[IsraelTimes] New measures come amid wave of arson attacks, allegedly backed by Tehran, on Jewish sites in London, though specific Iran-linked terror group not on list
Britannia on Monday slapped sanctions on a dozen Iran-linked individuals and entities accused of involvement in "hostile activities" by Tehran targeting the UK or other countries.
The curbs follow a string of attacks over recent months against the Jewish community in Britannia, and repeated warnings from officials that hostile states are intent on using proxies for such purposes.
Updating its official sanctions list, the Foreign Office in London imposed the UK travel bans and asset freezes on nine people, two shadow banking exchange houses, and the allegedly criminal Zindashti network.
The UK government had already sanctioned the network’s alleged leader, Naji Ibrahim Sharifi-Zindashti, in 2024 alongside the United States, labeling him the head of an international drug and trafficking cartel.
Zindashti’s nephew Ekrem Abdulkerym Oztunc, a Ottoman Turkish national, was among the nine people sanctioned Monday by Britannia.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... sanctioned Zindashti’s network last year, with London, Washington, and Brussels all claiming it is connected to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security and accusing it of conducting liquidation and kidnapping operations against Tehran’s critics.
London also targeted five members of the Zarringhalam family, said to have helped finance efforts to "destabilize" the UK.
Mansour, Nasser, and Fazlolah Zarringhalam were sanctioned by the US last year for their involvement in Iran’s "shadow banking" network.
The US Treasury said the trio had "collectively laundered billions of dollars" for 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... through a network of front companies in the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong.
London also added two US-sanctioned Iran-based exchange houses linked to them to its sanctions list.
Iranians Nihat Abdul Kadir Asan and Reza Hamidiravari and Azerbaijani national Namiq Salifov were the other three individuals hit with the British travel bans and asset freezes.
SANCTIONS COME AMID WAVE OF ANTI-JEWISH ATTACKS
"This package of sanctions directly targets organizations and individuals who threaten security on UK streets and stability in the Middle East," UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said on Monday in a statement.
"Criminal proxies backed by parts of the Iranian regime who threaten security in the UK and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... will not be tolerated, nor will illicit finance networks," she said.
Last month, police said they were investigating possible Iran links to a recent series of arson attacks on Jewish targets in London, which prompted counterterrorism inquiries and warnings about hostile activity by Tehran or groups acting on its behalf. Amid the wave of arsons, two Jewish men were also stabbed in an antisemitic attack.
The regime-hostile Iran International outlet, based in London, was also targeted for arson, as was a memorial wall depicting Iranians killed by the Islamic Theocratic Republic, along with Israelis killed by the Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... terror group.
Authorities have suggested that Tehran may be behind some of the attacks, and a newly formed terror group — Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (HAYI) — has grabbed credit for some of them. The group, believed to have links to Iran, was not named in the Monday sanctions package.
The UK has raised its national terrorism threat level to "severe," the second-highest rating, with police and ministers warning of an elevated risk of attacks and growing concern about hostile activity linked to foreign states, including Iran.
London’s Metropolitan Police also announced the creation of a special unit to protect Jews.
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[Regnum] Selling drugs in Mexico without political connections is not just a dead end, it's stillborn from the start, especially when it comes to the industrial-scale quantities of substances supplied by cartels.
For these purposes, criminals elect regional officials—governors, senators, law enforcement officers, and mayors of large cities. Federal authorities are often marginalized and treated with respectful silence. At least for the time being.
Therefore, fighting the cartel without working with officials is also practically impossible—hence the skepticism towards most of the measures taken by the Mexican establishment in recent years.
However, the situation has now changed dramatically, and the most influential people in the state of Sinaloa face arrest and life imprisonment—precisely for collaborating with the cartels. However, it wasn't Mexico City that pulled the trigger—Washington is once again behind these scandalous measures. "scandalous"
Darn those wascally Washingtonians!
"CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATIONS"
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) unsealed an indictment against Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and nine other current and former government officials who served under him. The primary charge is cooperation with the Sinaloa Cartel and facilitating drug trafficking in the United States.
According to American law enforcement, Rocha began working with the cartel back in 2021, on the eve of his election. And not just with the cartel, but with a specific faction—Los Chapitos, the heirs of the notorious El Chapo, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who is currently incarcerated in one of the most secure prisons in the United States. Guzmán's sons, Iván and Ovidio (the latter has also already been arrested), met with the politician at a secure ranch and promised to "help" him win the election.
