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President Biden signs 50 bills into law on Christmas Eve By Misty Severi
The slew of new laws comes a day after the president vetoed a separate bipartisan bill that would have created dozens of new federal judge posts, claiming it failed to “resolve key questions in the legislation.” The bill was passed shortly before Congress left for the year.
December 24, 2024 10:09pm Just the News – President Joe Biden on Tuesday night signed 50 bills into laws, including a bill that officially makes the Bald Eagle the national bird, and a bill championed by Paris Hilton that protects children at treatment and care centers.
The slew of laws comes a day after the president vetoed a separate bipartisan bill that would have created dozens of new federal judge posts, claiming it failed to “resolve key questions in the legislation.” The bill was passed shortly before Congress left for the year.
One of the new laws designated the bald eagle as the national bird of the United States. The legislation was passed unanimously by the Senate in July, and passed in a voice vote in the House last week.
The eagle has been considered a national symbol since the Second Continental Congress put the bird on the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, but was never officially declared the national bird under U.S. Law until Tuesday. It was passed under the same chapter of U.S. law that designates “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem, “In God we trust” as the national motto, and “The Stars and Stripes Forever” as the national march.
Another major bill that was passed was Hilton’s “Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act,” which establishes a Federal Work Group for youth residential programs that works to ensure facilities are implementing best practices for their patients. The group will also provide recommendations for federal oversight in the future, according to The Hill.
A third major legislation was a bill that requires public colleges to include campus hazing incidents in its annual security report.
He also signed multiple legislation that renamed federal buildings, including post offices. One post office in San Francisco will be renamed to honor the late-California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
A full list of the new laws can be found here.
Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just the News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.
“A Christmas to Remember” – President Trump Releases Powerful New Video on Christmas Eve 2024
Anti-Israel Ben & Jerry’s Gets Royally Whipped
December 24, 2024 Jewish Breaking News – A scoop of bad news for Ben & Jerry’s came on Monday as King Charles III stripped parent company Unilever of its centuries-old royal warrant.
For more than 500 years, British monarchs have bestowed royal warrants upon their preferred suppliers, allowing elite companies to splash the Royal Arms across their packaging. It’s a coveted mark of prestige that connects modern commerce to medieval tradition. But in Charles’s latest review, Unilever got the royal boot, ending patronage that stretched back to Queen Victoria’s reign.
The palace won’t say why. They never do. But the warrant strip-down comes as Unilever faces mounting criticism over its stance on Israel. The Vermont-based ice cream maker has spent years waging war with Israel, most notably trying to freeze out Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria in 2021.
That boycott attempt sparked a messy legal brawl between Ben & Jerry’s Israeli franchise and Unilever. Though sales eventually resumed beyond the Green Line in late 2022, the company’s anti-Israel stance only hardened after October 7 when CEO Anuradha Mittal called for an immediate ceasefire without preconditions. Her comments drew fierce backlash, including from Unilever board member Nelson Peltz, who accused her of “justifying mass murder, rape and torture of kidnapped Jews.”
Ben & Jerry’s Israel eventually had enough, declaring itself “an independent, private, patriotic company” with zero ties to the global brand in 2022.
When founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield tried defending their decision to boycott Israel while selling ice cream in U.S. states whose policies they oppose, they choked. Asked during an 2021 interview on “Axios on HBO why they’re still scooping in places like Georgia and Texas despite their abortion laws, Cohen could only mutter, “That’s an interesting question. We’ll have to think about it.”
For a company that started by mixing chunks and swirls but ended up stirring antisemitism into its pints of ice cream, losing its coveted royal seal may be just the first scoop of trouble ahead.”
[Ed.: Keep in mind that it’s Unilever. Ben & Jerry retired.
Travel Nightmare: American Airlines Grounds All Flights on Christmas Eve By Lorri Wickenhauser
December 24, 2024 at 8:06am – American Airlines briefly grounded all flights early Christmas Eve while it addressed an unspecified “technical issue.”
An hour later, the Federal Aviation Administration lifted the nationwide ground stop, releasing flights to once again begin the boarding process, ABC News reported.
The airline posted an announcement just before 7 a.m. ET, according to the Associated Press.
“We’re currently experiencing a technical issue with all American Airlines flights,” the post read. “Your safety is our utmost priority, once this is rectified, we’ll have you safely on your way to your destination.”
The airline told ABC it did not know when the problem would be resolved. “Our teams are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible, and we apologize to our customers for the inconvenience.”
