Not long ago, Snopes, a left-wing “fact-checking” site, finally admitted that former President Donald Trump had never called the neo-Nazis who marched at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 “very fine people.”
For years, Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have repeated this false claim. Indeed, Biden, who’s been running for the presidency since 1987, ludicrously told the press in 2019 that the events in Charlottesville, and Trump’s alleged reaction, inspired him to run in 2020.
Well, there’s a new Charlottesville every week in America nowadays. They aren’t led by a few hundred Nazi cosplayers, but thousands of Islamists and leftist fellow travelers whose goals are supported by numerous administration officials, congressmen, and newsrooms.
In the latest Charlottesville, a mob of pro-Hamas goons showed up in front of a synagogue in the heavily Jewish Pico-Robertson neighborhood in Los Angeles. They wore terror apparel, called for violence against Jews, allegedly beat up a Jewish woman, and impeded people from worshipping. Unlike in November, when a 69-year-old Los Angeles Jewish man was killed after a pro-Hamas “protester” threw a megaphone at his head, no one died.
If reports are true, the Los Angeles Police Department ensured that pro-Hamas “protesters” were able to encircle the synagogue and kept Jewish worshippers and counterprotesters out. Only one person was arrested, charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly possessing a “spiked flag”—as one does at a peaceful protest. I wonder if it was a Hamas flag or a Hezbollah one?
Many in the media again framed the violence as a clash between anti-Israel and pro-Israel protesters—“Protesters clash outside synagogue in L.A.” or “Fights break out during dueling protests in Pico-Robertson,” and so on.
But why do the pro-“Palestine” protesters show up in front of synagogues, Holocaust museums, and the performances of Jewish comedians in the first place? Why do they target Jewish students and Jewish businesses?
Pro-Israel protesters don’t show up in front of mosques. Nor do “peace protesters,” who never seem to object to the string of atrocities happening thousands of miles away in the Islamic world—which, unlike most claims regarding Gaza, aren’t concocted.
But back to Biden. His very presidency supposedly hinges on the events of Charlottesville, and yet outside the occasional perfunctory denunciations—where he usually reminds everyone of “Islamophobia”—he does nothing.
“I condemn the antisemitic protests,” Biden told reporters after anti-Jewish demonstrations at Columbia University a few months ago. “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
Boy, that sounds like the president is saying there are “very fine people” on both sides. Biden’s odious moral relativism is to compare antisemitic, keffiyeh-wearing terror cheerleaders and those who don’t “understand”—or accept—the rationalization for Hamas’ murder and rape of civilians.
The truth is Biden, who has repeated fake “genocide” casualty numbers to Muslim audiences, is scared to offend the pro-Hamas faction in his party. And it’s not just words. While Biden’s Justice Department is raiding the homes of pro-life protesters who pray in front of abortion mills or trying to throw elderly anti-abortion activists into prison, it does nothing about the systemic, highly funded, violent antisemitic movement that has erupted on campuses.
While Attorney General Merrick Garland likens the actions of parents who are opposed to COVID-19 restrictions and racist curriculums to “domestic terrorism”—there still hasn’t been a single incident to substantiate his action—he doesn’t have the same designation for pro-Hamas rioters who target synagogues and Jewish businesses.
While the Biden administration helps states deal with scary MAGA terrorists who embrace “anti-government or anti-authority violent extremism,” it does nothing about the DAs and AGs who let antisemites funded by Qatar do whatever they like.
Last week, the Manhattan district attorney let dozens of rioters (not protesters), who occupied and trashed Hamilton Hall, off without any charges. This week, a Jewish couple was allegedly beaten at a Brooklyn elementary school graduation by an Arabic-speaking family—who taunted them with shouts of “Free Palestine!”, “Gaza is Ours!”, and “Death to Israel!” I’m sure the perpetrators have nothing to worry about in NYC. They are perched high on the Left’s victim class hierarchy.
It would be nice if there was even a fraction of the anger or coverage of these new Charlottesvilles. But most Democrats aren’t offended by all antisemites. If you insult George Soros, sure, you may be condemned in the pages of The New York Times. If a pro-Hamas mob beats down a Jewish woman, we’re lucky if the paper even reports on the incident.
And every time there is a new Charlottesville, it not only affirms why Israel needs to exist—or that “anti-Zionism” and antisemitism are now indistinguishable—it tells us that Jews can’t rely on the contemporary Left to be on their side.
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off Thursday night in the first of two announced debates before the Nov. 5 election. CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash acted as moderators at CNN’s studios in Atlanta.
The one-on-one matchup of Biden and Trump was unique, not only because it pitted a president against his predecessor, but because it had no live audience and the two candidates’ microphones were muted when it wasn’t their time to speak.
Trump and Biden weren’t allowed to bring any notes or props onto the stage, where they traded jabs over such subjects as the economy, illegal immigration, abortion, and foreign policy on China, Iran, Israel, and terrorist groups.
Both Trump and Biden sought to use the 90-minute debate, well ahead of the Nov. 5 election, to highlight their respective successes as president and to criticize the other’s policies.
Some claims made from the stage were misleading or lacked adequate context. Here’s a sampling of 16.
1. ‘We Had the Safest Border in History, Now We Have the Worst’
Trump said the U.S. border was safer during his presidency than at any other time in history, adding that, under Biden, “now we have the worst border in history.”
Under the Biden administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has encountered 9.7 million illegal aliens on America’s borders. An additional 1.8 million “known gotaways” have crossed the border to enter the country under Biden’s presidency.
In fiscal year 2020, the last full year of Trump’s presidency, CBP encountered 458,088 illegal aliens on America’s southern border. So far in fiscal year 2024, which began Oct. 1, more than 1.6 million illegal aliens have been encountered at the southern border.
In fiscal year 2020, a total of 199 illegal aliens on the nation’s terrorist watch list were encountered on America’s borders. Since the start of fiscal 2024, a total of 316 migrants on the terrorist watch list have been encountered at U.S. borders.
On Biden’s first day in office, he signed an executive order stopping border wall construction and rolled back Trump’s border and immigration policies that he called “harsh and extreme.” When he took office in January 2021, Biden suspended Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which required asylum-seekers to stay outside the country, and formally ended the program in spring 2021.
Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott has said Mexican drug and criminal cartels are taking advantage of the Biden administration’s border policies.
2. Biden Accuses Trump of Recommending Drinking Bleach
Biden opened by claiming Trump said Americans should “drink bleach” to battle COVID-19. In July 2020, the left-leaning PolitiFact found this claim to be “mostly false.”
At the time, Trump spoke at a briefing with William Bryan, then-under secretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security. Bryan talked about a study that found that sun exposure and disinfectants such as bleach could kill the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 when it lingers on surfaces.
Trump said at that briefing: “I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with—but it sounds interesting to me.”
?FACT CHECK? Biden on Trump: "All he said was, it's not that serious, just inject a little bleach in your arm, you'll be all right." ??PANTS ON FIRE Here are the receipts: https://t.co/kMyRckAEofpic.twitter.com/UQ3qbIogu6
When Biden blamed Trump for the Supreme Court’s overturning Roe v. Wade and abortion on demand, in part because he appointed three of the nine justices, Trump asserted that “everybody wanted to get it back to the states.”
