Reporter: Are you open to holding elections in your country?
Zelensky: Of course… then lists every reason not to hold one
Trump: So if we’re at war 3.5 years from now — no more elections? Room bursts into laughter
https://twitter.com/i/status/1957497314852970769
Trump Issues Clearest Greenlight For Netanyahu's Offensive To 'Confront & Destroy' Hamas To Date
President Trump on Monday issued a scorching message aimed at Hamas as well as the growing internationall and domestic critics of America's Israel policy. He called for the total destruction of Hamas and the return of the hostages, in that order.
"The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be," he wrote on Truth Social. This is one of the clearest 'greenlights' for Netanyahu's expanded Gaza operations to date, and it cleary backs his government's pursuit of a military solution, as opposed to attempting to renew or prioritize negotiations for a hostage exchange.
In bizarre language which sounds more like an enthusiastic gambler preparing to enter the casino, Trump declared after reviewing his recent Middle East 'accomplishments': "Play to WIN, or don't play at all!"
This comes on the heels of a weekend which saw more mass anti-Netanyahu protests across Israeli cities, especially in Tel Aviv. Also, President Trump held a phone call with PM Netanyahu on Sunday.
Netanyahu's office said they "discussed Israel's plans to take control of the remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza in order to bring an end to the war through the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas."
Trump in a follow-up interview with Axios said of the terror group, "they can't stay there" - and explained: "I have one thing to say: remember October 7, remember October 7."
Netananyahu told a Sunday press briefing that he has requested the Israel Defense Forces to present plans for "taking over" Gaza City.
There are reports saying the Israeli government is planning to 'move' Palestinian civilians into massive tent cities, with tents being provided and erected by the Israelis - but international war monitors and human rights groups have decried this as ethnic cleansing - but dressed up in humanitarian language, given the creation and publicizing of yet more sprawling refugee camps.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-issues-clearest-greenlight-netanyahus-offensive-confront-destroy-hamas-date
Homeless Arrests Climb After Supreme Court Clears Bans
Homelessness in the U.S. has reached record levels, with more than 771,000 people unhoused on a single night in 2024, according to The Conversation.
Since the Supreme Court’s June 2024 ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, cities have stepped up enforcement of bans on sleeping or camping in public, even when no shelter is available. The Court found such laws constitutional, ruling that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment does not protect homeless people from these ordinances.
The decision triggered nearly 220 new local restrictions in cities like Phoenix, Gainesville, and Reno. California, where unsheltered homelessness is highest, responded with an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom directing agencies to clear encampments. More than two dozen California cities soon adopted or debated sweeping bans. Not all leaders backed this approach: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called criminalizing homelessness “backwards.”
San Francisco illustrates the shift.
The Conversation writes that a few weeks after the Court’s ruling, then-Mayor London Breed vowed to be “very aggressive” in clearing encampments, arguing that “building more housing” would not solve the crisis. In the year since, police arrested more than 1,000 homeless residents for living in public spaces — up from just 111 the prior year. In a 2025 survey of 150 homeless San Franciscans, 10% said they’d been jailed for lodging without permission, 6% for trespassing, and over half had been forced from at least one public space.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/homeless-arrests-climb-after-supreme-court-clears-bans
Mossad propaganda
On my desk TM
Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users from illegal content
Published: 10 June 2025
Last updated: 13 August 2025
Open
Investigation into
Online Discussion Board ‘4chan’
Case opened
10 June 2025
Summary
We are initiating an investigation to determine whether the online discussion board 4chan has failed—or is currently failing—to comply with its obligations under the Online Safety Act 2023. Our investigation will focus on potential breaches in the following areas:
Failure to respond to a statutory information request;
Failure to complete and keep a record of a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment; and
Non-compliance with the safety duties about illegal content.
Relevant legal provision(s)
Sections 9, 10, 23(2) and 102(8) of the Online Safety Act 2023.
Update - 13 August 2025
Provisional Decision: Information Notice duties
In accordance with section 130 of the Online Safety Act 2023, we have today issued 4chan Community Support LLC with a provisional notice of contravention.
