[PJMedia] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has hit an impressive milestone for arrested gang members under the Trump administration.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt highlighted the milestone in a post that included an article with more details from Fox News.
If the feds were able to arrest over 10,000 suspected gang members in just about a year and a half, how many tens of thousands of gang members are operating in the United States altogether? This is the horrible reality of the open borders crisis. Politicians who welcome illegal aliens are deliberately ignoring the fact that an unknown number of violent mostly peaceful criminals are always mixed in.
President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... also announced another long-term anti-illegal immigration achievement this week. "In January 2025, we inherited the worst, most dangerous, most wide-open and insecure border in history, and we have quickly turned it into the strongest, most secure border in the history of our country," Trump stated.
He went on, "For the past 13 months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States. I want to say a very special thank you to all the men and women who have helped liberate America from this scourge — the heroes of ICE and Border Patrol."
As for the arrested gang members, Fox explained:
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), those arrested have been accused of crimes including murder, assault with a deadly weapon, drug trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, robbery and extortion... DHS said the 10,000th suspected gang member arrested was Javier Hernandez Rosas, whom the agency identified as an alleged MS-13 member and an undocumented Democrat from Mexico... Rosas has prior convictions for cocaine possession and was previously arrested on charges including abduction and weapons possession.
Such gang criminals have ruled American streets with impunity for too long. "Many of these gang members were released into our country by Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy... . These vicious criminals murdered, assaulted, robbed, and terrorized innocent Americans for sport," Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin exclaimed. "Thanks to the Secure America Act, ICE is turbocharged to arrest even more gang members and criminals from American neighborhoods." Some of these gangs have terrorist designations now, too.
It seems rather appropriate that these DHS achievements’ announcements coincide with two rulings in favor of the current illegal immigration crackdown. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Mullin v. Doe that DHS was allowed to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians who have enjoyed the designation for a decade or more. In a separate decision, the majority SCOTUS opinion agreed that America does not have to accept asylum seekers who never even reached our borders.
We are beginning to take our country back.
7,200 children rescued. A 42% increase from the previous administration.
3,500 predators/traffickers locked up. A 102% increase from the previous administration.
If you mean to bring harm to the most precious and innocent among us (our children) WE WILL FIND YOU!
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 25, 2026
Acting Attorney General @DAGToddBlanche announces the results of the 2026 National Health Care Fraud TAKEDOWN: 455 defendants charged in connection with $6.5+ BILLION in alleged fraud
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— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) June 23, 2026
On April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division (“Fraud Division”). The Fraud Division is laser-focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people. The Department’s work to combat fraud supports President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.
A New York woman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Ciera Washington, age 35, of the Bronx, New York, allegedly stole information of Medicaid beneficiaries and used to obtain prescription medication.
Washington’s guilty plea followed the creation of the Trump Administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.
The announcement was made by First Assistant U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III; Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Naomi Gruchacz, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG); and New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
Washington admitted that from April 2023 through October 2024, she worked with Raven White, Bryan Otero, and others to steal the personally identifiable information of Medicaid beneficiaries and use that information to fraudulently obtain prescription medications from pharmacies throughout the Northeastern United States. She further admitted that the conspiracy causes a loss of nearly $4 million to the New York Medicaid program and tens of thousands of dollars to pharmacies.
Washington agreed to forfeit over $400,000 in proceeds she obtained in connection with her crimes and to consent to an order of restitution for the losses they caused.
“Americans suffer when criminals like Ms. Washington and her co-defendants defraud government programs. This investigation proves the FBI will not stand by while deceptive individuals compromise invaluable programs designed to help our citizens who need it most.” Said Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Charge Albany FBI.
At sentencing on October 14, 2026, Washington faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment on the fraud count and a mandatory term of 2 years on the aggravated identity theft count, which must run consecutively to any term imposed on the fraud count. She also faces a term of supervised release of up to 3 years.
“This egregious fraud committed by the defendant is hazardous in several ways. Actions like hers can harm Medicaid beneficiaries by violating their benefits and privacy information, harm the Medicaid program by driving up costs for prescriptions that were not legitimate, and harm the public through the diversion of prescription medication outside of legitimate drug channels,” stated Naomi D. Gruchacz, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). “We appreciate our strong collaborative partnership with both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York State Comptroller’s Office to root out this type of fraud within HHS programs.”
