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This is what it looks like when Islamist narratives are normalized - masked, keffiyeh-clad agitators, on America’s streets, calling for the death of Americans. Their language of “resistance” is not academic. It’s a call for the literal overthrow of our democracy, glamorized to the gullible through Marxist ideology of “oppression.” This anti-American hate doesn’t just come into our country from abroad. It’s taught - institutionalized - in our schools. Advanced in our colleges. Reinforced by our media. It corrupts our politics. Our enforcement of the law. Our democratic values. And it’s here to destroy us. What we see in demonstrations like this is an existential threat to all of us. Together, we must confront it with every tool in our arsenal.

Two men in London have been charged with spying on Jewish communities for Iran. Jewish institutions, and the Jewish community at large, are being treated as soft targets for hostile state actors. If this were any other community, it would be treated as a national security emergency. It should be here, too. But there’s more to this than spying. Foreign influence operations are working in parallel, spreading Islamist ideology, radicalizing communities, and leveraging our own freedoms against us. This isn’t really just about the Jewish people, it’s about all of us. If we don’t expose and disrupt these networks, we’re eroding the foundation of our democracy.

The Lawfare Project will be on the ground at #CPAC in Dallas, Texas March 25th-28th. Join the Lawfare Project Founder @GoldsteinBrooke, Director of Litigation Ziporah Reich, and Director of Communications Jayne Zirkle @JayneZirkle on the CPAC Live Stage on March 26th for a conversation on Islamic Infiltration in our education system.

UCLA is now facing a lawsuit for refusing to comply with lawful public records requests. The records concern an “Activist in Residence” who publicly justified the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack as “justice.” Under the California Public Records Act, compliance is not optional. Public universities are legally obligated to produce records within a reasonable timeframe, regardless of political sensitivity or reputational risk.

Federal law is clear: institutions that receive federal funding cannot discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, or shared ancestry, including Jewish identity. Despite repeated assurances from Harvard’s leadership, and public claims that it is “firmly committed to confronting antisemitism,” the campus environment remains hostile to Jewish students. Now, the federal government is stepping in.

An example of how the regime in Iran is a threat to the entire of the Middle East. Since this war began, 87% of Iranian strikes have been against Arab countries (5,508) and only 13% have been against Israel (822). Those who pretend that the regime is simply Israel’s problem are either lying or unwilling to see the truth.

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By our very own @GerardFilitti “The Trump Administration's new Title VI complaint is more legally serious than its critics will admit, and Harvard's own record makes the case for them.”

A society begins to fracture when the military is required to protect civilians from targeted hate. Soldiers on the streets of major Belgian cities are now guarding Jewish communities after a surge in antisemitic attacks across Belgium and the Netherlands. This cannot be the new normal for European Jews. Security is necessary, but it is not a solution. Political leadership and law enforcement must identify perpetrators, prosecute them, and reestablish clear consequences. Zero tolerance cannot be rhetorical, it must be demonstrated.

UC Berkeley was accused of systemic discrimination against Jewish students. A federal judge found those allegations plausible. The university is now settling rather than defending its failure to protect Jewish students. This is what accountability looks like under Title VI. Institutions that tolerate harassment based on Jewish identity will face consequences.

The DOJ has sued Harvard for deliberately ignoring the harassment, assault, and intimidation of Jewish and Israeli students while selectively enforcing its own rules to protect every other group on campus. Harvard’s own task force documented the exclusion of Jewish and Israeli students from campus life. Harvard's leadership watched mobs occupy its buildings, but failed to act. Not because it didn't know, but because it made a choice. Title VI has always provided the legal framework to hold institutions accountable when they take federal money and look the other way while Jewish students are harassed out of classrooms and off campus. The question was never whether the law permits it. The question is whether anyone will enforce the law. That’s what the DOJ is doing. This is what consequences look like.

Ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer rescue service were set on fire outside a synagogue in London's largest Jewish community. Three suspects have been identified, but no one has been arrested. This was Jew-hatred, deliberately directed at a Jewish institution, in a Jewish neighborhood, using vehicles that exist to save Jewish lives. Under UK law, that's an aggravated hate crime, and potentially terrorism. The question is whether Jewish lives will be treated as worthy of the same enforcement that would follow any other targeted act of hate, or whether, once again, the community will be told to wait while the law looks the other way.

The California Education Department is suing the Oakland School District, alleging that OUSD’s superintendent never followed through on “corrective actions” decreed by the department to correct a hostile environment which produced “multiple complaints of antisemitism.” One of the measures called for issuing a letter to parents that “condemns antisemitism” while outlining OUSD’s efforts to combat it. Schools are legally obligated to protect Jewish students from discrimination, and the school’s refusal even to do the bare minimum - condemn antisemitism - shows a clear failure to enforce the legal rights of Jewish students. It is crucial for parents to know what their children are experiencing in school, and what they are learning. Without this knowledge, we can’t hold schools accountable. Knowledge is power. Do you know what your child’s curriculum contains?

Iran poses a clear threat to the entire world, and nowhere is this more clear than in its secretive program to build intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching not just the Indian Ocean, but most of Europe as well. The Islamic Republic is an existential threat to our safety and to Western values, and it’s time for the world to wake up to the threat posed by radicalism cloaked in religion.

Joe Kent (who recently resigned as Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, claiming it was “in protest of Israel dragging the U.S. into war with Iran”) previously spoke in detail about the very real threats the Iranian regime poses to American lives. Those now pushing the narrative that Iran is not a direct threat to the United States are actively rewriting reality, and in doing so, they are whitewashing a regime with a documented history of targeting and killing American citizens. This is an old playbook - confuse the public, shift the narrative, turn people against each other. Blame the Jews. Fuel Jew-hatred. And distract from the real threat to America: radical Islam.

It’s believed that Canada has about 700 regime and IRGC affiliates harboring in Canada. Right now, the Canadian Jews are under attack and the Iranian community is at risk too. The Canadian government and officials must deal with these sleeper cells and crackdown on hate crimes before more innocent people are attacked.

Aviva Klompas: Olivia Chow has herself to blame for antisemitic violence nationalpost.com/opinion/olivia…

Wow….Mahmoud Khalil asserts that it is racist to subject all Palestinians to a moral litmus test (condemning terrorism), yet he has spent the last 2.5 years harassing Jews and subjecting Americans to that same litmus test.

The Iranian regime executed three young men today. One of them was Saleh Mohammadi, a 19 year old wrestling champion. Their crime? Participating in protests. According to their families, they received no due process - the regime coerced confessions, did not provide them with independent counsel, was not transparent about evidence, and gave them no fair trial. The regime didn’t punish these men for breaking the law. It killed them for being silent. The targeted killing of protesters through a corrupt legal system is a human rights violation and, under international law, a crime against humanity. The regime knows exactly what it is doing. The world should know, too.