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Fifth Column

Nate Friedman: I Exposed More Iran ''Protestors''

2025-07-14

From the transcript:

a day after the United States
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struck Iran's nuclear facilities I went
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to a pro-Iran protest in New York City
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to ask people their thoughts on the
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strike i ended up exposing multiple paid
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protesters and an NGO facilitating
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lawlessness all over the country this is
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my biggest exposed video yet welcome
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back to the Nate Freriedman Show

…now here we go again another paid
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protester coming to stop my interview
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although this time he's not just one of
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the workers he is a leader his name is
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David Chung he is the general manager at
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the People's Forum the company
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responsible for organizing these
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pro-Iran protests we know that because
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they literally told us that at the
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previous rally what's the best way that
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people can get involved into organizing
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the protest um in New York the people's
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forum is a great space to get
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politicized to meet people in your
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community to come together now David has
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been a paid protester for a long time
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this is his portfolio that got him
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promoted to be a manager here's him
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yelling to stop NATO here's him yelling
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to release Khalil a man who was the
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spokesperson of an organization at
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Colombia that passed out pro- Hamas
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flyers here is David again wearing a
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safety vest at a protest which is what
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you get to do after you prove yourself
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now David has even been in the
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promotional material for the party of
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socialism and liberation to never stop
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fighting for Palestine as they show
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themselves protesting just one day after
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October 7th now just looking at the
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People's Forum on Glass Door it seems
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managers get paid between $60 to $90,000
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a year and you've just seen what they do
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with their time and it's not as if all
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these protests take place on the weekend
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either if you look on their ex they are
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constantly posting their protests that
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take place during the work week you
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might even see some familiar faces on
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their ex feed but all of this isn't
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about just some manager at a company
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this goes all the way to DC here is
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David with Rashida Talib

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Europe

All Palestinians in Gaza Are Eligible for Asylum in France, Court Rules

2025-07-13

[Breitbart] All Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip will be eligible for the first time to apply for asylum in France, a court ruled on Friday.

Deciding on a case brought by a Palestinian mother seeking asylum in the wake of the Islamist Hamas October 7th terror attacks on Israel, France’s National Court of Asylum (CNDA) ruled in her favour given the “war methods” of the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza, which the court found were “serious enough to be regarded as methods of persecution.”

The decision overturned a previous rejection from the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Effrusion (OFPRA) in November, which noted that the Palestinian woman was not specifically being “persecuted” and therefore could only be eligible for “subsidiary protection”, a lesser form of asylum which only allows for a four-year temporary residence permit rather than the ten years of protection guaranteed to refugees.

The case paved the way for the CNDA to declare that all Palestinians living in Gaza should be entitled to asylum protection in France, Le Figaro reports. The court based its decision on the Geneva Convention, which says that people who face “persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion,” should be considered refugees.

The court specifically cited the supposed persecution based on “nationality” faced by Palestinians in Gaza, despite France, like most other nations, not recognising Palestine as a state.

Nevertheless, the judges said that they possessed the “characteristics” of a nationality, which according to the Convention include belonging to a “group determined by its cultural, ethnic or linguistic identity, common geographical or political origins or its relationship with the population of another state.”

While the ruling is novel in declaring such “persecution” of Palestinians, legal experts noted that it would likely only impact around 20 per cent of the population of Gaza, given that 80 per cent were already classified as being refugees by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and were therefore already eligible for protection in France.

Although the ruling was hailed by leftist groups such as Amnesty International, others expressed concern about allowing more Palestinians into France, including a former Muslim turned anti-Islamist activist and female rights campaigner, Henda Ayari.

“While France is already grappling with explosive community tensions, it chooses today to unconditionally welcome refugees from Gaza, even though more than 30 Muslim countries refuse to take them in. Why should France, once again, play the role of humanitarian substitute while others categorically refuse to host these populations in their countries?” she questioned.

