COMMENTARY / OPINION
With Friends Like These: Israel Needs Independence Now! [2:13:08] Yishai Fleisher
November 23, 2025
Yishai Live Commentary plus Special Guests Tzvi Yechezkeli and Yaakov Katz
Why Hashem Sent Hitler CHANANYA WEISSMAN
And a response to media hate-bait against yeshiva students who avoid the IDF
NOV 23, 2025
The title of part 26 of The Prophetic Teachings of Rav Elchonon Wasserman might come across as provocative, but it shouldn’t be.
If one doesn’t believe that Hashem sent Hitler, he is a kofer.
If one believes that Hashem did send Hitler, but this was cruel or otherwise wrong, he is a kofer.
If one believes that Hashem made it impossible for us to determine why He sent Hitler, then perforce he must also believe that Hashem made it impossible for us to derive the appropriate lessons and rectify the spiritual cause. That would be tyrannical and cruel, and therefore this belief is kefirah as well.
If one believes that we are not supposed to try because we might get it wrong — we might do teshuva for the “wrong” sin! — and might offend some people along the way, he is intentionally choosing to ignore whatever message Hashem is trying to send, which is a surefire recipe for disaster.
If one believes that the emergence of people like Hitler and millions of supporters around the world is anything other than a spiritual wake-up call, and that anything other than a spiritual solution will solve the problem (Am Yisrael Chai, you rising lion!), he leaves Hashem little choice but to humble him in a very painful way, God forbid.
If you want to know Rav Wasserman’s explanation in 1935 for why Hashem sent Hitler, and the eerie parallels to present times, you can listen to the class. But first one must internalize this essential truth: everything that is happening has a spiritual cause, and the only answer to the problems we face is a spiritual response.
Hishtadlus is necessary to some degree, but it has become a buzzword, an avoda zara. Unless hishtadlus is predicated on a spiritual rectification, it has no meaning and no effectiveness — even if one pays lip service to the notion that “everything comes from Hashem”. It is the definition of going with Hashem b’keri, with happenstance. This only brings even more severe punishment in response, God forbid, until we finally get the message.
We learned much more in the class, including the necessary preconditions for one to be capable of giving effective advice, and why the “solutions” for so many of our problems only seem to result in things getting worse.
The class is also available on Rumble here.
Someone asked me to write something in response to these letters being reported in the “news”, https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418050:
Here is my response:
This is sinister propaganda and hate-mongering from Arutz Sheva and the demons they work for. First of all, these letters were written over 40 years ago. About 10 years ago I wrote in Go Up Like a Wall that the IDF is a holy institution. (I also had a generally positive view of vaccines.) Are we supposed to believe that a letter written 40 years ago is a permanent blank check for the IDF, no matter what, and nothing would change their minds?
Mind you, these letters contain no context, no halachic analysis. We don’t know why they expressed this position or under what circumstances this position might change. So these letters are halachically worthless. All they tell us is that these rabbis would not go out of their way to help people avoid joining the IDF if they weren’t learning Torah full-time.
Naturally, the “news” fails to explore the reasoning behind their position at the time, and whether or not it remains relevant today. All they want to do is play “gotcha” with those wicked, hypocritical “haredi draft dodgers”, who we are supposed to hate more than anyone else and view as an existential threat to our existence.
Here are some questions the sanctimonious hate-mongers conveniently refuse to address:
What if the IDF is sending soldiers into death traps to be maimed and killed by the thousands for a pretextual war they never had any intention of winning?
What if the IDF makes a cynical show of accommodating the religious requirements of soldiers?
What if the IDF tramples on the Torah in so many ways, and has made no secret of their goal to secularize religious soldiers?
What if the IDF is run by kofrim and traitors?
What if the IDF continues to violently destroy “illegal Jewish settlements”, not to mention all the perfectly legal Jewish homes they destroyed in Gush Katif?
What if the IDF persecutes soldiers for refusing suicidal orders, or for independently rushing to defend besieged communities on October 7?
