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Bklyn College Slammed by Bipartisan Lawmakers Over Violent Anti-Israel Protest

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Bklyn College Slammed by Bipartisan Lawmakers Over Violent Anti-Israel Protest

By: Fern Sidman

A coalition of nine bipartisan New York City and state lawmakers is demanding urgent corrective action from Brooklyn College leadership after a chaotic and violent anti-Israel protest erupted on campus Thursday, leading to multiple arrests and what officials describe as a climate of fear and unchecked antisemitism for Jewish students. The lawmakers’ outrage was delivered in a sharply worded letter obtained exclusively by The New York Post.

The May 9 letter, addressed to CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, was signed by Councilmembers Inna Vernikov, Farah Louis, Mercedes Narcisse, and Robert Holden, along with Assemblymembers Kalman Yeger, Lester Chang, Eric Ari Brown, Jamie Williams, and Alec Brook-Krasny. The group collectively condemned the university’s handling of the anti-Israel encampment and the delayed response by law enforcement, calling the entire incident a failure of campus leadership.

“It is unacceptable but not surprising that almost two years after October 7th — after an investigation into CUNY and several public hearings — we are still grappling with disruptive and criminal behavior against Jewish students,” the lawmakers wrote, referencing the Hamas terror attacks that triggered renewed scrutiny of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses.

As The New York Post reported, the protest began Thursday around 4:50 p.m. when a group of demonstrators, many masked, began setting up tents on Brooklyn College’s Bedford Avenue quad, directly violating campus policies. Students were studying for final exams as chaos unfolded.

Despite repeated warnings to disperse, the group remained defiant, prompting the CUNY Public Safety team and NYPD to intervene. However, police waited outside the college’s gates for hours before being permitted entry—a delay the lawmakers say endangered students and delayed an appropriate response to what quickly devolved into a brawl.

At least 14 individuals were arrested, according to The Post, and demonstrators allegedly targeted the school’s Hillel House, a Jewish campus center, after being removed from the college grounds.

The letter also called for a full investigation into the involvement of Brooklyn College staff, singling out Zeno Wood, listed as a piano technician on the school’s website, who allegedly flipped off a Jewish student and stood in solidarity with demonstrators chanting, “We don’t want no Zionists here.” Wood did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.

The lawmakers demanded swift termination of any staff found to have supported or participated in threatening or disruptive behavior. “Faculty members who use their position to inflame campus tensions or intimidate students have no place at a taxpayer-funded institution,” the letter said.

The lawmakers issued a deadline of May 12 for a formal response from the chancellor and outlined a list of concrete demands, including immediate bans on facial coverings across all CUNY campuses (except for medical reasons), increased security around Jewish centers such as Hillel, and a permanent protocol allowing NYPD entry as soon as CUNY Public Safety secures facilities during unlawful disruptions.

Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, one of the most vocal critics of CUNY leadership, issued a stern warning: “There are only two ways to end the pro-terror anarchy that has infested our campuses: for the CUNY Chancellor to either step up or step down,” she told The New York Post. “We are far past the time of allowing leadership at the top to play politics with the lives of Jewish students. Inaction isn’t going to slide anymore.”

Thursday’s confrontation at Brooklyn College came just one day after dozens of masked radicals stormed Columbia University’s Butler Library, as reported by The New York Post. That incident resulted in 80 arrests and a wave of interim suspensions as Columbia administrators face similar scrutiny.

In March, Columbia bowed to Trump-era compliance measures aimed at curbing antisemitism, agreeing to oversight in exchange for continued access to $400 million in federal funding.

Meanwhile, a damning 10-month investigation led by retired State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, commissioned by Governor Kathy Hochul, revealed that CUNY professors had themselves contributed to a hostile climate for Jewish students. The report called for sweeping structural changes across the university system—many of which have yet to be implemented.

As detailed in the report in The New York Post, the pressure is now squarely on Chancellor Rodríguez and Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson to restore order and rebuild trust—particularly with Jewish students who increasingly feel unsafe on campus.

The lawmakers’ message is clear: no more excuses, no more delays. With antisemitic rhetoric now spilling into physical confrontation, the time for vague statements and symbolic gestures is over. If CUNY leadership cannot guarantee the safety and dignity of all students—regardless of their faith or political beliefs—then those leaders may soon find themselves out of a job.

Brooklyn College has not yet issued a formal response to the lawmakers’ letter, but with the May 12 deadline looming, all eyes are on how the administration will act—and whether it can salvage its credibility in the wake of growing national outrage

Plantar Warts: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, and Natural Approaches

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Plantar warts appear as thickened skin with tiny black dots and may be painful, especially when walking. Photo Credit: The Epoch Times/Shutterstock

By: Mercura Wang

Plantar warts, also known as plantar verrucae and foot warts, are common skin growths caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). They develop when the virus infects the skin, typically appearing on the bottom—the plantar side—of the foot.

The virus is species-specific to humans, making people the primary reservoir for HPV. It is estimated that 40 percent of people are infected with HPV, and warts develop in 7 percent to 12 percent of those infected.

What Causes Plantar Warts?

Warts are caused by an infection in the outer layer of the skin, called the epidermis.

The virus typically enters through small cuts or breaks on the sole of the foot.

Plantar warts often spread through direct contact with infected skin or contaminated surfaces in public places such as changing rooms, shower stalls, and around swimming pools. Plantar warts can also be transmitted through autoinoculation or self-spread by scratching or rubbing. HPV does not spread through body fluids, except from the wart itself.

Once HPV comes into contact with a host, it enters the skin through breaks, cuts, or other weak areas on the bottom of the foot. After penetrating the surface, the virus infects the skin’s basal layer, where stem cells actively divide. The virus enters the infected cell and, after an incubation period of one month to 20 months, establishes viral DNA within the host cell. After infection, three outcomes are possible: the infection can clear if the person is immune to that specific HPV type, remain latent, or develop into a visible plantar wart.

In addition to exposure to HPV, other risk factors for plantar warts include:

Having a history of plantar warts: People who have had plantar warts before are more likely to experience recurrence.

Age: Warts are most common in children and adolescents, with peak incidence between ages 12 and 16

Poor hygiene practices: Inadequate foot hygiene or sharing personal items may increase the risk of infection.

Broken skin: Plantar warts are more likely to develop on wet, damaged, or broken skin.

Certain occupations: Jobs or activities that involve barefoot movement on shared surfaces—such as in sports or dance—can increase vulnerability to HPV. For example, gymnasts and dancers often practice barefoot on communal floors.

What Are the Symptoms and Signs of Plantar Warts?

Warts are noncancerous localized thickenings of the skin, and plantar warts are those that develop on the soles of the feet. Plantar warts can appear anywhere on the sole or toes, often forming on pressure points such as the heels and balls of the feet. The warts can range in size from a few millimeters to over 1 centimeter.

In many cases, plantar warts do not cause symptoms. Some signs may include:

Thickened skin: A plantar wart often resembles a callus because of its tough, thick tissue. Myrmecial warts usually protrude from the surface of the skin and grow deeper into the skin. This growth typically occurs slowly, starting small and enlarging over time.

