Even as Jew-hatred waxes in the Blue areas and universities of America, the Red regions reach out to Israel and to Jewish students with the hand of friendship. It’s been interesting to watch.
[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, Sapir College in southern Israel, and South Carolina’s Clemson University sign a partnership for joint research in agricultural, nutritional, and environmental issues, particularly those relevant to the Western Negev region.
The collaboration will help Sapir College expand its agricultural technology programs and strengthen its role in the region hit by the deadly Hamas invasion on October 7, 2023.
The partnership will include student exchange programs.
The signing ceremony at Clemson University is attended by, among others, former US ambassador to the United Nations and US presidential contender Nikki Haley, a 1994 Clemson graduate, Clemson Board of Trustees member and former South Carolina governor.
“Today, we celebrate two agriculture giants, two leaders in innovative farming coming together,” Haley says. “Through this partnership, we are sowing seeds that will sprout and bear fruit for generations to come.”
The collaboration follows Haley’s visit to the Negev city of Sderot in May 2024, where she met Amit Kochavi, senior adviser to Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi. Kochavi spoke of his idea to revitalize agricultural communities near Sderot and Sapir College after the Hamas attack, in which 1,200 people from the area were slaughtered and 251 abducted to the Gaza Strip.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's deputy leader, Malik Agar, told South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday that the Sudanese government expects to defeat the rebellion by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in most states by the end of April.
Agar arrived in the South African capital on Monday, accompanied by the undersecretary of the foreign ministry, as part of an African tour that began weeks ago and has included Uganda and Djibouti.
''I confirmed to President Ramaphosa that we expect to eliminate the rebellion by the end of next April in most of Sudan's states,'' Agar said in a Facebook post.
The Sudanese official expressed concern about the RSF's repeated use of a racially-charged approach against African communities in the Darfur region. ''The burying alive of members of the Masalit ethnicity remains a testament to these grave violations, and the militia's current military mobilization on racial grounds in Darfur reinforces these concerns,'' he added.
He said he briefed the South African president on the humanitarian situation and the extent of the destruction caused by the rebel forces in the service sector through their targeting of infrastructure and various service facilities.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] South Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's government confirmed the presence of Ugandan troops in the country on Monday, citing a military agreement between the two nations for technical support, training, and maintaining peace and stability.
Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth told a news conference that the government acknowledged the presence of Ugandan troops to dispel rumours circulating in the media and other sources.
''One of the reasons I called this presser is to update you about the general situation, and one of them is the presence of the Ugandan People's Defence Forces (UPDF). It is present here in Juba, and you have seen it,'' Lueth, the government front man, said.
Lueth, a long-time ally of President Salva Kiir, justified the presence of Ugandan troops despite provisions in the 2018 revitalized peace agreement that calls for the country to be free of foreign forces.
''Why is it present here in Juba? They are present because the government of Uganda and the government of South Sudan have a military pact that dates back to the time of the Lord's Resistance® Army,'' he said. ''This is the same pact which is continuing. We have not nullified it, but we use it when necessary. So, the UPDF that arrived here in Juba are the support and technical units. They have come to support their brothers and sisters in the South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF).''
He said the presence of Ugandan troops was no longer a secret, even though it should have been confidential for security reasons.
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[HodhodYemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... News] At least 100 African hard boyz have reportedly arrived on Abd al-Kuri Island in the Socotra Archipelago, coinciding with the visit of Aidarous al-Zubaidi, head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) to Socotra Island, Almahriah Net reported, citing sources.
According to the sources, the hard boyz are stationed in a camp prepared by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in secret cooperation with "Israel".
The sources revealed that the fighters were transported from various Somali regions as the first batch to the island,
…Somali mercenaries? How unexpected….
sparking security concerns among the local residents.
Field reports and analyses indicate that the camp established on Abd al-Kuri Island is a joint Israeli-UAE military base, designed to conduct military operations against Sana’a forces.
Uh huh. Suuuuuuuure it is.
Given its unique geographical location and proximity to international maritime routes, Socotra Island serves as a strategic hub capable of supporting military or intelligence operations against regional actors.
[FoxNews] The Trump administration has made deporting Venezuelan gang members a top priority
Venezuela will face "severe, and escalating sanctions" if it refuses to accept its citizens who have been deported from the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday.
The tough warning comes as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up deportations of Venezuelans living illegally in the U.S. and to need a temporary residency program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, which could pave the way for them to lose their legal status.
Many of those with protected status migrated to the U.S. amid Venezuela's economic collapse under the authoritarian rule of President Nicolas Maduro.
"Venezuela is obligated to accept its repatriated citizens from the U.S. This is not an issue for debate or negotiation," Rubio wrote on X. "Nor does it merit any reward. Unless the Maduro regime accepts a consistent flow of deportation flights, without further excuses or delays, the U.S. will impose new, severe, and escalating sanctions."
The threat came days after Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump's special envoy tasked with securing the release of six U.S. citizens imprisoned in Venezuela, said the Maduro government had agreed to accept repatriation flights.
Maduro agreed to accept his citizens after initially refusing to do so.
