Let me get this straight:
— Afshine Emrani MD FACC (@afshineemrani) January 8, 2025
* California is burning.
* All of its fire chiefs were selected based on their LGBTQ status, not on merit.
* Gavin Newsom spent all the state's fire resources on illegals.
* He hasn't called in the National Guard.
* The LA Mayor is nowhere to be found.… pic.twitter.com/iCrzc3JLU8
In a world grappling with a resurgence of antisemitism, a new documentary seeks to confront the issue head-on, positing an unsettling take on the motivations behind the world’s oldest hatred through the insights of Rawan Osman, a Syrian-Lebanese antisemite-turned-Zionist.
“Tragic Awakening: A New Look at the Oldest Hatred,” directed by Canadian-Israeli filmmaker Raphael Shore, interweaves historical analysis with contemporary events through the voices of clerics, historians, sociologists, and cultural commentators, including the late British Chief Rabbi Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, author Yossi Klein Halevi, Israel’s antisemitism envoy Michal Cotler-Wunsh, and journalists Bari Weiss and Douglas Murray. It argues that antisemitism stems not from a perception of Jewish inferiority, but rather from resentment of Jewish excellence and moral leadership.
Osman — who founded “Arabs Ask,” a forum designed to challenge preconceived notions about Judaism and Israel among Arabs, and who describes herself as an Arab Zionist — narrates the movie.
Born in Damascus, Syria, she was raised in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley and later lived in Saudi Arabia and Qatar before eventually settling in Germany. Her first encounter with a Jewish person was when she moved to Strasbourg, France in her twenties. In her words, the encounter prompted her “first and last panic attack.”
But a long process of exploration, including studying Modern Hebrew and Jewish history at a German university, led her to challenge the antisemitic beliefs she had absorbed growing up in the Middle East and ultimately change her perspective.
“Life is strange. I grew up hating Israel and the Jews, just like many Lebanese and Syrians,” Osman told The Algemeiner.
“Living in Europe, especially the decade I spent in Germany, made me one of the most vocal supporters of the Jewish state. Who would have thought?”
After reexamining her beliefs, Osman dedicated herself to soft diplomacy, educating the Arab world about Jewish history and the Holocaust. However, following the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel last Oct. 7, she adopted a more direct and assertive approach, despite the personal risks tied to openly supporting Israel. Reflecting on a conversation with her son, she recalled him asking, “Why are you doing this to me?” to which she responded, “I am doing this for you.”
Osman, who has expressed a desire to convert to Judaism and move to Jerusalem, teamed up with Shore and Rabbi Shalom Schwartz, the film’s executive producer and founder of Aseret, an organization dedicated to promoting the universal values of the Ten Commandments.
“I found myself on a quest to try and understand antisemitism. The Jews are blamed for all ills of the world. Why? Antisemitism requires a different type of explanation,” Osman says in the film.
Shore, who released the film alongside his new book Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Jew?, argued that while religious, social, and political reasons may trigger antisemitism, they fail to explain its deeper motives, leaving efforts to combat it ineffective.
“Today, more than ever before since the Nazis were defeated, we are forced to discover ways of finding greater tolerance in our world. We are completely delusional if we think that hatred of the Jews will end with the Jews. We are always the canary in the coal mine — a harbinger of what is to come for the entire civilized world,” Shore told The Algemeiner.
“If we are ever to effectively combat antisemitism, we need to better understand its roots with moral and spiritual courage, which demands unwavering pride in our common Jewish identities,” he continued. “Combating antisemitism requires pushing back at our enemies with clarity, unity, and an appreciation that our traditions and history are what have allowed us to overcome our enemies.”
Osman says at one point in the movie: “Hitler didn’t want to kill the Jews because they were bad; he wanted to kill them because they were good.”
Shore explains that for Hitler, the Jews represented “a spiritual and moral threat” because the ethical foundations of Western civilization — at their core, Jewish ideas — are the antithesis of his Darwinian outlook.
“Hitler believed that there was one great conflict that drives human history, and that was the idea of survival of the fittest,” Shore said. “Hitler believed that if the ideas of humanitarianism, love, equality, democracy were to succeed, that would be the end of humanity.”
After a screening of the movie in Tel Aviv last week, Osman shared her thoughts on the downfall of Iran’s regional axis of proxies, culminating with the recent fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Osman said that the reaction of some Israelis’ apprehension at Assad’s demise “literally broke my heart,” she said.
