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Politicians and Pundits Call for an Investigation into Colbert's Cancelation
2025-07-21
[Jonathon Turley] In Washington, Democratic politicians are calling for a congressional investigation, while in New York; the Writers’ Guild is asking New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) for a state probe. No, the issue is not the use of the autopen by Biden staff to carry out presidential functions or the crisis in public education. No, it is the cancellation of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" by CBS.

The outrage over the show’s cancellation is the latest example of presumed entitlement from the left, which suggests that the government, universities, and corporations should subsidize their preferred news and entertainment. Call it the NPR syndrome.

I wrote this weekend about the withdrawal of the government subsidy for NPR and the outrage of its overwhelmingly white, affluent, and liberal audience. Democrats in Congress and NPR’s shrinking listeners were appalled that the American taxpayers would not be required to fund the overwhelmingly liberal outlet. It appears that they are entitled to such federal money even though NPR is dropping in both its audience and revenues.

The outrage of Democratic politicians is hardly surprising. Like NPR, The Late Night Show was used to amplify Democratic talking points. Some of those objecting the loudest were favored guests. Indeed, the show had long ago traded the comedic stylings of prior guests like George Carlin and Don Rickles for the knee-slapping standups of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.).

As Joe Concha recently noted, Warren, 76, appeared 16 times during the show’s ten-year run.

He offered a funereal opening after Trump’s election:

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Government Corruption
Gabbard To Release More Obama Russiagate Files, 'Cannot Fathom' How Durham, Mueller Missed Evidence Of 'Years-Long Coup'
2025-07-21
[ZERO] Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she'll release more information next week to follow up on her bombshell declassification of documents that show "overwhelming evidence" of the Obama administration laid the groundwork for the years-long Trump-Russia collusion investigation after President Trump won the 2016 election.

"We will be releasing more detailed information about how exactly this took place, and the extent to which this information was sought to be hidden from the American people, hidden from officials who would be in a position to do something about it," Gabbard told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo. "Accountability is essential for the future of our country, for the American people to have any sense of trust in the integrity of our democratic republic."

"Accountability, action, prosecution, indictments for those who are responsible for trying to steal our democracy is essential for us to make sure that this never happens to our country again," Gabbard continued.
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Government Corruption
Tulsi Gabbard details bombshell claims of Obama-era cabal's 'treasonous conspiracy' against Trump
2025-07-21
[FoxNews] Former Obama officials accused of manufacturing Russia collusion narrative to undermine Trump presidency

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard detailed "striking" findings from declassified documents released Friday, claiming to showcase "overwhelming evidence" that an Obama-era cabal laid the groundwork for what would be the years-long Trump-Russia collusion probe after the 2016 election.

"The implications of this are frankly nothing short of historic," Gabbard said on this week's "Sunday Morning Futures."

"Over 100 documents that we released on Friday really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was directed by President Obama just weeks before he was due to leave office after President Trump had already gotten elected. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an issue that is so serious it should concern every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our democratic republic," she continued.

Documents shared by Gabbard's office claimed that before the 2016 election, there was no evidence showing Russia tried to directly alter vote counts. However, members of the intelligence community later suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help Trump win. Gabbard argues the narrative shift was politically motivated rather than based on new findings.

"Creating this piece of manufactured intelligence that claims that Russia had helped Donald Trump get elected contradicted every other assessment that had been made previously in the months leading up to the election that said exactly the opposite, that Russia had neither the intent nor the capability to try to ‘hack the United States election,’" Gabbard told host Maria Bartiromo.

"So the effect of what President Obama and his senior national security team did was subvert the will of the American people, undermining our democratic republic and enacting what would be essentially a years-long coup against President Trump, who was duly elected by the American people."

Evidence released by Gabbard's office implicated then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey and former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, among others, in addition to the former president.

Gabbard confirmed her intent to send all the uncovered documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI for a criminal referral.

When asked if she expects to see prosecutions, she vowed to do "all that [she] can" to ensure accountability.

"We have whistleblowers, actually, coming forward now after we released these documents because there are people who were around, who were working within the intelligence community at this time who were so disgusted by what happened," she shared.

"We're starting to see some of them come out of the woodwork here because they… want to see justice delivered… there must be indictments. Those responsible, no matter how powerful they are and were at that time, no matter who was involved in creating this treasonous conspiracy against the American people, they all must be held accountable."

