[Garowe] Jubaland regional forces could be training in northeastern Kenya, bigwigs from Mandera County have claimed, in what could trigger tensions in the expansive border in the middle of the ongoing operations against al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... holy warriors.
Mohammed Adan Khalif, the governor of Mandera, claimed that the forces were operating in Border Point 1 Primary school, a move which has resulted in the closure of the institution and threatened Kenya's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The closure of the school, he said, would immensely affect students set to sit for the national exams, which are scheduled for October. The institution is found in Mandera Town, a few kilometers from Somalia.
"Mandera cannot be turned into a battleground for Somalia. We have no interest in Somalia except for peace. If the forces are not removed immediately, we will take action ourselves," Khalif said.
Khalif accuses the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) of working closely with Jubaland forces and went on to warn using Kenya is being used as the ground for training for military offensives in neighbouring Somalia.
"You cannot close schools, farms, and water supplies in the name of supporting a faction in Somalia. We are also telling our Æthiopian neighbors not to use Mandera Town as a support base. There are many other border entries," he added.
Mandera Woman Representative Umulkheir Kassim backed the governor, condemning the conversion of a school into what she called a "militia training ground." Senator Ali Roba also raised concern, writing on X that "fear and anxiety rocked Mandera residents as stray bullets and rockets hit our soil. This is no way for Kenyan citizens to live."
But Jubaland Vice President Aden Sayid Mohammed denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! noting that the forces are operating within the border. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... it is common knowledge that KDF works closely with Jubaland forces, with the state acting as a buffer zone in the al-Shabaab war.
Lately, Jubaland is at loggerheads with the federal government of Somalia, leading to the deployment of elite units of the Somali National Army in the Gedo region — further escalating the conflict. Kenya works closely with the Jubaland regional forces.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... KDF troops stationed at Diff in Wajir South Sub-County convened a Key Leaders’ Engagement (KLE) at Diff town, bringing together security agencies, administrative officials, and community leaders in a multi-agency initiative aimed at strengthening peace and stability in the region.
The meeting provided a platform for open dialogue between local leaders and security personnel, reinforcing the importance of partnership in addressing emerging security challenges along the Kenya-Somalia border, KDF said.
Speaking at the forum, Major Martin Kasinga highlighted security as a shared responsibility requiring joint efforts. He also reiterated that sustainable peace demands inclusivity and collaboration between government agencies and the local population.
Chairman of the Sub-County Security Committee, Mr. Omar Hussein, further emphasized the need for cooperation and information sharing between locals and security agencies to sustain stability.
[ShabelleMedia] Recent heavy fighting and Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the towns of Sabiid and Caanoole in southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region have forced hundreds of families to flee their homes, triggering a new wave of displacement and deepening the country’s humanitarian crisis.
The majority of those displaced were subsistence farmers who relied on their land for survival. They are now sheltering in makeshift conditions in Carbiska, on the outskirts of Mogadishu, where they face worsening humanitarian conditions and have received little to no aid.
"These people were farmers who depended entirely on their land," said Cali Bariiri, a community activist originally from Sabiid who is now advocating on behalf of the displaced. "They have been uprooted by the conflict and are now in urgent need of food, shelter, and medical assistance."
Bariiri accused both the Federal Government of Somalia and the South West State administration of failing to respond to the crisis.
"Since their displacement, no formal aid has reached them. They are enduring extreme hardship with no support," he added.
The displacement highlights the recurring pattern in Somalia’s long-running conflict, where civilians bear the brunt of violence between armed actors. Each new wave of fighting often leaves families without livelihoods, shelter, or access to basic services.
Community elders and local leaders are now calling for immediate humanitarian intervention, urging national authorities and aid agencies to act swiftly to alleviate the suffering of those stranded in Carbiska.
Sudan: RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) sworn in as head of a parallel presidential council, formed in July. UN & AU reject the body, backing Sudan’s transitional authorities.#Sudan#Hemedti#RSFpic.twitter.com/uV0KWcKZLB
[IsraelTimes] Project expected to provide clean drinking water to hundreds of thousands in al-Mawasi area, where many displaced Gazans reside
The United Arab Emirates on Friday opened a 7.5-kilometer (4.7-mile) pipeline to channel desalinated water from plants it has built in Egypt to the southern Gaza Strip, where nearly two years of war have devastated infrastructure and compounded already existing shortages of clean drinking water.