“We’re talking about a region where Hamas recruits, where Islamist ideology and anti-Semitic, anti-Western hatred are deeply rooted, where many celebrated the massacres of October 7. We cannot pretend to believe that they are all ‘innocent victims.’ Some of these individuals who will arrive in France may have participated in, supported, or condoned terrorism. And tomorrow? They will be housed, fed, and supported at the expense of French taxpayers… while our retirees are dying and our neighbourhoods are exploding,” Ayari lamented.

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Fifth Column

The College-Jew hate nexus

2025-07-13

Acting Columbia U. president apologizes for calling to remove Jewish board member after Oct. 7, replace with someone from Middle East
[IsraelTimes] Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman apologizes for calling to remove a Jewish university board member amid campus turmoil following the October 2023 invasion of Israel.

The Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce exposed texts from Shipman yesterday.

Hot Air points out that Columbia’s accreditation is at risk because of this. Separately, last week the university system was hacked, with the hacker announcing he(?) was looking for evidence that the school was using race to determine admissions. And finally — and this is just a schadenfreude item — Columbia will pay out about $9 million to settle a lawsuit after they were caught inflating data they submitted to the US News & World Report “Best Colleges” list to move up from #10 to #2. The recheck dropped them down to #18.

It was the privilege of a lifetime to study computer science at MIT. But when it became clear that the university would not protect me from the ongoing harassment and threats, I had no choice but to leave my Ph.D. program and abandon my dream.

All because I am Jewish. pic.twitter.com/GhIkBZvkOw
— Will Sussman (@realWillSussman) July 2, 2025

Mr. Sussman is now lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against MIT. Commentary from Hot Air here.

University of California reiterates ban on boycotts of Israel by student governments
University head Michael Drake says financial decisions by campus bodies must be grounded in ‘sound business practices,’ which boycotts based on nationality violate.

New York’s Barnard College settles antisemitism lawsuit filed by Jewish students
Barnard College in New York City, an affiliate of Columbia University, agreed to take measures to combat antisemitism in a lawsuit settlement with Jewish students, a law firm representing the students said on Monday.

The US lawsuit was filed last year against the trustees of Columbia and Barnard in the federal Southern District court of New York. It argued that Columbia and Barnard failed to protect Israeli and Jewish students and enforce university policies against protesters as anti-Israel activists riled the campuses after the October 2023 Hamas invasion and onslaught.

The plaintiffs claimed that the harassment of Jews violated the federal Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination at federally funded institutions. The law is widely used by pro-Israel advocates against universities that receive federal funding, like Columbia and Barnard.

Barnard is a women’s liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia. The two schools operate separately, but are deeply intertwined and located next to each other in Manhattan. The anti-Israel student activist group leading the protests, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, is active on both campuses. Most of the student plaintiffs were students at Columbia.

The lawsuit said students had been harassed with language like “Fuck the Jews” and were laughed at by professors while counter-protesting on campus. Some of the students suffered “immense stress” due to their treatment that interfered with their studies. Some dropped classes or attended remotely, and others avoided classes taught by professors active in anti-Israel protests.

The student plaintiffs were backed by the advocacy groups Students Against Antisemitism and the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, and represented by the Kasowitz LLP law firm.

Israeli postdoc sues Stanford for discrimination; university denies it
Researcher says lab tampered with his findings, falsely accused him of sexual harassment; Stanford says investigation found claims ‘unsubstantiated’. The lawsuit, filed in a federal California court, said a lab at Stanford had falsely accused Dr. Shay Laps of sexual harassment, tampered with his research, and forced him out of his position, due to his Israeli and Jewish identity. The university said the charges had been investigated and were unfounded.

Laps enrolled at Stanford as a post-doctoral student in the spring of 2024 to work on a diabetes treatment. When he arrived, a lab staffer connected to anti-Israel campus activists told Laps not to speak with her in person, refused him a seat with other colleagues at lunch, and told friends to ostracize him in common areas. Laps was the only Israeli in the lab and the staffer treated her other colleagues respectfully. When another researcher asked Laps where he was from, and Laps said he was from Israel, the other researcher turned his back and never spoke to him again, the lawsuit said.