In July 2022, shortly after the Supreme Court overturned its 1973 ruling that legalized abortion on demand across America and nationalized the issue, polling found that a majority of Americans opposed overturning Roe.
The high court’s Dobbs decision gave the abortion question back to the people and their state representatives, conservatives argue.
However, it’s not clear that all Americans were aware it was a national issue.
Five False Claims from the tonight’s Presidential Debate ?Fine People on Both Sides ?Food Prices Have Tripled ?Border Security Endorses Biden ?Iran ‘Had No Money For Hamas’ ?Biden: ‘No Late Term Abortion’ pic.twitter.com/aF3hKZHxp1
At one point, Biden said of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973: “The fact is the vast majority of constitutional scholars supported Roe. This idea that they were all against it is ridiculous.”
But the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, noted for being a liberal jurist, criticized the Roe v. Wade decision and the legal rationale behind it.
Also, numerous other legal scholars who professed to be pro-choice on abortion criticized Roe v. Wade ruling as bad law, among them law professors Laurence Tribe and John Hart Ely and former Kennedy administration solicitor general and Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
However, the claim could be true that a majority of constitutional scholars supported Roe. Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, told PolitiFact: “It’s very obvious that the vast majority of legal scholars support the result in Roe v. Wade and oppose Dobbs.” But Somin added: “Some have issues with the details of Roe’s reasoning.”
Days after one fact-check website called the repeated claim false, Biden again claimed that in 2017 Trump said white nationalist rioters in Charlottesville, Virginia, were “fine people.”
“He said, ‘I think there are fine people on both sides,’” Biden said. “What American president would ever say Nazis coming out of the fields, saying the same antisemitic bile, carrying swastikas, were fine people? This is the guy who says [Adolf] Hitler’s done some good things. I’d like to know what they are. … This guy has no sense of American democracy.”
The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in August 2017 was protesting the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in the city. But it turned into a riot that included clashes with white nationalists and Antifa.
Trump said in a press conference afterward:
You had a group on one side and a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch, but there is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call them the Left. You’ve just called them the Left, that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is.
A reporter followed up, saying: “The neo-Nazis started this thing. They showed up in Charlottesville.”
Trump replied:
They didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group—excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did—you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
6. ‘Corporate Greed Is the Reason’
Biden said of inflation on his watch: “A combination of what I was left with and corporate greed is the reason we’re in this problem right now.”
“What I was left with” in part referred to the COVID-19 pandemic, which did economic damage to America, but Biden approved $4.3 trillion in new 10-year borrowing. During his presidency, Trump added $8.4 trillion of new 10-year borrowing, or $4.8 trillion excluding COVID-19 relief.
Rising prices trace back partly to supply-chain issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Biden’s spending coming out of the pandemic also contributed to inflation. “Corporate greed” doesn’t explain the 20% inflation since January 2021.
7. ‘We Are Not for Late-Term Abortion. Period. Period. Period.’
Biden declared: “We are not for late-term abortion. Period. Period. Period.”
?FACT-CHECK? Biden: "We are not for late-term abortion. Period. Period. Period." If so, that's a change from his support for the Women's Health Protection Act, which allows for late-term abortion in some circumstances…https://t.co/kMyRckAEofpic.twitter.com/S78yfwRsEH
The president repeatedly has advocated the Women’s Health Protection Act, legislation that specifically states that the right to abortion “shall not be limited or otherwise infringed.”
The bill would allow abortion providers to determine whether a pregnancy is considered “viable,” effectively enabling abortions at any point.
The protections that the Women’s Health Protection Act would ensure are essential to the health, safety, and progress of our nation. While it did not pass today, my Administration will not stop fighting to protect access to women’s reproductive care. https://t.co/7UjHLArkZA
The Women’s Health Protection Act would have allowed abortion after the point of “fetal viability” when a health care provider makes a “good-faith medical judgment” that “continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health.”
Although there hasn’t been evidence that Biden has been directly paid by the Chinese, various family members did numerous business deals in China and other countries.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee discovered through bank records that Biden—in September 2017, before he was president and after serving eight years as vice president—got a $40,000 check in laundered money from his brother, James Biden, from a Chinese energy conglomerate known as CEFC China Energy. A note on the check said it was a loan repayment.
In 2013, presidential son Hunter Biden, business associates, and Chinese investors agreed to create Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co. Ltd. While vice president, Joe Biden traveled with Hunter on Air Force Two to China and met with Jonathan Li, CEO of the company.
In 2017, after Biden was out of office as vice president, the Chinese company State Energy HK Ltd. wired $3 million to a Biden associate’s account.
The Biden family received about $1 million over three months in different bank accounts.
In 2015, Bohai Harvest joined with a Chinese Communist Party-linked entity to acquire North Carolina-based Henniges Automotive in a deal reportedly worth $600 million, according to the Oversight Committee.
In 2015, Hunter Biden and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming began talks about a U.S. partnership.
CEFC China Energy created a joint venture with the Bidens in summer 2017.
9. Trump: ‘Lowest Taxes Ever’
Responding to Biden’s blaming him for the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump said: “On Jan. 6, we had the lowest taxes ever, the lowest regulations ever.”
Trump did decrease taxes through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and he did direct the federal bureaucracy to cut regulations, but taxes and regulations during Trump’s term were still higher than at many points in American history.
Before 1913, the United States had no federal income tax. As a result of the progressive movement, the federal government ballooned; the bureaucracy added more than 150,000 pages to the Federal Register in each year of Trump’s presidency.
However, the bureaucracy promulgated 2,964 final rules in 2019 under Trump, the lowest count since record-keeping began in the 1970s and the only tally below 3,000, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
In 2022, Biden’s first full calendar year, the federal bureaucracy released 4,429 final rules.
Trump’s general point—that taxes and regulations were lower during his presidency than they became under Biden—is correct. But his statement that he had the “lowest taxes ever” and the “lowest regulations ever” in American history is flatly false.
?FACT-CHECK? "On January 6, we had the lowest taxes ever. We had the lowest regulations ever." While taxes & regulations were lower under Trump than under Biden, they were still high under Trump as compared to other parts of US history.https://t.co/kMyRckAEofpic.twitter.com/SzeXQaPEmX
CNN correspondent Jim Sciutto quoted retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, Trump’s second chief of staff, in his book “The Return of Great Powers.”
Kelly told Sciutto that Trump said, “Well, but Hitler did some good things,” and that Trump specified that Hitler had “rebuilt the economy.”
As Snopes noted, Trump’s spokespersons denied these claims. Kelly, whom Trump sacked in 2019, has not presented any further corroboration that Trump made such a statement.
Kelly’s claim first emerged in 2021. Trump’s former chief of staff said Trump praised Hitler in 2018 while on a trip to Paris to mark the 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice.
In 2021, Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington denied the conversation ever happened.
“This is totally false,” she said. “President Trump never said this. It is made-up, fake news, probably by a general who was incompetent and was fired.”
11. Trump Increased Deficit More Than Any President in One Term
Biden made this claim.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget reports that under his administration, “Trump approved $8.4 trillion of new 10-year borrowing during his full term in office.”
During Biden’s first three years and five months in office, according to the same organization, Biden approved $4.3 trillion of new 10-year borrowing.
David Ditch, a senior policy analyst in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, wrote: “President Biden and some allied economists are trying to whitewash his record on inflation.”
