Democrats’ Israel betrayal: How the party flipped on its staunchest ally

 

The arrest of the student who organized anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University has provoked an escalating row about free speech.

Columbia has been the epicenter of the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students on campuses around America, as part of a globally orchestrated campaign against Israel’s war in Gaza following the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacres.

The Columbia ringleader, Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old Syrian of Palestinian-Arab descent, was arrested over the weekend by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and faces having his green card revoked.

A judge Monday temporarily blocked any attempt to deport him.

The Department of Homeland Security said Khalil had “led activities aligned to Hamas.”

Yet Senate Judiciary Democrats tweeted: “Free Mahmoud Khalil.”

Other Democratic lawmakers, along with civil-rights activists and advocacy groups, have protested that Khalil is being targeted merely for expressing support for the Palestinians.

Such indifference to the outrageous lawbreaking, harassment and intimidation that has consumed universities, which have echoed for months chants for Israel’s destruction and the murder of Jews, throws into even sharper relief the shocking revelation that support for Israel in America has fallen to below 50% for the first time.

The latest Gallup polling revealed only 46% of Americans say their sympathies lie more with Israel than the Palestinians, while 33%.

Thirty-three percent sympathize more with the Palestinians, up by 6 percentage points from last year.

How could this have happened?

American support for Israel has long been as reliable as the sun rising in the morning.

Israel is not only regarded as America’s indispensable bulwark in the Middle East; Americans’ support for it has been more full-throated and emotional than among many Jewish communities around the world.

The huge drop in support overall has been caused by Democrat supporters, who have registered a stunning 59% support for the Palestinians versus only 21% for Israel.

In sharp contrast, Republicans support Israel over the Palestinians 75% to 10%.

In other words, Israel has become a partisan issue.

So why have the Democrats turned against the Jewish state?

Gabbard reconsiders appointment of critic of Israel’s war in Gaza

 Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, decided against appointing a critic of Israel’s war in Gaza to a key position responsible for managing presidential briefings, after the proposed appointment caused concern within President Trump's coalition, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at a Washington think tank known for his skepticism about US military intervention overseas, had been under consideration for the role of deputy director for mission integration. This influential position oversees the President’s Daily Brief, a critical collection of intelligence assessments provided to the White House and top policymakers.

The news of the potential appointment led to backlash from right-wing figures. A senior administration official confirmed to The New York Times that Gabbard reconsidered her decision after the criticism, a sentiment echoed by other officials.

Before the appointment was rescinded, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned it, calling Davis' potential role “extremely dangerous.” In a social media post, the ADL accused Davis of downplaying the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack and undermining American support for Israel.

Davis' candidacy also stirred opposition from pro-Israel conservatives in Congress, who quietly lobbied the administration to reconsider. They feared that Davis' opposition to the Gaza war could undermine Trump's support for Israel.

Supporters of Davis defended him, asserting that there was no indication of antisemitism in his work. They explained that he is critical of military interventions that do not serve US interests, and he is particularly concerned with the use of proxies in situations where the US is unwilling to deploy its own forces.

The New York Times noted that, despite Trump’s calls for Gazans to be removed from Gaza to facilitate its redevelopment, Davis has described such actions as “ethnic cleansing.” In January, he wrote on social media that US support for Israel’s actions in Gaza was a “stain on our character as a nation, as a culture, that will not soon go away.”

The report also noted that, while Gabbard has remained relatively quiet on the Gaza conflict, many of Davis’ views align closely with hers and he has also expressed support for Gabbard’s foreign policy stance on social media.

Rav Sholom Ber Sorotzkin who "schnoored" For his Child's Extravagant Wedding Calls On Students ‘Not To Enlist’ At the Wedding

Harav Sorotzkin on his smartphone 

Rav S.B. Sorotzkin's entire success is because by enrolling in his institutions, a bochur avoids the draft. If there was no IDF requirement for anyone to enlist he would have empty institutions. There are no מר-ברב אשי is any of his Yeshivos, and his institutions have not produced one single known Torah Scholar! It is no surprise that at his own child's wedding which cost over 250,000 shekels, he would call on his naive sheep not to enlist! If they would G-d Forbid enlist, Sorotzkin would be out of business! And the sheer chutzpa of this "Smartphone Owning" R'Y to call against enlisting while taking 25 million shekels a year from the Zionist government! 