Ofcom is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing the provider has contravened its duties under section 102(8) of the Act to comply with two requests for information. We will consider any representations provided in response to this provisional notice before we make a final decision on this matter.
The additional duties under investigation
On 10 June 2025, we opened an investigation into whether the provider of 4chan has failed/is failing to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act 2023 to:
adequately respond to a statutory information request;
complete and keep a record of a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment; and
comply with the safety duties about illegal content.
Ofcom’s investigation continues to examine concurrently whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that the provider has failed, or is failing, to comply with the other duties under investigation, including duties to protect its users from illegal content. We will provide updates on these matters in due course.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/investigation-into-4chan-and-its-compliance-with-duties-to-protect-its-users-from-illegal-content
Aged out = zero justice
UPDATE: House Oversight is withdrawing its subpoena for Mueller due to "health issues" that prevent him from testifying
https://x.com/paulsperry_/status/1957468818671915183
Jenny McCarthy:
“When I did Oprah as my first launch onto the stage with my story, she said to me, “I waited for someone like you, because I’ve been receiving letters from parents saying something happened after my son got there. Something happened. Parents just knew something happened. I had a child, maybe that… And this isn’t for every child. This isn’t for every child. This has happened for my child.”
So I went in telling my story. It just so happens that it matched a lot of other people’s. There was something that happened after a visit — their child lost language, eye contact, and regressed. And then comorbid conditions came up, whether that was seizures, leaky gut, you name it, eczema. I can go on and on and on.
With that going on, Oprah said, “We’re going to have to go live on my show because there will be enough government agencies that will want to shut it down and censor what you’re going to say. So we’re going to go live that day.””
“It wasn’t too long after that that I had gotten a visit from someone who worked for his own PR agency. And he said, “I’ve been approached by a government agency to be hired to do a campaign against you, to discredit you.”
And I was like, “Well, I’m just a mom telling my story. And if it happens to so match other people’s, how would you discredit that?”
And he said, “They’re going to label you as an anti-hierarch.”
I giggled at that comment because I said, “Well, that’s interesting to me, because I haven’t told people, ‘Do not do that.’ I’m telling people that maybe these kids are not one-size-fits-all. Maybe there are some kids who have a predisposition, that they can’t have six shots in one visit. Absolutely.”
I laughed at him and said, “That’s not going to stick.”
He said, “Well, I’m telling you this because I didn’t take the job. I declined it because my son was also already injured.”
But he wanted to drive over and tell me personally because — yeah, that it was going to come.
I fluffed it off. Then literally, it was like an overnight campaign. It was newspapers, magazines. You could tell.
And by the way, this was before “anti-vax” was a big thing. It was before. I think I was the first person. I was.
I thought… I was so scared.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1957236104492454254
>The world should not be held hostage any longer.
Better run that past their AIPAC handlers
https://www.antiwar.com/
Israel boots Australian diplomats, orders close look at visa requests as ties sour
Sa’ar accuses Canberra of ‘persecuting Israel,’ says it ‘fuels antisemitism’ after Australia banned far-right MK Simcha Rothman from the country
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar decided on Monday to revoke the residency visas of Australia’s representatives to the Palestinian Authority, hours after Canberra barred an Israeli lawmaker from entering the country.
Australia announced on Monday morning that it was banning far-right Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman from visiting the country, hours before he was supposed to travel there for a series of appearances.
Both Australian diplomats representing Canberra to the PA live in Israel, despite holding offices in Ramallah, according to Channel 12 news.
Sa’ar accused the Australian government of fanning antisemitism and wrote on X that he had also instructed Israel’s embassy in Canberra “to carefully examine any official Australian visa application for entry to Israel.”
It was unclear if the policy would affect all Australian requests or only those from Australian officials.
The decision, which was presented to the Australian ambassador Monday afternoon, follows “Australia’s decisions to recognize a ‘Palestinian state'” in September, and the country’s “unjustified refusal to grant visas to a number of Israeli figures,” including former justice minister Ayelet Shaked and Rothman, who serves as chairman of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, said Sa’ar.