Pain: Because the soles are weight-bearing and rub against footwear, plantar warts can cause discomfort. Walking, standing, or squeezing the sides of the wart may be painful. Myrmecial warts tend to be deep and tender, while mosaic plantar warts are typically painless.

Tiny black dots: These dots, which often appear on the surface of the wart, are actually dried blood trapped in capillaries—tiny blood vessels.

Loss of skin lines: Unlike calluses, which retain natural skin pattern, plantar warts disrupt or erase these lines.

What Are the Types of Plantar Warts?

There are two types of plantar warts:

  1. Solitary Warts (Myrmecial Plantar Warts)

Solitary warts are individual, tender warts that grow inward and may develop additional “satellite” warts nearby. They can range in color from flesh-toned to yellow or grayish-brown.

  1. Mosaic Warts

Mosaic warts consist of a group of small warts growing close together in one area. Mosaic warts are generally more challenging to treat than solitary warts.

How Are Plantar Warts Diagnosed?

The following methods are used to diagnose plantar warts:

Observation: Doctors usually diagnose plantar warts based on their appearance. Skin lines do not continue across the wart, and tiny black dots may be visible. Warts may also bleed when shaved.

Dermatoscopy: Dermatoscopy uses a dermatoscope—similar to a magnifying glass—to enlarge skin details up to 10 times. Under dermatoscopy, warts show red or purple dots (blood vessels) surrounded by white rings (thickened skin).

Paring: Paring involves carefully shaving or scraping away the thickened outer layer of the wart to reveal diagnostic features, such as tiny black dots.

Biopsy: Biopsy may be performed when the diagnosis is uncertain or if the lesion appears darker than the surrounding skin, has an irregular shape, bleeds, or grows rapidly. Biopsy is rarely needed, as plantar warts are usually benign.

Swab method: The swab method uses tissue samples collected via swab for histopathological study or polymerase chain reaction testing for HPV DNA. The swab method is as effective as a biopsy but is noninvasive, quicker, and more comfortable for patients.

What Are the Possible Complications of Plantar Warts?

While usually benign, plantar warts can occasionally lead to:

Cancer: In rare cases—especially in people who are immunocompromised—long-standing warts may undergo malignant transformation into squamous cell carcinoma or plantar verrucous carcinoma.

Knee or hip pain: Pain from myrmecial plantar warts can interfere with walking and sports activities, which may lead to joint pain.

Secondary infections: Injured or scraped plantar warts can become infected with bacteria.

What Are the Treatments for Plantar Warts?

Plantar warts can be difficult to treat and frequently recur, but they often disappear on their own, particularly in children under age 12. However, this process may take months or even years, as HPV can survive on surfaces for extended periods.

Most plantar warts can be treated with pharmacist advice and over-the-counter treatments.

See a doctor if the wart is painful, bleeding, changing, interfering with daily life, spreading despite treatment, or if you have diabetes, reduced foot sensation, or a weakened immune system.

First-Line Treatments

First-line treatments are typically the most accessible and least invasive options for managing plantar warts. These methods are often effective, especially in early or mild cases.

Wait and see: Allowing warts to resolve naturally works in about 58 percent of cases involving solitary warts. However, the approach is less effective for mosaic warts and is not recommended for people with weakened immunity.

Topical creams and ointments: Applying salicylic acid or silver nitrate daily until the wart disappears is a common treatment method. Salicylic acid removes dead skin and boosts immune response, requiring use over several months. Silver nitrate is applied directly to destroy wart tissue over a shorter course. Proper application and precautions are essential to avoid skin damage and potential toxicity.

Duct tape: Covering the wart with duct tape for six days, then soaking, filing, and leaving it uncovered overnight may help. The process can be repeated for up to two months. Although evidence is mixed, some people report success with this approach.

Over-the-counter pain relievers: Taking medications such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen may help relieve discomfort associated with plantar warts.

Second-Line Treatments

Second-line treatments are typically considered when first-line methods fail or when warts are persistent, widespread, or particularly painful. These options may involve more intensive procedures or specialized therapies.

Cryotherapy: Cryotherapy involves freezing warts with liquid nitrogen, and is typically repeated every two to three weeks for up to three months. Using salicylic acid between sessions may enhance results. Cryotherapy often causes pain, blisters, and burns, and may reduce mobility for several weeks. It is generally not recommended for children due to side effects. Clinical trials report low cure rates ranging from 6 percent to 65 percent for plantar warts, as the thick epidermis on the soles can limit effectiveness. Cryotherapy may be more effective on warts in other areas of the body.

Hyperthermia: Hyperthermia raises skin temperature to promote viral cell death (apoptosis) and stimulate an immune response. Hypothermia requires specialized equipment—such as exothermic skin patches, radiofrequency devices, or infrared lasers—and carries a risk of burns, which limits its use in general practice.

          (TheEpochTimes.com)

Trump Signs Executive Order Setting 30-Day Deadline for Drugmakers to Lower Prescription Costs

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order related to drug prices, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

By: Amanda Seitz & Seung Min Kim

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay.

The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker new price tags for drugs over the next month. If deals are not reached, Kennedy will be tasked with developing a new rule that ties the price the U.S. pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries.

“We’re going to equalize,” Trump said during a Monday morning press conference. “We’re all going to pay the same. We’re going to pay what Europe pays.”

It’s unclear what — if any — impact the Republican president’s executive order will have on millions of Americans who have private health insurance. The federal government has the most power to shape the price it pays for drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump’s promised new — but uncertain — savings on drug prices, just hours after the Republican-led House released its new plan to trim $880 billion from Medicaid.

Taxpayers spend hundreds of billions of dollars on prescription drugs, injectables, transfusions and other medications every year through Medicare, which covers nearly 70 million older Americans. Medicaid, which provides nearly-free health care for almost 80 million poor and disabled people in the U.S. also spends tens of billions of dollars each year for drugs.

President Donald Trump, with Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, left, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, holds an executive order related to drug prices, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Top US drugmakers say Trump’s order is bad for patients

The nation’s pharmaceutical lobby, which represents the top U.S. drugmakers, immediately pushed back against Trump’s order, calling it a “bad deal” for American patients. Drugmakers have long argued that any threats to their profits could impact the research they do to develop new drugs.

“Importing foreign prices from socialist countries would be a bad deal for American patients and workers,” Stephen J. Ubl, the president and CEO of PhRMA, said in a statement. “It would mean less treatments and cures and would jeopardize the hundreds of billions our member companies are planning to invest in America.”

Trump’s so-called “most favored nation” approach to Medicare drug pricing has been controversial since he first tried to implement it during his first term. He signed a similar executive order in the final weeks of his presidency, which called for the U.S. to only pay a lower price that other countries pay for some drugs — such as injectables or cancer drugs given through infusions — administered in a doctor’s office.

That narrow executive order faced hurdles, with a court order that blocked the rule from going into effect under President Joe Biden’s administration. The pharmaceutical industry argued that Trump’s 2020 attempt would give foreign governments the “upper hand” in deciding the value of medicines in the U.S.