In February, Trump ended a permit to export oil to allow Chevron to export oil from Venezuela to the U.S. In doing so, Trump noted that Maduro's government had not met benchmarks to promote free and fair elections.
The Trump administration is fighting to deport Venezuelan gang members back to their country. Over the weekend, 238 Venezuelan gang members were flown to a high-security prison in El Salvador despite a federal judge’s order temporarily blocking the deportations.
During an interview on Fox News Radio, Rubio thanked El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for accepting the migrants.
"Venezuela should be taking them, but they refuse to take them. And so, we are fortunate to have a friend like President Bukele who, as part of my meeting with him said we will take them for a fraction of what it costs you guys to house them in your own prison system," he said.
"I think it was a very helpful thing that El Salvador did for us and President Bukele, and we’re grateful to him for it. And frankly, I feel like we should continue to do it," he added.
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Oh, it's Monday/Wednesday/Friday... you and the banks in Andorra suddenly _like_ Putin's proxies and cronies such as the so-called government of Venezuela again.
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Well, if the banks in Andorra aid and abet terrorists by refusing to assist, and then suddenly are removed from existence along with their entire board of directors, the point will get across.
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Actually Andorra is no longer a problem, but the commie kleptocrats have more powerful friends. So I'd be interested in sanctions that really hit them, not the already penniless people.
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Spending a large block of taxpayer money to create the next target for the anti-Zionist Jew-haters instead of making Jew-hate expensive and uncomfortable, like President Trump and his people are. But given that the Labour government would not punish itself for supporting the Palestinians against Israel, how can they do otherwise to the citizenry?
[IsraelTimes] Both the ruling Labour Party and the opposition Liberals say they’ll spend more than $20 million, with combating antisemitism a hot-button issue in May elections
Ahead of Australia’s national elections, both of the country’s largest parties have pledged to rebuild Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue, destroyed in December in an antisemitic Molotov cocktailing attack.
On Tuesday, the ruling Labor party pledged AUD 30 million ($19 million) towards the rebuilding, as well as up to $1.2 million for security upgrades. This is in addition to AUD 250,000 given to replace and restore Torah scrolls damaged in the Synagogue.
"The Molotov cocktailing of the Adass Israel Synagogue was a crime of cowardice and prejudice," the prime minister’s office said in a statement. "We won’t stand for that. We are committed to ensuring that this community rebuilds."
That announcement came a day after Opposition leader Peter Dutton pledged up to AUD 35 million ($22 million) to restore the synagogue if his Liberal party comes into power in the elections, scheduled for May.
"We want to bring it back to life, much bigger and better than what it was," Dutton said Monday during a visit to the synagogue site. He also pledged to fight antisemitism at universities if elected, and pass laws allowing law enforcement agencies to deport visa holders convicted of antisemitic crimes.
Rising levels of antisemitism have become a hot-button issue in Australia, particularly after the discovery last month of a trailer in Sydney packed with enough explosives to cause a significant mass-casualty event. The explosives were believed at the time to be intended for a Sydney synagogue, although police now believe they were planted by an organized crime network in order to divert police resources.
A video of two nurses in a Sydney hospital threatening to kill Israeli patients and saying they would refuse to treat them shocked the nation when it was released in February. There is also a suspicion that foreign actors are paying locals to carry out attacks in a coordinated effort.
Many of Australia’s Jews are strongly critical of the government for what they see as insufficient action against frequent antisemitic attacks. The attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue was seen as a turning point in a situation that has become untenable for the 120,000-strong Jewish community.
The number of anti-Jewish incidents in Australia quadrupled in the year after Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... Lions of Islam launched the war against Israel on October 7, 2023. Some 2,062 incidents were recorded between October 2023 and September 2024, compared to 495 incidents a year earlier, according to data from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ).
The Adass Synagogue, one of several buildings in a Jewish community complex in the Ripponlea suburb, was founded in 1949 by Holocaust survivors from Hungary, Germany, the former Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Many of the current members are Holocaust survivors or descendants of Holocaust survivors, and some of the Torah scrolls saved from the fire had been rescued from the ashes of the Holocaust, a website for the congregation said. The community is now home to a Hasidic congregation of several hundred families.
Adass Israel restarted weekday services at a new temporary synagogue last week, according to the Australian Jewish News. The location is being kept secret for security reasons.
Police have still not arrested two men who were seen on camera carrying out the predawn attack, although the investigation continues, police have said.
The synagogue previously raised more than $600,000 in a crowdfunding campaign for its reconstruction shortly after the fire.
[BBC] German lawmakers have voted to allow a huge increase in defence and infrastructure spending - a seismic shift for the country that could reshape European defence.
A two-thirds majority of Bundestag parliamentarians, required for the change, approved the vote on Tuesday.
The law will exempt spending on defence and security from Germany's strict debt rules, and create a €500bn ($547bn; £420bn) infrastructure fund.
This vote is a historic move for traditionally debt-shy Germany, and could be hugely significant for Europe, as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine grinds on, and after US President Donald Trump signalled an uncertain commitment to Nato and Europe's defence.
However, state government representatives in the upper house, the Bundesrat, still need to approve the moves - also by a two-thirds majority - before they officially become law. That vote is set for Friday.
