Exposing Jewish Exceptionalism In Canadian Media
The misguided belief in eternal Jewish victimhood is being weaponized to help allow Israel’s genocide to continue
By Davide Mastracci ∙ The Maple ∙ September 3, 2025
Over the past decade, I’ve written extensively on the pro-Israel bias in Canadian media. This article will focus on something different, but which helps shape the bias: Jewish exceptionalism.
You can find articles about how various -isms and -phobias impact Canadian media: homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, classism, racism, sexism, etc. And yet, there’s little out there on Jewish exceptionalism, which is increasingly being analyzed by commentators outside of the country.
Jewish exceptionalism is the belief that Jewish people as a demographic are eternally and ontologically oppressed, no matter the circumstances, and as such should be treated differently. Jewish exceptionalists refer to antisemitism as the “oldest hatred,” and treat it as though it’s the only one powerful enough to make its targets a permanently marginalized group.
This incorrect analysis fails to take into account the status of Jewish people in Canada and elsewhere over at least the past few decades. While Jews remain the targets of alleged hate crimes (though reports on the issue vastly overstate the reality), they face no systemic discrimination and generally fare exceptionally well in Canada and elsewhere on all other markers used to measure oppression. As a point of comparison, few that anyone would take seriously argue that dozens of churches being burned down in acts of arson since 2021 make Christians an oppressed group in Canada.
This article will illustrate how Jewish exceptionalist sentiment underlies much of the discussion in Canadian media involving Jewish Zionists by outlining five tropes, providing examples of them in mainstream publications and explaining how they smuggle in the idea that Jewish people are exceptional and should be treated as such. The tropes are: ‘Jewish-owned business’; ‘blood libel’; ‘Jewish state’; ‘Jewish neighbourhood’; ‘list of Jews.’
While this article could have been written at any point in recent years, I’ve done so now because Israel, the state claiming to represent Jews and which enjoys widespread support from them according to polling, is committing a genocide in the name of Jewish supremacy, the most explicit form of Jewish exceptionalism. Those who defend Israel and seek to undermine the pro-Palestine movement also utilize arguments that rely on Jewish exceptionalism to do so.
As such, these tropes deserve to be identified and refuted because they strengthen narratives defending the worst atrocity of our time: Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
‘Jewish-Owned Business’
The term “Jewish-owned business” appeared in Canadian newspapers 70 times between Oct. 7, 2023, and Aug. 31, 2025, according to the Canadian Newsstream database. This represents about 78 per cent of the times it had ever been used in Canadian newspapers up to that point.
Since October 7, the term has typically been used in reference to businesses that happen to be owned by Jewish people being targeted by pro-Palestine protesters. Those using the term typically employ the following logic in their articles: 1) the owner of a business is Jewish; 2) their business is being protested or boycotted in some form; 3) the action is happening because the owner is Jewish; 4) therefore, the protests are morally wrong and potentially illegal, and should be condemned.
As an example, a March 2024 editorial in The Globe and Mail erroneously stated as a fact that, “An Indigo bookstore in Toronto was vandalized, because the chain’s founder is Jewish,” and then added, “A democratic country cannot let this stand. And yet it is happening right before our eyes.”
There are genuine historical examples of Jewish businesses being protested or boycotted because of their owners’ religious backgrounds, such as in Nazi Germany, and they have justifiably received widespread condemnation. And yet, despite the explicit comparisons to these examples that commentators will make to generate an emotional response and demonize pro-Palestine protesters, the most high-profile instances of this sort of rhetoric being used in Canadian media have been cases where the owner’s religious identity had nothing to do with the protests and/or boycotts of their business.
In the case of Indigo, as I wrote in October 2024, “the store was targeted because Indigo CEO Heather Reisman is behind the HESEG Foundation, which offers a range of perks to so-called ‘lone soldiers’ who travel to Israel from abroad to join the army.” And as I wrote in October 2023, Café Landwer, an Israeli chain of restaurants, has been boycotted because its co-founder and CEO served in the Israeli military and it opened a location in Jerusalem atop the remains of a Muslim cemetery, among other reasons.
If you revisit the logic I outlined above, and remove the claim the business is being targeted because its owner is Jewish (which is clearly not the case with Indigo and Café Landwer), it breaks down to: the owner is Jewish and therefore their business should not be targeted. The implication here is that it’s OK to target businesses owned by other demographic groups, but not ones owned by Jewish people.
There are cases in Canadian media where this point is made explicitly.
In a March 2024 Toronto Star article, columnist Andrew Phillips writes, “It should have been obvious that an event featuring two such controversial leaders would be targeted by protesters, especially since pro-Palestinian demonstrators have been taking every opportunity to go into the streets and make their views known. And in this case it was a legitimate time and place to protest. They weren’t demonstrating outside a Jewish-owned business, a Jewish community centre, Mount Sinai Hospital or a synagogue in Thornhill, as happened on Sunday. All those should be out of bounds for protests about Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza and the thousands of civilian deaths it’s caused.”
This is an astonishing claim. Others have made the point a bit more subtly.
Former Liberal MP and now Toronto Star columnist and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center CEO Michael Levitt wrote in an October 2023 article: “What Jews are now seeing in Canada is reason for serious concern, including for the safety of their children at schools and universities. It’s the source of tremendous anguish and pain. Anguish and pain from seeing demonstrators converge on Café Landwer in downtown Toronto, calling for a boycott of a Jewish-owned business.”
And in a November 2023 National Post article, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather wrote, “The worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust somehow unleashed a wave of hate in Canada and around the world. Demonstrations have taken place outside an antisemitism conference in Ottawa, as well as a Jewish community centre in Toronto. Some demonstrators have called for the boycott of a Jewish-owned business.”
In both cases, the authors don’t make an attempt to prove the businesses in question are being boycotted because of their owners’ religious backgrounds, or even make that claim. Instead, the simple fact that a Jewish-owned business is being targeted is portrayed as a problem, with the implication being that doing so is out of bounds because the owner is Jewish.
The fact that antisemitic boycotts of Jewish businesses existed in the past when Jews were an oppressed group is used to imply or state that any boycotts of Jewish-owned businesses now must be hateful as well, despite the fact that the boycotts have nothing to do with the owners’ religious identities. This is Jewish exceptionalism.
‘Blood Libel’
The Holocaust Encyclopedia defines “blood libel” as “the false allegation that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish, usually Christian children, for ritual purposes.”
“Blood libel” appeared in Canadian newspapers 123 times between Oct. 7, 2023, and Aug. 31, 2025, according to the Canadian Newsstream database. I came across just two examples among the 123 of a writer arguing a pro-Palestine commentator invoked what could be interpreted as a version of a blood libel in their writing/speech. (One of them happened to be Norman Finkelstein in 2019.) In the vast majority of cases, the term was used to refer to individuals and/or organizations alleging Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza — allegations that don’t include claims of Israel killing Palestinian children to use their blood for ritual purposes.