The concept also remains unpopular with many in his own party. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., noted to reporters on Monday that it would be “fairly controversial” if Trump had tried to push through the policy legislatively, rather than via an executive order.

Trump says other countries are to blame

Trump repeatedly defended pharmaceutical companies, instead blaming other countries for the high price Americans pay for drugs, during a wide-ranging speech at the White House on Monday. The president was flanked by Kennedy, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya.

He did, however, threaten the companies with federal investigations into their practices and opening up the U.S. drug market to bring in more imported medications from other countries.

“The pharmaceutical companies make most of their profits from America,” Trump said. “That’s not a good thing.”

Trump played up the announcement over the weekend, boasting in one post that his plan could save “TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.”

But on Monday, the White House offered no specifics for how much money the administration anticipates it could save.

The health department’s top leaders will be meeting with drug company executives over the next 30 days to offer new prices on drugs that are based off what other countries pay, Oz said on Monday.

Americans are unlikely to see immediate savings

Americans are unlikely to see relief on rising drug costs quickly because of the order, said Rachel Sachs, a health law expert at Washington University.

“It really does seem the plan is to ask manufacturers to voluntarily lower their prices to some point, which is not known,” Sachs said. “If they do not lower their prices to the desired point, HHS shall take other actions with a very long timeline, some of which could potentially, years in the future, lower drug prices.”

The health department has the most authority to change the prices of drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid because it can set regulations. Even still, the agency’s power to do so is limited. Congress just approved in 2022 a new law that allows Medicare to negotiate the price it pays for a handful of prescription drugs starting in 2026. Before the law, Medicare paid what the drug companies charged. Drug companies unsuccessfully sued over the implementation of the law.

The price that millions of Americans covered by private insurance pay for drugs is even harder for the agency to manipulate.

The U.S. routinely outspends other nations on drug prices, compared with other large and wealthy countries, a problem that has long drawn the ire of both major political parties, but a lasting fix has never cleared Congress.

Trump came into his first term accusing pharmaceutical companies of “getting away with murder” and complaining that other countries whose governments set drug prices were taking advantage of Americans.

Trump says he’ll ‘do the right thing’

Ahead of the announcement, Trump puffed up his rhetoric toward the industry again on social media, writing that the “Pharmaceutical/Drug Companies would say, for years, that it was Research and Development Costs, and that all of these costs were, and would be, for no reason whatsoever, borne by the ‘suckers’ of America, ALONE.”

Referring to drug companies’ powerful lobbying efforts, he said that campaign contributions “can do wonders, but not with me, and not with the Republican Party.”

“We are going to do the right thing,” he wrote.

Several pharmaceutical companies gained ground in the stock market on Monday morning. Merck, a company that made $64.2 billion last year with the help of its cancer treatment Keytruda, jumped 3.9%. Pharma giant Pfizer, which notched $63.6 billion in revenue in 2024, rose 2.5% while Gilead Sciences rose 5.8%.

          (AP)

PTSD symptoms tripled among Israeli soldiers since Hamas war, study finds

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By Pesach Benson, TPS

Israeli scientists revealed on Tuesday that the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among combat soldiers has tripled since Hamas’ October 7 attacks.

The study, led by Prof. Yair Bar-Haim, head of Tel Aviv University’s National Center for Traumatic Stress and Resilience, showed a rise in PTSD symptoms from 0.5% at enlistment to 12% during the current war.

Factors such as burnout, long deployments, and social and economic strain contributed to a decline in reservist participation, with turnout dropping to 75%-85%.

“Far from surprising, these figures are consistent with what is known about post-traumatic symptoms following high-intensity warfare, in both the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] and other armies,” Bar-Haim said.

“The data also contribute to the understanding that Israel’s mental health system is in a state of emergency. Decision-makers must act urgently to devise long-term solutions for treating a large number of veterans with PTSD.”

PTSD is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety, and uncontrollable thoughts about the event.

People with PTSD may avoid situations or things that remind them of the traumatic event, and they may have negative changes in beliefs and feelings. The condition is typically managed with therapy and medication.

Bar-Haim presented his research on Tuesday in Tel Aviv at the Future of Israel Conference.

The study tracked 579 soldiers from an infantry brigade to gauge the psychological impact of active service and post-discharge periods, as well as the influence of the October 7 war.

“The war has intensified psychological distress, and the number of respondents reporting significant post-traumatic stress symptoms rose to approximately 12%,” Prof. Bar-Haim said.

The researchers utilized a Hebrew version of the gold standard questionnaire for PTSD self-reporting, where participants rated the severity of their symptoms.

Although the results are not a replacement for a formal PTSD diagnosis, the correlation between self-reports and clinical interviews has been well-established

The study tracked the soldiers at five intervals: enlistment, after 15 months of service, after 27 months, six months after honorary discharge, and 18 months post-discharge.

Initially, at enlistment, fewer than 0.5% of soldiers displayed pre-existing PTSD symptoms. However, as their service progressed, the number of those reporting clinically significant PTSD symptoms steadily increased.

After 18 months of service, including six months of combat training and nine months of active duty, the rate of PTSD symptoms had risen to 2.6%. By the end of their regular service, after several combat deployments, 4.4% of soldiers showed significant PTSD symptoms.

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Surprisingly, the symptoms worsened after discharge. Six months after leaving the army, nearly 8% of participants reported PTSD symptoms at clinical levels, despite the period being relatively calm, without significant military operations.

“We hoped that the severity of symptoms would diminish after leaving the army, but instead, the rate rose,” Prof. Bar-Haim noted.

This increase could be linked to the loss of the social support system and sense of belonging that the military environment provides.

The cause of this rise is unknown, but it stands to reason that the social support and sense of belonging provided by the military environment diminished considerably once the soldiers returned to their individual lives

As the study progressed into the October 7 war, the psychological toll of combat became even more evident. Approximately 85% of the participants were called up for reserve duty during the conflict.

By the time the study was conducted several months into the war, the percentage of soldiers reporting PTSD symptoms had climbed to about 12%.

PTSD is not limited to soldiers. A Ben-Gurion University study released in March found that nearly half of young Israelis showed symptoms of war-related PTSD.

That research revealed that individuals ages 18-30 were particularly affected due to their high rate of military service, personal losses, and displacement from their homes.

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Bar-Haim emphasized the need for long-term solutions to support veterans suffering from PTSD, pointing to the necessity of accelerated therapist training and the creation of specialized trauma clinics.

The study’s results may also help explain the recent decline in reservist turnout. Although initial turnout exceeded 100%, current reports show a drop to around 75%-85%.

Several factors contribute to this decline, including the impact on reservists’ livelihoods, families, and the perceived inequality in the burden of service.

Additionally, the mental strain of repeated combat deployments, especially those involving traumatic experiences, is taking its toll on the soldiers’ resilience.

“Reservists suffering from multiple symptoms are often unable to report for additional service,” Bar-Haim said, adding, “The greatest pressure of all falls on the veterans and their families.”

At least 1,180 people were killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 58 remaining hostages, 36 are believed to be dead.

