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Hananya Naftali reminded the internet how Jewish and Israeli students were treated at UCLA during the encampments and protests that followed the October 7th massacre.
UCLA is now being sued once again for what the US Department of Justice calls, ‘deliberate indifference to the suffering of its Jewish and Israeli students,’ in the suit.
Universities cannot claim to be adequately addressing hatred against Jews on campus while simultaneously allowing their mistreatment.
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams will attend the Israel Day parade this weekend, an event every mayor of New York City has attended since the event’s inception.
This kind of allyship from the city’s former mayor is so important. Israel’s diversity will be represented at the event including members of the Jewish, Muslim, Druze, Christian, and other communities who call Israel home.
Solidarity, truth, and equality will be on full display in Manhattan on Sunday. 💙🇺🇸🇮🇱
At the graduation ceremony for Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, administrators refused to hand over a diploma to a student who broke the university’s rules by displaying a Palestinian flag on the ceremonial stage.
The announcer eventually told the student that all flags are prohibited, allowing the student to hand the flag to someone offstage. The student then immediately received his diploma.
Standing beside both the Israeli and Druze flags, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar spoke about religion as a source of faith, strength, and love instead of hatred. He emphasized that respect for all people and all religions must remain a core value. This is especially important in a region too often consumed by extremism and division.
The partnership between Israel’s diverse faith communities, from Jews to Druze, reflects a vision of coexistence rooted in mutual respect rather than sectarian hatred.
The Trump administration has filed a second lawsuit against UCLA, accusing the university of not taking action to protect Jewish and pro-Israel students from harassment during pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.
For many Jewish students, life on campus during the encampments meant harassment, exclusion, intimidation, and fear in spaces that are supposed to promote learning and safety.
Universities cannot claim to value diversity and inclusion while failing to protect Jewish students from targeted hostility.
Reality and truth MATTER.
In a viral exchange, popular streamer Sneako appeared visibly confused when an Arab Christian Israeli explained that he worships freely in Israel and experiences coexistence firsthand. While Sneako repeatedly tried to convince him that Jews secretly hate him, the Israeli calmly rejected the narrative and responded that love is stronger than hate.
The conversation also exposed the disconnect between online propaganda and reality when Sneako claimed Christians freely practice in Iran. The arab Israeli disputed this claim, noting the severe restrictions faced not only by Christians, but even by Sunni Muslims under the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regime-controlled religious system.
Too many influencers push false narratives about the Middle East without understanding the people actually living there. Honest conversations grounded in lived experience matter more than ideological slogans.
BREAKING: A fire broke out at a major kosher supermarket in London’s Golders Green neighborhood, with police and firefighters saying it’s too early to determine a cause. Large emergency response teams were on scene quickly. No injuries were reported.
Golders Green is one of the UK’s most prominent Jewish communities, and this comes amid an alarming spate of violent antisemitic incidents in the area, including an arson attack against ambulances, and a stabbing attack targeting Orthodox Jews at a bus stop.
Jewish communities should not have to fear that their synagogues, businesses, schools, or neighborhoods could become targets simply because they are Jewish.
The incredible Emirati peace activist Laoy Alshareef explained a few days ago that Hezbollah’s constant attacks against Israeli civilians since the ‘cease-fire’ constitute major breaches of that agreement.
As Laoy puts it, “defending Lebanese sovereignty doesn’t mean allowing Hezbollah to turn Lebanon into a battlefield.”
Both Israeli and Lebanese civilians have had enough of Hezbollah’s control in the region. All civilians deserve safety from the grip of the Iranian regime’s terror proxies.
🎥: lalshareef