The FBI, HHS-OIG, and the New York State Comptroller’s Office are investigating this case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mikayla Espinosa is prosecuting the case.
While the arrests are very much needed, to clean out the crap the Liberals, Socialists and Democrats invited in with their Open Borders.
We also need to monitor the arrests and process used for any abuse and overreach. Because what is applied, and used sets a legal foundation for repeated use and application to all citizens.
Plateau Gun-Making Factory Suspects Confessed to Selling Some Weapons to Fulani Militias Because They Paid More — Military
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Plateau Gun-Making Factory Suspects Confessed to Selling Some Weapons to Fulani Militias Because They Paid More — Military
By Zagazola Makama
The military has disclosed that some suspects arrested at illegal weapon manufacturing factories in Plateau State confessed to selling locally fabricated firearms to Fulani militias because they offered higher prices.
The revelation was made by the Chief of Staff, Operation Enduring Peace (OPSH), Brig.-Gen. Selong Sule, while briefing a delegation of senior defence correspondents on behalf of the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division and Commander of Operation Enduring Peace, Maj.-Gen. Folusho Oyinlola, during a media engagement in Jos.
According to Sule, intelligence-driven operations by troops have led to the discovery and dismantling of several illegal gun manufacturing factories operating within the state.
“We have a lot of illegal weapon manufacturing factories. Recently, based on intelligence, we discovered and busted about three or four of such factories,” he said.
The senior military officer said investigations into those arrested produced disturbing confessions.
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The anti-Houthi coalition appears to be stepping up its preparations. New footage shows Brigadier General Ahmed Ali al-Damani, better known by his nom de guerre “Abu Qusay,” commander of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division of the Nation’s Shield Forces @diralwatan, leading a military… https://t.co/u7BnEJ2jw6pic.twitter.com/cPGvfrNIYg
The anti-Houthi coalition appears to be stepping up its preparations. New footage shows Brigadier General Ahmed Ali al-Damani, better known by his nom de guerre “Abu Qusay,” commander of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division of the Nation’s Shield Forces @diralwatan, leading a military convoy in Lawdar District, Abyan Governorate. Earlier this year, the brigade was redeployed from the Al Abr area of Hadramawt.
The brigade has established positions in the Akad area east of Lawdar and is expected to take responsibility for securing central Abyan alongside the 4th Brigade of the 3rd Division, which has been deployed in the area for some time.
The deployment reinforces anti-Houthi positions in Abyan, which borders Houthi-controlled Al Bayda Governorate, and could point to increased military preparations along this front.
[GBNews] The King will "protect the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation," in a new definition of his official role.
Buckingham Palace unveiled a significant revision to the King's official role, with the newly released Sovereign Grant report 2025/26 describing His Majesty as the protector of faith across Britannia's diverse religious landscape.
The annual financial review of the Royal Household contains fresh terminology, positioning the monarch as someone who safeguards religion throughout the nation.
According to the document: "His Majesty is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and protects the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation."
This reform represents a notable evolution in how the Palace formally characterises the sovereign's constitutional and spiritual responsibilities.
The previous year's report had characterised the King under his "Head of Nation" duties as "Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith."
The King's titles date back to the reign of King Henry VIII, after he was granted the title "Defender of the Faith" in 1521 by Pope Leo X.
Prior to the King's coronation ceremony, significant discussion surrounded whether His Majesty might opt for "Defender of Faith" in the plural form, departing from the singular phrasing used by his predecessors. Ultimately, he retained the traditional formulation for that occasion.
Nevertheless, the King has established interfaith engagement as a fundamental pillar of his public service, both during his years as Prince of Wales and since ascending to the throne.
His Majesty frequently speaks about the Abrahamic traditions and maintains active relationships with Jewish, Moslem, Sikh, Orthodox Christian and other faith communities across Britannia and internationally.
And throughout his royal working life, he has consistently celebrated religious diversity in the UK and the Commonwealth.
This commitment spans decades, with the sovereign consistently championing dialogue and mutual understanding between different religious traditions.
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Well, it was the Scots who pushed back first on the religious issue resulting the the King trying to raise an army to suppress them(which failed). Cromwell only arose during the 'Troubles' that would ensue in the wake of that. Their cousins in Northern Ireland are on a similar bent today.
