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Abdel Haddi al-Omari Abdel Haddi al-Omari Islamic Jihad Middle East 20021207  
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Abu Al-Abas Al-Omary Abu Al-Abas Al-Omary al-Qaeda India-Pakistan 20020915  
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  Abu Omar Iraqi Insurgency Iraq-Jordan 20040309  
  Abu Omar al-Qaeda in Europe Europe 20051002 Link
  Abu Omar Ansar al-Islam Europe 20040111  
  Abu Omar Supreme Council of Global Jihad Terror Networks 20030813  
  Abu Omar Ansar Al-Islam Europe 20031210  
  Abu Omar Al Qaeda India-Pakistan 20030111  
Abu Omar Abdebir Abu Omar Abdebir Salafist Group of Preaching and Combat Africa North 20060909 Link
Abu Omar Abdul Bir Abu Omar Abdul Bir Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat Africa North 20060104 Link
Abu Omar Al-Seif Abu Omar Al-Seif al-Qaeda Terror Networks 20031231  
Abu Omar As-Seyf Abu Omar As-Seyf Chechnya Europe 20031212  
Abu Omar Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Saif Abu Omar Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Saif al-Qaeda Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia 20051203 Link
  Abu Omar Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Saif Chechnya Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia 20051203 Link
Abu Omar Muhammad Al-Seif Abu Omar Muhammad Al-Seif al-Qaeda Terror Networks 20031101  
Abu Omar Muhammad al-Sayf Abu Omar Muhammad al-Sayf Chechnya Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia Chechen? At Large Holy Man 20060130 Link
    Mufti of the Chechen mujahideen
Abu Omar al-Saif Abu Omar al-Saif Chechnya Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia 20051211 Link
  Abu Omar al-Saif Supreme Council of Global Jihad Terror Networks 20030813  
  Abu Omar al-Saif Learned Elders of Islam Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia 20050928 Link
Abu Omar al-Seif Abu Omar al-Seif Chechnya Africa North 20051215 Link
Abu-Omar Abu-Omar Tehrik-i-Islami Pakistan India-Pakistan 20031123  
Adnan bin Abdullah Al Omari Adnan bin Abdullah Al Omari al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Arabia 20051108 Link
Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman al-Qaeda India-Pakistan 20030302  
Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh Jaish-e-Mohammad Afghanistan/South Asia 20020219  
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh Jaish-e-Muhammad India-Pakistan 20040125  
  Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh Jaish e-Mohammad Britain 20030502  
  Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh Jaish-e-Mohammad India-Pakistan 20050731  
  Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh al-Qaeda Afghanistan/South Asia In Jug 20030502  
  Omar Sheikh Harkat-ul-Jehad Islamia Afghanistan/South Asia 20020122  
  Omar Saeed Sheikh Jaish-e-Muhammad India-Pakistan 20030424  
  Omar Saeed Sheikh al-Qaeda Afghanistan/South Asia 20040509 Link
Ahmed Omar Sheikh Ahmed Omar Sheikh Harkat-ul Ansar India-Pakistan 20020127  
Ali Mohammed Omar Sharbagy Ali Mohammed Omar Sharbagy al-Qaeda in Yemen Arabia 20040317  
Hadji Omar Ramalan Hadji Omar Ramalan Abu Sayyaf? Southeast Asia 20040128  
Haisam Omar Hussein Omar Haisam Omar Hussein Omar al-Qaeda Africa East/Subsaharan Africa 20020924  
Haji Mohammad Omar Haji Mohammad Omar al-Qaeda Afghanistan/South Asia 20040709 Link
Haji Omar Haji Omar Wazir Taliban India-Pakistan 20060323 Link
Hassan Omar Al-Samik Hassan Omar Al-Samik al-Tawhid Iraq-Jordan 20050721  
Jihad Al Omarin Jihad Al Omarin al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Middle East 20020705  
Jihad al-Omarayn Jihad al-Omarayn Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Middle East 20020820  
Khaled Omar Saeed Omar Khaled Omar Saeed Omar al-Qaeda Iran 20031107  
Mirwaiz Omar Farooq Mirwaiz Omar Farooq All Parties Hurriyat Conference Afghanistan/South Asia Kashmiri At Large 20050611  
Mohamed El Omari Mohamed El Omari Salafia Jihadia Africa: North 20030819  
  Mohamed El Omari al-Assirat al-Moustaquim? North Africa 20030529  
Mohamed El-Omari Mohamed El-Omari Salafia Jihadia Africa: North 20030726  
Mohammad Ibrahim Omar Mohammad Ibrahim Omar Iraqi Baath Party Iraq 20051023 Link
Mohammed Ibrahim Omar al-Musslit Mohammed Ibrahim Omar al-Musslit Iraqi Insurgency Iraq-Jordan 20040327  
Mohammed Omar Mohammed Omar Supreme Council of Global Jihad Terror Networks 20030813  
Mohammed bin Said al-Omari Mohammed bin Said al-Omari Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Arabia 20050725  
Mollah Omar Mollah Omar Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh Bangladesh 20060228 Link
Muhammad Abu Omar al-Seif Muhammad Abu Omar al-Seif Learned Elders of Islam Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia 20050928 Link
Mulla Mohammad Omar Mulla Mohammad Omar Taliban Afghanistan/South Asia 20050706  
Mullah Mohammad Omar Mullah Mohammad Omar Taliban Afghanistan/South Asia 20020223  
Mullah Muhammad Omar Mullah Muhammad Omar Taliban Afghanistan 20030330  
Mullah Omar Akhund Mullah Omar Akhund Taliban Afghanistan/South Asia 20011008  
Mullah al-Hajj Omar Mullah al-Hajj Omar Wazir Taliban Afghanistan 20060501 Link
Nasser Bin Suleiman Al-Omar Nasser Bin Suleiman Al-Omar Learned Elders of Islam Arabia 20040624 Link
Nasser Omar Nasser Omar Dinnieh Group? Syria-Lebanon 20030516  
Nasser al-Omar Nasser al-Omar Learned Elders of Islam Arabia 20040103  
Omar Abdel Fatah Al-Shishani Omar Abdel Fatah Al-Shishani al-Qaeda Home Front 20031009  
Omar Abdel Rahman Omar Abdel Rahman Al-Gamaat al-Islamiyya Europe 20060217 Link
Omar Abdel Razek Omar Abdel Razek Hamas Israel-Palestine-Jordan 20060830 Link
Omar Abdel-Rahman Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman al-Qaeda Terror Networks Egyptian In Jug Big Shot 20030305  
    convicted in 1995 of conspiring to blow up the UN offices in New York
  Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman al-Qaeda India-Pakistan 20030303  
  Omar Abdul Rahman Supreme Council of Global Jihad Terror Networks 20030813  
  Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman al-Gamaa al-Islamiya Africa North 20020615  
  Omar Abdel-Rahman al-Qaeda Home Front: WoT In Jug 20030303  
  Omar Abdel Rahman Masjid al-Taqwa Home Front 20031203  
  Omar Abdel Rahman al-Gamaa al-Islamiya Europe 20051002 Link
  Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman al-Qaeda Fifth Column 20031119  
  Omar Abdul Rahman al-Qaeda Terror Networks 20030306  
Omar Abdi Mohamed Omar Abdi Mohamed Western Somali Relief Agency Down Under 20040201  
  Omar Abdi Mohamed Global Relief Foundation Down Under 20040201  
  Omar Abdi Mohamed al-Qaeda Down Under 20040131  
Omar Abdi Mohammed Omar Abdi Mohammed Global Relief Foundation Fifth Column 20040128  
  Omar Abdi Mohammed Western Somali Relief Agency Fifth Column 20040128  
Omar Abdul Karim Omar Abdul Karim Jemaah Islamiyah Southeast Asia 20040115  
Omar Abdullah Hassan al-Shehabi Omar Abdullah Hassan al-Shehabi Learned Elders of Islam Arabia 20040606 Link
Omar Abdullah Kamal Omar Abdullah Kamal al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Arabia 20040622 Link
Omar Abu Omar Omar Abu Omar al-Qaeda Terror Networks 20020708  
Omar Ahmad Omar Ahmad Council on American-Islamic Relations Fifth Column 20030217  
Omar Ahmed Khadr Omar Ahmed Khadr al-Qaeda Home Front: WoT 20051111 Link
Omar Al Khadr Omar Al Khadr al-Qaeda Afghanistan 20020905  
  Omar Khadr al-Qaeda Afghanistan Canadian-Pakistani In Jug 20031015  
    Canadian national, who faces murder charges for allegedly throwing a hand grenade that killed a US soldier in Afghanistan. Mr. Khadr was 15 years old at the time.
Omar Al-Farouq Omar Al-Farouq al-Qaeda Iraq 20061012 Link
Omar Ali Litu Omar Ali Litu Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh Afghanistan/South Asia 20050912 Link
Omar Almagboul Omar Almagboul al-Qaeda in Europe Britain 20050812  
Omar Babbush Omar Babbush Janjaweed Africa: Horn 20040626 Link
Omar Bakri Omar Bakri Supreme Council of Global Jihad Terror Networks 20030813  
  Omar Bakri Al-Ghuraba Britain 20060219 Link
Omar Bakri Mohammad Omar Bakri Mohammad al Ghurabaa Britain 20051119 Link
  Omar Bakri Mohammad Ahl al Sunnah and al Jamaa Britain 20051119 Link
Omar Bakri Mohammed Omar Bakri Mohammed al Ghurabaa Britain 20051029 Link