“I invited my Israeli friends to reach out to the Syrians and congratulate them” on the fall of Assad, who was the “monster of the century,” she said.
“Some of them misunderstood — they thought I’m endorsing Islamists,” she said, referencing the rebels led by a former member of ISIS and al Qaeda, Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani.
Still, she noted, these groups achieved what the world, including the US and Israel, could not, emphasizing that the removal of Assad had to come from within Syria, as an external force taking him down would have turned him into a martyr.
Though Osman approached the recent changes with caution regarding their impact on Israel’s relations with its neighbors, she remained hopeful. “While I watch myself together with Rav Shalom Shwartz and Rav Shore on the big screen, I feel that peace between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria might come in my lifetime after all,” she told The Algemeiner.
Fetterman is based and truthful https://t.co/h602zSQElD
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 8, 2025
For George Floyd, Democrats will riot, build memorials, and defund the police.
— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) January 7, 2025
For Laken Riley, 159 House Democrats will vote against legislation to prevent similar tragedies from happening.
Every American citizen should be outraged. pic.twitter.com/NcGieWJt8k
UNRWA 🇺🇳 students:
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) January 7, 2025
"We must sacrifice ourselves and become martyrs." "With Allah's help The Jews will die."
"The settlers will be executed."pic.twitter.com/w1Qsusyg1P
And here’s why the Trump campaign was denied to forensically examine Dominion machines.
— Kash Patel 🇺🇸 News (@KashPatel_News) January 7, 2025
“2 TECH employees completely independent of each other discovered votes recorded by Dominion STORED ON USB DRIVES would change between the polls closed at night and reopened in the morning.” pic.twitter.com/jJ58FDcMte
This is the George Soros interview they don’t want you to see. Keep in mind, this is the same man Joe Biden just gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to. Disgraceful. https://t.co/L2kOkwK3KP
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 8, 2025
Furious Los Angeles residents tore into their absent Mayor Karen Bass, who was 7,400 miles away in Arica on a political trip as raging fires turned the City of Angels into an apocalyptic hellscape Tuesday.
“RESIGN! WHY ARE YOU IN GHANA?!,” one person commented on an X post by Bass’ office giving an update on the wildfires
Bass traveled with three other people to Ghana for the inaguration of President John Dramani Mahama, who was elected last year.
“Hey Karen! How’s Ghana?” another person asked. “LA you ask? Yeah it’s burning to the f–king ground but it’s better you’re not here anyways because you’re useless.”Others demanded that Bass, who took office in 2022, resign from her post.
“You’re a disgrace & embarrassment to our country,” one comment read.
“You need to resign you incompetent fool,” said another.
According to Fox LA, Bass was heading back to Los Angeles.
Former US Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell also noted Bass’ absence in a post on X, writing, “The national media hasn’t even mentioned that Karen Bass is in Africa while our city is literally burning to the ground.”
🚨 #BREAKING: Los Angeles fire hydrants are OUT OF WATER because the county REFUSED to refill reservoirs, per Rick Caruso
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 8, 2025
“You can’t fight a fire without water!”
The Mayor did ZERO prep despite the advanced warning of winds and fire risk.
This is EXACTLY what happened on Maui! pic.twitter.com/fBj445yGgw
PolitiFact, a disgraced, fake, far-left, unofficial propaganda arm of the Democrat party, is already melting down over the bombshell news Tuesday that Facebook will no longer allow them or any of the media’s fake fact-checkers to censor and blacklist conservative opinions.
We can now discuss things like “gender” and “immigration” openly.
Mark said so.
Tuesday morning, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg told the corporate media to kiss his ass in a video where he announced an end to “censorship” on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Further, more than once, he referred to the corporate media with the red-pilled term “legacy media.”
“We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms,” he said. “More specifically, here’s what we’re going to do. First, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”
“The legacy media pushed to censor more and more,” he said. “After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote non-stop how misinformation was harming democracy.”
Zuckerberg claims he is not only reversing these policies, he will work with incoming President Trump to “push back on governments around the world going after American companies and pushing to censor more.”
Before we get to PolitiFact crybabying, allow me to sum up what’s happening here… For the first time since the creation of mass media a hundred years ago, we are witnessing an end to the bad guys having control over the flow of information — control over what debate is acceptable, what questions are asked, what is and is not covered, what does and does not matter. In other words: The Narrative.
