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Boss of NYC's 'secret Chinese police station' convicted of acting as illegal 'agent' trib.al/kLjCGIG

The Klu Klux Klan used to march through black neighbourhoods in the 50s and 60s, seeking to intimidate black residents and assert white supremacy. Now antisemites march through Jewish neighbourhoods, seeking to intimidate Jewish residents and assert anti-Jew supremacy. It was racism then and it’s racism now.

FOREIGN NETWORK HQ: A pro-China nonprofit under federal investigation just dropped $5.15 million on a Manhattan building to serve as its 'permanent home' for far-left organizing. The People's Forum, tied to Shanghai-based Marxist mogul Neville Roy Singham's network, is now urging supporters to raise another $5 million to renovate the rundown property. Lawmakers say the group's funding raises "significant concerns" about "foreign influence or control." Story by @AsraNomani & @M_Dorgan

Judge bars Jewish prosecutor from prosecuting pro-Palestinian protestors. This is one of the most disturbing developments among a bevy of disturbing developments. timesofisrael.com/judge-bars-jew…

BREAKING: Lebanon blasted Iran at the U.N., accusing Tehran of violating Lebanese sovereignty by using Hezbollah and the IRGC to wage war from Lebanese soil. This is massive. A new Middle East is on the horizon.

BREAKING: Senator Rick Scott has sent a letter to the DOJ urging an investigation into the violent pro-Palestine riots across NYC. He also blasted Zohran Mamdani over the ongoing unrest, calling for those responsible for breaking the law to be prosecuted.

Senator Rand Paul’s son, William Paul, hurled antisemitic insults at Congressman Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar last night. Paul interrupted a conversation between a NOTUS reporter and Rep. Lawler, telling him that if his father loses re-election, it will be because of “your people.” “My people?” Lawler asked Paul. “Yeah, you Jews,” Paul responded. "Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.” “Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said. He then continued on a tirade about how Jews were “anti-American”.

BREAKING: "We believe that at least half of the hospices in the entire area around Los Angeles are fraudulent." "Today we announce 800 of those hospices have been suspended. 800 hospices that last year charged the federal taxpayer $1.4 billion will no longer be paid." - CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz

I can’t believe @EliLake had to have these conversations. Is Jew hatred so endemic at the @nytimes that this terrorist-sourced piece could pass muster? Or are their standards now so close to the Völkische Beobachter as to be indistinguishable? There are legitimate cases to be made for prisoner abuse by Israel. This is not one of them. I’d say shame on @NickKristof, but the man who writes and dignifies such charges has no shame. open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/…

Hamas blocking contractors from area set for new construction touted in Trump's Gaza peace plan: report trib.al/lL3NB2u

A pogrom is coming. It has the possibility to be the biggest in history because it will be widespread. For centuries, Jews have faced these attacks based upon conspiracies and antisemitism. Today is no different. It will be triggered by a genocide ruling, and the sad thing is that it doesn’t matter which way they rule. People just want to attack Jews. Just like they did in the following years: •1517: Tzfat and Hebron, Israel - Arabs raped, pillaged, and killed Jews. Jews were viewed as wealthy outsiders ripe for plunder, with underlying religious hatred and economic resentment (Sound familiar? But I thought it started in 1948?) •1648-57: Khmelnytsky, Ukraine/Poland - 100,000+ Jews killed, raped, pillaged. Economic grievances (serfdom and heavy taxation blamed on Jews) merged with blood libel echoes and deicide myths. (Sound familiar?) •1768: Uman, Ukraine - ~10,000 Jews slaughtered. Antisemitism blended religious hatred (deicide, refusal to convert) with class-based conspiracy theories. (Sound familiar?) •1881-1884: Russia - ~200 riots and attacks against the Jewish community which saw man Jews murdered, raped, displaced, and looted. Traditional antisemitism around Tsar Alexander’s death centered on economic resentment, blood libels, and deicide—combined with emerging racial/nationalist theories blaming Jews for unrest and “disloyalty.” (Sound familiar?) •1918-1921: Russia/Ukraine - 100,000+ Jews were murdered, raped, looted, and destroyed. The conspiracy theory was that Communism was a Jewish invention to destroy the Christians. This built on Protocols of the Elders of Zion forgeries alleging global Jewish financial/political control, plus older economic/religious antisemitism. (Sound familiar?) There were hundreds of other pogroms at this time sprung from the same antisemitism. Some by Arabs in Israel like is 1660, 1834, 1838 and 1929. The difference today is the global connectivity to events. Jews will not be singled out territorially. Jews will be attacked en masse, likely because of social media. A pogrom is coming, and it will be substantially bigger than ones we have seen previously.

Four illegal aliens arrested after being found allegedly tied to a massive multi-state burglary ring in the U.S. - arrests conducted in a joint Homeland Security Task Force op with partners. Well done @FBIMilwaukee.

BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance announces the federal government is deferring over a billion dollars in Medicaid reimbursements to California, citing a failure by the state to combat systemic fraud. "We're announcing that the federal government is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from the state of California.” “And the simple reason is because the state of California has not taken fraud very seriously."

Antisemitism is rising on the fringes of both parties, and silence only enables it. In the @nytimes, I called out the antisemitism inside my own party and our failure to confront it head-on.

This is yet another reminder that vile, unimaginable charges leveled against Jews are little more than a defense mechanism -- a way of deflecting attention from vile, unimaginable things done *to* Jews.

Never forget that Keir Starmer recognised a “Palestinian State” while there were still hostages trapped in Hamas’ terror tunnels and Hamas still rule Gaza. He rewarded hostage taking and terrorism.

Kristof’s column breaks almost every code of ethics in reporting. It should be used in journalism schools. +Verify information before releasing it +Provide context. +Identify sources clearly. +Consider sources’ motives . +Diligently seek subjects of news coverage to allow them to respond spj.org/spj-code-of-et…

Much has been written about @NickKristof's latest NYT opinion column over the past 24 hours, most of it focusing on the specific claims and their sourcing, but what I think deserves most attention is something broader: how this kind of journalism, whatever its intentions, ultimately makes accountability harder to achieve rather than easier, and harms the very people it claims to champion. The principle that Israeli abuses should be investigated and condemned is not in dispute, and nobody serious is arguing otherwise. Israel is not above scrutiny, and in fact it operates under more intense international scrutiny than almost any country on earth, routinely held to standards applied nowhere else. The problem here is something different entirely: the complete collapse of evidentiary standards the moment Israel is the subject. This piece reads less like rigorous reporting and more like a catalogue of hearsay, unverifiable allegations, and activist claims stitched together into a sweeping moral indictment. Its sourcing leans heavily on Euro Med Human Rights Monitor, an organisation repeatedly criticised over extremist ties, disinformation, and deeply questionable methodology, yet treated throughout as a credible authority while its leadership openly engages in pro Hamas propaganda on X. Worse, the same ecosystem of activists and self appointed “experts” that amplifies Euro Med’s claims online increasingly feeds narratives into more established organisations and media outlets, laundering deeply contested allegations into the appearance of institutional credibility. The most severe claims are anonymous, uncorroborated, and presented in the emotional register of established fact rather than allegation, despite lacking meaningful evidentiary backing. Yet Kristof largely adopts them without serious scrutiny, publishing the piece in the Opinion section because even the already diminished evidentiary standards often applied to reporting on the Israeli Palestinian conflict would likely not suffice for it to pass as straight news reporting. This approach doesn't strengthen accountability, it actively destroys it. When every allegation is immediately inflated into systematic rape and "standard operating procedure" before any serious verification, genuine investigation becomes harder rather than easier. Real abuses, if they occurred, get buried beneath maximalist narratives so extreme that large portions of the public simply stop trusting any of it, and the people who actually suffered pay that price. It also alienates the vast majority of Israelis and Jews worldwide, including the many who are perfectly capable of criticising Israeli policy and supporting investigations into misconduct, but who understandably recoil when accusations begin resembling modernised blood libels dressed up as human rights reporting. The framing matters enormously, and so does proportionality, and so does evidence. Nor does any of this serve Palestinians. Atrocity inflation entrenches both sides deeper into defensive tribalism, and every dubious claim amplified by a prestigious outlet makes legitimate criticism easier to dismiss when it actually matters. The timing compounds everything. On a day when documented reporting on Hamas sexual violence was again circulating, the NYT chose to run an opinion column built substantially on unverifiable anonymous testimony asserting that Israelis are conducting systemic rape campaigns, not as a rigorously evidenced investigative report but as an opinion piece with the imprimatur of the paper of record. Kristof is not a naive bystander in any of this. In 2014 he used the full credibility of the NYT to repeatedly platform Somaly Mam, a Cambodian anti-trafficking activist whose harrowing personal story he championed across multiple columns, until it emerged that her backstory was substantially fabricated and he was forced to issue a public correction. When challenged this time around on his sourcing, corroboration, and methodology, he defaulted to bad faith engagement on social media rather than addressing the underlying concerns seriously. It is the same pattern, playing out again in a different context. Real journalism requires skepticism, corroboration, and restraint applied consistently regardless of the subject, and when those standards disappear the moment Israel is involved, what remains is not human rights reporting but narrative activism wearing a journalist's costume that does far more harm than good to everyone it claims to serve.

According to the New York Times, having 14 accusers without any proof is greater than or equal to a report that has 1800 hours of testimony, video from the attackers themselves, documents stating the intent of sexual violence, kidnapping, and death, et al. The NYT is not news.

People driven by antisemitism won’t be convinced even if you show them 20,000 pieces of evidence instead of 10,000. But everyone else — especially those who already support and understand Israel — understands it now more than ever after the latest reports. When these are the monsters you’re dealing with, there is no other option but to eliminate them completely. Hamas is still alive. They do not deserve to survive.