“Relative to budget projections from February 2021, deficits for 2021-2024 are a combined $2.58 trillion higher, with 2024 a full $1.01 trillion by itself,” Ditch wrote.
President Biden and some allied economists are trying to whitewash his record on inflation. This chart is the most important thing to understand: Biden and his friends in Congress have artificially pumped trillions into the economy, fueling inflation.
In projections for the 2021-2031 budget window, “deficits are a combined $7.15 trillion higher, or $650 billion per year on average,” Ditch said, referencing a chart from the Congressional Budget Office.
The rising budget deficit “is driven by new spending/subsidies and administrative decisions that Biden has backed,” he said.
12. Iran ‘Had No Money for Hamas, for Hezbollah’
Trump took credit for denying funding for Iran, saying that Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel “would have never happened” under his leadership.
“Iran was broke,” he said. “Anybody that did business with Iran, including China, they couldn’t do business with the United States. They all passed. Iran was broke. They had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah.”
Trump’s administration did launch a powerful sanctions campaign against Iran, and Biden has relaxed those sanctions. According to a Daily Signal analysis, Iran received more than $70 billion more under Biden in the lead-up to Oct. 7 than it would have under Trump’s sanctions regime.
However, Trump arguably overstated his case. Iran still directed funds to the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah while Trump was president, although even left-leaning CNN reported that the amount of money Tehran directed to terror groups declined in the latter half of Trump’s term.
The funding never fully stopped, however.
?FACT-CHECK: Trump says Iran?? had "no money for Hamas?? or Hezbollah" due to his maximum-pressure sanctions. His overall point—that Biden relaxing the sanctions made Oct. 7 more likely—is true, but Iran kept funding terror in the meantime.https://t.co/kMyRckAEofpic.twitter.com/ewucVfR1R2
13. Food Prices ‘Doubled and Tripled and Quadrupled’ Under Biden
Trump claimed the price of food has “doubled and tripled and quadrupled” under Biden’s presidency.
Food prices are up 21.2% since January 2021, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
The average price of gas increased from $2.39 a gallon on Jan. 20, 2021, peaking at $5.016 a gallon in July 2022 before reaching the current average price of $3.225 a gallon, according to the AAA average.
When Biden was questioned on food prices being up as much as “30%” during an earlier interview on CNN, the president put the blame on “corporate greed.”
The average American worker’s weekly paycheck has risen about 14% under Biden, according to EJ Antoni, research fellow in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. That increase is less than the 20% general inflation rate and the 21.2% inflation rate for food, according to Antoni.
14. Amount of Drugs Crossing Border ‘Largest We’ve Ever Had’
Trump said at one point that “the number of drugs coming across our border now is the largest we’ve ever had by far.”
The total number of drugs seized on the southern border has declined steadily over the past four years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
However, the amount of seized fentanyl, a highly lethal drug, increased from 11,200 pounds in fiscal year 2021 to 27,000 pounds in 2023.
A little as 2 milligrams is enough fentanyl to kill an adult American. According to government data, fentanyl poisonings and overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45.
15. Will 10% Tariffs Lead to Higher Prices?
Tapper pressed Trump on his plan to impose a 10% tariff on goods coming into the U.S.
“How will you ensure that that doesn’t drive prices even higher?” Tapper asked Trump.
“It’s just going to drive them higher, it’s just going to cause countries that have been ripping us off for years, like China and many others,” Trump replied. “In all fairness to China, it’s going to just force them to pay us a lot of money, reduce our deficit tremendously, and give us a lot of power for other things.”
The Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of Economic Freedom states:
Tariffs … increase the prices that local consumers pay for foreign imports, but they also distort production incentives for local producers, causing them to produce either a good in which they lack a comparative advantage or more of a protected good than is economically ideal. This undermines overall economic efficiency and growth.
?Great debate moment? Biden: "We finally beat Medicare." Trump: "He's right, he did beat Medicare. He beat it to death." pic.twitter.com/oCFGijp6nz
In February, the Border Patrol union did endorse a border security bill spearheaded by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz.; James Lankford, R-Okla.; and Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
The bill failed to gain enough Senate support to pass.
CNN has been paying the market price for its unwavering leftist media bias. Recent reports indicate the cable network is trying to reform itself—to become a more nonpartisan, reliable news organization.
Anyone who’s sane, sober, and informed knows that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are going to be loaded with tough questions for former President Donald Trump. Based on their past behavior, they are going to throw everything, including the kitchen sink, at him.
I say fine—do it, so long as it’s based on demonstrable evidence, and not on surveys or conjecture or rumor. But if Tapper and Bash are sincere about proving CNN is acting without partisan bias, they should also ask some serious questions of President Joe Biden.
Here are three of those questions:
1) Why are you the No. 1 global financial enabler of the Iranian terrorist regime?
Iran played a material role in helping al-Qaeda to perpetrate the 9/11 attack, and had been providing it with aid and assistance at least 10 years prior to, and 10 years after the attack. Iran’s rulers have openly declared that their highest duty is to wipe America and Israel off the face of the Earth and are building nuclear weapons with which to do just that.
Further, Iran is the paymaster of the Houthis that are attacking U.S. and other nations’ ships, Hezbollah, the world’s largest anti-U.S. and antisemitic terrorist gang, and Hamas, which perpetrated the slaughter of Jews on Oct. 7.
Knowing all this, President Biden, why have you decided to become the No. 1 global financial enabler of the Iranian terrorist regime?
In January 2024—90 days after Iran’s proxy Hamas engaged in the Oct. 7 slaughter, rape, torture, and kidnapping of Jews—you lifted oil sanctions on Iran, resulting in its ability to acquire an estimated $90 billion.
All told, this amounts to roughly $150 billion in cash that you’ve enabled the world’s most lethal anti-U.S. terrorist regime to acquire, that you must know has gone into global terrorism.
President Biden, how do you justify your actions?
2) A two-part question: Why do you incite hatred against America, and against our law enforcement officers, based on falsehoods about race issues?
President Biden, on May 19, while speaking to Morehouse College, you said this:
It’s natural to wonder if democracy you hear about actually works for you. What is democracy if black men are being killed in the street? What is democracy if a trail of broken promises still leave black—black communities behind? What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot?
You must know that this is completely untrue. You must know, as president, that each year, individuals with black skin arrive (legally) on America’s shores with nothing or all their possessions in shopping bags, and in a few years, own their own homes, have built small businesses, or work in skilled professions, right here in this supposedly racist nation.
They achieved their dreams by working hard, in a focused and resilient manner, and took advantage of the unlimited opportunities that America offers—which is why, of the 196 nations on Earth, America is the No. 1 emigration destination, year after year, decade after decade.
Knowing all this, why would you say such a thing that you know is both untrue and can only serve to help incite hatred of America, our government, our law enforcement officers, and our entire culture?
And speaking of inciting racist hatred against America’s police officers, a follow-up: On Oct. 26, 2019, you gave a speech at Benedict College, in which you were asked: “If I were your daughter, what advice would you give me the next time I am stopped by the police?”
You responded, “If you were my daughter, you’d be a caucasian girl and you wouldn’t be pulled over.”
Again, you know that this is untrue—and can only serve to help incite hatred of and racist violent against our law enforcement officers. Why would you say such a thing—and will you commit here, tonight, to never do that again?