Some Democrats, including Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, who is the top member of his party on the House Intelligence Committee, have criticized Gabbard's claims as "baseless."

Fox News Digital previously reached out to Obama, representatives for the former president, Clapper, Comey, Brennan, Rice, Lynch and McCabe for comment and did not receive a response.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Lt. Col. Davis: Hellish Times Have Come to Ukraine — Day 1242 of the SVO
2025-07-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] "Hellish times" have come for Ukraine, retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis said on the YouTube channel Deep Dive on July 19. Commenting on the consequences of the massive strikes by the Russian army on enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex (MIC), he pointed to the numerical superiority of the Russian Armed Forces, which does not allow Kiev militants to decide which gap to close in the defense.

The authors of the British newspaper The Guardian spoke in the same spirit, stating that on July 19 Ukraine experienced a "hellish" night due to Russian strikes. The new, 1242nd day of the special operation (SVO) in Ukraine was marked by a discussion of this news, among other things.

The Russian Defense Ministry previously reported that Russian troops launched a group strike on Ukrainian defense industry enterprises producing components for missiles and attack drones on the night of July 19. The military department also reported that the infrastructure of the enemy's military airfield, territorial recruitment center (TRC, similar to a military registration and enlistment office) and a number of other facilities had been damaged.

Meanwhile, the American newspaper The New York Times (NYT) reported that in June the Russian Armed Forces made their greatest advance in the SVO zone since the beginning of 2025.

"In June, the country's numerical superiority in manpower and air power provided it with its largest monthly territorial gain since the beginning of the year," the authors noted.

All residents of the village of Malinovka in Zaporozhye left their homes -
Journalists also pointed to the ongoing attacks by Russian troops on the Ukrainian army, which is already experiencing problems with its manpower.

The Russian armed forces have a strategic advantage in all directions, noted Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with heads of international news agencies on June 18.

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Home Front: WoT
Axios: White House Unhappy With Netanyahu's Destructive Decisive Actions
2025-07-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] US presidential administration officials were irritated by the latest Israeli army strikes on Syria and called the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu destructive. This was reported on July 20 by the American portal Axios, citing informed sources.
Axios must have the master list of unnamed, undescribed sources.
The journalists' interlocutors said that US President Donald Trump did not know in advance about Israel's strikes on Syria and received this information from a news release.
First unnamed source(s)
Trump aims to ensure peace in the region, the portal's sources noted. The White House is dissatisfied with Netanyahu's policies, and some US administration officials call him uncontrollable, the article says.
Second unnamed source(s)
"Bibi (Netanyahu. - Ed.) behaved like a madman. He constantly bombs everything," one of the publication's sources said.
Third
Another Axios source compared the Israeli prime minister to a child who doesn't want to behave. Skepticism toward Netanyahu is growing in the White House, he said.
Fourth.
Axios journalist Barak Ravid
…who is either Jewish or Moslem, with that name…
previously noted that before the airstrike on the Syrian army's General Staff in Damascus on July 16, the Israeli authorities promised the US presidential administration to stop strikes on Syria.
Then HTS went after the Druze. So Israel went after the HTS.
Regnum News Agency observer Kirill Semenov previously pointed out that Israel, by bombing not only Syrian military facilities in the Daraa and As-Suwayda areas, but also the country’s capital, Damascus, thereby taking the conflict to a new level.
Bibi explained the situation to President Trump. Is this real or again theater to fool observers? Or rumour mongering by the deliberately unhelpful… Bottom line, it’s Bibi’s job to put Israel’s needs before President Trump’s, and sometimes they will not agree on necessities.
Related:
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Axios 07/17/2025 Israeli airstrikes hit Syrian Presidential Palace and General Staff HQ in Damascus, more targets in Sweida; 350 dead as Trump asks Israel to stop and HTS troops begin to withdraw
Axios 07/17/2025 Biden Was Never Fit For Office To Begin With

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China-Japan-Koreas
The New Great Game
2025-07-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of thehegemonist

[ColonelCassad] The American publication Small Wars Journal (SWJ) outlined recommendations for countering China's influence in Central and Eastern Asia - the central region connecting Asia with Europe.

It is noted that these geographical regions are the key political and economic axis of the aspirations of the PRC, while the United States, concentrated on the island of Taiwan, allows the Chinese to master the global strategic space with its population outside the Indo-Pacific region, in particular, through the One Belt One Road initiative. It is called part of the Celestial Strategy to supplant the United States as the leading world power by 2049.