Naturally, not for free. In exchange, Rocha was supposed to ensure the maximum number of people loyal to the organized crime group in the state government. An agreement was reached, and the Guzman brothers dispatched their own operatives to Rocha's rivals to conduct "confidential conversations" and persuade them to withdraw their candidacies.
On election day, voters were also subjected to abuse, being beaten at the polling stations—including with baseball bats—and forced to check off the required boxes. In some places, ballot boxes were even stolen. Los Chapitos workers also had their voting rights violated during those days: they were ordered to come to the polling stations with their families and vote for Rocha.
After his victory, the new governor fulfilled all agreements with the organized crime groups, including ensuring their loyalty from the police.
THE HATEFUL NINE
Who are the other nine defendants? Apparently, they are the very same officials who favored the Sinaloa Cartel.
For example, former municipal police commander Juan Valenzuela Millán, nicknamed "El Juanito, " provided the Guzmáns with intelligence, reported on law enforcement raids, and dispatched officers to transport drugs to the U.S. border. Furthermore, back in 2023, he handed over a Drug Enforcement Administration informant and his family to the cartel, and turned a blind eye to their torture and murder (including that of a child).
The current mayor of Culiacán, Juan de Dios Gámez Mendivil, was also involved. He received a monthly payment for not interfering with cartel activities in the city, especially when the militants were "restoring order."
The state's deputy attorney general, a senator, two former heads of the state attorney general's investigations department, a former deputy director of the state police, and other people from law enforcement agencies also cooperated with the organized crime group.
Their range of services turned out to be quite broad: issuing arrest warrants for cartel competitors—both officials and militants serving the enemy faction; releasing arrested cartel members; warning about joint operations with US security forces; and protecting drug shipments with the help of police officers and laboratories where the "synthetics" were manufactured.
All this wasn't exactly cheap for the cartel. El Juanito's team alone cost the organized crime group $40,000 a month. And raid alerts from the Secretary of Public Security cost over $100,000 a month.
ROCHA - ON THE WAY OUT
Almost immediately after the conclusion was released, US officials sent requests for the extradition of officials from Sinaloa.
Governor Rocha, along with Culiacán Mayor Mendivil, categorically denied all accusations, calling them slander and an attempt to attack Mexico's national sovereignty.
President Claudia Sheinbaum was forced to intervene in the case. She stated that she had spoken with Rocha, and until evidence of his guilt was presented, no criminal prosecution could take place.
The US requests contained no evidence, but the Mexican Attorney General's Office had already been tasked with reviewing everything the Americans sent for compliance with the Mexican criminal system. In principle, these actions seemed entirely logical given Sheinbaum's usual strategy—she never publicly granted her neighbors' demands. At least not immediately.
However, it turned out that Sheinbaum had held an urgent meeting with her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, under whom Rocha had just become governor. Interestingly, the Mexican opposition likes to link Obrador himself to the Sinaloa Cartel, but the issue has not yet reached the necessary urgency on the international agenda. Shortly after the meeting, Governor Rocha temporarily resigned from his post and went on vacation. The mayor of Culiacán pulled a similar stunt.
At first, everyone assumed the position would go to Berdegue Sancristian, a classmate of Sheinbaum's husband who had left his post as Minister of Agriculture. However, Yeraldine Bonilla, the first woman to hold the post, was appointed acting governor. She began her career as a waitress in a diner. Most recently, she served as Secretary General of the Government of Sinaloa.
The issue with Governor Rocha is still being resolved, and regional editorials are not feeding the public with unnecessary details. Nevertheless, the status quo in the state should not be disrupted, as Ms. Bonilla is part of the same Governor Rocha's team. And one of her predecessors in the position she is leaving was also included in the extradition request.
IS IT OVER YET?
It is still unknown how the story of the confrontation between the bureaucratic class and the United States will end, but it has already had a significant impact on the balance of power between the warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel - Los Chapitos and the people of drug lord Ismael Zambada Garcia (El Mayo).
Governor Rocha is believed to be involved in the US operation that kidnapped and arrested El Mayo, the head of the faction of the same name now ruled by his son, in the summer of 2024. Ismael had arrived for secret negotiations with Los Chapitos when he was seized, put on a plane, and flown to the US without any formalities.
The nuance is that Zambada's safety was guaranteed by Governor Rocha, who turned out to be an ally of Los Chapitos and, through his actions, unleashed a civil war in the state.
Now Los Chapitos is at risk of losing its main political base in the state, and this will not be the first defeat this year – for example, El Mencho of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, who was eliminated in January, and his recently arrested capo El Jardinero supported Los Chapitos in this conflict.
