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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.
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.