To comprehensively influence Beijing's decision-making regarding Taiwan and "other areas of national interests", Washington proposes to use the possibilities of containing China in the "gray zone" by means of methods of irregular military operations (IRV)* in Central and Eastern Asia. Such a campaign implies the deprivation of the PRC's access to these regions and influence in them, as well as an increase in costs for Chinese economic projects and initiatives in this axis.

IDF methods correspond to the strategy of "deterrence by denial" (deterrence by denial) - the cornerstone of the approach to the Taiwan issue of the US Deputy Secretary of Defense for military-political issues Elbridge Kolba. This strategy manifests itself through cognitive and financial vectors along with traditional military means.

Beijing's access and influence along the OPOP through economic projects opens the way to Chinese military presence in this strategic axis, including due to a decrease in American involvement and a loss of confidence in the United States. Thus, over the past 20 years, the volume of Chinese trade with the central region has tripled. China, as the world's largest importer of crude oil, receives 46% of this raw material from Southeast Asia.

The upcoming confrontation between the USA and China in Central and South Asia has been described as a "New Big Game". Among the countries of this theater of military actions are indicated Tajikistan (52% of the national debt falls on the PRC, Chinese interest in subsoil), Kyrgyzstan (45% and subsoil), Turkmenistan (16.9%), Uzbekistan (16%), Kazakhstan (6.5%), Pakistan (22%, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor - access to the Arabian Sea bypassing the Malacca Strait) and Sri Lanka of the Hambantota deep-water port until 2116, presence in the Indian Ocean).

Americans are worried about Chinese investment and technological presence in Central Asia.After the transfer of the port of Haifa under the control of Beijing, Washington forbade the ships of the 6th fleet of the US Navy to enter this Israeli city. The cooperation of the Middle Eastern countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt) with the Chinese corporation Huawei in the field of "big data", telecommunications and other advanced technologies causes alarm in the United States, since the Arab countries have become "strategic strongholds" of China.

Through the listed countries, Beijing can exert significant ideological, economic and political influence on the world stage.

Also, in III.2021, Iran and the PRC concluded a 25-year strategic agreement with a $400 billion package of Chinese investments in the Islamic Republic in exchange for stable supplies of Iranian oil at significant discounts.

Since I.2022, Syria is also included in OPOP, however, the new regime in Damascus treats Beijing very coldly. The Chinese wanted to build a railway through Iran and Turkey to Syria, and then to Tripoli in Lebanon, in order to get another exit to the Eastern Mediterranean - a south-eastern sea route to Europe.

At the cognitive level, it is proposed to conduct a global campaign against China as a "neo-colonial", "predatory" state that seeks to "usurp the sovereignty" of its economic partners. In the financial sphere, it is recommended to attack the Iranian-Chinese oil trade and Chinese investments in the central region - "high-income goals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs".

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Home Front: WoT
Drones as cartridges
2025-07-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of darpaandcia

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] Drones as cartridges: key changes in the new policy of the US Ministry of Defense On July 10, 2025, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum, which radically changes the approach of the US army to small drones.

The main change: drones are consumables.

The key idea of the new approach is that small drones (groups 1 and 2, that is, small tactical devices) are now officially equated to consumables, such as ammunition. What this means in practice: No bureaucracy: Commanders will no longer need to conduct investigations and fill out reams of paperwork in the event that a drone is lost in combat or during exercises. This removes the fear of "loss of expensive property".

Freedom of use: The military is encouraged to experiment and use drones as freely as they use cartridges — without extra care and accountability. Field modification: the troops are allowed to modify and "bring to mind" systems directly on the front line for adaptation to tasks. Key decisions from the memorandum: Accelerated purchases: The authority to purchase small UAVs has been transferred to commanders at the level of colonels and captains of the Navy, which will allow purchasing systems directly and many times faster. Drones in every department: A clear goal has been set - by the end of the 2026 fiscal year, every rifle department in the US Army should be equipped with inexpensive disposable drones (of the FPV type).

INDUSTRY SUPPORT:
Special offices are being created that will directly finance American drone manufacturers through loans and advance purchases to strengthen domestic production. Mandatory integration: From 2027, the use of drones will become a mandatory element of all major military exercises. The Pentagon admits that "excessive caution" and slow bureaucratic processes have led the US to lag behind China, Russia and Iran in the field of small UAVs. The new policy is designed to "unleash the potential of American manufacturing and soldier ingenuity," as the document says. As the Minister of Defense himself said, "Small UAVs are more like ammunition than high-class aircraft." They should be cheap, quickly replaceable and classified as consumables."