 Rabbi Sholom Ber Sorotzkin, the head of the Ateres Shlomo Torah network of institutions, celebrated the wedding of his daughter at the D-City complex in Maale Adumim together with thousands of students from the yeshivos. During the course of the dancing, Rabbi Sorotzkin sang the anthem of Neturei Karta “We don’t believe in the government of the heretics”, changing some of the words to stress that “We do not enlist at their offices”, in a reference to the demand by the Defense Ministry that tens of thousands of charedim should enlist in the IDF.

Rabbi Sorotzkin’s wedding did not go unnoticed by opposition MKs, who were incensed that the rabbi expressed the anti-Israel sentiments of Neturei Karta despite receiving 50 million NIS for his institutions in the past two years, or about a third of his entire budget.

אלפי בחורי ישיבות חרדים בחתונת בנו של הרב שלום בער סורוצקין ראש מוסדות עטרת שלמה. שרים בלהט נגד גיוס לצבא: "ובלשכותיהם אין אנו מתייצבים, בשלטון הכופרים אין אנו מאמינים - בדרך התורה נלך באש ובמים" pic.twitter.com/HySTj3a8WB

— יואלי ברים yoeli brim (@yoeli_brim) March 11, 2025

אשרי העם שככה לו: אלפים בשמחת בית עטרת שלמה לכבוד נישואי בנו של ראש הישיבה הגרש״ב סורוצקין במרכז מתחם די סיטי pic.twitter.com/hcRKnD8DOc

— יעקב מלמד (@yaakov_melamed) March 11, 2025

Trump Correctly Points Out That Schumer is a "Palestinian" He is Not Jewish

 

"Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. He's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian."

Air Canada’s flight map deliberately removed Israel, replacing it with “Palestinian Territories.”

 

Tulsi Gabbard Taps an Anti-Israel commentator as her deputy director

 Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at the isolationist Defense Priorities think tank with a record of strident criticism of Israel, has been tapped as a deputy director of national intelligence, three sources with knowledge of the selection told Jewish Insider. Davis has also lambasted U.S. support for the war in Gaza as a moral and strategic mistake.

He has opposed military action to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, and suggested that it is only U.S. and Israeli policy and actions that are pushing Iran toward pursuing a nuclear weapon.

Three sources told JI that Davis, a retired military officer and early critic of the Afghanistan war, has been offered and accepted the position of deputy DNI for mission integration, one of the top jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and is waiting on the completion of his background check.

The mission integration role “serves as the DNI’s principal advisor on all aspects of intelligence,” according to the DNI website, and does not require Senate confirmation.

Davis joins a growing series of appointees in key positions across a number of national security agencies who fall far outside of the mainstream on Israel and Middle East policy, several of whom, including Michael DiMino, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, and Dan Caldwell, a Pentagon senior advisor, are also alumni of the Koch-linked Defense Priorities.

As recently as Jan. 12, Davis called U.S. support for the war in Gaza a mistake.

Israelis are always hopeful !

 עוד יותר טוב 

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WH Press Sec Karoline Leavitt Shuts Down Obnoxious AP Reporter Over Tariff Question

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t hold back when AP reporter Josh Boak tried to challenge her on tariffs during a press briefing.

“I think it’s insulting that you’re trying to test my knowledge on economics and the decisions that the president has made,” Leavitt fired back. “I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press.”

The story of Karin, who did not return !

 

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Karina was a ray of light in the world, kind-hearted, gentle and loving. You could see her smile from afar. 

11 days passed before she was identified and reported to her relatives. Her mother had only one request - to identify her herself, but the man who came with the news of her death said:

 “There’s nothing left to identify” and added: “We have a part of a spine and 3 teeth.” 

This is the story of Karin, she came to the Nova festival with friends and didn’t give up, even after breaking her leg.

 At 08:42 Karin called her mother and said: “Mom, we’re being shot, I’m dying of fear.” If anything happens to me, just know that I love you. They are shooting at us,” and communication was lost. 

Karin couldn’t run, she got to the ambulance parked at the festival, it was supposed to be a safe place, but the terrorists shot an ambulance from RPG. There were people inside and they all burned alive. 

137 days have passed since that morning, when a package with the rest of the watches she had been wearing came home. This is a story about a whole life and interrupted dreams, about absolute evil and pure goodness. 

This is the story of Karin, who did not return from that festival, now she is smiling in heaven. Her spirit is forever with us.

Welcome to England!

