UNCONSCIONABLE: Hassan Diab, the terrorist who murdered my friend’s mother, Aliza Shagrir, before his eyes in the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing still lectures at Canada’s 🇨🇦@Carleton_U. A French court gave him LIFE for murdering 4 souls & maiming 46. Yet Carlton University… https://t.co/9z1nG3NAIb
— CG Idit Shamir 🎗️ (@ShamirIdit) November 2, 2024
3 million rats in NYC. 21,000 rat complaints. What does NY pest control do? Kill the one trained squirrel in the entire world. pic.twitter.com/bgMDTaITVy
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) November 2, 2024
Mark Longo, joined by his wife, sobbed through his prepared remarks on the killing of his beloved best friend.
“I’m angry, I’m sad, I’m disgusted,” Longo said while choking back his emotions in a clip of a TikTok live.
“We fight and work everyday to pay our state taxes and they turn around and they do this to a family,” Longo said.
New York State and the Department of Environmental Conservation have faced mass public blowback for their actions.
Many of the DEC’s social media posts have gotten hundreds of comments from outraged supporters of P’nut the Squirrel.
The animal rescuer also thanked his fans and the general public for “unbelievable support.” A GoFundMe set up by Longo in P’nut’s honor has raised over $73,000.
The couple also say that they are inundated with warm messages from supporters.
Longo also said that he will continue to post photos and content of P’nut “in his best days.”
Longo told The Post that he felt like a “terrorist” when state authorities came into his home on Wednesday.
Agents from the DEC went through the Pine City residence for five hours — making Longo and his wife wait outside the entire time — after obtaining a warrant to search the premises.
Longo, 34, said he and his wife weren’t even allowed to use their own bathrooms during the invasive raid without a police escort — “who checked the back of the toilet to see if I was hiding anything there.”
The warrant stemmed from anonymous complaints of an animal that is a known vector for rabies, namely, Fred the raccoon.
On Friday, the DEC announced that it had euthanized both P’nut and Fred to test them for rabies.
The department claimed in a statement Thursday that P’nut, who was notably friendly and docile through the course of his public facing life, had bitten an agent and needed to be tested for rabies.
Longo has expressed skepticism about this claim.
“I watched everybody put gloves on before they entered my house. They had gloves that you get an eagle to land on,” he told The Post.
He is demanding an investigation into the department’s rationale and actions and is filing a motion to get the medical records of the officials in his house to see if they actually test positive for the very rare disease.
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The targets actually selected, air defense and missile-production facilities, were entirely legitimate. Undoubtedly, both Iran’s defensive and offensive capabilities suffered significant damage.
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government did not strike Iran’s gravest threat: the existential danger of nuclear holocaust against Israel. And the mullahs’ nuclear aspirations — including the threat of Tehran transferring nuclear devices to international terrorist groups — also pose grave dangers to the United States, Gulf Arab countries and many others," he explained.
Bolton blames the decision on US pressure and noted that no matter the results of the impending elections, Israel may not find any increased sympathy from the Oval Office. Vice-President Kamala Harris is likely to be no more friendly than President Joe Biden, and with the votes cast, Biden himself may decide to act against Israel in the remainder of his term.
As for Donald Trump, Bolton wrote, "Donald Trump’s stance is murky. To those who think Trump will support Israel as he did in his first term, I say simply: think again. Trump’s dislike of Netanyahu is palpable, and, constitutionally barred from winning another term, the importance of US electoral politics to Trump will be much less than before. Trump came within an eyelash of meeting with Javad Zarif, Iran’s former foreign minister, in 2019. He could easily do so in a second term, always in search of a deal, any deal he believes makes him look good."
He concludes that Israel's best target is Iranian nuclear infrastructure. Bolton notes that it constitutes both a military target and a symbol of the regime, making striking it a "conclusive blow" to public support of the regime amongst Iranians. Additionally, and more importantly in terms of reducing international pressure, it does not affect the global fuel market, a significant concern for many of Israel's allies.
"The votes in the USA will have been cast - but Tehran still has a vote to cast as well. Ultimately, the choice will be Israel's," he notes.