What if the state-owned weapons manufacturers are raking in billions in profits off our record taxes and cheap blood, while soldiers beg for food and basic gear?
What if the IDF has an unfathomable “intelligence failure”, then stands down while dozens of communities are being slaughtered, and then the very same people responsible for this are charged with sending Jews into “war”?
What if the IDF gets 15,000+ Jews maimed and killed for nothing, and then claims they have a “manpower shortage”…of 15,000 soldiers?
What if the IDF is a Molech death cult?
Are we supposed to believe none of this might impact the views of rabbis who formerly had a somewhat permissive view of sending ANYONE to the IDF? It sure impacted my perspective.
Why are these questions not the discussion EVERYONE is having, instead of bickering over letters from 40 years ago and falling for Erev Rav hate-bait?
Why are we allowing the media and their Erev Rav puppet masters to dictate the conversation?
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Global money laundering Peggy Tierney
NOV 23, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
President Trump just wrote a long post about WHY the war in Ukraine is so hard for him to stop – because so many people STRANGELY seem to want it to continue:
“I INHERITED A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, A WAR THAT IS A LOSER FOR EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE SO NEEDLESSLY DIED. UKRAINE “LEADERSHIP” HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS, AND EUROPE CONTINUES TO BUY OIL FROM RUSSIA. THE USA CONTINUES TO SELL MASSIVE $AMOUNTS OF WEAPONS TO NATO, FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UKRAINE (CROOKED JOE GAVE EVERYTHING, FREE, FREE, FREE, INCLUDING “BIG” MONEY!)”
Some people, even those close to me, called me crazy back then and laughed at me for daring to publish that article back then – many of those same people later resented the fact that I was right all along! That’s how I figured out who my REAL friends were!
The information in my original article still holds true. I’m going to share it with you again now. Much of what I wrote 7 years ago has been proven to be true. I bet most of you don’t even know the half of what I’m about to tell you because the fake news doesn’t tell us anything relevant – nor do they connect any dots back to the REAL players. They don’t want you to understand just how far reaching this goes.
I believe that ALL OF THESE MONEY LAUNDERING DEALS in Ukraine are currently being investigated by Bondi and Kash for the RICO case against the Globalist swamp and Epstein’s death is also tied to the money laundering in Ukraine.
Here’s what I wrote back then:
Romney, Kerry, Biden, McCain, Pelosi, Schiff, Mueller, Soros, Brennan, Obama and Clinton are all tied to Communist China’s sketchy Ukraine money laundering deals.
That’s why they need to take down President Trump.
Foreign aid is nothing more than “money laundering” for the Globalist elites – that’s how they get rich so fast! They launder our tax dollars and illegal foreign donations back to themselves in countries like Ukraine!
Mitt Romney’s top adviser, Joseph Cofer Black, joined the board of the Ukraine energy firm, Burisma, while Hunter Biden was also serving on the board. Cofer Black worked with Colin Powell in the State Department.
Why do so many “Globalists” on BOTH sides want the war to continue? Because Ukraine is a money laundering hub for the world (and more) and if the war ends – they’ll be exposed.
I wrote an article in 2019 (almost 7 years ago) on my old website about the Globalist money laundering operation running in Ukraine and posted a link to that article on Twitter. It got 1.5 MILLION views back then and then I was shut down on Twitter for months. That’s how I knew I was on to something!
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Murderous patsies Peggy Tierney
NOV 23, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
Miranda Devine told Mark Levin that she hired a private detective to dig for Thomas Crooks’ online profile – the kid who was in a BlackRock commercial in high school in 2022 and they say “acted alone” – two years later – at the age of 20 to try to assassinate President Trump.
Continue reading – there are too many relevant attachments in the article for me to repost here…
There’s a line between diplomacy and delusion – and this crosses it. [7:24] Avi Abelow
November 23, 2025
When a regime responsible for slaughtering Christians, Jews, Kurds, and Alawites is suddenly treated like a “peace partner,” it’s not statesmanship, it’s moral blindness.
This isn’t about geopolitics; it’s about pretending evil doesn’t exist.