“While antisemitism is raging in Australia, including manifestations of violence against Jews and Jewish institutions, the Australian government is choosing to fuel it by false accusations, as if the visit of Israeli figures will disrupt public order and harm Australia’s Muslim population. It is shameful and unacceptable!” Sa’ar declared.
Rothman claimed in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster that the Australian government had been bullied by “Islamist jihadists into canceling his visa, and had “surrendered to terror.”
In a sharply worded Hebrew-language video message released by Sa’ar’s office shortly after the announcement, the minister declared that “Australia is acting against Israel, Australia is persecuting Israel,” and said that its move to bar Israeli individuals “must be understood in this context.”
Israel would “take additional measures” in response to the decision, Sa’ar warned. “To be continued.”
Rothman, a far-right lawmaker, had been slated to make a series of appearances at Jewish schools and synagogues and meet with victims of a recent wave of antisemitic attacks, according to the Australian Jewish Association, which invited him and confirmed that Rothman’s visa had been canceled.
“If you are coming to Australia to spread a message of hate and division, we don’t want you here,” Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke had said when announcing the decision to cancel Rothman’s visa. “Australia will be a country where everyone can be safe, and feel safe.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-boots-australian-diplomats-orders-close-look-at-visa-requests-as-ties-sour/
Qatar said to have paid Israeli officials, including Netanyahu aides, total of $10 million
Report says Doha gave firm owned by PM associate Einhorn $45,000 per month for 2 years, of which $18,000 went to Netanyahu spokesman Urich; separately, adviser Feldstein got $11,000
Qatar paid senior Israeli officials, including several top advisers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a total of some $10 million in recent years to boost the image of the Gulf nation, the Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday evening.
Citing estimates by law enforcement officials involved in the Qatargate probe, the report says that Perception Media — owned by Yisrael Einhorn, a former campaign adviser to Netanyahu — was paid $45,000 per month over two years, from 2022 until the project was scrapped in late 2024.
Some $18,000 per month out of the payment to Perception went to Netanyahu aide Jonatan Urich, the report says.
Separately from the payments to Perception, $11,000 per month went to another Netanyahu aide, Eli Feldstein.
The rest was paid to then-senior defense officials, former Mossad officials and employees of a tech firm, according to Kan.
The Qatargate affair revolves primarily around suspicions that Urich and Feldstein committed multiple offenses tied to their alleged work for a pro-Qatar lobbying firm, including contact with a foreign agent and a series of corrupt actions involving lobbyists and businessmen, all while working for the prime minister.
The investigation continues to expand, and the Shin Bet and police are now probing the involvement and business connections of former security officials with Qatar.
Einhorn and Urich had both spearheaded a pro-Qatari public relations campaign to cast the Gulf state in a positive light ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, hosted in Doha, and reportedly continued their PR work for Qatar well into the Israel-Hamas war that was sparked by the October 7, 2023, onslaught by the Palestinian terror group.
The Israeli public and media were unaware that these pro-Qatar talking points and messages were crafted by Einhorn, who had previously done PR work for Doha, rather than organically by the Prime Minister’s Office, raising concerns about covert foreign influence in public discourse.
Urich and Feldstein have both been arrested and questioned for their suspected role in the case. Einhorn, who resides in Serbia, was recently questioned by Israeli investigators in Belgrade after he refused to come to Israel for fear of arrest upon arrival.
Feldstein is already under indictment in a separate case on charges of transmitting classified information for allegedly having leaked material from a secret document to the German Bild newspaper last year.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/qatar-said-to-have-paid-israeli-officials-including-netanyahu-aides-total-of-10-million/
If you have de-Googled your phone, the EU’s age verification rules will exclude you from using all apps for all services
In late June, the European Union launched a pilot project to test a prototype age verification app in five member states: Denmark, France, Greece, Italy and Spain. The excuse? To protect children online.