Cohen, 20, is survived by his parents, Ze'ev and Dina, and eight siblings. Raised in Yitzhar, he served in the Givati Brigade, and studied in the Mitzpeh Yitzhar yeshiva. His family, Chabad-Lubavitch hasidim, are among the most veteran families in the town.
He is the 25th resident of the Samaria Regional Council to fall in the war. The Cohen family was supported over Shabbat (the Sabbath) by professional teams from the Council and the town.
Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan mourned, "Shneur was a person with inner grace which shined outward. He learned Torah, and he was also a talented fighter. Before he enlisted, he volunteered in the regional defense. He was raised by a family of true pioneers, Dina and Ze'ev Cohen, who moved - at the height of the Oslo war - the Second Intifada - to live in Sa-Nur and strengthen the towns of northern Samaria. They are dedicated to all of the town's needs. Since October 7, his father has been serving in the reserves, in the regional defense of Samaria."
"The Samaria Regional Council will support the family with everything it needs. The entire Samaria family is mourning and embraces the Cohen family."
"I have known the family for over 20 years. We are sad, but we will never break. We will continue to support the IDF, we will continue the settlements. We are very pained, we are sad and hurting. But we swear: We will never break! We will support the IDF and we will give strength to the security forces and the State of Israel - forever. We will support the settlements even more - in Yitzhar and throughout all of Judea and Samaria, the Gaza border area, and the north. We will support the military and civilian victory, and through the bravery of these holy ones - we will win."
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An Israeli security source confirmed to Sky News Arabic that "a special operation was carried out, in which a person was taken captive in northern Lebanon."
Arab news outlets reported that a large naval force, suspected to be Israeli, arrived at the Batroun coast in northern Lebanon and captured a Hezbollah operative staying in a hut in the area, around 140 kilometers from the Israeli border. According to the reports, the operation included over 25 fighters, and was coordinated with the UNIFIL forces stationed in Lebanon.
Al Hadath has named the individual as Imad Amhaz, an officer in the Lebanese Navy.
However, Lebanon's Transportation Minister, Ali Hamie, told Al Jadeed that Amhaz is a captain who commands civilian and commercial ships. He studied in a civilian institution.
Candice Ardil, deputy director of UNIFIL's information office, denied any connection to "the trapping or a violation of Lebanese sovereignty."
The elections were held between 12:00 and 4:00 p.m. at the Chief Rabbinate headquarters in Jerusalem. 136 out of the 140 members of the electoral body participated in the voting.
The four members of the body who did not cast their votes were Emek Hefer Regional Council head Galit Shaul, the Rabbi of Rechasim Yaakov Sonnenfeld, MK Yitzhak Kroizer (Otzma Yehudit), and Bat Yam Mayor Tzvika Brot.
Rabbi Ber received 77 votes while his opponent, Petah Tikva Chief Rabbi Micha Halevi received only 58 votes.
The election on Thursday was a runoff after the two candidates tied during the first round last month, both receiving 40 votes.
During the initial round of voting, Rabbi David Yosef, the son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef z”l, and the brother of the former Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, was elected as Sephardic Chief Rabbi, having received 72 votes.
Israeli researchers have stumbled on a way to stimulate the immune system to fight cancer cells, including in types of the disease considered resistant to prevailing forms of immunotherapy, Tel Aviv University announced on Wednesday.
The “chance technological breakthrough” by the university’s Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences essentially reverses a mechanism in cancer patients that prevents the immune system from attacking tumors, the university said.
The academic lab that made the discovery studies both cancer and the effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun on the skin and body, both of which are known to suppress the immune system.
“While in most cases, we cancer researchers worldwide focus on the tumor and look for mechanisms by which cancer inhibits the immune system, here we proposed a different approach: investigating how UV exposure suppresses the immune system and applying our findings to cancer,” said TAU Prof. Carmit Levy, one of the leaders in the study.
“The discovery of a mechanism that inhibits the immune system opens new paths for innovative therapies,” she said.
The researchers found that after exposure to UV radiation, the immune system’s T cells—that play a critical role in fighting cancer—begin to express high levels of the protein Ly6a, said PhD student Avishai Maliah.