Edan Alexander speaks with Trump, turns down meeting in Qatar

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By David Rosenberg, World Israel News

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with former Gaza hostage Edan Alexander Tuesday morning, less than a day after he was released from captivity in a goodwill gesture to the United States.

President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff met with the 21-year-old dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, who was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7th, 2023, while serving in the IDF.

The meeting also include Alexander’s family, and took place at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center.

“I was honored to meet Edan Alexander today and welcome him home. After months in captivity, the world is inspired by his courage and resilience,” Witkoff tweeted.

During his visit to Sourasky, Witkoff and Alexander spoke together with Trump over the phone, Witkoff wrote.

“His return gives hope to so many. We also had the opportunity to speak with POTUS, whose leadership made this possible. We remain committed to bringing every last hostage home.”

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Netanyahu’s office announced Tuesday morning that the prime minister also spoke with Alexander by phone.

Alexander was reportedly invited to fly to Qatar this week to meet with President Trump during his visit to the Gulf state, but according to Israel’s Channel 12, declined.

“His medical condition requires that he rest,” Alexander’s family was quoted as saying, adding that he plans to meet Trump at some yet to be determined date in the U.S.

“He will meet with Trump in the US at a later date.”

Trump is said to have requested that Alexander be flown to Qatar this week to meet with the president, and with the emir of Qatar to thank him personally for his role in convincing Hamas to free him.

Bernie Moreno Accuses Bernie Sanders of Parroting ‘Absolute Propaganda of Hamas’ in Senate Clash

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Senator Bernie Sanders, was one of the first to defend Palestinian Hamas Gaza protesters and attack Israel last week.

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(Breitbart) Republican Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio accused Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) of spreading the “propaganda of Hamas,” after the self-described “democratic socialist” claimed Israel was guilty of ethnic cleansing and using starvation as a weapon of war.

In a heated Senate floor exchange on Thursday, Vermont’s socialist Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a prepared speech accusing Israel’s government of war crimes in Gaza and blaming the United States for enabling them. He also accused President Donald Trump of “actively encouraging the ethnic cleansing of over two million people.”

In response, Moreno — who has served just over 100 days in the Senate — rose to rebuke Sanders’ remarks.

“What you just heard… could be summarized as the absolute propaganda of Hamas,” he said, adding, “It’s a disgrace, and we should not ever forget that Israel is fighting the war that we would otherwise fight.”

“Hamas is the enemy,” he noted, “not our greatest ally — which is Israel.”

Moreno also dismissed Sanders’ framing as one-sided and dangerously misleading. Recalling the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023, he said, “They savagely murdered children, raped women, took hundreds of hostages, and killed more Jews than at any time since the Holocaust.”

“This war was started by Hamas,” he added. “It could end today by Hamas if they release every last hostage, including an American citizen.”

The exchange reflects a stark divide over the Israel-Hamas conflict, with Sanders and his allies painting Israel as the aggressor, while lawmakers like Moreno argue the Jewish state is under siege and defending both its people and shared American interests.

Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.

A Museum Opens at a Former Factory in the Czech Republic Where Oskar Schindler Saved 1,200 Jews

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A visitor observes the Museum of Survivors, located in a factory where Oskar Schindler saved some 1200 Jews during the WWII, in Brnenec, Czech Republic, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

(AP) — A dilapidated industrial site in the Czech Republic where German businessman Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews during the World War II is coming back to life.

The site, a former textile factory in the town of Brněnec, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Prague, was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owners in 1938 and turned into a concentration camp. This weekend it welcomed the first visitors to the Museum of Survivors dedicated to the Holocaust and the history of Jews in this part of Europe.

The opening was timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. It was also in May 1945 that Schindler received a golden ring from grateful Jewish survivors, made with gold taken from their teeth. The ring was inscribed with the Hebrew words from Talmud, saying “Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.”

Schindler’s story was told in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning movie, “Schindler’s List.”

Daniel Löw-Beer was a driving force behind the project. His predecessors lived in this part of Czech Republic for hundreds of years, acquiring the plant in Brnenec in 1854 and turning it into one of Europe’s most important wool factories.

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“We had to flee for our lives, lost a bit of our history, so putting a little bit of history back to a place and hopefully bringing out as well the history of Oskar Schindler and the village is what we’re doing today,” Löw-Beer told The Associated Press.

Today, his family members are scattered around the world. “I’m pleased to put a little bit, of course emotionally, of my family back in the place because they were survivors. My grandfather lived here, my father lived here, and then the world was shattered one day in 1938,” he said.

Glass wall separates past and present
The museum, housed in part of a renovated spinning mill, displays the history of Schindler, his wife Emilie, the Löw-Beer family and others linked to the area, together with the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. It includes a space for exhibitions, lectures, film screenings and concerts, as well as a café.

A transparent glass wall between this part and the bigger, still ruined area behind it separates the present and history.

“It’s a universal place of survivors,” Löw-Beer said. “We want those stories to be told and people to make their own opinions.”

In 2019 Löw-Beer set up the Arks Foundation to buy the warehouse and turn it into a museum, investing money and renewing a partnership with the local community to revive the neglected site.

The regional government contributed funds, while a grant from the European Union brought children from five European countries to Brněnec to come up with ideas that helped shape the museum design.

The official opening on the weekend completed the first step but a lot remains to be done. The remaining buildings are still waiting to be fully restored. They include Schindler’s office where the town hall plans to create an information center, the barracks of the SS troops, which will provide more exhibition spaces, and the entire building of Schindler’s Ark where the Jewish prisoners lived and worked.

Currently, the museum is not open on a daily basis and focuses on education activities for schools.

Previous projects to restore the site failed due to a lack of funds. In contrast, the Arks Foundation took a step-by-step approach. When skeptical local residents could see something was really happening this time, they offered help. A firm came with a big truck loaded with bricks, dropped them and just went off, Löw-Beer said.

“We wanted to show that you have to do something for something else to happen,” said Milan Šudoma of the foundation. If organizers had waited until they had secured all the necessary funding, nothing would likely be done by now, he said.

“Oskar and Emilie Schindler are proof that one person can make a difference,” the museum quotes Rena Finder, one of the Schindler’s Jews, as saying. “Everybody said there was nothing I could do. And that’s a lie because there is always something you can do.”

A man of contradictions who saved hundreds of lives
Schindler, an unlikely hero, was born in the nearby town of Svitavy (Zwittau in German) in what was then the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, with a German-speaking majority and a substantial Jewish population.

A Svitavy museum said Schindler was a mass of contradictions: a troublemaker, a womanizer, a spy for the Germans, a Nazi but also a man who saved people from the Holocaust.

After the war broke out in 1939, Schindler moved from Svitavy to Krakow, now Poland, where he ran an enamel and ammunition plant and treated Jewish workers well. With the Red Army approaching in 1944, he created a list of Jewish workers he claimed were needed to resettle the plant in Brněnec.

When a transport with 300 women was diverted to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Schindler managed to secure their release.

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem, said it’s the only known case “that such a large group of people were allowed to leave alive while the gas chambers were still in operation.”

In another bold act, Emilie Schindler led an effort to save more than 100 Jewish male prisoners who arrived at a nearby train station in sealed cattle wagons in January 1945.

