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Muslim Israeli stand-up comedian Mohamed Namaa has performed for IDF soldiers in Gaza three times, and he performs in Tel Aviv in Hebrew regularly.
This is the reality extremists never want people to see: a diverse Israeli society where people of different faiths and identities stand together, use humor to cope with unimaginable realities, and support those defending civilian life.
Video circulating from the University of Minnesota shows anti-Israel, ‘pro-Palestine,’ demonstrators protesting outside of Chabad where IDF soldiers were taking part in a speaking event.
A Chabad center is supposed to be a place of safety, community, and belonging for Jewish students. This sort of harassment outside a Jewish space is designed to intimidate. Instead, the students and staff at Chabad responded with pro-Israel pride, sending a message that they will not be deterred by the mob.
Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE has said it will not broadcast Eurovision 2026 because Israel is still participating.
This is not neutrality, but purposely singling out the world’s only Jewish state for exclusion.
Eurovision has chosen to keep Israel in the contest, yet Spain chose boycott over acceptance and coexistence.
This move is a discriminatory, disgraceful example of a lack of moral clarity among a nation’s decision-makers.
Auschwitz to Birkenau, then and now.
At this year’s March of the Living, Holocaust survivors and thousands of participants walked the path between the camps to honor the six million Jews, and millions of others, murdered in the Holocaust. Among them were Israeli soldiers, taking part in a march that has become one of the world’s most powerful acts of Jewish memory and resilience.
There is something extraordinary about that image. In the place where Jews were once stripped of dignity and led toward death, representatives of the Jewish nation now walk together in strength.
Soldiers of all religions and backgrounds representing Jewish sovereignty and security are alive, visible, and unbroken, rather than fearful or hiding.
A disturbing window into Hezbollah’s strategy: MEMRI published a translated clip of Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad saying in 2024 that the group should “invest in Western university students” in order to “enter the heart of Western society.”
That statement speaks for itself. Hezbollah views campuses in the West as an opportunity to win Western hearts and minds for their genocidal cause.
The reason for its interest in shaping Western discourse is obvious, and anyone who cares about extremism and foreign influence should be paying attention.
Hasan Piker was welcomed with cheers and applause at the Yale Political Union this week, where Yale Daily News reported he drew a large crowd for a debate on “ending the American empire.” That alone would be disturbing enough, but it comes alongside resurfaced clips of Piker doubling down on defending Hamas, even stating he would “vote for Hamas over Israel every time.”
Cheers for a person peddling extremist rhetoric on campuses IS the problem. Universities like Yale aren’t just tolerating extremism, they’re are platforming it, legitimizing it, and allowing students to cheer it on.
When a figure with a record this toxic is treated as an honored guest, the message to Jewish students is unmistakable: your safety, your dignity, and your concerns come second to spectacle.
A major development at UCLA: seven Jewish faculty members and academic appointees have filed to join a federal lawsuit over antisemitic incidents on campus. Their filing alleges UCLA fostered an environment in which antisemitism and “anti-Zionist” harassment were allowed to flourish, fundamentally altering their working conditions and denying them equal protections under the law.
This matters because universities love to talk about inclusion until Jewish faculty and students ask for it too. UCLA has already faced a Justice Department lawsuit over an alleged hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff. Now Jewish faculty themselves are stepping forward to communicate that the problem is both real and ongoing.
An innocent Iranian woman is now facing a death sentence for protesting the regime.
Multiple outlets report that Bita Hemmati has been sentenced to death alongside her husband Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl after their participation in anti-regime protests in Tehran.
According to reports, more than 1,600 Iranians currently face death sentences for standing up to the regime.
Human rights groups say Hemmati is believed to be the first woman sentenced to death in connection with this latest protest wave.
This is what the Islamic Republic does when its own people demand freedom: it terrorizes and murders them. A regime that threatens, jails, and sentences protesters to death for speaking out is not strong. It is afraid.