At the same time, neither representatives of official Mexico City nor their colleagues from Washington are taking any similar measures against the people of El Mayo, which gives rise to certain thoughts.
It appears we're being subjected to yet another drug-fighting charade, one that will inevitably lead to the rise of a new cartel. This happened in the 2000s, when the Sinaloa Cartel rose to power; in the 2010s, when the Jalisco New Generation suddenly crushed the sadistic Los Zetas; and in the early 2020s, when Los Chapitos itself flourished, actively selling fentanyl into the United States during Donald Trump's first presidential term.
And now times are changing again. Will the arrest of Governor Rocha solve anything, given that most of Sinaloa's municipalities, even at the beginning of the 20th century, were built with funds from local officials who made their fortunes from the opium trade? The question is rhetorical.
Text taken from a Maks channel (native Russian alternative to Telegram)
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] A little effort in target audience research, and your AI can create highly effective, high-impact content for PSYOP. Proven by Emily Hart. Or how to make money on fanatics. Remember Emily Hart? Yes, the one who posted photos with Trump, Putin, Xi, Modi, the Pope, and who knows who else. A 22-year-old medical student from India, "Sam," created Emily Hart—a blonde, conservative nurse who doesn't actually exist—and watched her gain 10,000 followers and thousands of dollars in monthly income by posting ice fishing photos and selfies with Coors Light beer.
Emily was specifically created to exploit what Google Gemini helpfully identified as a "cheat code": the MAGA supporter demographic. The fact is, conservative-minded older men represent a loyal, higher-income audience that outperforms content generated from generic data.
Sam took this advice and expanded on it, creating a Jennifer Lawrence lookalike who posted shooting gallery videos with pro-Christian captions and anti-abortion slogans.
The formula worked surprisingly well. Emily's Instagram Reels videos garnered millions of views within a month, driving traffic to Fanvue (an OnlyFans equivalent for political content), where subscribers paid for exclusive access and MAGA merchandise.
Sam wasn't alone—similar AI-generated characters, such as Jessica Foster, a fictional Army soldier, gained over a million followers on Instagram before being banned. These accounts posted edited images of Trump, Putin, and Zelensky, monetizing them with foot photos and tips of $200-$300 per post.
It's the sophistication of these actions that makes the situation particularly alarming. These aren't just bots with broken English and stock photos. Modern artificial intelligence tools create believable personas with backstories, regional interests, and cultural characteristics that resonate with specific audiences.
As I mentioned earlier, a certain portion of the audience is already unable to distinguish between humans and machines when communicating in comments. Moreover, in Telegram, the percentage of neural network-generated machine comments is steadily growing, and some people simply can't distinguish between machines and humans in this stream. This problem will only worsen in the future, and at some point, the government will come to the conclusion that either humans or machines must be labeled and verified to discern any difference.
The same applies to artificially created personas that impersonate people who don't actually exist. I believe that similar systems will begin to be implemented no later than 2028.
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[RIA] The global oil market will not return to normal until next year unless shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz resumes within a month, said Amin Nasser, CEO of Saudi Aramco. Or everyone who can pump more does in response to market signals, and Iranian oil is replaced by supply from elsewhere. American is pumping more, as is Venezuela, the UAE has started to, and others will follow. Though I have no idea about the technical issues involved, I would not be surprised if the problem evaporates more quickly than anticipates — and I’d bet that the Saudi Aramco will find itself part of that pumping solution.
"The longer the supply disruptions continue, even if it lasts for several more weeks, the longer it will take for the oil market to rebalance and stabilize," he said during a video conference to discuss Aramco's first-quarter results.
"The crisis could drag on until 2027 if the impasse in the strait continues until mid-June," he added.
Could =/= will.
The head of the world's largest energy company estimates that the market, which has lost a billion barrels of oil due to a lack of production or transportation, will continue to lose about 100 million barrels of oil each week as long as the strait remains closed.
Nasser recalled that previously, about 70 ships a day passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
Strikes against oil-producing countries in the Persian Gulf and Iran's effective closure of the strait, through which a fifth of the world's oil and gas supplies pass, have negatively impacted production and exports. Before the conflict erupted on February 28, approximately 20 million barrels of oil per day entered the market through this waterway.
On Monday, US President Donald Trump called Tehran's response to US peace proposals completely unacceptable.
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[IsraelTimes] New Hungarian leadership lifts veto on measure, which targets 7 organizations and individuals; Netanyahu says EU morally bankrupt for drawing symmetry between Israel and Hamas
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on Monday approved sanctions against "extremist and violent mostly peaceful" Israeli settler organizations and their leaders, as well as against Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group leaders.