Friedrich Merz, the man behind these plans and who is expected to soon be confirmed as Germany's new chancellor, told the lower house during Tuesday's debate that the country had "felt a false sense of security" for the past decade.
"The decision we are taking today... can be nothing less than the first major step towards a new European defence community," he said, adding that it includes countries that are "not members of the European Union".
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the vote "excellent news".
Speaking at a press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, she said the vote "sends a very clear message to Europe that Germany is determined to invest massively in defence".
Frederiksen meanwhile called it "fantastic news for all Europeans".
Germany has long been cautious about defence spending, not just for historical reasons dating back to 1945, but also due to the global debt crisis of 2009.
But despite fears the vote would be tight, lawmakers in the end voted in favour of the changes by 513 to 207 - comfortably over the two-thirds majority required.
One leading German newspaper described this vote as "A day of destiny for our nation".
Under the measure, any spending on defence that amounts to more than 1% of Germany's GDP would no longer be subject to a limit on borrowing. Until now, this debt brake has been fixed at 0.35% of GDP.
The change could transform the country's partially neglected armed forces in an era of great uncertainty for Europe.
And this vote was not just about defence. It was also about freeing up €500bn for German infrastructure - fixing things like bridges and roads, but also to pay for climate change measures, something the Green Party insisted on.
[Breitbart] Four Eastern European countries say they wish to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty on landmines, citing “Russia’s aggression” and “dire security challenges” on NATO’s “vulnerable eastern flank”.
The Defence Ministers of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — all post-Soviet NATO members who speak most about feeling vulnerable to Putin’s aggression, given their proximity to Russia’s borders — have advised their governments to withdraw from a key weapons control treaty.
The military leaders say the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (‘The Ottawa Treaty’) prevents them from taking all options to defend themselves from Russia. Consequently, despite their commitment to “international humanitarian law” and the principles of the treaty, they said now is the time to abandon it.
In the joint letter, the ministers stated, “Since the ratification… the security situation in our region has fundamentally deteriorated” and noted “Russia’s aggression and its ongoing threat” to NATO’s “vulnerable eastern flank”.
The four nations stated they no longer considered having all their weapon options limited by treaty prudent. They stated, “It is of paramount importance to provide our defence forces with flexibility and freedom of choice of potential use of new weapon systems” and that “we are sending a clear message: our countries are prepared and can use every necessary measure to defend our territory and freedom.”
The impending withdrawal and broader attitudes of adherence to the treaty underline key issues of international law, which is that nations respect the treaty when it suits them and spurn it when it doesn’t.
The most powerful nations never complied with it in the first place — the United States, China, and Russia were never signatories — and there is no world police or space court to enforce it anyway.
Russia has used antipersonnel landmines extensively during its invasion of Ukraine, and while the United States initially resisted supplying the controversial weapons to Ukraine as part of its support packages, it later relented.
The Biden White House cited Russia switching to dismounted tactics of pushing forward with infantry to justify its policy change, which came just days after Trump won the 2024 election and despite Ukraine being an Ottawa treaty signatory.
[IsraelTimes] Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate arrested after leading anti-Israel protests, rejects officials’ explanation that he was moved from New Jersey to Louisiana facility over bedbug problem
The federal government and a Columbia University student threatened with deportation for his leading role in campus protests against Israel have been sparring in court over the Trump administration’s move to ship him across the country to an immigration lockup in Louisiana.
The government said he could not be detained at an immigration facility near where he was originally arrested in part because of a bedbug infestation, so it sent him to Louisiana. The student, Mahmoud Khalil, says there was no such discussion of bedbugs and he feared he was being immediately deported.
Khalil was detained for deportation due to support for the Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... terrorist group. He "was given the privilege of coming to this country to study at one of our nation’s finest universities and colleges and he took advantage of that opportunity by siding with terrorists, Hamas terrorists," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier this month. He "organized group protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish American students and made them feel unsafe on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda fliers," Leavitt said. Khalil attended a recent protest at Barnard College, a Columbia affiliate, during which activists handed out pamphlets from the "Hamas media office."
Khalil said in a declaration filed in Manhattan federal court Monday that while he was being held overnight at a detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, "I did not hear anyone mention bedbugs."
In court papers over the weekend, lawyers for the Justice Department also blamed his move on overcrowded facilities in the Northeast.
Khalil made the statement about bedbugs in an exhibit attached to court papers in which his lawyers asked that he be freed on bail while the courts decide whether his arrest violated the First Amendment.
The lawyers have also asked a judge to widen the effect of any order to stop the US government from "arresting, detaining, and removing noncitizens who engage in constitutionally protected expressive activity in the United States in support of Paleostinian rights or critical of Israel."
In his declaration, Khalil said he was put in a van when he was taken away from the Elizabeth facility and he asked if he was being returned to FBI headquarters in Manhattan, where he was taken immediately after his arrest.
"I was told, ’No, we are going to JFK airport.’ I was afraid they were trying to deport me," he recalled.
Of his time spent at the Elizabeth facility, he wrote: "I was in a waiting room with about ten other people. We slept on the ground. Even though it was cold inside the room, there were no beds, mattresses, or blankets."