It was unwelcome news to passengers who got up early to catch a flight during one of the year’s busiest travel days.
Some immediately blamed the airline.
Others were concerned about not knowing details about what caused the outage and what the broader implications might be
“American has not expanded on what technical issue grounded the flights, and the airline did not immediately respond to a request for comment,” AP reported.
While the problem appears to have quickly been solved, it could still cause lingering problems for travelers.
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“Many flights during the holidays are sold out, which makes cancellations even more disruptive than during slower periods” according to the outlet.
“Even with just a brief outage, the cancellations have a cascading effect that can take days to clear up.”
Emily Schrader Takes on Global Hypocrisy [3:14]
December 22, 2024 ILTV Israel News – ILTV’s Emily Schrader asks why is the international community ignoring the crimes against humanity in Syria and other Arab countries.
When the Government Flooded America’s Breadbasket and Walked Away
Europe’s Muslim Problem By Pamela Geller
December 23, 2024 – Muslims are the only immigrant group who come to the West with a ready made model of society they believe to be superior to Western law and they work furiously, by all means, to impose it. Under Islam, shariah (Islamic) law supersedes Western law. Anywhere Western law and Shariah law conflict, it is always Western law that must give way. What those of us working in defense of freedom did not expect, was the craven capitulation and cowardice by Western left elites to Islamic supremacy.
Western Europe’s Muslim problem By: Joseph Pude
Muslim migrants arrived in the industrialized Western European states after World War II, many from the countries that were formerly colonial possessions.
Nov. 28, 2024 JNS – The streets of major Western European cities are occupied territories.
Radical Muslim gangs who harbor a hatred for Western culture and believe Islam is the answer for all bear a visceral and violent antisemitic hatred for Israel and Jews. The pogrom perpetrated by Arab and Turkish Muslims against Israeli and Jewish fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team in Amsterdam earlier this month illustrates the point. Local law enforcement feigned efforts to contain the aggressive hordes, which did not prevent the severe beating of scores of Israelis and Jews and the hospitalization of six. For many people, the images out of Amsterdam conjured up images of the evil perpetrated by the SS Nazi Germany and the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. Attacks on Jews and Israel are now widely evident in other major Western European cities, including Berlin, Brussels, London, Madrid and Paris.
Referring to the recent pogrom, there were kind words from the King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, who told Israeli President Isaac Herzog, “We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II, and last night we failed again.” Geert Wilders, leader of the largest party in the Dutch parliament, blamed Moroccan Muslims for the attack on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. He noted that the Muslims do not hide the fact that they want to destroy Jews and recommended the deportation of those people convicted of involvement in the pogrom if they have dual nationality.
Muslim migrants arrived in the industrialized Western European states after World War II, many from the countries that were formerly colonial possessions. Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian Muslims landed in France and in Belgium (since French was also widely spoken there). Turkish Muslim temporary laborers were brought to Germany and never left. The Netherlands became home to Indonesian Muslims. South Asian Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims settled in Britain. Many of those early Muslim settlers sought a quiet life, economic betterment and freedom.
The revival of Islamic strength—with Saudi Arabia accumulating unimaginable oil riches and power in the 1970s—created an initial stirring, followed by the 1979 Islamic Shi’ite revolution in Iran, and the defiance against the Western world and its culture. The mayhem in Iraq and the endless terror in the aftermath of the Bush administration’s 2003 war that deposed Saddam Hussein eliminated the secular Sunni-Muslim rule in Iraq and led to Shia-Muslim supremacy and Iran’s stranglehold on Iraq.
[Ed.: Pedophiles never last very long in prison!]
Pro-Hamas Biker Gangs Flood London Streets [VIDEO 0:49]
December 23, 2024 JBN News – Pro-Palestinian migrant biker gangs have taken to the streets of London, replacing festive Christmas displays with Palestinian flags across the city.
Meanwhile, criticism mounts as police are accused of prioritizing the arrest of individuals for “offensive posts” on X (formerly Twitter) rather than addressing the disruptions caused by the migrant bikers, many of whom aren’t driving street legal motorbikes.
[Ed.: Remember this: by the time you are hearing “Alla hu’Akbar,” it’s already too late.]
🇺🇸 Donald Trump brings Holy Christmas back! [2:28]
DNC powerhouse fundraiser announces exit from Democratic Party following attacks: ‘It’s like leaving a cult’ By Yael Halon
Lindy Li said she was ‘ostracized’ from the party and labeled a ‘whore’ after criticizing Kamala Harris
December 22, 2024 Fox News – Prominent Democratic National Committee (DNC) powerhouse fundraiser Lindy Li announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party, which she referred to as a “cult,” after facing an onslaught of internal attacks for criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris last week.
