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Senator John Fetterman said it plainly: if you have to pick a side, pick our side. Pick civilization. Pick Israel.
Israel is America’s strongest regional ally, a democracy under constant threat, and a frontline state against global terror and extremism. Standing with Israel should not be controversial for anyone with liberal values, it should be obvious.
At the funeral of Muhammad Wishah, a crowd was heard chanting “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud” a phrase widely inferred as violent anti-Jewish incitement.
According to the IDF, despite Wishah’s cover as an Al Jazeera journalist, he was actually a Hamas operative in charge of weapons manufacturing. He was killed in an IDF airstrike last Wednesday.
The message coming from the crowd laying him to rest was violent and hateful incitement towards Jews. Not Israel, Jews.
This is the reality too many people still refuse to confront: anti-Jewish hatred is at the heart of anti-Israel animosity. And it’s this type of violent indoctrination and incitement that makes peace so difficult to sustain.
At least 43 civilians were killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in an attack attributed by the army to the Allied Democratic Forces, an armed group linked to ISIS.
According to Reuters, attackers burned homes, killed residents—some with machetes—and abducted civilians in Ituri province.
The ADF has been responsible for a significant share of violence against civilians in eastern Congo in recent years. In past attacks, the group has targeted Christian communities in the region, which is predominantly Christian.
Mass violence like this has become disturbingly routine in eastern Congo, especially against Christians, yet it rarely receives sustained global attention.
The hypocrisy is staggering. While ordinary Iranians suffer under repression, relatives of regime insiders have apparently been living in luxury and prestige in the United States. Reuters and AP report that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already moved to revoke the visas of at least four Iranian nationals tied to the regime, including relatives of Qassem Soleimani and a former top national security adviser.
The same reports state that a further three to four thousand Iranian elites could also face visa revocation. The U.S. is finally scrutinizing whether people tied to a terror-supporting dictatorship should be enjoying the privileges of life in America.
Some of those connected to the regime have even been employed by American educational institutions.
A major blow to Hezbollah. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said hundreds of Hezbollah operatives were hit in a surprise operation at headquarters across Lebanon, describing it as the group’s largest concentrated hit since the pager operation. Israel targeted over 100 Hezbollah sites, including command centers, in the largest strike of the current conflict.
Hezbollah chose to attack Israel on behalf of Iran. Israel is making clear that those decisions will carry consequences at every level of the terror group’s chain of command.
The IDF says it eliminated Muhammad Samir Muhammad Washah, a Hamas operative who posed as a journalist while actively planning attacks on Israeli troops. The IDF reports Washah was a senior figure in Hamas’s rocket and weapons production network and was involved in developing drones, rockets, and weapons smuggling across Gaza.
This is exactly what makes terror groups like Hamas so dangerous. They hide behind civilian roles, exploit the protections of journalism, and use that cover to advance violence. Israel says the strike was based on precise intelligence and that it took steps to minimize civilian harm while neutralizing an imminent threat.
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.