Blood libel has a historical definition of which these authors are or should be aware. The discourse pointed to by these authors almost never meets this definition, and they do not make any attempt to prove that it does. And yet, they still wield this accusation.
The writers who use the term “blood libel” will argue I’m being disingenuous here, and that the term now means something else: accusing Jews of anything they’re not guilty of, which leads to Jewish people as a whole facing potential retribution. They are partially correct, as this is how they generally use the term now, though writers don’t note this change in their work when doing so. And yet, the fact that this is the case is actually an example of Jewish exceptionalist thought at work.
“Blood libel” was coined to refer to Jewish people in the Middle Ages — a genuinely oppressed group — being blamed for something of which they weren’t guilty. The term is now used freely by pro-Israel commentators as if nothing has changed since then.
In fact, much has: Jewish people are no longer an oppressed group, and are the beneficiaries of Jewish supremacy in Israel; the allegations made against the Jewish people who make up the vast majority of the Israeli army and political system are credible; the people making these allegations don’t argue the aggressors commit their alleged crimes because they’re Jewish. Despite all of this, “blood libel” is constantly used in Canadian media in an attempt to counter serious allegations against Israel.
National Post comment editor Carson Jerema, for example, wrote in a December 2023 article, “Hamas is using its population as a human shield to blame Israel for civilian deaths and to perpetuate the blood libel that the Jewish state is committing genocide, and the nonsense left is eating it up without question.”
Former Conservative MP and Cabinet member Joe Oliver wrote in a May 2024 National Post article: “Many people buy into the hideous blood libel of genocide of which Israel has been accused since October 7.”
And in a May 2024 article in The Globe and Mail, Noah Richler, the son of Mordechai Richler, wrote, “The blood libel of the Middle Ages makes Israelis in Gaza the deliberate, premeditated mass murderers not just of children and babies but, in the wake of the bombing of a fertility clinic, Jews wilfully slaughtering their enemies even before they are born.”
In calling these charges blood libels (a historic, antisemitic trope), the writers seem to believe it’s antisemitic for people to accuse Israel of genocide — not simply wrong on a factual basis, but inherently antisemitic. They do so because they seem to buy into Jewish exceptionalist thought, where Jewish people are always an oppressed victim group, unable to be oppressors in the way others can be.
I’ve never come across this type of claim in mainstream Canadian publications about another group.
A June 2021 article from The Conversation states, “In addition to the February [2021] motion against China’s treatment of its Uyghur population, Canada recognizes seven other genocides: the Holocaust during the Second World War, the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian famine genocide (Holodomor), the Rwandan genocide, the Srebrenica massacres, the mass killing of the Yazidi people and the mass murder of the Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar.”
There are groups of people for each of these events who allege they don’t meet the criteria for genocide. But I’ve yet to find mainstream discussion that posits the allegations of genocide are in-and-of themselves hateful against the ethnic/religious group whose members are accused of perpetrating the genocide. For example, I haven’t found articles in any mainstream Canadian outlets alleging that it’s hateful against Russians, Hutus or Turkish people to accuse the states and/or forces purporting to represent them of committing genocide, nor any willingness to treat such claims from the fringes seriously.
As such, Israel is clearly treated as an exceptional state: writers see its Jewishness as making it incapable of genocide, and therefore imply it’s inherently antisemitic to make such an accusation regardless of the clear evidence for it and abundant examples of it being made against forces representing other religious and ethnic groups.
‘Jewish State’
The term “Jewish state” appeared in Canadian newspapers 1,514 times between Oct. 7, 2023, and Aug. 31, 2025, according to the Canadian Newsstream database. A review of these usages in the “commentary” category of articles revealed that the phrase was often used by supporters of Israel defending it against heinous crimes.
This type of usage may be disorienting for some readers, who don’t comprehend why those who support Israel and purport to want to defend Jews everywhere continuously bring up the state’s Jewishness in discussions of its atrocities where it’s not relevant. This would intuitively make sense if done by an antisemite, for example, but why would someone — Jewish or otherwise — who claims to want the best for Jewish people do it?
In some cases, the term is used to imply or outright state that Israel is only being accused of crimes because it’s a “Jewish state.” But as the evidence of Israel’s crimes has mounted, and the term continues to be used, it has become clear that it’s often employed to imply that Israel can’t be guilty of its alleged crimes because it is a “Jewish state,” or that its status as a “Jewish state” makes such allegations ridiculous.
For explicit Jewish supremacists, this implication comes from the belief that Jewish people are superior to others or that Israel’s victims aren’t fully human. For Jewish exceptionalists, it stems from the belief that Jews are eternal victims, and therefore Israel can’t be guilty of the crimes of which it is accused because it is a “Jewish state.”
There are hundreds of examples of “Jewish state” being used in Canadian media.
A November 2023 article from National Post deputy comment editor Jesse Kline uses the term four times, each in a sentence where he responds to Israel being accused of a crime:
- “In reality, Al-Ahli was just a test run, a prelude to a concerted Hamas campaign to falsely accuse the Jewish state of committing war crimes against vulnerable civilians while covering up its own violations of international law”;
- “And the same Hamas run health ministry that perpetrated the Al-Ahli fraud to incite violence against Israelis is now using Israel’s attempts to dismantle those terrorist assets to perpetuate the lie that the Jewish state is committing some sort of ‘genocide’ in Gaza”;
- “It then quoted the director of Shifa Hospital, who claimed Israel was ‘launching a war on Gaza City hospitals,’ and accused the Jewish state of targeting a school (even though Gazan schools have been closed for some time)”;
- “It also accuses Israel of committing war crimes – without, of course, providing any evidence – and calls on the media to use false and inflammatory terms such as ‘apartheid,’ ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’ when describing the Jewish state.”
There’s no apparent reason to use the term at all in the article, much less on four separate occasions. So the fact that it’s used, and the specific manner in which it is, is revealing: it’s employed to cast doubt on the idea that Israel committed the crimes of which it’s accused. And, as my search revealed, it’s not merely some tic Kline has in his writing: there are many other examples.
In a January 2024 Toronto Star article, former Israeli diplomat Daniel Taub wrote, “Far from being motivated by any humanitarian concern for the Palestinians, the South African initiative is a brazen attempt to weaponize a term coined to describe the worst crime committed against the Jewish people themselves and use it against the Jewish state in order to deprive it of the ability to defend itself.”
Avi Benlolo, the founder and CEO of the Abraham Global Peace Initiative, claimed in a January 2025 National Post article, “Trudeau’s criticism of Israel’s military response to Hamas, his government’s ban on arms exports to Israel and his tacit support for legal actions against the Jewish state have emboldened antisemitic rhetoric and actions within Canada.”