The decision, made during a meeting of the 27 EU foreign ministers in Brussels, is only a political move at this point, and there is still technical and legal work that must be done before the sanctions are officially imposed by the EU executive.
"It was high time we move from deadlock to delivery," said EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. "Extremisms [sic] and violence carry consequences."
"It’s done. The European Union is sanctioning today the main Israeli organizations guilty of supporting the bad boy and violent mostly peaceful colonization of the West Bank, as well as their leaders," French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot wrote on X.
"These most serious and intolerable acts must cease without delay," he said. "It is sanctioning the main leaders of Hamas, responsible for the worst antisemitic massacre in our history since the Shoah, during which 51 French people bit the dust, a terrorist movement that must imperatively be disarmed and excluded from any participation in the future of Paleostine," Barrot added, using the Hebrew term to describe the Holocaust.
The move, which comes in response to rising violence by bad boy Israelis in the West Bank and the expansion of Israeli communities in the disputed territory, had been stalled by former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban.
But last month’s election defeat of Orban, a staunch ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, by rival Peter Magyar appeared to have paved the way for the veto to be lifted.
Monday’s move "validates the notion that Orban was blocking them single-handedly," said Martin Konečný, head of the Brussels-based European Middle East Project.
An EU official told The Times of Israel that a total of seven settlers and settler organizations will be blacklisted. The individuals will have assets frozen and be banned from entering the EU, among other measures.
According to the Peace Now settlement watchdog, sanctions will be leveled against Regavim and its head Meir Deutsch; HaShomer Yosh and its former chief Avichai Suissa; Nachala and its head, settler leader Daniella Weiss; and the Amana settlement organization.
Weiss, often regarded as the godmother of the Israeli settler movement, said she had received no formal notification of the sanctions and told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that she did not understand the justification for them.
She described the sanctions as "ridiculous" and the situation as "banal," saying that it would not stop the settlement movement.
Regavim said the group considers it "a badge of honor" to be sanctioned by the EU and would "continue working to restore governance and illusory sovereignty throughout all parts of our homeland."
But the decision could have massive implications on the work of Regavim and the other organizations designated, given that entities linked to the EU will be barred from maintaining financial ties or funding those sanctioned by Brussels. This includes Israeli banks as well as the Israeli government itself, which provides funding to most of the organizations that the EU is moving to sanction.
Regavim promotes the expansion of Israeli settlements and outposts in the West Bank, while calling out illegal Paleostinian construction — a phenomenon that critics say exists because Jerusalem doesn’t approve building permits for Paleostinians.
HaShomer Yosh sends volunteers to help work and protect farming communities and illegal outposts in the West Bank, which have become hotbeds for attacks on neighboring Paleostinian villages, with critics claiming they are also used as a tool to dispossess Paleostinians from their lands.
Amana and Nachala both promote the establishment of settlements and illegal outposts in the West Bank, with Weiss’s organization placing a particular emphasis on outposts.
While the international community considers all settlements illegal, Israel differentiates between settlement homes built and permitted by the Defense Ministry on land owned by the state, and illegal outposts built without the necessary permits, often on private Paleostinian land. In recent years, though, the government has increasingly sought to fund and regulate the wildcat outposts, rather than demolish them.
Monday’s approved sanctions were notably focused more against individuals and groups pushing for the de facto Israeli annexation of the West Bank — something the EU adamantly opposes — than against those involved in violent mostly peaceful assaults on Paleostinians.
This was the third package of sanctions approved by the EU, since Brussels followed the Biden administration’s path in levying these sanctions in 2024.
US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... reversed Washington’s sanctions regime against violent mostly peaceful settlers on his first day in office in January 2025, leading Orban to maintain a veto on the EU continuing with the policy since then.
Before Monday, the EU had sanctioned five Israeli individuals, two illegal outposts, and one organization.
’MORAL BANKRUPTCY’
The sanctions decision was roundly condemned by Israeli officials and politicians.
On his office’s official X account, Netanyahu said, "As Israel and the US are ’doing Europe’s dirty work’ by fighting for civilization against jihadist lunatics in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and elsewhere, the European Union exposed its moral bankruptcy by drawing a false symmetry between Israeli citizens and Hamas terrorists."
Israel "firmly rejects" the decision, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on X, saying that the EU imposed sanctions "in an arbitrary and political manner... because of their political views and without any basis."
"Equally outrageous is the unacceptable comparison the European Union has chosen to make between Israeli citizens and Hamas terrorists," he continued. "This is a completely distorted moral equivalence."