Dubbed “Operation Chivalrous Knight 3,” the pipeline can carry a daily 7,570 cubic meters (two million gallons), according to a statement by the Emirati news agency, WAM.
It is connected to the Al-Buraq reservoir in Khan Younis, which has a capacity of 5,000 cubic meters (1.32 million gallons) and is expected to provide clean water to hundreds of thousands of people in and around the al-Mawasi area on the coast of the southern Gaza Strip, where many of Gaza’s displaced residents reside.
Work on the project began in July.
Over the 22 months of war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault on southern Israel, Gaza’s water access has been progressively strained.
Limits on fuel imports and electricity have hindered the operation of desalination plants, while infrastructure bottlenecks and pipeline damage have restricted delivery to a trickle. Gaza’s aquifers are polluted by sewage and the wreckage of bombed buildings. Wells are mostly inaccessible or destroyed, according to aid groups and the local utility.
The WAM statement said, “This milestone project builds on continuous Emirati efforts in Gaza, which have included establishing six desalination plants, providing reservoirs and tankers, and maintaining wells. It represents a vital lifeline for residents of the Gaza Strip and helps alleviate the water crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of displaced persons.”
[IsraelTimes] Agency says decision to forgo visit by Doron Almog, a former IDF general, was made in light of South Africa spearheading accusations against Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza
The chairman of the Jewish Agency, Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog, has canceled a planned trip to South Africa due to fears that authorities in that country could seek his arrest, the agency said Sunday.
The decision was made as a precaution, in order to avoid the risk of potential legal and diplomatic problems arising during the visit, the agency said.
Since Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... launched its war against Israel on October 7, 2023, South Africa has been among the countries most antagonistic toward Israel. In December 2023, the South African government took Israel to the International Court of Justice, charging that Israel’s military campaign against 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... was an act of genocide.
In November 2024, South Africa applauded a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, calling the decision a "significant step towards justice for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Paleostine."
Pretoria has also threatened to arrest IDF soldiers and Israeli officials entering the country. Although no such arrests have been made to date, the threat weighs heavily on the local Jewish community.
Other countries, such as Australia, have canceled visas for visiting Israeli diplomats and pro-Israel influencers, straining diplomatic relations. The Jewish Agency apparently wanted to preempt the possibility of such complications.
While Almog retired from the IDF in 2003 and has not been involved in the war in Gaza, there have been previous attempts to issue international arrest warrants for him.
Almog enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces in 1969, serving in the Paratroopers’ Reconnaissance Company — including during the famed 1976 raid on Entebbe — and rose through the military’s ranks over the next three and a half decades to the position of Southern Command chief, retiring in 2003.
Almog was at the center of international controversy in 2005 after Paleostinian activists in the United Kingdom got a court to issue an arrest warrant for him over his role in the demolition of a Paleostinian home in the Gaza Strip, which they said amounted to a war crime.
Almog was made aware of the arrest warrant after he and his wife touched down in the UK. To avoid an incident, he stayed on the plane and flew back to Israel on it. The arrest warrant was later rescinded and the British foreign secretary apologized.
Almog has chaired the Jewish Agency since 2022.
He is a relative of Chen Goldstein Almog, who was taken hostage along with three of her children in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre that launched the war in Gaza. Her husband Nadav and eldest daughter Yam were murdered that day, while she and her children Agam, Gal, and Tal were released together in the first round of the deal in November 2023.
Despite the cancellation of Almog’s trip to South Africa, the Jewish Agency’s operations with Jewish communities in 66 countries remain uninterrupted, the organization noted. The organization works around the world to strengthen Jewish identity, encourage immigration to Israel, and support integration and community development.
Give them back British Governor Sir Charles Napier’s answer to sati: “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs!”
[IsraelTimes] The leader of Yemen’s Houthi rebels says his group will keep launching attacks against Israel, a day after confirming that an Israeli strike had killed their government’s prime minister in Sanaa.
In a televised speech on the Huthis’s Al-Masirah TV, Abdul Malik al-Houthi vows to continue “targeting Israel with missiles and drones” and to escalate these attacks, adding that recent Israeli strikes on rebel-held areas of Yemen will not weaken the group or discourage its fighters.
[Breitbart] Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accused the leftist Labour Party government of putting the interests of illegal migrants over British mothers, as a cabinet minister defended the argument that asylum rights outweigh local concerns of safety.