We all saw it yesterday on January 6, as the corporate media pleasured themselves pretending that a mostly peaceful protest where no one brought weapons was an “insurrection.” Nobody listened. No one cared. The media are Chubby Checker still singing “The Twist” in 1991 while Normal People focus on what matters — the future at the hands of a president who actually loves his country.
Yes, we should be wary of Zuckerberg’s transformation into a red-pilled believer in free speech, but maybe — just maybe — this is who he really is. Maybe Trump’s reelection triumph in the face of 100 percent media opposition showed Zuckerberg that the media’s hold on power is an illusion. Maybe Elon Musk thriving in the face of 100 percent media opposition drove the point home again. Whatever his intentions, Zuckerberg had a clear choice between MAGA and the legacy media, and he not only chose MAGA, he called the media and their fake fact-checkers “censors” and “biased” and announced a total end to their influence on Facebook and Instagram, two of the most powerful communication tools ever created.
So, of course, the fascists at PolitiFact are butthurt. No more can they tell a billion-plus Facebook and Instagram users that lies are truth. No more can they intimidate Normal People from speaking a truth or floating a crazy idea (Biden’s dementia) that might actually turn out to be true. No more can they control the debate, the questions asked, or what we as free people wish to discuss and how we wish to discuss it.
PolitiFact and their big daddy backers at the fascist Poynter do not give a damn about democracy or free speech. What they want is to empower the state by disempowering the individual’s right to be an individual.
Therefore…
This. Is. Glorious…
The bad guys are finally-finally-finally losing.
They are losing so bad, you can listen to the lamentations of their women:
No one’s watching CNN or MSNBC.
The Washington Post is collapsing.
The New York Times is beholden to its far-left subscribers and lives in that echo chamber.
The Los Angeles Times is openly courting Trump supporters.
And now, Xwitter, Facebook, and Instagram — the public square — are free of the legacy media’s evil and corrupt influence.
If villains like PolitiFact can no longer control how we talk to one another online, they have nothing.
Everything changed today. We must remain vigilant with Bond villains like Mark Zuckerberg, but everything changed, and the lamentations of their women prove it.
John Nolte’s first and last novel, Borrowed Time, is winning five-star raves from everyday readers. You can read an excerpt here and an in-depth review here. Also available in hardcover and on Kindle and Audiobook.
President-elect Donald Trump revealed Tuesday that he would not rule out using military force to annex Greenland, leaving many Americans asking: “But why?”
In fact, the ice-covered Danish territory, the largest island in the world, has long been a hot topic among strategists in Washington and elsewhere — despite Copenhagen’s insistence it is not for sale — due to its location along vital shipping routes and the presence of key raw materials that are rarely found anywhere else.
“Why? A few critical reasons,” a source close to the Trump transition efforts told The Post on Tuesday when asked about the president-elect’s goal. “Sending a strong, deliberate message to Beijing. Not just talk. Action. Making America Ambitious Again.
“And the president-elect is laying out the early framework of the ‘Trump Doctrine.'”
The US is currently locked in a three-cornered fight with China as well as Russia over the Arctic region’s natural resources — such as lithium, cobalt and graphite, according to the Wilson Center, a foreign policy-focused think tank in Washington.
“There are two main reasons [to annex Greenland]. The first is the large deposits of rare earth elements needed for critical defense and electronics manufacturing,” Atlantic Council nonresident fellow Alex Plitsas told The Post.
“Second, Greenland has a legitimately large claim to the Arctic and that would provide the US with a stronger position as competition there heats up for navigation and resources.”
As the 40th anniversary of Yitshaq Ben-Ami’s Yartzeit has just passed, the chasm between father and son reveals a painful and dramatic betrayal. Their differing approaches to Israel advocacy demonstrate how the once united cause of support for Eretz Yisroel has fractured across generations, culminating in Jeremy Ben-Ami’s stark break from the ideals his father so ardently upheld. The tale of the betrayal can be read in a newly released book entitled, “J Street UnMasked.”
Facebook is to scrap its fact-checking programme after founder Mark Zuckerberg pledged to “restore free expression” on the social network.
Mr Zuckerberg on Tuesday promised that parent company Meta would “get rid of fact-checkers” and replace them with a system of “community notes, similar to X”, echoing the approach of rival billionaire Elon Musk.