An EU official told The Times of Israel that the decision on Hamas sanctions was not made on the same day to draw any sort of comparison, but was rather a condition by some member states for their support for sanctions on settlers. The number and names of sanctioned Hamas leaders was not made public.
#1
This is antisemitism and these people belong in prison.
What's next, equivocating the ADL and Muslim Brotherhood?
Iran has nuclear weapons, there's no equivalence there.
#2
Oh no, my dear. Unlike in America, while Holocaust denial is illegal Jew-hatred is not only entirely legal, it is très, très chic.
In America, by contrast, proving your stupidity by denying the Holocaust is perfectly legal, as is hating Jews. What is not legal is discriminating against them as part of that race, creed, colour, or sexuality set. For some reason you have trouble mastering this.
#3
Antisemitism is illegal in many US states and a whole ton of cities and European countries. ADL and AIPAC have been busy doing good work. Boycotting Israel is illegal.
Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is antisemitism.
Blood libel like Israel is harvesting organs from executed prisoners is antisemitism. Saying dual citizens in Congress put Israel first is antisemitism.
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#5
Hating anybody is perfectly legal. Attacking (assault and battery) is always illegal, not matter who you threaten or hit. Discriminating on the basis of race, creed, colour, and sometimes s3xuality is illegal in commerce or anything done by the government.
#6
And while private businesses and individuals are perfectly able to boycott Israel, about half the state governments in America are forbidden from signing contracts with companies that do so.
So as long as your company does not do work for the government in those states, boycott Israel as much as you want, even though it’s a stupid choice.
[Campus Reform ht Insty] The Department of Justice recently announced an unsealed indictment against UW-Stevens Point athlete Paige Ostroushko and her parents, Chris and DeYanna.
Antifa, family style? In the old days they used to call them Red Diaper Babies.
The family was recently caught on camera appearing to assault TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez during an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota.
Campus Reform reported on the April 11 incident, which saw Ostroushko repeatedly striking and shoving Hernandez to the ground during an anti-ICE demonstration in Minnesota. Ostroushko portrayed herself as the victim in the aftermath, claiming in a subsequent video posted to social media that she was “f***ing assaulted by a f***ing piece of s*** Turning Point b****.”
Ostroushko’s boyfriend, Lorenzo Garcia, was also arrested during the fray for obstructing law enforcement officers attempting to arrest her, Campus Reform reported.
Additionally, Garcia launched a GoFundMe just days before the brawl asking for donations for his family after his father was deported to Mexico for being in the country illegally.
KSTP ABC reports that a few days earlier, Ms Hernandez sued the family for civil battery and assault, requesting damages in the amount of $75,000 plus attorney’s fees. The fools should have settled quickly.
[PhiladelphiaInquirer] The justice from Allegheny County said he was no longer registered with any political party.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced Monday that he was leaving the Democratic Party, citing "acquiescence to Jew-hatred."
Wecht, 63, has been a member of the court’s liberal 5-2 majority and was retained for a second 10-year term in November in an election that Democratic donors — and the Democratic Party — spent millions on.
He said he was no longer registered with any political party.
The justice from Allegheny County said in a statement that his former party had changed since he was the Pennsylvania Democratic Party’s vice chair 25 years ago. When a gunman in 2018 targeted Jewish worshipers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, where Wecht married, the assailant was motivated by right-wing ideology, the justice’s statement said. But in the year since, "that same hatred has grown on the left."
"Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled," Wecht said. "Acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders, and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party. I can no longer abide this."
(The "Nazi tattoos" reference appears to be about Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Maine, whose SS skull-and-crossbones symbol tattoo prompted media scrutiny last year. He said he got the tattoo while in Croatia with the military and did not know it was a Nazi symbol.)
Wecht’s chamber did not make him available Monday, and only said the change followed "many recent events, across the nation." Eugene DePasquale, the chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat whose future party affiliation has been a topic of media reports in recent days, said in a post on X that "the Democratic Party must confront its own rising antisemitism problem."
"As I’ve affirmed, I’m not changing my party — but I fully understand David’s personal choice," Fetterman said.
In Pennsylvania, judges and justices run in their first election as part of a political party. But they shed that party affiliation in future elections, called retention elections. Retention elections are nonpartisan — and until last year — were largely sleepy affairs.
But in 2025, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party and other Democrat-aligned groups spent more than $14 million to retain Wecht and two other justices who had been elected as Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... , as Republicans attempted to unseat the trio in hopes of reshaping the court.
Wecht won retention for a second 10-year term with 60% of the vote in November.
