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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.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon blasted the BBC during an interview over their biased coverage of Hezbollah’s attacks on northern Israel. In a post afterward, Danon wrote: “Enough with the one-sided coverage,” and said he challenged the interviewer on when the BBC would start telling the whole story.
The interviewer asked Danon about IDF strikes at Red Cross facilities, and Danon responded by demanding that the BBC acknowledge the cause of the current conflict: Hezbollah’s attacks on Israeli communities.
Hezbollah continues to pose a threat and carry out attacks on Israel’s northern front. When major media outlets reduce that reality or blur the severity of the attacks Hezbollah is launching into Israeli civilian areas, they mislead the public.
A new study from the Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University paints a devastating picture of campus life for American Jewish students: nearly half of them report experiencing antisemitism. That finding should motivate every university administrator, faculty leader, and elected official to work tirelessly to combat this scourge of hate.
No student should have to wonder whether being openly Jewish will make them a target. Yet for too many Jewish students, that is now part of their college experience.
Holding administrations accountable for their failure to protect Jewish students is a critical part of accomplishing that very goal. If these schools won’t do their duty, they must be incentivized to do so.
Bill Maher has long been the one to say what too many are afraid to say out loud. In September 2025 he called out the lack of media and public attention on the massacres of Christians in Nigeria by Islamist extremist groups. He rightly asked, “Where are the kids protesting this?”
Christians are also being massacred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Islamist ISIS-linked group the ADF. Still, no one is talking about it.
The amount of selective moral outrage by students on many campuses in the US and across the world is staggering.
NEW REPORT: Tel Aviv University says Canada and Australia recorded their highest levels of antisemitic incidents to date in 2025. The same report found that antisemitic killings worldwide reached their highest level in over three decades, with 20 Jews murdered in major attacks.
That should alarm every Western democracy. Antisemitism is intensifying, being normalized, and turning deadly even more than in previous years. The report also stipulates that in both New York and Britain, the end of the war in Gaza preceded an increase in antisemitic attacks.
Western leaders and societies at large cannot keep pretending this is under control. Record-setting antisemitism in democratic countries isn’t an outlier, it’s a crisis.
A historic moment in Washington: Secretary of State Marco Rubio brought the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors together face to face for their first direct talks since 1993. During the meetings, which Rubio described as starting the “process” of freedom for both nations from the control of Iran-backed Hezbollah. Both sides signaled that Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon is a central threat.
These meetings are not anti-Lebanon, they’re anti-Hezbollah. Rubio said it clearly: “The Lebanese people are victims of Hezbollah. The Lebanese people are victims of Iranian aggression.” Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter explained after the meeting that the two countries discovered that they’re “on the same side of the equation.”
Both Lebanese and Israeli civilians deserve freedom from the threat Hezbollah poses as a regional arm of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s genocidal regime. This is the first step towards achieving that.
This is the message Lebanese TV host Walid Abboud delivered to Hezbollah in a clip now spreading widely online. His message was blunt including the sentiment for the group to take its weapons, rockets, drones, flags, and allegiance to Iran with them.
The world should understand that opposition to Hezbollah is not only coming from Israel. It’s coming from within Lebanon, from people who are tired of living under the shadow of an Iranian terror proxy that claims to defend the country while helping destroy it. Reports from today explain that Hezbollah is still pressuring the Lebanese government over talks with Israel, a reminder that the terror organization continues to act like it has power above the state.