And history has never been kind to nations that shake hands with the monsters they once vowed to stop.
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) Is Not Now and Has Never Been a Peace Partner Alex Grobman, PhD
November 23, 2025
For years, Western governments have attempted to impose their vision on how to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict by pursuing a delusionary and dangerous two-state solution. Few appear to have even asked why the PA has never sought nation-building or tried to create their own state. Historian Ephraim Karsh provides one answer. For almost a century, they have preferred to have their citizens remain hapless “while they bask in international sympathy and enrich themselves from the proceeds of their self-inflicted plight.”
Achieving statehood would have ruined this “paradise” by instantly transforming the Arabs from being the world’s supreme victim into a conventional nation-state, thus ending “decades of unprecedented international indulgence.” It would have also exposed the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) fallacious claim of being “the sole representative of the Palestinian people” (already debunked by Hamas’ 2006 electoral victory in Gaza) and would have compelled any governing power to accept “for the first time in Palestinian [Arab] history, the principles of accountability and transparency.”
In addition to benefiting from world sympathy and the accompanying international aid, another reason can be found in a conversation Arafat had with former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania toward the end of the 1970s. At the meeting, Arafat said that “the Palestinians lacked the tradition, unity, and discipline to become a formal state…. A Palestinian state would be a failure from the first day.” Creating a state “was only something for future generations.” Having a government would have impeded “the Palestinian struggle against Israel,” he further argued, since all governments are limited by international laws and international agreements.
“A war of terror is your only realistic weapon,” Ceausescu advised Arafat. While operating in the shadows, Arafat could orchestrate limitless operations throughout the world while keeping his name and government “pristine and unspoiled, ready for negotiations and further negotiations.” He could then denounce the slaughter of innocent Israeli civilians with feigned outrage, which is precisely what he did, according to Muhammad Al-Daya, Arafat’s longtime bodyguard. In a BBC TV Arabic interview, Al-Daya revealed that Arafat would lie when denouncing bombings in Israel. Arafat “would condemn the bombing in his own special way, saying, ‘I am against the killing of civilians.’ But that wasn’t true,” said Al-Daya.
Karsh adds Mahmoud Abbas, who followed Arafat as PLO chairman and PA president and has continued “in his predecessor’s kleptocratic footsteps.” He could have established a state after the Annapolis summit of November 2007 or in June 2009, throughout President Obama’s first term, when Benjamin Netanyahu publicly agreed to the two-state solution. The justification for Abbas’ refusal to recognize Israel is found in Articles 15 and 20 of the Palestinian National Charter of the PLO. Article 15 asserts, “The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty, and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab homeland and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine.”
“More Lucrative Than Pursuing Productive Employment”
The PA continues faithfully to fulfill its mission of hate and terror by venerating acts of violence and intimidation, granting salaries to terrorists and their families, naming schools, sporting events, youth centers, and public squares after terrorists, and fostering terror in children’s TV programs, radio shows, and textbooks.
Terrorists killed in action are glorified in the PA media, where their daring exploits are widely publicized. They are given elaborate funerals during which their photographs are prominently exhibited. With this degree of esteem, it is not surprising that young Arab men and women are eager to murder innocent Israeli civilians.
Funding for terrorists, known as “Pay for Slay,” is the PA’s top priority, according to General Union of Palestinian Economists Secretary Nasser Atyani, who is quoted in the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). The PA directs tens of millions of dollars every month to motivate and provoke terror instead of paying teachers, nurses, and other public employees, the PMW reports. This is in violation of the US Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act of 2023, which withholds certain economic aid to the PA unless the PA ceases paying stipends to terrorists and their families.