The app is built on the technical specifications of the upcoming European Digital Identity Wallet and is designed to be open-source, user-friendly and secure. However, as Take Back Our Tech notes, it is less secure than other options. Additionally, age verification can only be made using Google-approved Android devices or on iPhones, effectively requiring a Google or Apple account.
What this means is: If you are in the European Union and have de-Googled your phone, you will not be able to verify your age.
On Monday, Take Back Our Tech (“TBOT”) published a video with an accompanying article to raise the alarm about an age verification app that the European Commission is trialling in five European countries.
The Commission presents the app as a private solution to age verification. But there’s one catch: they recommend the app use Google attestation, meaning that it won’t work on alternative phones, TBOT warned.
The app will only work on Google phones because it enforces Google attestation, even though it’s less secure. Everyone in the EU may be forced to use Big Tech phones when using apps integrated with this age verification system.
In the video below, TBOT’s Hakeem Anwar explains more and shows what app developers think about the European Commission’s latest move in its Digital ID programme.
https://expose-news.com/2025/08/15/if-you-have-de-googled-your-phone/
🥩🥓🍖Meat Prices in 2025: How Much Are You Really Paying?”
-Burger patties: $9.49 per pack (~$10 per pound)
-Three pounds of ground beef: Around $30 total
-Various cuts: $7 to $8.99 per pound
-Longer cuts: Approximately $20 each
-Lean beef: $10.49 per pound
-Steaks: Range from $16 to $23 per pound
-Shaved steak: $8 for 14 ounces
-Cube steak: About $12 per pound
-Pork chops: More affordable, generally lower priced than beef
https://twitter.com/i/status/1955237843883729395
Convicted Israeli Spy Sold Our Secrets to the Soviet Union
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
@RepLuna
Looks like Zelenskyy had a bail out plan using American Dollars:
He is transferring over $50 million to the UAE every month.
Turkish newspaper Aydinlik published on Monday the bank accounts of companies based in the UAE involved in the corruption scheme of Volodymyr Zelensky’s cronies, about $50 million is transferred to the Middle Eastern country every month.
https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1956813828639138250
Hamas informs Egyptian, Qatari mediators it agrees to hostage-ceasefire deal
The proposal would see the release of ten living Israeli hostages in return for a 60-day ceasefire, and the release of 150 terrorists serving life sentences.
Hamas informed the Egyptian and Qatari mediators that it has agreed to the latest Gaza hostage-ceasefire proposal, a source familiar with the details told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
Israel received Hamas’s proposal on Monday evening. An Israeli official told the Post that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will consider Hamas’s proposal despite it being only a partial deal that doesn’t include the release of all the hostages. However, according to sources, Israel’s position, which includes the release of all the hostages and other conditions to end the war, has not changed.
The proposal would see the release of 10 living Israeli hostages in return for a 60-day ceasefire, and the release of 150 terrorists serving life sentences.
The proposal on the table would also see Israel suspend military operations in the Gaza Strip for 60 days and could be seen as a path to reach a comprehensive deal to end the war, an Egyptian official told Reuters.
Axios reported that Hamas’s response “aligns 98%” with the proposal by US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, which Israel had previously agreed to.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-864509
World Council for Health Sounds Alarm: Covid-Vaxxed Face ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ of Mass Deaths
The World Council for Health has issued a chilling red alert to the public to warn of a “ticking time bomb” of looming deaths, disease, and injuries among the billions of people who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.”
The warning comes as global health bureaucrats and pharmaceutical giants continue pushing Covid mRNA shots.
However, these new revelations about the chemical delivery system used in these injections are now sending shockwaves through scientific communities.
At the center of the controversy is lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), which serve as “biological grenades” in the bodies of those who received the experimental injections..
LNPs are microscopic synthetic fat particles used to deliver mRNA into human cells.
Originally sold as cutting-edge “safe and effective” technology, these LNPs are now under scrutiny for potential long-term toxicity, metabolic disruption, and triggering of autoimmune or neurodegenerative conditions.