The Brexit boss firmly planted his party’s flag on the side of concerned mothers as legal battles continue between local councils and the Home Office over the controversial migrant hotel scheme, which sparked protests last month after an illegal Ethiopian migrant put up at taxpayer expense at the Bell Hotel in Epping was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl from the Essex town.
While the local council successfully won a High Court challenge to shut down the hotel for housing supposed asylum seekers. However, the Home Office won an appeal to keep it operational on Friday, after effectively arguing that asylum rights outweigh the concerns of locals over safety.
Responding to the decision on Sunday, Mr Farage told the Daily Mail: “The question is ‘whose side are you on’. Clearly, the government, in the case of Epping, has said that the illegal immigrants. Reform says the mothers of Epping. This will drive many more voters towards us.”
Meanwhile, anti-migrant hotel demonstrations, which have occurred every weekend over the past two months, continued, with protests taking place on Saturday, including in Falkirk, Newcastle, Oldham, Stoke-on-Trent, and Swindon.
Additionally, according to The Times of London, at least 19 local councils have vowed to continue legal challenges to shut down migrant hotels despite the Court of Appeals ruling against the Epping council. This includes all 12 councils under the control of Farage’s Reform UK party.
Despite the mounting public anger over mass migration and the taxpayer-funded hotel scheme placing often unvetted young migrant males in communities across the country, the Labour government defended the Home Office position that asylum rights should trump local concerns.
Questioned by Sky News broadcaster Trevor Phillips on Sunday, whether she supported the legal argument that asylum seeker rights should outweigh the rights of the British public, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “Yes, of course we do.”
“But what I would add is that whilst I recognise the obvious and legitimate concerns that people have about the use of asylum hotels, had we not acted in the way that the Home Secretary did around that case, we would have ended up with lots of disruption in terms of what that would have meant around asylum hotels,” she said.
Phillipson claimed that there must be a “balance of rights” and that the government has a “responsibility” to people who claim asylum to process their requests and thus provide accommodation while their cases are being adjudicated.
While the cabinet minister said that she understood why locals were “frustrated” over migrant hotels, she went on to blame Nigel Farage and Reform UK for “whipping up anger” about immigration.
She claimed that only her party has put forward solutions to the issue. She stressed that Labour is planning on shutting down the hotel migrant scheme; however, the party has admitted that this may not be accomplished until 2029.
Conversely, Farage’s Reform Party has said it would construct detention centres on military bases and work with third-party countries such as El Salvador and Rwanda to house supposed asylum seekers rather than providing them with hotel rooms.
Farage has also said that if elected, his government would leave the deportation-blocking European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and establish a deportation command centre with the task of removing at least 600,000 illegals from the country during his first term.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Ukrainian authorities plan to prevent Hasidim from holding an annual pilgrimage to Uman in September, citing security concerns. This was reported on August 31 by the Israeli publication Maariv, citing informed sources.
According to these data, Kyiv justified this decision by the ban on mass gatherings in effect since 2022. In 2022–2024, the Ukrainian authorities did not recommend such trips, but tens of thousands of pilgrims nevertheless arrived in Uman.
According to the Israeli TV channel i24, Kiev expressed dissatisfaction with Israel's insufficiently pro-Ukrainian position towards the Russian Federation, and also expressed readiness to allow the pilgrimage if Israel provides financial support and sends police officers to Uman.
Later, Axios journalist Barak Ravid, citing the Israeli Foreign Ministry, reported on social media that to date Ukraine has not officially made any demands or requests to Israel regarding the arrival of Hasidim in Uman.
In 2023, the Ukrainian embassy in Israel threatened that if Tel Aviv continued to deport Ukrainian citizens, Jewish pilgrims would not be able to visit Uman. The city is home to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the founder of Breslov Hasidism. Tens of thousands of Jewish believers visit it every year. The pilgrimage is timed to coincide with the Rosh Hashanah holiday, the Jewish New Year.
The woke, unemployed, activists, claim they are carrying aid, but we all know it's a publicity stunt to put the smiles on the faces of the Hamas-ISIS savages.
The Swedish deranged Greta Thunberg, is on one of the boats. She gave up on climate change, as supporting Hamas was more…
🚨LMAO…Due to weather: The organizers of the pro-Palestinian flotilla on their way to Gaza announced that they had to return to Barcelona because of the storm… I said if God had a sense of humor he'd create a storm there. Remember?
