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Israel has been the West’s frontline against the forces of darkness almost from its inception.

During the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Communist Soviet Union, Israel’s utilization of U.S. arms defeated the Arab-nations’ Soviet arms. Israel’s victories garnered prestige and profits for American aircraft-producing industries. Israel’s battle experience and intelligence, which it shared with the United States, gave America a serious advantage over its Russian and Chinese adversaries. Israel has bolstered America’s “hard security” defense through counterterrorism cooperation, intelligence sharing, and the development of innovations, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and missile defense.

Israel also provided America with “soft security” through advances in the high-tech, medical and sustainability sectors, which have helped to maintain American economic competitiveness and promote sustainable development. Israel’s high-tech community, second only to Silicon Valley, and Israel’s cooperation with U.S. companies on information technology has been crucial to their success.

In the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s demise, the dark forces of radical Islam threatened the civilized world. The Europeans chose to appease the radical Shi’ite regime of the ayatollahs in Iran. In contrast, Israel has stood alone and firm in its opposition to Iran’s terror network and its Islamic proxies, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Yemen’s Houthis, and Iranian-controlled Iraqi and Syrian Shi’ite militias.

Early in his presidency, Barack Obama set the tone for the tolerance that he would repeatedly extend to authoritarian and undemocratic Mideast heads of state. The first phone call he made to a Middle East leader was to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority chief. His first visit to the Middle East was to Egypt in 2009, where he spoke at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, the foremost Sunni-Muslim Institute. His speech was, in essence, an apology to the Muslim world for American and Western alleged misdeeds. Despite his proximity to Israel during that 2009 visit, Obama made no attempt to contact any Israeli leader or schedule a visit. He finally flew to Israel in 2013, four years into his presidency.

The recent elimination by the Israel Defense Forces of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accomplished what neither the United States nor any other Western or Arab country was willing or able to do. Hezbollah has been murdering Lebanese citizens, Syrians (anti-Assad Syrian rebels), French troops and American Marines with impunity and yet, the Biden-Harris administration was quick to criticize Israel for its actions.

Ibrahim Aqil, the second-highest commander of Hezbollah, who was in charge of their elite force and a principal member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, which claimed responsibility for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people, was on Washington’s most-wanted list. Despite a $7 million bounty offered by the administration, Aqil eluded the Americans. It was Israel that succeeded in eliminating him. Once again, it was Israel and not the Biden-Harris team that settled the score with a bloody terrorist and his bloodier boss, Nasrallah.

The impoverished country of Yemen, whose Shi’ite Houthis have been operating under the direction of their paymaster Iran, has been supplied with sophisticated missiles that have damaged and sunk Western commercial ships in the Red Sea for more than a year now. The inconsequential retaliation raids by the United States and the United Kingdom against the Houthis have not induced any fear nor deterred the Houthis’s actions. Late last month, Israel alone displayed resolve and guts by inflicting a painful strike on the Houthis’s oil facilities and its main port of Hodeida on the Red Sea.

Pierre Poilievre, the Canadian Conservative Party leader, called for Israel to pre-emptively strike Iran’s nuclear facilities earlier this month, saying that such an act would be “a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.” He added, “I think the idea of allowing a genocidal, theocratic, unstable dictatorship that is desperate to avoid being overthrown by its own people to develop nuclear weapons is about the most dangerous and irresponsible thing that the world could ever allow.”

Poilievre’s strong and courageous endorsement of Israel was in sharp contrast to the appeasement of Iran displayed by the Biden-Harris administration. It seems that winning the state of Michigan for vice president ad Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is more important than saving humanity from a nuclear Iran. Neither Harris nor President Joe Biden is willing to tackle the “nuclear threshold” Islamic Republic of Iran, but are, instead, restraining Israel from acting on its vital interests, which in this case is of an existential nature. 