In the weekend court papers, lawyers for the Justice Department gave a detailed description of Khalil’s March 8 arrest and his transport from Manhattan to Elizabeth and then to Kennedy International Airport in New York the next day for his transfer to Louisiana, where he has been held since.
"Khalil could not be housed at Elizabeth Detention Facility long-term due to a bedbug issue, so he remained there until his flight to Louisiana," the lawyers wrote. They said he was at the facility from 2:20 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. on March 9.
The lawyers have asked that legal issues be addressed by federal judges in New Jersey or Louisiana rather than New York. A Manhattan federal judge has not yet ruled on the request.
Khalil’s lawyers, who oppose transferring the case, wrote in a submission Monday that the transfer to Louisiana was "predetermined and carried out for improper motives" rather than because of a bedbug infestation.
Despite the bedbug claim, the Elizabeth Detention accepted at least four individuals for detention from March 6 through last Thursday and Khalil himself saw men being processed for detention while he was there, they wrote.
Khalil’s arrest was one of the first efforts by US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... , a Republican who returned to the White House in January, to fulfill his promise to seek deportation of some foreign students involved in the pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protest movement over its alleged support for terror groups and antisemitism.
Protests on US college campuses erupted against Israel’s war on Hamas in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... sparked by the Paleostinian terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught against southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civlians.
[IsraelTimes] Anti-Israel activists at Columbia University in New York derided janitors as "Jew-lovers," during protests on campus last year, according to a discrimination complaint.
The incidents occurred last spring as the activists held a protest encampment at the center of Columbia’s campus and took over Hamilton Hall, a campus building.
The janitors filed a discrimination complaint with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year. The commission was working on an investigation last month, according to records obtained today by The Times of Israel. The investigation was first reported today by The New York Post.
The civil rights complaint that sparked the investigation says the two janitors, Lester Wilson and Mariano Torres, began finding graffiti, including swastikas, on blackboards in Hamilton Hall in November 2023, shortly after the October 2023 Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... invasion of Israel.
Torres says he found and was forced to clean swastikas "dozens of times," on a near-daily basis, in Hamilton Hall classrooms. He began throwing away chalk in the classrooms so the vandals would not be able to leave graffiti, and was reprimanded for doing so.
Neither Torres nor Wilson are Jewish. Torres says that, as a Latino, he felt the swastikas were aimed at him as well as at Jews on campus.
Last spring, the janitors started finding people hiding in Hamilton Hall at night when the building was closed, and found doors left ajar after hours.
The two janitors were in Hamilton Hall when the protesters invaded the building in April and say they feared for their lives.
Torres says masked protesters surrounded him while he was cleaning and blocked him from reaching another colleague.
Torres says that the takeover appeared coordinated, with two masked demonstrators giving orders to the protesters and directing them around the building. The rioters brought supplies including water, food, mattresses, tape, and rope into the building as others put vending machines in front of the building’s entrances.
Two protesters trailed Torres around the building, and a group of masked individuals surrounded him, repeatedly calling him a "Jew-lover," the complaint says.
One man threatened Torres, telling him, "I’m going to get 20 guys up here to fuck you up," according to the complaint. Another protester repeatedly hit him in the back.
During the Hamilton Hall takeover, Wilson says in his complaint, the protesters shoved him, rammed furniture into him, and trapped him. When he asked the protesters to release him, they repeatedly called him a "Jew-lover," "Jew-worker," and "Zionist," the complaint says.
During the encampment, Wilson says he saw a colleague cleaning up after the protesters, who called the other janitor a "Jew-lover" and "Zionist." One protester said the other janitor was "working for the Jew-man," the complaint says.
The complaint claims Columbia administrators failed to take action against the protesters in the lead-up to the building takeover.
Torres and Wilson suffered physical injuries and psychological trauma that has prevented them from returning to work, the complaint says.
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Columbia covered up the fact that dozens of swastikas were found on campus by janitors.
#1
Attack the universities money. Not a one of them need to be receiving Federal money. Joe and Mary Sixpack shouldn't have their paychecks reduced to support this kind of nonsense.
[IsraelTimes] Gambian-British grad Momodou Taal, who was suspended for leading protests last year, notes Betar US has called for his expulsion from country
A Cornell University graduate student has filed suit against the Trump administration’s efforts to deport pro-Paleostinian campus protesters, saying that the push represents an illegal infringement on protected speech.
Citizens can say pretty much anything, so long as they aren’t shouting fire in a movie theater. Visitors need to be polite, or they can be kicked out just because the authorities feel like it — they actually don’t have the right of free speech, as far as I can tell.
Momodou Taal is a Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... n-British national who has been a protest leader at the upstate New York university.
He has two different connections. Why did he go to America for his graduate degree?
Cornell briefly suspended him in both April 2024 and September 2024, following protests on its campus that administrators said violated university rules.
Taal has also been the target of advocacy by pro-Israel groups that have sought to identify students who might be eligible for deportation under US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s executive order targeting those who endorse terrorism or antisemitism on college campuses.