Good to know. Note that the $17,000 Libya-Italy route by sea is now more popular.
[Rudaw] Migration from Iraq and Syria through Slovenia has declined by nearly 77 and 86 percent respectively compared to last year, the country’s interior ministry said on Friday, no citizens from either country have been deported so far in 2026.
In response to an email by Rudaw’s Nyaz Mustafa, the Slovenian ministry indicated that 108 migrants colonists from Iraq have entered the central European country during the first five months of this year, compared to 476 during the same period in 2025.
The ministry added that 201 migrants colonists from Syria entered during the same timeframe this year, compared to 1,495 last year.
Slovenia serves as one of the many transit routes to Western Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the United Kingdom.
Migrants generally fly or travel by land to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , where they cross illegally into Greece or Bulgaria. They then move into the non-EU Western Balkan countries, such as North Macedonia, Serbia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
To curb illegal migration, Slovenia joined another 18 European countries in mid-June in signing a joint letter to create what became known as offshore migration hubs outside the European continent to host rejected asylum-seekers.
To enter the EU’s passport-free Schengen Zone, they must cross from Bosnia into Croatia, and then from Croatia into Slovenia.
"Temporary reintroduction of border control has been prolonged from June 22 to additional six months," the Slovenian interior ministry confirmed.
Nevertheless, their data reveals a steady decline in overall migration figures over recent years. In 2023, approximately 60,600 migrants colonists entered Slovenia. The number dropped to 46,220 in 2024, and decreased further to around 40,000 last year.
In the first five months of 2025, overall migration through the country stood at 12,064.
Their response also pointed to the death of three migrants colonists last year, with none of them coming from Iraq or Syria.
Slovenia is not the only transit route utilized by those seeking to reach the West. Migrants frequently attempt far riskier maritime routes through North African nations like Libya and Tunisia.
According to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at least 1,200 people bit the dust in the Mediterranean Sea during the first five months of 2026 alone.
The Kurdistan Region has witnessed repeated waves of youth migration through the Mediterranean shores.
In late October, Iraq repatriated 40 Kurds from the Kurdistan Region who had been stranded in Libya while attempting to reach Europe. Ahmed al-Sahaf, chargé d’affaires at Iraq’s diplomatic mission in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , told Rudaw at the time that Iraqi authorities had facilitated the return of 122 Kurds from Libya since late December 2023.
The Libya—Italia route has become increasingly popular among young people from Raparin seeking to reach Europe, as stricter controls have made the Turkey—Greece crossing less viable.
The journey typically takes around eight hours, compared to up to 72 hours via Greece, but can cost as much as $17,000 per person, much of it paid to militias controlling Libya’s coastline, according to Bakr Ali, head of the Association of Returned Refugees.
[X] That's how one Minneapolis defendant described spending an afternoon in a parking ramp photographing license plates for a searchable ICE vehicle database. He used the word "job." He did not appear to notice.
A 94-page federal indictment — United States v. Sant et al., District of Minnesota — charges 15 members of Direct Action Minnesota with conspiracy to impede federal officers. Built almost entirely on Signal intercepts and physical surveillance, its 275 overt acts document six months of activity in granular detail. The indictment accidentally is the most detailed publicly available ethnography of how a decentralized protest network sustains full-time operations.
What follows is a composite day reconstructed from the indictment's timestamps, Signal messages, and surveillance records, cross-referenced against IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
990 filings. The protagonist is not one person. He is all of them.
RENT
He wakes up in Powderhorn. Shared house, cheap rent. The neighborhood has over a dozen mutual aid rent funds. A church pastor told The Ringer in February that "we have not had to say no to a single rent payment." Those churches aren't freelancing — two religious organizing networks, ISAIAH and Faith in Minnesota, collectively hold seven-figure funding from the Tides Foundation and multiple Arabella Advisors pass-through entities. They control an uncounted number of kitchens, basements, meeting rooms, and parking lots across the Twin Cities.
He doesn't know any of this. He knows his rent is covered.
FOOD
Breakfast is free. A volunteer ran a personal hot food station across the street from the Whipple Federal Building for twelve consecutive days. Community members brought "hot dogs and pizza, hot chocolate and sambusas," per the Minnesota Reformer. Church food shelves that used to do twelve deliveries a week shifted to twelve a day. Worker centers in Cedar-Riverside — the neighborhood where one defendant lives — hold six-figure grants designated for "food justice."