Part of the staffer’s role was to order research materials for Laps, but she was hostile or noncooperative, hampering Laps’s work. The staffer later tampered with Laps’s research results by introducing insulin to compounds he was testing for diabetes treatments, and later asked him to destroy the irregular samples, potentially setting him up for allegations of fraud, the lawsuit alleged. The leader of the lab later said the issues with the staffer were minor errors, although the alleged tampering was not investigated, the lawsuit said.

Laps approached his lab leader about the problems, who told Laps he was under investigation for sexual harassment by the university’s Title IX office, that his research appointment could be ended, warned he could lose his visa, and encouraged him to “resign quietly.” Laps contacted the Title IX office, which told him there was no investigation and that he was in good standing.

The lawsuit said that members of the lab knew Laps was Jewish and Israeli, that all other members were not subjected to hostile treatment, and that the staffer giving him problems was part of an anti-Israel activist social circle. The issues also took place within a broader campus context of anti-Israel activism and antisemitism. The lawsuit did not include instances of antisemitic or anti-Israel rhetoric directed at Laps, though.

Laps made formal complaints, saying he was being discriminated against. The university probe said that Laps was not “discriminated against because he was Jewish or Israeli,” although the lawsuit said the investigation was thin.

Laps was eventually removed from the lab, had a research grant revoked, and was forced to leave the country due to visa issues, causing severe damage to his career and reputation, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit argued that the hostility toward Laps was part of a broader trend of antisemitism and discrimination against Israelis on the campus. A May 2024 internal report found that such discrimination was widespread and charged the university with a “failure to respond to the rising wave of antisemitism.” The lawsuit said Laps was in contact with other Israelis on campus who reported similar treatment.

The lawsuit seeks damages, including unpaid wages, a declaration that the lab defamed Laps, and an injunction preventing Stanford from discriminating against Jews or Israelis, among other measures.

Laps was backed by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a nonprofit that uses legal means to advance Jewish civil rights. The center and other Jewish groups have regularly filed lawsuits against universities and other entities for alleged discrimination.

Pro-Palestinian activists spray paint UW regents’ homes, accuse them of ‘genocide’
[CollegeFix] Pro-Palestinian activists vandalized the homes of at least four Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents members Friday, accusing them of “genocide.”

At two of the homes, the vandals spray-painted messages reading “Regents are complicit in genocide” and “UW blood on your hands” on the driveways, Madison police Sgt. Matthew Baker said, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Baker also said the protesters splattered artificial blood on some of the properties and posted letters with a set of demands on the doors.

Further, they used air horns and left them on the properties. A neighbor to one of the regents was awoken at 3:40 a.m. by an air horn.

Ring camera footage from one home showed six people wearing all black arriving on bicycles. Police are analyzing the footage to determine where the protesters came from.

“They were probably masked and hiding their identities. But oftentimes we can trace that video back to a meetup location or a gas station, even where they would buy the spray paint or something,” Baker said.

And for the high school contingent:

Jewish Teen Hid in Locked Classroom as Anti-Semitic Mob of Classmates Pounded on Door: Lawsuit
[FreeBeacon] Seattle Public Schools likely allowed footage of the incident to be deleted, plaintiff's lawyers say

Elite private DC-area school expels siblings after parents report antisemitic bullying — lawsuit
At Nysmith School for the Gifted, an hour from US capital, students allegedly called Jews ‘baby killers,’ said they deserve to die over Gaza, and cast Hitler as a ‘strong leader’, school told parents their kids needed to toughen up before kicking them out.

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Dillon PLLC said Tuesday they had filed a complaint against the school, saying the decision violates the Virginia Human Rights Act.

Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Moves to Cut Ties with the ADL over Group’s Defense of Israel
[NationalReview] The National Education Association’s policymaking body voted this week to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League over the antisemitism watchdog’s defense of Israel.