And Jay Solomon, the chief advancement officer for Hillel Ontario, claimed in a May 2025 National Post article about the BDS movement: “Let’s be clear: targeting the world’s only Jewish state for economic punishment – especially while ignoring or excusing the abuses of countless other nations – is not a principled stand for justice.”
It’s also worth noting that none of the organizations accusing Israel of genocide or other crimes have alleged its Jewishness makes it more likely of such behaviour. Instead, they’ve analyzed the evidence and come to the conclusion that Israel is guilty of the crime, without any irrelevant reference to the state’s Jewishness.
In essence, the organizations accusing Israel of genocide argue that it’s capable (and guilty) of committing crimes any other sort of state could and/or has. Israel’s defenders are the ones that bring up its Jewishness, and they do so to imply that it makes Israel a victim regardless of the circumstances. This is Jewish exceptionalism.
‘Jewish Neighbourhood’
The term “Jewish neighbourhood” appeared in Canadian newspapers 135 times between Oct. 7, 2023, and Aug. 31, 2025, according to the Canadian Newsstream database.
The phrase ‘x neighbourhood’ is not uncommon in Canadian media. However, the way it’s generally used differs in some important ways from how it’s used when referring to areas with what commentators regard as significant Jewish populations.
Generally, when something is referred to as an “x neighbourhood” it is merely descriptive, referring to the demographic makeup of an area. For example, a February 2025 National Post article refers to the Glen Park area in Toronto as once being a “sleepy Italian neighbourhood,” likely because its ethnic makeup in the 2001 Census was nearly 40 per cent Italian. I’m still not a fan of using this sort of language to describe neighbourhoods or countries, but it’s at least a descriptive statement based on a factual finding.
In contrast, “Jewish neighbourhood” is often used in a manner that goes beyond descriptive usages into prescriptive territory, stating or implying that non-Jewish people (including those who live in the neighbourhood) should behave in a certain way when in the area.
Here are several examples of the term being used in this manner.
In a January 2024 National Post article, Joel Kotkin wrote, “The Liberals also seem to worry as much about Islamophobia as the far more widespread problem of antisemitism, as demonstrated by the recent lawsuit filed by Jewish students at McMaster University alleging that they have been subjected to rising levels of hate. Perhaps sharing in this good cheer, Toronto police even brought coffee to pro-Hamas demonstrators blocking an overpass in a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood.”
In a November 2024 Toronto Sun article, columnist Brian Lilley wrote, “Are Jews being treated differently in Canada? Absolutely, and not in a good way. From local police to the federal government, Jews are clearly not the chosen people of Canadian government officials. […] Last Sunday, as a group of pro-Hamas types gathered at Bathurst St. and Sheppard Ave. W. – a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood – it was a Jew who was arrested.”
And in a December 2024 Toronto Sun article, reporter Joe Warmington wrote, “There was more recognition by police of the concern some Jewish residents, including Councillor James Pasternak, had expressed about pro-Hamas demonstrators aggressively coming into a Jewish neighbourhood disrupting a weekly, peaceful vigil for 100 hostages still held in Gaza.”
In all of these examples, “pro-Hamas” is used to demonize the pro-Palestine protesters in question and portray them as a threat. In doing so, and by highlighting what they perceive as the “Jewish” character of the neighbourhoods in question, the writers imply that it’s a problem for pro-Palestine people to exercise their Charter right to protest in certain areas, simply because more Jewish people may live there than in the average Canadian neighbourhood. And in other examples, it’s sometimes stated or implied that them doing so is the equivalent of Kristallnacht, an absurd comparison that can only be made due to Jewish exceptionalism.
This argument is problematic enough on its own, including when you consider that the areas in question are nowhere near majority Jewish anyways (not that this would make it alright). For example, York Centre, the Toronto ward where Pasternak serves as councillor, was 7.5 per cent Jewish as of 2021 (with larger populations of Filipinos at 13.4 per cent and Italians at 9.1 per cent).
It becomes more disturbing when you consider the demographic makeup of pro-Palestine protests, which, anecdotally, often have a disproportionate share of Arabs relative to Canada’s population. With this in mind, it’s difficult to avoid drawing comparisons to how so-called “Jewish neighbourhoods” in occupied Jerusalem are discussed, with the implication being that force should be used to keep undesirable outsiders away from Jews.
In Jerusalem that looks like attacks from the military and settlers, while in Canada it comes in the form of baseless arrests from police (and sometimes violence from others as well). In Jerusalem, the motivation for this violence is that Jews are entitled to the area and as such it should be cleansed for them, while in Canada the implication is that Jewish people’s supposed eternal status as exceptional victims means extraordinary measures need to be taken to prevent what they see as demographic threats from interacting with them.
To expand on this point, and help demonstrate that it’s not merely some abstract situation, consider the implementation of “bubble zones” in Toronto (which received explicit editorial support from The Globe and Mail on at least two occasions).
In May, Toronto city council passed a by-law allowing for protesters to be barred from being within 50 metres of institutions that successfully apply for the status. While the by-law was framed as being something that could protect people belonging to all communities, in reality it was sought after by the Israel lobby to make protests near some venues that have been linked to Israel illegal.
The first bubble zones were announced in July, and unsurprisingly, 19 of the 21 were centred on Jewish institutions. It’s possible the list may expand to include more institutions from other communities in the future, but as it stands, Toronto’s city council passed a motion that the Canadian Civil Liberties Association referred to as an example of “punitive laws that give municipalities and the police the discretion to broadly restrict peaceful expression,” in effect giving privileged status to Jewish institutions. This happened in part due to the prevalent belief in Jewish exceptionalism.
‘List Of Jews’
In February, I released Find IDF Soldiers, a database based entirely on public information that now contains profiles of 163 Canadians who joined the Israeli military at any point in their lives.
In order for someone to be included in the database, three criteria needed to be met: 1) being Canadian; 2) having served in the Israeli military; 3) having this service already be public.
Every single person on the list thus far is at least partially Jewish, and I haven’t refrained from pointing this out where relevant, including an analysis article presenting my findings on what the typical Canadian Israeli military member looks like.
The fact that the list is entirely Jewish should not be a surprise to anyone. As I wrote on the site: “Jews are the only ones able to immigrate to Israel as citizens due solely to their ethnoreligious background. That accounts for all of the soldiers who were born in Canada and immigrated to Israel later on — they could only do so in the way they did because they’re Jewish. As per the few soldiers in the project who were born and raised in Israel and moved to Canada later, all of them happened to be Jewish. This isn’t a surprise given the demographic makeup of Israel, and the fact that only Jews (74 per cent of the population as of 2023), Druze (just under 2 per cent of the population) and Circassians (0.05 per cent of the population as of 2024) are required to serve in its military.”
