Friday, June 12, 2026

 IRAN
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/12/iran-deal-mou-strait-open-sanctions-relief "No Deal is better than a bad deal," Mark Dubowitz, FDD
EmojiThe Iranian regime have admitted that Trita Parsi acted as an unregistered lobbyist for Tehran. He’s been one of the main forces spreading pro-regime propaganda in the U.S., in coordination with elements of the far-left and right. Stephen Bannon has promoted Parsi and talked about how Parsi has been working with American Conservative’s Curt Mills. The State Dept is considering possible deportation proceedings. Parsi is a Swedish-Iranian foreign policy analyst, author, the founder of NIAC, and Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, 
EmojiIran’s Mehr news agency publishes the purported text of the draft agreement with Trump. It reads like an IRGC wish list. Translation here: https://x.com/yarotrof/status/2065357315058880709?s=20 Mehr News is run by an entity called the Islamic Propaganda Organisation (سازمان تبلیغات اسلامی)
EmojiThe US burned through half its rockets before the latest round of war with Iran and global oil inventories/reserves are on the brink of being used up. If you're short on time, listen to last 5 minutes, from 28 in this podcast: 
EmojiIran's Execution Machine Is Running at Full Speed (RealClear World) 
EmojiAircraft Shot Down by Iran  – Are The Same Types Of Aircraft Along With Their Top-Secret Technology Sold to Qatar Despite DoD Concerns https://www.memri.org/reports/subhan-allah-%E2%80%93-allah-be-praised-%E2%80%93-what-coincidence-us-f-15-apache-and-mq-9-combat-aircraft
EmojiDo you or someone you know use natural human hair for example for extensions or wigs? Please think about how that hair is sourced. There are reports of illegal exports of hair from Iran. Is it coming from women dealing with poverty or from prisoners? https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2026/06/09/customs-undeclared-hair/3161322, https://wncri.org/2025/04/14/selling-hair-to-survive-iranian-women/, https://www.newarab.com/news/us-seizes-human-hair-shipment-made-uighur-camps

Media Matters
The most important revelation of the Gaza war—indisputable proof that Hamas & PIJ systematically posed as journalists—continues to be ignored by the mainstream media.
EmojiCommittee to Protect Journalists has quietly removed 8 fake Gaza "journalists" because it finally admitted they "participated in combat." CPJ issued over 100 articles since 10/7 slamming Israel but not ONE mention that Hamas & PIJ abused the press vest for combat. https://x.com/Aizenberg55/status/2063991178593239104?s=20
Emoji“TrackAIPAC,” the social media account  run by Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy (who live in Germany) that demonizes lawmakers for supporting Israel and accuses them of acting as “foreign agents,” got its start on X as “California for Warren” https://freebeacon.com/democrats/america-first-aipac-tracker-was-first-california-for-warren-describing-itself-as-part-of-massachusetts-senators-presidential-campaign/ see also https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2063397804861768040?s=20
EmojiNewsGuard’s audit of 11 leading AI models finds they repeated false claims related to the Iran war 25% of the time. https://www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/may-2026/
EmojiAP takes the infantilization of Palestinians to a new nadir, reaching parody proportions. https://www.camera.org/article/camera-op-ed-no-lie-too-extreme/ Honest Reporting described another Associated Press piece:  Journalism should inform, not steer audiences toward a predetermined conclusion. By privileging activist narratives, omitting key historical context, and relying heavily on emotionally loaded framing, AP's reports fall short of that standard. https://x.com/HonestReporting/status/2064990313748348981
Emoji🧃👃🪁🧼 These emojis may look harmless, but they’re increasingly being used to disguise antisemitic slurs, stereotypes, conspiracy theories, and Holocaust mockery.

Show Your Pride?

The organizers of the Rome Pride Parade announced that the Jewish LGBTQ+ groups Keshet Italia and Keshet Europe will not be allowed to join the parade with a float
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rome-pride-bars-jewish-lgbt-group-for-not-distancing-itself-from-gaza-genocide/ Conditioning a marginalized group's inclusion in Pride on specific political tests contradicts the movement's foundational values.
In an opinion piece in The Forward, psychologist Joshua Simmons highlights how the aftermath of Oct. 7 has fractured LGBtQ+ spaces for queer Jews…
Tel Aviv holds first Pride parade since Oct. 7 - Israel is the only country in the Middle East to host a pride parade. https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-holds-first-pride-parade-since-oct-7-cops-impede-some-anti-government-marchers/