The 7,000-member policymaking committee approved New Business Item 39, which says the nation’s largest labor union in the U.S. “will not use, endorse or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.”

The committee explained its decision by saying, “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”
The New Business Item must receive final approval from the NEA executive committee. If passed, the measure would end a nearly 40-year relationship between the ADL and U.S. schools that has involved curriculum, programming and teacher training.

“With antisemitism at record high levels, it is profoundly disturbing that a group of NEA activists would brazenly attempt to further isolate their Jewish colleagues and push a radical, antisemitic agenda on students,” an ADL spokesperson told National Review.

“We will not be cowed for supporting Israel, and we will not be deterred from our work reaching millions of students with educational programs every year,” the spokesperson added. “It is our understanding there’s an internal NEA process that deals with issues like this and it is far from a completed process. We will continue to call out this antisemitism and prioritize our Jewish students and educators.”

Union delegates who spoke on the Assembly floor “rejected the ADL’s abuse of the term ‘antisemitism’ to punish critics of Israel, and its use of hyperinflated statistics on hate crimes to gin up fears about Jewish safety and paint calls for Palestinian rights as ‘hate speech,’” according to Mondoweiss.

“These are educators who believe in antiracist and social justice unionism. They’re beginning to understand Palestine in that context. They’re intolerant of the justification of violence,” one NEA member said, according to the report.

'Quite Shocking to Us': Local Parents Fighting 'Cesspool' of Anti-Semitism in Philly Schools Say Josh Shapiro's Office Stopped Meeting With Them
[FreeBeacon] Philadelphia's public school system, according to documents provided to the Free Beacon, teaches identity politics and hosts radical pro-Hamas employees

The Philadelphia school district settled a federal discrimination case with the Department of Education last year after students allegedly taunted their Jewish classmates with Nazi salutes, swastika graffiti on doors, and threats to "kill the Jews."

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Home Front: WoT

California: The State of Sleeper Cells

2025-07-13

[Townhall] In recent days, a chilling warning came from one of America’s top counterterrorism experts: Iranian sleeper cells may already be embedded inside the United States—hiding in plain sight, waiting to strike. With tensions climbing after the president’s strike on Iran’s nuclear capabilities, that warning has taken on new urgency. The threat isn’t hypothetical. It’s now a likely reality.

And while most states are coordinating with federal law enforcement, tightening security, and staying alert, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has done the unthinkable:

It’s opted out.

California is the only state in the Union that has withdrawn entirely from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force—the primary engine for federal, state, and local cooperation in detecting and disrupting terrorism. And they did it proudly, in the name of "civil liberties."

Let’s be blunt: the FBI’s JTTFs have disrupted plots targeting New York, Boston, and cities across the country. They are essential to homeland security. Pulling out of that network—especially now—is the domestic equivalent of turning off radar at Pearl Harbor.

Add to that the fact that California is also a sanctuary state, where local officials are barred from cooperating with ICE or federal immigration authorities. That means someone could cross the border illegally, find refuge in Los Angeles or the Socialist paradise of San Francisco

...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, and never be flagged—no matter how suspicious they may be.

Now layer in this: In the last several months, over 700 Iranian nationals—designated as "special interest aliens"—have crossed our southern border illegally. They’re subject to enhanced vetting for good reason: 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 ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has publicly stated that it may activate foreign agents in response to U.S. military action. These are not idle threats. These are strategic assets being put in place.

Let’s remember San Bernardino. In 2015, two radicalized individuals opened fire in a California office building, killing 14 and wounding 22 more. They were American residents. They were radicalized online. And they executed their attack without ever triggering alarm bells—because back then, the systems weren’t integrated enough.

Now, California has gone even further backward. It has intentionally severed those alarm systems.

And here’s the national threat:

If a terrorist cell can establish itself in California—where oversight is limited and federal cooperation is absent—then they are only one plane ride away from New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, or any other high-value target in the country.

California’s refusal to act responsibly doesn’t just endanger Californians. It endangers all of us.

By withdrawing from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, California has handed those blind spots to America’s enemies on a silver platter.