“We suspected that Ly6a serves as a brake through which UV inhibits the immune system, and that by releasing this brake, optimal activation of the immune system might be resumed,” he added.
He treated cancer in the lab with Ly6a antibodies, and the tumors were significantly reduced. Moreover, cancers resistant to known treatments reacted substantially to Ly6a antibodies.
“Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of cancer,” noted TAU Prof. Yaron Carmi, a global expert on the immune system and co-author of the study. “However, about 50% of the patients do not respond to the currently prevailing treatment.”
The Israeli team is now working to translate their findings into a drug for cancer patients, hoping to offer an effective new treatment.
The research has been published in the peer-reviewed Nature Communications journal.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s report sheds light on Senator Chuck Schumer’s controversial role in Columbia University’s response to campus anti-Semitism.
According to the report, first published Thursday by the Washington Beacon’s Adam Kredo, Schumer advised former Columbia President Minouche Shafik to downplay and ignore congressional criticism, reassuring her that “the university’s political problems are really only among Republicans.” He suggested that university leadership “keep heads down” rather than confront anti-Semitic incidents openly. This guidance was perceived as politically motivated rather than genuinely protective of students.
Furthermore, as anti-Israel protests escalated on campuses—including incidents of intimidation and harassment of Jewish students—Schumer’s private stance diverged sharply from his public position. When protests turned violent at Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus, Schumer publicly condemned the “lawlessness,” yet privately encouraged Columbia’s leaders to avoid inquiries from Republicans, reinforcing a partisan divide over a significant campus safety issue.
The report argues that this approach contributed to a culture in which universities, including Columbia and Harvard, treated anti-Semitism as a public relations issue rather than enforcing protections under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. This stance arguably allowed anti-Semitic demonstrations to escalate unchecked into open hostility on campuses across the country. The committee asserts that Schumer’s guidance to avoid accountability and regard anti-Semitism as merely a political inconvenience ultimately compromised the safety and rights of Jewish students.
Former NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind slammed Schumer calling him A “Kapo in Our time”, a fraud, and a traitor.
The consulates are in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich.
Baerbock also said Germany would seek EU-wide sanctions against those involved in Sharmahd's execution.
The German Foreign Office on Wednesday announced that its ambassador to Iran, Markus Potzel, had left the country for consultations in Berlin and to protest "in the strongest terms" against Iran's actions.
A spokesman at the time said the "murder" of a German citizen was "extremely straining" on relations with Iran, already reduced to a minimum.
The Iranian judiciary announced Sharmahd's execution on Monday. He was sentenced to death in 2023 after a controversial trial on terrorism charges.
The German government, relatives and human rights activists strongly rejected the accusations against him.
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| Harav Granot with his Son Amital Tzvi z"l and his Rebbitzin |
Donald Trump has overtaken Kamala Harris in the final DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners national poll before Election Day, with the former president holding a three-point lead over the vice president.
Both candidates have shored up their bases, but Trump has done better at picking up support from independents and undecided voters in the final push, according to the data.
The poll of 1,000 likely voters, which has margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent, shows that Trump is trending up, with the support of 49 percent to Harris' 46 percent.
The race is still close. Yet, with five days to go, the numbers mean Trump is currently on course to become the first Republican candidate since George W. Bush in 2004 to win the popular vote.
The vice president held a one-point lead when the poll was last conducted in September.
She enjoyed a two-month honeymoon after President Joe Biden announced he was ending his reelection campaign. Her poll numbers and fundraising surged amid a wave of enthusiasm.
But since then the race has tightened to become one of the closest in history.
James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners said the poll was good news for Trump's chances of winning the White House.
'The movement under the surface suggests Trump is having a better closing moment in driving up enthusiasm than Harris is, and undecideds and third-party candidate supporters have also broken for Trump in the last month,' he said.
'He has also seen improvement among voters of every race, and leads in all age groups apart from 18–29-year-olds.'
The full results show third-party candidates making little headway.
Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and Libertarian Chase Oliver are all on just one percent.
Independent Cornel West's share is rounded to zero percent.
Perhaps the starkest finding is the gender mismatch in the contest.
