from the 1967 agreement recognizing the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA after the Knesset passed legislation to severely limit the operations of the agency in Israel and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Foreign Ministry Director-General Jacob Blitshtein sent the letter to UN General Assembly...

Since the beginning of the war in Gaza last year, the Houthis, who have controlled large swaths of war-torn Yemen for a decade, have "exploited the regional situation and enhanced cooperation with the 'axis of resistance,'" which includes Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah, the UN experts said.The panel noted "the transformation of the Houthis from a localised armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organisation, extending their operational capabilities well beyond the territories under their control".The report published on Friday, which analysed the period from September 2023 through July 2024, said such a transformation was aided by the transfer...

ROME — Pope Francis has condemned what he described as the “massacre” of 153 women and children in Gaza, insisting the victims were “innocent.” Following his Angelus prayer on the Feast of All Saints, the pontiff remembered “all the peoples who are suffering because of war,” adding that “war is always a defeat, always!” War is “ignoble,” he continued, “because it is the triumph of the lie, of falsehood: one seeks the greatest interest for oneself and the greatest damage for the adversary, trampling on human lives, the environment, the infrastructure, everything; and all disguised with lies.”

"Jafar Khacher Faor was responsible, among other things, for firing rockets from the Golan sector, which killed a couple of Israeli civilians from Kibbutz Ortal, for the shooting at Majdal Shams, which killed 12 children and teenagers and wounded dozens of other civilians, as well as for the shooting at Metula on Thursday, which resulted in the killing of five civilians," IDF said in a post on X.

We at Twitchy spend A LOT of time telling you guys about the media and their ridiculous behaviors, but even we were shocked when we found this post from CBS News. A Yazidi woman kidnapped from her home by ISIS terrorists in Iraq when she was just 11 years old has been reunited with her family after years stranded in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Iraqi and Israeli officials said Thursday. https://t.co/r1jQzHxxO3 — CBS News (@CBSNews) October 3, 2024 SERIOUSLY!??! They chose to say the woman who was KIDNAPPED by ISIS was 'stranded'? STRANDED!?!?! We just have no words to adequately...