In 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Emilie and Oskar Schindler as Righteous Among the Nations, the honor awarded to those who rescued Jews from the Holocaust.

A visitor observes the Museum of Survivors, located in a factory where Oskar Schindler saved some 1200 Jews during the WWII, in Brnenec, Czech Republic, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

 

Daniel Low-Beer, whose family used to own a factory where Oskar Schindler saved some 1200 Jews during the WWII, talks to The Associated Press at the Museum of Survivors in Brnenec, Czech Republic, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

 

A visitor takes a photo at the Museum of Survivors, located in a factory where Oskar Schindler saved some 1200 Jews during WWII, in Brnenec, Czech Republic, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

 

Visitors walk around the Museum of Survivors, located in a factory where Oskar Schindler saved some 1200 Jews during WWII, in Brnenec, Czech Republic, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

‘Held In A Cage’: Edan Alexander shares torturous conditions of his captivity

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(A7) IDF soldier and American citizen Edan Alexander has returned to Israel after being held hostage in Gaza for over a year and a half. His first testimony, reported by Kan News, paints a grim picture of his time in captivity.

Edan described being tied hand and foot inside a cage, deprived of daylight, and suffering from extreme hunger in a Hamas-controlled tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip.

During his release, Alexander was visibly weakened, struggling to walk due to the toll of prolonged confinement.

His grandmother, Varda Ben Baruch, reflected emotionally: “Today is the second Passover, for those who could not celebrate Passover. Edan is celebrating Passover today, he is a free man.” His father, Adi, having just landed in Israel, said, “I saw the picture. He looks handsome, pale, and thin. That’s my boy. The first thing I will do is hug him.”

Following initial medical checks at the Re’im reception center, the Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that Alexander would be transferred to Ichilov Hospital for further treatment.

Senior military leaders, including Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and Maj. Gen. (Res.) Nitzan Alon, visited the hostages and missing persons headquarters to mark the occasion. Zamir stated: “We are excited and welcome Edan’s return, but we do not forget the 58 hostages still held by Hamas. We remain committed to bringing them all home.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Alexander’s return, crediting both Israeli military action and international diplomacy: “This is a very emotional moment. This was achieved thanks to our military pressure and diplomatic efforts, particularly by President Trump.” He added that President Trump reaffirmed his commitment to Israel during a phone call earlier in the day.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, echoed that sentiment: “I feel relief that Edan Alexander, the American, has finally returned home. We hope this release signals the beginning of the end of this terrible war. Hamas is solely responsible for this suffering.”

In a powerful statement, the Families’ Headquarters for the Return of Hostages called Alexander’s release a “beacon of light and hope,” but reminded the public that the mission is far from over: “No hostage should be left behind. Without the return of everyone, there will be no Israeli victory, no recovery, and no national resurrection.”

‘Nothing To Hide’: Fox News Host Shows Inside Of ICE Facility Dem Reps Tried To Storm

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By Harold Hutchison

(DCNF) Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy toured a detention facility run by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a segment that aired Monday on “Fox and Friends.”

Democratic Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez Jr. of New Jersey were involved in a fracas outside the ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, Friday, during which Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark was arrested. Campos-Duffy said the agency had “nothing to be ashamed of.” (RELATED: Jonathan Turley Says Judge Became ‘Active Player’ In Allegedly Helping Illegal Immigrant Evade ICE)

“I came over to the ICE detention facility. I received the tour Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,a representative out of New York, is going to receive a few hours from now,” Campos-Duffy told “Fox and Friends” co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt, Lawrence Jones and Brian Kilmeade. “This is what I saw: ICE has nothing to hide. They have nothing to be ashamed of. This facility is so clean. It has, you know, all kind of recreation facilities, outdoor soccer field, weight equipment, domino tables. It has telephones everywhere with signs next to them of how they can, phone numbers to reach their consulate and also legal facilities, computer web cams.”

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“There are doors on the bedrooms and they aren’t even locked,” Campos-Duffy continued. “The facility actually looks like a high school, looks better than a lot of high schools and prisons in America could take a lesson, in fact, director of ICE, who took me around told me, Todd Lyons told me, they can’t contract with state and local facilities, they have to use private facilities, because their standards are so high and it is too expensive to retro retrofit to put the ICE detainees in.”

Upon taking office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations.

“In Spanish and English, there are signs up that say, ‘do you want to go home?’ And it gives you a phone number that you can call to self-deport or you can also just tell somebody in the facility, hey, I’m ready to be done with this, I just want to go home to my country,” Campos-Duffy said. “If you do that, the American government, though ICE, will arrange within 48 hours, a free flight and $1,000 so you can get out. So the idea they are here with no agency, that they are being detained with no choices, that’s not true. They have a choice to self-deport and they make it really easy.”

Trump announced the self-deportation program on May 5, during a White House event announcing the 2027 NFL Draft would take place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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John Fetterman’s health and how to read the mainstream media

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(JNS) In the fall of 2022, the left-leaning mainstream media did almost everything they could to help the flagging senatorial candidacy of John Fetterman. Nearly three years later, liberal corporate outlets seem to be intent on destroying him with reports claiming to detail his aberrant behavior, questionable health and devastating comments from former staffers, and even from his wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman.

What’s behind the change in their attitude?

One thing known for sure is that it’s not the ostensible issue driving a flood of stories casting doubt on Fetterman’s state of mind and fitness for office. And, just like the same outlets’ disgraceful cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental incapacity—something that became obvious during his disastrous presidential debate with Donald Trump in June 2024—ended once it was clear that he couldn’t win re-election, the turn against Fetterman is devastating evidence of the media’s lack of credibility. The shifting narrative about the senator is an object lesson in how to read the contemporary liberal press. It’s why even those most reluctant to write off legacy media as partisan propaganda outlets need to acknowledge that 21st-century journalism is broken beyond repair.

The same outlets now skewering him as a sick man who has lost control of himself and hinting at the need for him to resign were singing a far different tune in 2022, when they steadfastly stuck to the story that there was nothing wrong with a man who had suffered a devastating stroke only days before he won his party’s nomination for a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat. That support from liberal outlets required some journalists to blatantly lie about his condition, alleging that any reporting to the contrary about his health was Republican disinformation. This helped him win that November, though a lot of the credit for his victory also belongs to the dismal, out-of-touch performance of his GOP opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

The liberal press never budged from that line even after Fetterman took office in 2023, endured some difficult first weeks on Capitol Hill and was then hospitalized for depression. He recovered and returned to his regular duties, albeit still relying on digital devices with closed-captioned technology as a result of what he said was a temporary speech impediment related to the stroke. Anyone who questioned whether a U.S. senator ought to rely on this method to conduct conversations and listen to speeches was damned as a bigoted “ableist” opponent of the disabled.

But by the end of his first year in office, the cheerleading and/or covering for Fetterman ceased. Why was that? The answer can be summed up in one word: Israel.