3) Why do you keep claiming that “Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinian people,” when every reliable metric shows Palestinians support Hamas by overwhelming margins?
President Biden, since Hamas’ Oct. 7 campaign of murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping against Israeli Jews, you and Secretary of State Antony Blinkin have repeatedly said, in public, some variant of the claim that “Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinian people.” And it is on this basis that you say once the war is over, you are going to use billions of U.S. tax dollars to create a Palestinian state that will not be ruled by Hamas.
You’ve done this even though every reliable survey of Palestinians, by Palestinian research organizations—both before and after the Hamas’ Oct. 7 slaughter of Jews—shows the Palestinian people overwhelmingly support Hamas and its genocidal terrorism:
If a presidential election were held, Ismail Haniyah, the head of Hamas, would soundly defeat Mahmoud Abbas, the head of Fatah.
By 3-to-2 margin, Palestinians say Hamas deserves to represent them.
83% of Palestinians in the West Bank, and 64% in the Gaza Strip, say they support Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
More than 70% of Palestinians in both regions reject any “two-state solution,” and instead want Israel destroyed, to be replaced by a Palestinian nation.
Why do you keep repeating the false claim that “Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinian people,” when you know it is not true—and that any U.S. taxpayer money you give them will be used to enable Hamas to continue its terror campaign against Israeli Jews?
An anti-Israel protester has turned himself in to the NYPD, who were seeking his arrest in connection to a June 10 demonstration on the city subway in which he demanded Zionists exit the car.
The United Nations helped initiate the construction of the plant in 2018, but the capacity remained at around 1,500 cubic meters per day, which fell far short of needed levels.
A meeting between the U.S. and Israel regarding Iran strategy was cancelled last week but will take place sometimes in mid-July as the allies attempt to shore up their position.
Israeli air strikes targeting aid supplies killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday. One strike hit a food distribution center near a refugee camp.
Israel's Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for military service, as forces say more manpower is needed in the war in Gaza.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., slammed The New York Times for not interviewing him for a report largely focused on his anti-Israel critics in the LGBTQ community.
GOP lawmakers, including Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, sent a letter to Northwestern University President Schill demanding the school sever its ties with Qatari-backed Al Jazeera.
Yemen's Houthi rebels are suspected of launching an attack further away from nearly all previous assaults in the Gulf of Aden, marking a potential escalation.
Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass said violence that broke out during a clash on Sunday between anti-Israel agitators and Israel supporters was "abhorrent."
It's clear that Iran's supreme leader, whose loyalty to Russian anti-West aggression is unmistakable, is accelerating efforts to achieve nuclear weapons as quickly as possible.
Violence broke out outside a synagogue in Los Angeles on Sunday after anti-Israel agitators surrounded the building and clashed with supporters of Israel.
A New York City couple was recently attacked by a family yelling "Gaza is Ours" and "Free Palestine". The mother in the couple is Jewish and believes that her religion was targeted.
President Biden's aides are reportedly concerned that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will use his upcoming address to Congress to criticize the president.
Despite new findings that increases in humanitarian aid to Gaza have improved conditions, few in the international community have moved away from dire warnings of imminent starvation and destruction.
For 18 years, the U.N. failed to enforce its own resolution in Lebanon or allow its peacekeeping force to fulfill its mandate, and now the country is on the brink of war with Israel — again.
Armenia has officially recognized the state of Palestine, despite objections from Israel. Armenia supports a UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Rank-and-file Democrats are hesitating to say whether they will attend the joint address to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next month as the country continues to fight terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.
During a radio interview this week, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., apologized for saying that accounts of Hamas raping women during the Oct. 7 massacre were "propaganda."
Maryland Dr. John Parkerson spoke out after catching a thief on camera stealing an Israeli flag from his medical office. He joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss.
The threat of a major terror event taking place on the U.S. homeland is at a dangerously high level with big cities like New York City and Washington DC most vulnerable to an attack
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., criticized Benjamin Netanyahu's visit next month, saying he should not address Congress, and calling him a war criminal.
Immediately after the burnings, rapes, mutilations, and killings of Jews on Oct. 7, I was not alone in noting the one moral difference between Hamas and the Nazis: The Nazis tried to hide their crimes against the Jews from the German people (and the world) while Hamas proudly publicized their crimes against the Jews to the Palestinian people (and didn’t mind that the world would inevitably see them bragging about killing Jews).
In addition to video-recording their atrocities, Hamas paraded captured Jews—dead and alive, clothed and naked—in front of cheering Palestinian crowds in Gaza.
This leads to a sobering realization.
Hamas boasting to their fellow Palestinians about what they did to Jews while the Nazis tried to hide what they did from fellow Germans means there is not only a moral difference between Hamas and the Nazis, but a moral difference between the German people during the Nazi era and the Palestinian people today—and for nearly the past hundred years.
Morally speaking, it would be difficult to name a less impressive people than the Palestinians over the past century. For those who do not understand that a generalization means, by definition, that there are exceptions, I should note that there are and have always been noble Palestinian individuals. But the cumulative Palestinian record of evil over the past century has few peers.
Let’s begin in the 1940s.
The leading Palestinian religious leader in the early 1940s, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was a major supporter of the Nazis and their extermination campaign against the Jews. There is a famous photo of al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler in Berlin on Nov. 28, 1941. As reported in the Holocaust Encyclopedia, “Al-Husseini pointed out that Germany alone recognized the global threat of the ‘Jewish problem’ and took steps to ‘solve’ it globally … .”
The encyclopedia further notes that “on December 18, 1942, Arab emigres opened an ‘Islamic Central Institute’ (Islamische Zentral-Institut) in Berlin, with al-Husseini as a senior sponsor and keynote speaker. In his speech, al-Husseini lashed out at the Jews, stating that the Koran judged the Jews ‘to be the most irreconcilable enemies of the Muslims.’”
The Haaretz newspaper—which is left-wing and rabidly anti-Benjamin Netanyahu—described al-Husseini as “the father of Palestinian nationalism.”
In 1945, Yugoslavia sought to indict the father of Palestinian nationalism as a war criminal for recruiting 20,000 Muslim volunteers to join the Waffen-SS and participate in its extermination of the Jews of Croatia and Hungary.
All of that Nazi-like Palestinian antisemitism predates the establishment of the state of Israel.
Before describing decades of Palestinian butchery of Jews in Israel, it is also important to note the moral record of the Palestinian people with regard to fellow Arabs. The Palestinians came to be widely loathed in the Arab world for good reason: Wherever they went in large numbers, they created havoc.
On Sept. 6, 1970, Palestinian terrorists hijacked Trans World Airlines, Swissair, and Pan Am airplanes. A few days later, they hijacked a British Overseas Airways Corp. (now “British Air”) airliner. The Palestinian terrorists segregated the flight crews and Jewish passengers, keeping the 56 Jewish hostages in custody, while releasing the non-Jews. In total, five planes were hijacked, and three of them were landed at a desert airstrip in Jordan.
These hijackings plus Palestinian violence in Jordanian cities led to a Jordanian-Palestinian civil war in September 1970, during which, according to the Palestinians, Jordan killed 25,000 Palestinians.
Seven months later, in April 1971, Yassir Arafat, the Palestinians’ leader, called for the overthrow of Jordan’s King Hussein. In November of that same year, four members of the Black September terrorist group (which took its name from the Palestinians’ September 1970 defeat in Jordan), assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal in Cairo.