  Omar Bakri Mohammed Al-Muhajiroon Britain 20050806  
  Omar Bakri Mohammed Al Muhajiroun Fifth Column Supremo 20010912  
  Omar Bakri Mohammed Central London Muslim Association Britain 20040418 Link
Omar Bazayah Omar Bazayah Takfir wal Hijra Middle East 20021120  
Omar Baziyani Omar Baziyani Ansar al-Islam Iraq 20060609 Link
Omar Bernal Omar Bernal Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia International 20020721  
Omar Brooks Omar Brooks Al-Muhajiroun Britain 20040418 Link
  Omar Brooks al-Muhajiroun Britain British At Large 20060921 Link
Omar Deghayes Omar Deghayes al-Qaeda in Europe Europe 20040215  
Omar Dhobi Omar Dhobi al-Qaeda India-Pakistan 20030501  
Omar Fahim Nasser a-Din Omar Fahim Nasser a-Din Tanzim Israel-Palestine 20020430  
Omar Ghazi al-Bazayaa Omar Ghazi al-Bazayaa al-Tawhid Middle East 20030927  
Omar Hadid Omar Hadid al-Qaeda in Iraq Israel-Palestine-Jordan 20051012 Link
  Omar Hadid Mujahideen Front Iraq-Jordan 20040628 Link
Omar Hadouchi Omar Hadouchi Salafi Jihadi North Africa 20021130  
Omar Ibn Al Khattab Omar Ibn Al Khattab al-Qaeda Arabia 20040628 Link
Omar Ibn al Khattab Omar Ibn al Khattab Chechnya Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia 20020427  
Omar Iman Abubakar Omar Iman Abubakar Council of Islamic Courts Africa Horn Somali 20060625 Link
Omar Karim Khadr Omar Karim Khadr al-Qaeda Great White North 20040410  
Omar Khan Sharif Omar Khan Sharif Hamas Middle East 20030430  
  Omar Khan Sharif al-Muhajiroun Middle East 20030519  
Omar Khyam Omar Khyam al-Muhajiroun Britain 20040401  
  Omar Khyam al-Qaeda in Europe Europe 20040331  
Omar Mahmood Abu Omar Omar Mahmood Abu Omar al-Qaeda Britain 20030522  
Omar Mahmoud Abu Omar Omar Mahmoud Abu Omar al-Qaeda Britain 20050724  
Omar Mahmoud Othman Omar Mahmoud Othman al Ghurabaa Britain 20051119 Link
Omar Mohammed Othman Omar Mohammed Othman Learned Elders of Islam Britain Arrested Holy Man 20021205  
    Real name (?) of Abu Qatada
Omar Mubarak Al-Hakami Omar Mubarak Al-Hakami al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Arabia 20030602  
Omar Nakhcha Omar Nakhcha al-Qaeda in Europe Europe 20060115 Link
Omar Opik Lasal Omar Opik Lasal Abu Sayyaf Southeast Asia 20031012  
  Omar Opik Lasal Abu Sayyaf Southeast Asia 20031012  
  Omar Opik Lasal Moro Islamic Liberation Front Southeast Asia 20030908  
Omar Pael Omar Pael Abu Sayyaf Southeast Asia 20050331  
Omar Patek Omar Patek Jemaah Islamiah Southeast Asia 20060217 Link
Omar Qadoos Omar Qadoos Jamaat-e-Islami India-Pakistan 20030301  
Omar Rifai Omar Rifai Dinnieh Group Syria-Lebanon 20030609  
Omar Saabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti Omar Saabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti Iraqi Insurgency Iraq 20060703 Link
Omar Said Omar Omar Said Omar al-Qaeda in Africa Africa: East 20031129  
Omar Saiki Omar Saiki Finsbury Park mosque Terror Networks 20030128  
  Omar Saiki al-Qaeda Terror Networks 20030128  
Omar Sayel al-Khalayleh Omar Sayel al-Khalayleh al-Qaeda in Iraq Iraq-Jordan 20040510 Link
  Omar Sayel al-Khalayleh al-Tawhid Middle East 20031219  
Omar Sharif Omar Sharif Hamas Britain 20030502  
Omar Shebli Omar Shebli Palestine Liberation Front Terror Networks 20040310  
Omar Sheikh Omar Sheikh Jaish-e-Mohammad India-Pakistan 20031102  
  Omar Sheikh al-Qaeda Afghanistan/South Asia 20050812  
Omar Shibli Omar Shibli Palestinian Liberation Front Syria-Lebanon-Iran 20040404  
Omar Shishani Omar Shishani al-Qaeda Home Front 20040101  
  Omar Shishani al Qaeda Home Front Jordanian-Chechen Arrested Holy Man 20020719  
    Omar Shishani, 47, of Dearborn, was arrested at Detroit Metro Airport after getting off a flight from Indonesia. Customs agents found the nine counterfeit cashier's checks during a search of his luggage. The checks supposedly were issued by a Pomona, Calif., branch of West America Bank. The bank doesn't have an office there. Two checks were issued for $500,000 each, two for $5 million each, and five for $200,000 each.
Omar Shubeki Omar Shubeki Islamic Jihad Middle East 20031001  
Omar Taliban Omar Taliban Harakat al Muhajedeen Afghanistan/South Asia 20050912 Link
Omar Tayeh Omar Tayeh Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Middle East 20030504  
Omar Utman Omar Utman Islamic Jihad Middle East 20030821  
Omar Wahdallah Dad Abu Nur Islamic State in Iraq Iraq In Jug 20070517  
    admitted responsibility for the June 2006 kidnapping and murder of four Russian diplomats. Abu Nur is accused of personally beheading two of the Russians
Omar al-Baghdadi Omar al-Baghdadi al-Qaeda in Iraq Israel-Palestine-Jordan 20051012 Link
Omar al-Bayoumi Omar al-Bayumi al-Qaeda Arabia 20030729  
  Omar al-Bayoumi al-Qaeda Home Front 20030802  
Omar al-Farouq Omar al-Farouq al-Qaeda Europe 20040331  
  Omar Al-Faruq al-Qaeda Southeast Asia 20030116  
  Omar Al-Faruq Jemaah Islamiyah Southeast Asia 20021013  
  Omar al-Farouq Jemaah Islamiyah Southeast Asia Kuwaiti Captured Big Shot 20021013  
Omar al-Faruq Omar al-Faruq al-Qaeda Afghanistan 20051219 Link
Omar al-Hadidi Omar al-Hadidi al-Qaeda in Iraq Iraq-Jordan 20040622 Link
  Omar al-Hadidi Al-Jamaa al-Salafiya al-Mujahida Iraq-Jordan 20040622 Link
Omar al-Qazabri Omar al-Qazabri Learned Elders of Islam Africa: North 20040520 Link
Omar al-Talmisani Omar al-Talmisani Muslim Brotherhood Africa: North 20040112  
Omar bin Laden Omar bin Laden al-Qaeda Middle East 20020902  
Othman Al-Omari Othman Al-Omari al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Arabia 20040628 Link
Sami Omar Al-Hussayen Sami Omar Al-Hussayen Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Home Front 20040110  
  Sami Omar Al-Hussayen Hamas Home Front: WoT 20040305  
  Sami Omar Al-Hussayen Dar Al-Asr Home Front 20040110  
  Sami Omar Al-Hussayen Islamic Assembly of North America Home Front 20040110  
  Sami Omar Al-Hussayen Help the Needy Home Front 20030316  
  Sami Omar Al-Hussayen al-Qaeda Home Front 20030316  
Sami Omar Hussayen Sami Omar Hussayen Islamic Assembly of North America Home Front 20031002  
  Sami Omar Hussayen Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Arabia 20040123  
Shadi Omar Shadi Omar Hamas Israel-Palestine-Jordan 20060708 Link
Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed Muslim Brotherhood Britain 20050712  
Sheik Omar Said Sheik Omar Said Association of Muslim Scholars Iraq-Jordan 20040527 Link
Sheikh Abu Omar Muhammad Al-Seif Sheikh Abu Omar Muhammad Al-Seif Al-Qaeda Terror Networks 20031020  
Sheikh Ahmad Omar Hashem Sheikh Ahmad Omar Hashem Learned Elders of Islam Terror Networks 20031002  
Sheikh Omar Abd al-Rahman Sheikh Omar Abd al-Rahman Learned Elders of Islam Terror Networks 20031123  
Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain 20050722  
  Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed Al Ghurabaa Britain 20050805  
Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad London School of Shariah Britain 20020908  
  Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad Shariah Court of The UK Britain 20020908  
Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammed Omar Bakri al-Muhajiroun Britain 20050811  
  Omar Bakri Mohammed al-Muhajiroun Britain 20050810  
  Sheikh Omar Bakri al-Muhajiroun Fifth Column 20021116  
  Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed Al-Muhajiroun Europe 20050722  
  Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad Al-Muhajiroun Fifth Column 20030318  
  Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammed Al-Muhajiroun Britain 20020713  
  Sheik Omar Bakri al-Muhajiroun Britain 20050807  
Sheikh Omar Saeed Sheikh Omar Saeed Jaish-e-Mohammad India-Pakistan 20020302  
Sheikh Omar bin Bakri bin Mohammed Sheikh Omar bin Bakri bin Mohammed Ahl ul-Sunnah wal Jammah Britain 20050805  
  Sheikh Omar bin Bakri bin Mohammed Al Muhajiroun Britain 20050805  
Telfah Ibrahim Omar Telfah Ibrahim Omar Iraqi Baath Party Iraq 20051023 Link
Yasin Hassan Omar Yasin Hassan Omar al-Qaeda Arabia 20050801  
  Yasin Hassan Omar al-Qaeda in Europe Britain 20050812  
Yassin Hassan Omar Yassin Hassan Omar al-Qaeda in Europe Britain 20050728  
Zaid Hasan Omar Al-Jueidi Zaid Hasan Omar Al-Jueidi Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Arabia Saudi Arrested Tough Guy 20050711  
    Alias of Zaid Hassan Mohammed Humeid, detained in Yemen