[IsraelTimes] Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg aboard, after she was deported from Israel in June after trying to reach Gaza aboard the sailboat Madleen
A flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid and activists, among whom was Swedish climate campaigner Greta "Pippi" Thunberg ...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now... , departed from Barcelona on Sunday in what was the largest attempt yet to try to "break the illegal siege of 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... ," organizers said.
The flotilla’s departure comes as Israel has stepped up its offensive on Gaza City and prepares to capture the densely populated city in the northern part of the enclave. As part of its preparations, Jerusalem is planning to slow or halt humanitarian aid to the area, an Israeli official told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Saturday.
The Global Sumud Flotilla is carrying food, water and medicine. Activists on board demanded safe passage to deliver the much-needed aid and the opening of a humanitarian sea corridor, according to a statement.
The maritime convoy departing from the Spanish port city was made up of about 20 boats and delegations from 44 countries, and was claimed to be the largest attempt to date to try and break the blockade on Gaza.
The convoy will be joined by more ships from ports in Italia and Tunisia in the coming days, on the route from the western end of the Mediterranean to the Gaza Strip, organizers said.
The flotilla will "open a humanitarian corridor and end the ongoing genocide of the Paleostinian people," said the Global Sumud Flotilla ahead of departure.
The flotilla is on course to arrive at the war-ravaged coastal enclave in mid-September.
"This will be the largest solidarity mission in history, with more people and more boats than all previous attempts combined," Brazilian activist Thiago Avila told journalists in Barcelona last week.
Thousands of supporters flocked to the Barcelona pier, some of them wearing keffiyehs and chanting "Free Paleostine!" and "Boycott Israel!" to send off a wide variety of boats, flying Paleostinian flags, from rundown old luxury yachts to tiny wooden sailboats and industrial-looking vessels. One of them, Sirus, is more than 100 years old.
Around 70 boats are expected to take part in the final leg of the journey, flotilla spokesperson Saif Abukeshek told Spanish public television after the departure. The fleet could reach Gaza around September 14 or 15, he added.
"The story here is about Paleostine. The story here is how people are being deliberately deprived of the very basic means to survive," said Swedish activist Thunberg at a news conference. She is one of the most recognizable figures on the expedition, formed by hundreds of activists, politicians, such as the former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and journalists.
Ships carrying tons of humanitarian aid departed from the Italian city of Genoa and will join the expedition in the coming days.
It is not the first time Thunberg has attempted to reach Gaza’s waters this year. Israel deported her in June after the Madleen, the ship she was traveling on, along with 11 other people, was stopped by the Israeli military.
"It has been very clear that Israel has been continuously violating international law by either attacking, unlawfully intercepting the boats in international waters, and continuously preventing the humanitarian aid from coming in," said Thunberg in an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Saturday.
Activists will also stage simultaneous demonstrations and other protests in 44 countries "in solidarity with the Paleostinian people," Thunberg, part of the flotilla’s steering committee, wrote on Instagram.
"We understand that this is a legal mission under international law," left-wing Portuguese politician Mariana Mortagua, who will join the mission, told journalists in Lisbon last week.
PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS
The Global Sumud Flotilla describes itself as an independent group not linked to any government or political party. Sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic.
Israel has already blocked two attempts by activists to breach the naval blockade, in June and July.
In June, 12 activists on board the Madleen, from La Belle France, Germany, Brazil, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , Sweden, Spain and the Netherlands, were intercepted by Israeli forces 185 kilometres (115 miles) west of Gaza. They were detained and eventually expelled.
In July, 21 activists from 10 countries were intercepted as they tried to approach Gaza in another vessel, the Handala.
[ShabelleMedia] Finland has suspended its development aid to Somalia until the Somali government agrees to accept more deportees, according to Finnish Minister for Development, Ville Tavio.
Tavio stated that aid would only resume after "concrete progress" on the repatriation of Somali nationals.
Finland froze its Somalia Country Programme in November 2024, halting new development projects but allowing ongoing initiatives to be completed.
The suspension does not affect humanitarian aid, grants to NGOs, or private sector support. The Finnish Foreign Ministry had planned to allocate between 8 and 9 million euros annually to Somalia, but no alternative package has been announced.
Tavio suggested that at least 100 Somali nationals must be accepted back by Somalia before development assistance is reinstated, though he declined to comment further on the specific number through his assistant.