Getting rid of Iran’s nuclear arsenal is as much in the interest of America and the West as it is in Israel’s interest. In fact, a concerted attack on Iran by both the United States and Israel may have the added benefit of bringing down the hated and repressive regime of the ayatollahs to the relief of the Iranian people. But Biden and Harris subscribe to the Obama doctrine of maintaining the ayatollahs’ regime as a counterweight to Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The American administration continues to uphold the Palestinian cause as one grounded on land or soil when, in fact, it is all about Islam, its faith and its beliefs. This is the central ideological centerpiece for Hamas and encompasses the entire spectrum of radical Salafist Islam. Hamas is by far the most popular and dominant party in what is claimed to be the “Palestinian territories” and the Palestinian diaspora. If open and fair elections were held tomorrow in the P.A.-controlled areas of  Judea and Samaria, Hamas would win hands down, just as it did in Gaza in 2007. Pressuring Israel to facilitate a “two-state solution” would be another gift to radical Islam. Hamas would be in control, and Israel would be in a perpetual war with it. But a scenario where Hamas gains control over the “Palestinian territories” would usher in a domino effect that would likely bring down the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and enable the Islamic Republic of Iran to swallow another Arab capital, Amman, to the consternation of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

Israel has proven to the world that it is capable of defending itself and, by extension, defending U.S. and Western interests. Instead of appeasing Israel’s enemies, who are America’s foes as well, the Biden-Harris administration must back Israel and enable it to spread the light of democracy, human rights, and religious freedom in a region of darkness led by Iran and its proxies. Israel’s victory will be a victory for the West.

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Minouche Shafik, then president of Columbia University, sent a text message to university co-chairs and trustees on Jan. 4 about her and co-chair David Greenwald’s meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), as the university faced charges of widespread antisemitism, including from House Republicans.

The senator’s staff “recommended the ‘best strategy is to keep heads down,’ and when asked, Schumer and his staff indicated they did not believe it was necessary for the university’s leaders to meet with Republicans,” according to a new report from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. “Greenwald echoed this, writing in response, ‘If we are keeping our head down, maybe we shouldn’t meet with Republicans.’”

Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is Jewish, has said that his last name refers to being a “guardian” of the Jewish community, and he frequently describes himself as history’s highest-ranking U.S. Jewish official.

The 122-page report—which has an additional 203 pages of appendices—is based on interviews with administrators from those universities and an examination of more than 400,000 documents.

According to the report, Schumer told Shafik that Columbia’s “political problems are really only among Republicans.”

Shafik announced her resignation as Columbia’s president on Aug. 14. She did so amid widespread antisemitism on and near the New York City campus, including students and anti-Israel protesters yelling at Jewish students to “go back to Poland” and high-ranking administrators mocking campus Jew-hatred during an event.

The new House report comes days after Schumer promised Jewish leaders that he would introduce a bill addressing college Jew-hatred. The senator has been criticized for failing to bring the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which passed the House overwhelmingly, to a vote in the Senate.

“Israel was created after the Holocaust so that the Jewish people would never have to hide again. Jewish Americans deserve better than university leaders who ‘keep heads down’ and treat virulent antisemitism on campuses as merely a PR problem,” wrote Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Ala.), sharing a Washington Free Beacon article about Schumer’s reported remark.

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) wrote that Schumer’s reported remarks were “disgusting.” 

“Democratic Senate Majority Leader Schumer told the disgraced ex-president of Columbia that antisemitic violence was a problem ‘only among Republicans,’” the congressman said. “Chuck, defeating antisemitism is an American prerogative, not a partisan one.”

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, has held several congressional hearings on Jew-hatred on campus. The committee's report concluded that university administrators across the country failed to enforce rules and “deliberately chose to withhold support from Jewish students.”

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The top prosecutors of six states received letters on Oct. 29 calling for investigations into entities accused of coordinating pro-Hamas protests.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, contacted the attorney generals of New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Pennsylvania—states, he said, with tax-exempt nonprofit groups that may have broken the law.

“The Ways and Means Committee is committed to holding accountable any tax-exempt organization found to have ties to foreign terrorist organizations, engaged in activity that contradicts tax-exempt purposes, or participated in other illegal activity,” he said in a statement.

Smith had previously contacted the IRS on Sept. 24, calling for investigations of activist groups who may have violated nonprofit laws. “While I have already demanded the Biden-Harris administration stand up to the pro-Hamas wing of their party and revoke the tax-exempt status of these groups, it is now time for state law enforcement agencies to act and bring any organization found to have engaged in illegal activity to justice,” he said.

The legislator said “Congress owes it to the American people to ensure any organization with tax-exempt status is operating for their stated tax-exempt purpose, and more importantly, following the letter of the law.”

The letters urge investigations of the People’s Forum, United Hands Relief, Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, Jewish Voice for Peace, the Tides Foundation, American Muslims for Palestine and others.

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Every year, millions of older adults take a misstep that changes their lives forever. Falls are a leading cause of injury for seniors with one in four adults aged 65 and older experiencing a fall annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unfortunately, falls among the elderly are not only alarmingly common but also come with a high cost—often resulting in severe injuries that require prolonged medical care and rehabilitation or, in some cases, leading to death.