Home Front: Politix
New York City Faces the Threat of an Antisemitic Mayor
2025-05-25
[Hot Air] The surest way to trigger the collapse of New York City is to elect an antisemitic mayor.

Throughout history, rising antisemitism is a bellwether of societal ruin: When attacks on Jews are tolerated or encouraged, the dissolution of everyone's rights and the abandonment of basic freedoms follow.

See the Spanish Inquisition, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for examples.

It could happen here. Electing a Jew-hating mayor who turns a blind eye to antisemitic crime will drive out huge numbers of city residents -- including some of its wealthiest -- erode the real estate market, hollow out cultural institutions and lead to moral implosion.

Everyone who can leave, Jews and non-Jews alike, will flee.

Being Jewish in NYC is already getting uncomfortable.

We see swastikas scrawled on walls and desks in some public schools, students elsewhere casually referring to high performers in math as "the Jew table," a Queens community garden posting a ban on Zionists, a 13-year-old Jewish boy slapped in the face while riding his bike through his neighborhood -- such incidents are no longer shocking.

The most dangerous wolf in sheep's clothing: Zohran Mamdani,
…like Ilhan Omar he is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidate. The red diaper baby of ethnic Indian immigrant academics (Columbi U, natch) parrots all the usual anti-Jew/Israel shibboleths while insisting he is also a Shiite Moslem, suggesting an important Iran connection…
a state assemblyman currently polling second in the Democratic primary behind former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Never forget what he did to the old folks during Covid, though he most assuredly has…
Mamdani is making the rounds at Jewish events. He's attended at least seven public and private meetings and meals with Jewish leaders in the last month.

On Friday he posted an official campaign video proclaiming himself a defender of the Jewish people, promising an "800% increase" in city spending to "combat antisemitism."

"In this election, we're seeing ... the pain of Jewish New Yorkers being weaponized as a talking point," he moaned.

Don't fall for his new guise: Mamdani has backed the odious Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement,
…a soft jihad project by the PLO (remember them?) against Israel when the wars and intifadas failed that taken up with glee by Progressive “thinkers” around the world who love to claim that Jew-hate is a phenomenon only of the Right…
calls Israel's actions against Gaza "genocide," and recently refused to cosponsor two Assembly resolutions to condemn the Holocaust and recognize the state of Israel.

His campaign claims are just not credible.

"Mamdani has been fanning the flames of antisemitism, and now he wants us to believe he's the firefighter," warns David Greenfield of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a major Jewish charity.

The New York Times calls Mamdani's stance on Jews and Israel "nuanced." Nonsense: He's a morally bankrupt Jew-hater.

Meanwhile, Cuomo is betting big on Jewish voters, relying on a track record of supporting Israel and promoting its business ties with New York, as well as signing an anti-BDS bill in 2016.

But his outreach appears to be inch-deep: After leaving the governor's office in shame, Cuomo launched the group Never Again NOW! at the tony Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton, promising a lecture series and a paid media campaign to combat anti-Jewish hate.

But nothing followed -- and not even the website has been updated.

Was it merely a convenient way for a disgraced former governor to reconnect with the donor class? Probably.

Maybe Mayor Eric Adams'
…thrust out by the ones who brung ‘im for daring to complain about the harms caused by the couple ten thousand illegals bussed to his city from Texas and Florida when the Biden-Harris Politburo were letting in millions, he has solidly turned to the pro-Israel /Jewish, anti-illegal, law-and-order voters he first appealed to before pivoting to the Defund The Police branch of the Democrats. He handles rotational dizziness well…
newly announced Office to Combat Antisemitism will produce real results.

Adams, who is not competing in the June 24 primary, hopes to appear on November's general election ballot as an independent candidate on two lines -- including one called "EndAntiSemitism."