The issue remains politically sensitive in Somalia, where officials point to security concerns and resistance to taking back citizens with criminal convictions abroad.
Repatriations to Somalia were largely paused for nearly three years starting in 2021 and only resumed late last year. In 2025, Finnish authorities have returned 11 Somali nationals, three of whom were voluntary.
The Finnish National Police Board estimates that 100 to 200 Somali citizens may still be awaiting deportation.
Finland’s Interior Minister, Mari Rantanen, visited Mogadishu in January to discuss repatriation arrangements with Somali officials, and cooperation is reportedly progressing.
To support these efforts, Finland’s Foreign Ministry plans to launch a short-term project worth several hundred thousand euros to bolster operations at Somalia’s immigration authority.
Finland’s move comes amid tougher stances on Somali migrants colonists across Europe, with countries like Germany and Sweden ramping up deportations of Somali nationals convicted of serious crimes.
Other European states are also tightening border controls, with Ireland and La Belle France enhancing measures against irregular migration.
[IsraelTimes] The United States has quietly instituted a blanket freeze of almost all types of visa applications by holders of Palestinian Authority-issued passports, The New York Times reports, citing four unnamed American officials.
While Donald Trump’s administration publicly announced on Friday that it will not allow entry to PA President Mahmoud Abbas and some 80 more Palestinian officials for the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York, the outlet says the new policy is much broader.
The temporary suspension covers “visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel,” the report says.
It does not apply to those who already have visas, or to Palestinians who have a second passport and who you that other passport to apply for visas.
The policy was reportedly laid out in a message sent on August 18 by the State Department to all US diplomatic missions, making use of a mechanism — section 221-G of the US Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 — that is usually only used to demand extra documents or information from certain people to help make a decision on their request.
“Effective immediately, consular officers are instructed to refuse under 221(g) of the Immigration Nationality Act (INA) all otherwise eligible Palestinian Authority passport holders using that passport to apply for a nonimmigrant visa,” the State Department cable says, according to The Times.
[IsraelTimes] Abraham Hamra says Qatar-based media network falsely reported that he had been paid by the Israeli government to visit aid sites in Gaza
A Jewish man who moved to the United States as a refugee from Syria sued Al Jazeera last week for libel, drawing the news network into the court battles being waged across the US in response to the war 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... and antisemitism.
Abraham Hamra, an immigration attorney based in New York, said in the lawsuit that Al Jazeera falsely reported that he had been paid by the Israeli government to visit humanitarian aid sites in Gaza as part of a propaganda effort. Hamra is an outspoken opponent of antisemitism online who stands out in the pro-Israel influencer world because of his fluent Arabic.
Hamra said the claim was "categorically false" and he had never been paid by the Israeli government or any related entity.
Al Jazeera published a post earlier this month on its official English-language Instagram page, with more than 6.4 million followers, that showed a video of Hamra standing near aid supplies meant for Gazooks. The Israeli government had invited influencers to the site to show Israel’s delivery of aid through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The video had text over Hamra’s image that said the influencers were invited by the Israeli government to tour the aid sites and "reportedly paid" to partake in the visit, implying that Israel had compensated them. The post did not include any source for the claim.
Hamra said in the lawsuit that he had funded the trip himself.
Al Jazeera did not contact Hamra for comment before publishing the video, a standard practice for news organizations.
The lawsuit accused Al Jazeera of a longstanding pattern of antisemitism and anti-Zionist bias, and a "reckless disregard for the truth" when reporting on Israel.
New York libel law is generous to media organizations. To demonstrate libel, accusers must show "actual malice," meaning that accidentally publishing false information is not grounds for libel. The lawsuit argued that Al Jazeera’s recklessness in publishing the post without sourcing or fact-checking, alongside its history of bias, amounted to actual malice.
The Al Jazeera report implied that Hamra had violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a federal crime that requires agents of foreign states to publicly disclose that relationship, the lawsuit said.
The false claims harmed Hamra’s professional reputation as a lawyer due to the implied criminal activity, and spurred an online backlash against him, with members of the public seeking Hamra’s personal information in a virtual "lynch mob," the lawsuit said.
The case was filed in the federal Eastern District of New York court because Hamra is a resident of New York, and Al Jazeera reports are directed to US audiences, including in New York. Al Jazeera is headquartered in Doha, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , and funded by the Qatari government.