Despite the widespread nature and seriousness of this issue, government programs and healthcare plans around the world frequently come up short in providing adequate resources and support systems to prevent and manage falls. As a result, essential fall prevention services tend to be prohibitively expensive or simply unavailable. This leaves many older adults in dire need of solutions that go beyond what commercial companies or government healthcare programs can provide. However, nonprofits can play a significant role in making this public-health challenge more accessible.

When creating products and services for older adults, commercial companies often naturally prioritize the offerings that yield the highest returns. Services that don’t promise substantial profit margins—such as affordable mobility aids or in-home safety modifications—are often sidelined or underdeveloped. Meanwhile, government programs, though well-intentioned, are frequently hindered by bureaucracy and limited funding, resulting in limited reach that makes it challenging to deliver comprehensive and timely care.

This gap is one that more nonprofit organizations, particularly in the Jewish community, should be looking to fill. By stepping in to provide personalized, community-driven solutions, local nonprofits can play a crucial role in preventing falls and improving the quality of life for older adults around the world.

One of the most effective ways to start making a difference is to offer community-based fall prevention education programs. Making simple changes at home—like adding grab bars, securing loose rugs and improving lighting—can go a long way towards preventing falls. Nonprofits can offer classes to teach families how to create safer environments, reduce hazards and take proactive steps to protect their loved ones at home. Another way to enhance safety is by providing exercise classes for older adults. These classes should concentrate on building balance and strength, which helps seniors stay steady on their feet and reduces their risk of falling.

Minimizing reliance on costly commercial medical equipment and devices is another area where nonprofits can have a substantial impact. Many elderly individuals struggle to afford mobility aids like walkers, canes and wheelchairs or personal emergency-response systems (PERS), which are often critical for safety and independence. Nonprofits can bridge this gap by making these essential tools more affordable or even free for those in need. This can be done by getting grants or donations to cover equipment costs, partnering with medical equipment companies to subsidize expenses, or creating community lending programs where people can borrow devices for free or at very low cost. Initiatives like this ensure that every older adult, no matter their financial situation, has access to the tools they need to stay safe and independent.

In addition to providing physical resources, nonprofits can facilitate programs that keep seniors socially active and engaged with their communities. Isolation can lead to inactivity and declining mental health, both of which increase the risk of falls. By organizing simple activities like walking groups, art classes or volunteer opportunities, nonprofits can make a big difference. These programs not only keep seniors moving, they also boost mental and emotional health by providing a sense of purpose and connection. By focusing on both physical and emotional well-being, nonprofits can start tackling the factors that lead to falls.

Finally, advocacy is another important way that nonprofits can play a role in improving elderly care. By pushing for better policies at local and national levels, nonprofits can help secure more funding for comprehensive fall prevention programs as well as improved access to essential services and medical devices.

The challenge of preventing falls among older adults is significant but not insurmountable. Nonprofit organizations have the potential to fill the gaps left by commercial companies and federal healthcare programs by providing accessible, affordable and community-driven solutions. With the right support and resources—including education, essential equipment and opportunities for socialization—they can profoundly impact the lives of elderly individuals. Together, these efforts will create a culture of awareness and safety that empowers older adults to age with confidence, dignity and security.

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The Biden administration warned on Thursday that Israel’s decision to extend a waiver, allowing Israeli and Palestinian banks to transact business for only one more month, has created a “looming crisis” that might threaten regional security.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen stated that the banking agreement should be extended for at least a year on a renewable “depoliticized” basis.

“The very short-term duration of this extension creates another looming crisis by Nov. 30, exacerbating uncertainty for international banks, Israeli companies operating in the West Bank and most importantly for ordinary Palestinians, who bear the greatest brunt of such uncertainty,” the secretaries stated. 

“Cutting off these banking ties would create significant economic turmoil in the West Bank, threatening the security of Israel and the broader region,” they added. (The Biden administration and some countries refer to Judea and Samaria as the “West Bank.”)

The two U.S. officials noted that the G7 group of large, liberal democracies and “many of our closest partners” share the duo’s concerns.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed the one-month waiver earlier on Thursday, pushing any decision about renewal until after the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5. 

The waiver indemnifies Israeli banks from charges of money laundering and funding extremism. Without it, Palestinian banks in Judea and Samaria would lose access to the Israeli banking system, threatening the collapse of the economy in areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority.