Standing with Israel

Fetterman reacted to the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab terror assaults on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, not just with anger and horror. Unlike most Democrats, who spent the subsequent months demanding a ceasefire that would allow the Hamas terrorist organization to emerge as the victor of the war it started, Fetterman was having none of that. He immediately made it clear that he was determined to support the Jewish state’s efforts to defeat and eradicate Hamas, and that blame for all of the casualties in the post-Oct. 7 war belonged to the Islamist group and not the Jewish state.

Indeed, Fetterman has become a hero to the pro-Israel community in the last 19 months for his unwavering support, which is undiluted by any willingness to pay lip service to the left’s false claims that the Jewish state is committing “genocide” in the Gaza Strip. Along with Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), he is among the few Democrats who have stood by Jerusalem during the crisis without wavering. Nor has he talked out of both sides of his mouth, damning the Israelis for “overreacting” to the events of Oct. 7 or praising the idealism of the pro-Hamas mobs on college campuses, as did former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

To say that his stand on Israel has come as a shock to fellow Democrats, especially the left-wing activists who carried him to victory in a May 2022 Pennsylvania Democratic primary against a credible moderate alternative and an attractive representative of the African-American community, is an understatement. It’s hard to imagine any Pennsylvania Democrat, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish (Fetterman is not), trolling pro-Hamas demonstrators at his office and home by waving an Israeli flag while they chanted about “genocide.” Or by hanging outside the door of his Washington office posters of men, women and children of different nationalities who were kidnapped by Hamas and murdered there or along the way, or held captive for days and months. Even more to the point, as numerous accounts make clear, Fetterman’s staff and even his wife have become outraged by his support for Israel, a position that marks him as an outlier in his party.

Fetterman has shown some other signs of moderation since Oct. 7, notably his willingness to meet with President Donald Trump after his November 2024 election victory and to vote for a couple of his cabinet appointees. But on the whole, he’s stuck to his liberal positions on a host of other economic and even social issues, such as his support for trans rights, and voted against most of Trump’s choices. That stance even started a boomlet among some pro-Israel Democrats, proposing Fetterman as a long-shot possibility for the 2028 presidential nomination in which he would be the centrist alternative in a party increasingly dominated by supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

Pro-Israel stands as a form of mental illness?

That unlikely prospect aside, it is his supposed “apostasy” about Israel that is driving the anger against him from the progressive wing of his party. This is the only explanation for liberal journalists’ volte-face on the question of his health and fitness for office.

The story that started the tsunami of negative coverage of Fetterman was a lengthy profile in New York Magazine, titled: “All by Himself: John Fetterman insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.”

The main on-the-record source for the piece was his former chief of staff, Adam Jentleson, a veteran left-wing Democratic operative. Like most Democratic congressional staffers on Capitol Hill, Jentleson is an opponent of Israel, who thought the Biden-Harris ambivalent stand on the post-Oct. 7 war was insufficiently hostile to the Jewish state. He ultimately resigned and, along with others who didn’t speak on the record, is at pains to hint that Fetterman’s backing for Israel and refusal to play along with Hamas talking points signify signs of his mental instability.

That story spawned outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, Politico, NBC News, CBS News and others in which Democrats—both anonymous and on-the-record—shaded Fetterman and depicted him as a deeply disturbed and unstable person in need of medical care. And, they say, he has no business being in the Senate.

Is there a possibility that they are at least partially correct about Fetterman’s health? Maybe.

Press hypocrisy

As someone who cast doubt on his fitness for office when liberals were pretending that there was nothing to see, I’m prepared to accept that some of the current reporting about his health might be accurate. But I also know that the sudden interest in his well-being on the part of the liberal press has nothing to do with any alleged change for the worse in his condition.

While he may still be impaired, as journalists like Salena Zito have reported, since his hospitalization in early 2023, he has managed to do his job for the past two years as reasonably well as most of his colleagues. Though, admittedly, that is a pretty low standard by which to judge anyone.

As such, it’s blatantly obvious that the motivation for the media offensive against Fetterman is about politics, not health. The reason that the same publications, networks and journalists that spent four years declaring that there was nothing wrong with Biden are now sounding the alarm about the senator is because he isn’t useful to them anymore. If he were behaving like other left-wing Democrats and criticizing Israel, the odds that New York magazine, the Times or any of the other outlets seeking to depict him as unworthy of a Senate seat would today be ignoring any concerns about his condition.

While this single demonstration of the media’s corruption and utter lack of credibility is disturbing in and of itself, it’s just another instance of why so much of what the mainstream corporate media publishes should be read with a truckload of salt. Media bias is nothing new, but it’s gotten to the point where stories that are clearly part of a partisan information operation are the norm rather than unusual. As Ruthie Blum wrote in JNS about a recent media attempt to sow dissension between the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government in Israel, this sort of thing is now ubiquitous. At least in America, we have come to the point where it’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that much of what is printed in the mainstream press must be discounted as nothing more than political disinformation.

In the meantime, regardless of concerns about his health, Fetterman still deserves the applause and gratitude of voters for his courage in standing up against the political fashion of his party when it comes to the war against Israel. Whatever else you might think of him, he is an authentic, if eccentric character (his penchant for wearing hoodies and shorts to work is something that has angered his Senate colleagues) who connects with ordinary working-class voters in a way that most Democrats cannot. While he may well face a tough left-wing primary challenge when he runs for re-election, those who underestimate his political appeal in a state and a country sick of partisan ideological polarization do so at their own peril.

Liberals tolerated an infirm and incapable president simply because they thought it helped keep Trump out of the White House. Friends of the Jewish state should therefore be forgiven for being willing to put up with an irascible and moody senator from Pennsylvania who needs technological assistance to do his job but has shown integrity and character when it comes to the post-Oct. 7 surge of antisemitism that other members of his party have either tolerated or encouraged.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.

PREVIEW: Knicks Try to Bounce Back in Game 4 Vs Celtics

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Boston Celtics (61-21, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York Knicks (51-31, third in the Eastern Conference)

New York; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EDT

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Celtics -6.5; over/under is 209

EASTERN CONFERENCE SECOND ROUND: Knicks lead series 2-1

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Knicks host the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference second round with a 2-1 lead in the series. The Celtics won the last meeting 115-93 on Saturday, led by 23 points from Payton Pritchard. Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 27.

The Knicks are 34-18 against conference opponents. New York scores 115.8 points while outscoring opponents by 4.1 points per game.

The Celtics are 14-2 against the rest of their division. Boston scores 116.3 points and has outscored opponents by 9.1 points per game.

The Knicks’ 12.6 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.3 fewer made shots on average than the 12.9 per game the Celtics allow. The Celtics average 116.3 points per game, 4.6 more than the 111.7 the Knicks allow.

TOP PERFORMERS: Karl-Anthony Towns is averaging 24.4 points, 12.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists for the Knicks. Brunson is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.

Jayson Tatum is averaging 26.8 points, 8.7 rebounds and six assists for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown is averaging 17.7 points and 5.7 rebounds over the last 10 games.

LAST 10 GAMES: Knicks: 7-3, averaging 105.3 points, 41.8 rebounds, 20.0 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.5 points per game.

Celtics: 7-3, averaging 106.5 points, 46.4 rebounds, 21.6 assists, 8.0 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 94.0 points.