'One thing makes this election stand out from others: When voters go to the polls next week, they will be sharply divided on their gender, with women being more likely to vote for Harris and men more likely to vote for Trump,' said Johnson.
Harris can count on the support of 54 percent of women, while Trump has the backing of 40 percent.
Men break 59 to 37 for Trump.
After wobbles on both sides, the two candidates can now rely on their own party support. Harris is backed by 94 percent of Democrats; Trump is backed by 93 percent of Republicans.
And there is more good news for Trump as his campaign works to turn out the vote. Enthusiasm for the former president is higher (74 percent say they are very enthusiastic for him) than Harris (67).
A month ago, Harris led Trump by five points.
But all is not lost for Harris. Trump's lead is powered by a 43-point advantage among rural voters. Harris remains on course to win the suburbs, where our poll shows she has a two-point lead.
Johnson said that was a 'ray of light' for Harris.
'That could mean Trump’s vote is now looking more inefficiently spread,' he said. 'Things could look much closer in the swing states if Harris can drive home her votes in suburban areas.'
Trump's danger, he explained, was that he could be racking up high vote counts in red states, while the distribution of Harris supporters might help her win swing states.
The two candidates are now crisscrossing the states that will decide the outcome in the electoral college.
Both had struggled with negative headlines in the final week.
Trump launched his closing message on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden in New York, an event that was overshadowed by a comedian making disparaging remarks about Puerto Rico.
And Harris made her final pitch near the White House, but was upstaged by President Joe Biden apparently calling Trump supporters 'garbage' although his words were unclear.
An ABC station ignited a flurry of conspiracy theories after it aired what appeared to be official election results for Pennsylvania that showed Kamala Harris easily winning the key swing state — more than a week before Election Day.
The shocking result popped up at the bottom of the screen during Sunday’s broadcast of the Formula 1 Mexico Grand Prix by ABC local affiliate WNEP-TV, which serves the northern part of the Keystone State.
It showed the vice president capturing 52% of the votes, compared to 47% for Republican challenger Donald Trump, with 100% of the precincts reporting.
The graphic caused a stir on social media, prompting claims of election rigging.
WNEP-TV said the results came up on the screen in “error” and that they had been “randomly generated” as part of a test ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
“Those numbers should not have appeared on the screen, and it was an error by WNEP that they did,” the station told the Daily Mail, which first reported the story.
“The numbers seen on the screen were randomly generated test results sent out to help news organizations make sure their equipment is working properly in advance of election night.”
The broadcaster continued: “The numbers were not reflective of any actual vote count. Pennsylvania law does not allow mail-in ballots to be taken out of their envelopes until 7:00 a.m. on Election Day, and no votes of any kind will be counted in Pennsylvania until after the polls close at 8:00 p.m. WNEP regrets the error and apologizes for any confusion. We have taken steps to ensure that it does not happen again.”
Trump is up by a razor-thin margin of 0.7% in Pennsylvania, garnering 48.2% to Harris’ 47.5%, according to data from Real Clear Politics.
In the 2020 election, Joe Biden eked out a victory in Pennsylvania by the narrowest of margins, beating Trump by 80,555 votes, or 1.17% — and snatching the state’s 20 electoral votes to win the presidency.
Trump supporters began circulating the footage from WNEP-TV’s broadcast and weighing in on the error.
“ABC is cheating for the Democrat machine. Their license should be revoked,” wrote one user.
Another person added: “If the same graphics pop up after November 5th, with the same percentages & the same vote count, it’ll be EXTREMELY suspicious. And the media wonders why nobody trusts them?”
Disney-owned ABC has been under fire during the election season, following the network’s airing of the presidential debate on September 10. Critics accused ABC News and moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis of bias in favor of Harris.
Conservative commentators claimed that the moderators continued to fact-check Trump while they left Harris alone.
There have also been dueling profiles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, detailing the close friendship between Harris and Disney exec Dana Walden, who is in the running to become the company’s CEO, which has raised eyebrows.
For her part, Walden has tried to distance herself from the news division of the Mouse House, despite a history of political donations and fundraising efforts for Harris.