Smotrich, the leader of the Religious Zionism Party, said in May that cutting off those funds might also end the Palestinian Authority.

“The Palestinians are working against Israel with political terrorism and promoting unilateral measures around the world,” Smotrich said. “I cannot continue to transfer funds to them. If this causes the P.A. to collapse, let it collapse.”

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The U.S. Department of Education initiated three federal reviews in October to determine whether two universities and a New Jersey school district have violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights started investigations into Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. (Oct. 18) and Vanderbilt University in Nashville (Oct. 24).

Also underway is a probe of the Caldwell-West Caldwell Public Schools in northern New Jersey, which began on Oct. 21.

The complaints center on a failure to address “national origin discrimination involving religion.”

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Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, presented a new report to the U.N. General Assembly this week that purports to provide “clearly identifiable” proof that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians.

Titled “Genocide as colonial erasure,” the report focuses on “genocidal intent, contextualizing the situation within a decades-long process of territorial expansion and ethnic cleansing aimed at liquidating the Palestinian presence” in Gaza, eastern Jerusalem, and Judea and Samaria.

“The situation is worsening by the day,” Albanese said at a Thursday press conference. “The pace and intensity of the Israeli violence and destruction has spread to the rest of the occupied territory, leaving no Palestinian safe under Israel’s unfettered control.”

“For over a year, I have pleaded to all concerned parties as well as states, particularly those with influence, to take concrete action to stop the destruction of the Palestinian people, to ensure the prompt and unconditional release of all hostages, both Israelis and Palestinians, and to ensure international law is respected,” she added.

The violence that “Israel has unleashed against the Palestinians post-Oct. 7 is not happening in a vacuum,” per the report, “but is part of a long-term intentional, systematic, state-organized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians.” (U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres was criticized for saying in late October 2023 that the Hamas attack “did not happen in a vacuum.”)

In the report, Albanese called for Israeli officials, military leaders and soldiers to be prosecuted. The report states that since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has acted not in self-defense but with an aim to expand its territory.

“The events of Oct. 7 provided the impetus to advance towards the goal of a ‘greater Israel,’” Albanese wrote. (That term generally refers to Israel, Judea, Samaria and Gaza.) She added during a private event on her U.S. speaking tour this week that Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack “triggered the opportunity for Israel to complete and channel the project of colonial erasure.”

Multiple U.S. ambassadors and the French and German governments have accused Albanese of Jew-hatred, including for comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and stating that Hamas wasn’t motivated by antisemitism when it attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

“The latest report by Francesca Albanese is a gross perversion of history, weaponizing Holocaust comparisons to demonize Israel while ignoring the terror of Hamas. This inflammatory rhetoric must be confronted,” the World Jewish Congress stated on Wednesday. “United Nations, it’s time to stop platforming antisemitism.”

The group “demands that the United Nations holds Francesca Albanese accountable and stops permitting its platforms to be hijacked by individuals who exploit them to spread hate and undermine the U.N.’s mission of promoting peace and human rights,” the World Jewish Congress added.

‘Genocidal intent’

What Albanese refers to as Israel’s stated goals, “accepted by some states, remain ‘to eradicate Hamas’ and ‘bring the hostages home,’” per the report, which states that eliminating the terror group and rescuing the captives are, in their own right, genocidal.

“Neither of these goals, or motives, preclude a finding of genocidal intent as the only reasonable inference to be drawn,” she wrote. “Instead, both motives, together and disjunctively, substantiate the genocidal intent.”

The report also accuses Jerusalem of having “delayed” polio vaccinations” for children in Gaza and “attacked vaccination areas and a U.N. vaccination convoy,” after a rare polio case emerged in July.

The footnote attached to “Israel delayed vaccinations” in Albanese’s report links to a U.N. article and one in CNN, which cite Israeli collaboration on vaccinations.

Albanese’s argument that the Jewish state is guilty of genocide relies on judicial opinions not adopted into law, cites her own published statements as evidence and interprets Israel’s efforts to rescue hostages in Gaza as genocidal intent.

“The role of the Israeli media in inciting this genocide, by helping to foster an unchecked genocidal climate, ought to be examined judicially—as has occurred in other contexts,” she wrote, citing examples from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. 

In that case, two executives, an announcer and a correspondent for the RTLM radio station, which was tied to the Hutu-led government, that last for a year, were convicted of genocide-related crimes. Albanese didn’t cite specific Israeli outlets that she says fomented genocide.

