Friday, August 28, 2026

A military judge has finally set a 2028 trial date for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three co-defendants held at Guantanamo Bay -  June 5, 2028. Gerald Posner on X about what Riyadh and Islamabad knew before September 11: https://x.com/geraldposner/status/2092971970568581289?s=20
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MEDIA
EmojiCAMERA Media Corrections Archive
EmojiHow the San Francisco Chronicle uncritically printed demonstrably false claims made by Feroze Sidhwa—a featured subject in the film American Doctor. https://www.camera.org/article/feroze-sidhwa-and-the-san-francisco-chronicles-empty-standards/
Afew days ago, Amnesty International published a report documenting extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, and other abuses by Hamas militias against Palestinians in Gaza. Has anyone seen any headlines about this? Any protests for Gaza against Hamas?
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FINLAND
Finland cuts all funding to UNRWA. https://yle.fi/a/74-20243252
GERMANY
The German state of Hesse banned the "pro-Palestinian" group Palästina e.V., citing the spread of antisemitic propaganda, denial of Israel's right to exist, and support for terrorism https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article6a840b6b07b9f9f1de12796c/wegen-antisemitischer-propaganda-hessen-verbietet-verein-palaestina-e-v.html
IRAN
EmojiHow to Close the Leaks in Iran's Economic Siege - (Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) The leaks in America's economic siege on Iran include the Turkish land corridor, the Iraqi backdoor, and the crypto shadow ledger.
EmojiIran invited to join to join the Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan Mecca defense pact
ITALY
Italy’s counter-terrorism police arrested a 17-year-old girl in Lombardy after uncovering explosive vest blueprints on her phone. Why it matters: This arrest highlights the growing trend of young women being radicalized online and the potential threat they pose. https://www.meforum.org/fwi/fwi-news/italian-police-arrest-teenage-female-jihadi-over-explosive-vest-blueprints-on-phone
PALESTINIANS/HAMAS/PA/GAZA
Did you hear Israel is warning against launching kites across the border? This week, Hamas has been directing to kids to launch kites toward Israel. Some (The Independent, the UN) imply that Israel is threatening children for flying kites. The war Hamas launched against Israel where they perpetrated the most horrific atrocities was launched with men in kites (paragliders). Additionally, from 2018-21, incindiary kites launched at Israel from Gaza resulted in more than 740 acres of forest destroyed by fire. Hamas, which is still in control of Gaza and is testing Israel's response
EmojiNATAN Worldwide Disaster Relief announced today that it will open a new medical clinic to serve 10,000 children in Gaza https://natanrelief.org/operations/gaza-relief/
EmojiHow Palestinian Authority schools celebrate October 7 - Please read, esp. Oct. 7 math for Palestinian kids in 3rd grade - https://palwatch.org/page/42380
EmojiPLO Praises October 7 Attack In Palestinian Daily Al-Quds: 'Another Step On The Path Of The Palestinian Struggle' https://www.memri.org/reports/member-plos-palestinian-national-council-praises-october-7-attack-palestinian-daily-al-quds
RUSSIA
Russia Signs Memorandum With Palestinian Authority To Document Archaeological Sites In The West Bank, Implying That Israel May 'Destroy' Them https://www.memri.org/reports/russia-signs-memorandum-palestinian-authority-document-archaeological-sites-west-bank
TURKEY
EmojiTurkish NGO Connected To Arms Shipments From Turkey To Jihadist Groups In Syria  https://www.memri.org/reports/turkish-ngo-insan-hak-ve-hurriyetleri-insani-yardim-vakfi-ihh-reportedly-connected-arms
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED NATIONS
EmojiThe United Nations slammed Israel’s threat to evacuate people from areas where kites, drones and balloons are launched in Gaza, https://hrvoices.org/article/outrageous-u-n-slams-threats-from-netanyahu-katz-to-evacuate-gazans-over-childrens-kites/
EmojiUN Chief Guterres Admits Special Rapporteurs Are “Totally Out of Control” – After Privately Calling Francesca Albanese a “Horrible Person” https://www.ft.com/video/4c3786ea-539c-4b09-99c5-f3b15917931
EmojiUN rights chief Volker Türk condemned the US more often than China, North Korea, Cuba, Saudi Arabia & Qatar combined. https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/quand-paris-celebre-la-faillite-des-droits-de-lhomme-OZF5RMVZ7FGTHHVIJAHYMWH3AI/
UNITED STATES
West Palm Beach based Powerus, a dronemaker backed by President Donald Trump’s sons struck a $22.3 million deal to sell counter-drone detection equipment to an energy company in the Persian Gulf.  Powerus, which has received several US defense contracts, is planning to merge with Aureus Greenway Holdings Inc., a golf-course operator backed by Trump’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. raising questions about potential conflicts of interest. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/trump-backed-dronemaker-signs-deal-with-gulf-based-energy-firm and https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/powerus-secures-223m-middle-east-counterdrone-contract-93CH-4841763
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Friday, August 21, 2026