In response to a PMW special 20-page report sent to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, detailing the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing violations of US law, Rubio notified Congress that the PLO and PA are “not in compliance with their commitments… taking actions to internationalize its conflict with Israel such as through the International Criminal Court (ICC)and International Court of Justice (ICJ), continuing to support terrorism including incitement and glorification of violence (especially in textbooks), and providing payments and benefits in support of terrorism to Palestinian terrorists and their families United States is imposing sanctions that deny visas to PLO members and PA officials…”
No Fear of Death
A key factor contributing to this veneration of terrorism is that the fear of death and dying in Muslim culture is much less frightening than it is in Western cultures explains Bruce Hoffman, an expert on terrorism. The extremely intense and violent war being conducted against Israel serves as a fertile ground for terrorism. “None in the Western world would sacrifice his life for his homeland. If his homeland is drowning, he is the first to jump ship. In our culture it is different…This is the only Arab weapon there is, and anyone who says otherwise is a conspirator,” asserts psychiatrist Dr. Adel Sadeq.
For this potential to be realized, however, there must be an organization that persuasively advocates this form of martyrdom as righteous, whether using religious, nationalistic, or ethnic terminology. The PA provides the organization and the religious and nationalistic ideology. Since 2008, the PA adopted the Hamas position that this is a religious war and described Jerusalem and the entire land of Israel as Ribat— a holy Islamic land –-whose “liberation” and protection are obligatory under Islamic law, reports Itamar Marcus, director of PMW.
Indoctrinating the Next Generation of Terrorists
To ensure the PA has a constant stream of terrorist recruits, it sponsored a “Fatah Army” summer camp for 200 boys and girls dressed in military uniforms under the direction of armed members of the PA Security Service, according to the PMW.
Psychiatrist Daphne Burdman explains that “Palestinian hatred of the Jews emanates from three principal socio-historical sources: (1) Koranic and Hadith injunctions; (2) extremist Islamic militancy; and (3) the highly successful indoctrination and incitement of children established by the Palestinian Authority…..” Burdman assures us that unless fundamental modifications in education and childrearing are instituted, that “will change the predisposition of such a national culture in Palestinian society… toward the authoritarian, totalitarian, and anti-Semitic societies we witness today.”
Palestinian Arab psychiatrist Dr. Shafiq Massalha is certain that “the next generation of Palestinian Arabs will be a very murderous population full of anger and hatred.” He reached this conclusion after his study found that over half the Palestinian population aged 6 to 11 dream of becoming suicide bombers.
Amos Harel, the military and defense analyst for Haaretz, confirmed Massalha’s warnings. “A new, defiant generation of Palestinians has arisen” in Judea and Samaria, he said, who are motivated, in part, by their regular negative encounters with Israeli security forces, and in many cases, by their religious zeal. “This is no longer an intifada of the miserable,” he continued. Israel, the PA, and even families of the terrorists have no control over them anymore.
The terrorists are not deterred by the probability of being killed, which the Palestinian Arab media calls “execution,” or by the failure of the upsurge of terror to achieve any significant changes—except for reducing Israelis’ sense of personal security and renewing the debate about the future of Judea and Samaria.
A Final Note
Daily examples of the PA’s efforts to destroy Israel are so pervasive, it is inexplicable how anyone can realistically discuss the organization as being a peace partner until this demonization and unrelenting determination to annihilate Israel ceases entirely. Why is this so complicated to understand?
Dr. Alex Grobman is the senior resident scholar at the John C. Danforth Society and a member of the Council of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. He has an MA and PhD in contemporary Jewish history from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Cpyright Alex Grobman 2025
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Jonathan Pollard: Treason, Secrets, and a Controversial Ambassador Meeting [8:19]
November 22, 2025 One America News Network
In a stunning moment raising serious questions about U.S. foreign policy, America’s ambassador to Israel met with Jonathan Pollard, the U.S. Navy intelligence analyst convicted of running one of the most damaging espionage operations in American history.
Pollard’s case involved the removal and transfer of vast quantities of classified U.S. intelligence to Israel, including signals intelligence, satellite data, and compartmentalized national security material. Now, decades later, the ambassador’s decision to meet with him is sparking new debate about U.S.–Israel relations, diplomatic boundaries, and what this moment really signals.
