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A disturbing new report says Palestinian women are coming forward with allegations of abuse by Hamas members inside Gaza, including sexual abuse and exploitation tied to food access and the group’s broader control over daily life and everyday women’s autonomy.
The Daily Mail says women described being threatened, harassed, and controlled by Hamas figures who acted as though they were above all accountability.
That’s the reality so many people still refuse to confront: Hamas doesn’t only kidnap and murder Israelis, it also brutalizes Palestinians. A terrorist regime that rules through fear, coercion, and abuse is just as much of a danger to the people trapped under its’ rule.
More than 40,000 runners took to the streets of Jerusalem for this year’s marathon, and one of the most powerful moments belonged to Hamas captivity survivor Rom Braslavski, who helped kick off the race.
Braslavski said that just one year earlier, on that same date, he was still being held in Gaza and could not have imagined being strong enough to stand at the Jerusalem Marathon in the city where he was raised.
That’s more than a comeback, it’s the Israeli spirit in one story. Rom was tortured, starved, and abused by a terror organization that kidnapped him, and now he’s safe and providing hope and inspiration to an entire nation.
🎥: IsraelMFA, Jerusalem Marathon
Muslim Israeli stand-up comedian Mohamed Namaa has performed for IDF soldiers in Gaza three times, and he performs in Tel Aviv in Hebrew regularly.
This is the reality extremists never want people to see: a diverse Israeli society where people of different faiths and identities stand together, use humor to cope with unimaginable realities, and support those defending civilian life.
Video circulating from the University of Minnesota shows anti-Israel, ‘pro-Palestine,’ demonstrators protesting outside of Chabad where IDF soldiers were taking part in a speaking event.
A Chabad center is supposed to be a place of safety, community, and belonging for Jewish students. This sort of harassment outside a Jewish space is designed to intimidate. Instead, the students and staff at Chabad responded with pro-Israel pride, sending a message that they will not be deterred by the mob.
Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE has said it will not broadcast Eurovision 2026 because Israel is still participating.
This is not neutrality, but purposely singling out the world’s only Jewish state for exclusion.
Eurovision has chosen to keep Israel in the contest, yet Spain chose boycott over acceptance and coexistence.
This move is a discriminatory, disgraceful example of a lack of moral clarity among a nation’s decision-makers.
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.