As I noted in the analysis article accompanying the database, the average Israeli military member from Canada is a white, Jewish man, born and raised in Canada, who grew up in the Greater Toronto Area in a wealthy neighbourhood, attended private Jewish schools for elementary and/or high school (costing as much as $24,000 per year), had white-collar professionals as parents, and chose to become a lone soldier. This is generally an incredibly privileged group of people willingly deciding to join the Israeli military.
And yet, despite all of this, much of the criticism the project received in mainstream media and elsewhere revolved around the false claim that I was somehow reviving Nazi-era tactics against Jews.
For example, a February National Post article contained a quote from one of the military members saying, “I think there’s a pretty dark historical precedent for making lists of Jews. That’s what it immediately reminded me of, a database of Jews.”
A March article from The Canadian Jewish News (CJN), meanwhile, contained multiple quotes to this effect. Another one of the Israeli military members, speaking on the project, said, “It was literally a list of Jews. That’s all it was. Good for you, you put a list of Jews together. That’s what you did. Like the SS.” Later, CJN stated the member said there was “never a good reason to make a list of Jews,” and then quoted them saying, “There’s a very dark history with that. People think it’s only the Holocaust—it’s not only the Holocaust…It was during the Spanish Inquisition, it was any time there was a need to round up Jews, lists were made. So Jews and lists—not a good thing.”
The article also quoted a professor of journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University and a former senior CBC News producer who said the project is “ethical, if abhorrent,” adding, “It’s ethical because it’s deemed to be in the public interest in some quarters. But it’s abhorrent because we’ve seen where lists of Jews have led in the past.”
There are many more examples of this sort of framing being used when discussing the project in international media, which I have compiled. They include headlines such as, “There’s a New ‘Jew List’ in Canada,” “Repackaging of Nazi-era tactics in a modern context” and “‘We Know What Jew Lists Mean’: Canadian Database of IDF Soldiers Sparks Alarm in Jewish Community.”
This whole saga is an incredibly straightforward example of Jewish exceptionalism. People cynically or genuinely alleged that a journalist creating a database of mostly privileged people on the basis of their participation in the Israeli military for journalistic purposes was in any way comparable to the Nazis compiling information on a systemically oppressed group based solely on their ethnoreligious identity with the intent to harm them.
The fact that this allegation has been taken seriously instead of being mocked is only possible thanks to the widespread belief in Jewish exceptionalism among Canada’s media class.
There are various reasons why writers may believe in Jewish exceptionalism and cling on to it in their writing.
A group of former Jewish-school students I spoke with earlier this year recounted being “brainwashed” with the idea of Jewish exceptionalism throughout their time in the institutions.
For some, Israel’s actions may have finally become too abhorrent to attempt to defend with any sort of logic or facts, and so a reliance on a non-material analysis that doesn’t need any correspondence with the real world can be useful.
Some non-Jewish commentators claim to be wracked with a sense of guilt for a time when systemic antisemitism did actually exist, and operate accordingly.
Others may be concerned about the personal consequences of stepping outside the Jewish exceptionalist framework, which applies to a much broader section of the political spectrum than many would like to admit.
Regardless of the reason, the effect of Jewish exceptionalism is to strengthen Zionist arguments and weaken the pro-Palestine movement by getting it to treat Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and alleged antisemitism as if they’re equally dangerous and urgent problems.
They aren’t. The paranoid spectre of antisemitism is being cynically weaponized to help allow the genocide to continue unabated, and it’s doing the people of Gaza a disservice to pretend otherwise.
Utrecht University becomes first in West to boycott Israel over Gaza genocide
Press TV – September 3, 2025
The Netherlands’ Utrecht University has become the first Western academic institution to enact a full academic boycott of Israel in response to the regime’s genocide in Gaza, marking a historic step that shatters a long-standing taboo in Western academia.
The decision, confirmed in a statement from Rector Wilco Hazeleger, comes after sustained pressure from “demonstrating students and staff.”
The university has “effectively stopped or suspended all institutional collaborations with Israeli parties and will not start any new collaborations,” establishing a boycott that will remain “until further notice,” the statement said.
In his statement, Hazeleger described the move as a moral necessity. “The situation in the world, and in Gaza in particular, requires us to act with a moral compass. There is great human suffering,” he said.
While emphasizing the academy’s duty to foster open dialogue and research for peace, Hazeleger stated a clear red line had been crossed. “It is also clear when there is genocidal violence and a line has been crossed.”
The move aligns with the goals of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), which considers it the result of strategic, principled work by students and university staff.
The boycott comes amid increasing international condemnation of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and its decades-long occupation of Palestinian lands.
Across the world, academic communities and students have intensified their demands for institutions to divest and boycott all entities complicit in apartheid and war crimes.
Academic institutions have come under significant pressure from professors and students to sever ties with Israeli entities that play direct or indirect roles in normalizing apartheid, research for military purposes, or sustaining the occupation.
Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after Palestinian resistance fighters carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the regime in response to its decades-long campaign of death and destruction against Palestinians.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 63,633 Palestinians have been killed and more than 160,914 injured since the beginning of the war.
Euro-Med: Israel escalates killing of civilians in Gaza’s so-called humanitarian zone
Palestinian Information Center – September 3, 2025
GAZA – The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have escalated attacks on civilians in Gaza’s so-called “humanitarian zones,” turning areas meant for shelter into deadly traps, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. The Monitor warned in a statement on Wednesday that this is part of a systematic genocidal policy aimed at eradicating Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The IOF is reportedly firing directly at displaced persons inside their tents in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, using sniper rifles, drones, artillery, and airstrikes. These attacks have resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries, including children, women, and journalists, despite Israel labeling the area as “humanitarian.” Eyewitnesses reported instances where soldiers appeared to shoot at civilians for sport.
Among the victims documented recently are 26-year-old mother of two, Ahlam Raed Fayyad al-Shaer, shot while preparing tea for her children, and journalist Iman Ahmad al-Zamli, killed while fetching drinking water. The attacks have destroyed homes and personal belongings, leaving displaced families vulnerable.
Adding to the humanitarian disaster, UNRWA spokesperson Adnan Abu Hasna revealed that deaths from starvation and untreated disease are far higher than reported by Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
Many victims are buried near or inside their tents, with their deaths unrecorded. Over 43,000 children under five, along with tens of thousands of pregnant or breastfeeding women, suffer from severe malnutrition, while the collapse of Gaza’s health and sanitation systems accelerates the spread of deadly diseases such as meningitis and hepatitis.
The Euro-Mediterranean Monitor described the IOF’s deliberate targeting of civilians in displacement zones as a form of genocide, leaving Palestinians with two fatal options: immediate death from bombardment or slow death due to starvation and disease.
Thousands of families are living without adequate food, water, or medical care, while overcrowding and exposure to harsh conditions exacerbate the crisis.