Send them back! Peggy Tierney
NOV 22, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
President Trump has called for Ilhan Omar to return to Somalia many times – and just removed Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from Somalis in Minnesota for the FIRST time in 34 years. Most people think they have some idea about what is really going on in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, even if they live in Minneapolis, but NOPE, you do not!
No news outlet or influencer reports everything on this sensitive subject – except me. Seriously. All you get is bits and pieces from the fake news. At the end of this newsletter, please read my complete report on Ilhan Omar and Somalia in Minnesota. It’s the most comprehensive and accurate summary you’ll find – and it took years to put together based on my own experience. Frankly, most people in Minnesota are so afraid of this topic, because they fear being called racists or bigots, that they won’t even share the truth. I hope you’re not afraid.
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia has been in effect nationwide – including Minnesota – since 1991. Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was first granted to Somalia by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. This designation was made after the ousting of Somalia’s Communist dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Ilhan Omar’s family literally worked for the Communist dictator Barre and had to flee when he fell! Has anyone ever told you that truth?
TPS status has been consistently extended and renewed on 18-month cycles in the US ever since then. President Trump just announced an immediate termination of TPS specifically for Somalis in Minnesota for the first time in 34 years. The next nationwide legal expiration date was slated for March 17, 2026. Therefore, TPS for Somalis in Minnesota lasted from 1991 until November 2025 – about 34 years, without interruption – until President Trump STOPPED IT.
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is “legal immigration status” granted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to individuals from designated countries, such as Somalia, who allegedly cannot safely return home.
TPS allows eligible Somali nationals to live and work in Minnesota – and elsewhere in the U.S. – without fear of deportation for a specified period. It does not provide a path to permanent residency, but it grants protection from removal and eligibility for a work permit while the designation is active.
People on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) cannot vote in U.S. federal, state, or most local elections because they are not U.S. citizens, but I believe many do in Minnesota.
However, children born in the United States to non-citizen parents on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) are automatically U.S. citizens by birthright. After 34 years of breeding, due to TPS protections and birthright citizenship, Minnesota now has the largest Somali population in the United States, with over 86,000 Somali residents. Chew on that! They started with 700!
Should all anchor babies, or babies born in America to illegal aliens and those on TPS status, automatically become American citizens due to the U.S. Constitution? NO. We’ve been conned for decades by FAKE NEWS on the meaning of the 14th Amendment.
President Trump has said that the line “subject to their jurisdiction” in the 14th Amendment means that babies born to non-citizens in the United States are NOT automatically citizens of the United States.
The 14th Amendment was written in 1868 to grant citizenship to former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War, not to naturalize all foreign-born people who come to America just to give birth so, through chain migration, they could bring entire families here. Children born to non-citizens often give birth for FREE in our very expensive emergency rooms – thanks to ObamaCare!
Trump is right. The quote is from an 1866 proposal that would become the 14th Amendment, passed in response to the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling:
“This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States.”
It’s obvious that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” was intended to exclude American-born persons from automatic citizenship whose allegiance to the United States was NOT complete. With illegal aliens who are unlawfully in the US or those of “temporary status” – their native country therefore has a claim of allegiance on the child. Thus, the completeness of their allegiance to the United States is impaired, which therefore precludes automatic citizenship. That’s why so many Somalis in Minnesota, including Ilhan Omar, pledge allegiance to Somalia instead of America!
Has the media has sold us a bill of goods on “anchor babies” for decades since LBJ killed JFK’s merit-based immigration plan and replaced it with chain migration to ensure new Democrat voters? Yes. Time to change that.
Democrats want to give illegal aliens and TPS non-citizens free everything (on the taxpayer dime) and then allow them to create new Democrat voters through breeding – literally paid for by the US taxpayer. That’s the biggest money laundering and election fraud scheme ever!
That’s why President Trump issued an executive order on birthright citizenship on January 20, 2025 titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” aimed to limit automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. after February 19, 2025, to parents who are neither U.S. citizens nor lawful permanent residents.
It was challenged and appealed and is now pending before the Supreme Court. We are waiting to see if they will hear the case and if so, experts believe it should be decided by mid-2026. The justices met in private on November 21, 2025, to discuss the appeal, and a decision on whether they will grant a full review could be announced in the coming days.