Li, a Democrat strategist, served as both a surrogate for Harris and a member of the DNC’s national fundraising committee, where she raised “tens of millions of dollars” on behalf of Democratic candidates. She also frequently appeared on the air to stump for Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign.
Li became the target of the left’s attacks earlier this month when she expressed support for President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth. But it was the party’s vitriolic response to a subsequent appearance on Fox News that pushed her rightward, she said on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
“This past week has been harrowing for me,” Li told Piers Morgan in Wednesday’s episode. “This Saturday, I went on ‘Fox & Friends’ and I said ‘Democrats have a stench of loser hanging over them.’ As soon as I said that, there were boycott campaigns against me. Unblock, unfollow campaigns.”
Li told “Fox & Friends” that she felt Harris was “indulging in delusions” of making a political comeback amid party buzz of the vice president staging a 2026 gubernatorial or 2028 presidential run and that the Democratic Party was plagued by the “stench of loser” after November’s defeat.
The comment cost her forty thousand followers in four days and prompted an onslaught of slanderous attacks from Democrats, the same people she spent her whole career defending, she told Morgan.
“People have called me a whore, the ‘C-word.’ They asked for me to be deported…,” she revealed.
Li said she was also accused of working as a “communist spy.” The accusation was particularly offensive to her, she said, considering her family history.
“They’re calling me a spy for the regime that killed my great-grandfather and these are the people who call themselves the social justice warriors,” she told Morgan. “They’re going headfirst into racism anytime someone dares to disagree with them. I want to be a part of the team that says men are men and women are women and men shouldn’t play in women’s sports.”
The reaction was eye-opening for her, she said, telling Morgan that she feels like the party who claims to occupy the moral high ground has been unmasked.
“All these so-called Democrats, the party of inclusion, the party of diversity, masks off. And it’s even worse because they pretend to occupy the moral high ground,” she said. “They pretend to be so loving and caring and embracing of diversity but all of a sudden, when I dare to utter any criticisms of the goddess Kamala Harris, I get ostracized. Me, after having raised tens of millions of dollars for the party.”
She continued, “My donors are pissed…it’s my responsibility to ask what the hell happened with their money…these are legitimate questions, but no, in the cult, you can’t ask questions. And leaving the Democratic Party or even questioning the Democratic Party is like leaving a cult. It’s terrifying. I don’t want to be a part of this craziness anymore. They’re accelerating my rightward shift.”
Li said Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves for driving her and other prominent fundraisers out.
“They’re shrinking their tent. They’re basically pushing me to bring my tens of millions of dollars that I’ve raised and can continue to raise to a different team that treats me better, that treats me with common decency.’
Four days earlier, Li told NewsNation’s “Morning in America” that she was still weighing her options about what a future role might look like for her.
“I think I’m too big to fully exile from the party,” Li said of her contributions to the DNC at the time, seemingly signifying a change of heart in the short time between both comments were made. “The leadership knows that.”
Related: DNC FUNDRAISER TAKES AIM AT ‘VINDICTIVE’ TORRENT OF CRITICISM OVER HEGSETH COMMENTS
[Ed.:
235 Biden Judges: Senate Confirms Biden’s 235th Judge, Beating Trump’s Record
December 22, 2024 – With 235 leftist judges confirmed in four years, the disastrous Biden Administration will be harming America for decades to come. Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsay Graham in particular, did a horrible job of slowing down the Biden Administration’s judicial appointments. Most especially in the first two years of the Biden Administration when the Senate was split 50-50.
President Trump needs to make confirming as many judges as possible a major priority for the next four years.
Senate confirms Biden’s 235th judge, beating Trump’s record
By NBC, Dec 21st, 2024
It’s an important milestone for Joe Biden as he tops his predecessor Donald Trump’s total number of judicial nominees confirmed before handing the White House back over to him.
The Democratic-led Senate confirmed the 235th federal judge nominated by President Joe Biden, marking a milestone for the outgoing occupant of the White House by giving him one more than former President Donald Trump secured.
