1+ week, 2+ day ago (422+ words) Friday, November 21st | 1 Kislev 5786 The Israeli Prime Minister's Office released a statement this week on behalf of the Mossad saying the agency, in cooperation with European counterparts, has dismantled a network of terror cells across Germany, Austria, and beyond " cells that stockpiled weapons and stood ready to strike Jewish and Israeli targets on the continent. Among the most striking details was a weapons cache seized in Vienna last September, consisting of pistols and explosives and traced to a certain Muhammad'Naim, who was identified by Israeli intelligence as the son of Basem'Naim. Investigators reportedly uncovered a meeting in Qatar between father and son, allegedly signaling leadership'level approval of the European operation. When one considers that Basem'Naim has been treated in the UK media as a mainstream political figure, flattered with copious airtime, speaking from Istanbul and Doha, questions must be asked. On…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago (623+ words) Friday, September 19th | 26 Elul 5785 France and the UK are currently set to recognize a Palestinian state on September 22: erev Rosh HaShanah, the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays and the Jewish new year. The timing is, at best, callous and ignorant " or at worst, intentionally cruel. For that reason, we are once again sharing our prior analysis, with specific evidence, that this recognition is understood to be a reward for October 7 and an inducement to repeat it. In May of 2024, Spain, Ireland, and Norway officially recognized a Palestinian state, followed shortly thereafter by'Slovenia. Palestinian society, and the Arab world at large, declared this recognition to be a successful result of'the October 7 massacre against Israel, and an indication that such massacres are the appropriate direction for Palestinian society. Then Hamas leader'Ismael Haniyeh boasted'that, "Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa [the October 7 massacre] raised the…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago (327+ words) Monday, July 28th | 3 Av 5785 On Monday, Elbit Systems Ltd., a military contractor based in Israel, announced it had received a $260 million government contract from Germany to spend six years installing Directional Infrared Counter Measures (DIRCM) self-protection systems for defending Germany's A400M aircraft fleet. The contract is just the latest in a string of blockbuster deals between Israeli defense firms and international militaries. Israeli defense exports to Europe jumped to 54% of overall defense exports last year, up from just over 33% in 2023, according to the Israeli media outlet Globes. Elbit's defense system works to counter infrared-guided missiles, with a focus on mobile anti-aircraft weapons. It offers the ability to track missile threats as they happen and also provides automatic protection without needed human action. Other countries which have deployed the system include Israel, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Brazil. In February, Morocco announced plans…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago (463+ words) Wednesday, June 25th | 29 Sivan 5785 When a movement demands absolute loyalty, rewrites history, and silences dissent, we're no longer dealing with activism. Rather, it signals the rise of a dangerous cult. The global response to the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel has become exactly that: a sprawling, toxic cult masquerading as justice while hiding a deadly agenda. Now, over 600 days later, after horrific events like the murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington D.C., and the firebombing in Boulder, Colorado, we have borne witness to its lethal consequences. A few days ago, I came across a video of one of the loudest and cruelest pro-Hamas agitators leading a group of students in a chant that defiled the Holocaust. Coldly and maliciously, she appropriated the horrors of the Shoah, declaring that the "real genocide" is happening in Gaza, while her audience echoed her…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago (492+ words) Friday, October 24th | 2 Heshvan 5786 Screenshots taken on October 23, 2025 of three Sora videos created by user "Pablo Deskobar." The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published new research on Friday from its Center on Technology and Society (CTS) investigating outputs from artificial intelligence-powered video generating programs. Analysts found that "at least 40 percent of the time" the programs would generate responses when presented "antisemitic, extremist or otherwise hateful text prompts." ADL researched fed certain antisemitic prompts into AI chatbot apps " OpenAI's Sora 2, Google's Veo 3, and Hedra's Character-3 model " to gauge how the programs would respond to racist material. Researchers described how of all four tools, OpenAI's Sora 2 "performed the best in terms of content moderation, refusing to generate 60% of the prompts." The ADL report stated that out of the 50 problematic prompts "Veo 3 only refused to generate ten, Hedra only refused two and Sora 1 refused none. Sora…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago (476+ words) Friday, August 1st | 7 Av 5785 French authorities have halted evacuations from Gaza after a Palestinian student was expelled from the prestigious Sciences Po Lille and placed under investigation, following the viral circulation of hundreds of antisemitic posts praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and calling for the murder of Jews. The incident drew widespread condemnation and public outrage, prompting French ministers to demand answers and call for an investigation into how the Gazan student was allowed into the country in the first place. On Friday, French Foreign Minister Jean-No'l Barrot announced that all further evacuations from Gaza would be suspended pending the completion of the investigation into the student's background. After receiving a scholarship, 25-year-old Nour Atalla, a Palestinian from Gaza, arrived in the country in early July to begin her master's degree in law and communications this fall at the Institute of…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago (588+ words) Friday, August 8th | 14 Av 5785 Germany announced it was halting exports of arms and other military equipment to Israel for use in Gaza, shortly after the Israeli security cabinet approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to expand operations in northern Gaza. "The federal government will, until further notice, withhold approval for the export of any military equipment that could be used in the Gaza Strip," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in a statement on Friday. Merz argued that Israel's decision to escalate its military campaign against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas "makes it increasingly difficult" for Berlin to pursue its "highest priorities" of securing the release of the remaining Israeli hostages and achieving a ceasefire in Gaza. "Israel has every right to defend itself against Hamas terrorism," the German leader said. "Disarming Hamas is essential " there can be no place for Hamas…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago (421+ words) Thursday, September 11th | 18 Elul 5785 I first became familiar with Charlie Kirk after October 7, 2023, when my TikTok algorithm began showing me videos of him fiercely, and quite effectively, debating students on college campuses, often those in keffiyehs and with purple hair. Thus began my fascination with what I soon learned was a man who was dedicating his life to debating and promoting what he believed in. Charlie Kirk was the face of the young Republican movement, respected even by some Democrats. He had a promising future ahead of him. As Ben Shapiro wrote: "That kid is going to be the head of the Republican National Convention one day." Kirk dedicated his life to debate. To disagreement. To hearing the other side and persuading with facts and truth. And this, tragically, cost him his life. His assassination represents the meager and devastating state…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago (387+ words) Friday, August 8th | 14 Av 5785 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday launched the Jewish Policy Index (JPI), a "first interactive tool of its kind" for evaluating the efficacy of policies that US states have adopted to combat antisemitism. He added, "This tool offers us a comprehensive picture of where states are and what steps they can take to do better. We urge state lawmakers to take swift and decisive action to enact strong policies and laws that protect their Jewish communities." The distribution of the first JPI ratings forms a bell curve, with most states, 29, clustered in the middle, having been classified as "Progressing States" which have adopted "some key pieces of the policy agenda" the ADL recommends. Twelve received the poorest mark, "Limited Action States," for showing "little systematic effort to address antisemitism through policy." The ADL and its partners say…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago (256+ words) Friday, August 15th | 21 Av 5785 Gidon Ben-Zvi, former Jerusalem Correspondent for The Algemeiner, has died at the age of 51 after a fight with cancer. Ben-Zvi continued to write op-eds for The Algemeiner even after he left as a correspondent, including in the aftermath of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel. An accomplished writer, Ben-Zvi left Hollywood for Jerusalem in 2009, moving back to Israel after spending 12 years in the United States. From 1994-1997, Gidon served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in an infantry unit. In addition to writing for The Algemeiner, Ben-Zvi contributed to the Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, CiF Watch, and blogged at Jerusalem State of Mind. Ben-Zvi joined HonestReporting as a senior editor in June 2020, becoming an integral part of the editorial department and writing dozens of articles and media critiques for the watchdog group exposing anti-Israel bias. He moved…...