Supporters of the move will argue it’s about protecting civil rights. But the Constitution was never meant to be a suicide pact. Security and liberty are not opposites—they’re partners. And without security, liberty becomes a memory.

Iran has already activated its cyber units. It has already coordinated with proxies like Hezbollah to threaten U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide. Tehran doesn't need to smuggle operatives in via shipping containers—they walk across our border, disappear into sanctuary cities, and remain in the dark, thanks to California’s political theater.

We are not just at risk. We are exposed.

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Britain

UK cops arrest Palestine Action supporters demonstrating against terror proscription

2025-07-13

[IsraelTimes] Anti-Israel group says more than 40 arrested during rallies to protest ban, which bars expressions of support for outlawed organizations

Police in London arrested dozens of protesters on a second successive Saturday for supporting Paleostine Action, campaigners said, a week after the UK government banned the activist group under anti-terror laws.

Campaign group Defend Our Juries, which had announced it would hold rallies Saturday in several UK cities "to defy" the ban, criticized the police response, saying law enforcement had arrested more than 40 people in the British capital.

"The Metropolitan Police were out in force again today, arresting more than 40 people in Parliament Square for holding signs opposed to genocide and supporting Paleostine Action," a spokesperson told AFP.

"Who do the police think they are serving in this?" the spokesperson added, calling the ban "Orwellian."

Footage showed police moving in on a small group of protesters displaying signs supporting Paleostine Action who had gathered at the steps of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament Square.

Those detained did not appear to put up any resistance.

The Met confirmed on X that its officers were "in the process of making arrests" after "responding to a protest in support of Paleostine Action."

Britannia’s Press Association (PA) news agency reported that an officer at the scene stated that 46 people were tossed into the calaboose for offenses mainly related to a section of the Terrorism Act.

The police’s actions come a week after the arrest of 29 people, including a priest and several health professionals, for offenses under the same law.

Since the ban came into effect on July 5, police have warned that expressing support for Paleostine Action is now a crime.

"It is a criminal offense to invite or express support for a proscribed organization," read a statement posted on X by the Met ahead of Saturday’s planned protests.

"As we saw last week, those who do breach the law will face action."

Paleostine Action’s proscription was approved by parliament in the first days of July, and a last-ditch High Court challenge failed to stop it from becoming law.

The government announced plans for the ban under the Terrorism Act days after the group’s activists claimed to be behind a break-in at an air force base in southern England. The group said it sprayed two aircraft with red paint, causing an estimated £7 million ($9.55 million) in damage. Four people charged in the incident remain in jug.

Paleostine Action has condemned the proscription, which makes it a criminal offense to belong to or support the group, punishable by up to 14 years in prison, as an attack on free speech.

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Good Morning

2025-07-12

Mayor Karen Bass issued an executive directive requiring federal agencies to provide detailed information on raids conducted in the city

Saturday 07/12/2025

US appeals court cancels plea deal for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

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Caribbean-Latin America Haiti: UN reports over 3,000 people killed since the start of the year		Africa Horn Somalia: Intelligence agency NISA says at least 13 al-Shabaab militants, including senior commanders, were killed in coordinated operations
Africa Horn Danab Commando Force -- U.S.-backed Somali elite unit leads 80% of all offensive operations in 2025		Israel-Palestine-Jordan IDF has found and destroyed another underground tunnel in Gaza, measuring 500 meters long and 13 meters deep, in Khan Yunis
Israel-Palestine-Jordan Two Palestinian Authority police officers who trained in Qatar returned to Israel and murdered an Israeli		Israel-Palestine-Jordan Joint IDF-ISA operation ELIMINATED Fadl Abu al-Ata, the Islamic Jihad's Shejaiya sector commander

The most well-paid engineer in the world? Meta poaches AI researcher from rival with $200 million pay offer

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Good Morning

2025-07-11

Friday 07/11/2025

Iranian media reports that Iran's Army Chief of Staff, General Abdulrahim Mousavi, has been assassinated

From our continuing series Women Who Bathe 23.