The latest confirmation Friday could be Biden’s last, meaning he will leave office having secured one Supreme Court justice, 45 appeals court judges, 187 district court judges and two judges on the U.S. Court of International Trade
‘Wildly Off-Base’: New Push for Supreme Court to Reverse Case That Allows Property Confiscation
Dr. Jordan Peterson Officially Moved to the US, Left Woke Canada Behind
Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, spent years orchestrating Hezbollah walkie-talkie, pager plots [13:33] By Lesley Stahl, Aliza Chasan, Shachar Bar-On, Jinsol Jung
Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, spent years orchestrating Hezbollah walkie-talkie, pager plots
December 22, 2024 / 7:41 PM EST / CBS News
After nearly a year of war between Israel and the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, Lebanon was sent reeling in September when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members exploded.
Two recently retired senior Mossad agents, who were among those spearheading the years-long operation, detailed the inside story of how they built the devices and got them into Hezbollah hands, shifting the course of Israel’s escalating war with the Iran-backed group. The walkie-talkie and pager plots had a profound ripple effect: weakening Iran by leaving its proxy empire in ruins, with Hezbollah crushed in Lebanon and the Assad regime toppled in Syria.
“We want them to feel vulnerable, which they are,” said Michael, who agreed to speak with 60 Minutes while masked and using a false name. “We can’t use the pagers again because we already did that. We’ve already moved on to the next thing. And they’ll have to keep on trying to guess what the next thing is.”
Weaponizing walkie-talkies
Mossad’s walkie-talkie operation was about waging war through deception and trickery, in line with the spy agency’s motto. Work began on weaponizing the walkie-talkies more than a decade before Israel set them off in September.
“The walkie-talkie was a weapon, just like a bullet or a missile or a mortar,” Michael said.
The walkie-talkie battery, made in Israel at a Mossad facility, included an explosive device, Michael disclosed. The walkie-talkies were designed to go into the chest pocket of a tactical vest for soldiers.
According to Michael, Hezbollah bought more than 16,000 of the exploding devices, some of which were eventually used against them on Sept. 18.
“They got a good price,” Michael said.
The price couldn’t be too low because Israel didn’t want Hezbollah to be suspicious. Mossad also needed to hide its identity as the seller and ensure the walkie-talkies couldn’t be traced back to Israel. So they set up shell companies to infiltrate the supply chain.
“We create a pretend world. We are a global production company: We write the screenplay, we’re the directors, we’re the producers, we’re the main actors,” Michael said. “And the world is our stage.”
From walkie-talkies to pagers
The walkie-talkies were designed to go into armored tactical vests used in battle, but Mossad wanted to plant devices that Hezbollah members would have on them at all times. So, in 2022, the agency began development on boobytrapped pagers, according to former Mossad agent Gabriel, who agreed to speak with 60 Minutes while masked and using a false name. Gabriel said Mossad had learned that Hezbollah was buying pagers from Gold Apollo, a company in Taiwan.
The Gold Apollo pagers were sleek, shiny and could fit into pockets. Mossad needed a larger pager to fit explosives inside, Gabriel said.
Using dummies, Mossad conducted tests with the pager inside a padded glove, held next to the dummy’s face, to calibrate the grams of powdered explosive needed to be just enough to hurt the fighter, but not the person next to him, Gabriel said. The plan was to only hurt Hezbollah members with pagers, not people nearby.
“We test everything, triple, double, multiple times in order to make sure there is minimum damage,” Gabriel said.
The devices had no intelligence capabilities and could not be used for tracking, according to Mossad. They could only be be used as miniature bombs.
“This is a very stupid device by nature. This is the reason they’re using it. There’s almost no way how to tap it,” Gabriel said.
Mossad also tested the pager ring tones. They wanted a sound that was urgent enough to compel someone to take it out of their pocket, Gabriel explained. The spy agency also tested how long it takes a person to answer a pager: on average, 7 seconds.
Convincing Hezbollah to buy the pagers
Gabriel remembers the day he showed the pager off to Dadi Barnea, the director at Mossad.
“And he was furious,” Gabriel said. “He was telling us, ‘There is no chance that anyone will buy such a big device. It’s not comfortable in their pocket. It’s heavy.'”
The director sent Gabriel back to the drawing board, but Gabriel spent the next two weeks successfully convincing his boss of the pager’s merits.
Those merits were later touted in fake ads on YouTube, where the pagers were touted as being robust, dustproof and waterproof, with a long battery life. They posted fake online testimonials, too.
“It became the best product in the beeper area in the world,” Gabriel said.
Mossad did such a good job promoting the pager that people outside of Hezbollah wanted to buy it, Gabriel said.