INJURIES: Knicks: None listed.

Celtics: Sam Hauser: day to day (ankle).

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

What most Palestinians really want – analysis

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Palestinian mourners and gunmen wave the green Hamas flag at the funeral of a Palestinian terrorist who was killed in an Israeli military raid in Nur Shams, October 20, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

The latest poll also shows that an overwhelming majority of the Palestinians (85% in Judea and Samaria and 64% in the Gaza Strip) oppose disarming Hamas to stop the war with Israel.

By Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute

An overwhelming majority of the Palestinians (87%) believe that the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas did not commit atrocities against Israeli civilians, including women and children, on October 7, 2023, according to a public opinion poll conducted in early May by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

When asked if Hamas had committed the atrocities seen in the videos shown by international media displaying the acts committed by Hamas members against Israelis in their homes on that day, these Palestinians said the group did not commit such atrocities, while only 9% said it did.

The poll, conducted in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip, shows that many Palestinians are living in denial, and trying to protect themselves from a truth that is apparently too painful for them to accept: that many Palestinians support terrorism and that most of the victims of the October 7 massacre were innocent civilians.

This, despite the fact that many of the Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7, murdering 1,200 people and injuring thousands, used GoPro cameras and cellphones to document the attack.

Many of the crimes were also documented by Israeli security cameras, car dashboard cameras, traffic cameras and first responders.

During the attack, a Hamas terrorist used an Israeli woman’s cellphone to call his parents: “Father, I just killed 10 Jews, their blood is in my hands, thank God. Tell mom, your son is killing Jews.”

 

“At least a half-dozen of the [Hamas] militants who breached the Gaza border and attacked Israeli communities had cameras strapped to their bodies, in an apparent attempt to collect propaganda material during the incursion….

“The videos, some of which have been posted to social media, provide a harrowing first-person view of the Hamas fighters’ final hours of life, and the death and destruction they caused during their unprecedented assault. They show the slaughter of civilians, indiscriminate shooting in Israeli communities, and the taking of hostages — clear evidence of war crimes that undermines Hamas’ claims that its fighters did not enter Israel with the intent of killing civilians.”

A few weeks after October 7, 2023, a poll published by the same center showed that 72% of the Palestinian public believe that Hamas’s decision to launch the attack was “correct.”

The poll, in addition, showed that support for Hamas has more than tripled in Judea and Samaria compared to three months earlier. In the Gaza Strip, support for Hamas increased from 38% before the October 7 massacre to 42%.

The latest poll also shows that an overwhelming majority of the Palestinians (85% in Judea and Samaria and 64% in the Gaza Strip) oppose disarming Hamas to stop the war with Israel.

When asked whether they support or oppose the eviction of some Hamas military leaders from the Gaza Strip as a condition for stopping the war, 65% said they oppose it, while 31% expressed support for their removal.

When asked which political party they support, the largest percentage (32%) said they prefer Hamas, followed by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction (21%). Thirty-four percent said they do not support any of them or do not know.

If new PA parliamentary elections were held today, 43% of the Palestinians said they would vote for Hamas, 28% for Fatah, eight percent for third parties, and 19% have not decided yet.

The last parliamentary elections, held in 2006, resulted in a Hamas victory. A year later, Hamas staged a violent coup against the PA and seized full control of the Gaza Strip.

The results of the recent poll show that most Palestinians are not only in living in denial regarding the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, but that they continue to support a terror group that has brought death and destruction on tens of thousands of the residents of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians who are saying that they are unaware of Hamas’s October 7 atrocities against Israelis are either engaged in self-deception or influenced by Hamas’s venomous propaganda machine, including the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera TV network, which has long been serving as the terror group’s unofficial mouthpiece.

Notably, according to several polls, Al-Jazeera is the most watched TV station in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip.

Sadly, the Palestinians’ widespread support for Hamas, especially in the aftermath of the October 7 carnage, shows that many continue to support the group’s terrorism and call for the destruction of Israel.

Their strong support is the direct result of decades of universal Palestinian incitement against Israel and Jews. The incitement finds expression in schools, the media, mosques, even in crossword puzzles, as well as the rhetoric of Palestinian leaders and officials.

This ever-present incitement is why it is hard to find Palestinians who are prepared to condemn, let alone acknowledge, the October 7 atrocities against Israelis.

This incitement is also why it would not be a good idea to hold general elections in the PA: it is clear – according to the polls – that the Palestinians still do not consider it a mistake they made when, in 2006, most of them voted for Hamas.

If, according to the polls, most Palestinians are saying that they want Hamas to keep its weapons and remain in power in the Gaza Strip, it means they want the terror group to carry out more atrocities against Israel and Jews.

If the Palestinians are saying that they prefer Hamas over any other Palestinian party, it means that they do not support any peaceful settlement with Israel. It means that the Palestinians want to see Israel obliterated and replaced by an Islamist state, armed and funded by Iran and its other terror proxies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.

One can only hope that the Trump administration and other international parties will read the results of the Palestinian polls to get a better understanding of what many Palestinians really want: to murder as many Jews as possible and displace Israel.

Trump: Dems ‘World Class Losers’ for Fighting Free Air Force One

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(NEWSMAX) Seeing a Democrat is threatening to investigate the Qatar Air Force One gift to President Donald Trump, the president fired back at the “world class losers” rejecting a “temporary” freebie in the name of politics, foisting unnecessary costs on American taxpayers.

“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane,” Trump said in a Sunday night post on Truth Social.

“Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA”

Trump’s fiery post came after Rep. Ritchie Torres demanded a probe into the Trump administration accepting a luxury jet, apparently a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet, worth approximately $400 million from Qatar to serve as Air Force One, Axios reported Sunday.

The New York Democrat wrote to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the acting Department of Defense inspector general, and the Office of Government Ethics requesting an investigation of the gift.

Amid the blowup, the Qatari government acknowledged discussions between the two countries about “the possible transfer” of a plane to be used temporarily as Trump’s Air Force One, but denied the jet “is being gifted” or that a final decision had been made.

ABC News reported that Trump will use the aircraft as his presidential plane until shortly before he leaves office in January 2029, when ownership will be transferred to the foundation overseeing his yet-to-be-built presidential library.

The gift was expected to be announced when Trump visits Qatar, according to ABC’s report, as part of a trip that also includes stops in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the first extended foreign travel of his second term.

But hours after the news, Ali Al-Ansari, Qatar’s media attaché, said in a statement, “Reports that a jet is being gifted by Qatar to the United States government during the upcoming visit of President Trump are inaccurate.

“The possible transfer of an aircraft for temporary use as Air Force One is currently under consideration between Qatar’s Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense,” the statement said. “But the matter remains under review by the respective legal departments, and no decision has been made.”

Information from Reuters was used to compile this report.

Eric Mack ✉

Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.

‘Retaliation’: Brown Charges Student Newspaper With Trademark Violations After Reporter Created Website Exposing DEI Administrators

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Brown University has cracked down on the Brown Spectator, a right-leaning student newspaper, hitting the paper with charges of trademark violations just weeks after a Spectator board member created a website exposing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officials.