International-UN-NGOs UN brings fuel into Gaza for first time in 130 days: spokesman		Israel-Palestine-Jordan Permanent ceasefire hinges on demilitarising Gaza: Israel
Israel-Palestine-Jordan Five killed in bombing at Gaza school		India-Pakistan Govt rebuffs rumours of Zardari''s resignation, army chief eyeing presidency
India-Pakistan ANP leader among two killed in Bajaur firing		India-Pakistan ''Personal vendetta'': Jemima slams Shehbaz-led govt over threat to arrest Imran Khan''s sons

Keep them guessing

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Fifth Column

CCP-Linked Billionaire Neville Singham ‘Literally Hiding' from Congress, Faces Asset Freeze Push

2025-07-10

[Breitbart] Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is escalating efforts to hold billionaire Neville Roy Singham accountable, urging the State and Treasury Departments to freeze his assets and visa as he evades a congressional investigation into his alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and far-left extremist groups.
Neville Roy Singham is married to Jodie Evans, who is a co-founder of the women's anti-war activist organization Code Pink
Luna announced the move in a post on X, claiming that Singham is refusing to respond to the committee’s letter. “Neville Singham—the billionaire communist with ties to the CCP, who funded the LA riots and used immigration & Mexicans as a Trojan horse for communism—is hiding from our letter requesting testimony,” she wrote. “Therefore, if he decides to hide in CHINA, we will now be asking the State Dept. and Treasury to freeze his assets/visa.”

Luna’s latest warning follows a June 13 letter from the House Oversight Committee to Singham requesting documents and testimony related to his alleged funding of extremist groups including the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), the People’s Forum, and the ANSWER Coalition, all of which are accused of promoting civil unrest and echoing Chinese government propaganda. Every Republican member of the committee signed on to the inquiry.

While Senate Republicans, including Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham, sounded the alarm on Singham’s activities last year, the Biden administration did not act. Luna has sharply criticized that inaction, contrasting it with President Trump’s deployment of federal forces to respond to the unrest in Los Angeles. She has described Neville Singham as a Marxist and George Soros as a globalist, arguing that both are working to destabilize the West and undermine Trump’s efforts

The committee warned that Singham’s actions may violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and other federal laws, particularly if he is acting “at the behest of a foreign principal” to influence American public opinion or policy.

“Reportedly, you have supported these groups with the aim of causing destruction and division in our country,” the letter to Singham stated. It cited recent riots and violence in Los Angeles, which the committee said prompted President Trump to deploy the National Guard.

According to the committee, Singham’s support for far-left groups extends back decades and includes millions of dollars funneled through dark money nonprofits with virtually no public footprints. Nonprofit filings show nearly $1.8 million flowed from entities the committee identifies as part of Singham’s network to Maku Group, a Chinese media company whose offices prominently display a banner reading “Always Follow the Party” beneath an image of CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping.

The letter also cites reporting from the New York Times, which found Singham resides in the People’s Republic of China and has supported groups that “mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points.” In 2019, he reportedly launched a consulting firm with Chinese partners “active in the propaganda apparatus” of the CCP.

The Oversight Committee’s letter warns that Singham’s suspected funding of the PSL and affiliated groups may be part of a broader CCP strategy known as the “Strategy of Sowing Discord,” a long-documented tactic of provoking internal strife within foreign adversaries. The letter underscores that if Singham is carrying out such a campaign on behalf of Beijing, he may be required to register under FARA.

Singham’s influence reportedly extends to groups tied to radical antisemitic movements, including Shut It Down for Palestine (SID4P), which was formed in 2023. According to the Network Contagion Research Institute, “Conveners” operating under the SID4P umbrella are listed as part of Singham’s donor portfolio. The House Oversight Committee noted that some of these organizations have ties to U.S.-designated foreign terrorist groups, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

One such SID4P “endorser,” Samidoun, has been identified in open-source reporting as a front for the PFLP. The Oversight Committee is now seeking a briefing from Attorney General Pam Bondi on whether organizations funded by Singham may have violated FARA or acted on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party in connection with the recent unrest in Los Angeles.