The Monitor called on the UN General Assembly to invoke its emergency powers under Resolution 377 A(V) to deploy a peacekeeping force in Gaza, ensure unimpeded humanitarian access, protect healthcare facilities, lift the siege, and begin reconstruction. It urged the international community to act decisively to stop the ongoing genocide and uphold international law.
The coming war on Iran will be regional, perhaps international
By Robert Inlakesh | Al Mayadeen | September 2, 2025
It is unlikely that the anticipated continuation of the war on Iran, spearheaded by the Israelis but led by the United States, will be confined to a simple tit-for-tat missile trade-off as we saw earlier this year. The reason for this is simple: too much is at stake if this front again flares up.
Since the US-brokered ceasefire between “Israel” and Iran went into effect on June 29, the United States and the Zionist regime have scrambled to move around military equipment, engage in mass surveillance flights over Lebanon and the Persian Gulf. More recently, the US began an early withdrawal of its forces from the Ain al-Assad base and other installations inside Iraq.
The first point of entry to understanding what is currently brewing across West Asia is understanding the mentality at play on both sides of the divide.
On one side, we have the Zionist regime and its Western allies, who are the aggressors and believe themselves to be fighting what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls a “seven-front war”. Although the front in the Gaza Strip has pervaded public consciousness over the past 23 months, overshadowing the wars on Lebanon, seizure of territory in Syria, bombing of Yemen, and attack on Iran, it is very much part of this wider war.
From the Israeli-American perspective, their ongoing war carries the goal of eliminating what is known as the Axis of Resistance, the leader of which is the Islamic Republic of Iran. The thinking clearly is that this period in time has provided a unique opportunity to crush the regional resistance and with it, achieve regime change in Tehran.
In June, the Israelis clearly got ahead of themselves and believed that they could inflict a similar blow in Iran to the blow they inflicted on Lebanese Hezbollah back in September of 2024. In the first few hours of the Zionist Regime’s illegal attack on Iran, their media boasted of landing such a blow. However, to everyone’s surprise, within 15 hours, the Iranians were back on their feet and began firing bursts of ballistic missiles into central “Tel Aviv”.
Even the US strikes didn’t inflict any kind of kill blow that degraded Iran sufficiently, as it proved more than anything that their nuclear facilities could survive US strikes, even if they were badly damaged. The United States certainly poses a major threat to Iran, but the takeaway here is that the Zionist regime can’t take them on alone.
If there is another battle between Iran and the Israelis, the Zionist Entity is already low on interceptor missiles, and its arsenal would be severely drained within around a week or so. We also still do not know the extent of the damage inflicted by Iran’s ballistic missile strikes, due to Israeli military censorship. Simply put, they don’t even allow the public to know the true number of soldiers killed and wounded in Gaza, so forget the notion that they’d admit what Iran did to them.
Another major player here is Lebanese Hezbollah, which appears to be successfully rebuilding itself and is at an intelligence deficit compared to what they had built up over decades and utilized late last year. Yet, what the Israelis do understand is that in the event that a conflict with Iran arises where Hezbollah chooses to enter the fight on the ground, they may face an existential battle for their very survival.
If, and this evidently depends on varying factors, Hezbollah chooses to launch an all-out ground offensive as Iran fires ballistic missiles in bursts across occupied Palestine, it is plausible that the Lebanese party will inflict a total defeat on the Israeli ground forces and seize huge swaths of territory in the north of Palestine.
The Zionist regime is now claiming to be preparing for mission impossible in the Gaza Strip, amassing troops in order to try and occupy Gaza City, an operation that would take between two to five years to complete, according to Israeli military estimates. It would also be extremely costly for the Israeli ground forces and their military vehicles. If they do commit to this, it would leave them open on the northern front. There is, however, the possibility that this is all a bluff.
If the Israelis are bluffing, they could be preparing for an offensive against Lebanon instead. The thinking here would be to try and halt Hezbollah’s rebuilding process, setting it back even further, and could even involve a ground operation, likely using Syrian territory to invade the Bekaa Valley area.
Such a conflict would be existential for Hezbollah, especially as the US works with the Lebanese government to impose a seizure of its weapons. A repeat of what occurred a year ago would work only to advance the US-Israeli goal of seizing Hezbollah’s weapons, while a victory could at the very least liberate Lebanese territory and represent a massive blow to the disarmament agenda.
Therefore, if Iran is currently in the scope of the Zionists, it would make strategic sense for them to either attack Lebanon first or launch a major offensive at the same time it attacks Iran.
The US withdrawal of forces from Iraq is another major indicator of a regional escalation involving Iran, specifically because of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and the potential they have to inflict enormous damage, given that they enter the fold of the war.
Iraq’s PMU is yet to be mobilized, and its role in the ongoing regional conflict has been minimal. The reason for this is that if some 230,000 men are mobilized, or even a portion of them, it is difficult to suddenly put a halt to their operations, and this will mean a dramatic regional escalation, the likes of which the United States will not be able to manage inside Iraq and will instead use their economic levers as a primary weapon of war.
Depending on how far such a conflict is going to go, there is even the possibility that it could go global. While there is currently no evidence to support this notion, there has been talk that the US naval deployment to the Caribbean, triggering a mass militia mobilization across Venezuela, could be connected. Additionally, China and Russia could use the opportunity of a major Iran-US war to carry out some of their long-desired goals, at a time when Washington has diverted its resources to West Asia.
There is again the possibility that another attack on Iran could look similar to what the world witnessed during what is dubbed the “12-day war”, yet the same stalemate outcome would only lead us back to square one again and beget yet another war. At some point, something will have to give.
The reason why the danger of an all-out regional conflagration appears high as of now is purely down to the Israeli-US refusal to end their genocide against Gaza, indicating that they seek total defeat of the Axis of Resistance and nothing less. Inevitably, one side must win and the other lose; there is currently no such thing as deterrence for either side, only who will triumph and carve out a new regional reality.
Belgium announces sanctions against Israel
RT | September 2, 2025
Belgium will recognize Palestinian statehood and impose sanctions on Israel over its war in Gaza, the country’s Foreign Ministry has announced.
The Western European country, which hosts the headquarters of both the EU and NATO, unveiled the measures on Tuesday as pressure grows on Israel to reach a ceasefire with Hamas and allow more humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.
In light of the “humanitarian tragedy in Gaza,” Belgium has decided to “increase pressure on the Israeli government and Hamas terrorists,” Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot wrote on X. “This is not about punishing the Israeli people, but about ensuring that their government respects international and humanitarian law and takes action to change the situation on the ground,” he added.
The sanctions include a ban on imports of products from Jewish settlements in the West Bank and restrictions on consular assistance for Belgian nationals living in settlements considered illegal under international law.