THE SHIFT
By 10 AM he's at Whipple Federal Building. A text from January 18, a weekday: "Are you still planning on coming by this morning? Ike and I are hanging out here waiting for you." Time stamp: 10:15 AM.
This is the shift. He sits in a parking ramp with a phone and photographs every ICE vehicle entering and leaving the federal building. Every plate goes into a searchable database called Defrost. Active plates for the day go into Hot Dishes, refreshed nightly. Real-time sightings go into Whipple Plates. Over six months, the databases grew into a comprehensive intelligence archive.
"We maintain a searchable database," one defendant told an audience in Seattle. He described spending "all day" doing "boring and unglamorous and unsexy" work. Another, at a virtual TCDA meeting, called it "the most boring job I've ever had in my entire f***ing life."
If this were contract intelligence work, it would cost six figures annually. He's doing it for free — or rather, he can afford to do it for free because he lives in a neighborhood where rent, food, legal defense, and medical care are already provided by institutions funded at scale.
It's not enough to classify Antifa as a terror org and go after them -- we have to go after the DSA as well, because a lot of evidence is emerging they materially support and enable this violence. https://t.co/PSLwHBymL2
Some 93% of Americans age 65 and older said they are concerned about China's ability to spy on the United States, compared with just 62% of those ages 18 to 29, according to the Ronald Reagan Institute Summer Survey.
Younger Americans also were consistently less likely than seniors to express concern about China's potential use of force against Taiwan (56% versus 86%), technology theft (61% versus 91%), purchases of U.S. land (68% versus 93%) and China's role in the flow of fentanyl into the United States (68% versus 92%).
Despite the generational divide, concern about China remained high nationally. More than 80% of Americans said they were concerned about China's role in the flow of fentanyl into the United States, its ability to spy on Americans and its purchases of U.S. land. Sixty-six percent also said Taiwan's security matters to the United States.
Tribes with flags. If only Turkey can handicap the nation’s Kurds enough, President Erdogan thinks, he’ll be able to keep them from replacing his fellow Turks: despite everything he’s arranged, the now 20% of the population that are Kurds have a well-above-replacement total fertility rate of roughly 3, while the Turkish TFR has fallen to well below at about 1.4.
[THENATIONALCONTEXT.COM] President Erdogan confirmed on 24 June that his government was preparing a legal framework to accelerate the dissolution of the PKK, ending several weeks of speculation over whether any legislation would be introduced. He said the bill would go to parliament after the necessary consultations and without undue delay, and he linked it to the parallel integration of Syrian Kurdish armed structures into the Syrian state.
Erdogan did not say how many articles the bill would contain, which categories of fighters would qualify, whether commanders would be covered, or whether Ocalan’s status would change, and he gave no date for submission. Those details continued to come from anonymous briefings and competing newspaper leaks that do not agree with one another. The substance of the process now turns on a question the confirmation left open, which is whether the law comes before disarmament or after it.
Context: What Ankara has confirmed about the law is narrow and consistent. After the ruling AK Party’s executive committee met on 22 June, party spokesman Omer Celik said the process had entered a new stage in which a law triggered by disarmament was under discussion, aimed at dissolving the armed and illegal structures of the PKK and its broader KCK umbrella, including their branches and extensions, and involving no bargaining over Turkey’s constitutional character. His clearest account, on 23 June, set out the three features that appear settled: the framework will be specific to this issue, it will operate for a limited period, and it will take effect subject to disarmament. Ankara describes the process as liquidation or termination, avoiding any language that would treat the PKK as an equal party to an agreement, and it works to keep the arrangement distinct from a general amnesty.
Everything beyond that frame comes from leaks that diverge, above all on the scale of the amnesty and the treatment of the leadership. The reported article count ranges from seven to twelve, and the most expansive account, in the newspaper Aydinlik, described a bill covering more than 20,000 people for a three-month period extendable by three more, with individuals classified by rank, by the offences attributed to them and by their involvement in armed activity; lower-ranking members and some armed participants would be eligible for sentence reductions or conditional release, while senior KCK figures would either spend a period on the prison island of Imrali or be moved under supervision to third countries. A narrower account in the news site Nefes on 26 June described no more than ten articles naming the PKK explicitly, with initial coverage limited to members not implicated in criminal acts, possible judicial supervision and a political-activity ban of around five years, the senior leadership excluded and Ocalan’s status unchanged, and submission possible in the first half of July at real risk of slipping to the next parliamentary year.
