[PJMedia] The prevailing narrative from entertainment, academia, and other creative spheres is that Israel is the villain of all villains. And one of the words we see most often is "genocide."
A massive contingent of creative and political figures has lent their names to an open letter calling out the narrative. The letter is the brainchild of the Creative Community for Peace, and it begins, "We the undersigned are outraged and sickened by the latest blood libel to be inflicted on the Jewish people: the lie that Israel committed ’genocide’ 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... . We reject this accusation with contempt."
"Central to the letter is the meaning of the word 'genocide' itself. Under the 1948 Genocide Convention, genocide requires 'specific intent' to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group," the accompanying blurb explains. "This is an exceptionally demanding legal standard that goes beyond knowledge that civilian deaths, widespread destruction or even the destruction of part of a group may result. It requires an intent to bring about the group’s destruction as such. The signatories argue that applying the term to Israel without regard for that standard has turned one of international law’s gravest concepts into a political accusation."
The letter has over 5,000 signatories, and they come from all political persuasions, religious traditions, and nationalities. The blurb gives a sampling:
Among the political and public-policy figures signing the letter are former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....> ; former Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General Irwin Cotler; former UK Cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi; former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie; former senior U.S. diplomat Elliott Abrams; and former White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jason Furman. They are joined by prominent scholars, historians and intellectuals, including Harvard professor Steven Pinker; historian Benny Morris; historian Sir Niall Ferguson; Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, University Distinguished Professor at Emory University and former U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism; former Yad Vashem Chief Historian Dina Porat; Yossi Klein Halevi, Author and Senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute; Brandeis University Professor Emeritus Jonathan D. Sarna; historian Simon Sebag Montefiore; historians Jeffrey Herf and Norman Goda; UCLA professor Judea Pearl; author Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Binghamton University Jonathan Karp; and urban-warfare expert John Spencer.
And there's more:
The letter also includes leading figures from film, television, music and media, among them Haim Saban; former Paramount Global Chair Shari Redstone; former Paramount Pictures CEO Sherry Lansing; Spyglass Media Group Chairman and CEO Gary Barber; Tribeca Enterprises co-founder Jane Rosenthal; producers Lawrence Bender and Susan Rovner; Fernando Szew, Head of Studio, Fox Entertainment Studios; Propagate Content executives Ben Silverman and Howard Owens; entertainment attorney and investor Kevin Yorn; Sharon Osbourne; actors Debra Messing, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anthony Edwards, Mayim Bialik, Dame Maureen Lipman, Patricia Heaton and Jerry O’Connell; Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator Amy Sherman-Palladino; House creator David Shore; authors Dara Horn and Howard Jacobson; and music industry heavyweights Julie Greenwald, Bob Ezrin, John Ondrasik, David Draiman, Boy George, Paul Kemsely, and Billy Mann.
"Those who accuse Israel of genocide, a very specific crime with a legally specific definition, are fulfilling the dictum attributed to the Nazi propagandist, Josef Goebbels. ’If you tell a lie and keep repeating it enough, people will eventually come to believe it,’" said retired Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt. "By October 10 [2023], accusations of genocide were common, even before Israel set foot in Gaza. Then it was krazed killer voices who made this charge. Now, people have come to believe the lie and to mindlessly repeat it."
It’s frightening to see the antisemitism and anti-Israel rhetoric that stems from these lies of Israeli genocide, especially as we’re seeing it creeping in on the right. So it’s a major encouragement to see such a large swath of public figures standing up against the lies and their consequences. Read the letter and see the full list of names here.
Iran-backed Houthis spent months converting northern Yemen's entire civilian infrastructure into a conscription apparatus. The force they built is for a war no one is planning for yet.
Conscripted Arabs Yemenis? They’ll be useful for gun s3x, looting, and a spot of r4pe, but not much more, surely.
by Fatima Abo Alasrar
[IdeologyMachine] On March 6, 2026, as American and Israeli strikes hit Iran for the seventh consecutive day, thousands of Yemenis filled Saba’in Square in Sana’a. They waved Iranian flags. They chanted “Allahu Akbar Khomeini Rahbar” in Persian. Al Masirah broadcast it with Persian subtitles. The hashtags on screen read “With Iran and Lebanon.” Pictures of Khamenei were held aloft alongside slogans promising retaliation. The language was unmistakable: military escalation was coming.
But this was exactly the posture of the weeks before the war, when Houthi leaders promised to turn the Red Sea into death for the enemies of God. Abd al-Malik al-Houthi had called them into the streets. He had mobilized them through the same channels that had been running for months: the mosques, the tribal networks, the mobilization offices embedded in every governorate. One week into a war that killed their patron’s supreme leader, the Houthis had not fired a single missile. They had organized a rally.
That’s why the IRGC sent in their own officers in the end.