As reported in The New York Times, an “assassin kneeled beside his victim to lick his blood.” A photo of a Palestinian assassin drinking (not merely licking) Tal’s blood was widely published.
After destabilizing Jordan and losing the civil war they caused, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians went to Lebanon, where they quickly proceeded to ruin that country. Their love of violence and terrorism led to the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, which lasted until 1990. That war led to an estimated 150,000 Lebanese killed, tens of thousands wounded, hundreds of thousands displaced and left destitute, and a decrease in the Christian population of Lebanon from 55% in 1970 to 35% in 2022.
Meanwhile, throughout Israel’s history, Palestinians killed Jews in Israel whenever possible, blowing up school and municipal buses filled with passengers, blowing up Passover Seders and weddings and pizza parlors full of families, and wherever else Jews were assembled. On a regular basis, they stabbed and shot to death Jews who were simply going about their daily business.
To cite a few examples:
On May 8, 1970, Palestinian terrorists crossed into Israel and carried out the Avivim school bus massacre, a bombing that killed 13 civilians, nine of whom were children, and injured 25 other children.
On May 22, 1970, Palestinians fired rocket-propelled grenades into an Israeli school bus, killing nine children and three adults, and wounding 25.
On May 30, 1972, Japanese terrorists working on behalf of a Palestinian terrorist group killed 26 and injured 80 passengers at Israel’s international airport (then called Lod).
On May 15, 1974, Palestinians went to a school in Ma’alot, Israel, where they took hostage 105 high school students and more than 10 others. They eventually killed 25 of the hostages, including 22 students, and injured 68 others.
On March 11, 1978, Palestinians hijacked a bus and killed 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, and injured 76 more.
On Oct. 19, 1994, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus during the morning rush hour in Tel Aviv, killing 22 people and injuring 50 more. Hamas claimed responsibility.
On March 2, 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured more than 50 at a Saturday evening bar mitzvah celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue.
On March 27, 2002, 30 people were killed and 140 injured in a Palestinian suicide bombing in a hotel in the coastal city of Netanya in the midst of the Passover Seder with 250 guests.
On July 31, 2002, nine people were killed and 85 wounded when a bomb exploded in the student center cafeteria on the Hebrew University campus. Hamas claimed responsibility.
On Aug. 19, 2003, 23 people were killed and more than 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a bus in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.
This brief list is nowhere near exhaustive.
According to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, as of 2022, a majority of Palestinians support terrorist attacks against Israeli Jews. Moreover, the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank has been paying more than $300 million annually—about 8% of the Palestinian budget—to the families of imprisoned terrorists and of terrorists killed while engaging in an act of terrorism against Jews. Another Palestinian poll states that the vast majority of Palestinians in the West Bank—more than 75%—support Hamas at this time.
The Palestinian people love killing Jews and have loved doing so for nearly a century. Palestinian women routinely pass out candy in the streets in celebration of terrorist attacks against Jews. Compare this to Israel, which has many human rights organizations holding Israel to account regarding its treatment of Palestinians. Compare this to Israelis, who for years had volunteered to drive Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza to receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals.
To be “pro-Palestinian” today means being pro-Hamas, just as to be “pro-German” during World War II was the same as being pro-Nazi. The only difference is that the Germans as a whole were a better people than the Palestinians. If you support the Palestinians, you should know who you support.
A top Republican senator called for the Interior Department to answer for the lack of arrest and accountability for the pro-Palestinian violence that erupted near the White House.
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld mocked an anti-Israel protester being ejected after attempting to disrupt his latest show at the Qudos Bank Arena in Australia.
Israeli archaeologists recently announced the discovery of buried treasure dating back to the Jewish revolt against Roman ruler Constantius Gallus in the fourth century.
The Education Department found the University of Michigan and the City University of New York didn't adequately investigate campus incidents in response to the Israel-Hamas war.
President Biden's administration is pushing to stop Israel from going to war in Lebanon against Hezbollah as the Iran-backed terror group escalates its attacks.
A majority of Americans believe the U.S. should focus more on issues at home and withdraw from foreign affairs, according to new Reagan Institute survey.
As Israel gears up for a third war against Hezbollah, experts on the Hamas and Hezbollah alliance outline the similarities and differences between the two Islamist terrorist movements
Holy Family Hospital n Bethlehem, just steps from where Jesus was born, is building to a future where no baby in the Holy Land will be born without a bed.
HBO's Bill Maher slammed the lack of outcry towards the left's ongoing antisemitism in comparison to the country's reaction to the white supremacist march in Charlottesville.
The Israeli Defense Forces' use of AI has helped them to minimize civilian casualties while operating in a war zone where Hamas terrorists are located within and beneath civilian structures.
New York Magazine went viral for confusing an image of Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., with another Black politician in an article calling out pro-Israel Democrats.
What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting?
What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the streets really angry about?
Occupations?
They could care less that the Islamist Turkish government still stations 40,000 troops in occupied Cyprus. No one is protesting against the Chinese takeover of a once-independent Tibet or the threatened absorption of an autonomous Taiwan.
Refugees?
None of these mobs are agitating on behalf of the nearly 1 million Jews ethnically cleansed since 1947 from the major capitals of the Middle East. Some 200,000 Cypriots displaced by Turks earn not a murmur. Nor does the ethnic cleansing of 99% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ancient Armenian population just last year.
Civilian casualties?
The global protestors are not furious over the 1 million Uyghurs brutalized by the Communist Chinese government. Neither are they concerned about the Turkish government’s indiscriminate war against the Kurds or its serial threats to attack Armenians and Greeks.
The new woke jihadist movement is instead focused only on Israel and “Palestine.” It is oblivious to the modern gruesome Muslim-on-Muslim exterminations of Bashar al-Assad and Saddam Hussein, the Black September massacres of Palestinians by Jordanian forces, and the 1982 erasure of thousands in Hama, Syria.
So woke jihadism is not an ecumenical concern for the oppressed, the occupied, the collateral damage of war, or the fate of refugees. Instead, it is a romanticized and repackaged anti-Western, anti-Israel, and antisemitic jihadism that supports the murder of civilians, mass rape, torture, and hostage-taking.
But what makes it now so insidious is its new tripartite constituency.
First, the old romantic pro-Palestine cause was rebooted in the West by millions of Arab and Muslim immigrants who have flocked to Europe and the U.S. in the last half-century.
Billions of dollars in oil sheikdom “grant” monies swarmed Western universities to found “Middle Eastern Studies” departments. These are not so much centers for historical or linguistic scholarship as political megaphones focused on “Zionism” and “the Jews.”
Moreover, there may be well over a half-million affluent Middle Eastern students in Western universities. Given that they pay full tuition, imbibe ideology from endowed Middle Eastern studies faculty, and are growing in number, they logically feel that they can do anything with impunity on Western streets and campuses.
Second, the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement empowers the new woke jihadis. Claiming to be non-white victims of white Jewish colonialism, they pose as natural kindred victims to Blacks, Latinos, and any Westerner now claiming oppressed status.
Black radicalism, from Al Sharpton to Louis Farrakhan to Black Lives Matter, has had a long, documented history of antisemitism. It is no wonder that its elite eagerly embraced the anti-Israeli Palestine movement as fellow travelers.