Before joining the Supreme Court in 2016, Wecht served for four years as a Superior Court judge, and for nearly a decade as an Allegheny Common Pleas Court judge.
During his tenure on the Supreme Court, the justice was part of the liberal majority in voting rights, environmental, and criminal justice reform cases, among others. In 2024, Wecht signaled he believed the Pennsylvania Constitution guarantees a right to child sacrifice abortion access.
After his 10-year term, Wecht will be eligible to run again for retention a couple of years before he reaches 75, Pennsylvania’s mandatory retirement age for judges.
Wecht vowed to "vindicate the legal rights that haters and bully boyz of all stripes enjoy," and celebrated the liberties and freedoms that make the United States the "greatest civilization that the world has ever seen."
"There have been other great civilizations in the past," the judge said, "and almost all of them have deteriorated and declined when Jew-hatred grew and metastasized."
#1
So he FINALLY objected to the National socialist Democrat LONG known and practiced Anti-Jewish / Racist agenda.
What about the rest of the Democrap agenda?
Will he continue to rule based on their other agenda items, or can he NOW be suddenly trusted to rule based on the CONSTITUTION & actual law?
[FoxNews] mThe U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it refused to back an International Migration Review Forum "progress" declaration, accusing the U.N. of efforts to "advocate and facilitate replacement immigration in the United States and across the broader West."
The U.S. did not participate in the second International Migration Review Forum, held May 5–8 at U.N. Headquarters in New York, and will not support the declaration, the department said in a statement on Monday.
The forum is the U.N.’s main global platform for member states to review implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, according to the U.N. Network on Migration. The 2026 forum was scheduled to produce an intergovernmentally agreed "Progress Declaration."
President Donald Trump ended U.S. participation in the U.N. process to develop the Global Compact for Migration during his first term in 2017, and now the State Department says the federal government will again affirm its opposition.
#4
Mass migration: wrong for Israel but OK for USA. The mass deportations haven't happened by now. Face it: the white America you grew up in is gone and never coming back. Because you didn't FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
Israel is doing fantastically well, though.
#7
*shrug* My community was very mixed — academics are from all over the world. But they all knew the thing my father, who had lived on three continents, said to me when Mr. Wife was about to move the trailing daughters and me abroad: “Why would you live anywhere else? Don't you know that America is the best place in the world to live?”
[IsraelTimes] After confirming entry refusal, Diaspora affairs minister says, ‘Whoever comes here with the goal of sowing hatred can go back where they came from’
Israel blocked the entry of a notoriously antisemitic social media personality on Monday, stopping him at Ben Gurion Airport and deporting him back to the United States.
Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said that Tyler Oliveira, who posted a series of videos earlier this year about Jews "invading" communities in New York and New Jersey, was not allowed entry into Israel.
Chikli told the Channel 14 TV station that "the party is over. Whoever comes here with the goal of sowing hatred can go back where they came from. The rule is clear: Whoever incites against us simply won’t be here."
Oliveira, a controversial YouTube personality with millions of followers, was spotted on Sunday boarding an El Al flight to Tel Aviv. Many social media users expressed concern about his planned activity in Israel, considering his past videos.
Last month, Oliveira posted on X: "You guys think Israel will let me into the country?" On Monday, Chikli quoted the post and added a one-word response: "No."
Laura Loomer, a right-wing online provocateur and conspiracy theorist, posted on X that Chikli told her: "I’m proud to have denied entry to Israel today to an unfortunate YouTuber who is using the harassment of Jews as a way to get clout on social media. Furthermore, let this be a lesson to all Jew-haters and supporters of BDS."
A series of videos Oliveira posted online earlier this year purported to expose the "Jewish invasion" of towns in the US as well as communities controlled by "welfare-addicted Jews," gaining millions of views online. Through loaded narration, ominous editing, and repeated references to ethnic separatism, Oliveira amplified antisemitic tropes while casting Orthodox Jewish communities as fraudulent drains on public resources and asking some residents why they don’t "go back to Israel."
Oliveira, who has more than 9.3 million YouTube subscribers, first gained virality in 2018 through a collaboration with prominent YouTuber Mr. Beast and later built a following based on stunt and challenge videos. In recent years, his channel has shifted to what he calls "investigations," in which he visits communities — from Thailand to Flint, Michigan — to produce exposé-style content. Sometimes, the videos probe alleged fraud; other times, they ridicule the people he encounters.
When he was booted from the Patreon platform following the videos, Oliveira was defended by notorious antisemite and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, who wrote: "They actually believe that the rules just shouldn’t apply to Jewish people. The double standard couldn’t be clearer."