Despite these concerns, after billions were injected with unvetted nano-tech, Pfizer, Moderna, and government regulators are stonewalling even basic safety questions.
One basic question that remains unanswered: How many LNPs are in a single Covid “vaccine” dose?
When eminent German researcher Maria Gutschi tried to find out, she got a disturbing response.
Gutschi hit mRNA “vaccine” maker Moderna with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
However, according to Gutschi, Moderna’s response was:
“We don’t know, and it’s irrelevant.”
Gutschi said she also presented the same question to the UK’s drug regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), but didn’t receive a response.
This lack of transparency has alarmed experts and watchdogs.
According to a report from the World Council for Health (WCH):
https://slaynews.com/news/world-council-health-sounds-alarm-covid-vaxxed-face-ticking-time-bomb-mass-deaths/
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.4c11652
Before Israel was even created in 1948, Zionist Nazis demanded the US ethnically cleanse Palestine for them - so don't dare tell me this started on 'October 7th'.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1953746219685052822
ADL Board Member Carl Perlmans' grandson was Adam Ghadan, also known as Adam Perlman.
Adam used to dress up in costumes with a fake Arabic accent and appear on Fox News from his parents' basement in California ranting like a crazy person about “a new Islamic Khalifate which shall destroy the west”.
When his real identity was discovered, rather than being embarrassed he doubled down and insisted he had converted to Islam and was a spokesperson for Al Qaida.
A couple of years later he disappeared and the CIA claimed that he had been killed in a drone strike.
Seems legit?
https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1957055025860989364
Tensions Rise after Israel Freezes Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Accounts in Jerusalem
Jordan on Saturday sharply condemned Israel’s decision to freeze all bank accounts of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, calling it part of a broader campaign of violations against Christians in the occupied city.
In a statement, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry denounced “in the strongest terms Israel’s continued assaults — as the occupying power — on Jerusalem’s Christians and the restrictions imposed on them, the latest of which is the freezing of bank accounts belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate.”
The ministry said the move represents “a clear violation of the historical and legal status quo at the Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem.”
It reaffirmed Jordan’s “absolute rejection and strong condemnation of Israel’s illegal measures amid its ongoing assaults on Palestinian cities and their holy sites in occupied Jerusalem, in blatant violation of international law and international humanitarian law.”
Amman stressed that “Israel has no sovereignty over the West Bank and its Arab, Islamic, and Christian holy sites.”
The ministry also renewed its call on the international community to “assume its legal and moral responsibilities and compel Israel to immediately halt its aggression on Gaza,” and to end “Israel’s unilateral and illegal measures in the occupied West Bank, its violations against Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem, and to ensure the Palestinian people’s right to establish an independent state on their national soil.”
The freezing of the Patriarchate’s accounts has further escalated tensions with Christian institutions in occupied Jerusalem. Protecting Holy Land Christians, a group founded by Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, said Thursday that the move was deeply concerning.
Church properties in Jerusalem had historically been exempt from municipal taxes, but in 2018, authorities narrowed the exemption to sites used strictly for prayer, religious teaching, or related purposes, demanding tens of millions of shekels in back taxes.
That dispute mirrored a 2018 confrontation, when then-mayor Nir Barkat froze church accounts, prompting the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to close for three days in protest.
The crisis ended only after intervention by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, though tensions over church properties have periodically resurfaced since.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tensions-rise-after-israel-freezes-greek-orthodox-patriarchate-accounts-in-jerusalem/
Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Company says use of its cloud technology to store millions of intercepted calls would breach terms of service
Microsoft has launched an “urgent” external inquiry into allegations Israel’s military surveillance agency has used the company’s technology to facilitate the mass surveillance of Palestinians.
The company said on Friday the formal review was in response to a Guardian investigation that revealed how the Unit 8200 spy agency has relied on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store a vast collection of everyday Palestinian mobile phone calls.
The joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call found Unit 8200 made use of a customised and segregated area within Azure to store recordings of millions of calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank.