It's outright pandering, but there's no question Adams has been a staunch ally of the Jewish community and a backer of Israel's military campaign against Hamas.
Related:
Zohran Mamdani 05/23/2025 DHS ends Harvard's student visa program over 'pro-terrorist conduct'
Zohran Mamdani 05/21/2025 Terror supporters disrupted Columbia’s graduation, booing and shouting over the university president’s speech
Zohran Mamdani 05/18/2025 NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doubles down on bizarre refusal to sign resolution condemning Holocaust

Related:
Andrew Cuomo 05/19/2025 50,000 march in NYC’s annual Israel parade centered on the plight of the hostages
Andrew Cuomo 05/17/2025 Interview: NYC mayoral frontrunner Cuomo calls vote a ‘litmus test’ on far-left foes of Israel
Andrew Cuomo 05/15/2025 New York City mayor opens new task force aimed at combating antisemitism

Related:
Eric Adams 05/19/2025 50,000 march in NYC’s annual Israel parade centered on the plight of the hostages
Eric Adams 05/19/2025 New York City mayor opens new task force aimed at combating antisemitism
Eric Adams 05/18/2025 Mexican navy tall ship smashes into Brooklyn Bridge, shears off masts after losing power, 2 dead, 17 hurt

Related:
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions 04/05/2025 NYC education department investigating after office sends out antisemitic toolkit
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions 03/02/2025 Facing 66% rise in academic boycotts, Israeli universities gear up to fight back
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions 02/23/2025 Germany’s rising far-right AfD is split over Israel

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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Myrtle Beach police officers reportedly shot at during chase speak at bond hearing
2025-05-24
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - A judge denied bond for the two people charged in a chase turned shooting in Myrtle Beach after an emotional hearing.

The Myrtle Beach Police Department arrested 20-year-old Omarion Glass and 17-year-old Riley Pegram on multiple charges, including three counts of attempted murder each.
Related:
Myrtle Beach: 2025-04-29 11 injured, one killed in disturbance turned shooting in Myrtle Beach,
Myrtle Beach: 2025-04-03 Plane bounces on Tampa airport runway while trying to land, video shows
Myrtle Beach: 2024-10-07 Chimney Rock devastation from Helene, approx 25 SE of Ashville, NC
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza medics say at least 60 killed over past day as IDF forges ahead with new offensive
2025-05-21
[IsraelTimes] Military says more than 100 ‘terror targets’ hit, as Hamas health authorities report strikes on civilian infrastructure, including school-turned-shelter

Widespread Israeli strikes 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 killed at least 60 people overnight and into Tuesday afternoon, Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
-run health authorities said, as ground forces pressed forward with the first stages of the major "Gideon’s Chariots" offensive, through which Israel is seeking to "conquer" the war-torn Paleostinian enclave.

Paleostinian health authorities said a number of the strikes targeted civilian infrastructure, including a school-turned-shelter and several family homes.

The IDF, meanwhile, announced that in the past day, the air force had struck more than 100 "terror targets," including a weapons depot, observation posts and buildings used by terror groups — including one used by Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
 for storing weapons.

According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, which does not differentiate between combatants and civilians, at least 22 people were killed on Tuesday when two strikes targeted a family home and a school sheltering displaced people in northern Gaza. It said that more than half of those killed were women and kiddies, although the figures could not be independently verified.

The IDF told AFP that it "struck a Hamas terrorist who was operating from within a command and control center" within the school complex.

In footage from Gaza City, men, women and kiddies could be seen sifting through the rubble of the Daraj neighborhood school where they had been sheltering, and where charred pieces of clothing and a red teddy bear lay among scattered belongings.

At the nearby al-Ahli Hospital, men performed prayers over bodies wrapped in white shrouds, before carrying them to their graves.

"What is our fault? What is the fault of children? What is the fault of the women we found on the stairs with their hair and clothes torn and burned?" said Omar Ahel, who had been sheltering at the school. "By God, this is injustice."

Elsewhere, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said that a strike in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah killed 13 people, and another at a gas station in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp killed 15.

Two strikes in the southern city of Khan Younis were said by Nasser Hospital to have killed 10 people. Outside the hospital, Younis Abu Sahloul said his brother, sister-in-law and their four children were killed in a strike that hit the displaced persons camp without prior warning.

A front man for Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said dozens more people had been maimed.

According to Israeli officials, the fresh offensive launched over the weekend will see the IDF "conquer" Gaza, raze the vast majority of buildings and retain the territory for the foreseeable future; attack Hamas and prevent it from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies; and move Paleostinians from the Strip’s north to its south.

Hamas official angers Gazooks with comments on toll

Even as Israel’s conduct in Gaza has been drawing increasing criticism from the international community, a senior Hamas official angered Gazook residents after dismissing the high corpse count as "material calculations," in a recent interview.

Speaking from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, where he is located, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri
...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest...
 claimed that the number of births in the Gaza Strip — around 50,000 since October 7, 2023, exceeded the number of casualties.

This, he said, demonstrated that the heavy losses did not reflect the broader picture of the conflict with Israel.

"The deaders [killed in the war] — the wombs of Gaza’s women will give birth to twice as many," he said. "This is the price that must be paid. If we thought in material terms, we would not be able to hold onto our land."

The interview originally aired as a podcast in late March, but resurfaced in recent days amid the intensified Israeli strikes, and prompted a wave of backlash from Gazook civilians, who considered the comments deeply disrespectful to the tens of thousands killed.

Many were quick to point out that Abu Zuhri does not reside in Gaza and, as such, is disconnected from the impact of the war.

"A man outside the Strip says that everyone who was killed can simply be replaced. This is someone deluded beyond reason — he’s not one of us," said one Gazook, in a recorded response.

The outrage also spilled out into the streets during an anti-Hamas demonstration in Khan Younis on Monday, where demonstrators could be heard chanting, "Oh Abu Zuhri, you disgrace, even the child wants to live."

More than 500 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in the past eight days, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, which says more than 53,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the war so far.

The tolls cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.

Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January, and another 1,600 turbans inside the country during the October 7, 2023, onslaught, when thousands of Hamas-led turbans killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
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Africa Horn
Faces Behind Widespread Fraud and Human Trafficking Network Exposed in Somalia
2025-05-20
[ShabelleMedia] An extensive criminal network involving Somali nationals has been uncovered following detailed investigations by government authorities. The inquiry has revealed years of involvement in fraudulent schemes and human trafficking operations spanning Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and North America.

Authorities have identified Mohammed Osman Haji Ali, Hamdi Abdulkadir Osman and Mohamud Hassan Ali as the central figures behind the operation. The trio reportedly operated under various false identities, at times presenting themselves as government officials, civil society representatives, think tank researchers or labour experts. Their objective, according to officials, was to infiltrate government institutions and defraud international organizations, including the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
Senior officials within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
 due to the sensitivity of ongoing investigations, confirmed that both Mohammed Osman and Hamdi Abdulkadir recently returned to Somalia from Canada and Sweden, respectively. They submitted to the Ministry what appeared to be a proposal for a labour project, allegedly linked to Ottoman Turkish trade unions and the Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Labour, seeking to solicit millions of US dollars from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
The proposal was initially submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but was later referred to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs for follow-up due to its relevance to labour issues. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
 officials at the Labour Ministry swiftly identified the proposal as fraudulent, exposing it as an attempt to exploit ministerial structures to access foreign funding under false pretences.

Following the collapse of the scheme, Mohammed Osman reportedly shifted his focus to human trafficking. According to official sources, he re-engaged Mohamud Hassan Ali, who had previously served as Director of the Minister’s Office under Minister Abdiwali Ibrahim Sheikh Mudey at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Mohamud reminded Osman of their earlier operations in which individuals had been trafficked to Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
 using forged documents, official stamps and falsified ministerial signatures.