Associate Dean Kirsten Wolfe charged the Spectator with “violating Brown’s ‘Name Use, Trademark, and Licensing Policy’ for having the word ‘Brown’ in the name of our independent non-profit and our website domain,” Brown sophomore Alex Shieh, a reporter and board member for the Spectator, told Fox News on Thursday. On Wednesday, the board members sat for a disciplinary hearing over the charges.

“This isn’t about trademarks. This is about retaliation,” Shieh wrote in a post on X, calling the charges “the latest measure in [Brown’s] crusade against independent student journalism.” The university will make its ruling in the coming weeks, according to Fox.

“There’s a reason every student newspaper in the country alludes to their school in its name without issue,” Shieh wrote, noting that the university has not charged the Brown Daily Herald.

Brown did not respond to Fox News’s request for comment.

Shieh angered Brown officials in March by launching the online database Bloat@Brown, which exposes what he calls redundant, “bullshit,” and “legally questionable” administrative jobs at the Ivy league school. Seeking to understand Brown’s high tuition, Shieh also emailed 3,805 non-faculty Brown employees asking, “What do you do all day?” Few employees took it well, with “event specialist” José Mendoza responding, “Fuck off.”

Wolfe, another recipient, accused Shieh of causing “emotional distress for several University employees” and said she had started investigating him.

Shieh said he wants to investigate DEI policies at Brown after President Donald Trump signed executive orders banning DEI at the federal level and withheld millions in federal funding from universities for failing to abolish such programs.

In April, Brown threatened disciplinary action against Shieh for accurately saying that the Trump administration plans to pull $510 million in federal funding over the school’s DEI policies. Administrators accused Shieh of “publishing and promoting false information,” even though the White House had confirmed the funding freeze.

Shieh told Fox News following the Wednesday hearing that Brown is singling out the right-leaning newspaper.

“The timing and selective targeting of the Spectator but not the Herald make it apparent to us that these latest charges are an attempt to silence student voices critical of university administration, not a real trademark concern,” he said.

Edan Alexander released from Hamas captivity in Gaza

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(JNS) Israel Defense Forces soldier and dual U.S.-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander, 21, was freed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Monday after 584 days in captivity.

“The returning hostage is currently being accompanied by IDF special forces on his return to Israeli territory,” the military said in a statement.

“The commanders and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces salute and embrace the returning hostage as he makes his way home to the State of Israel,” it added, urging the public to respect the privacy of the family.

The military subsequently announced that the military convoy “crossed the border into the territory of the State of Israel” and was making its way to the initial reception point near the country’s southern border.

The handover reportedly took place in the Khan Yunis area of southern Gaza, carried out by Hamas’s “Shadow Unit.” Israel’s Channel 12 News reported that Alexander was able to walk on his own “with a little help from the Red Cross” during the handover ceremony. An Israeli official told the broadcaster that his physical condition was “poor.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement saying that Jerusalem “embraces IDF soldier Staff Sgt. Edan Alexander, who has been returned from Hamas captivity. His family has been informed by the relevant authorities that he has joined our forces.”

“Along with all branches of the security establishment, the government of Israel will assist in his reintegration and will support him and his family,” the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office continued.

“The government of Israel is committed to the return of all hostages and missing persons—both the living and the fallen. We will continue to act tirelessly until all are brought home to Israel,” the PMO stated, citing Psalms 31:16: “Save me from the hand of my enemies and pursuers.”

“This is a very emotional moment,” Netanyahu added. “We embrace him and we embrace his family. This was achieved thanks to our military pressure and the diplomatic pressure exerted by President Trump.”

After being transferred to the International Committee of the Red Cross by Hamas, Alexander was brought to IDF special forces inside the Strip, and from there to the Re’im military base in Israeli territory.

At the IDF facility near Re’im, he will receive an initial physical exam and a mental exam, then meet with members of his family who traveled to Israel from the United States for the occasion. He will then be airlifted by military helicopter to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital).

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said earlier on Monday that Jerusalem had not committed to “any ceasefire or the release of terrorists, only to a safe corridor that will allow for Edan’s release.”

However, some IDF forces in Gaza were reportedly ordered to hold fire during Alexander’s release to allow his safe passage. The army was also said to have paused intelligence-gathering operations in Gaza.

Alexander, a native of New Jersey, was taken during the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, in which Palestinian terrorists murdered some 1,200 people and abducted 251.

Alexander’s parents confirmed that he may travel to Qatar for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, scheduled to visit the Gulf nation this week as part of a Middle East tour. However, the family emphasized that the trip would depend on their son’s medical condition.

Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Monday afternoon: “Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage, is being sreleased [sic]. Congratulations to his wonderful parents, family, and friends!”

Alexander, believed to have been the last living American citizen held in the Strip, is the first male IDF soldier taken on Oct. 7 to be freed.

Following Alexander’s release, 58 abductees remain captive in Gaza, according to official Israeli military figures, including the remains of four deceased Americans.

Jerusalem believes that up to 23 hostages are still alive, with heavy question marks over the fate of one Israeli and two foreign nationals.

‘A massive effort’

Hamas’s announcement on Sunday night that it would free Alexander came following talks with the Trump administration’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. The terrorist group said his release was “part of the steps being taken to achieve a truce, open the [border] crossings, and allow aid and relief to reach our people in Gaza.”

Ahead of a Cabinet meeting on Sunday, which came after the Jewish state’s security services returned the body of an IDF soldier who had been missing since the First Lebanon War in 1982, Netanyahu vowed to return all hostages and missing people.

“It isn’t just lip service; it’s a massive effort by all Israeli security and intelligence agencies,” the premier declared in his remarks.

Netanyahu met with Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee ahead of Alexander’s release on Monday night. The Israeli prime minister then spoke with Trump, whom he thanked for the development.

Trump reiterated his commitment to Israel and desire to continue close cooperation with the prime minister, according to a readout published by the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

In his meeting with Witkoff and Huckabee, Netanyahu discussed a last-ditch effort to implement a final draft agreement for the release of the remaining hostages before the IDF steps up its offensive in the Strip.

The premier instructed that a delegation be sent to Doha on Tuesday. Netanyahu stressed that the fighting would continue during the talks.

Dem Rep Says Party Looking for “Safest White Boy” to Win in 2028

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(TJV NEWS) Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) made a controversial statement during a recent radio interview, suggesting that the Democratic Party is looking for the “safest white boy” to run for president in 2028.

Speaking on Urban View with Clay Cane and Reecie Colbert, Crockett addressed internal concerns within the party about nominating a woman, claiming past losses have made some Democrats fearful of doing so again.

“So there’s a lot of people that are like, you know what? Like, let’s go find the safest white boy we can find. I mean, I’m just saying,” she remarked.

She went on to say that major Democratic donors are already lining up behind a specific candidate—who, according to her, is “not a Black person nor a woman.”

Crockett then turned her attention to former President Donald Trump, calling him a “misogynist” and accusing him of stirring up sexism in the electorate.

While her comments have stirred backlash online, Trump’s approval rating has recently hit a post-inauguration high, according to Breitbart News.

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