“Obviously we didn’t send to anyone,” he said. “We just quote them with expensive price.”
Mossad set up shell companies, including one in Hungary, to dupe Gold Apollo into working with it, Gabriel said. The spy agency fully manufactured the pagers and had a licensing partnership with Gold Apollo. It had to all look legitimate to Hezbollah.
“When they are buying from us, they have zero clue that they are buying from the Mossad. We make like the ‘Truman Show,’ everything is controlled by us behind the scene,” Gabriel said. “In their experience, everything is normal. Everything was 100% kosher.”
To further the plot, Mossad hired the Gold Apollo saleswoman Hezbollah was used to working with, who was unaware she was working with Mossad. According to Gabriel, she offered Hezbollah the first batch of pagers as an upgrade, free of charge. By September 2024, Hezbollah had about 5,000 pagers in their pockets.
Setting off the pagers and walkie talkies
The question for Israel was when the sleeping bombs should be activated. There were hints Hezbollah might be getting suspicious of the devices, so Mossad head Dadi Barnea gave the go ahead, triggering the Sept. 17 pager plot. At 3:30 p.m. pagers started beeping all over Lebanon.
Mayhem ensued as explosions went off. Hospitals filled up with the wounded. Limbs and fingers were torn off. People were left blooded, blinded and even with holes in their stomachs. For the most part, the explosions worked as planned, injuring only the people with the pagers, the former Mossad agents said. Several videos reviewed by 60 Minutes show explosions wounding individual people, while leaving those next to them unscathed.
“A day after the pagers exploded, people were afraid to turn on the air conditioners in Lebanon because they were afraid that they would explode,” Michael said. “So there was real fear.”
One day after the pager attack, Mossad finally activated the walkie-talkies that had been dormant for 10 years. Some went off at the funerals of those killed by the pagers.
In all, about 30 people were killed, including two children, in the two attacks. Around 3,000 were injured.
Did Mossad’s plan succeed?
The aim of the walkie-talkie and pager plot wasn’t to kill people, Gabriel said.
“If he’s just dead, so he’s dead,” Gabriel said. “But if he [is] wounded, you have to take him to the hospital, take care of him. You need to invest money and effort. And those people without hands and eyes are living proof, walking in Lebanon, of ‘don’t mess with us.'”
Two days after the pager attack, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, known for his fiery oratory, gave a subdued speech. He looked defeated, Gabriel said.
“He already lose the war. And his soldier look at him during that speech. And they saw a broken leader,” Gabriel said. “This was the tipping point of the war.”
In the ensuing days, the Israeli Air Force hit targets across Lebanon, killing over 1,000 people, many of them civilians. On Sept. 27, Israel dropped massive bombs on Nasrallah’s bunker, assassinating him. The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire took effect at the end of November.
“But I think after this tipping point of the beeper operation and then the walkie-talkie and then IDF attack, [it] put Hezbollah in a situation, a very, very difficult situation: no chain of command, no spirit in their soldiers, asking, begging, for a ceasefire,” Gabriel said.
Michael agreed that wind was taken out of Hezbollah’s sails after the pager operation. He’s hoping it will have an effect on Hamas and the hostage situation in Gaza.
“Because they’re looking at their sides and they’re seeing no one next to them,” Michael said. “They are completely isolated now.”
Iran Offers Nordic Children €1,500 Bounties for Israeli Hits
December 22, 2024 JBN News – A chilling new terror campaign backed by Iran has emerged in Europe’s Nordic states where children as young as 13 are being recruited to attack Israeli targets.
Swedish authorities have documented a string of attacks this year perpetrated by children. In one incident, a 15-year-old boy carrying a loaded gun hailed a taxi outside Stockholm and attempted to reach the Israeli embassy. Thankfully his movements were being tracked by police who intercepted the cab before it reached its destination.
Over the fall, a 13-year-old fired shots at a Gothenburg building housing Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems. The same facility was later targeted when a 16-year-old, working with a 23-year-old accomplice, planted homemade explosives fashioned from vacuum flasks outside the main entrance.
All three attacks have been traced back to Iran.
Since Hamas launched its massacre against Israel 14 months ago, Iranian operatives have stepped up their efforts to reach out to young victims through popular social media platforms like Telegram, TikTok, and WhatsApp. Nordic law enforcement officials note that while some young recruits are motivated by anger over civilian casualties in Gaza, others are simply lured by money.