Authorities confirmed that the renewed trafficking scheme was orchestrated by both Mohammed Osman and Mohamud Hassan. The operation involved collecting between $15,000 and $19,000 per person to be smuggled into Europe during 2025. To facilitate the plan, Hamdi Abdulkadir was tasked with pressuring the government, particularly the Ministry of Labour, to endorse the individuals they intended to present as part of a national delegation to Switzerland. Hamdi’s familial connection to a senior government official was repeatedly exploited to influence official decisions and lend legitimacy to the operation. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
 the Labour Ministry rejected the request outright, refusing to approve the inclusion of individuals falsely presented as "labour representatives" intended for human trafficking.

A senior government official stated:

"Hamdi Abdulkadir Osman does not work with our government. Yes, she has a relative in the office, but that does not give her the authority to interfere with how government business is conducted. Her actions constitute criminal misrepresentation. She is putting the integrity of public institutions at risk by seeking to legitimise human trafficking."

Investigators discovered that this was not the first time the trio had been involved in smuggling operations. In 2016, Mohamud Hassan Ali was interrogated by Swiss authorities on suspicion of human trafficking but was not detained after smuggling three individuals into Switzerland. These individuals later absconded to the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, taking advantage of free movement within the Schengen Area. Fearing arrest, Mohamud fled and applied for asylum elsewhere in Europe. In 2018, facing a similar risk of apprehension, Mohammed Osman travelled to the United States, crossed into Canada and claimed asylum in Winnipeg, believing that applying for asylum in Europe would increase the likelihood of arrest.

Despite their asylum applications, both Mohamud and Mohammed reportedly continued their operations remotely through proxies. In 2019, Mohammed Osman used Ahmed Hassan Omar to facilitate the trafficking of Abdilkadir Awil Mohamud into Switzerland, reportedly for a payment of $20,000. Somali authorities, upon discovering the scheme, informed Swiss immigration officials. This led to the denial of a visa for Abdilkadir. Following the failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
, Ahmed Hassan Omar travelled alone to Switzerland, absconded and later applied for asylum in La Belle France. He was eventually deported after fingerprint records in the Schengen database revealed his links to smuggling networks and his asylum application was rejected.

According to witnesses interviewed, the group’s local associate in Mogadishu, Abdisalam Yarow, had been handpicked by Mohammed Osman, while he remains in Canada. He was later exposed and discredited, rendering him irrelevant to the operation. Mohammed Osman then severed ties with Tarow and relied solely on Hamdi Abdulkadir as the new public face of the operation. Hamdi subsequently approached Swedish trade unions and the International Labour Organization (ILO), claiming to be a trade union representative. Her attempts were quickly flagged as dubious and her communications were blocked.

Similarly, Mohammed Osman attempted to contact the Canadian Labour Congress from Winnipeg. Officials there dismissed his approach after identifying him as an impostor posing as a Somali trade unionist. Both the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and ITUC-Africa, along with the ILO, confirmed that Mohammed Osman, Ahmed Hassan Omar and Abdisalam Yarow had been placed on a no-contact list following verification of falsified claims, impersonation and forged credentials.

Reliable sources confirmed that Swiss authorities, already familiar with the criminal activities of Mohammed Osman and Mohamud Hassan, have been alerted once again. Reports indicate that Mohammed, Mohamud and Hamdi had planned to use foreign passports and fraudulent documentation to smuggle individuals through Swiss borders in late May or early June 2025.

According to officials, during an earlier phase of their operations between 2014 and 2016, Mohammed Osman and Mohamud Hassan exploited Mohamud’s position within the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs under Minister Abdiwali Ibrahim Sheikh Mudey to produce official-looking documents that enabled individuals to enter Europe. In one documented case, a forged invitation letter and ministry seal were used to secure entry for individuals who later absconded in Europe.

Recent attempts to revive these activities have failed due to enhanced scrutiny and stronger coordination between Somali ministries and international institutions. The group’s fraudulent association with the so-called Somali Congress of Trade Unions, a fabricated entity created to gain international legitimacy, was also exposed. An individual who had previously worked with Mohammed Osman confirmed that the entity was entirely fictitious. International organizations, including the ILO and ITUC, have since blacklisted the names and email addresses of those involved.

Sources within the Somali government insisted that they are committed to combating human trafficking. Government ministries have been formally alerted and instructed to remain vigilant against criminal actors attempting to exploit national institutions and international partnerships.

Investigations into Mohammed Osman Haji Ali, Hamdi Abdulkadir Osman and Mohamud Hassan Ali are ongoing. Shabelle Media Network has reviewed documentation confirming that their names have been forwarded to Swiss criminal investigation authorities for appropriate legal action in relation to impersonation, fraud and trafficking offences.

In the past three months alone, Somalia’s Immigration and Citizenship Agency (ICA) has arrested 21 individuals involved in human trafficking to the United Kingdom and European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 territories. Several suspects are now being pursued through international channels, with extradition requests underway to bring those hiding in Europe to justice.
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Africa Horn
Somalia: Explosion at Baraawe Airport Causes Deaths and Injuries
2025-05-18
[Garowe] A roadside kaboom near Baraawe Airport in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region went kaboom! today, killing at least two people and injuring five others, local officials said.

The blast targeted a NOAH vehicle traveling to the airport to pick up khat, a stimulant. The explosion caused significant damage to the vehicle, injuring several passengers.

Among the dead, a young man named Omar Carabey was confirmed dead. Others injured in the blast are being treated at hospitals in Baraawe and nearby areas.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack, but the Islamist group al-Shabaab
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
 is known for carrying out similar bombings.

Security forces have launched an investigation into the incident, but no further information has been released by local authorities.
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International-UN-NGOs
Trump’s sanctions on ICC prosecutor said to have halted tribunal’s work
2025-05-16
[IsraelTimes] Key organizations paused cooperation with International Criminal Court, chief prosecutor Karim Khan lost email access; US measures response to arrest warrants issued for Israeli leaders

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.

The Hague-based court’s American staffers have been told that if they travel to the US they risk arrest.

Some non-governmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC and the leaders of one won’t even reply to emails from court officials.

Those are just some of the hurdles facing court staff since US President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
 in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, according to interviews with current and former ICC officials, international lawyers and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
 advocates.

The sanctions will "prevent victims from getting access to justice," warned Liz Evenson, international justice director at Human Rights Watch.

Trump sanctioned the court after a panel of ICC judges in November issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his then-defense minister, Yoav Gallant. The US and Israel are not members of the court.

Judges found there was reason to believe that the pair may have committed war crimes by restricting humanitarian aid and intentionally targeting civilians in Israel’s campaign against the Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
 terror group 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...
 — charges Israeli officials deny.

Israel says it goes to great lengths to avoid harming civilians as it targets Hamas and other terror groups who have built a warren of fortified tunnels under Gaza and routinely use civilian infrastructure like schools and hospitals as command centers and to carry out attacks.

Staffers and allies of the ICC said the sanctions have made it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct basic tasks, let alone seek justice for victims of war crimes or genocide.

A spokesperson for the ICC and for Khan declined to comment. In February, ICC President Judge Tomoko Akane said that the sanctions "constitute serious attacks against the Court’s States Parties, the rule of law based international order and millions of victims."

ORDER TARGETS CHIEF PROSECUTOR
The February order bans Khan and other non-Americans among the ICC’s 900 staff members from entering the United States. It also threatens any person, institution or company with fines and prison time if they provide Khan with "financial, material, or technological support."

The sanctions are hampering work on a broad array of investigations, not just the one into Israel’s leaders.

The ICC, for example, had been investigating atrocities in Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
 and had issued arrest warrants for former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir'>Omar al-Bashir
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. He was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...
 on charges that include genocide. That probe has ground to a halt even as reports mount of new atrocities in Sudan, according to an attorney representing an ICC prosecutor who is fighting the sanctions in US courts. The prosecutor, Eric Iverson, filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking protection from the sanctions.