ARTS
EmojiNatalie Portman, Justine Triet and Jacques Audiner joined over 350 French cinema figures in an open letter to condemn the cultural boycott of Israeli director Nadav Lapid as "an intellectual failure" after pressure forced him off a festival jury… Note: Lapid is a sharp critic of Netanyahu's government. Anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activists have a long history of turning on their own  https://honestreporting.com/nadav-lapid-filmmaker-fierce-critic-of-israel-latest-victim-of-bds-mob/
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EUROPE
Poland seizes heroin shipment from UAE worth almost $60 million

GULF
Gulf family offices are reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar and shifting toward diversified currency holdings, including the Swiss franc and euro, amid concerns about geopolitical risk. 

LIBYA
Ten members of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud land convoy were detained by eastern Libyan authorities more than a week ago, and their detention has now been extended. Unlike with Israel, the case has received no international media coverage or global outrage

UK
EmojiAttempted Beheading Sparks Violent Riots Across The United Kingdom - ‘Beheading’ suspect used asylum loophole to enter UK https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/09/belfast-stabbing/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bui5DKDuTUc  This horrific event reminded me of the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby in May 2013. Two Islamic extremists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, ran Rigby down with a car and used knives and meat cleavers to hack and attempt to decapitate him on John Wilson Street in Woolwich, south-east London.  
EmojiFour Palestine Action members were convicted of criminal damage and sentenced to prison. One was also convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a police officer

UN
EmojiUSAID OIG’s “active and ongoing investigation” has either suspended or debarred 108 UNRWA staff for “having participated in the October 7 and/or having Hamas affiliation,” https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-news/more-than-100-unrwa-staff-helped-hamas-carry-out-oct-7-attack-federal-watchdog/
EmojiUN human-rights experts are increasingly apologists for terrorists and authoritarians.

USA
Emoji8 linked to UM indicted by Federal Grand Jury in Detroit for threats (incl. to poison an individual), vandalism targeting University of Michigan regents, police, and businesses. One of the 8, Mariam Odeh, was on the staff of U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as recently as April.
EmojiIn NYC, Mamdani is about to wipe $40 billion off the pensions of New York City workers, demanding divestment from companies with business ties to Israel. https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/israel-divestment-could-cost-nyc-taxpayers-37-billion-new-adl-jlens
EmojiMohsen Mahdawi, a 34 year old at Columbia University who spent 15 years as an undergrad student, is appealing deportation to his native Jordan. Mahdawi was one of the leading agitators at the Columbia riots post 10/7. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/mohsen-mahdawi-appeals-retaliatory-ruling-from-board-of-immigration-appeals-to-federal-appeals-court
EmojiGOOD NEWS: the Modern Language Association (MLA) rejected Resolution 2026-1, an anti-Israel measure that sought to dismiss concerns about antisemitism as “weaponized” while falsely accusing Israel of genocide. The MLA is the principal professional organization in the United States for scholars of language and literature.
EmojiGOOD NEWS: The North Carolina Democratic Party voted down a resolution that would have falsely labeled Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide."

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Thursday, June 11, 2026

 Media Matters
EmojiIran launched missiles at Israel, after weeks of incessant rocket and drone fire on Israel by its terror proxy Hezbollah, which rejected a U.S.-mediated ceasefire agreement last week that was agreed to by the Israeli and Lebanese governments. Iran's targeting civilians with missiles is a war crime. Hamas continues to hold the population of Gaza hostage and remains armed. Meanwhile, the homepage of the most influential news outlet on earth, the New York Times, top three stories were about Israel on Sunday. Have you heard of a communications scholar named Maxwell McCombs? His core finding is simple: The press is not very good at telling people what to think. It is extraordinarily good, however, at telling people what to think ABOUT. And what the New York Times has decided you should think about, every single day, multiple times a day, forever and always, is Israel. You cannot saturate the most influential newsroom in the English language with relentless coverage of one small country and then act surprised when the public becomes similarly hyper-fixated with it. The animosity we constantly see is the predictable output of editorial selection, repeated daily, until it becomes the background music of how people think about the Jewish state. https://linktr.ee/EFischberger
EmojiA BBC presenter who criticised its coverage of Hamas was sacked for a breach of impartiality. Yet at BBC Arabic, staff, freelancers or contributors who expressed sympathy for Hamas or promoted antisemitism on social media - most weren't fired.
EmojiNBC, ABC, NPR Omit Reason for Israel’s Intensified Strikes in Lebanon https://www.camera.org/article/nbc-abc-npr-omit-reason-for-israels-intensified-strikes-in-lebanon/, 
EmojiThe Media's Inversion of Hezbollah's War Against Israel. https://spencerguard.substack.com/p/the-medias-inversion-of-hezbollahs
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IRAN
EmojiIran insists on a full “regional” ceasefire, in other words: a deal that protects Hamas and Hezbollah from Israeli self defense. 
EmojiStudent Protests have resumed in Iran. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202606074330
EmojiIranian Influence Campaign Targeting Arab Society in Israel Ahead of Elections 
EmojiMeta’s AI support bot happily handed Instagram accounts to pro-Iran-govt hackers https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ai/2026/06/metas-ai-support-bot-happily-handed-instagram-accounts-to-hackers