These versions also conflict with earlier reporting. Nefes itself had written on 6 June that an earlier draft might create the legal conditions for Ocalan to take part in negotiations, where its later account places him outside the legislation entirely, as a convicted prisoner serving his sentence. The inconsistency most plausibly reflects competing drafts, the absence of agreement among the ruling AK Party, its nationalist ally the MHP, the security bureaucracy and the pro-Kurdish DEM Party interlocutors, or messaging designed to test public reaction. The provisions on the senior leadership and Ocalan are the least reliable part of the coverage, and no published bill text yet allows the figures to be checked.
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[REGNUM.RU] The United States' attempts to expand its military presence in the Middle East through an operation against Iran have led to grave consequences for Washington, Foreign Policy reported on June 27.
The author of the publication, analyst John Hoffman, notes that the Americans, through their intervention, blocked the free flow of energy resources and provoked the most dangerous scenario of a global oil crisis.
A short term problem, though triggering in many places including leading up to America’s midterm elections. Nonetheless, production is increasing to meet demand, and arrangements are being made to get oil that normally shops through the Straits of Hormuz to pickup points elsewhere, so that Iran won’t be able to play its little control games. The key point is that the fixes won’t be in place before the election, darn it.
According to Hoffman, the conflict with Iran has clearly demonstrated that expanding the US military presence in the Middle East is counterproductive, as the costs of such an operation significantly outweigh any potential benefits. He believes that instead of rebuilding military bases, Washington should withdraw from the Middle East and pursue a balancing strategy.
No doubt he does. It’s short term, checkers type thinking. What we want is at least 3-D chess. The Russians know chess, so hopefully their thinking among themselves is better than what the writer is selling here.
Earlier, the first round of talks between the US and Iran, mediated by Qatar and Pakistan, concluded in Bürgenstock, Switzerland. The parties will continue discussions on all issues until the end of the week.
On June 21, talks between the US and Iran began in Bürgenstock. Later, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei announced that progress had been made during the four-party talks in Switzerland. The technical groups will continue their work.
On June 20, before departing for Switzerland for talks with Iran, US Vice President James David Vance admitted that the discussions could take a couple of days. He said American negotiators hoped to achieve progress on the nuclear issue and a ceasefire in Lebanon. Iran may also have issues that require discussion, he noted.
On June 15, US President Donald Trump announced that Washington and Tehran had signed a memorandum ending the conflict. He claimed the two sides had established good relations. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, meanwhile, noted that following the signing of the memorandum, 60-day main negotiations would begin to discuss the nuclear issue, and that the process could be extended with mutual consent.
The longer it takes, the more Iran’s physical plant will deteriorate. And while the Mullahs will piously endure for Allah, eventually that’s all they’ll have.
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[IsraelTimes] Reports say terms agreed after minister asked Netanyahu to intervene personally, will see 30 refuelers and cargo planes leave Ben Gurion for Israeli Air Force bases by Tuesday
The Transportation Ministry said Friday that it reached an understanding with the US military to accelerate the departure of dozens of US military jets that were clogging up Ben Gurion Airport and threatening the cancellation of tens of thousands of flights.
A fleet of about 75 US refuelers and cargo jets has parked at the Tel Aviv-area airport since the lead-up to the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... war, leaving very little room for civilian planes.
The US and Israel launched the war on February 28, and the fighting entered a truce on April 8, with US-Iran peace talks underway following a memorandum of understanding reached last week.
The Ynet news site reported Friday that under the Transportation Ministry’s agreement with the US military, 30 jets will move to Israeli Air Force bases by Tuesday and another 20 will move at a later date, but the jets will be able to return within some 72 hours in case of an escalation.
Fifteen US jets have already left Ben Gurion since June 15, Ynet said.
Israel Airports Authority head Sharon Kedmi had said in an urgent letter this week to Transportation Minister Miri Regev that the continued US military presence at Ben Gurion threatened to disrupt the flights of 100,000 passengers in the peak summer season starting in July.