Her client "cannot do, what I would describe as, basic lawyer functions," said Allison Miller, who is representing Iverson in the suit.

American staffers at the organization, like Iverson, have been warned by its attorneys that they risk arrest if they return home to visit family, according to ICC officials. Six bigwigs have left the court over concerns about sanctions.

One reason the court has been hamstrung is that it relies heavily on contractors and non-governmental organizations. Those businesses and groups have curtailed work on behalf of the court because they were concerned about being targeted by US authorities, according to current and former ICC staffers.

Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the United Kingdom have been blocked.

Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment.

Staffers at a non-governmental organization that plays an integral role in the court’s efforts to gather evidence and find witnesses said the group has transferred money out of US bank accounts because they fear it might be seized by the Trump administration.

Senior leadership at two other US-based human rights organizations told the AP that their groups have stopped working with the ICC. A senior staffer at one told the AP that employees have even stopped replying to emails from court officials out of fear of triggering a response from the Trump administration.

The cumulative effect of such actions has led ICC staffers to openly wonder whether the organization can survive the Trump administration, according to ICC officials who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal.

Said one such official: "It’s hard to see how the court makes it through the next four years."

TRUMP ALLEGED ICC’S ACTIONS WERE BASELESS
Trump, a staunch supporter of Netanyahu, issued his sanctions order shortly after retaking office, accusing the ICC of "illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel." Washington says the court has no jurisdiction over Israel.

Trump’s order said the ICC’s "actions against Israel and the United States set a dangerous precedent, directly endangering current and former United States personnel, including active service members of the Armed Forces." He said the court’s "malign conduct" threatens "the illusory sovereignty of the United States and undermines the critical national security and foreign policy work of the United States Government."

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Netanyahu has dismissed the ICC’s allegations as "absurd," and Israel’s Knesset is considering legislation that would make providing evidence to the court a crime.

Israel launched its offensive after Hamas-led turbans stormed into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 as hostages to Gaza. Of those, 57, over half of whom are believed dead, are still in captivity, plus the body of a soldier held for the past decade.

COPING WITH DARK HUMOR
Inside the court, staffers have been coping with dark humor, joking about how they cannot even loan Khan a pen or risk appearing on the US radar.

This is not the first time the ICC has drawn Trump’s ire. In 2020, the former Trump administration sanctioned Khan’s predecessor, Fatou Bensouda, and one of her deputies over the court’s investigation into alleged crimes committed in Afghanistan while the United States military was operating in the country.

US president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
 rescinded the sanctions when he took office several months later.

Three lawsuits are now pending from US court staff and consultants against the Trump administration, arguing that the sanctions infringe on their freedom of expression. Earlier this week Iverson, the lawyer investigating genocide in Sudan, won temporary protection from prosecution but if other US citizens at the court want a similar assurance, they would have to bring their own complaint.

Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, a triangular dorsal fin appeared in the water. Then another...
 the court is facing an increasing lack of cooperation from countries normally considered to be its staunchest supporters.

The ICC has no enforcement apparatus of its own and relies on member states. In the last year, three countries — including two in the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 — have refused to execute warrants issued by the court.

The renewed assault from the Trump administration comes as the court was already facing internal challenges. Last year, just weeks before Khan announced he was requesting arrest warrants for the Israeli officials, two court staff reported the British barrister had harassed a female aide, according to reporting by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

Khan has categorically denied the accusations that he groped and tried to coerce a female aide into a sexual relationship. A United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
 investigation is underway, and Khan has since been accused of retaliating against staff who supported the woman, including demoting several people he felt were critical of him.
Related:
International Criminal Court: 2025-05-13 Israel asks ICC to withdraw arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant
International Criminal Court: 2025-05-12 Sexual allegations against Khan spurred Israeli ICC arrest warrants, report suggests
International Criminal Court: 2025-05-06 Israeli gov’t report accuses West of bolstering antisemitism by criticizing Israel
Related:
Karim Khan 05/12/2025 Sexual allegations against Khan spurred Israeli ICC arrest warrants, report suggests
Karim Khan 05/06/2025 Israeli gov’t report accuses West of bolstering antisemitism by criticizing Israel
Karim Khan 04/30/2025 ICC prosecutor reportedly ordered to keep silent on arrest warrants for Israelis

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Al Jazeera says Palestinian Authority has allowed it to resume work in West Bank
2025-05-13
[IsraelTimes] Qatari network was banned by PA from broadcasting in the territory following ‘misinformation’ and ‘incitement’ in its coverage of Ramallah’s crackdown on terror groups

Al Jazeera’s Ramallah bureau chief said Monday that the news channel can resume working in the West Bank, after Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
 lifted a ban that had been in place since January.

"Paleostinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to lift the ban on the Al Jazeera network and allow its crews to resume work in the Paleostinian territories starting tomorrow morning," Waleed Omari said, in a statement to the Israeli-Paleostinian Foreign Press Association.

A Paleostinian official confirmed the removal of the ban to AFP, but the PA did not issue a formal announcement.

The Paleostinian Authority in January ordered the temporary suspension of Al Jazeera broadcasts across the West Bank, against the backdrop of the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i network’s critical coverage of Ramallah’s crackdown on terror groups in the territory.

The PA accused the network of "misinformation, incitement, sedition and interference in Paleostinian internal affairs."

In late December, Al Jazeera had condemned what it said was an "incitement campaign" by PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party against the network in some areas of the West Bank.

"This campaign follows the network’s coverage of festivities between Paleostinian security forces and resistance fighters in Jenin," Al Jazeera said in a statement at the time, lionizing the anti-PA fighters, many of whom were affiliated with the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
 and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
 terror groups.

The Qatari broadcaster has close ties with Hamas and has long been accused of having a distinct anti-Israel slant.

The network is already banned from broadcasting from Israel, amid a long-running feud with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has only worsened during the ongoing war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. Israeli officials have long complained about Al Jazeera’s coverage, which they say is heavily influenced by Hamas and endangers IDF troops in Gaza.

A court, reviewing the temporary ban, determined that there was a "close connection" between Al Jazeera and Hamas, that some Al Jazeera news hounds in Gaza had turned themselves into "assistants and partners" with Hamas, and that some of them had even carried out terror attacks.
Related:
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Home Front: Politix
US Marines Panama 1989: US invasion of Panama was first step toward the 'forever wars'
2025-05-11
[Responsible Statecraft] When the red tracers of an AC130 gunship’s minigun slashed through the warm, dry night skies above Panama City at 12:41 AM on December 20, 1989, few guessed that it would mark an opening stanza in America’s expansive unipolar moment.

In the hours that followed, more than 20,000 U.S. troops conducted a swift and violent invasion of a sovereign state to remove the inconvenient and venal regime of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, who had embarrassed and bedeviled U.S. policymakers for years.

Now nearly forgotten, this invasion — bequeathed with the trite and even cynical name of "Operation JUST CAUSE" — marked a tentative but crucial first step toward the "forever wars" of today. Freed from the frightening, but disciplining, constraints of the Cold War, American leaders were now unchecked by rival powers, and the very perception of success for Operation JUST CAUSE would help shape their decisions going forward.

Conceived as the illegitimate child of America’s late 19th and early 20th century flirtation with regional imperialism and the naval theories of U.S. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, Panama and its canal have long exerted significant pull over U.S. strategy and domestic politics. A more fulsome account of the U.S.-Panamanian relationship is beyond the scope of this essay, but the hypocrisy and bad faith on both sides in this tragicomic saga has few equals, even in the annals of U.S. hemispheric policy.