In a separate letter to Bondi, the Committee listed nineteen groups under investigation for potential ties to Singham and the CCP, including Code Pink, the People’s Forum, Dongsheng News, BreakThrough Media, and the National Students for Justice in Palestine.

The House Oversight Committee, under its authority in House Rule X, continues to demand full compliance from Singham and is working to ensure the American people are informed about foreign influence operations that threaten national security.

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Arabia

Yemen's Houthis Claim Responsibility for Eternity C Attack

2025-07-10

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Yemeni Houthis have claimed responsibility for the attack on the Greek cargo ship Eternity C, which sank in the Red Sea. This was stated by the rebels' military spokesman Yahya Saria on the Al Masirah TV channel.

The attack on the cargo ship was carried out using an unmanned boat, as well as six cruise and ballistic missiles.

"The Yemeni navy has attacked the Eternity C vessel, which was heading to the port of Umm al-Rashrash (the Arabic name for Eilat. - Ed.) in occupied Palestine. The attack was carried out using an unmanned boat, as well as six cruise and ballistic missiles," a Houthi spokesman said.

Earlier, as reported by the Regnum news agency, the dry cargo ship Eternity C, which was attacked by the Houthis, sank in the Red Sea. At least five people were rescued, another 15 are missing and are being sought.

At least two people on board were injured, including a Russian citizen whose limb was amputated.

Courtesy of Fred:

Greek ship attacked in Red Sea sinks: 4 dead, 7 rescued, 14 missing

[GEO.TV] Rescuers pulled seven crew members alive from the Red Sea on Wednesday and were searching for 14 still missing from the second of two freighters sunk within two days by suspected Iran's Houthi sock puppets

...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
attackers.

Four of the 25 people aboard the Eternity C fat merchantman were killed before the rest of the crew abandoned the vessel, which sank on Wednesday morning after being attacked on Monday and Tuesday, sources at security companies mounting the rescue said.

The seven seafarers who were rescued had spent more than 24 hours in the water, they said.

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Good Morning

2025-07-09

South Carolina GOP leaders tell Gov Gavin
Newsom to 'sell Crazy California somewhere else'

Wednesday 07/09/2025

Gunmen Hijack 33 Tons of Gold, Silver Concentrate in Truck on Mexican Highway

Ziegfeld Girl with bubble.

Africa North Algeria and Mauritania have signed a defense agreement		International-UN-NGOs International Criminal Court (ICC) seeks arrest of two Taliban leaders over alleged persecution of women
Israel-Palestine-Jordan Israel Attacks in Gaza Kill 78 More Palestinians		Syria-Lebanon-Iran UN says almost 500,000 Afghans have left Iran in just a month
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2025-07-10

[FoxNews] United Nations ‘doesn’t have a spending limit’ for spread of antisemitism,' critic warns

Critics slammed the United Nations for rewarding a controversial anti-Israel Commission of Inquiry with four new positions worth up to three-quarters of a million dollars, even as the world body undergoes a severe cash crisis.

"When it comes to spending money for the spread of antisemitism, the U.N. doesn't have a spending limit," Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices, told Fox News Digital.

On June 4, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem (COI), led by South African Navi Pillay, announced four new job openings for senior-level positions in Geneva. These include two P-2 level associate interpreters, one higher-level P-3 level human rights officer, and a still more senior P-4 level human rights officer.

Combined, their salaries will range from $530,000 to $704,000, based on salary scales released by the U.N. and its location-based salary multiplier (set at .814 for Swiss employees), published in a document supplied to Fox News Digital by a diplomatic source.

These salaries do not include other senior-level U.N. employee benefits, including dependent costs, housing allowances or relocation fees.

Bayefsky asked why the U.N.’s "belt-tightening exercise … applies to all kinds of urgent matters but exempts the COI, which has simultaneously gone on a spending-spree."