Brussels will also review procurement involving Israeli companies and blacklist “two extremist Israeli ministers, several violent settlers, and Hamas leaders,” Prevot said. He added that Belgium would push for the suspension of the EU’s trade agreement with Israel.
Several countries, including France, plan to recognize Palestine at the UN General Assembly later this month, drawing strong criticism from Israel.
Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused France and Australia of failing to tackle anti-Semitism, arguing that recognition of Palestine would only embolden Hamas.
Israel has rejected UN warnings of famine in Gaza, where more than 63,500 people have been killed since October 2023, according to local health authorities. West Jerusalem has pledged to allow the delivery of aid, but not through distribution points it claims are controlled by Hamas.
Gaza: Over one million people face relocation to overcrowded zone
Palestinian Information Center – September 2, 2025
GAZA – Gaza’s civil defense service has warned of Israeli efforts to evacuate tens of thousands of citizens from Gaza City and northern areas and force them to go to the central and southern parts of the territory.
Spokesman for the civil defense Mahmoud Basal told a news conference on Tuesday that the Israeli plan to forcibly relocate about one million people from their homes in Gaza City and northern Gaza would lead to a major catastrophe.
Basal said that the Israeli occupation army had already destroyed over 85 percent of the homes and infrastructure in Gaza City’s ash-Shuja’iya and al-Tuffah neighborhoods, and about 70 percent of the az-Zeitoun, al-Sabra, Jabalia an-Nazla and Jabalia al-Balad areas.
Basal pointed out that several reports issued by international and UN organization confirm that the so-called humanitarian zone, where the Israeli army plans to relocate the population, comprises no more than 12 percent of the total area of the Gaza Strip.
“This would mean forcing over two million Palestinians to live in a densely packed area lacking the minimum living means,” he said.
UN Assembly Moves to Geneva After U.S. Bars Palestinian Delegation
IMEMC | September 2, 2025
The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York, following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of senior officials.
The relocation marks a rare institutional challenge to the host nation and reflects mounting global frustration over Washington’s obstruction of Palestinian participation amid Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza.
The U.S. State Department justified the visa denial on grounds of “national security,” accusing the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization of “undermining peace efforts” through legal appeals to the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.
These appeals include formal charges of genocide and apartheid against Israel, claims the U.S. argues breach diplomatic norms and politicize international legal forums.
The decision affects approximately 80 Palestinian officials, although the Palestinian Mission to the UN in New York will continue operating under a limited waiver.
The move has drawn sharp criticism from legal experts and international diplomats, who say it violates the 1947 UN Headquarters Agreement, which obligates the host country to facilitate access for all accredited delegations.
In 1988, the UN relocated its session to Geneva after the U.S. denied a visa to Yasser Arafat, then head of the PLO. The current relocation is similarly aimed at ensuring full Palestinian participation, particularly in a scheduled September 22 segment dedicated to Palestinian rights.
European leaders have condemned the U.S. decision. Spain’s Prime Minister described the move as “unjust,” while France reaffirmed that UN platforms must remain accessible to all recognized delegations.
The Geneva session also coincides with growing momentum among several countries, including France, the United Kingdom, and Canada, to formally recognize Palestinian statehood, adding diplomatic weight to the proceedings.
Palestinian officials have denounced the U.S. action as a deliberate attempt to silence their voice at a time when Gaza faces mass displacement, starvation, and what UN experts have described as genocidal violence.
President Abbas is expected to address the Assembly in Geneva, where he will call for international protection, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty, and accountability for war crimes.
The Geneva session is expected to amplify calls for action under the “Uniting for Peace” resolution, which empowers the General Assembly to recommend collective measures when the Security Council is unable to act due to political obstruction or lack of consensus.
Advocacy groups are urging the UN to consider deploying international protection forces to Gaza and to suspend Israel’s privileges within the UN system until humanitarian access is restored.
Beyond its logistical implications, the relocation signals a deeper shift in global diplomacy, where procedural justice and international law are being reasserted against political obstruction.
The Geneva gathering is expected to draw high-level delegations, legal experts, and civil society leaders, all converging to confront the worsening crisis and to chart a path forward for Palestinian self-determination.
Cracks in ranks: No victory, no exit in ‘Israel’s Gaza predicament
Al Mayadeen | September 2, 2025
“Israel’s” military is mobilizing 60,000 additional reservists, adding to the 70,000 already under call-up orders, in preparation for a renewed ground incursion into Gaza City as part of the ongoing “Iron Swords” campaign.
The last major operation to occupy Gaza City came at a high cost. Now, according to Israeli military correspondent Avi Ashkenazi in a report published by Maariv, commanders are warning that the next stage could prove even more dangerous.
The dense urban terrain, vast tunnel networks, and high-rise buildings of Gaza City remain formidable battlegrounds. The report states that Hamas has had months to bolster its defenses, planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs), booby-trapping buildings and tunnels, and deploying snipers and anti-tank units across likely combat zones.
Two-stage strategy, high-stakes caution
According to Maariv, the Israeli military plans to execute the campaign in two phases:
- Encircle Gaza City to restrict movement and initiate the evacuation of remaining civilians
- Deploy ground divisions to enter and attempt to control key urban sectors
This operation is expected to last months, not weeks.
Mounting friction between the military and the government
The report by Avi Ashkenazi highlights growing tensions between military leaders and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Senior Israeli officers reportedly urge continued negotiations, warning against launching another high-risk incursion without exhausting all diplomatic options.
Meanwhile, on the ground, reservists and active-duty soldiers have begun questioning the broader strategy. “What comes after Gaza City?” one soldier reportedly asked, reflecting the skepticism felt across the ranks.
Veterans of recent operations point to Rafah, Khan Younis, Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and al-Zaytoun, all of which were invaded multiple times but failed to produce a lasting outcome.
An elusive ‘image of victory’
Even if the military succeeds in re-entering Gaza City, doubts persist over whether such an operation will alter the broader course of the war. As Ashkenazi notes, the symbolism of “battlefield achievements” has become increasingly hollow.
In December 2023, a Hanukkah menorah was lit in Gaza’s Palestine Square, a moment widely circulated in the occupation’s media as a symbol of control. Just days later, the Israeli occupation forces showcased their bombing of al-Shifa Hospital, parading it as another so-called milestone.
Yet, as noted by military correspondent Avi Ashkenazi in Maariv, such displays failed to produce the long-promised image of victory. The Israeli occupation continues, the Palestinian resistance endures, and international criticism mounts.
Now, with tens of thousands of reservists once again deployed and Gaza facing another wave of devastation, Ashkenazi and others raise the critical question: Where will “Israel” find its image of victory, and how many lives will it cost this time?
Washington orders sweeping visa ban on Palestinian passport holders
The Cradle | September 1, 2025
The US State Department ordered a suspension of visas for nearly everyone holding a Palestinian passport, the New York Times (NYT) reported on 31 August.