The 1977 Panama Canal Treaty was ratified against fierce Republican opposition, and it provided for a 22-year turnover transition during which time there would be a hybrid administration of the Canal Zone. By 1989, this resulted in a dizzying checkerboard of U.S. and Panama Defense Force (PDF) military installations interspersed next to and co-located with each other across the isthmus. The U.S. reserved the treaty right to intervene militarily to protect the canal.

The agreement, however, was predicated upon the assumption of good relations between the signatories, a dubious proposition even under the nationalist but pragmatic Panamanian regime of Omar Torrijos. When the cartoonishly duplicitous Manuel Noriega assumed de facto power in Panama after Torrijos’ death in 1981, he initially leveraged support for Reagan’s policies in Central America to mask his growing ties with drug cartels and other adversaries. This awkward fling ended, when Noriega’s 1987 indictment on federal drug charges ushered in a hostile turn in relations.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says terrorists near defeat in Rafah, fighting now limited to one neighborhood
2025-05-11
[IsraelTimes] Military says some 60 terror targets across Gaza hit in past day; Hamas authorities report over 20 killed and dozens more wounded

The Israeli military said Saturday that it was close to defeating all remaining Palestinian terror operatives in southern Gaza’s Rafah, with fighting now only taking place in the Janina neighborhood.

Troops of the Golani Brigade have been operating in Janina in recent days. The Israel Defense Forces said the soldiers had destroyed terror infrastructures, located dozens of tunnel shafts and killed dozens of operatives.

“Janina is the last area where fighting against terrorists in the Rafah Brigade is taking place,” the military said.

Four IDF soldiers have been killed and several others have been wounded during fighting in the Janina area in the past week.

Meanwhile, the military said that over the past day, the Israeli Air Force had struck some 60 terror targets across the Gaza Strip. Hamas authorities reported 23 killed and dozens more wounded in the previous 24 hours.

In the Strip’s north, the IDF said troops of the 252nd Division killed two gunmen who approached forces; in the Morag Corridor area, the 36th Division struck a booby-trapped building where several operatives were located; and in Rafah, Gaza Division forces destroyed Hamas infrastructure both above and below ground.

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said that five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent in Gaza City — all members of a single family, according to relatives. The figures could not be verified and did not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

“Three children, their mother and her husband were sleeping inside a tent and were bombed by an [Israeli] occupation aircraft,” family member Omar Abu al-Kass told AFP. The strikes came “without warning and without [them] having done anything wrong,” Abu al-Kass alleged, saying he was the children’s maternal grandfather.
Awful things happen to people in war zones. Next time don’t start a war, and things like this won’t happen.
The Israeli army, which resumed its offensive in Gaza on March 18 after a two-month truce, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the strike. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.

On Saturday morning, the army said that nine IDF soldiers, including two senior officers, were lightly wounded by an explosive device in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood overnight.

The troops of the Jerusalem Brigade were carrying out scans in Shejaiya when the blast went off. Among the wounded were the commander of the Jerusalem Brigade’s 6310th Battalion and the deputy commander of the 252nd Division. All were taken to a hospital in good condition, the army said.

Sources close to Hamas said Friday that a delegation from the terror group held two meetings with Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Doha this week, but they produced no breakthrough in the search for a Gaza truce.

The developments come as Israel and the US look to resume aid deliveries to Gaza while preventing food, medicine and other basic items from being hoarded by Hamas, as they say the terror group has repeatedly done with past supplies.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that US President Donald Trump expressed frustration with his promised tasks of ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza in a meeting with top donors in Florida last week. Citing people who were in the room, the report said that Trump had said finding a solution in Gaza was difficult because “they’d been fighting for a thousand years.”
Hamas doesn’t want to end the war, they want the world to force Israel to surrender. President Trump thought the same way the Israelis did on 10/6/2023 — now he has learnt what they did.

Gazan media claims 8 killed in overnight Israeli strikes near Khan Younis
Palestinian media reports claim eight have been killed, including children, in Israeli strikes overnight near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, amid escalating fighting between the IDF and the Hamas terror group in the Strip.

A drone strike is also reported hours later in Khan Younis’s Al-Amal neighborhood.

There is no immediate word from the IDF.

IAF struck around 60 terror sites across Gaza over past day, military says
[IsraelTimes] Over the past day, the Israeli Air Force struck some 60 “terror targets” across the Gaza Strip, the military says.

Hamas authorities reported 23 killed and dozens more wounded during the previous 24 hours.

The strikes come as ground troops continue to operate in Gaza.

In the Strip’s north, the IDF says troops of the 252nd Division killed two armed terror operatives who approached forces; in the Morag Corridor area, the 36th Division struck a booby-trapped building where several operatives were; and in Rafah, Gaza Division forces destroyed Hamas infrastructure both above and below ground.

Israeli authorities did not allow fuel into Gaza this week, contrary to Walla report
[IsraelTimes] Contrary to a report by the Walla news site, Israeli authorities did not allow 75,000 liters of fuel into the Gaza Strip this week.

Walla, without citing sources, claims two tanks with 75,000 liters of fuel entered Gaza on Wednesday.

The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) denies this, saying that no aid, including fuel, entered Gaza this week. There are no Palestinian reports of the fuel entering the Strip either.

Israel stopped allowing aid into Gaza on March 2 after the first phase of a ceasefire and hostage release deal concluded. It is set to resume aid deliveries in the coming weeks, as part of a US-backed plan that aims to prevent food and supplies from reaching Hamas.
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India-Pakistan
New explosions hit India after ceasefire announcements with Pakistan
2025-05-11
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Paks can't control their jihadi militants.
The Pakistanis have indeed claimed that ever since they first sent jihadis in to conquer Kashmir before Pakistan was separated from India at independence. Granted, they only managed to get partway across before the Indians stopped them, but one of these times the jihadis they’ve financed, equipped, and trained will finally succeed in finishing the job — completely uncontrolled, really.
[Regnum] Several explosions occurred in the capital of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the city of Srinagar, on the evening of May 10. This was reported by the region's chief minister Omar Abdullah.

The blasts came hours after India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire agreement.

"What just happened to the ceasefire? Explosions are heard all over Srinagar," Abdullah wrote on his social media page.

CNN reported that there were “multiple” explosions. ANI reported that drones were seen in the skies over Udhampur. According to these reports, the air defense system was activated and the city’s electricity was cut off.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on May 10, US President Donald Trump said that India and Pakistan, with Washington's mediation, had agreed to a complete ceasefire. The parties confirmed this statement, and the ceasefire came into effect.
And very exciting it was, too, until the parties of the Pakistani part broke it. Mr. Wife, who worked in India once upon a time, thought it might actually last only minutes. I thought they would hold on at least until midnight, to keep President Trump sweet. Mr. Wife won, darn it.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio added that, in addition to the ceasefire, the parties to the conflict also agreed to meet on neutral territory and discuss "a wide range of issues."

The conflict between India and Pakistan began to escalate on April 22, after a terrorist group attacked tourists in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. At least 27 people were killed in the attack. The attackers managed to escape.
Pakistan’s Lashkar-e Taiba pretending to be a local “resistance” group.
On May 6, India launched Operation Sindoor, declaring it was targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan. Pakistani authorities said the Indian military had targeted civilian targets.
They did say that, yes. That’s how they define where they park their pet jihadi groups — the traditional Arabic term is ribat, a base to house fighters while they rest and prepare for the next attack to expand the ummah.
There have been several exchanges of fire along the border between the two countries, and there have been reports of dogfights between fighter jets, drone strikes and missile strikes. Both sides have accused each other of attacking civilian targets and have expressed their willingness to stop escalating in the wake of their adversary.

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Indian Foreign Ministry Accuses Pakistan of Ceasefire Violation

The Pakistani side violated the agreement with India on establishing a ceasefire, Indian First Deputy Foreign Minister Vikram Misri said on May 10.

