The Latest From @MacTaskForce
American basketball players competing in the Israeli league are sharing their experience beyond the court. 🇮🇱🏀🥰
On the Baseline Podcast @the.baseline.podcast via @ibsinow, they spoke about feeling welcomed by the community, enjoying the food, and appreciating the openness of the people living everyday life around them.
As many of them are Christian, these players find even more meaning in getting to play their sport in the Holy Land. We’re so happy they’re having an incredible experience.
🎥: ibsinow, israelinusa
From Tel Aviv, an Israeli woman sends a message of admiration and solidarity to the people of Iran.
She speaks about the extraordinary courage it takes to stand in the streets, unarmed, against a regime that controls the courts, the prisons, the guns, and the narrative. A regime that has shown, time and again, that it will imprison, torture, and even kill its own citizens to stay in power.
Israelis understand what it means to live under threat, and they recognize bravery when they see it.
This is not about governments, it’s about people. It’s about women removing their hijabs in defiance, students chanting for freedom, and families mourning loved ones while still demanding change.
To the people of Iran: your courage is seen, and your fight for freedom matters not only for Iran, but for the entire world. FREE IRAN NOW.
🎥: adamzivo, myricj, daniel_bordman
From Tokyo to Tel Aviv. 🇯🇵🇮🇱
As they arrived in Israel, a group of Japanese tourists sang together, in a gesture of respect and connection.
Israel remains a place of joy, where visitors arrive sensing that they’re in a very special place.
Despite what Iranian leadership wants you to think, protests in Iran are not fading.
At Al-Zahra University, female students filmed themselves standing up to the tyrannical regime that continues to murder them by the thousands.
These young women know exactly what they are risking. In Iran, dissent can mean expulsion, imprisonment, or execution, but they still continue.
For 47 years, the regime has tried to silence women by policing their bodies, their voices, and their futures. Today, Iranian women are leading the charge for change.
Their message is simple: they will not be controlled, and they will not be quiet. FREE IRAN NOW.
From survival to strength.
The proprietor at @tabooniausa, a Druze Israeli survivor of the Nova Music Festival massacre, is now bringing his story, his resilience, and his culture to NYC’s Upper West Side.
At the Grand Bazaar in NYC, he’s serving the same stuffed Druze pitas he served at Nova. The same flavors, and the same tradition but now they carry a new meaning and message.
The Druze community in Israel has long stood shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish people, serving in the IDF in overwhelming numbers, and are similarly alongside them in moments of celebration and in moments of tragedy. This vendor’s journey reflects that shared resilience.
Terror tried to silence Israelis of all backgrounds. From Nova to New York, the message is the same: we are still here.
🎥: @kocheatsfood @jenny.anne.hochberg @raifrosh_ @tabooniausa
Iranian-Canadian activist Giselle shared a horrifying reality that should shake the world.
The family of a young Iranian women killed by the regime reportedly called a nail technician to remove acrylic nails from their daughter’s body before burial, terrified of what might happen to her once the regime’s forces took control.
Some families have spoken of disturbing signs on the corpses of their loved ones, raising fears about what was done to them after death.
No family should have to protect their daughter’s body from her own government.
Iranian women are being targeted, brutalized, and silenced for demanding the most basic freedoms including the right to live safely, to choose how they dress, to exist without fear.
Iranian women deserve dignity in life and in death. They deserve freedom, safety, and justice, not mutilation and terror at the hands of their own rulers.
🎥: mmegiselle
During a recent interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson tried as hard as he could to make Israel look bad, at one point framing teenage Hamas operatives as victims of Israeli aggression.
This kind of rhetoric ignores a brutal reality.
Hamas openly recruits, indoctrinates, and deploys minors as active combatants. This is an unconscionable practice and the death of any teenage combatant is entirely the fault of Hamas.
A gun or bomb in the hands of a teenager can kill just the same as it would in the hands of an adult.
The real tragedy is that Hamas robs children of their childhood by turning them into soldiers. The responsibility for that lies with the terror group that weaponizes youth, not with Israelis who are forced to defend themselves.
Virtue signaling from a distance does not protect lives. Facts and accountability matter.
Hamas captivity survivors Romi Gonen and Emily Damari shared a haunting and powerful moment: singing in Arabic the Moshe Peretz song that carried them through the darkest days of their captivity.
They explained that they were forbidden from singing in Hebrew, a language demonized in Gaza. Because they are women, they were forbidden from singing at all. Even their voices were controlled.
This is the reality of life under the oppressive, extremist rule of Hamas where language, identity, and even a woman’s voice are policed.
Yet today, they sing freely. Their voices are no longer silenced, and their resilience is louder than the ideology that tried to erase them.