It follows the exit of Sir Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat leader, as the tech giant’s head of global affairs, a role in which he led a crackdown on hate speech.
Sir Nick has been replaced by the former Republican Party operator Joel Kaplan, who will lead Facebook’s public policy operations.
In a further sign of the company’s shift towards the Right, Mr Zuckerberg this week appointed longstanding Donald Trump ally Dana White, the chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, as a board member.
Mr Zuckerberg said: “Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they have created.”
He added that Facebook would “get rid of a bunch of restrictions” on topics including gender and immigration amid a wider corporate backlash against diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Mr Zuckerberg said: “What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions.”
The Facebook founder said the technology company had gone too far in tackling “disinformation” in the wake of Mr Trump’s election victory in 2016, amid fears over Russian meddling and fake news, adding that “we’ve reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship”.
He has previously accused Joe Biden’s White House of pressuring Facebook to censor content around coronavirus, saying: “I regret we were not more outspoken about it.”
The decision to ditch some of Facebook’s core moderation policies comes after the departure of Sir Nick, previously one of Mr Zuckerberg’s key lieutenants who was closely involved in the decision to suspend Mr Trump from Facebook in 2021.
Fact checking by experts will be replaced with something like the community notes system pioneered on X, where users can add their own checks to controversial statements.
Speaking to Fox on Tuesday, Mr Kaplan said: “Instead of going to some so-called expert, it instead relies on the community and the people on the platform to provide their own commentary to something that they’ve read.”
He added: “We have a new administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor and [is more] a huge supporter of free expression.”
The loosening of online moderation follows Mr Musk’s takeover of X, formerly Twitter, and his decision to implement a system of “community notes”, where users fact-check posts and videos on the social media site.
Currently, Facebook relies on a network of third-party fact-checkers and news groups to report and flag posts that are spreading disinformation. These include news agencies like Reuters and AFP and smaller groups such as the UK’s Full Fact.
The changes will raise questions over the future of Facebook’s “Oversight Board”, which was set up to review the tech giant’s moderation decisions and is made up of public figures including the Alan Rusbridger, the former Guardian editor.
It will also raise questions over whether user-generated community notes will be enough to tackle coordinated disinformation campaigns by hostile nations.
Mr Zuckerberg admitted the changes would mean Facebook will “catch less bad stuff”.
In a statement, the Oversight Board said: “The Oversight Board welcomes the news that Meta will revise its approach to fact-checking, with the goal of finding a scalable solution to enhance trust, free speech and user voice on its platforms.”
Mr Zuckerberg added that Facebook planned to “work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more”.
It comes as Britain prepares to implement the Online Safety Act, starting in March.
The bill proposes a 60-day timeline to implement these sanctions and seeks to halt U.S. funding to the ICC.
OK, here are some hard truths that I would not be able to say on any other platform without getting banned, but thankfully, thanks to @ElonMusk, I can say here:
— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) January 6, 2025
1- According to all available data, 10% to 15% of the 1.8 billion Muslims in the world are radicalized. That’s… pic.twitter.com/WnG6AfcldD
In a shocking interview with the New York Times, Tony Blinken admitted that his pro-Hamas policies have kept the hostages in Gaza and Hamas in power.
— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) January 5, 2025
Details and implications for the Biden team's plan to harm Israel before Jan 20, in my latest @JNS_org.https://t.co/URHz4jXZrB
Esmaa Behery is an account exec for @Mastercard (based out of Purchase, NY).
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) January 6, 2025
Esmaa Behery is also a vile antisemite who takes to social media to:
- deny the Holocaust
- claim Jews eat children
- compare ISIS to Israel
Why is this bigot on your payroll @MiebachMichael? pic.twitter.com/NVvonqRgdE
This is unreal. Turns out the UN only counts Gaza aid trucks from UNRWA and the WFP.
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) January 5, 2025
In December alone, they neglected to count the aid from 43 other organizations—totaling 2,252 trucks.
All the headlines about "aid shortages" in Gaza are a lie, and the UN is responsible. https://t.co/ubyouztOBR
NEW⚡️
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 7, 2025
Israel Told to Prepare for Possible War with Turkey, Nagel Committee Warns
The Nagel Committee, formed by the Israeli government, has issued a serious warning about the growing risk of a direct conflict with Turkey.