According to the Iranian offers seen by Bloomberg, prices start from about €1,500 for a murder while a petrol bomb attack can earn a young terrorist €120. Most troublingly, many of these young perpetrators don’t understand they’re operating as agents of a foreign power, creating a shadow network of unwitting terror proxies for Tehran’s regional ambitions.
In response, Norway temporarily raised its terror alert level from medium to high and established stricer border controls with Sweden. Meanwhile, Swedish authorities have introduced youth prisons for children under 15, a response championed by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s government with support from the far-right Sweden Democrats.
SUBWAY NIGHTMARE: Woman Burns To Death On Train After Man Sets Her On Fire
December 22, 2024 The Yeshiva World – A woman was burned to death on an F train in Coney Island early Sunday morning after a man set her on fire by throwing a lit match onto her, police sources revealed to the NY Post.
NYPD officers responded to a fire at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station around 7:30 a.m., where they discovered the woman engulfed in flames while seated on the idling train. Emergency responders extinguished the fire, but tche woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sources say the victim appeared to have been sleeping when the suspect, described as a man in his 20s, stood up, walked past her, and tossed the match. Liquor bottles were found near her, though investigators have not confirmed if they contributed to the blaze.
The suspect fled the station immediately after the attack, and police are continuing to search for him. Train service on the F line was suspended through Sunday afternoon as investigators processed the scene.
The shocking incident occurred just as Governor Kathy Hochul ramped up efforts to improve subway safety by deploying 250 additional National Guard troops, increasing the total force to 1,000 for the holiday season.
Despite claims of a 10% drop in transit crime, homicides on the subway have surged by at least 60% this year, with eight murders recorded by September – up from five in the same period last year.
Coast Guardsman Blasts Biden Regime for ‘Making Sh-t Up’ After Vessel Tailed by Fleet of Drones
The protesters are chanting: “Deportations now”
December 21, 2024 𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦
[Ed.: Islamophobes! ‘Haters’!]
𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 – Cult Camp Busted: Guatemalan authorities have rescued 160 children and minors from the Lev Tahor cult, of whom 85 are minors. Authorities also located graves with human remains on the site and said the investigation was ongoing.
160 children rescued from Lev Tahor cult compound Nissan Tzur
Guatemalan police raided the Lev Tahor cult compound on Friday due to allegations of abuse, human trafficking, and rape, and rescued 160 children and 40 women. Authorities are investigating the bodies of children found nearby.
Dec 21, 2024, 8:01 PM (GMT+2) Israel National News – 160 children were rescued from the Lev Tahor cult compound in Guatemala, after allegedly falling victim to severe abuse.
The cult had positioned its facility near the city of Oratorio, 78 km southeast of Guatemala City. The prosecution in Guatemala announced that the police launched the raid after receiving complaints about widespread abuse of children, including sexual abuse, human trafficking, and forced marriages. During the raid, 160 children and another 40 women were taken by the authorities, who believe they were victims of severe abuse by the cult leaders and their followers.
According to the prosecution, the police raid involved 480 police officers, soldiers, legal prosecution staff, and psychologists. During the raid, children’s bodies were found buried in the ground, and the police are investigating if they died as a result of abuse by the cult members. The regional prosecutor, Dimas Jimenez, stated that the prosecution is considering filing charges for human trafficking, child abuse, and rape. “We suspect that these crimes were committed by a community member,” said Jimenez.
Nancy Lorena Paiz Garcia, a prosecutor in Guatemala’s office against human trafficking, said that police found bodies, suspected to be those of children and minors, buried in the area where the cult operates. “We have no information that the cult used local cemeteries, but we must investigate these potential child deaths,” said the prosecutor.
The raid took place after four children managed to escape last month and informed the authorities about what was happening within the cult. “Based on the complainants’ statements, the obtained evidence, and medical examinations, it could be determined that forms of human trafficking against these minors exist, such as forced marriages, abuse, and other related crimes,” said prosecutor Garcia.
Related articles:
- Three Lev Tahor leaders sent to prison over kidnapping
- Final three Lev Tahor leaders convicted in US court
- Lev Tahor cult member is arrested in Israel
- Was missing teen with extremist cult Lev Tahor?
[Ed.: It’s a Jewish Jonestown in Guatemala! ‘Far Out’ man!]
Police Break Picket Line, Allow Christmas Deliveries to Stream Out
[Ed.: “Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen” – RIGHT! It doesn’t sound like a German name...]
Here is What is Included in the American Relief Act 2025 (H.R. 10545)