A war that has killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, devastated Iranian military infrastructure, and drawn Hezbollah and Iraqi militias into direct combat with Israel and the United States. The Houthis have responded with protests, speeches, and declarations of “complete solidarity.” Abd al-Malik al-Houthi says his forces have their “fingers on the trigger, ready to respond at any moment.” Today he went further, pledging to join the fight outright.
But whether and when the Houthis fire their next missile is not the point of this piece. The point is what they have been building on the ground, in the open, for months, while the world’s attention was fixed on missiles and shipping lanes.
[BB] Non-Germans are massively over-represented among suspects in murder and manslaughter crimes in the German state of Bavaria, police data uncovered by the AfD has found.
Murder and manslaughter are on the rise in Bavaria, the conservative south-eastern German state, and new police statistics suggest the state’s comparatively small but growing migrant population is a contributing factor.
According to the data acquired by the immigration-sceptic Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, there were 405 cases of murder and manslaughter in the state in 2025, up ten per cent from the 366 recorded in 2024.
Of the 466 suspects identified for those crimes in 2025, only 246 held German citizenship, despite German citizens being the overwhelming majority of residents in the state.
Of the 466 suspects identified for those crimes in 2025, only 246 held German citizenship, despite German citizens being the overwhelming majority of residents in the state.
A total of 220 suspects were said to hold foreign citizenship, representing over 47 per cent of suspects, up from 42 per cent the year before. The figures suggest — given 18 per cent of people in Bavaria are non-German citizens — foreigners are considerably more likely to be suspected of murders and manslaughter than German passport holders.
Die Welt reports that the largest single group of suspected killers in 2025 cases were Romanians, followed by Syrians, Turks, and Afghans.
The AfD party responded to the data to recall again their election promise of deporting foreign criminals, and demanded police improve data recording in futrue, as they note now dual citizenship is legal in Germany, at least some of those ‘German’ citizens in the statistics may also be dual-citizenship-holding foreigners.
Party leader Alice Weidel remarked: “This is completely unacceptable. We finally need a deportation offensive. A migration turnaround is only possible with the AfD!”
These figures are just the latest in a series acquired by the AfD, whose Parliamentarians use their rights to demand information from the federal and state governments that the regular public wouldn’t otherwise have access to. In August, a similar data request by an AfD lawmaker revealed that 104 extremists “considered a threat to public safety” living in Germany are dual citizens, with Turkish-German dual nationals the single largest group, followed by Moroccan-Germans.
In November, it was revealed that 130 migrants who were supposed to have been deported had gone on to be accused of homicide in 2024, underlining the enormously grave consequences of ineffective border control.
[PJMedia] So Sweden elected a conservative prime minister four years ago who promised to send criminal migrants colonists back to their home countries, and you'll never believe what happened next.
Violent crime went down. Way down. Particularly gang violence, according to a new report out this week.
When he campaigned for the PM spot in 2022, Ulf Kristersson — then a member of the Swedish parliament or riksdag — said of violent mostly peaceful acts: "If you commit such crimes in Sweden and are not a Swedish citizen, you should be thrown out of the country."
Crime, La Monde reported at the time, was "at the heart of Sweden's electoral campaign."
By the summer of '22, escalating gang shootings and even bombings were commonplace in what had once been a country better known for spas than jihads. In total, Sweden suffered 361 shootings, 62 shooting deaths, and 90 bombings. The problem with migrant gangs escalated so quickly that Swedish authorities didn't bother to record bombings until 2018.
By the last election, even the governing soft-on-crime Social 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... promised tougher measures, but that wasn't enough to stop Kristersson from putting together a coalition big enough to oust the SD.
Kristersson wasn't kidding about getting tough against thugs. Since becoming PM, Sweden has joined NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and, between 2023 and 2025, deported more than 31,000 migrants colonists. His government "pursued a combination of tougher criminal penalties, additional police funding, expanded wiretapping authority and changes intended to prevent organized criminal groups from recruiting young people," YourNews reported on Tuesday. "Among those measures was a reduction in the age of criminal responsibility to 14, aimed in part at disrupting gangs’ use of teenagers in violent mostly peaceful conflicts."
Stockholm doesn't break out the individual stats, but the most likely recipients of one-way tickets out are believed to be Syrians and Afghans.
As it turns out — and again, you won't be shocked by this — sending foreign criminals home is just as effective as locking up homegrown thugs. But the numbers must be seen to be believed.
Shootings are down "by 80 per cent since their 2022 peak," the Financial Times reported on Monday, and Kristersson reduced "the number of asylum seekers to its lowest in four decades."
It was apparently a huge deal earlier this year when one Swedish paper reported "No shootings in May."
"The fact that you have headlines saying no shootings at all this month: it says something," Kristersson told the FT.