The third leg of woke jihadism is mostly affluent white leftist students at Western universities. Sensing that their faculties are anti-Israel, their administrations are anti-Israel (although more covertly), and the most politically active among the student body are anti-Israel, European and American students find authenticity in virtue-signaling their solidarity with Hamas, Hezbollah, and radical Islamists in general.
Given the recent abandonment of standardized tests for admission to universities, the watering-down of curricula, and rampant grade inflation, thousands of students at elite campuses feel that they have successfully redefined their universities to suit their own politics, constituencies and demographics.
Insecure about their preparation for college and mostly ignorant of the politics of the Middle East, usefully idiotic students find resonance by screaming antisemitic chants and wearing keffiyehs.
Nurtured in grade school on the Marxist binary of bad, oppressive whites versus good, oppressed nonwhites, they can cheaply shed their boutique guilt by joining the mobs.
The result is a bizarre new antisemitism and overt support for the gruesome terrorists of Hamas by those who usually preach to the middle class about their own exalted morality.
Still, woke jihadism would never have found resonance had Western leaders—vote-conscious heads of state, timid university presidents, and radicalized big-city mayors and police chiefs—not ignored blatant violations of laws against illegal immigration, vandalism, assault, illegal occupation, and rioting.
Finally, woke jihadism is fueling a radical Western turn to the right, partly due to open borders and the huge influx into the West from non-Western illiberal regimes.
Partly the reaction is due to the ingratitude shown their hosts by indulged Middle-Eastern guest students and green card holders.
Partly, the public is sick of the sense of entitlement shown by pampered, sanctimonious protestors.
And partly the revulsion arises against left-wing governments and universities that will not enforce basic criminal and immigration statutes in fear of offending this strange new blend of wokism and jihadism.
Yet the more violent campuses and streets become, the more clueless the mobs seem about the cascading public antipathy to what they do and what they represent.
Noted left-wing organizations such as Arabella Advisors and the Soros network are bankrolling the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests across the United States, according to a new website documenting the organizations and their funders.
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project has launched a new website, ColorRevolutions.us, that details the nonprofit organizations, academic and financial institutions, and foreign governments that have put financial resources behind the anti-Israel protests after the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel last Oct. 7.
“The stakes not only for the American way of life, but for Western civilization itself, could not be higher,” Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Oversight Project, told The Daily Signal.
“Our country is being overthrown from the inside. They’re not afraid. They’re blatantly and publicly celebrating terrorist causes,” Howell added. “This United States needs to get its pride and resolve back, or else we’re going to lose it all.”
The website contends this funding resembles a “color revolution in the United States.”
The website’s “about” section describes color revolutions as “uprisings supported by actors whose interests in protests are not primarily the protest topic.”
It continues:
The actors are distinct in terms of demographics, economic class, nationality, etc. from the bulk of the protestors. They use their significant resources to leverage a divisive event into self-serving political change that is substantially broader than the original protest topic. …
This site makes the case to Americans that behind the current outbreak of protests are well-resourced groups with a history of driving for radical social change that most Americans rightly identified as harmful and have come to reject.
The New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization operating under the umbrella of Arabella Advisors, has funded anti-Israel protests at Georgetown University and The George Washington University, both schools based in Washington, D.C.
Numerous other organizations funded by major institutional left-wing donors are engaged in organizing anti-Israel or pro-Hamas protests and activities.
For example, the website reports that billionaire funder of left-wing causes George Soros’ family’s Open Society Foundations have funded protest organizers Jewish Voice for Peace and U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
The progressive political fundraising group ActBlue has funded organizing efforts by the groups MPower Change, an organization that purports to fight Islamophobia and white supremacy, and Until Freedom Inc., a group that says it seeks “intersectional social justice.”
The traditional left-leaning philanthropy group Tides Foundation financially supports the Adalah Justice Project, Jewish Voice for Peace, Justice and Education Fund, and Students for Justice in Palestine.
It was The People’s Forum that organized the protests at Columbia University, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
The New York Times reported in May 2023 that Singham’s network pushed Chinese Communist Party talking points in its progressive advocacy. And The Jerusalem Post reported that Singham, a consultant for Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, was bankrolling the efforts. Singham has denied that he promotes Chinese propaganda.
Other American Muslim organizations are backing the anti-Israel efforts. These include American Muslims for Palestine, founded in 2005. The Anti-Defamation League called American Muslims for Palestine “the leading organization providing anti-Zionist training.”
“This was not Goldman Sachs money. We administer a Donor Advised Fund in our asset and wealth management business, and as with all donor advised funds, donations are made to 501c3 charities, at the client’s direction, using a client’s contributions to the fund,” a Goldman Sachs spokesperson told The Daily Signal in a statement after the initial publication of the story.
The Daily Signal reached out to all the funders listed on the Color Revolutions website. None responded by publication time.
Some responded afterwards.
“As a donor-advised fund, Schwab Charitable facilitates grants recommended by donors to 501(c)(3) charitable organizations deemed eligible by the IRS and state regulators,” Schwab Charitable Trusts said in a written statement after publication. “Grants recommended by donors do not reflect the values or beliefs of Schwab Charitable or its management. Schwab Charitable is an independent 501(c)(3) public charity regulated by the IRS and a separate legal entity from Charles Schwab. We encourage anyone with concerns about a charitable organization to contact the IRS (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf) or state regulators (http://www.nasconet.org/resources/state-government/).”
This story was updated to included responses from some of the identified donors.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Former President Donald Trump holds a double-digit lead over President Joe Biden on the four most important issues facing Americans today, according to new polling from Scott Rasmussen.
The RMG Research survey asked registered voters to rank the most important issues and then pick the candidate they trust more: Biden or Trump. Topping the list were inflation, the economy, immigration, and crime.
Trump has the largest lead on immigration (+17), followed by inflation (+11), the economy (+11), and crime (+10). He also has a big edge over Biden on the war between Israel and Hamas (+12) and a smaller advantage on gun laws (+4).
Biden dominates on climate change (+18) and polls ahead of Trump on abortion (+10), health care (+9), and education (+6).
The full chart below from RMG Research shows the percentage breakdown for each candidate.
Source: RMG Research
On nearly every issue surveyed, Trump has gained ground since Rasmussen’s previous poll in April and earlier surveys comparing the two presidential front-runners. His survey did not include third-party candidates.
Immigration: Trump leads Biden 49% to 32%, a net gain of 1 percentage point since April.
Israel-Hamas war: Trump leads Biden 42% to 30%, a net gain of 5 percentage points since April.
Inflation: Trump leads Biden 46% to 35%, a net gain of 3 percentage points since April.
Economy: Trump leads Biden 46% to 35%, a net gain of 4 percentage points since April.
Crime: Trump leads Biden 45% to 35%, the same margin as April.
Gun laws: Trump leads Biden 42% to 38%, a net gain of 4 percentage points since April.
Education: Biden leads Trump 43% to 37%, a net loss of 3 percentage points since April.
Health care: Biden leads Trump 45% to 36%, a net loss of 5 percentage points since April.
Abortion: Biden leads Trump 43% to 33%, a net loss of 5 percentage points since April.
Climate change: Biden leads Trump 46% to 28%, the same margin as April.
The RMG Research poll was conducted June 10 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
President Biden said he is "extremely proud" of his son Hunter for overcoming addiction, though he will not pardon him after being found guilty on federal gun charges.
