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Shame on the United Nations. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been nominated by ECOSOC to the U.N. Committee for Programme and Coordination, a body that helps shape priorities touching women’s rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. Watch dog organization UN Watch reported the nomination went through without objection and explains the United States was the only ECOSOC member to formally dissociate itself from the consensus.
A regime that jails dissidents, murders innocent protestors, and arms terror proxies, should be nowhere near a committee with this kind of mandate. This is not diplomacy. It is moral collapse.
🎥: UN Watch
Concentration camps are not the place for political protest.
More than 56,000 people were murdered at the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald. For survivors and their families, April 11, the day the camp was liberated, is sacred history, a moment of survival and remembrance.
Holocaust memorial sites exist to honor the victims, preserve the truth of Nazi crimes, and combat antisemitism. They must remain places of reflection and education, not platforms for modern political demonstrations that distort or exploit the memory of those who were murdered.
Mahmoud Khalil lost his latest appeal in his deportation case, according to reporting on Friday, bringing him closer to possible removal from the U.S.
Khalil, a Columbia-linked protest activist, was detained after participating in anti-Israel campus protests over the Gaza war.
His attorneys argue the case is politically motivated, while the government has said his protest activity was aligned with Hamas.
A protest was being organized against the Buchenwald Memorial by an anti-Zionist group over the site’s “ban” on pro-Palestinian symbols, including keffiyehs.
The ban was upheld by German courts, in service of protecting the integrity of Holocaust remembrance.
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.