Oddly enough, bombings spiked in 2025, and the trend doesn't look much better for 2026. If I had to hazard a guess, the more hardcore elements are the most difficult to find and deport, and also the most likely to use extreme measures like bombs. And sure enough, FT reported that "Rawa Majid, a criminal known as the Kurdish Fox, who heads the most notorious gang, Foxtrot — remains free and is presumed to be living 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... after stays in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and Iraq."
Still, Sweden holds another national election on Sunday, and the Social Democrats could very well take power again. "There’s a lot of discussion about the Winston Churchill effect," Mattias Karlsson, the nationalist Sweden Democrats' chief ideologue, said.
Having all but won the war, will Swedish voters reject the man who got them this far?
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.....and you'll never believe what happened next. Violent crime went down. Way down. Particularly gang violence, according to a new report out this week.
Yes, I 'would' believe it. Sweden appears to be unwilling to permit foreign renegades to destroy their homogenous culture.
Could there possibly be something to be learned her ?
[PJMedia] Tuesday brought about sanctions and retaliation, not regarding the U.S./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... conflict, but from the antisemites in Europe: politicians who seek to affect the upcoming Israeli elections, as well as get votes from Jew-haters in their own country.
Claiming that "there is ethnic cleansing of Paleostinians in the West Bank," the foreign ministers of Britannia and La Belle France led the countries of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden in issuing a joint statement against Israel, announcing they plan to impose restrictions on trade with "settlements defined as illegal under international law."
Despite this being Israeli land, despite the reality that there has never even been such a thing as "a nation of Paleostine or Paleostinians historically, despite the simple truth that the Paleostinian cause was created in 1964, and despite the actualities of "international law" that clearly define Judea-Samaria as part of Israel, these 12 countries are attacking the economy of Israel for purely political reasons. The foreign ministry of 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... speedily made its own announcement of support for the sanctions against Israel, another reminder that Qatar is not a friend of Israel nor the U.S.
The response from Israel was quick, clear, and unified.
Israel’s primary leverage to combat these sanctions lies in licensed dual-use and defense technology already embedded in European military inventories, including electro-optical and infrared sensors, ISR and targeting pods, counter-drone systems, electronic warfare equipment, missile-defense software and spare parts. Restrictions in these areas would therefore represent a more consequential form of Israeli retaliation than diplomatic measures alone.
Israel's Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs stated that "the territories of Judea and Samaria are the cradle of the history of the people of Israel, long before the English became a people." He added: "The purpose of the British struggle to stop construction in E1 in the area connecting Jerusalem to Ma'ale Adummim is to establish a Paleostinian state, which the vast majority of Israeli citizens have opposed since October 7." According to Israeli Minister Gideon Sa’ar, "the Labor government's move is particularly absurd given that more than 100 years ago, the Balfour Declaration officially recognized the historical right of the Jewish people to establish their home in the Land of Israel, including in Judea and Samaria. This was included in the British Mandate. The decision constitutes interference in the electoral system of a sovereign state."
Sa'ar went on to announce retaliatory measures against Britannia following its decision to impose sanctions on Judea-Samaria settlements, including closing the British Consulate in Jerusalem; expelling British representatives from 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... coordination headquarters in Kiryat Gat; halting British training of Paleostinian Authority forces in Ramallah; and preventing entry into Israel of 12 British public officials involved in antisemitic and anti-Israel activity. Sa'ar added that Israel will take retaliatory measures against other countries as well.
Rooters is reporting that as of Wednesday morning, British representatives were told by Israel that within 30 days they must leave and close the British consulate in Jerusalem, which has operated for over 125 years.
Israel’s primary leverage to combat these sanctions lies in licensed dual-use and defense technology already embedded in European military inventories, including electro-optical and infrared sensors, ISR and targeting pods, counter-drone systems, electronic warfare equipment, missile-defense software and spare parts. Britannia’s Sky Sabre air-defense command software is built on Rafael architecture, Challenger 3 tanks use Rafael’s Trophy protection system, and Elbit supplies night-vision and surveillance equipment. Finland, which joined Tuesday’s statement, is also a David’s Sling customer. Restrictions in these areas would therefore represent a more consequential form of Israeli retaliation than diplomatic measures alone.
[NYP]
Comedian and talk-show host Bill Maher tore into media groups Friday night over efforts to restrict use of the word “terrorism” — even for brazen attacks designed to kill and maim people.
“There was a war on terror, and we won. And yet, so much has changed since 9/11. For example, back then, we were against the terrorists,” he said on his “Real Time With Bill Maher” show on HBO, which aired Sept. 11.
That opened up a series of comments mocking the media for how it sets language ground rules on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks that took the lives of 2,977 people.
“Now a lot of media outlets don’t even want you to say the ‘T-word’ on the 25th anniversary,” Maher said, pointing to journalism associations that he said wanted writers to put the word terrorism in quotes “because it’s emotionally and politically loaded.”
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.
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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 