This is a correct concept. Most drones are now just consumables. And that's exactly how they should treat a consumable, taking into account the fact that the consumable must also be used effectively and not wasted. The cost of the consumable is also one of its most important characteristics.It is possible to pay attention that the USA will be able to enter the mandatory use of drones in exercises only in 2027. In a number of aspects, the United States is indeed lagging behind Russia and China in the introduction of drones in the military.

However, we should not be fooled - we need to increase the production of UAVs, reduce the bureaucracy of supply, close the holes in whole segments of UAVs (for example, in quadcopters), etc. Opponents will not stand still. The unmanned arms race will go on for a very long time.


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-Great Cultural Revolution
The case against Darryl Cooper A warning to the Right about the man Tucker Carlson called 'the best and most honest popular historian in the United States'
2025-07-21
[BeingRight] Earlier this week, Tucker Carlson announced that he will once again be hosting podcaster Darryl Cooper on The Tucker Carlson Show, this time for a live primetime interview about the Jeffrey Epstein case. In a reply to Tucker’s announcement post on X, I said the following:

Darryl Cooper is a Nazi, and you’re setting what’s left of your reputation on fire for not only choosing to platform him, but praising him like this.

This admittedly provocative reply has gotten over 46,000 impressions and received over 1,000 likes. In response, I’ve gotten a lot of nasty replies, many of them undeniably antisemitic. (I’m not Jewish, but if you defend Israel or attack Nazism or antisemitism, you’re going to receive antisemitic comments.)

I did have several people ask me, many of them seemingly in good faith, why I called Cooper a Nazi. One person even kindly DM’d me and said something to the effect of "Hey, I followed you recently, and I like most of what you say, but I’m not sure about this one. Can you explain why you called him that?"

First, I don’t call someone a Nazi lightly. Unfortunately, a lot of people completely brush off the term because for the last decade, the American Left has been calling everyone one inch to their right a Nazi. When I use the term, I mean specifically that the person I’m calling a Nazi holds reverence or sympathy for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. I think Cooper meets that criterion. Here are just a few examples that support the claim.

Last year, someone on X asked Cooper the following question:

In your read of history, do you believe a united continental Europe under Nazi/Hitler rule would have been a better outcome than what actually transpired? | I assume far less innocent people would have died, but in your opinion, would that have been the better outcome in totality?

Cooper replied:

I can't imagine anything worse happening than what did happen.
How about Hitler getting away with it and genociding the entire Jewish population of Europe?

In another post, he posted two pictures. On the right was the blasphemous "Last Supper" depiction from the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. On the left was a photo of Hitler and his entourage with the Eiffel Tower behind them after France fell to the Nazis. Along with those two photos, Cooper posted:

This may be putting it too crudely for some, but the picture on the left was infinitely preferable in virtually every way than the one on the right.

In another post on X last summer, Cooper posted a photo of himself driving a tractor while holding a coffee mug with what looks like a Nazi eagle insignia on it with the caption, "Guten morgen, fellas."
Related:
Tucker Carlson 07/18/2025 Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Label Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Group
Tucker Carlson 07/16/2025  Tucker Carlson's Message to America on the Epstein Cover-Up | Full Speech
Tucker Carlson 07/08/2025 Iran's President Says Israel Attempted His Assassination

Related:
Darryl Coope 07/20/2025 Antisemites Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper and Candace Owens are in deep shit as Israel Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism goes after them.

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International-UN-NGOs
Middle East fertility slump: Fewer babies, big problems?
2025-07-20
[DW] Just a few decades ago, women in the Middle East had an average of seven children each. Now they're barely having enough babies to maintain current population levels. Why and what impact could that have in the future?

There's what experts have called a "quiet revolution" underway in the Middle East, one that doesn't involve protests on the street or the toppling of governments. This revolution, happening in the privacy of locals' own homes, is concerned with fertility rates in the region. Because in almost all countries in the Middle East, the number of babies a woman has during her childbearing years has fallen dramatically over the past two to three decades.

The total fertility rate, or TFR — the rate refers to how many babies a female has between the ages of 15 and 49 — has more than halved in the Middle East since the 1960s. Women in the region used to have around seven children each but by the early 2010s, they were only having three.

