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A spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center signed a statement denouncing Israel as an "apartheid state" and "ethno-nationalist project," and blaming the Jewish state for provoking Hamas’s terrorist attacks that killed 1,400 Israelis. Michael Edison Hayden, a senior investigative reporter and spokesperson for the SPLC, and Hannah Gais, a senior researcher and journalist for the SPLC, both signed on to the open letter, which was published by a group called Writers Against the War on Gaza last Thursday. "Establishment media outlets continue to describe Hamas’s attack on Israel as ‘unprovoked,’" said the statement. "Writers Against the War on Gaza...

It has nearly been a month since Hamas terrorists brutally attacked, tortured, raped, murdered, and kidnapped thousands of innocent Israeli men, women, and children, and in that nearly a month we have seen more anti-Semitism on social media and sadly around the world than we ever thought possible. And sadly, we're not just seeing this from people we'd expect to see it from ... we're seeing it from people that quite honestly have shocked us. Gad Saad is sadly making this point in real time with this poll: Israel is bombing Gaza today because: 1) Jews are inherently genocidal 2)...

Hamas has built “a labyrinth of tunnels under Gaza, as wide as a city,” CNN reported on October 14. The tunnels were used to facilitate the Hamas pogrom, and the 150 Israelis whom Hamas kidnapped probably are being held there. So how did Hamas acquire the cement, despite Israel’s blockade of such materials? Apparently Hamas had some help from former U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross—according to Ross himself. Ross has been appearing as an expert commentator on major media outlets in recent days, including on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press” on October 8, CNN’s “Amanpour and Company” on October 13, and...

On Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of liberal Jewish American activists staged sit-ins in the Capitol Hill offices of top Democrats, including in the senate office of progressive champion Bernie Sanders, to demand a ceasefire in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas. As they sang in Hebrew and prayed for peace, the House floor resumed legislative activity for the first time in weeks after the election of a new Republican speaker, congressman Mike Johnson. In his first act, Johnson brought to the floor a resolution declaring US solidarity with Israel after Hamas rampaged through Israeli cities, killing 1,400 people and taking...

Cornell University’s bucolic upstate New York campus was defaced with hateful anti-Israel graffiti Wednesday morning as some messages read “F–k Israel” and “Zionism = Racism.” The vandalism at the Ithaca Ivy League school came several days after a professor who called Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel “exhilarating” and “energizing” took a leave of absence. The graffiti began on campus sidewalks sometime before 9 a.m.,

Pro-Palestinian protesters swarmed the roadways on the Brooklyn Bridge, shutting down traffic on the historic span. Masses of demonstrators inundated the Manhattan-bound side of the bridge, chanting the antisemitic refrain “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” as others climbed on the bridges’ metal structures. “Resistance is justified when people are occupied,” other marchers chanted as they made their way across the bridge On the pedestrian walkway, people standing and watching the demonstrators shouted boos at their procession.

At least 7,000 pro-Palestinian protesters shut down the Brooklyn Bridge during a march through the borough Saturday, openly cheering Hamas terrorists’ barbaric attacks on Israel — and justifying the murders of innocent mothers and babies. “Freedom by any means, land back by any means,” declared Dorian, a 24-year-old protester from Queens, during the three-mile Flood Brooklyn for Gaza march, which began at 3 p.m. in front of the Brooklyn Museum in Crown Heights, not far from the Hasidic Lubavitcher headquarters on Eastern Parkway, where a Sabbath festival was being held. “I believe the settler state of Israel must be taken...

Since Hamas initiated a brutal and barbaric terrorist attack against Israel and the Jewish people on October 7th, many Americans—Jewish and not—have mourned alongside the world’s only Jewish state and have understood the necessity of a swift and decisive military counterattack. But in the green quads and ivory towers of American academia, a very different reaction has been brewing. For the past two decades, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has shone a rare spotlight on the genocidal Jew hatred emanating from our college campuses. Student organizations like the Hamas-funded and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Students for Justice in Palestine have infiltrated our...

This is nuts. This shouldn't be happening in America ... and yet, it appears it is. Libs of TikTok with the SCOOP: SCOOP: School makes Jewish students sign gag order after being attacked Jewish middle schoolers at @MBUSDnews were reportedly attacked by other students after Hamas attacks on Israel. Some students allegedly said “revenge is beautiful” and “all Jews should be killed.” The… pic.twitter.com/gnqRzLIFal — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 23, 2023 MIDDLE SCHOOLERS. Really?! Middle schoolers saying things like, 'revenge is beautiful' and 'all Jews should be killed'? And the school made the Jewish children who were attacked sign...

These were the words Columbia Professor Joseph Massad used to describe the Hamas murder of over a thousand Jews in its October 7 raid on a music festival and surrounding neighborhoods. More than 30,000 people signed a petition calling for his removal from the University's teaching staff. Thus far, Columbia President Nemat Shafik has rebuffed this demand, saying "our professors should have the right to say anything they wish without fear that it could result in any retaliation against them. This is called 'academic freedom.' Without it the whole university system would collapse. Obviously, from time to time what a...