"There have been repeated violations of the agreement reached earlier this evening between the Directors General of Military Operations of India and Pakistan in the last two hours," Misri told reporters.

He stressed that the Indian Armed Forces are giving an adequate response to violations. The Indian diplomatic mission called on Pakistan to take appropriate measures to eliminate violations and "treat the situation seriously and responsibly."

Misri added that the Indian Armed Forces "have been instructed to deal decisively with any instance of recurrence of border violations along the international border."

As reported by Regnum news agency, the conflict between India and Pakistan escalated after a terrorist group attacked a group of tourists in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir on April 22. At least 26 people were killed in the attack.

Two days later, India blocked the flow of the Indus River into Pakistan and expelled Pakistan's military attachés. In turn, Pakistani authorities suspended bilateral agreements with New Delhi, closed Indian airspace, and declared that any attempt to stop or divert the flow of water would be considered an act of war.

There have been several exchanges of fire along the border between the two countries, and there have been reports of dogfights between fighter jets, drone strikes and missile strikes. Both sides have accused each other of attacking civilian targets and have expressed their willingness to stop escalating in the wake of their adversary.

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Europe
French pro-Palestinian group contests government decision to shut it down
2025-05-10
[IsraelTimes] A French pro-Palestinian protest group is contesting a government decision to shut it down, saying the move was politically motivated and based on “false” arguments as part of a wider crackdown on the movement for Palestinian rights.

Urgence Palestine (Emergency Palestine), created in 2023 to protest against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, filed its counterarguments to the shutdown procedure on Thursday, their lawyer Elsa Marcel says.

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, explaining the decision, said in a letter dated April 28 to one of the group’s founders, Omar Alsoumi, that Urgence Palestine had provoked violent acts, including toward Jewish people, and had called for armed struggle.

Asked about the decision, Alsoumi tells Reuters, “This shows the partiality of the French government on the genocidal war that the Palestinian people are experiencing.”

He says the group, which has been organizing protests across France over the past 19 months, rejects any conflation of Jews and the Israeli government and that Palestinians have the right to resist occupation under international law.

The French Interior Ministry does not respond to a request for comment.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Militant attack in Dagestan highlights past flaws in government tactics
2025-05-07
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[KavkazUzel] The attack in Makhachkala and other recent armed incidents in Dagestan are only indirectly connected, although they stem from common premises that the authorities have not eliminated over the years of fighting the underground - social injustice and legal problems. 

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", on May 5 there was an attack on a traffic police unit in Makhachkala. The police stopped a car to check documents and were shot at with machine guns. In the shootout, two police officers were killed, two more security officers and three civilians were wounded, including a woman and a 17-year-old girl. There were two attackers,  both were killed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said, refuting the previously disseminated information about four participants in the attack. Today, the Investigative Committee announced that one of the attackers survived and is in the hospital, and also admitted guilt. 

The attack on security forces in Makhachkala was at least the third armed incident in Dagestan in two months. Since May 2022, seven  similar incidents have occurred in the republic: two were recorded in 2024, one more in May 2023 and one in May 2022. "Caucasian Knot" maintains an updated chronicle " Dagestan: Chronicle of Terror (1996-2025) ".

The attack in Makhachkala in the context of recent incidents in Dagestan that preceded it was commented on to the "Caucasian Knot" by retired police colonel Amir Kolov, representative of the republic's Public Monitoring Commission Shamil Khadulaev, journalist Milrad Fatullaev and his colleague, who wished to speak on condition of anonymity. 

THE MOTIVES FOR THE ATTACK ARE STILL UNCLEAR.
The armed incidents that have occurred in Dagestan since the beginning of the year do not yet allow us to say that some kind of systemic underground movement is being revived in the republic, believes a journalist from the Makhachkala publication, who wished to speak on condition of anonymity.

"The motives of the attackers are unknown, there is no information that they swore allegiance to any movement or that they themselves held extreme views. So far, these events do not appear to be part of some systematic underground work," he emphasized.

He trusts the correction of the Interior Ministry's report that there were not four but two attackers. "This is confirmed by the analysis of video recordings and the chronology of events. The appearance of information about four militants is a consequence of the fact that there was a little confusion associated with the flow of disparate information from unofficial resources, and the official ones were slow in working," the journalist explained. 

He added that videos from the scene of the incident showed a rare case - a wounded and unarmed policeman was able to defeat his opponent in hand-to-hand combat. "The video shows that the militant was walking towards him with a large knife and clearly posed a threat," the journalist noted. 

The previous armed incident involving law enforcement officers occurred on April 23 in Derbent, where a car driver refused to stop at the request of law enforcement officers, ran over one of them and opened fire, wounding one of the police officers. Law enforcement officers shot the driver. It was later announced that the victim  was preparing a terrorist attack on the Ministry of Internal Affairs department together with other residents of the republic, and four suspects were detained.

Milrad Fatullayev also doubts that the various attacks could indicate some kind of revival of a single armed underground. "I think that to some extent this underground continued to exist, it was not completely eradicated. It is no secret that some part was ready and could, under certain conditions, take up arms, which happens before and during holidays. If we talk about whether these crimes are connected, I think not. Even if they have common curators, they are external, and they led these people separately. These were underground sleeper cells that woke up at a certain signal or instruction from their curators," he said.

The journalist agrees that a terrorist attack took place in Derbent. "What happened in Derbent, where a policeman also tried to stop a car and the driver opened fire, and then two or three of his associates were detained, I am sure that it was a terrorist attack. The weapons they had were not intended to resolve any criminal issues. They were traveling with some other political goals and objectives," Fatulaev believes.

LAWYER CALLS FOR LEAVING MILITANTS ALIVE
In order to save the lives of police officers in the future, the Dagestani authorities should move away from the usual methods of counter-terrorism and "try as hard as possible to keep alive" the participants in attacks, believes lawyer and public figure Arsen Magomedov. 

"Their murder (neutralization) hides many secrets that could help society better understand this problem and take measures to solve it. After all, without understanding the motives of the criminals, the details of their preparation and other aspects, it is impossible to effectively protect ourselves in the future. If the criminals acted out of religious hatred, then it is necessary to urgently develop a plan of measures to increase the loyalty of the religious community to the police (...) Of course, it is important to exclude the involvement of the police in actions that the religious community perceives as an infringement of their rights," Magomedov wrote on his Telegram channel, noting that there is experience of such measures in foreign practice.

On June 23, 2024, on Trinity Day, which is one of the main Christian holidays, militants  attacked  synagogues and Orthodox churches in Derbent and Makhachkala. As a result, at least 22 people were killed and 46 were injured. Investigators believe that the group whose members carried out the attacks was created by the son of the head of the Sergokalinsky district,  Magomed Omarov. "Caucasian Knot" has prepared reports " The Main Thing About the Participants in the Attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent " and " Attacks on the Church, Synagogues, and Security Forces in Dagestan ".

SOCIAL TENSION REMAINS A PREREQUISITE FOR EXTREMISM
There is an indirect connection between the May 5 attack and the terrorist attack in the summer of 2024, when militants attacked police officers in Makhachkala in almost the same place, believes Shamil Khadulaev.

"After last year's terrorist attack, I knew that we would have more emergencies. Watching what was happening and understanding the trend of where we were going, this was to be expected. After the terrorist attack in June last year, I said that this, unfortunately, will not stop. Wherever you go, there is one continuous problem: corruption, problems with human rights, the gap between the poor majority and the rich, other problems," he told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In order to prevent such terrorist attacks, it is important to work in this direction among young people." According to Khadulaev, the "airport case" also played a significant role in increasing public discontent. "These are flaws in the judicial system: we see how trials are conducted, where all the indictments are carbon copies and everyone gets roughly the same sentences, 8-10 years. Even for murder they don't give that much, no matter where the trial takes place. But we understand that this cannot be," he said.

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