"The COI was created to destroy the Jewish state and is now conducting itself accordingly." She said its latest report, issued in June, is "totally unhinged" and "claims Israelis are like Nazis engaged in ‘extermination’ of the Palestinians, refers to those ‘extremist Jews,’ denies biblical history, [and] fuels antisemitism by claiming Jews defile Muslim holy sites."

Pillay and the COI have come under fire previously for anti-Israel sentiment. In January 2022, 42 Republicans and Democrats in Congress signed an open letter calling for the U.S. to defund the COI. The Representatives expressed concern that "Chairwoman Navi Pillay, while serving as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014, repeatedly and unjustly accused Israel of committing war crimes." They stated that while she condemned Israel, Pillay "reportedly said nothing at all about egregious human rights abuses in dozens of other countries which, unlike Israel, received the worst, ‘Not Free’ rating from the respected Freedom House."

In October 2023, a representative from the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in Geneva said before the Third Committee of the U.N. that the U.S. "remains deeply concerned about the scope and nature of the open-ended Commission of Inquiry established in May 2021. The COI demonstrates a particular bias against Israel in subjecting it to a unique mechanism that does not exist for any other U.N. Member State."

In October 2024, a report from the COI excluded information about Hamas’ use of Kamal Adwan Hospital for operations, failed to recount the maltreatment Israeli hostages received at Gazan hospitals, and could "not verify" that tunnels found below Al-Shifa hospital "were used for military purposes." Bayefsky said the report trafficked in blood libels.

In March, Pillay’s commission claimed that rape and sexual violence are part of the Israel Defense Force’s "standard operating procedures towards Palestinians." Pillay also said that the IDF’s sexual violence creates "a system of oppression that undermines [Palestinians’] right to self-determination." In response, Bayefsky said "Pillay and her COI are notorious for turning reality upside down. October 7 was marked by grotesque Palestinian use of sexual violence and rape as a weapon of war. In response, the COI diminished those atrocities and instead concocted the reverse."

In March 2024, Congress passed a budget bill that eliminated funding for the COI while simultaneously banning funds for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), according to the Jerusalem Post.

The U.N. Human Rights Council is already experiencing the impact of the organization’s liquidity crisis.

In a June 16 letter penned by U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, the Human Rights Council outlines more than a dozen reports, as well as studies, regional workshops, and panels mandated by the Council, which could not be completed due to inadequate resourcing.

In response to a request for comment about how the COI has received additional personnel while the Human Rights Council deals with scarcity, spokesperson Pascal Sim told Fox News Digital that the Human Rights Council’s "views are only expressed in the resolutions and decisions that its 47 Member States adopt at the end of each of its sessions."

However, Bayefsky said, "For decades, the U.N. has engaged in phony cost-saving measures while their actual expenditures have ballooned," she said, noting that the U.S. "has always been satisfied by moving around the deck chairs on the Titanic."

Bayefsky said that "it's our government's job to put an end to this devious calculus by immediately withholding the entire U.N. budget until such time as the dangerous lesions are removed. It's our job to deny visas to the COI members planning to come to the United States in the next couple of months.

"Contrary to popular belief, it is not required by the U.S.-U.N. host agreement to allow international travelers into the U.S. to fan the flames of antisemitism, and vandalize our fundamental values and the Constitution from the middle of New York City," Bayefsky said. "We need a new boat, not new deck chairs."

A budget proposal from the Trump administration leaked in April announced the intention to eliminate all expenditures to the U.N. and international organizations.

In response to questions about whether a decision about U.N. funding has been finalized, a senior State Department official told Fox News Digital that "President Trump is ensuring taxpayer dollars are used wisely. Any announcements regarding funding to international organizations will come from the President or the administration."

The U.S., through its taxpayers, is the single-largest contributor to the U.N. In 2022, the U.N. reports that $18.1 billion, or 26.8%, of its $67.5 billion in expenditures came from the U.S.

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