LEBANON
EmojiEurope pours millions into Lebanon as Hezbollah rejects ceasefire https://worldisraelnews.com/europe-pours-millions-into-lebanon-as-hezbollah-rejects-ceasefire/
EmojiWe are now entering the third month of President Donald Trump’s “two week” ceasefire. As Hezbollah controls the Lebanese parliament, Hezbollah is controlled by Iran, and in its manifestos has publically stated it will never honor a ceasefire with Israel, an actual end to hostilities seems unlikely. 
EmojiLebanese president accuses Iran of using his country as a bargaining chip in peace talks with the US https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/05/middleeast/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-peace-intl
EmojiHizbullah fighters have embedded themselves inside the Christian neighborhood of Tyre, after fleeing other areas of the southern Lebanese city. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-898130

PALESTINIANS
EmojiFlotilla Fabulists: How ‘Activists’ Manufacture Atrocity Propaganda 
EmojiThe Jewish state has spent decades taking risks for peace. The harder question is why so few are willing to ask anything comparable of the Palestinians https://rabbistevenabraham.substack.com/p/the-question-jeremy-ben-ami-refuses
EmojiThe Barghouti Myth: How the World Is Being Asked to Canonize a Dynasty of Violence  (Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs)

QATAR
EmojiQatar has gone significantly further than supporting Arab-language education, as QFI now claims is its goal, and has instead undertaken efforts to exercise influence over social studies, science, technology, art and mathematics curricula, activism and educational professional development programs — and deliberately engaged in efforts to shield its work and influence, using the credibility of host organizations to which it provided funding.

SYRIA

UK
EmojiFar-left anti-Israel podcasters Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur banned from entering Britain ahead of scheduled appearance. https://worldisraelnews.com/israel-hating-podcasters-barred-from-britain-over-antisemitism/
EmojiThe President of the Oxford Union Debating Society, Arwa Elrayess, stated that Hamas members would one day be "lauded as heroes" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78k22z2n94o
EmojiAnother police scandal: National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) published a now deleted extremist screed ostensibly to confront anti-Muslim hatred. The paper branded Zionism as "one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred" and labeled the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a "Zionist terrorist group". It also defended Hamas.  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/06/britains-muslim-police-association-defends-hamas/

UN
EmojiUN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West. https://unwatch.org/report-u-n-experts-accepted-funding-from-china-russia-qatar-pushed-their-interests/ see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXkHZtNXkRo
EmojiThe UN said that nine staff working for its Palestine refugee agency UNRWA will be sacked because they may have been involved in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152841
EmojiThe UN has placed Israel on a blacklist of entities accused of wartime sexual violence alongside groups such as Hamas and ISIS without evidence.https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/artc-not-my-job-un-official-says-did-not-review-evidence-before-blacklisting-israel-for-sex-crimes-alongside-hamas

USA
EmojiBrooklyn’s Park Slope Co-op voted by a 2-to-1 margin in favor of boycotting Israeli products. This BDS vote takes products of coexistence-promoters off NYC co-op’s shelves. That seems to be the point.
EmojiDuring Democratic debates for NY-7 and NY-10 congressional districts, candidates were asked about Israel. NY-12 candidates refused the 'genocide' bait. NY-7 candidates were unanimous in their condemnation of Israel. The Gaza genocide libel should be treated as the wild conspiracy theory that it is, and not a matter that is subject to debate. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4589534/israel-gaza-genocide-myth-debunked-blood-libel/
EmojiTrump nixed Israeli plan to overthrow Iranian regime after Turkish pressure - Israeli intelligence sources have accused Vice President JD Vance of leaking a Mossad plan to use Kurdish forces against Iran to Turkish President Erdogan.
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