The defendant in the lawsuit is Al Jazeera International, registered in Delaware and based in Washington, DC, and the Al Jazeera Media Network.
Al Jazeera did not immediately respond to a request for comment and did not yet have legal representation in the case.
The lawsuit sought damages of at least $1 million and a trial by jury.
Hamra fled with his family from Damascus in 1994 when he was seven years old after the Assad regime lifted restrictions on Jewish emigration in 1992. The family was part of the last wave of Syrian Jewish refugees to move to the US. There is a large Syrian Jewish community in New York, but earlier arrivals are less connected to Syria and generally do not speak fluent Arabic. Some of the more recent arrivals have begun visiting Syria since the fall of the Assad regime.
Hamra’s relative Rabbi Avraham Hamra was the last chief rabbi of Syria.
Legal battles related to Israel and antisemitism are taking place in courts across the US, with both pro- and anti-Israel activists filing lawsuits against their perceived opponents. Pro-Israel lawsuits have targeted universities, UN agencies, activists, nonprofits, businesspeople and entertainment venues. Some institutions, like Columbia University, are being battered by lawsuits from both sides.
Lawsuits against media organizations for their coverage of the conflict are rare, though. In one other example, the nonprofit Paleostine Chronicle was sued earlier this year by former Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... captives who were held hostage by one of the outlet’s news hounds.
The tactics of pro-Israel advocacy groups have been evolving since the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, with legal groups making novel use of laws, such as applying measures meant to protect child sacrifice abortion clinics to synagogues, and deploying little-used civil rights protections.
US courts have also had to tackle the thorny issue of when anti-Israel activism veers into antisemitism. A federal judge in Washington, DC, earlier this month equated attacking a Jewish person holding an Israeli flag with antisemitism, in a decision that lawyers in the case believe will serve as a signpost for future litigation over anti-Israel attacks.
#1
The only thing wrong about this lawsuit is that he's "only" asking for 1 million. Chump change for a network finances by Qatar. Let's hope the jury awards a lot more.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/01/2025 18:29 Comments ||
Top||
[Rudaw] Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-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... i is set to visit the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Monday to reopen the historic al-Nuri Mosque, which was leveled during the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s (ISIS) brutal rule over the city, a politician said.
Sherwan Dubardani, a Kurdish politician in the Iraqi parliament from Mosul, told Rudaw that Sudani will visit the city "for the purpose of reopening the al-Nuri Mosque."
The mosque and its iconic minaret - known as al-Hadba - were beloved features in Mosul’s skyline for 850 years. The leaning minaret appears on Iraq’s 10,000 dinar banknote. The site was destroyed by ISIS murderous Moslems in 2017 as Iraqi troops gained ground during the grueling battle to retake the city from the jihadists.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... educational, scientific, and cultural organization (UNESCO) led the effort to rebuild the landmark after the war ended. In April 2018, UNESCO, the UAE, and Iraq signed an agreement to rebuild the mosque complex and the minaret. The UAE contributed $50.4 million to the reconstruction.
A UAE delegation and Kurdistan Region Interior Minister Reber Ahmed are also set to attend the reopening ceremony, according to Dubardani.
The minaret was built in 1172 by the ruler Nur al-Din Zengi. It was given the name al-Hadba, meaning the hunchback, in the 14th century when it began to noticeably lean.
The old city of Mosul - Iraq’s second-largest - was the last stronghold for ISIS in Iraq and bore the brunt of fierce festivities that caused widespread destruction of its buildings.
The mosque was famously used by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on July 4, 2014, when he announced his caliphate from the mosque’s pulpit.
ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraqi territory in a brazen offensive in 2014, but it was declared territorially defeated in 2017 when its so-called caliphate fell to Iraqi and Kurdish fighters, supported by a US-led international coalition, who clawed back lands from the jihadists.
Analysts warn that U.S. pressure and internal power struggles are reshaping the Popular Mobilization Forces, as some factions quietly withdraw to join politics.https://t.co/KwCuTIKXVx
Abu Turab al-Tamimi permanently quits the PMF to run in November elections, promising to expose hidden truths about the militia.https://t.co/KwCuTIKXVx
”You do what you have to do to finish the job quickly, Bibi. I’ll run interference and take the blame.”