One of the major reasons that President Trump ended TPS for Somalis in Minnesota is not only due to “anchor baby” abuses but also due to the fact that the Somali pirates in Minnesota are committing massive fraud (election, welfare, criminal) and stealing BILLIONS in taxpayer money to support Jihadi terrorism.
Much of the money from the massive welfare, daycare, healthcare and housing fraud in Minnesota committed by the Somali community goes back to Somalia to fund Jihadi terrorism in Somalia.
So, Somalis come to the US under the guise of fleeing persecution from Jihadis back home and then send taxpayer money back to Somalia to SUPPORT the very Jihadis they claim to be fleeing!
TPS is not the same as refugee status. Refugees follow a different legal process and may apply for permanent residency after one year. TPS does not automatically mean a person will get permanent legal status in the U.S; it is strictly temporary. Individuals with certain criminal convictions or legal issues are not eligible for TPS.
Over the past 34 years, TPS for Somali nationals in Minnesota (TPS) has provided protection from deportation and access to work authorization, and has allowed them to give birth to tens of thousands of “US citizens” that can vote Democrat. But now, thanks to President Trump, that has now been revoked for Minnesota residents as of November 2025.
As I mentioned earlier, here’s my in-depth newsletter on Ilhan Omar and Somalis in Minnesota for you to read and share. I reported it ALL. I lived it and I know the threat. If it can happen in Minnesota, it can happen in YOUR state. Please make this my most read newsletter ever! I promise you’ll learn a lot.
Who is Ilhan Omar and why should you care? TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS SEP 6, 2025
Most people don’t know the real story behind Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison and the Islamo-Communists that have destroyed Minnesota. Why? Because the influencers and fake news feed information to us in bits and pieces for maximum outrage, clicks and cash – so we never grasp the whole picture. That’s by design.
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Israel is now a crime in New York City. BOB GOLDBERG
A synagogue was surrounded by a mob, and the mayor-elect blamed the Jews inside.
NOV 22, 2025 The Future of Jewish
On the Upper East Side of New York City this week, “sacred space” acquired a new, ugly definition.
Inside Park East Synagogue, a Nefesh B’Nefesh seminar was doing something Jews have done for a hundred years: explaining how to move to Israel. Outside, a mob of protesters chanted about intifada, cursed the IDF, and jeered Jews walking into shul.
First of all, the likelihood is that this was not an ordinary, grassroots protest. Earlier in the week, it was reported that anti-Israel agitators who spread disruption at U.S. colleges were awarded $1,000-checks by a chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.1
And second, this was not City Hall, not a consulate, not a weapons factory. It was a synagogue on a Wednesday night. The “crime” was thinking aloud about Israel.
Faced with this, New York City’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, had a choice. He could say what any minimally decent official should say: You do not surround a synagogue and menace Jews at the door. Full stop.
Instead, he attacked the Jews inside.
Mamdani’s statement included that he “believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation, and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.”
The Nefesh B’Nefesh event, he pronounced, misused sacred space and violated international law. In Mamdani’s moral mathematics, the impropriety lay not in the mob outside but in the fact that Jews, in a synagogue, were discussing living in a Jewish state.
When he visits a shul on Rosh Hashanah, the building is holy. When Jews gather there to plan a Jewish future in Israel, it becomes a war crime with stained-glass windows. It’s not about settlements; it’s about sovereignty itself, about whether Jewish self-determination is a right or an offense.
As for Nefesh B’Nefesh, it is not a “settler recruitment office.” It’s a travel agent for Jewish history. The organization helps North American Jews move anywhere in Israel, as it has for decades. Mamdani’s quarrel is not with zoning; it is with Zionism.
The pattern is familiar: Support for BDS, efforts to gut New York City’s working definition of antisemitism, loose talk of Israeli “genocide,” months of refusal to denounce “globalize the intifada” before finally offering to “discourage” it when the heat rose. Now, as mayor-elect, he has graduated from theory to practice. From statements about The Hague to treating an Israel seminar as a moral trespass.