Falling fertility rates are a global phenomenon. But by 2016, researchers reported that the Middle East was seeing "the greatest fertility decline in the world over the past 30 years."

Over the past decade, those numbers have kept falling. As a study published in the Middle East Fertility Society journal in October last year showed, countries in the region saw a decline in TFR of anywhere between 3.8% and 24.3% between 2011 and 2021, with the biggest drops in Jordan, Iraq and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
According to World Bank statistics, in 2023, five of the 22 member states of the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
were operating with a TFR below 2.1, the number of babies per woman required to maintain population levels, and another four were coming close. For example, the United Arab Emirates has a TFR of just 1.2, well below population replacement levels. That's even lower than some European states: In 2024, Germany's national TFR is estimated at 1.38 children per woman of childbearing age.

WHY ARE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAVING FEWER BABIES?
Experts have come up with a number of hypotheses as to why this is happening. These tend to fall into two connected categories: economic and political, or social and cultural.

The former includes things like war and political uncertainty — people don't want to bring children into an unsafe world. Economic changes, including things like the removal of national subsidies in Egypt and Jordan, inflation, or fewer public sector jobs in oil states, mean it's becoming more difficult to pay for marriage and children. And the grim reality of climate change is likely also a growing factor for young couples in the Middle East, an area warming faster than many others.

Social and cultural changes include the increased availability and acceptance of contraception (including by religious conservatives) and divorce, as well as all-important reforms in female status, including women's access to education and their entry into the labor force.

It also likely involves urbanization. For example, in rural areas in Jordan and Egypt, the fertility rate has regularly been double that in larger cities. It may even involve social media: Some analysts have argued that access to information about a so-called "Western lifestyle" is changing minds about what an ideal family looks like.

All of these factors are interconnected, say experts like Marcia Inhorn, a professor of anthropology and international affairs at Yale university in the US, who has extensively researched changing attitudes to children and marriage in the region. At the intersection of both categories is what social scientists are calling "waithood," she told DW.

Marriage customs in the Middle East often require a transfer of wealth — for example, in Iraq, this might include gold jewelry, cash or a fully furnished home, often paid for by the groom. "And young people are just not having the economic wherewithal to pull all that together to marry," Inhorn says, so they choose to wait instead.

There's also a growing cohort of women who are waiting for the right partner or who may never to get married, she continued. "And across the region, there's also been a decline in interest in having large families," Inhorn added. "There's this notion of 'I'd rather have a high-quality, small family where I can give my children the things they deserve' than a high-quantity family."

THE IMPACT OF FALLING ARAB FERTILITY
"Humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it 'the age of depopulation'," Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at Washington-based think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, wrote for Foreign Affairs magazine late last year. "For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline."

In general, experts are divided about the impact of 76% of the world's countries having TFRs below population replacement levels over the next two and a half decades.

"What this will mean for the future of humanity is rather ambiguous," researchers from the International Monetary Fund wrote last month about the debate. "On one hand, some fear that it could hinder economic progress as there will be fewer workers, scientists and innovators ...on the other hand, fewer children and smaller populations will mean less need for spending on housing and childcare, freeing resources for other uses," the IMF researchers continued. "Population decline may also reduce pressures on the environment."

A higher proportion of elderly people will challenge "the sustainability of social safety nets and pensions," they argue. That's a problem that could be even more pronounced in the Middle East where younger people actually physically take care of their elders and senior care homes are not common.

Economic performance in some of the countries going into "sub-replacement fertility" is lacklustre, Eberstadt told DW. "This means that a generation from now many societies in the greater Middle East area — not all, but many — will be graying and perhaps even on the verge of shrinking, with large elderly contingents afflicted by chronic disease," Eberstadt said. "But without the sort of pocketbook that Western countries have for paying for healthcare and pension benefits."

In terms of whether falling fertility levels are good or bad in the long run, in general, Eberstadt remains cautiously optimistic. "I started studying this a long time ago, back in the era when everybody was worrying about a population explosion," he explains. "But I think a lot of the hysteria about that was fundamentally misplaced — because it wasn't that people were breeding like rabbits, they'd just stopped dying like flies. The population explosion was actually a health explosion."

That expansion in healthcare continues, along with improvements in education and knowledge, Eberstadt says. "And all of those are going to be buoying the prospects for human prosperity into a depopulating future. In a shrinking, aging world, there are all sorts of adjustments that are going to have to be made but we're a pretty adaptable species," he concluded.