[IsraelTimes] Ahead of today’s security cabinet meeting to discuss plans for 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... war, unnamed sources tell Channel 12 that US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... is increasing pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to defeat Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... , after losing faith in the efficacy of ceasefire and hostage release talks.
Sources involved in the matter tell the Hebrew network that, following the January hostage-ceasefire deal and the May release of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, Trump has pushed Netanyahu to move more rapidly toward the defeat of Hamas.
Trump’s stance is reportedly a main reason that Netanyahu is pushing for either the full military conquest of Gaza or a comprehensive deal strictly on Israel’s terms, despite security officials speaking out against such plans.
Channel 12 adds that Trump appears convinced that Hamas can be decisively beaten, "perhaps even within two weeks," and that the US president feels he has already fulfilled the mission of bringing home most of the hostages, especially after Alexander’s release. Despite public rhetoric in support of returning the hostages, Trump is privately making clear that, in his view, Hamas will never return all the hostages, but rather keep a certain number as a means of survival.
The network says that in July, after Hamas returned to hostage talks and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i mediators reported optimism, Trump publicly echoed that optimism, in support of the efforts of his envoy Steve Witkoff and Netanyahu to pursue a renewed deal. But when Hamas toughened its position later on in those talks, amid international outcry over dire reports of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Trump "lost patience" with the terror group, partly because he had publicly given weight to Qatari optimism that proved mistaken.
Around the same time, Netanyahu also "fell into line," declaring that the opportunity for a deal had passed, and ordered the Israeli delegation home from Doha, the report continues. According to one source, even when Hamas returned two weeks ago with an approved proposal, Witkoff refused to engage, no longer trusting the Qataris and not wanting to risk embarrassing Trump.
This strikes me as premature — wait until peace or conquest is completed, one way or another, instead of pretending normalcy has been restored when it most definitely has not. But it’s their country, and at that end of it they like playing Let’s Pretend.
[IsraelTimes] In a sign that the threat from Gaza to Israeli border settlements has been drastically reduced, Israel begins removing concrete walls at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, according to Hebrew-language reports.
The walls, erected after the May 2023 Operation Shield and Arrow against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, were meant to protect the kibbutz and motorists on the access road from mortar and anti-tank fire from the Gaza Strip.
In addition, the section of Route 25 that leads to the kibbutz, which has been closed for five years, is also set to reopen.
“The opening of Route 25 to Nahal Oz symbolizes not only renewed infrastructure but a return to life,” says MK Ze’ev Elkin, the Finance Ministry’s point man for rehabilitating the southern and northern border areas damaged by war.
“This is a move that restores residents’ confidence on their way home and their faith in the future here. The road has become a symbol of steadfastness and the ability to grow through difficulty. The first vehicles to pass through it will also open a path of hope.”
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that most of the Houthi government had been destroyed. He said this at a government meeting held on August 31.
Netanyahu said the IDF strikes had killed most of the Houthi political and military leadership, and he vowed that the attacks would continue.
"We are doing what no one has done before us, and this is just the beginning <…> We will reach everyone," the Israeli Prime Minister said.
From the country that hunted down Adolf Eichmann, among many, many others, such a promise should be terrifying.
The Prime Minister of the Yemeni government, created in the territories controlled by the Shiite military-political movement Ansar Allah (Houthis), Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi was killed on August 29 as a result of an Israeli airstrike on the city of Sanaa. Fighters bombed his house. Several of his associates were killed along with the politician. In response, the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, threatened Israel with consequences and promised it dark days.
On August 24, the Israeli military launched a series of strikes on energy facilities in Sana'a. In particular, a Yemen Petroleum Company gas station and the Haziz power plant were attacked. As a result of the attack, four people were killed and more than 60 were injured. On August 12, the Houthis attacked facilities in Israel with several drones. Six attack UAVs were launched, which attacked four targets in the areas of Haifa, the Negev Desert, Eilat and Beersheba.
[IsraelTimes] Cabinet meeting held in secure location, with Netanyahu vowing to continue working to kill remaining leaders of Yemeni rebels after their PM, ministers were assassinated
In the aftermath of the war with “Israel”, moderate and reformist figures in Iran, including Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi, proposed reforms and constitutional changes.https://t.co/VoCOZN9KvI
President Masoud Pezeshkian slammed critics of engagement with the West, stressing that no decision is made without coordination with the Supreme Leader.https://t.co/VoCOZN9KvI
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...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...