The report said the restrictions go well beyond an earlier order under US President Donald Trump, which temporarily froze visitor visas for Gaza residents pending what officials described as “a full and thorough” review.
A diplomatic cable obtained by CNN and signed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 18 August instructed embassies and consulates to deny applications “effective immediately” from “all otherwise eligible Palestinian Authority passport holders” using that document.
The order covers nonimmigrant visas of all categories, including those for students, professors, tourists, businesspeople, and medical patients.
The cable noted that the refusal policy does not apply to immigrant visas or to applicants using a different passport, but said the ban includes diplomatic and official visas, while stressing that Washington “does NOT recognize the PA as a ‘foreign government.’”
NYT cited unidentified officials as the source of the expanded measures.
On 29 August, Rubio revoked visas for Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders who were scheduled to attend the UN General Assembly in New York.
The State Department justified that step by pointing to PA payments to families of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, as well as PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s plan to issue a “constitutional declaration” for an independent Palestinian state at the assembly.
Washington also criticized Palestinian efforts to pursue Israel for war crimes before international courts.
“The Palestinian Authority must also cease its attempts to circumvent the negotiations through international legal campaigns, including appeals to the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, and efforts to secure unilateral recognition of a possible Palestinian state,” the department said in a statement.
It added that such steps had “contributed significantly to Hamas’s refusal to release its hostages and the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire talks.”
The Palestinian Presidency responded with “deep regret and astonishment at the decision.”
Fox News described Rubio’s order as a “historic departure” from past US practice of allowing participation in UN forums.
The announcement came one day after Rubio met Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar in Washington. When asked about a Palestinian state, Saar told the Jerusalem Post that “there would not be one.”
What drives Americans to fight on the frontlines of Gaza’s war crimes
By Jamal Kanj | MEMO | September 1, 2025
Serving in the military is the ultimate test of loyalty. When young Americans raise their right hand, they pledge to defend their nation, their Constitution, their people. Yet for many young Americans, that oath is NOT made to the United States military. Instead, they pack their bags, fly across the Atlantic, and enlist in a foreign army—the Israeli War Machine, aka, Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).
The numbers speak loudly. According to the Washington Post, 23,000 Jewish American citizens are currently serving in the Israeli military. By contrast, US Department of Defence data shows that in 2006 fewer than 4,000 American service members identified as Jewish. A later DoD report in January 2019 placed the figure at roughly 0.4 per cent of active-duty personnel. Put simply, more Jewish Americans, both in numbers and percentage, serve under the misappropriated Star of David than under the Stars and Stripes.
Naturally, many new Americans maintain personal cultural and ancestral ties to their homelands—a land they actually come from, with real last names, not Hebraized East European family names. No ethnic group, however, has a lobby dedicated to serving the policy of a foreign country, like AIPAC. Mexican Americans celebrate Mexico’s victory on Cinco de Mayo, but do not promote enlisting in Mexico’s military. Irish Americans rejoice Saint Patrick’s Day, but had not lined up to join the Irish Republican Army. No ethnic American group raises nonprofit tax deductible funds for a foreign army, other than the Jewish billionaires, who bankroll “Friends of the IDF.”
Controlled by this foreign lobby, Congress not only tolerates the Israeli exception, rather it tries to reward it. Two Jewish Republican lawmakers; Guy Reschenthaler and Max Miller, have proposed legislation, H.R. 8445, to amend the American Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to include (Jewish) Americans serving in the Israeli army. If passed, the amendment would grant these “foreign” soldiers the same benefits reserved for Americans in uniform.
Let that sink in: Israeli (American) soldiers would have the same protections as American army soldiers. An Israeli who is starving babies and committing war crimes in Gaza, would be legally indistinguishable from an American marine guarding Camp Pendleton in California.
When it comes to Israel, AIPAC, through the disproportionate Jewish representation in both Houses—three to five times higher than their share of the U.S. adult population—exerts outsized clout. Combine this with the campaign finance power over elected officials, AIPAC can flex its muscles to institutionalize the Israeli exception. One could pose the question, if this is good for Israeli (American) soldiers, why not provide all Americans serving in foreign armies the same benefits? Maybe for a Muslim American soldier, if any, serving in Pakistan or Egypt. Such an idea would most likely cause a revolt in Washington. Accusations of dual loyalty, even treason, would dominate the headlines. If so, why not in the Israeli case?
One of those soldiers is David Meyers from California who spent six years in the Israeli navy. He explained his decision to enlist in the Israeli military, citing “… an incredibly deep and long connection that I have to Israel.” Answering a question for reasons he chose a foreign army over his own, his answer was more telling: “The United States with its strength and size, perhaps, isn’t quite needing your abilities and your efforts.”
Since when did America’s strength become an excuse to abandon it for a foreign army? Regardless, Meyers’s statement suggests he does not have a deep or long connection to the country of his birth—or at least not one as deep as to a foreign country. America is strong only because its citizens choose to serve it, not ditch it in favor of a foreign uniform. To dismiss the U.S. military as too mighty to need Jewish Americans isn’t about necessity, it’s about misplaced loyalty.
Many of the Americans serving in the Israeli army are called lone soldiers. They are the young Americans with New York or Texas accents; I’ve encountered at occupation checkpoints throughout Palestine. Their job is to humiliate Palestinians in the West Bank, and starve children in Gaza.
Some may frame their service as defending “the Jewish people.” When in fact, they are fueling Jewish hate in the West for being the face of the “Jewish-only” colonies built on stolen Palestinian land, or for imposing an apartheid occupation on behalf of a foreign political entity, whose leaders stand indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
With this in mind, these Americans are participating in what the UN, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have described as war crimes—from the engineered starvation of babies in Gaza, to the subjugation of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. As the ICC continues to investigate Israeli crimes, one day, these “Americans” could face reality, not as heroes, but for their roles in the crimes against humanity. Ironically, Congress wants to make these potential war criminals equal to American servicemembers.
The numbers do not lie. Over-represented in elected offices, and underrepresented in the U.S. military, Jewish Americans enlist in the Israeli army at more than five times the rate they serve in their own country’s forces. This begs the question: why are so many Jewish Americans more willing to die for a foreign country than for nations that gave them everything they have? That is not an anti-Jewish statement; it is a fact that would, and should uniformly apply to any ethnic group.
If some Jewish Americans choose to devote their lives and loyalty to a foreign state, that is their business. However, it is an insult to every American in uniform when Congress considers equating American soldiers with those serving in a foreign army. Worse, by ignoring the moral and legal ramifications, U.S. policymakers risk entangling America in war crimes committed by these “paper” American citizens, crimes that may one day be judged in The Hague, and for which today’s members of Congress should be held to account by their own constituents.