 

British Cops arrest a Guy For Raising the Union Jack While Allowing Pro-Hamas anarchists to wave the Palestinian Flag! 

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Recent @UCLA grad Emari Oyola watched the horrors of October 7 and cheered, "Shout out Hamas, we love what you're doing,"

 

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The casual dismissal of October 7th's atrocities while simultaneously invoking the language of human rights represents a profound moral failure that demands confrontation. 

When someone can watch footage of civilians being murdered in their homes and respond with indifference—or worse, satisfaction—yet position themselves as humanitarian advocates elsewhere, they reveal that their moral compass isn't guided by universal human dignity but by political allegiances. 

This selective humanity isn't just hypocritical—it's a betrayal of the very principles of human rights they claim to champion. Human suffering cannot be categorized as deserved or undeserved based on nationality or identity. True moral clarity requires the courage to condemn violence against all civilians, regardless of who perpetrates it or who suffers from it. Anything less is not justice—it's just tribalism wearing the language of justice as a mask.

U.S. Strikes Houthi Weapons Depots & Radar Systems in Al-Hudaydah

 According to Al Arabiya, U.S. forces targeted Houthi weapons storage facilities and radar systems in Al-Hudaydah, Yemen.

DemonRats Question ..“What crime did Mahmoud Khalil commit to warrant his arrest?”

 “His Green Card Won’t Save Him” – WH Press Sec Shuts Down Reporter on Mahmoud Khalil Deportation*

During a heated exchange at the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt forcefully pushed back when a reporter asked whether Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder, needed to be charged with a crime to be eligible for deportation.

_US Speaker Mike Johnson:_

 “Let me tell you something. I went and faced down the angry mob at Columbia at the height of that stuff ... if you are on a student visa and you're an aspiring young terrorist who wants to prey upon your Jewish classmates, you're going home. We're gonna arrest your -- tail, and we're gonna send you home where you belong.”

Dems defending Columbia Pro-Hamas agitator Khalil is another example of how they, elite schools failed Jewish students

 Watching Democrats try on different arguments to thwart Donald Trump, I’m reminded of a story involving the late Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight.

After John Feinstein wrote an unflattering portrait of Knight, he responded by attacking the author mercilessly.

In one barrage, Knight called him both “a whore and a pimp,” leading Feinstein to quip: “I wish he’d make up his mind so I’d know how to dress.”

So it is with Democrats as they search desperately for a way to rally the public against Trump.

Their only guiding light — to be against whatever he is for — is creating confusing contradictions and leading them ever deeper into political parody.

Consider that the same members of Congress who refused to stand as Trump honored a child with cancer and families who lost loved ones to murderous illegal immigrants are now defending an Arab immigrant who is a leader of a group that sympathizes with terror organizations Hamas and Hezbollah and calls for the “end of Western civilization.”

Defending him is a strange hill to die on, but the Dems have become a very strange party.

No negotiations, do whatever the hell you want..Iran’s President to Trump

 

ranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday declared that his country will not negotiate with the United States under pressure, delivering a blunt message to US President Donald Trump, according to Reuters, which cited Iranian state media.

"It is unacceptable for us that they (the US) give orders and make threats. I won’t even negotiate with you. Do whatever the hell you want," Pezeshkian stated.

The remarks come days after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dismissed the idea of talks with the US, arguing that Washington’s goal is to impose limits on Iran’s missile capabilities and its influence in the region.

Khamenei’s comments followed an acknowledgment by Trump that he had sent a letter to Khamenei in an effort to secure a new deal to curb Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

In response to Khamenei, White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes reiterated almost word for word the choice of negotiations or military action that Trump presented to Iran.

"We hope the Iran Regime puts its people and best interests ahead of terror," he said.

Although Trump has expressed willingness to negotiate a deal with Tehran, he has also reinstated the "maximum pressure" campaign that characterized his first presidency, aiming to cripple Iran’s economy by driving its oil exports toward zero.

Iran has expanded its nuclear activities since 2019, following the decision by Trump, in his first term in office, to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers.

In its latest step to advance its nuclear program, Iran recently informed the IAEA of its intention to "significantly increase" its production of uranium enriched up to 60 percent.

This is the Belgian Author Who Wrote: “I Want To Stab Every Jew I Come Across”

 

The Criminal Court of Ghent on Tuesday ruled that Flemish best-selling author Herman Brusselmans was not guilty of antisemitism and incitement to hatred despite his statements that he wants to kill every Jew over the war in Gaza.