This is not “critique.” This is doctrine: Jewish sovereignty is inherently illegitimate, and Jews who wish to live under it are fair game.
No such project can proceed without a kosher seal of approval, and Mamdani has it in abundance. Rabbis and activists obligingly step forward to assure us that his politics “stem not from hate,” that this is all a matter of conscience and “deep moral conviction.”
This is the “As-a-Jew” caucus. Their function is to convert harassment into “complexity.” If you feel threatened when a synagogue is ringed by people chanting for intifada, that’s not because something is wrong; it’s because you lack nuance.
Mamdani supplies the ideology and the crowd. The “As-a-Jew” chorus supplies the hechsher (kosher certification). If they declare it’s not antisemitism, it isn’t. And if you think otherwise, you’re the problem.
Hovering over this little morality play is Chuck Schumer, the wannabe custodian of America’s Jews. This same week, Schumer proudly unveiled a Senate resolution condemning Nick Fuentes, a neo-Nazi livestreamer whose contribution to civilization is a camera, a Wi-Fi connection, and an endless stream of Jew-hatred.
Good. Fuentes deserves every ounce of congressional opprobrium. But watch the split screen.
In Washington, Schumer is a lion. He denounces a fringe fascist he will never have to shake hands with. In New York City, confronted with a mayor-elect who wants to dismantle the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, backs BDS, and now treats Israel in a synagogue as a “desecration of sacred space,” the lion becomes a house cat. No endorsement, but no condemnation either. Just warm talk about “good conversations” and “keeping the dialogue open.”
Moral clarity for the podcaster. Moral equivocation for the mayor.
It’s courage at a safe distance. Schumer will pass all the Fuentes resolutions you like. The test of his much-advertised guardianship is whether he will plainly say that a mayor who criminalizes Jewish sovereignty and excuses synagogue intimidation is beyond the pale of a party that once prided itself on U.S. President Harry Truman’s recognition of the State of Israel in 1948, just 11 minutes after its proclamation of independence. (The United States was the first country to formally recognize the new nation.)
So far, the guardian is guarding his own flank.
Then there are Josh Shapiro and Rahm Emanuel, the designated adults of the Democratic Party.
Shapiro, to his credit, once told the truth. He warned that Mamdani’s campaign left “far too much space” for “blatantly antisemitic” rhetoric and called for “moral clarity.”
That was the trial run.
Now that the mob has moved from campus to a Manhattan shul, and now that Mamdani has treated the whole of Israel as a violation of international law, the moral clarity has gone missing. The governor with national ambitions suddenly has other things to do.
Rahm Emanuel, long eager to scold Republicans for normalizing bigots, has been busy assuring donors that Mamdani is “manageable,” that he’ll focus on rent and transit rather than revolution. Translation: We can live with him.
Imagine the tableau as a cartoon: Schumer covering his eyes, Shapiro his ears, Emanuel his mouth, a synagogue in the background, a crowd in the foreground. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil — the Democratic sages of New York.
Jews have been here before.
In the 1930s, when the German-American Bund and homegrown Nazis tried to rally in Jewish neighborhoods, the establishment tut-tutted, police looked the other way, and “respectable” leaders urged restraint.
It was not the bien-pensants who stopped them. It was, often enough, Jewish gangsters — hardly pillars of virtue — who understood that brownshirts understand only consequences. They broke up rallies and, sometimes, ribs.
No one is suggesting a return to that world or those methods. But they understood a fundamental truth: If you let people terrorize Jews with no price at all, they will keep coming back.
What we need today is the same instinct, channeled into lawful, disciplined power: professional security, organized volunteers, lawyers who can turn harassment into cases, and political pressure that imposes a cost on those who treat synagogues as free-fire zones for intimidation.
The sobering conclusion is this: No one is coming to save Jews. We have to fight even as we consider immigrating to Israel, or establishing a second home there.