Reminder: Wikipedia is not a reliable source.
Wikipedia editor replaced “Israel” with “Palestine” in the geographic range of the Arabian green bee-eater, a bird. Not a political article. This is part of a broader pattern of politically motivated anti-Israel editing that now reaches even the scientific pages, eroding Wikipedia’s reliability as a source of basic information. @Wikibias
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MEDIA
Following outreach from CAMERA, the Associate Press issued a major correction—now republished by 60+ outlets nationwide. A wire report mischaracterized Gaza casualty demographics. In reality the majority of fatalities are NOT women and children.
Reuters is operating as PR for terrorists (repeated in US News & World Report).  It featured glowing coverage of Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya after he met with Kushner in Egypt.
The New York Times Headlines That Changed the Story of the Gaza War 
The New York Times promises unfiltered reporting, but its photo choices tell a very different story.
AI Is Now a Superweapon Being Used Against the Truth | Van Jones & Noa Tishby
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EGYPT
Egypt wiped Israel off the map and replaced it with "Palestine" in the new Baccalaureate curriculum - http://www.cairo24.com
EUROPE
European Newspapers Slam UN Chiefs For Honoring UNRWA Terrorist. Die Welt, Bild, Frankfurter Rundschau, Die Welt also broadcast the item on its TV news broadcast, Italian daily  Libero, and  Austria's Exxpress published articles on UN Watch's  exposé about the UN leaders who paid tribute to an UNRWA teacher who was also a terrorist
IRAN
EmojiThe Elimination of Ali Khamenei Has Created a Vacuum  (Gatestone Institute) For the first time in almost 48 years, what is left of the Khomeinist leadership is taking the possibility of regime change seriously.
ISRAEL
Polls show 70% of Jewish Israelis fear for the integrity of the upcoming vote and 63% fear for the future of their democracy, Netanyahu’s strategies have shifted the election from a standard political contest into what many view as an existential crisis over domestic democratic collapse. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/65483
PAKISTAN
Muslim mob, linked to the Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), attacked and burned 27 Churches and 400 Christian Houses over False Blasphemy Charges - Police dispersed the attackers with the help of Muslim clerics and elders.  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pakistan-muslim-mob-attack-churches-christians-desecrating-quran-rcna100225
PALESTINIANS/HAMAS/PA
EmojiPoll: Decline in Palestinian Support for Hamas  (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research) 
EmojiGazans say Hamas abuses continue despite disarmament pledge - Among other examples, Hamas threatened veteran broadcaster for photographing squalor at Khan Younes hospital 
EmojiMany hostages were taken to Hamas HQ at Shifa hospital on October 7. Gazans and journalists knew this. None of the jornalists there reported it. Newly emerged exclusive Palestinian video footage now provides evidence that Al-Shifa Hospital served as a key Hamas command centre for the transfer and distribution of abducted Israelis. https://www.wolfgangtietze.de/7-october-the-hostages-held-by-hamas-at-al-shifa-hospital/
SAUDI ARABIA
Review of Saudi Textbooks 2024-2026 - Saudi Arabia has dropped the phrase 'The Muslims will never give up Jerusalem' from its school textbooks, as noted in a July 2026 IMPACT-se report reviewing 2024-2026 content. The changes also soften language on Israel, Zionism, non-Muslims, and religious exclusivity, aligning with efforts to promote coexistence and critical thinking. https://impact-se.org/publication/review-of-saudi-textbooks-2024-2026/
SYRIA
EmojiThe U.S. Should Follow the Evidence on Syria's New Government. (Washington Post) Developments inside Syria suggest the ideological makeup of the country's new rulers has not changed nearly as much as Western officials might wish to believe. 
EmojiIsrael Weighs Future Direction of Syria under al-Sharaa  (Ynet News) External pressure - particularly from the U.S. - is mounting for an Israeli withdrawal from the security zone Israel seized near the Golan Heights. At the same time, in new school textbooks being published in Syria, alongside strong hostility toward Iran, they also contain negative attitudes toward Israel. There is, however, a difference from the Assad era: Israel is referred to by name and the purpose of the conflict with it is not defined as advancing toward its annihilation or as an expression of support for the Palestinian cause. No one on the Syrian side is talking about peace or normalization, but many support advancing some form of arrangement between the two countries. And yet, this week, both the Syrian army and medical school graduates of Aleppo University chanted, "We are coming. Jew, we will make your blood flow like rivers." The incidents demonstrate the deep-seated hatred of Jews in Syria, not just anti-Israel bias. 
UK
USA
Franciscan University launching the FIRST EVER College Chapter of Coalition of Catholics Against Antisemitism! The Coalition of Catholics Against Antisemitism will launch its first college chapter at the Franciscan University of Steubenville this fall! Students asked to bring a grassroots organization fighting antisemitism to campus, and plan to actively work to counter false and hateful narratives among their peers
UZBEKISTAN
17 year-old wins at the Computer Science World Championship. Then had his title revoked after wrapping himself in the Israeli flag on the podium. (All the other winners were draped in their country's flags).  Yotam Budnik won the International Mathematical Olympiad in China.  Three weeks later he won the International Olympiad in Informatics in Uzbekistan He refused to hand back the physical gold medal saying they could delete his name but not his accomplishment https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/israeli-teens-medal-revoked-for-wearing-national-flag/
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Saturday, August 15, 2026