In a column published in a Belgian magazine last summer, Brusselmans wrote that when he saw an image of the destruction in Gaza, he “became so enraged that I want to ram a pointed knife straight down the throat of every Jew I meet.”

The court ruled that Brusselman’s “expressions of opinion are protected by the right to freedom of expression” as set out by the Belgian constitution.

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, president of the European Jewish Association (EJA), slammed the verdict, calling it “a deeply alarming message about the state of the fight against antisemitism in Belgium and Europe.”

“Today, the Belgian justice system has established a grave precedent: hate crime laws are flexible – and when it comes to Jews, they suddenly become malleable,” he said.

“This ruling effectively legitimizes a person, read by hundreds of thousands, to openly call for the murder of Jews without facing any legal consequences. It deems it permissible to publish in a national media outlet the desire to ‘stab a knife into the throat of every Jew encountered,’ all under the pretext of anger over the situation in Gaza.”

“By issuing such a verdict, the Belgian judiciary sends a dangerous message: incitement to murder and hatred can be reinterpreted, excused, and ultimately legitimized – at least when the targets are Jews.”

Michel Kotek, chairman of the Jewish Information and Documentation Center, which filed the claim against Brusselmans, called the ruling “a disgrace to Belgian jurisprudence.”

“Someone who has been making such statements since 1993 – we are no longer talking about an incident. This is a constant repetition of moves in which antisemitic statements predominate.”

“We too are for freedom of speech. But where it spills over into hatred and the deprivation of safety, that’s where a government must intervene. And that’s where it fails.”

Brusselmans still faces further court hearings on additional complaints filed over his column, including a claim filed by three Holocaust survivors that he violated Belgium’s anti-racism and negationism laws.

Jewish organizations have also filed a civil case against Brusselman, saying that his statements are fuel for antisemitism and hostility toward Belgian Jews.

Columbia Refusing to Help Identify ‘Pro-hamas’ Students

 Columbia University is refusing to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security identify students from a list of individuals, who have “engaged in pro-Hamas activity” on campus, the White House said Tuesday.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters at a briefing that the department has gathered the names of other individuals it believes have fallen afoul of U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to combat antisemitism.

“They have been using intelligence to identify individuals on our nation’s colleges and universities—on our college campuses—who have engaged in such behavior and activity, and especially illegal activity,” Leavitt said.

“I don’t have a readout on how many arrests will come, but I do know that DHS is actively working on it,” she said. “I also know that Columbia University has been given the names of other individuals, who have engaged in pro-Hamas activity, and they are refusing to help DHS identify those individuals on campus.”

“As the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday, he is not going to tolerate that,” she said. (JNS sought comment from Columbia.)

Showing Her True Colors ...Letitia James ‘Extremely Concerned’ About Arrest of Man Accused of Leading Jew-Hatred at Columbia

Letitia James, the New York attorney general, defended the former Columbia University student, whom federal agents arrested on Saturday night for allegedly supporting Hamas and who reportedly let anti-Israel protests on the Ivy League campus.

“I am extremely concerned about the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, an advocate and legal permanent resident of Palestinian descent,” James stated on Monday.

She added that her office “is monitoring the situation” and has been in contact with Khalil’s lawyer.

Married at 44, Baby at 50: A Story of Faith & Resilience

 

Wikipedia disrupted by ‘edit wars’ to manipulate pages on war in Gaza – with at least 14 editors banned

Tensions are brewing at Wikipedia over the war in Gaza as volunteer editors have launched “edit wars” to manipulate the slant of pages, according to a report.

The non-profit encyclopedia has banned at least 14 editors from working on topics related to the Israel-Hamas war as it faces growing accusations of left-leaning bias, according to Bloomberg.

Even the site’s founders are at odds over whether to reveal the identities of the Wikipedia contributors, who are typically kept anonymous.

Wikipedia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Some volunteer editors have allegedly conspired with other contributors to alter pages on the Middle East conflict to fit their agenda – stoking strong backlash from Jewish organizations.

Some volunteer editors have allegedly conspired with other contributors to alter pages on the Middle East conflict to fit their agenda – stoking strong backlash from Jewish organizations.

“I agree that for many who are doing it, the motive does appear to be the undermining of civic norms and democracy,” he said.

Early last year, Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee barred three editors from its site for leading a pro-Israel campaign.