Channel 13 said the Transportation Ministry reached an understanding with the US military after Regev asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to personally intervene in the matter.
Daily passenger traffic at Ben Gurion is expected to climb amid the summer holiday from roughly 65,000 currently to a possible 100,000 in August.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... out of Ben Gurion’s 99 parking spots normally designated for civilian aircraft, just 65 would have been available. According to Kedmi, the airport needs at least 80 spots to sustain flight operations in July, and all 99 in August.
Local aviation officials have also warned that the congestion at Ben Gurion could push back the return of foreign airlines and push up ticket prices.
Major European airlines, including Air La Belle France, have continued canceling flight services to and from Israel through June. US carriers such as Delta have pushed back their return to September, and British Airways has canceled services up to October.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... Germany’s Lufthansa airline group this month started a phased renewal of flights to and from Israel, and popular Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air returned to Ben Gurion at the end of May, after a three-month break. Spanish carrier Air Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... is planning to renew flights between Madrid and Tel Aviv on Monday.
[IsraelTimes] For the past five years, a specialty "command center" that researches antisemitism has been operating inside the New England Patriots’ home stadium in this Boston suburb.
Wall-sized screens, refreshed every minute, show live updates on public conversation topics related to antisemitism. Tweets featuring antisemitic dog whistles are also blasted onto an enormous dashboard — hand-me-down technology formerly used by the Patriots during team practice to run plays.
The command center is where the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate monitors more than 1 billion social media posts every day. It’s a project of the Patriots’ Jewish owner Robert Kraft, the Boston-area philanthropist who founded the alliance in 2019.
On Tuesday, the nonprofit anti-hate organization announced the formation of a new advisory board featuring a slate of high-profile names: former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav; Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; and Dentons CEO Kate Barton.
The advisory board will guide the organization on strategy and "deepen institutional relationships," its website said.
The statement said the board will help further the mission of the roughly dozen analysts who staff the command center. They monitor trends in antisemitic rhetoric online, craft research reports based on their findings, and use search engine optimization to make links with their resources float to the top of Google search results. The wall-sized screens are filled with word clouds, pie charts, bar graphs, tweets, and Facebook posts, detailing what everyday Americans encounter online.
Since the bloody October 7, 2023, Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... onslaught on southern Israel, the Blue Square Alliance has been on particularly high alert, monitoring shifts in the online conversation around antisemitism, which often included ordinary social media users swapping the word "Zionist" for "Jew" in derogatory ways, the group says. But in late February, when the United States and Israel entered the war with Iran, the Blue Square Alliance began noticing new trends in their data.
"What we saw, especially right after the operation began, is Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like... glorification was the first thing to spike," Rotem Leiba, a lead analyst at Blue Square Alliance said. "In terms of all the antisemitic things we’ve seen happening at this time, Hitler glorification was the first to spike."
Using Brandwatch, the social media monitoring software, the team found that terms like "Hitler was right," "We owe Hitler an apology," and "Hitler knew what he was doing" appeared with increasing frequency — more than they did in the aftermath of October 7. A new term, "Hitler in heaven," also began popping up across social media, topping similar sentiments at 21.4 million impressions.
One area they are still investigating is bots: studies have shown that automated software programs frequently amplify levels of hate speech.
"We are starting to talk to other partners that can help us understand who are the actors behind these conversations and ... their echo chambers, and who’s the one publishing it," Leiba said.
Efforts to manipulate public opinion and stoke social tensions are often pinned on Russia, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and other countries, although most of those bots Blue Square is tracking appear to be homegrown, Leiba explained.
"Even some of the bots that we have seen in some reports amplifying content are bots that are created domestically, not necessarily from foreign actors," he said.
As Israel and the United States joined forces to attack Iran, and Israel pursued its proxies in Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... , rhetoric dehumanizing Jews also spiked. CyberWell, a compliance partner to social media organizations that helps them follow content moderation and regulatory policies, also found similar results.
Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor, founder and executive director of CyberWell, said the users would compare Jews to "rats, pigs, monkeys, or cockroaches in the comments section — that’s human beings being really disgusting."
The Foxborough-based command center resembles that of the Secure Community Network in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... , where the group that coordinates security for Jewish institutions set up an office in 2021 to monitor antisemitic threats.
