Deborah Edberg MD

For the fourth day in a row, the courageous people of Iran are once again rising up on university campuses across the country, standing against the regime’s tyranny and repression. During the major wave of protests in January 2026, reports indicate the regime murdered more than 30,000 people, whose only “crime” was demanding freedom and dignity. Free Iran.

Jewish students and Hillel staff from DePaul University were harassed this week while meeting at Olive & Oak coffee shop in Chicago 🇺🇸. The event had been promoted online. As students arrived, a crowd gathered outside wearing keffiyehs and chanting “globalize the intifada.” The “Free Palestine” group harassed them and urged the café staff to play Palestinian music. Staff neither intervened nor attempted to de-escalate. Instead of protecting their customers, they joined the hostility. As the Jewish students and Hillel staff walked out, the crowd sang “We won” while filming them. If your “win” is chasing Jews out of a coffee shop, you didn’t fight oppression. You became it.

BREAKING: 53-year-old Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, is currently being tortured by the regime in Iran. Her 'crime' is advocating for the rights of women, for which she is serving a 10-year-prison sentence.

I was on PBS’s @FiringLineShow this week with @MargaretHoover, where I said there is a full-on gender apartheid happening right now in Iran. The Islamic regime brutalizes women, crushes dissent, and exports violence far beyond its borders. Iran funds Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi terrorist groups. It destabilizes the Middle East and fuels violence in the West. The Iranian people have been telling us for years they don’t want this regime. They are occupied by their own government. If you care about human rights, talk about Iran. Stand with the people of Iran.

There are officially no more hostages in captivity in Gaza.

Over 10,600 Iranians have been arrested following protests against Khamenei’s regime. Erfan Soltani is one of them. The 26-year-old was arrested at his home last week for taking part in Thursday night’s protest against the regime. His public execution is scheduled for today, with no possibility to contest the sentence or file an appeal. Erfan was denied access to a lawyer. The regime told his family: “There is no file to review. We announced that anyone arrested in the protests would be executed. Erfan’s sentence is Moharebeh (Enmity against God); it is final and will be carried out.” After repeated, desperate pleas, the family was granted a single ten-minute meeting with Erfan — one the authorities made clear was intended as their final farewell before the sentence is carried out. Speak up for Erfan. Speak up for Iran.

Erfan Soltani. Say his name. A 26-year-old innocent protestor in Iran due to be publicly executed tomorrow by the regime. Say his name. #ErfanSoltani

WATCH: David Cunio was kidnapped on October 7 from his family home along with his wife, Sharon, and their 3-year-old twin daughters, Yuli and Emma. But when Hamas took them to Gaza, Emma wasn’t with them. For 10 days, her parents didn’t know where she was, or whether she was still alive. Two weeks after their abduction, the Cunio family was reunited in a hospital in Gaza, where the hostages were being held. Emma, carried in the arms of a terrorist, was crying. She had been starved and neglected. At first, the little girl didn’t even recognize her parents. Hamas are not “freedom fighters.” They kidnapped children. They tore families apart. They used hospitals to hold hostages. They left a 3-year-old girl alone in a tunnel in Gaza for two weeks. They murdered the Bibas babies. Don’t believe the lies about Hamas not harming civilians. Learn about the atrocities they inflicted. Never forget.

DON'T LOOK AWAY. THE ISLAMIC REGIME IN IRAN IS MURDERING THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS.

Two sources, including one from within Iran, told CBS News that the number of people killed in the regime’s massacre is at least 12,000, but it may be more than 20,000.

Scenes from Tehran tonight. Long live Iran. Down with the Islamic Republic.

Today Iranian women joined the uprising. See how they are at the frontline and one woman leads, others follow. “Don’t be afraid, we are together.” When the currency collapses, the lies fall with it. Let’s call on international media to be your voice.