According to a fact sheet about the order, it aims to "combat the earth-shattering kaboom of anti-Semitism on our campuses and in our streets since October 7, 2023," the date that Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... invaded southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, abducting hundreds of hostages, and triggering the ensuing war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
Critics say the measure is aimed more broadly at pro-Paleostinian campus protesters, with rights groups and legal scholars saying it would violate constitutional free speech rights and would likely draw legal challenges.
The lawsuit, filed Friday on behalf of Taal and two other Cornell affiliates by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee,
…no connections to an African-Brit, but anyway…
cites targeting by a pro-Israel group, Betar US, as a reason that Taal should face relief:
"Mr. Taal has also been directly targeted by Zionist groups advocating for his removal from the US. In November 2024, Betar US ("Betar") compiled a list of pro-Paleostinian foreign students it sought to have deported, naming Mr. Taal as the sole individual identified. Betar’s director, Ross Glick, delivered this list to Senator John Fetterman and aides from the offices of Senators Ted Cruz;
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet... and James Lankford, later telling the New York Post, "They all gave me the thumbs up." And added that Betar was in communication with prospective Trump administration appointees at the Department of Justice regarding enforcement actions against individuals on the list. ..."
On March 13, 2025, Betar posted a "Deport Alert" that specifically named Taal.
In that alert, posted on social media, Betar US cited Taal’s social media posts and speeches at rallies to claim that he had expressed support for "armed resistance" on behalf of the Paleostinian cause. They note that he disclosed his non-citizen status in an interview with Inside Higher Ed last fall, in which Taal said he feared that he was effectively facing deportation because of his suspension.
Betar US, which has taken a murderous Moslem approach to anti-Israel protests, has generated a list of student protesters that it says are not citizens and shared it with the Trump administration, aiming for their deportation. How the administration is using the list is not clear, but pro-Israel Jewish groups called attention to Mahmoud Khalil in the days before the Columbia University graduate student was arrested by ICE agents last week and cheered his arrest.
"Mr. Taal’s growing fear that he will be the target of an ICE removal operation is grounded in a pattern of escalating attention, coordination among high-ranking political and influential private actors, and public threats by figures with the power to influence immigration enforcement decisions," the suit said.
The lawsuit also noted that Taal and some of his fellow protesters have ceased meeting publicly to discuss their activities, fearing that any communication would be perceived as showing support for Hamas.
"This lawsuit is aimed at reversing the chill on speech and making people feel confident to stand up," Taal said in a statement on Sunday. "I am fighting for our First Amendment rights and our ability to protest genocide, and stand in solidarity with the Paleostinian people. When we are attacked for speech, we have to exercise even more of it."
In past remarks posted to social media Taal has described the urge to "smash something" as the "sexy part of organizing [protests]" and that the US "like Zionism, has an insatiable bloodlust."
During his first suspension in April 2024, following the dismantling of Cornell’s pro-Paleostinian encampment, Taal addressed supporters on campus. "Before I go to bed, I say to myself, ’If I live into my eighties, will I ever regret going this hard for Paleostine?’ and I won’t," he said, speaking into a megaphone, according to video shared by the Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper. "So whilst I love all the support and solidarity from faculty, from my comrades, from my peers, please, do not let this become about any one of us."
The Hamas attack and the subsequent Israeli campaign against the terrorist organization led to months of pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protests that roiled US college campuses, with several heads of top universities resigning in the wake of criticism over their responses to antisemitism at their schools.
Many anti-Israel protesters denied supporting Hamas or engaging in antisemitic acts and said they were demonstrating against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, where Hamas health authorities say more than 47,000 people have been killed, an unverified figure that doesn’t differentiate between non-combatants and fighters.
[BBC] Turkish authorities have detained the mayor of Istanbul, just days before he was due to be selected as a presidential candidate.
Ekrem Imamoglu, from the secular Republican People's Party (CHP), is seen as one of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's strongest political rivals.
Prosecutors accused him of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, calling him a "criminal organisation leader suspect".
Police detained 100 people - including other politicians, journalists and businessmen - as part of the investigation, and the Istanbul governor's office has imposed four days of restrictions in the city.
Imamoglu said online "the will of the people cannot be silenced".
In a social media video he said he filmed while police were outside his home, he vowed to "stand resolute" for the people of Turkey "and all who uphold democracy and justice worldwide".
And in a handwritten note posted on his X account after his arrest, he said the people of Turkey would respond to "the lies, the conspiracies and the traps" against him.
Protests have erupted on Turkey's streets and university campuses, and in underground stations, with crowds chanting anti-government slogans. It is a display of public anger not seen in years.
There were reports of clashes between protesters and police in Turkey's largest city. Reuters news agency footage shows police using pepper spray pellets to disperse crowds outside Istanbul University.
The government has banned public gatherings in Istanbul as part of the four days of restrictions. But more protests are anticipated nationwide as opposition leaders, including Imamoglu's wife, urge people to "raise their voices".
Many streets in Istanbul have also been closed to traffic, while some metro lines have also cancelled their services.
UK-based internet watchdog Netblocks said on Wednesday Turkey had severely restricted access to social media sites like X, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
'A COUP AGAINST OUR NEXT PRESIDENT'
The arrest comes as part of a major crackdown nationwide in recent months, targeting opposition politicians, municipalities, journalists and figures in the entertainment industry.