ERASURE
I hope that you'll consider making Israeli shakshuka or snacking on Israeli hummus this weekend. Denying Jewish indigeneity, culture, and historical experience makes Israel appear foreign and Jewish claims to culture and homeland illegitimate. The delegitimization of Israeli food is a predictable outgrowth of a broader campaign to denigrate Israel.  https://honestreporting.com/written-out-the-cultural-erasure-of-the-jewish-people/ and https://www.commentary.org/articles/gilead-ini/israeli-food-antizionist-palestinians/ and https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/2026/08/to-deny-mizrahi-food-is-to-finish-the-expulsion-by-other-means.html
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ON WAR
EmojiWhen one must do war, the ideal sequence is simple: War leads to victory or defeat, then renewed peace. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Hamas' invasion of Israel show once again that long, attritional wars aren’t relics of the past; Iran may be the latest proof.
EmojiA July 2026 survey by the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN) revealed that 51% of surveyed Iranians hold a positive view of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while only 13% expressed a desire to live under the ruling Islamic Republic, highlighting deep public alienation from the regime.
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GOP Probes Muslim Brotherhood's U.S. Influence as Democrats Boycott Hearing
Dalia Ziada: Those who boycotted the hearing or dismissed it as "anti-Muslim" are simply wrong. The fight against the Muslim Brotherhood is not a fight against Islam or Muslims.
Democrats blast Republicans over concern about targeting Muslim communities 
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More than 40 organizations from around the world have joined together in a campaign aiming to debunk 'Hamas genocidal propaganda' about the Gaza war. The genocide libel has emboldened open support for terror organizations and antisemitic rhetoric, especially after the October 7 massacre. The delegitimization pattern began in 1975, as part of an effort by the Arab countries and the USSR to hurt the U.S. and Israel. The goal remains the same: to isolate and remove Israel and the Jews from the community of nations. 
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CONSIDER THE SOURCE
EmojiHow the American Media (NBC, CNN, AP) Erased the Resume of Their Terror-Tied Gaza Source 

