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This shocking clip features Detroit-based physician Dr. Nidal Jboor, who employs violent language calling for “war criminals” in Israel, Tel Aviv, Washington, Germany, and all around the world, to be targeted, under the false pretense of “saving children.”
“We all know who they are… They need to be locked up. They need to be taken out. They need to be neutralized to save children, to save humanity.”
He may use the rhetorical cover of “war criminals” to disguise his words, but his language nonetheless promotes violence against people who support Israel, i.e., Jews.
A doctor who has sworn to do no harm should never use this type of rhetoric. It endangers Jewish lives and fuels extremism.
Flashback: Outside Philadelphia City Hall last July 4th, masked anti-Israel, anti-America extremists gathered and lit dozens of American flags on fire. This was a deliberate act of intimidation aimed at the country that protects their freedoms. This wasn’t a protest, but a display of radicalism and contempt for the very democratic values they exploit.
This is a reminder that Israel may be the first target of these protesters, but it won’t be the last. Their war is against the entire system of values that undergirds the Western world.
Their hatred for the United States and their hatred for Israel are part of the same violent ideology.
Israeli windsurfer Daniela Peleg won her second consecutive championship title, this time taking 1st place at the iQFOIL European Championships in Sferracavallo, Sicily, which finished yesterday. Peleg was crowned European champion alongside Dutch athlete Luuc van Opzeeland, who won the men’s division.
Israel continues to shine on the world stage, and Peleg’s back-to-back victories are a reminder of the talent, dedication, and resilience that Israeli athletes represent. Mazal tov to Daniela on another extraordinary achievement!
A new video from Tel Aviv features a Muslim female bus driver who shares a simple truth: she feels respected by Israelis, and in her words, “when war happens, it happens to everyone and when peace happens, it’s peace for everyone.”
Her message is a powerful reminder of what everyday life in Israel actually looks like not the divisive narratives pushed online, but real neighbors, real coexistence, and real mutual respect.
In a region often defined by extremism, voices of regular, everyday people like her show the humanity, dignity, and shared future that most of the moderate world desperately wants.
In a newly surfaced video, Palestinian-American attorney Huwaida Arraf declares: “We don’t want dialogue, two-state solution...Zionism needs to be dismantled.” This isn’t diplomacy. It isn’t “criticism of policy.” It’s the open demonization and delegitimization of Israel, the world’s only Jewish state.
Calls to “dismantle” Israel are calls to erase millions of Jews from their homeland. This rhetoric fuels extremism on campuses, in streets, and online, and it endangers Jewish students who are targeted simply for supporting Israel’s right to exist.
We must name this hatred clearly and push back against those who normalize it.
For months, the world heard that Gaza was already in “famine.” But updated nutrition data shows that some of the most alarming claims were based on incomplete information, screening methods that tend to overestimate malnutrition, and hyperbolic projections that did not hold up.
None of this denies that Gaza is facing a serious humanitarian crisis amidst Israel’s war against Hamas. It simply means widely circulated famine claims were overstated, yet still repeated uncritically by major media outlets and institutions.
Those exaggerated claims had real consequences. They fueled accusations that Israel was deliberately starving civilians, inflaming global hostility toward Jewish communities based on data that later proved inaccurate.
At a conference in Istanbul, Turkey the national director of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) declared that Holocaust museums are “propaganda.” This is open Holocaust distortion from an organization that already plays a major role in fomenting anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hostility on U.S. campuses.
Dismissing Holocaust education as “propaganda” is a tactic straight out of the extremist playbook: erase Jewish history, delegitimize Jewish trauma, and normalize the rhetoric that fuels violence against Jews today. When leaders of activist groups say this publicly, it reveals exactly what their movements stand for.
We must call this what it is, dangerous historical revisionism that threatens Jewish safety and poisons public discourse.
NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan has been suspended for 15 months for antisemitic and pro-terrorism rhetoric she spread online. For now, she cannot endanger Jewish patients or bring extremist ideology into a medical setting, a basic safeguard that should never have required public outrage to enforce.
But this is not the end. One suspension does not resolve the deeper issue of professionals in positions of trust promoting violent hatred toward Jews. Accountability must continue, and institutions must ensure that extremist rhetoric has real consequences.