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Academia surrenders, starts working on how to have their Jew hate and give it up, too
2025-07-20
Some articles I saw since the last time I posted a round up, to get a sense of the changing Zeitgeist:

US campuses see record levels of antisemitism, but drop in violent attacks
[IsraelTimes] Hillel International leaders cite newfound ‘penalty for antisemitism on many universities’ as driving online what would previously have been in-person incidents

A record 2,334 antisemitic incidents were reported on US college campuses during the 2024-2025 school year, even as violent attacks
declined, Hillel International said Thursday, citing a new-found “penalty for antisemitism at many universities.”

The report came during a Trump administration campaign, following a wave of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel and often pro-Hamas demonstrations, to force universities to crack down on rule- and law-breaking protests, as well as to overhaul many academic programs and admissions practices. The campaign has divided the American Jewish community, and drawn accusations of trying to snuff out free expression.

The total number of reported antisemitic incidents on campuses was 26 percent higher this year than the 1,853 incidents recorded in 2023-2024, in the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. It was nearly 10 times the 289 incidents reported in the 2022-2023 year before the war started.

The number of incidents involving violence, threats of violence, vandalism and graffiti dropped by 22% to 752, the Jewish campus organization said. The main cause of the rise was a 185% rise in online harassment, it noted.

“Over the past year, many universities have made significant changes to better clarify and enforce their policies and codes of conduct, supported by our work with them to achieve these improvements,” said Hillel president and CEO Adam Lehman.

George Mason Faculty Members Asked Their President To Denounce Anti-Semitism Like He Did Islamophobia. He Declined, Emails Show.

Under pressure from US feds, Columbia announces new measures to combat antisemitism
[IsraelTimes] Acting Columbia President Claire Shipman says discrimination office will use IHRA definition of antisemitism, appoint coordinators to ensure compliance with civil rights protections.

Shipman reiterated that Columbia has “zero tolerance for discrimination and harassment based on protected traits, including Jewish and Israeli identity.” The university will reinforce that message in regular statements to the campus community, she said.

The university will also cease recognizing or meeting with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the campus coalition leading anti-Israel protests, including any of its representatives or affiliated organizations. Dozens of student groups are part of the alliance. The university administration was criticized for negotiating with the group last year, after the activists caused widespread turmoil on the campus that included instances of antisemitism.

“Organizations that promote violence or encourage disruptions of our academic mission are not welcome on our campuses and the University will not engage with them,” Shipman said.

The announcement came after reports indicated Columbia was nearing a deal with the Trump administration, which has stripped hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to the university.

[But a] Jewish Columbia faculty member called on Columbia to make changes, including to the university governance structure that has made it difficult to punish anti-Israel protesters who violated campus policies, and to the university’s Center for Palestine Studies. Professor Joseph Massad, for example, hailed the October 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel as “awesome,” but remains on staff and last semester taught a course on the history of Israel.

Last week, New York’s Barnard College, an affiliate of Columbia, announced similar measures to combat antisemitism while settling an antisemitism lawsuit filed by Jewish students. Columbia was also a defendant in the lawsuit, but was not part of the settlement.

Last week, Shai Davidai, an outspoken Israeli assistant professor at Columbia, resigned, saying he had “lost all trust in the institution and respect for my colleagues.”

Columbia was an epicenter of widespread anti-Israel and in some cases antisemitic protests that took place on campuses across the US last year. A Columbia antisemitism task force on antisemitism reported “crushing” discrimination against Jews and Israelis in a report released last year.

Students at Netanyahu’s Pennsylvania high school seek to remove PM from hall of fame
Petition backed by some 15% of students at Cheltenham High School in suburban Philadelphia says prime minister ((Class of 1967) should be removed from wall honoring alumni because of ICC war crime charges.
Oooooo, 15%! I bet they can't even do that math
Netanyahu lived in Cheltenham twice, from 1956 to 1958 when he was in elementary school, and from 1963 to 1967 when he was in high school, while his father taught at a local Jewish studies institute. At Cheltenham High, he participated in soccer, debate and chess clubs and reportedly skipped his graduation ceremony to return to Israel to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Director of Nuseirat police among those killed in Gaza strike, 98 dead in past 24 hours
2025-07-20
[GEO.TV] The Interior Ministry 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...
reports that Colonel Omar Saeed Aql, director of Nuseirat police in the central governorate, was killed along with 11 of his family members when the Israeli army bombed their home, Al Jazeera reported.