Tribal loyalty, often disguised as religious or nationalistic virtue, distorts judgment and blinds individuals to injustice, elevating kinship above truth, morality, and humanity. It is this tribal blindness that drives some Jewish Americans to join a foreign army, and stain their souls with the blood of Gaza’s war crimes.
Israeli Sex Criminals Flout American Justice
By Kevin Barrett | American Free Press | August 31, 2025
When I saw her name was Sigal, I knew she was trouble.
I’m referring to Sigal Chattah, Acting US Attorney for the state of Nevada. It was on her watch that Tom Alexandrovich, arrested August 6 for soliciting sex with a 15-year-old, was allowed to flee to Israel two days later.
Alexandrovich is not just any Israeli. He is head of the Technological Defense Division at the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD).
Apparently Alexandrovich’s job description includes censoring Americans who are critical of Israel. In a viral X post by Shaun King, Alexandrovich is seen on Israeli television bragging about submitting 40,000 social media takedown requests on behalf of Israel with a 90% success rate. In the clip, Alexandrovich says he and the INCD censor social media users worldwide who post things that might “lead to demoralization” of Israeli genocide perpetrators.
Ironically, Alexandrovich, or someone like him, nearly censored Shaun King! When King posted the Israeli TV clip in which Alexandrovich brags about censoring critics of Israel, X immediately took down the post. Undaunted, King re-posted the clip. Again, it was quickly nuked. All day long King kept trying to post the clip. After more than 17 unsuccessful attempts, King’s post finally stayed up and went viral.
Why are Israeli sex criminals allowed to flee the US with impunity so they can return to their jobs in Israel censoring American social media users? In Alexandrovich’s case, the fact that the Acting US Attorney for Nevada, Sigal Chattah, is herself Israeli, probably has something to do with it.
As acting U.S. Attorney, Chattah had the authority to pursue federal charges carrying a mandatory 10 year minimum sentence. Instead, she chose to leave the case to local prosecutors, who inexplicably slipped up and forgot to confiscate Alexandrovich’s passport and impose electronic monitoring. The fact that Las Vegas was founded and is still run by a Jewish organized crime syndicate may help explain the oversight.
Alongside helping accused sex criminals escape justice, Sigal Chattah spends her spare time advocating for genocide. Al-Jazeera reports: “On her now-deleted personal X account, Chattah has referred to Palestinians in Gaza as ‘animals,’ called for wiping the territory ‘off the map,’ and suggested that ‘even the children’ in the enclave are ‘terrorists.’”
Sigal Chattah isn’t the first Israeli extremist Trump appointee to abuse an American law enforcement position. She isn’t even the first one named Sigal! In 2017, Trump appointed Israeli-born Sigal Mandelker to head the Treasury Department’s sanctions program. From that perch, Mandelker proceeded to slap “terrorist” designations on peaceful NGOs, including the Iranian-based New Horizon group that sponsored five conferences I attended beginning in 2013. Thanks to Mandelker, I was contacted by the FBI and told that if I attended the next New Horizon conference I would be arrested upon my return to the US. I asked the FBI agent why Israel gets to prevent Americans from attending scholarly conferences, and naturally didn’t receive a straight answer.
The two Sigals’ cases are unfortunately typical. Israelis, including the very worst Jewish-American sex criminals (who are automatically considered presumptive Israeli citizens) have been abusing the American legal system for decades. A 2020 CBS News investigation found numerous cases of pedophiles who brutally raped children as young as four and then fled to sanctuary in Israel. A group called Jewish Community Watch was then trying to track down sixty such individuals. According to CBS, “JCW’s chief operating officer Shana Aaronson… says there are elements of the Jewish community in the U.S. that are willing to help pedophiles escape.” (Elements like Sigal Chattah?)
Such degeneracy shouldn’t surprise us. Israel is the world capital of human trafficking and organ trafficking. It is the only nation on earth where prison guards caught on camera raping prisoners to death with sticks are national heroes. It is the only nation on earth where polls show that six out of ten men say forced sex with an acquaintance is not rape. It is the only nation on earth where a popular “right to rape” movement enjoys the support of much of the mainstream media. It is the only country on earth where all foreign agricultural workers are raped: “100% of Thai women working in Israeli agriculture report being sexually assaulted — 654 of 654 surveyed.” And of course it is the only nation on earth ever to commit a live-streamed genocide—a genocide that has been in high gear for almost two years, but which began with the Nakba (Palestinian Holocaust) of 1948.
It is long past time for the United States to declare war against the genocide-perpetrating perverts, annihilate their crime base in Occupied Palestine, and arrest the treasonous fifth column that has hijacked our country to enable crimes against humanity.
Israel blows up 80 booby-trapped robots in residential neighborhoods in Gaza City
Palestinian Information Center – August 31, 2025
GAZA – The Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation army detonated more than 80 booby-trapped robots in residential neighborhoods in Gaza City over the past three weeks, confirming that more than one million Palestinians in Gaza and the north refuse to be displaced to the south.
It added that the Israeli occupation army continues to commit systematic and grave crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in blatant violation of international law and international humanitarian law.
The statement pointed out that these crimes include the targeting of unarmed civilians, including children and women, and the forced displacement of residents in a crime of mass forced transfer that meets all elements of war crimes.
The GMO stressed that detonating robots is part of a criminal pattern that reflects a scorched-earth policy during Israel’s ground operations against residents and civilian neighborhoods, leading to large-scale destruction of homes and property and exposing civilians to grave dangers.
The occupation army also continues to commit the crime of starvation against more than 2.4 million people in the Gaza Strip, including over one million in Gaza City and the north, by deliberately preventing the entry of food and water, in clear violation of Article (54) of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions.
The statement noted that this starvation policy has already caused the deaths of more than 332 people, including 124 children, stressing that this is accompanied by systematic destruction of what remains of the healthcare system, and deliberate targeting of essential elements of civilian life, with the aim of eliminating any possibility of normal life continuing.
The GMO confirmed that more than one million Palestinians remain in Gaza City, refusing to succumb to forced displacement and ethnic cleansing, affirming their legendary steadfastness in the face of the Israeli war machine.
The statement saluted the resilience of the heroic Palestinian people, strongly condemned the Israeli occupation army’s ongoing crimes against civilians, and held Israel and the US administration fully responsible for the continuation of this genocide.
The GMO called on the international community, with all its institutions and bodies, to take a serious and effective stance to immediately stop these crimes, halt the ongoing genocide, protect civilians, and hold Israeli leaders accountable for their crimes before the competent international courts.
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… What is known about 9/11 is that there are many incredible facts that continue to be ignored by the government and the mainstream media. Here are fourteen.
- An outline of what was to become the 9/11 Commission Report was produced before the investigation began. The outline was kept secret from the Commission’s staff and appears to have determined the outcome of the investigation.
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