At the stadium, which will also have hosted seven matches by the end of the current FIFA World Cup, it’s clearly Kraft’s team’s turf. Photos of Kraft, framed op-eds he wrote about antisemitism on college campuses and pictures from his alma mater, Columbia University, decorate the office. Blown-up images of the Patriots’ Super Bowl rings adorn the hallways leading into the command center.
The alliance is part of a crowded field of antisemitism watchdogs that includes Cyberwell, the Combat Antisemitism Movement, the Secure Community Network and the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Antisemitism Research. The ADL and Blue Square Alliance announced the formation of a partnership in February to expand educational programming on antisemitism prevention in schools and providing support for synagogues and faith communities.
"They’ve built delivery trucks going to all these different places, and the trucks aren’t full," said Blue Square president Adam Katz, referring to their blue square pins and other "blue square content" and messaging. "We have stuff we’re trying to get onto delivery trucks to get to these places. It’s an obvious match."
Their efforts are based on the idea that monitoring can help identify rising risks of violence and detect dangerous trends before they escalate. Susan Benesch, who directs the Dangerous Speech Project at Harvard University, has written that such early warning systems are helpful, but only so long as they are matched by actions.
In a working paper for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Benesch suggested steps such as promoting "counterspeech" by influential members of a community, changing the design of social media platforms that amplify such speech, or strengthening social norms in the communities from which the hate speech and misinformation emerge.
Blue Square may be the most public-facing of these monitoring efforts, and, with Kraft’s money and platform, the best known, thanks to its Super Bowl ads and its association with America’s most popular sport.
Having captured the public’s attention, the alliance is seeking to shape its discourse. When regular internet users look up an antisemitic conspiracy theory or a trending dog whistle, Blue Square wants its results to be the first they see.
"Our default use case is: what does mainstream America see and hear on this topic?" said Katz.
Steven Fransblow, chief data and technology officer at Blue Square, provided a typical example.
"We’re trying to crack the code on: how can we continue to be surfaced when Candace Owens says, ’Go research this,’" Fransblow explained. "They’re finding us, versus Reddit."
Owens, a far-right commentator who frequently promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories, has nearly eight million followers on Twitter and nearly six million subscribers on YouTube. Once a well-regarded voice in the conservative political space, she has been disavowed by her former supporters in more recent years as her content has become increasingly anti-Israel and antisemitic.
In January, Owens suggested that her former employer, the conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro, who is Jewish, sought to grab the mantle of Turning Point USA’s slain founder Charlie Kirk, saying Shapiro was acting as if he were promised the role "3,000 years ago." The "3,000 years ago" phrase is an antisemitic meme, mocking Jews for claiming ancestral ties to the Land of Israel and alleging they exploit history to assert a nefarious agenda. That phrase, which Blue Square says arose as early as 2014, but took off after October 7, is one that the organization is working to counteract with its web presence.
Search "3,000 years ago" and "Jews" in Google and hits explaining its antisemitic intent pop up from the American Jewish Committee, CyberWell, the Times of Israel and social media sites like Reddit and Quora. This week, anyway, Blue Square’s explanation of the term showed up on the second page of search results.
The alliance has its critics. A controversial $15 million Super Bowl ad, which aired in February, featured a Jewish high school student who discovers a Post-It note scrawled with the words "Dirty Jew." Critics of the word choice found it outdated or unrealistic, or called the ad spending outlandish, arguing that there are better ways to address antisemitism or help the Jewish community.
Katz defended the ad, saying it was a vindication of the "command center" and its data-driven approach to monitoring antisemitic language and memes.
"We were looking at what are the most ubiquitous slurs on social media that are happening with high volume and frequency and are understandable by everybody," Katz said. "And that’s why we went with ’dirty Jew.’"
According to BSA’s research, the phrase "dirty Jew" made nearly 500 million impressions across 140,000 posts on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Reddit, Bluesky, and 4Chan between 2023 and 2025 — an increase, Fransblow said, of 174% from the previous three years.
"With the Super Bowl, you have 30 seconds," Katz said. "It’s got to hit and land with as close to 140 million people as possible. So you’re trying to find language that is recognizable, that is ubiquitous, that is common, that is inarguably antisemitic."
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