Romi Gonen was r*ped by a medical professional in Gaza who was tasked with caring for her bullet wound. Romi had to continue living in his house after the assault. Noa Marciano was killed by a Gaza doctor who injected air into her veins and filmed it. Emily Damari was held in Shifa Hospital by a doctor who told her to call him “Dr. Hamas.” Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, a physician at Rafah’s Youssef al-Najjar Hospital, handled the body of Hadar Goldin in 2014 and knew it had been hidden for years in a tunnel beneath Rafah. Dr. Al-Jamal held Noa Argamani, Andrei Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv, and Almog Meir Jan hostage in his family home in Nuseirat. Where are the human-rights activists when terrorists are disguised as doctors?

Despite relentless repression by the regime, the people of Iran took to the streets again today, this time protesting the collapse of the rial and runaway inflation. The people of Iran are on the verge of an explosion, waiting for a single spark to rise up against this brutal, murderous regime. Please be the voice of the Iranian people. #Iran

Matilda Britvan, 10 Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41 Alex Kleytman, 87, Holocaust survivor Dan Elkayam, 27 Rabbi Yaakov Levitan, 39 Reuven Morrison, 62 Marika Pogany, 82 Tibor Weitzen, 78 Edith Brutman, 68 Boris Gurman, 69 Sofia Gurman, 61 Peter Meagher, 61 These were the innocent lives taken by the terrorists: rabbis, the elderly, a Holocaust survivor, and a child.

"I tried to escape, I dug for several weeks, I wanted to work to change my fate. One night I managed to go outside and see the stars, for the first time. “I wrote 'kidnapped' on a sandbag and was already planning my next move, but the terrorists found out and beat me for days. They tied me to a chair for a week.” Former hostage Avinatan Or gave shocking new testimony about the horrors he endured in Hamas captivity. "I was underground in Gaza for 738 days, alone, chained, without light and without food. I was one of the last hostages to return home. I was in the tunnels alone during my entire captivity. “For more than two years I did not see sunlight, days passed without anyone speaking to me, I did not hear my language, no one called my name. “The hardest part is not knowing anything, not what day it is, not what happened in the world, not whether the people I love are still alive." "To survive, I created a few rules for myself, the first - patience, every day I told myself 'just one more day', 'don't think any further ahead'. Patience was my lifeline. “Rule number two - find a common denominator. I talked to my captors about faith, about the Torah and the Quran, about Joseph and Yusuf, about Abraham and Ibrahim, different names but universal stories. “Rule number three - anger destroys you. You can't survive when you're angry. I allow myself to feel it sometimes but I let go. “Rule four - keep my brain working. My engineering background saved me, I counted steps, collected data, built a small lamp from broken cables, planned escape routes in my head and told myself 'you won't let others decide your fate." "Everything in my life, childhood, my parents, military service and my work as an engineer taught me who I am. And I don't see myself as a hero, I didn't choose to be kidnapped, the heroes are the soldiers who chose to fight for others. They saved so many lives and I want to help them, that's my next mission." Hamas tried to destroy Avinatan’s spirit. Because of his own efforts, they failed. Whether he sees himself as one or not, Avinatan is certainly a hero to us ✡️💪

The silence is deafening. Civilian men, women, and children are being slaughtered in Sudan. Estimates of over 150,000 killed & 14 million displaced since April 2023. Considered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. No mass protests. No daily political statements/demands. No college campus encampments.

I was released from Hamas captivity in January and I am a die hard fan of Maccabi Tel Aviv. I am shocked to my core with this outrageous decision to ban me, my family and my friends from attending an Aston Villa game in the UK. Football is a way of bringing people together irrespective of their faith, colour or religion and this disgusting decision does the exact opposite. Shame on you. I hope you come to your senses and reconsider. I do wonder what exactly has become of British society, this is like putting a big sign on the outside of a stadium saying “No Jews allowed” What has become of the UK where blatant antisemitism has become the norm? What a sad world we are living in.

We’ve been dreaming about this moment for 733 days. We’ve been holding our breath in fear for 733 days. We’ve been living in agony waiting for 733 days. But the wait it finally over. Tonight we sleep knowing the nightmare WILL end. Tonight the world got a little brighter again.

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