Following the Istanbul mayor's arrest, concerns over Turkey's shift toward autocracy were expressed on social media, with some calling for an opposition boycott of the upcoming presidential elections, arguing that a fair and democratic vote is no longer possible.
Imamoglu's party, the CHP, even condemned the arrests as "a coup against our next president", a sentiment widely echoed by pro-opposition voices.
But Turkey's justice minister criticised those who linked Erdogan to the arrests.
Yilmaz Tunc said it was "extremely dangerous and wrong" to suggest this was a political move, insisting that nobody was above the law in Turkey.
Erdogan and his party have also denied the claims, insisting that Turkey's judiciary is independent. He has been in power for 22 years.
Last year, Imamoglu won a second term as Istanbul's mayor, when his CHP party swept local elections there and in Ankara.
It was the first time since Erdogan came to power that his party was defeated across the country at the ballot box.
The elections were also a personal blow to the president, who grew up in and became mayor of Istanbul on his rise to power.
Dozens of police officers were involved in the early-morning raid on Imamoglu's house in Istanbul.
Imamoglu's arrest came a day after Istanbul University annulled his degree due to alleged irregularities - a decision which, if upheld, would prevent him from running in presidential elections.
According to the Turkish constitution, presidents must have completed higher education to hold office.
Imamoglu called that move "legally baseless", adding that universities "must remain independent, free from political interference and dedicated to knowledge".
Presidential elections are currently scheduled for 2028. Erdogan cannot currently run for office again, as he is in his second term and previously served as prime minister before that.
The only way Erdogan could contest another election would be to change the constitution, or call an early election before his term ends.
As well as being accused of extortion and fraud, Imamoglu is also alleged to have aided the PKK. The PKK - or Kurdistan Workers' Party - has waged an insurgency since 1984, and is proscribed as a terrorist group in Turkey, the EU, UK and US. Earlier this month the group announced its decision to lay down arms, following a call from its imprisoned leader, who had engaged in talks with Turkish officials.
International reaction to the arrest has been negative. Germany's foreign ministry said it was part of "intensified legal measures" designed to put pressure on Imamoglu, while France said it was "deeply concerned" by the arrests, which could have "heavy consequences on Turkish democracy".
The Turkish lira, meanwhile, briefly crashed to an all-time low against the US dollar, as markets reacted poorly to the political uncertainty.
While many were shocked to wake up to the news of Imamoglu's arrest, legal pressure on the popular opposition leader is far from new.
He has faced multiple investigations and was handed a political ban in December 2022 over allegations of insulting Turkey's electoral board in 2019 - a verdict he appealed, with the final ruling still pending.
Additionally, he has been the subject of cases related to alleged tender irregularities during his tenure as mayor of Istanbul's Beylikduzu district.
More recently, on 20 January, a new case was filed against him over his criticism of a prosecutor.
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[NYPost] A Moslem charity with links to Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... was awarded more than $7.2 million in taxpayer cash, which has now disappeared, according to a watchdog group.
An "immediate investigation" needs to be launched into The Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... ’ (CAIR) Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, chapter’s use of funds, according to the watchdog, who sent a complaint to the Department of Justice Thursday.
According to the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN), a California-based, non-partisan advocacy group, the money was given to the chapter to help re-settle impoverished immigrants colonists in California between 2022 and 2024.
In what appears to be a sleight of hand, the money — $7,217,968.44 — was sent to CAIR-Greater Los Angeles and not to CAIR-CA, which was the only group eligible to receive it, according to the complaint.
The Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Moslem organization, which is not a registered non-profit and not eligible to handle charitable donations, received the entire pot of money according to the complaint, viewed by The Post.
"These sub grants from CAIR-CA to CAIR chapters raise serious legal concerns about whether CAIR simply shifted more money to itself," the complaint said.
CAIR Los Angeles also appeared to divide the federal grant and "sub-granted" to other groups, including CAIR’s chapters in San Diego and the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... Those CAIR chapters were not registered with the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... and once they receive cash, have no public responsibility to declare where it is spent, the complaint charges.
"There’s no transparency," said Julie Marzouk, a founding board member of IAN who scoured public documents to trace the cash.
"This is part of a consistent pattern from CAIR — to muddy the waters and limit the public’s ability to track the money."
Marzouk and her group have also asked the federal government to revoke CAIR-CA’s accreditation, which it needs to receive grants under the DOJ’s refugee program.
The accreditation allows groups to represent low-income immigrants colonists before federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security without a lawyer, Marzouk told The Post.
"It’s a privilege, not a right, and a group needs to follow appropriate rules of conduct," she said.
Although dispersing the money to its sub-groups isn’t illegal in itself, CAIR-CA is supposed to keep an account of where the dollars are going.
CAIR-CA’s accreditation expired last month and needs to be renewed if they want to continue receiving funds, according to the complaint.
"[CAIR’s] misuse of federal grant funding and support for Hamas, a US-designated foreign terrorist organization, do not meet the ethical and legal requirements necessary for EOIR [Executive Office of Immigration Review] accreditation," the complaint said.
"A formal forensic audit followed by a proper DOJ investigation is necessary to evaluate the full extent of CAIR-CA’s financial misconduct, compliance breeches and support for terrorism."