The new "massacre" took place in the town of az-Zawayda in the central part of the besieged enclave, the ministry said, condemning it as a "heinous crime" in a statement.

"We renew our call to the international community and the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
to take a firm stance to stop the repeated Israeli violations against police personnel who perform civil duties and are protected from targeting under international law."

At least 98 Palestinians massacred in past 24 hours alone
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] During the past 48 hours, hospitals in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip received the bodies of at least 98 civilians, as well as 511 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks, according to Gaza's health ministry on Saturday morning.

Accordingly, a total of 7,938 people have been killed and 28,444 others have been injured since the Israeli occupation army resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, 2025.

The new fatalities increased the corpse count from the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, which started on October 7, 2023, to 58,765 deaders, including 891 aid seekers who were killed at or near US-backed distribution points, the health ministry said.

The ministry added that the total number of the maimed also surged to 140,485 people, including 5,754 aid seekers.

Meanwhile,
...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often......
efforts are underway to recover the bodies of more deaders who are still missing in different areas of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians say at least 26 killed near Gaza aid sites; IDF says troops fired warning shots
[IsraelTimes] Military says crowd approached troops in a way that ‘threatened’ them a kilometer away from food-distribution site, is investigating reports of mass casualties in latest deadly incident

At least 26 people were killed and more than 100 injured in shooting incidents near two 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...
aid sites early Saturday, Paleostinian officials said, accusing the Israeli military of opening fire on people trying to secure food. The IDF said that troops had fired warning shots and that it was investigating reports of casualties.

The Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
-run civil defense agency said 26 people were killed. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, quoting witnesses and hospital officials, put the corpse count at at least 32. Neither toll could immediately be verified.

The two incidents occurred near food-distribution hubs operated by the Israel-and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Agency front man Mahmud Basal, who Israel has accused of being a Hamas operative, told AFP that 22 people were killed near a site southwest of Khan Yunis and four near another center northwest of Rafah, blaming "Israeli gunfire" for both.

The Israel Defense Forces said it was aware of reports of casualties after troops fired warning shots and that overnight, Paleostinians had approached Israeli forces in the Rafah area, "in a way that threatened the forces."

"Troops operated to prevent the suspects from approaching them, called for them to distance themselves, and after they did not comply, the troops fired warning shots," the IDF said.

According to the army, the incident took place a kilometer away from the closest aid site and during the night, when it was not open for Paleostinians to collect aid packages.

The IDF said the incident is under further review.

The military also said Saturday that the Israeli Air Force had struck approximately 90 terror targets in Gaza over the past day, including buildings used by terror operatives and tunnels.

The strikes come as five IDF divisions, made up of tens of thousands of troops, continue ground operations across the Strip.

The Hamas-run health ministry said two Paleostinians were killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Gaza City.

’INDISCRIMINATE FIRE’
Most of Saturday’s deaths occurred as Paleostinians massed in the Teina area, around three kilometers (2 miles) away from a GHF aid distribution center east of the city of Khan Younis.

Mahmoud Mokeimar, an eyewitness, said he was walking with masses of people — mostly young men — toward the food hub. Troops fired warning shots as the crowds advanced, before opening fire toward the marching people.

"It was a massacre ... the occupation shot up us indiscriminately," he said. He said he managed to flee but saw at least three motionless bodies lying on the ground, and many other maimed fleeing.

Akram Aker, another witness, said troops fired machine guns mounted on tanks and drones. He said the shooting happened between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m.

"They encircled us and started firing directly at us," he said. He said he saw many casualties lying on the ground.

Sanaa al-Jaberi, a 55-year-old woman, said she saw many dead and maimed as she fled the area.

"We shouted: ’food, food,’ but they didn’t talk to us. They just opened fire," she said.

The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said it received 25 bodies, along with dozens maimed.

Seven other people, including one woman, were killed in the Shakoush area, hundreds of meters (yards) north of another GHF hub in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, the hospital said. The corpse count was also reported by the Hamas-controlled health ministry.

Dr. Mohammed Saker, the head of Nasser’s nursing department, said it received 70 maimed people. He told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that most of the casualties were shot in their heads and chests, and that some were placed in the already overwhelmed intensive care unit.

"The situation is difficult and tragic," he said, adding that the facility lacks badly needed medical supplies to treat the daily flow of casualties.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?

Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.

If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!...