The report describes Turkey’s push to restore… pic.twitter.com/7o1nKK4nSK
Are we really sending US taxpayer money to the Taliban? https://t.co/gkVSErJqbz
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2025
Chuck Schumer just claimed that Democrats are not election deniers and Republicans should learn from them.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 6, 2025
Here’s 24 straight minutes of Democrats denying election results.
Oops pic.twitter.com/Rc2J4Fam2h
FLASHBACK: This is the video that Donald Trump posted on January 6th telling people to go home peacefully
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 6, 2025
Twitter 1.0 took it down within 5 minutes.
They prevented people from hearing this…
pic.twitter.com/05rV8MvisJ
BREAKING: A Jewish student went undercover at the Columbia SJP meeting and found multiple weapons, signs for terrorist organizations, and multiple images of Jewish items with blood. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/P8hwqAqf6K
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 6, 2025
BREAKING: Israel is extremely concerned about an unexplained Egyptian military buildup in the Sinai not far from the Israeli border which Israel says is a gross violation of the Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel. The buildup includes deployment of large numbers of troops,…
— Marc Zell (@GOPIsrael) January 6, 2025
🚨 Breaking: Soros Covertly Manipulating Wikipedia? 🚨
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) January 6, 2025
A new investigation by @AshleyRindsberg reveals that Wikipedia—which has come under fire in recent months for its extreme woke-ness and radicalism—is actually dominated by Soros-backed operatives:
🔸️Top leadership roles… pic.twitter.com/MmCV1ONNlw
BREAKING: The Palestinian Authority is lighting up a Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror base in the West Bank.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 6, 2025
There is a civil war happening in the West Bank, but the Western media won't report on it because they aren't able to demonize Israel. pic.twitter.com/iUnOKJpPD3
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 6, 2025
Gazan refugees are rioting at a taxpayer-funded hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
In August, Malaysia brought in 41 chronically ill Gazans for treatment & 86 of their relatives from Gaza (via Egypt). They are now setting fires & vandalizing the hotel. Malaysians are furious… pic.twitter.com/wOdfTY5VMW
Dear Sunny Hostin;
— Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) January 6, 2025
How the fuck you fix your mouth to say January 6th was like World War Two, the Holocaust, and slavery?
Bitch, 75-85 million people died in WWII.
6 Million Jews died in the holocaust.
12.8 million Africans were stolen from their homeland and sold into…
The detainees, none of whom have been charged with a crime, will be resettled in Oman as the Biden administration moves to wind down operations at the notorious detention facility.
“Although different processes, each of the Yemeni detainees underwent a thorough, interagency review by career professionals who unanimously determined all detainees as transfer eligible consistent with the national security interests of the United States,” the Department of Defense said in a statement.
The Pentagon noted that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin notified Congress in 2023 of his intent to repatriate the 11 Yemeni detainees to Oman.
“The United States appreciates the willingness of the Government of Oman and other partners to support ongoing U.S. efforts focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing the Guantanamo Bay facility,” the DoD said.
Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, an alleged al Qaeda fighter and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, was one of the 11 men released.
An unclassified 2016 US intelligence file on al-Alwi warns that as a GITMO detainee he “has made several statements since early 2016 that suggest he maintains an extremist mindset.”
The file also notes that al-Alwi has committed a number of disciplinary infractions while in detention that were “pardoned” as part of an “incentive for detainees to improve their conduct.”
Suhayl Abdul Anam al Sharabi, another alleged bin Laden bodyguard, was also released.
Al Sharabi’s 2020 intelligence file notes that he “may have been associated with an aborted 9/11-style hijacking plot in Southwest Asia” as a member of al Qaeda.
The nine others being released to Oman are: Uthman Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman, Khalid Ahmed Qassim, Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Tawfiq Nasir Awad Al-Bihani, Omar Mohammed Ali al-Rammah, Sanad Ali Yislam Al Kazimi, Hassan Muhammad Ali Bib Attash, Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj and Abd Al-Salam Al-Hilah.
The latest batch of transfers follows the Pentagon’s December announcement that detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi had been resettled in Tunisia.
Fifteen detainees remain at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, of whom three are eligible for transfer and three are eligible to have their detention status reviewed, according to the Pentagon.
Another seven inmates are involved in the military commissions process and two others have been convicted and sentenced by military commissions.
The Biden administration offered plea deals last year to alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-conspirators Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. All three men have been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2003.
The deals, slammed by 9/11 families, Republican lawmakers and the defense secretary, will spare the alleged terrorists the death penalty.
