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Jared Firestone’s journey is nothing short of extraordinary. 🇮🇱❄️
Jared grew up as a runner in Florida, and became a lawyer, but never gave up on his dream of being an Olympic athlete.
He discovered skeleton, one of the most “demanding and fearless sports in the Winter Games.” Through relentless dedication, he earned qualification to compete for Israel at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
Jared has also been chosen as one of Israel’s flag bearers, a powerful symbol of perseverance, identity, and national pride.
From the courtroom to the Olympic podium, Jared Firestone carries the hope of a nation. 🇮🇱🔥
🎥: atheletes4israelorg
American military contractors stationed in Gaza rescued a litter of abandoned puppies and are bringing them home to be adopted into loving families. 🐕
In a place so controlled by destructive ideologies, this small act of compassion reminds us that the same people working to protect lives and restore stability will always find time to save the most vulnerable.
These are some tough guys showing the world what humanity looks like. ❤️
Doctors Without Borders presents itself as neutral, but recent developments raise serious questions.
Israeli authorities say they require enhanced staff vetting for NGOs operating in Hamas-controlled territory to prevent terrorist infiltration.
MSF initially indicated it would comply with this policy, then reversed course, while continuing public advocacy critical of Israeli policy and disputing claims about Hamas’ exploitation of humanitarian systems.
At the same time, critics note far less sustained international campaigning from MSF as Iranian doctors have faced arrest, torture, and even death sentences for treating injured protesters.
Neutrality requires consistency. When humanitarian advocacy appears selective, credibility suffers.
Flashback: at Columbia, the contrast was clear.
In April 2024, Jewish students stood together singing “God bless America” while waving Israeli and American flags.
The symbolism of this song with these flags is rooted in gratitude, belonging, and democratic values.
At the same time, pro-Palestine demonstrators on campuses and all over the world chant slogans bearing hostility and malice towards America and Israel.
One side affirms life, freedom, and the country that protects civil rights. The other embraces rhetoric that celebrates destruction and rejects those same values.
Words and values matter, and the future depends on which ones we choose to stand for.
Speaking at a press conference in Washington, DC, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi reminded the world of a powerful shared history.
“I went to Israel two years ago to show that we are the descendants of Cyrus the Great,” referencing the Persian king who, 2,500 years ago, helped free the Jewish people and enabled the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem.
The future doesn’t belong to extremist regimes or terror proxies. It belongs to the Iranian people and to a renewed alliance between Israel and a free Iran, rooted in history and driven by a shared commitment to life, dignity, and peace.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood up for the people of Iran, explaining they have nothing to do with the regime that rules over them.
Iran is a rich country with enormous potential, but its people are denied the quality of life they deserve because the regime chooses terror over citizens. Instead of investing in jobs, infrastructure, education, and freedom, the Islamic Republic pours its resources into sponsoring terrorism, funding proxy militias, and exporting its so-called “revolution” across the region and the world.
This isn’t a failure of the Iranian people, but a deliberate choice by a regime that prioritizes genocidal ideology, repression, and violence over prosperity and human dignity.
Until that changes, Iranians will keep paying the price for a government that wages war abroad and against its own people at home.
For 505 days, Hamas captivity survivor Eliya Cohen lived in darkness, starvation, and torture never knowing if the person he loved most was still alive.
Eliya had no idea that his partner, Ziv Abud, survived the Nova music festival massacre, even though his actions hiding her beneath piles of murdered bodies was likely what saved her. While she fought for him, he was kidnapped, imprisoned, and brutalized by a terror group whose cruelty is beyond words.
Their story is a reminder of the human cost of October 7 not statistics, but lives torn apart, love severed, and families forced to endure the unimaginable. We honor their survival, mourn what was stolen, and refuse to let the truth of Hamas’s crimes be forgotten.
At Canada’s Subcommittee on International Human Rights, Iranian-Canadian leaders Kaveh Shahrooz and Nazanin Afshin-Jam, alongside actress and Iranian activist Nazanin Boniadi, spoke with moral clarity on behalf of Iranians risking everything to win their freedom from the Islamic Republic.
Their message was unmistakable: this regime is not only brutal to its own people, it poses a threat to the entire region and to democratic societies, including Canada.
Standing with Iranians fighting for their lives and dignity is not optional. It is a human rights imperative.
Canada, and the world, must act.