Sen. Tom Cotton wants to enforce stricter punishments for defacing statues on federal land after monuments in the nation's capital were covered in pro-Hamas messages.
Italy’s first female prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is hosting President Biden and G-7 world leaders following a massive victory by right-wing parties in the European parliamentary elections.
The mother of recently-rescued Israeli hostage Andrey Kozlov says he son told her that Hamas made captives live by "very strange rules" in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist illegally occupying southern Lebanon, fired hundreds of rockets at Israel overnight into Wednesday morning after an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strike on a senior Hezbollah commander.
The Biden administration has publicly praised American troops who are part of the risky mission to deliver aid to Gaza via a temporary pier, but behind the scenes, sources tell Breitbart News that the troops' safety is being endangered for a "photo-op."
Amid near daily Hezbollah rocket, drone and missile attacks on the northern Israeli border communities, the Israel Defense Forces countered with a surgical strike that killed a senior Hezbollah commander.
Sen. Marco Rubio called on President Biden to revoke media credentials from Al Jazeera, citing its connection to a journalist whose family was found to have reportedly held an Israeli hostage in their Gaza home.
Hamas said its response to a U.S. ceasefire plan for the war in Gaza against Israel opened a "wide pathway" to reach a deal that would end the months-long conflict.
The U.N. human rights office is alleging the commission of possible war crimes by both Israeli forces and Palestinian militant groups in a deadly raid that freed four hostages.
The United Nations Security Council voted 14-0 in favor of a U.S. cease-fire proposal for Gaza on Monday, with both Israel and Hamas favoring the deal.
We are regularly reminded of Biden’s mental decline. But it jeopardizes national security in a way similar to how President Woodrow Wilson's health undermined US at home and abroad.
Liberal pundits and commentators were outraged by Israel's rescue of four Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas, questioning whether it was worth Palestinian deaths.
While the deliberate weaponizing and destruction of families is nothing new in conflict, the Palestinian terror group used bodycams to document its crimes against parents and children.
Anti-Israel protesters set up a new encampment on UCLA's campus Monday, leading to a law enforcement response and several clashes between protesters and police.
Anti-Israel protesters chanted "Long Live the Intifada" outside the Nova Music Festival exhibit in New York City that memorializes the victims of Oct. 7 attack.
Domestic support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the rise as the Jewish State’s war against the Iran-backed Islamic terror group Hamas advances, according to poll numbers showing the right-wing bloc in Israel nearing 60 seats.
Hamas welcomed, but did not accept, a United Nations Security Council resolution that passed Monday, introduced by the U.S., outlining the plan President Joe Biden presented last month for a ceasefire and hostage exchange.
A pro-Palestinian protester screamed "I am Hamas!" during a demonstration outside the White House on Saturday as she confronted members of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) as they interviewed both pro- and anti-Israel activists.
The Israel Police released dramatic helmet camera footage Monday of the daring hostage rescue on Saturday that saw Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40, freed and returned to Israel.
Thousands gathered around the White House Saturday to demand that President Joe Biden stop all military aid to Israel amid its war against the terrorist group Hamas. The “Shut it Down for Palestine” movement, comprised of controversial groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine, organized the giant rally against Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.
Several organizations in the movement previously praised the Oct. 7 attack in which Hamas killed around 1,200 Israelis, raped women, and took hundreds of hostages. SJP, for example, referred to the terror onslaught as “a historic win” days after the news broke.
Saturday’s gathering proved a striking display of unity between Muslim, Marxist, LGBTQ, and even Jewish activists. Many organizers and demonstrators made it clear that they were not just demanding a “cease-fire” between Israel and Hamas. “Resistance” against the Jewish state–and fierce anti-American sentiment–were the overall themes.
Here’s what I saw:
Support for Terrorism
A group of masked individuals carried a sign calling for “jihad”—an Islamic term for holy war cited by those who believe God commands them to kill unbelievers—and “Al Qassam,” a reference to Hamas’ military unit.
Near the White House lawn, a group of people in head scarves hold a sign calling for "jihad" and "martyrdom" and referencing Al Qassam, the military unit of Hamas. pic.twitter.com/w3YtKv6qzk
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
A man walking by told the protesters to be careful about their “messaging,” to which one replied, “shut up.”
At least two others wore green Hamas headbands, one carrying a megaphone with a sticker on it that read, “I voted.” They frequently stuck together and led groups of people in pro-Palestinian chants.
At least two protesters are wearing Hamas-style green headbands. pic.twitter.com/JwNyCUzseW
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
Another protester, an elderly man, attracted lots of attention by carrying a “stand with Hamas” sign. The Daily Signal talked to him to see whether he was serious.
A man who identified himself as Mike smiled as I photographed him holding this sign.
When I asked him about his stance, he said "resistance" is "the only way forward" against the "Jewish-supremacist state of Israel."
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
His smile quickly faded as he declared that Palestinians are enduring “genocide” and must beat Israel “by any means necessary.” The Daily Signal asked what he thought about the genocidal elements of Hamas’s founding charter, which describes a “Day of Judgment” when Muslims will kill every Jew. Hamas is only “resisting genocide,” he said, his voice quivering and his body shaking with rage.
“Got that?” he asked sharply.
More than a few fringe actors explicitly praised terrorists at the event, however.
A leader with the Black Alliance for Peace said during his speech, "Oct. 7 was the beginning of the end of the genocide," prompting a round of applause and cheers.
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
Protesters celebrated other violent anti-Israel groups, in addition to Hamas.
A young person at the protest told me he is selling T-shirts of Leila Khaled, calling her an "O.G." for the "Palestine freedom fight."
Khaled is a member of the designated terrorist group known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and she helped hijack planes. pic.twitter.com/5P1iQxoSJc
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
A few demonstrators made explicit attempts to distance themselves from antisemitism. Some signs claimed that “antizionism [is not] antisemitism” or that supporting the Palestinians “doesn’t make you anti-Jew.” Still, pushback against the more radical protesters proved scarce.
Vandalism
The small police presence failed to stop protesters as they spray-painted historic monuments and property surrounding the White House. To date, no arrests have been reported. The U.S. Capitol Police referred The Daily Signal to U.S. Park Police for comment, and the Park Police did not immediately respond when asked about arrests.
Monuments in front of the White House are being vandalized — the second time anti-Israel demonstrators have done this in recent memory. pic.twitter.com/6JbPndiHx1
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
Protesters also left graffiti on a truck parked on a nearby curb and at least one park bench.
America Portrayed as an Enemy
Activists presented the U.S. as a force for evil due to its stance on Israel.
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
Calls for an End to Israel
Demonstrators strongly condemned “Zionism,” the view that Jews have a right to their own state in the current land of Israel. Speakers onstage told their allies to help “smash” or “abolish Zionism.” One man scrawled “death to Israel” on a monument.
A protester writes "death to Israel" on the monument to Marquis de Lafayette, a Revolutionary War figure. pic.twitter.com/wgTvamUcqx
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
Agitators wrote, “Al Qassam, you make us proud[.] Kill another soldier now!” on another monument.
After a protester wrote “all Zionists are bastards” on the nearby Treasury Department building, a woman remarked, “that’s factual!”