EmojiHonest Reporting has an excellent thread calling out recent ridiculously biased stories like NY Magazine's latest issue filled with Jewish erasure, genocide inversion, and rabid antizionist vitriol in “Habibi City;”  but these stories are not ridiculous because when you read this over and over, it starts to sound like the truth. Israeli food is theft. Israeli dance music is fascistic escapism. Air-conditioning and missile defense reveal a diseased national “cocoon.” A real-estate ad is a gateway to selling property over “mass graves.” Protecting one’s identity in a photo is an “admission of guilt.” https://x.com/HonestReporting/status/2087242759023337939?s=20

EmojiNPR is misleading audiences and presenting factually false descriptions. Twice in the last three weeks on State of the World, NPR described Judea and Samaria, aka the West Bank, as "Israeli occupied Palestinian territory." Classifying any part of the "West Bank" as Israeli or Palestinian runs counter to the "widely supported, international understanding that exact borders will be determined in final status negotiations." https://www.camera.org/article/npr-enters-the-map-making-business/

EmojiReuters published a 15-paragraph article and two-minute video explaining who the newly-appointed secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council is. Absent from this story was any mention of the Interpol warrant out for the former IRGC commander-in-chief Mohsen Rezaei for his role in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina in 1994 in which 85 people were murdered. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/who-is-irans-mohsen-rezaei-hardliner-appointed-key-security-role-2026-08-10/

EmojiDrop Site News whitewashes terrorism, shares Hamas talking points, and justifies anti-Israel violence hired someone, Ismail Nofal, who celebrates terrorism. https://x.com/EFischberger/status/2087259157145506261?s=20
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CHINA
Code Pink, China and its media tentacles (including China Times) promote anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda.
EmojiChina is suspected of funding pro-Palestine marches in the UK.
Code Pink Founder Medea Benjamin's radical ‘charity’ ordered To cease operations, as US ups pressure on charity’s shadowy benefactor, Neville Roy Singham.  Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, is married to Neville Roy Singham, a Maoist American tech mogul who funds far-left causes from his base in Shanghai and who's currently the subject of a Justice Department criminal probe.  
EmojiChinese Chatbots Push Propaganda to Western Users https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguardtech/p/chinese-chatbots-push-propaganda
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MECCA PACT
Links to three views of the new defense alliance between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and nuclear-armed Pakistan. Is it likely to pose a serious long-term threat to Israel? If the Mecca Pact was built to deter iran, its biggest missing piece is Israel. How can any serious architecture for containing Iran leave Israel out?
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PALESTINIANS
The International Stabilization Force has begun setting up bases and preparing for ground operations in Gaza. Hamas still isn't disarmed and Fatah has denounced the force as an addional occupation of the Gaza strip. Despite the catastrophe it brought upon Palestinians in Gaza by launching the Oct. 7 attack, Hamas remains popular among Palestinians. Polling by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research has shown if legislative elections were held, Fatah would receive 32%, followed by Hamas with 29%. 69% of the Palestinians oppose disarming Hamas. 86% said they did not believe that Hamas committed the atrocities against Israeli civilians depicted in videos from Oct. 7. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22788/hamas-secret-weapon-elections and https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/1014
Journalists Syndicate says Hamas gives healthy people medical evacuations for $30,000
ON CAMPUS
Haverford College announced a settlement to a lawsuit by Jewish students. The college said for the first time that discrimination against “Zionists,” or against Jews on the basis of their commitment to Israel’s existence, is a civil-rights violation that will incur discipline https://www.haverford.edu/president/news/message-president-raymond-0 and https://www.wsj.com/opinion/haverford-admits-its-antisemitism-problem-af3bcd53
Cambridge University has appointed Farah Ahmed as Assistant Professor of Education,  a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, and a woman who called Western education a “threat” to Muslims and democracy a “corrupt tradition.”  https://spectator.com/article/the-problems-with-the-faculty-of-education-go-beyond-jason-arday/
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Thursday, July 30, 2026