Last week, Oliveira appeared on the podcast of Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who has emerged as one of the most prominent anti-Israel voices in right-wing media.
During their conversation, Oliveira told Carlson that the "entire lifestyle" of Jews in heavily Orthodox towns he visited "is designed to extract and exploit these welfare systems to the maximum degree. It is strategic. It is not happenstance. It is not coincidental. It is by design."
Speaking about the backlash he received to the videos, Oliveira told Carlson that "seemingly, there are a lot of powerful Jewish people who own significant media enterprises, websites that seem to bend the knee at least to what they view to be antisemitic dialogue."
Carlson himself briefly entered Israel in February for an interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, amid a feud between the two, although he chose to not leave Ben Gurion Airport before returning home. Israel had reportedly considered barring his entry, but decided against such a move so as not to cause a diplomatic incident, considering his status.
In recent years, Israel has repeatedly blocked entry to those it deemed to be visiting in order to spread anti-Israel sentiment, including a number of foreign politicians from both the US and Europe.
Speaking of vile little social influencers, dear Reader, did you catch who suddenly announced he’s a Democrat not long ago? Check it out:
Nick Fuentes confirms he is a now a moderate Democrat, calls for President Trump to be impeached, and wants the GOP to be destroyed.
Fuentes has been attacking Trump since 2016 and has admitted he never cared about immigration, and his sole litmus test is hatred of Israel. pic.twitter.com/e1cuuLaCEl
#1
She's the one who cut the fishing line around NYC, a hate crime. She caused every Jew who operated a mechanical device that day to break Jewish law. This is like slipping pork into the lunch at a children's yeshiva. Or tipping bullets with pork fat and going on a school shooting spree.
Sick, sick people.
#3
That rope around Jewish neighbourhoods thingy is a rule of the ultra-Orthodox Jews only. Most of us don’t worry about such things — I only learnt about it a few years ago
[IsraelTimes] Soldier seen in picture given 3 weeks, photographer given 2 weeks; army says it ‘respects freedom of religion’ after several incidents involving soldiers in Christian village Debel.
[IsraelTimes] Former Likud MK Steinitz says ‘only several dozen’ Iranian missiles got past air defenses, doesn’t provide figures on current interceptor stockpiles or production rates
[IsraelTimes] Shmuel Zakai laments Israel’s airport is now a ‘US military base’; warns of higher fares, lower availability because the American planes are taking up all the parking spots
The significant presence of US military aircraft at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport is preventing a full return to normal commercial flight operations at Israel’s main international gateway, while also driving up operational costs for local airlines — expenses that aviation and industry officials warn will ultimately be passed on to travelers.
Amid continued regional tensions with Iran, Civil Aviation Authority head Shmuel Zakai warned defense and government officials that turning Ben Gurion Airport into a "US military base with limited commercial aircraft operations" is threatening the return of foreign airlines and harming the economic stability of Israeli airlines — a situation that is bound to lead to an increase in already-high airfares — according to a letter obtained by Israeli financial daily Calcalist.
In the letter, Zakai urged Transportation Minister Miri Regev, who is also a member of the security cabinet, to take action to evacuate some US military planes from Ben Gurion and move them to military airbases to free up parking space for commercial planes.
"It appears the defense establishment lacks sufficient understanding of the severity of the damage to civil aviation and the effect flight supply has on prices and on all citizens in the country," Zakai wrote.
The Transportation Ministry was not available for comment when contacted by The Times of Israel.
The warning comes more than a month after a volatile US-Israel ceasefire with 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... came into effect and the country’s airspace was fully reopened. While Israeli airlines have been working to speed up the resumption of flight operations, most European airlines have continued their suspension of all flight services to and from Israel into May, and US carriers have pushed back their return to as far as September.
The delay in the return of foreign airlines is already reducing the supply of available flights and pushing up ticket prices in the runup to the peak summer season.
Ahead of the US-Israel war with Iran, which broke out on February 28 and led to the closure of Israeli airspace, local airlines moved their fleets out of the country to prevent them from being targeted by the Islamic Theocratic Republic. Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... American refueling tankers arrived at Ben Gurion Airport as part of the US’s massive buildup of military forces in the Middle East.
At least 14 US refuelers have been deployed at Ben Gurion. In addition, another fleet of American refuelers and cargo planes is parked at Ovda Airbase in southern Israel.
Since the ceasefire announcement in early April and the reopening of Ben Gurion to normal civilian air traffic, local airlines — El Al, Arkia, and Israir — have not been able to bring back their entire fleet to the airport because of parking congestion caused by the presence of the US refueling tankers.