Marxist Ideology
Protesters advocated for socialism, signaled support for the brutal Cuban Revolution leader Che Guevara, and offered copies of “The Communist Manifesto” and other Marxist writings to passersby. Protesters held signs from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a communist political party founded in 2004.
Protesters advertise communism and denounce "AmeriKKKa" in front of a historic U.S. war monument. pic.twitter.com/n5UyrjHCT3
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
Another activist holds a sign praising Che Guevara, who led the bloody regime of the late communist dictator Fidel Castro. Others fly the Cuban flag alongside the Palestinian flag or display the Soviet hammer and sickle symbol. pic.twitter.com/TeEvCEGCsi
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
“F— Joe Biden”
The crowds painted President Joe Biden as a mass murderer of Palestinians in tandem with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Some held giant posters showing the heads of the two leaders with blood dripping from their mouths. Others held a small severed head of the president.
Protesters occasionally chanted, “F— Joe Biden!”
LGBTQ Allies
Several protesters carried signs or flags promoting gay and transgender rights as they rallied for Gaza, where male homosexual activity is illegal.
The LGBT movement also made a strong showing today alongside Marxist and pro-Hamas groups. pic.twitter.com/tcIEq7fQbW
— Hudson Crozier ?? (@L0neStarTrooper) June 8, 2024
Jewish Support
A few people presenting themselves as Jewish joined with pro-Palestinian protesters at Washington, D.C.’s Farragut Square shortly before heading to the White House event.
A young man wearing a yarmulke also walked around White House protesters with a sign that read, “Israel uses me as a human shield.”
One Angry Israel Supporter
The number of demonstrators significantly dwindled after around four and a half hours. At that time, a young man began kicking their signs off of the grass surrounding a monument, cursing them out, and flipping them off.
“I stand with Israel!” he yelled.
Another man followed the agitator as he walked away, filming him on his phone and asking repeatedly, “Do you support genocide?”
Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed Monday that they had arrested members of a so-called "American-Israeli spy network" that allegedly started operating out of Sanaa.
Israel has released dramatic video showing the weekend rescue of four hostages being held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Rescuers took heavy fire during the operation.
The United Nations' World Food Programme is temporarily suspending deliveries from a U.S.-built temporary pier on the coast of Gaza, citing safety concerns, officials said.
As hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah continue to escalate, Israel has increased strikes on supply lines and other targets in Syria that Iran uses to arm Hezbollah.
The U.S. may skirt around Israel to negotiate directly with Hamas for the release of American citizens being held hostage in Gaza, according to a report from NBC News.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Egypt as the Biden administration pushes for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and seeks to prevent the war from spreading into Lebanon.
Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer said that he was "disappointed to see" CNN's misleading news chyron calling an Israeli operation to rescue hostages a "release."
Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were outside TD Garden in Boston calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, as fans were filing into the arena for game two of the NBA Finals.
A California judge ordered University of California academic workers to halt their strike protesting the university system's response to anti-Israel demonstrations on campuses.
Thousands of mourners gathered at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery Sunday to pay tribute to the fallen hero, Israel Police Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, who died in Saturday’s daring hostage rescue in Gaza.
Benny Gantz, an opposition leader who brought his party into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government after the October 7 attacks, announced Sunday that he would be leaving, accusing Netanyahu of bungling the war.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on this week's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday" that President Joe Biden was catering to the "pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party instead of backing Israel."
Abdallah Aljamal, a journalist for the Palestine Chronicle -- a 501(c)3 non-profit in the U.S. -- was killed in Israel's hostage rescue in Gaza Saturday and was revealed to have been a spokesman for a Hamas government department.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Sunday that all three of the male hostages rescued on Saturday were held by Abdallah Aljamal, a "journalist" who contributed to the Palestine Chronicle and Al Jazeera.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened a cabinet meeting Sunday by telling the story of Israel Police Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, leader of the Yamam anti-terror unit, who fell in Saturday's hostage rescue in Gaza.
Yossi Meir Jan, 57, the father of freed Israeli hostage Almog Meir Jan, 21, died just hours before his son was rescued by Israeli forces Saturday. The cause of death, his family said, was a broken heart after eight months of his son's captivity.
Australian actor Guy Pearce has responded to Israel's successful rescue of four hostages from Hamas terrorists by declaring all of those taken prisoner on October 7 last year could have been rescued "months ago."
Vice President Kamala Harris told a Democratic Party dinner in Michigan on Saturday evening that she mourned the "innocent lives" lost among Palestinians in Gaza during an Israeli rescue mission that freed four hostages.
The controversial Qatar-owned news outlet Al Jazeera has been plunged into a new crisis involving an allegation that one of its contributors held three Israelis hostages in captivity.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., called on the Justice Department to investigate pro-Hamas rallies that resulted in the vandalism of statues at Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square.
Israel's war cabinet minister Benny Gantz quit Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government on Sunday, saying the Prime Minister was making “total victory impossible."
Vice President Harris celebrated the rescue of four Israeli hostages in Gaza on Saturday, going on to mourn the deaths of Palestinians in the operation.
BBC anchor Helena Humphrey asked former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus if Israeli forces would have warned Gazan civilians about secret rescue operations ahead of time.
Thousands of anti-Israel protesters gathered outside the White House on Saturday even as Israeli forces conducted a daring hostage rescue mission in Gaza.
An Ohio state senator introduced legislation that would require rioters to pay for damages they caused while breaking the law, as anti-Israel protests continue across the U.S.
Mosab Hassan Yousef defected to Israel in 1997 and worked as a double agent until he fled to the United States in 2007. He has remained an outspoken critic of Hamas and its supporters.
An anti-Israel protester wearing a Hamas headband held up a bloodied Biden facemask outside the White House on Saturday during a planned demonstration in Washington, D.C.
Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the White House for a rally on Saturday afternoon in protest of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters -- some openly supporting Hamas and other terror groups -- surrounded the White House on Saturday, vandalizing a statue and assaulting a U.S. Park Police officer who tried to protect it.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned an Israeli raid Saturday in Gaza that led to the rescue of four Israeli hostages held by Hamas terrorists, saying that Israeli forces had committed a "horrific massacre."
One of the Israeli hostages who was rescued by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) was reunited with her mother, who is terminally ill with cancer. Noa Argamani, 25, was one of the four hostages
Israel released photographs Saturday of the happy reunions of four rescued hostages with their families after a daring special forces raid in Nuseirat, in central Gaza -- and a photograph of one of the Israeli soldiers who was killed in the operation.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan concluded a visit to occupied East Turkistan on Thursday, declaring the region "Turk-Islamic" but failing to condemn the colonial Chinese government for its ongoing genocide of the indigenous Uyghur people of the region.
Israel's successful mission to rescue four hostages was weeks in the making and involved hundreds of people, the IDF said, as new details about the raid come to light.
During his appearance on "Real Time," Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., spoke about his political evolution and how progressivism left him after the events of Oct. 7.
Barriers were erected around the White House ahead of this weekend's pro-Palestinian protest, where activists call for an end to U.S. support for Israel amid its war with Hamas militants.
The U.S. and its allies are seeking to rope in Iran’s aggressive efforts to build an atomic weapon, but time is working against the Biden administration, experts note.
Three Jewish students filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging UCLA allowed protesters to block Jewish students from walking to classes, offices and the library on campus.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tells CNN it's "wrong" for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be invited to speak to Congress next month.
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