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A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a $656 million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA), reviving a major verdict tied to terror attacks in Israel that killed or wounded Americans.
The ruling follows years of legal battles over whether U.S. courts can hear these cases, with Congress passing a 2019 law to strengthen victims’ ability to pursue claims.
For victims and their families, this is a significant step toward accountability — not just moral, but legal and financial. It reinforces a basic principle: those linked to acts of terrorism can be challenged in court and face consequences.
The broader legal questions are ongoing, but this decision signals that efforts to hold Palestinian leadership accountable for violence against civilians are moving forward.
Antisemitism on UK campuses is becoming harder to ignore. A new Union of Jewish Students report found that 47% of students have witnessed justification of the October 7th attacks, rising to 77% among those who regularly encounter Israel-Palestine protests.The same report found that 23% of students have seen behavior targeting Jewish students for their religion or ethnicity.
One example in the report is especially stark: a flat of non-Jewish students reportedly posted that they had “only one rule – no Zios in the flat.” The report describes “Zio” as an antisemitic slur and a code word for Jew, which it says was coined by former KKK leader David Duke.
The report also says this hostility is not isolated. It states that some student groups explicitly called for violence against Jews, including by justifying the December 2025 Bondi Beach terror attack, and that 49% of students have heard slogans or chants glorifying Hamas, Hezbollah, or other proscribed groups on campus.
This is not legitimate activism. It is the normalization of anti-Jewish hostility and terror apologism in institutions meant to educate the next generation.
In January, Iranian officials and state media were threatening families with lethal force if their children joined protests. Now, as the regime fights to hold onto power, it is reportedly urging those same families to send their children to checkpoints, dressing exploitation up as manhood and sacrifice.
That is the moral reality of the Islamic Republic. It does not protect children, it uses them. It threatens them when they resist, and it instrumentalizes them when it’s afraid to lose power. Whether through crackdowns on protesters or by putting minors in harm’s way, this regime treats young lives as expendable in service of its survival.
This is not strength, but depravity. A regime that rules through fear, repression, and the abuse of its own children has lost any claim to legitimacy. The Islamic Republic has spent decades brutalizing Iranians, exporting terror and extremism, and sacrificing innocent lives for ideology and control. The world must see it for what it is.
🚨 BREAKING: The Israeli Consulate building in Istanbul was targeted in a terror attack. AP reports that three assailants armed with long-barreled weapons opened fire at police outside the building housing the consulate, sparking a gunfight. One attacker was killed and the other two were captured with injuries, while two Turkish police officers were also wounded. 
This is another reminder that anti-Israel terror does not stay in slogans. It becomes bullets, bloodshed, and attacks on diplomatic sites. The attackers came prepared to cause terror, and only the rapid response of Turkish security forces prevented an even worse outcome.
Missile shrapnel from the Islamic Republic of Iran fell near a mosque in Israel, a stark reminder that the regime’s violence is not selective. News reports also confirm that fragments have landed near the Al-Aqsa compound and other holy sites in Jerusalem after missiles were fired toward the city.
This is what Iranian terror looks like in real life. Civilians of every background put at risk including Jews, Muslims, Christians, and others who all live under the same threat when the regime launches missiles at population centers. The target is civilian life itself.
A University of Arkansas professor, Dr. Shirin Saeidi, is facing dismissal after social media posts that were widely criticized for appearing to endorse violence against “Zionists.” University leadership has moved to terminate her after overruling a faculty committee that recommended against it.
According to local news outlets in Arkansas, last year, Dr. Saeidi was also accused of using official university letterhead to advocate for Hamid Nouri’s release from Swedish prison. Nouri, an Islamic Republic official, was arrested by swedish police in 2019, and sentenced to life in prison for the role he played in the mass execution of Iranian political prisoners in 1988.
This moment raises a serious question: when political rhetoric crosses into language that appears to justify violence, where should universities draw the line?
“Zionist” is not an abstract political label but closely tied to Jewish identity. When calls for harm are framed as an attack on “Zionists,” they risk being understood as targeting Jews more broadly.
After surviving Hamas captivity, Bar Kuperstein rewrote the journal he had kept during that nightmare from memory and published it under the name “Unbroken.” Then he sat down with President Isaac Herzog and shared the story behind it.
The title says everything. Unbroken.
Because even after all he endured, Bar chose to remember, to write, to speak, and to live. His voice is a testament to resilience, and his meeting with the president was a moving reminder that the stories of survivors matter, not only for what they reveal, but for the strength and resilience they exhibit.
Another senior figure in the Islamic Republic’s terror machine is gone. Following a targeted Israeli airstrike, Iranian state media announced the death of Majid Khademi, the head of the IRGC’s intelligence organization.
Khademi was part of the system that helps the regime surveil, control, and brutalize its enemies at home and abroad. Through the IRGC, that apparatus has helped perpetuate the oppression of Iranians and the export of material and ideological support to the regime’s terror proxies across the region.
Men like Khademi do not just serve one office or one branch of government. They help sustain the intelligence and command structure behind forces that threaten the entire region.