Speaking at a session of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee on Sunday, Israir CEO Uri Sirkis said the situation is making operations more expensive because of parking costs at airports outside of the country and is limiting the number of flights Israeli airlines can operate.
"We are currently allowed to have four overnight parking spaces at Ben Gurion airport because of the US planes and we were supposed to keep 17 planes in Israel," said Sirkis. "This has a critical impact on our overall ability to operate flights."
Sirkis explained that the situation affects the cost and logistical ability of operating, especially early-morning flights.
"If we have a scheduled a flight taking off from Tel Aviv to Rome at 5 a.m. and we don’t have an overnight parking space at Ben Gurion Airport, we need to park the plane in Rome, and carry out the schedule in reverse, meaning we need to take off from Rome to Tel Aviv," Sirkis said.
Similarly, El Al has been forced to park some planes at nearby destinations in Greece and Cyprus on Fridays before Shabbat to keep the aircraft close enough to return to Ben Gurion Airport after Shabbat for long-haul Saturday-night departures to the US and Far East.
"There are still American planes that occupy parking spaces at Ben Gurion Airport," said Shlomi Zafrany, El Al’s vice president for commercial and international relations. "There are operational and economic implications if an Israeli airline that has its base in Israel needs to operate from bases abroad, without any coordination with foreign authorities, and without matching slots."
#4
There's only x amount of spots at every airport in the world - especially for wide bodies. Add in that you want to keep the foreign military aircraft a little separate for ground security and you eat up territory in a hurry. Add in all the Atlas and other civilian cargo aircraft transiting bringing in supplies / equipment and your get ramp saturation in a hurry.
If just one aircraft has a maintenance issue during transit and the crew has to RON you've blocked as spot for 12-14 hours crew rest (unless you have spare crews). If you planned 3 hour turns in that position you just made 4 aircraft hold upline waiting for parking to become available. Happened all the time at Kandahar, Bagram, etc.
JUST IN—Hezbollah terrorists are now resorting to pathetic psy-op prank robocalls in Hebrew to residents of Kiryat Shmona, threatening civilians and trying to spread fear.
The recorded message says: “Hello. Look to the city gates. We want to meet you. This city is ours. This is… pic.twitter.com/TwP80GBEgp
JUST IN—Hezbollah terrorists are now resorting to pathetic psy-op prank robocalls in Hebrew to residents of Kiryat Shmona, threatening civilians and trying to spread fear.
The recorded message says: “Hello. Look to the city gates. We want to meet you. This city is ours. This is a warning. Evacuate the city while you can still decide for yourself. When we arrive, we will decide whether you will leave or be killed. Also know that we do not want to raise dogs.”
Imagine being so desperate and delusional that you think threatening innocent civilians with prerecorded calls makes you look strong.
Terrorists mistake intimidation for victory every single time
The Moslems will give up the Kaaba before the Jews give up Israel. Fortunately, the Iran alliance has conclusively demonstrated that it lacks the ability to drive the Jews out.
[IsraelTimes] US president says he’s considering renewing operation to escort ships through Hormuz, as Netanyahu convenes security cabinet and Iran calls US ‘greatest threat’ to world peace
[RedState] Peace talks between the United States and Iran have crashed and burned like an Iranian F-14 that just ran across the gunsights of an American F-22. The Iranian regime seems to be stuck on the same line in the sand that President Trump won't back down on, and that's their nuclear program, despite the president's earlier optimistic tone on that condition.
The apparent collapse of high-stakes U.S.-Iran negotiations has intensified fears that senior figures inside Tehran’s leadership could flee to Russia, seeking refuge to "continue their insurgency and undermine any new regime," an analyst warns.
The breakdown in talks comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also told CBS’ "60 Minutes" that toppling Iran’s regime could now even be a realistic outcome.
Netanyahu noted that any collapse would dismantle the "scaffolding" of Tehran's global terror proxy network, also potentially ending Hezbollah's influence in the region.
"The whole scaffolding of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses if the regime in Iran collapses," Netanyahu said.
#4
Will Russia even take them? If yes, what happens when Putin is no longer in power?
I don't see very many reasons for Russia to harbor a bunch of fanatical Muslims, who may not have any money due to the seizing of their assets outside of Iran. Russia has had and may still have their own problems with fanatical Muslims.
At some Putin will no longer be in power. Depending on his replacement, the IRGC leadership could be arrested and extradited back to Iran or somewhere else to face charges as a bargaining chip for something that benefits Russia.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..always the voice of sweet reason...
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...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 