In a statement, Microsoft said “using Azure for the storage of data files of phone calls obtained through broad or mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank” would be prohibited by its terms of service.
The inquiry, to be overseen by lawyers at the US firm Covington & Burling, is the second external review commissioned by Microsoft into the use of its technology by the Israeli military.
The first was launched this year amid dissent within the company and reports by the Guardian and others about Israel’s reliance on the company’s technology during its offensive in Gaza. Announcing the review’s findings in May, Microsoft said it had “found no evidence to date” the Israeli military had failed to comply with its terms of service or used Azure “to target or harm people” in Gaza.
However, the recent Guardian investigation prompted concerns among senior Microsoft executives about whether some of its Israel-based employees may have concealed information about how Unit 8200 uses Azure when questioned as part of the review.
Microsoft said on Friday the new inquiry would expand on the earlier one, adding: “Microsoft appreciates that the Guardian’s recent report raises additional and precise allegations that merit a full and urgent review.”
The company is also facing pressure from a worker-led campaign group, No Azure for Apartheid, which has accused it of “complicity in genocide and apartheid” and demanded it cut off “all ties to the Israeli military” and make them publicly known.
Responding to the announcement, the group criticised Microsoft’s decision to launch an inquiry, describing it as “yet another tactic to delay” meeting its demands.
Since the Guardian and its partners, +972 and Local Call, revealed Unit 8200’s sweeping surveillance project last week, Microsoft has been scrambling to assess what data the unit holds in Azure.
Several Microsoft sources familiar with internal deliberations said the company’s leadership was concerned by information from Unit 8200 sources interviewed for the article, including claims that intelligence drawn from repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza.
Israel’s 22-month bombardment of the territory, launched after the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023, has killed more than 60,000 people, the majority of them civilians, according to the health authority in the territory, though the actual death toll is likely to be significantly higher.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/microsoft-launches-inquiry-claims-israel-used-tech-mass-surveillance-palestinians
Criticizing Israel? This definition of antisemitism will take care of that.
Speech codes are popping up all over the US, chilling the right to question what another government is doing thousands of miles away
In 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) published what the organization called their “working definition” of antisemitism.
According to its lead writer, “It was created primarily so that European data collectors (of antisemitic incidents) could know what to include and exclude. That way antisemitism could be monitored better over time and across borders.”
She added, “It was never intended to be a campus hate speech code, but that’s what Donald Trump’s executive order accomplished this week.”
These words were written by the American Jewish Committee’s antisemitism expert Kate Aronoff, in 2019. She, as the author, was condemning the application of the definition by the Trump administration, which signed an executive order in December of that year that made Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act apply to antisemitic acts defined under the IHRA.
Many worried that this order, which was signed nearly four years before the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas — and the mass killing, devastation and starvation of civilians in Gaza that has followed — would serve to stifle critics of the Israeli government. In many ways, as international students in the U.S. have been arrested and threatened with deportation for expressing pro-Palestinian political views, and schools have cracked down on student protesters for fear of getting federal funding yanked, it has.
Today, the IHRA claims its definition has been adopted by nearly 1,300 entities, including 45 countries, the United States Executive Branch among them, as well as 37 U.S. state governments and 96 U.S. city and county governments.
So what is the definition?
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may (emphasis) be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” It might not be limited to that. Is anti-Zionism, antisemitism? IHRA’s website attempts to explain: “Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.” That language seems ambiguous too.
The text goes on to cite examples of antisemitism including, “Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.” Does criticizing Israel’s government qualify as this? Or this other IHRA antisemitism bullet point: “Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.”
The definition’s language does not read like law, because, according to Aronoff, it was never intended to be law. However, critics say IHRA and supporters of Israel are using it to chill and quash criticism of Israel’s government policies, and most recently, military operations in Gaza and the West Bank here in the U.S.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/anti-semitism-speech-israel/
Thirty Charged in Sweeping Federal Case Targeting Tren de Aragua Members and Associates for Drug Trafficking, Murder-for-Hire, and Firearms Crime
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces two federal indictments that charge 30 individuals, including several alleged leaders and members of designated foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua (TdA), with drug trafficking, murder-for-hire, and firearms offenses. TdA has been linked to brutal offenses including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and human and drug trafficking. Many of TdA’s members have unlawfully entered the United States, bringing the gang’s violence to American communities, including in Colorado.