The woke left is finally getting a taste of its own medicine. Let’s hear it for sanity. This week saw three unhinged antisemites removed from their cushy gigs over ugly remarks made about Israel. One was a Beverly Hills radiologist, Andrew Thierry, who posted on X that “Zionists” are “genicidal, demonic, greedy, pedophilic r—–s.” (Try spellcheck next time, Doc.)“Zionists” is the preferred lefty code word for Jews. Another was a Citigroup banker, Nozima Husainova, who shared a post on Instagram spreading the lie that Israel destroyed the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, and added a note that read: “No wonder...

Pro-Palestinian protestors are taking over the U.S. Capitol as hundreds demand a ceasefire between Hamas terrorists in Gaza and Israel. The demonstration comes a day after a bombing of a hospital in Gaza killed hundreds of Palestinians. The protestors, dressed in black shirts that read 'JEWS SAY CEASEFIRE NOW' and 'NOT IN OUR NAME' took over the large rotunda in the Cannon House Office Building. The demonstrators held posters with messages like 'LET GAZA LIVE' and 'MOURN THE DEAD, AND FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING.' Capitol Police made 300 arrests as the group got louder and more disruptive with...

For a while now, Bill Maher has been a sane voice of reason on the Left, which is a rarity. Today, he had another well-reasoned discussion about anti-Semitism on the Left, and came to the conclusion it is not a small, fringe number of leftists. Watch: Bill Maher Gets Moment of Clarity: I'm Not So Sure the Anti-Semitic Left-Wing Faction Is 'Small' MAHER: “I just want to finish with the values first, because it just amazing to me that the American left, so much of it, throws their lot in with people whose values I hope they… pic.twitter.com/kHxwWppDm4 — Kyle...

Australian Jews were warned not to travel to Sydney due to pro-Hamas demonstrations, Sky News reported. Australian Jewish Association (AJA) President David Adler said Jewish citizens were warned to avoid Sydney's central business district on Sunday night as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered at the city's Opera House. "We've seen one or two Jewish people who turned up early, who have been taken away by police because they carried an Israeli flag," Adler told Sky News. "An email went around to the Jewish community warning us to stay out of the city of Sydney tonight, to stay away from the Town Hall...

A coalition of 31 student groups at Harvard University that released a statement blaming Israel for terrorist attacks against the country by Hamas doubled down on the statement within hours of issuing it. The coalition, which calls itself the Harvard Palestinian Solidarity Committee, released a statement Saturday and said that the "Israeli regime" was "entirely responsible" for the spate of terrorist attacks over the weekend by members of the terrorist group Hamas. Around 1,400 Israelis and Palestinians have been killed in the attacks. “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” the coalition,...

(Two background notes. (1)Nick Riemer is a very prominent Australian "progressive" "antizionist" and his views expressed here are relatively moderate compared to those who are celebrated Hamas' "act of resistance" though less moderate than those engaging in "both sideism"; (2) Everyone knows that the slaughter, rape, kidnapping, and so on of hundreds of Israelis is precisely what Hamas would do to the entire Jewish population of Israel if it had the power to do so. So, with that said…)There has been too much pointless debate over whether those who call for Israel's destruction are necessarily antisemitic. The important point is...

A counter-protest has erupted in New York City's Times Square after pro-Palestinian groups gathered to rally - just one day after terrorist organization Hamas attacked Israel, leaving hundreds of civilians dead. Demonstrators waving Israeli flags clashed with placard-clad protesters - who rallied together at 1pm on Sunday in Manhattan's Midtown. New York is the city with the largest Jewish population in the world. 'How can you support this! ******* murderers!' one man screamed - as a raucous group of around 300 people chanted 'free Palestine' during the demo. As the Palestinian faction in Times Square swelled, a group of Israeli...

Named in the complaint is Christopher Hood, whose last known address was Pepperell, Massachusetts, and Leo Anthony Cullinan of Manchester, New Hampshire. Hood founded NSC-131 New England and is regional organizer of the virulently racist "White Lives Matter" national movement. Cullinan is the regional leader for New Hampshire and recruiter for NSC-131 New England. The civil rights complaints against them and the organization stem from an incident on July 30, 2022, where Hood and other members of NSC-131 are alleged to have hung a "Keep New England white" banner from an overpass overlooking U.S. Route 1 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,...

Breitbart, once called the platform of the “alt-right” by Steve Bannon, shredded former President Donald Trump on Friday for dining with far-right white nationalist and Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. News broke on Wednesday night that Trump dined with Fuentes and rapper Kanye West, both avowed anti-Semites, ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday – a dinner Trump has since both acknowledged and tried to distance himself from. Axios’s Jonathan Swan reported that during the dinner Trump and Fuentes “fawned” over each other. Swan wrote that at one point during the conversation Trump asked Fuentes, “‘You like it better when I just speak off...

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