CAIR did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
IAN also wants a probe into $2.6 million that CAIR-CA received from California’s Department of Social Services in funding for the state’s "Stop the Hate" program in 2022.
The grant was awarded to CAIR "omitting California," the complaint said, adding that the state was so confused it "sought clarification on the entity name."
In California, CAIR leaders have lobbied against Holocaust education in the Senate, and pushed for anti-Israel measures, such as boycotts, at the municipal level, said Marzouk.
Some CAIR leaders praised the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks against Israel. Zahra Billoo, the executive director of CAIR in San Francisco minimized Hamas atrocities against Israelis, declaring that the world was "witnessing decolonization," according to the Anti-Defamation League.
In earlier statements, Billoo warned about Jewish organizations.
"We need to pay attention to the Anti-Defamation League," said Billoo during a 2021 panel discussion sponsored by the American Moslems for Paleostine.
"We need to pay attention to the Jewish Federation. We need to pay attention to the Zionist synagogues. We need to pay attention to the Hillel chapters on our campuses, just because they are your friends today, doesn’t mean that they have your back when it comes to human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of CAIR-CA, said that Israel had no right to defend itself after Oct. 7 and yet Paleostinians have the right to "pick up arms"
In January, he concluded a sermon in Los Angeles by asking worshippers to join CAIR for a monthly fee to fight against President Trump’s executive orders that would impact the Moslem community, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Last month, The Post revealed that CAIR Inc., the Moslem’s charity’s national chapter, settled a lawsuit brought by a former board member and employee rather than open its books to reveal sources of foreign funding.
Evidence in past court proceedings has shown links between The Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation Inc. and both Hamas and the Moslem Brüderbund.
CAIR Inc. settled with Lori Saroya, months after US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled any assets owned by the group are all within the "scope of permissible discovery" as part of the former Minnesota chapter leader’s lawsuit against the controversial Moslem rights group.
[IsraelTimes] Dorothy Shea tells Security Council that ‘Trump has made clear Hamas must release the hostages immediately or pay a high price’; Guterres says UN will ‘not give up’ on ceasefire
The US envoy to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... told the Security Council on Tuesday that blame for the resumption overnight of Israeli strikes in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... "lies solely with Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... Interim Ambassador Dorothy Shea said the terror group has "steadfastly refused every proposal and deadline they’ve been presented over the past few weeks, including a bridge proposal to extend the ceasefire beyond the holidays of Ramadan and Passover to allow time to negotiate a framework for a permanent ceasefire."
Hamas insisted on sticking to the original terms of the deal, which was supposed to enter its second phase at the beginning of the month. That phase envisioned Israel fully withdrawing from Gaza and agreeing to permanently end the war in exchange for the release of the remaining living hostages.
While Israel signed on to the deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu long insisted that Israel would not end the war until Hamas’s governing and military capabilities have been destroyed. Accordingly, Israel refused to hold serious talks regarding the terms of phase two, which were supposed to begin on February 3.
Instead, it pushed for an extension of phase one — which concluded on March 1 — through additional hostage releases. The US adopted this approach, and special envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff’s bridge proposal sought to do just that. Witkoff said Sunday that Hamas’s response to the proposal — offering to release one living US-Israeli hostage and the body of four other dual citizens — was a non-starter.
In her address to a Security Council session on the Israel-Paleostinian conflict, Shea rejected the allegation that Israel is indiscriminately bombing Gazooks.
"The IDF is striking Hamas positions. It is well known that Hamas continues to use civilian infrastructure as launching pads, and the United States condemns this practice, as should others," she said.
"President Trump has made clear that Hamas must release the hostages immediately or pay a high price, and we support Israel in its next steps," Shea added.
She asserted that 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... is behind all of the region’s instability, adding that countries in the Middle East "have a historic opportunity to reshape their region in a way that affords all its people a better path forward. Stronger ties between Israel and its neighbors offer an alternative."
Also speaking to the Security Council session, UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs head Tom Fletcher lamented that residents of the Gaza Strip have been plunged into "abject fear" once again with the resumption of the Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
"Overnight our worst fears materialized. Airstrikes resumed across the entire Gaza Strip. Unconfirmed reports of hundreds of people killed... and once again, the people of Gaza [are] living in abject fear," he told the UN Security Council in a video meeting.
The council meeting was called before the strike by several member states to discuss the humanitarian situation as Israel has blocked aid into the Gaza Strip since March 2, citing Hamas’s refusal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire.
"This total blockade of life-saving aid, basic commodities and commercial goods will have a disastrous impact on the people of Gaza who remain dependent on steady flow of assistance," Fletcher said. "As Gaza is cut off — again — our ability to deliver assistance and basic services is becoming harder."
Fletcher said that during the recent ceasefire, which went into effect on January 19, 4,000 aid trucks entered the territory each week, reaching more than 2 million people and more than 113,000 tents were distributed.
"This proves what’s possible when we’re allowed to do our job," he added. "Humanitarian workers remain on the ground... ready to provide life-saving support to survivors and to carry out humanitarian operations. We must be allowed to do so."