Fares Awad, head of the Health Ministry’s ambulance and emergency service in northern Gaza, confirmed the two deaths in Gaza City. He said an airstrike hit a tent in a camp sheltering displaced families in the courtyard of the Development Ministry. There were no further details on the target of the strike.

MOUNTING TOLL NEAR AID SITES
The reported casualties are the latest in a series of incidents over recent months, during which hundreds of people have been reported killed in repeated incidents of shooting near aid centers run by the GFH.

The GHF, which employs private armed guards, says there have been no deadly shootings at its sites, though this week, 20 people were killed at one of its locations, most of them in a stampede. The group accused Hamas agitators of causing a panic, but it was not possible to verify GHF’s claims regarding the affiliation of the agitators or what sparked the crush.

In videos obtained by the AP earlier this month from an American contractor working with GHF, contractors were seen using tear gas and stun grenades to keep crowds behind metal fences or to force them to disperse. Gunshots could also be heard.

GHF began operations in late May as Israel lifted a nearly three-month aid blockade on Gaza, amid a renewed offensive there that seeks to take over 75 percent of the Strip with the aim of defeating Hamas and securing the release of the hostages seized by the terror group during its October 7, 2023, attack.

The GHF has faced harsh criticism from the UN and other aid organizations, which called the aid group’s model "inherently unsafe" and charged that it fails to meet the needs of Gaza’s population.

While the GHF claims to have distributed millions of meals to hungry Paleostinians, local health officials and witnesses report that hundreds of people have been killed by army fire as they try to reach the distribution hubs.

The IDF, which is not at the sites but secures them from a distance, has said it only fires warning shots if crowds get too close to its forces.

Israel, which accuses Hamas of hoarding aid, has accused the terror group of attacking Gazook aid seekers near GHF sites and falsifying corpse counts. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
Israel has also acknowledged that "several" Paleostinian civilians have been killed near GHF aid distribution sites.

Two reservists seriously wounded by roadside bomb in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Two reserve combat engineers were seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in the southern Gaza Strip earlier today, the military announces.

The troops include a reserve officer in the 710th Combat Engineering Battalion and a reservist in the 749th Combat Engineering Battalion.

They were taken to a hospital for treatment, and their families were notified, the army says.

According to an IDF probe, the soldiers were hit by an explosive device while driving in a Humvee

IDF set to begin ground operations in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza for first time
[IsraelTimes] The IDF issues a new evacuation warning for Palestinians residing in the southwest of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, as it is set to begin ground operations in the city for the first time since the start of the war.

“The IDF continues to operate with great force to destroy the enemy’s capabilities and terror infrastructure in the area, as it expands its activities into an area where it has not operated before,” says the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, on X.

Civilians are instructed to head south to the Mawasi area on the coast.

It marks the first time since the beginning of the war that the IDF has issued an evacuation warning for the Deir al-Balah area, one of the few locations in the Strip where the military has not operated with ground troops.

The IDF has avoided ground operations in areas where it believes Hamas to be holding hostages, in order to not endanger them as the terror group has vowed to execute captives if troops near.

An estimated 350,000 Palestinians are residing in all of central Gaza, according to IDF estimates from May. It is unclear how many are in the newly evacuated zone.
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Nuseirat: 2025-07-14 Gaza war, regional updates
Nuseirat: 2025-07-09 Israel Attacks in Gaza Kill 78 More Palestinians; IDF confirms death of 10/7 terrorist last week in Khan Younis
Nuseirat: 2025-06-28 Israeli military issues new evacuation orders in central and northern Gaza
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More settler attacks reported in occupied West Bank
2025-07-20
[GEO.TV] Dozens of people in al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah, suffered from tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces stormed the village following a settler attack, Al Jazeera reported, citing the Paleostinian news agency Wafa.

Residents had confronted the settlers, who attempted to enter the village, Wafa said.

Separately, in the village of Nilin, also near Ramallah, a Paleostinian man was injured after settlers attacked a home that was under construction.

The settlers fired live ammunition at residents who attempted to stop their attack, but no additional injuries were reported, Wafa said.

Paleostinians have faced a surge in Israeli military and settler violence across the occupied West Bank amid the war on 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...
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Ramallah: 2025-07-16 US envoy urges Israel to probe ‘terrorist murder’ of Palestinian-American in West Bank
Ramallah: 2025-07-16 EU holds off on sanctioning Israel over Gaza war
Ramallah: 2025-07-15 Justice Ministry says NGO linked to Ra’am party gave funds to terror-supporting groups
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