“Compounding decades of dehumanization of the Palestinians, the media have platformed proponents of genocide and debates legitimating their brutalization, and have withheld the facts from the Israeli public,” she wrote in the report. “State actions have exacerbated the situation, including heavy military censorship, the killing of 111 Palestinian journalists, denial of entry to foreign journalists to Gaza and the forced closure of Al Jazeera’s offices in Israel and the West Bank.”

Much of Israeli media is not viewed generally as friendly toward the Israeli government or the army. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has often clashed with Israeli media, including outlets that are publicly funded and associated with the Israeli military.

Albanese “has a long and deep record of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias,” the Anti-Defamation League stated. “She is far from an impartial expert. In fact, she exhibits behaviors that violate the U.N. code of conduct almost on a daily basis.”

“Francesca Albanese’s newest ‘report’ completes her record of recycling accusations. According to her hate-filled paradigm, the State of Israel has no historic reason to exist, no right to defend its population and both the attack of Oct. 7 and the rescue of hostages are merely used by Israel as an excuse,” stated the Israeli mission to the United Nations in Geneva. “This distorted reality is a smokescreen to hide her hatred for Israel.”

Albanese “is nothing but a political activist who abuses an already discriminatory U.N. mandate. She is regularly spewing antisemitism, shielding and encouraging terrorism and distorting the law,” the Israeli mission added. “As a U.N. mandate holder, she has breached every possible rule of the U.N. code of conduct. She must immediately be held accountable for her continuous abuses.”

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Nazi-Related Items Found in Southern Lebanon
The Israel Defense Forces found Nazi-related paraphernalia in civilian homes in Southern Lebanon on Nov. 1, 2024. Credit: IDF.

The Israel Defense Forces found Nazi-related paraphernalia while searching civilian homes in Southern Lebanon, used by Hezbollah terrorists for storing weapons and other items.

The Israeli military crossed the border last month to destroy terror infrastructure and work to stop the rocket and other fire that has been launched at the Jewish state since Oct. 8, 2023, one day after the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel.

On Friday, the IDF shared images of five objects uncovered during operations. One photo shows a book with an Arabic title and the handwritten name Hassan Salih above a swastika drawn in the style of an Indian swastika rather than the Nazi version.

Another image includes four items. Two—a red pennant flag and what appears to be a wooden box or puzzle—include swastikas. Two figures photographed show Adolf Hitler performing a Nazi salute and a man in a greenish uniform carrying a gun.

“It’s no coincidence these were found in civilian homes exploited by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon,” the IDF stated on X. “Hezbollah’s goal has always been the same: annihilate Israel.”

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Campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris at Christ Temple Apostolic Faith Church in Muskegon Heights, Mich., on Wednesday night, former President Bill Clinton discussed Israel extensively at the end of his nearly 45-minute remarks.

“I understand why young Palestinian and Arab Americans in Michigan think too many people have died since—I get that. But if you lived in one of those kibbutzim and in Israel, right next to Gaza, where the people there were the most pro-friendship with Palestine, most pro-two state solution of any of the Israeli communities—were the ones right next to Gaza, and Hamas butchered them,” Clinton, 78, said.

Those who criticize the Jewish state “are essentially saying, ‘Yeah, but look how many people you’ve killed in [retaliation]. So how many is enough for you to kill to punish them for the terrible things they did?’” Clinton added. “That all sounds nice until you realize what would you do if it was your family? And you hadn’t done anything but support a homeland for the Palestinians, and one day they come for you and slaughter the people in your village.”

“You would say, ‘Well, you have to forgive me. I’m not keeping score that way. It isn’t how many we’ve had to kill because Hamas makes sure that they’re shielded by civilians,’” he said. “They’ll force you to kill civilians if you want to defend yourself.”

Clinton said the Hamas terror group doesn’t care about a Palestinian homeland.

“They wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable. Well, I got news for them. They were there first before there was—their faith existed,” he said. “They were there in the time of King David in the southernmost tribes had Judea and Samaria.”

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The former president recalled his own efforts to try to bring Israel and the Palestinians together.

“Look, I worked on this hard, and the only time Yasser Arafat didn’t tell me the truth was that he promised me he was going to accept the peace deal that we had worked out, which would have given the Palestinians a state on 96% of the West Bank and 4% of Israel, and they got to choose where the 4% of Israel was,” he said.

“I can hardly talk about this,” he said.

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