Since the cutoff on aid at the beginning of the month, he said, only medical evacuations and humanitarian staff rotations have been allowed, and "even that came to a halt today."
Meanwhile,
...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... UN chief António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... said Tuesday that Gazooks were being subjected to an "intolerable level of suffering" following the Israeli airstrikes effectively ending the ceasefire.
"Unfortunately, we are witnessing a situation in which we have an intolerable level of suffering for the Paleostinian people, with the air raids that killed hundreds of people," Guterres told news hounds at the UN in Geneva. "We have humanitarian aid still blocked."
Guterres said it was the role of the United Nations to have the international community pressing for three "essential" points to be followed by Israel and the Hamas terror group.
"First, for the ceasefire to be fully respected. Second, for humanitarian aid to have access to Gaza in an unimpeded way. And third, for the unconditional release of hostages," said Guterres. "And we will not give up on these objectives."
UN rights chief Volker Turk said he was horrified by the strikes.
"This will add tragedy onto tragedy," he said in a statement.
"This nightmare must end immediately," Turk said, adding that "the last 18 months of violence have made abundantly clear that there is no military path out of this crisis."
Turk suggested that "the only way forward is a political settlement, in line with international law. Israel’s resort to yet more military force will only heap further misery upon a Paleostinian population already suffering catastrophic conditions."
The UN official added that "the hostages must be released immediately and unconditionally. All those arbitrarily detained must be released immediately and unconditionally. The war must end permanently."
[IsraelTimes] Representatives from the United States and six allied nations have pledged to work together to counter global hostage-taking and detentions considered unjust, they say in a joint statement after talks in Montana.
“We are united in our demand for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages,” reads the statement from the US, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Israel and the United Kingdom.
US special envoy Adam Boehler led the talks on Monday and Tuesday in Big Sky, Montana. The summit, which came after Boehler withdrew his candidacy to be the top hostage envoy following criticism from Israel, was first reported on by The Times of Israel.
Representatives discussed sharing information about detainees and other collaborative efforts to free their citizens held around the world.
“We will spare no effort, in accordance with international law, to bring home hostages and unjustly or arbitrarily detained individuals and to deter such future acts,” the statement says, without providing specifics.
Boehler, who was involved in efforts that led to the freedom of American school teacher Marc Fogel from Russia last month, says the gathering was centered on “how to support individual freedom and stop the hostage takers who try to take it away.”
The group vowed to work collectively to “identify and deploy every diplomatic, economic, and strategic tool at our disposal to bring these individuals home while deterring future such acts,” a US State Department official says.
One living American and the bodies are four others are being held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar meets with Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov in Jerusalem, where the two discuss strengthening strategic economic and energy ties, says Sa’ar’s office.
Earlier in the day, Jabbarov signed an agreement giving the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan exploration rights to joint natural gas exploration in Israel’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the Mediterranean Sea.
Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim country that borders Iran, is an important security and energy ally for Israel.
Jabbarov also met with President Isaac Herzog, Economy Minister Nir Barkat and Energy Minister Eli Cohen.
According to Sa’ar, the Joint Economic Commission between the two allies will soon convene, headed on the Israeli side by Ze’ev Elkin, a minister within the Finance Ministry.
Israel, Azerbaijan, and the US have been working to strengthen trilateral ties, and to connect Baku to Abraham Accords initiatives. Last week, US special envoy Steve Witkoff flew from Moscow to Baku and met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in a visit arranged by Israel, The Times of Israel has learned.
Azerbaijan has also served as a quiet mediator between Israel and Turkey. Aliyev’s adviser Hikmet Hajiyev was in Israel last month to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Turkey and Syria, and flew from Israel to Turkey.
[IsrelTimes] Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi will be released from house arrest today, state media reports, 14 years after he was detained for calling for a rally in support of protests that swept the Arab world in 2011.
“My father was told by security agents that his house arrest will end today,” his son Hossein Karroubi tells state news agency IRNA, adding that security agents will remain at the premises until April 8 due to security concerns.
The 87-year-old, ailing mid-level cleric has remained defiant, questioning the legitimacy of the clerical establishment in statements published by pro-reform websites.
After calling for a rally in solidarity with pro-democracy uprisings, Karroubi – along with ex-prime minister Mirhossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard, a prominent academic – was put under house arrest in February 2011.
They have not been put on trial or publicly charged.
Former parliament speaker Karroubi and Mousavi ran for election in 2009 and became figureheads for Iranians who staged eight months of mass protests after a vote they believed was rigged to bring back hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Karroubi’s son Hossein tells pro-reform Jamaran news website that his father demands the release of Mousavi.
“They told my father that the same process … would be carried out for Mousavi within the next few months and Mousavi too would be released,” the Jamaran website quotes him as saying.
Iran’s judiciary makes no comment.
Karroubi, like Mousavi and Rahnavard, had been under round-the-clock surveillance by security guards initially living in his home. But conditions improved in past years for Karroubi, with some family and politicians allowed to visit him.
Suffering from various medical complications, Karroubi has been taken to hospital several times for heart surgery and treatment.
During his election campaign, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian promised to make an effort for their release.
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
..always the voice of sweet reason...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