A federal grand jury has charged 28 individuals after a nine-month investigation which began by targeting criminal activity at an apartment complex in the Denver metro area that had experienced an increase in violent crime and drug activities. The 39-count indictment charges defendants with firearms trafficking; using firearms to commit drug trafficking crimes; possession of firearms and ammunition by illegal aliens; and trafficking controlled substances including methamphetamine, cocaine, and “Tusi”—a narcotic drug originating in Venezuela which contains a variety of controlled substances including ketamine, methamphetamine, and MDMA (Ecstasy), and is typically manufactured to be pink in color. The indictment also charges five of the defendants with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. ATF officers recovered 69 firearms through this operation, including automatic machineguns. Many of these firearms have been linked to shootings in Denver and Aurora, including carjackings, robberies, and drive-by shootings.
A separate indictment charges Luis Fernando Uribe-Torrealba, 29, and Luis Henriquez-Charaima, 29, with six counts including a conspiracy to traffic firearms, a conspiracy to traffic controlled substances, carjacking, and a conspiracy to commit murder for hire. Colombian authorities arrested Uribe-Torrealba and Henriquez-Charaima in Colombia on July 30, 2025, pursuant to a provisional arrest warrant the United States had requested based on charges in this case. They remain in custody in Colombia pending further extradition proceedings.
Of the 28 defendants in the United States, 24 are in federal custody.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/thirty-charged-sweeping-federal-case-targeting-tren-de-aragua-members-and-associates
American Tax Payers Spend At Least $23 Billion On Israel Every Year
Last September, Donald Trump accidentally upended an entire generation of myths invented by the left and right that purport to explain America’s costly and unpopular military adventures in the Middle East:
“The fact is, we don’t have to be in the Middle East, other than we want to protect Israel. We’ve been very good to Israel. Other than that, we don’t have to be in the Middle East. You know there was a time we needed desperately oil, we don’t need that anymore.”
As Mondoweiss pointed out at the time, the explosive admission went completely unmentioned in the mainstream media, which traditionally hangs on every one of Trump’s words and reacts hysterically.
Categorizing America’s foreign policy catastrophes as done in the service to Israel has until the Trump era always been dismissed by media tastemakers and political gatekeepers as rank anti-Semitism driven by reductionist, simplistic and conspiratorial thinking, even when intelligence officials like Michael Scheuer and foreign policy experts affirm the view.
Trump’s lack of subtlety when remarking on using American blood and treasure to incrementally advance the interests of the Jewish state is one reason why the Israel lobby, which is perpetually paranoid about the public noticing their activities, is not keen on reciprocating his often suffocating love.
Their paranoia is justified. This year Congress made the mistake of combining its $900 billion dollar coronavirus stimulus bill, which suffering people are closely following the development of, with the yearly $1.4 trillion dollar fiscal budget, which is typically ignored.
A deluge of popular anger was provoked by news that we would only be receiving a $600 dollar check under the guise of budget austerity. At the same time, buried deep in the 5,600 monstrosity was a provision setting aside supposed budget constraints to give Israel the equivalent of $5,000 dollars for each of its citizens.
Jews in the media responded to the controversy by calling indignant American tax payers, including actress Alyssa Milano and various left-wing journalists, “fools” and “anti-Semites.” They doubled down by stating that the $500 million dollars provided to Israel was a drop in a $2.3 trillion dollar bucket. They pointed out that other countries, such as Jordan, were receiving foreign aid as well.
https://alethonews.com/2021/01/03/american-tax-payers-spend-at-least-23-billion-on-israel-every-year/
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Two tier system - MIGA
Sorry to rain on your propaganda denial - but the US Gov let him leave the country