Not Schumer, who roars at a YouTube Nazi and whispers about the mayor-elect of the most Jewish city outside of Israel. Not Shapiro or Emanuel, whose “maturity” consists of managing Mamdani rather than opposing him. Not a media class that frames Jewish fear as just another “narrative” in a dispute over sacred space.
So Jews in New York — and beyond — must do what they have always done when history knocks: Protect themselves and act.
That means serious, permanent security at every synagogue and school. It means trained volunteers who know how to secure entrances, document threats, and work with professionals — so that anyone who menaces Jews pays a legal, political, and social price.
And it means something else.
Mamdani and his allies have made clear what most frightens them: Jews voting with their feet. Israeli officials are already inviting New York Jews to come. The answer to a mob outside one Israel seminar is not to cancel it; it is to multiply it.
Every synagogue in New York should host Israel evenings — same night, same hour. Let the mayor-elect and his “As-a-Jew” validators explain why Jews quietly exploring the possibility of living in the one Jewish state on earth are a desecration of sacred space, while mobs chanting outside their shuls are the exercise of civil rights.
In Jewish history, clarity rarely comes from committees or resolutions; it comes from reality. The mob at Park East has told us who they are. Zohran Mamdani has told us who he is. The studied silence and strategic half-measures of Schumer, Shapiro, and Emanuel tell us who they are.
The only remaining question is who we intend to be. And that will depend on whether we fight.
“Muslim group CAIR cutting $1,000 checks for anti-Israel agitators who have been disciplined by colleges.” New York Post.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Ditches the D.C. Sewer JOHN LEAKE
The once fierce Trump supporter resigns. Her resignation letter is a scathing rebuke of our decadent, twilight Republic.
NOV 22, 2025 Focal Points
I can scarcely imagine the horror show of texts, e-mails, and calls that Marjorie Taylor Greene has received since she decided to defy President Trump in the matter of the Epstein files. At a certain point she seems to have concluded that even winning in hardball politics isn’t worth the destruction of her spirit and soul. And so, in a move that apparently surprised everyone on Friday, November 21, she announced her resignation.
Her resignation letter is a masterpiece of scathing rebuke. The portrait she paints of Washington politics is an arena of avid monsters, littered with trash. As she put it in one especially memorable passage:
Loyalty should be a two-way street and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest…
[My work] has brought years of nonstop never ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies … I have too much self-respect and dignity. I love my family way too much. And I do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president that we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms. And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me. It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can’t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well. There is no ‘plan to save the world’ or insane 4D chess game being played.”
The story of Marjorie Taylor Greene strikes me as the result of two selective processes that now govern what passes for our so-called representative democracy.
1). Because Washington politics is so brutal and ugly, only an extremely unusual or idiosyncratic man or woman—only an outlier—would step into the arena while trying to act strictly in accordance with his or her conscience.
2). The pressure to conform to the imperatives of big, entrenched interests is so enormous that it will eventually crush even the toughest nonconformist.
Many people have perceived Marjorie Taylor Greene to be eccentric and too inclined to state wild ideas and opinions. However, I believe these are expressions of her individuality—her fiercely independent and nonconformist character.
The world is now such a bewildering and confusing place. I spend most of my waking hours just trying to understand what is going on. I can’t imagine trying to figure things out while also contending with a packed daily schedule on Capitol Hill.
The alternative to Greene is what we get over 99% of the time—that is, obedient, conformist, empty vessels who never express an eccentric or wild opinion because they don’t have any opinions, only carefully vetted talking points.
I wonder if there are any so-called “feminist” writers or intellectuals who are interested in this story of a female Representative taking on President Trump in the matter of releasing the Epstein files—that is, disclosures about powerful men using and abusing young women like discardable playthings.
Apart from Joan of Arc, I can’t think of a more remarkable story of a woman taking on powerful men in the political arena.
I say that Marjorie Taylor Green is a woman of true grit. We thank her for her service to this twilight Republic and wish her well.
CHAOS In Michigan – Islamic Men CLASH With Anti-Islam Activists [25:26] Mahyar Tousi
November 22, 2025 Tousi TV