MEDIA
EmojiAs CPJ has acknowledged terrorists in its Gazan journalist database, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has made stealth edits of its own list - Without a public announcement and explanation, the International Federation of Journalists removed eight terrorism-tied individuals from its list of Palestinian media workers slain in the October 7 War
EmojiAl-Jazeera cuts staff at Gaza bureau over local objections - At least two of the laid-off Al-Jazeera staffers have been publicly identified by the Israeli military as Hamas fighters. https://peacecomms.substack.com/p/al-jazeera-cuts-staff-at-gaza-bureau
EmojiCollapse of the Blood Libels -Now the great indictment of Israel is coming apart, one revelation at a time, this fact is not being reported by a single damned one of the media outlets that have spent years screeching over the war in Gaza to the exclusion of almost all else. 
EmojiOmission as Editorial Policy: The Guardian’s Week of Curated Truths 
EmojiFrance 24 decided a founding member of Hamas could be introduced as "respected," "pragmatic," and "viewed as a moderate."https://x.com/HonestReporting/status/2079460977368531229?s=20 
EmojiThe missing terrorists: Lee Mordechai’s distorted Gaza narrative in Haaretz 
https://www.jns.org/opinion/shlomi-ben-meir/the-missing-terrorists-lee-mordechais-distorted-gaza-narrative
EmojiThe Most Important Story on Earth? Matti Friedman on the Media's Israel Obsession 
EmojiMs. Rachel Invokes Jesus to Spread Her Latest Anti-Israel Libel https://kevindeutsch.substack.com/p/ms-rachel-invokes-jesus-to-spread
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IRAN
Video: Iran's Isfahan flooded with security forces as protests break out over executions 

LEBANON

PA/HAMAS
EmojiOnce again, terrorist organizations are exploiting civilian identities to spread disinformation.The IDF has identified 12 active Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives who were presented internationally as "football players and referees." Several also participated in the October 7 massacre, including FIFA referee Mohammed Khattab and football player Ahmed Abu Al-Atta, both active members of terrorist organizations.
EmojiA random child in a random country is statistically more likely to have died of starvation than a child in Gaza in the middle of a supposed famine, according to Hamas' own reports. Leslie Kajomovitz https://x.com/kikas6652/status/2082160937096687956?s=20

QATAR
The strange relationship between Qatar and the ICC https://spectator.com/article/whats-going-on-with-qatar-and-the-icc/?edition=us

UKRAINE
Ukraine attacked an Iranian ship that was carrying weapons for Russia. The regime in Iran issued a direct threat against Ukraine.  https://fortune.com/2026/07/26/us-iran-war-ukraine-caspian-sea-houthis-red-sea-bab-el-mandeb-hormuz/ (easy explainer Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zxPtGVLvko)

UNITED STATES
EmojiThe Massachusetts legislature is considering a bill (S.2134 / H.3351) to establish an 11-member, state-funded American Muslim commission. The commission would be tasked with prioritizing qualified American Muslims in Massachusetts for jobs in state government over other residents of different religious backgrounds https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/07/26/pols-politics-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-establish-islamic-government-commission/ see also https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3351
EmojiMohsen Mahdawi, a young Palestinian activist facing deportation by the Trump Administration, told two separate law enforcement officials that he had killed Jews and likes to kill Jews. J Street is urging support for this "activist."
EmojiDistrict says San Jose public school didn’t discriminate in assignment asking if Hamas members are terrorists or freedom fighters - Just imagine, what would happen from Hollywood to the news media, academia to Congress, if any school anywhere in America asked students if the white supremacist who committed mass murder at the mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, was a "freedom fighter. Or, if the Ku Klux Klan were "freedom fighters." https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/scoop-district-says-san-jose-public-school-didnt-discriminate-in-assignment-asking-if-hamas-members-are-terrorists-or-freedom-fighters
EmojiIndiana University has permanently shut down its Muslim Philanthropy Initiative after scrutiny over its ties to a Treasury-sanctioned organization accused of funneling money to Hamas.Emoji
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