COMMENTARY / OPINION
NOV 25, 2025 RAIR FOUNDATION USA
President Trump’s new Muslim Brotherhood order, celebrated in Washington as a major breakthrough, is in reality a limited action that leaves the organization’s most dangerous hubs in Qatar and Turkey untouched, meaning the real fight is only just beginning.
President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated Executive Order on the Muslim Brotherhood was signed on November 24, directing the State Department and the Treasury Department to begin reviewing certain Brotherhood chapters for possible designation as Foreign Terrorist Organizations or Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Immediately, a wave of Washington policy voices and think-tank commentators rushed to portray the move as a decisive breakthrough—some even calling it a turning point in America’s struggle against Islamist extremism.
But the reality is far more complex than the celebratory reaction suggests. Americans deserve a clear, unfiltered understanding of what this Executive Order actually does, what it does not do, and why this moment represents the beginning of a difficult fight—not the conclusion of one.
Despite the enthusiasm from many political analysts, the core networks of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ones with real funding power, political leverage, and strategic capability, remain entirely untouched. The most dangerous branches, the real command nodes responsible for spreading Islamist ideology and political influence into the West, continue operating without interruption.
This is not the time for the country to congratulate itself or assume the threat is diminishing. On the contrary, the hardest battles remain ahead.
Washington’s Narrative: A “Smart,” “Legally Sound” Strategy
Supporters of the Executive Order argue that a sweeping, global designation of the Muslim Brotherhood is legally impossible. They claim the Brotherhood is too fragmented to be treated as a unified entity, insisting that only a slow, branch-by-branch approach can withstand judicial scrutiny. They also argue that a broad designation would be struck down in court and that the Executive Order creates a long-term strategy allowing the government to expand outward from the “easiest cases” toward more complex ones.
On paper, that argument sounds plausible. In practice, it provides political cover for a decision that protects the Brotherhood’s most powerful and operationally relevant branches.
What Washington Avoids Admitting
The Executive Order specifically avoids designating the Muslim Brotherhood chapters in Qatar and Turkey—the two regimes that host the organization’s global leadership, bankroll its media and political arms, coordinate its U.S.-based networks, and maintain its international influence operations. These are the critical nodes of power, the real engines of the Brotherhood’s global strategy. And they were altogether excluded.
The argument that the Brotherhood is too “fragmented” to designate is simply false. The United States has designated many decentralized networks, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, and ISIS. Decentralization has never prevented terrorist designation – except, conveniently, in this case.
The government’s own evidence, including exhibits from the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial, shows that the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network is directly tied to foreign command structures. That assessment has never been withdrawn.
Yet instead of confronting the core threat, the Executive Order targets the weakest and least relevant branches, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, where the Brotherhood is already banned, splintered, or politically irrelevant. This is not a strategic strike. It is a symbolic gesture.
Worse, the Order creates a 30- to 75-day “review” period, giving bureaucrats months of process without committing the administration to decisive action.
RAIR Foundation USA reported early that Qatar had urged the administration to block a global designation of the Muslim Brotherhood. This Executive Order confirms that political pressure was successful.
What the Executive Order Actually Does
The Executive Order does not automatically criminalize any Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations operating inside the United States. It does, however, raise the legal risk for any U.S. nonprofit found to be materially supporting a designated foreign chapter. Under federal law, material support—money, services, coordination, training, or even advocacy coordinated with a designated group—is a serious felony offense.
The Order also grants the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation expanded ability to reopen old cases and networks. This includes the use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants, asset freezes, subpoenas, nonprofit audits, visa restrictions, and sanctions. These tools have long existed but were not always applicable to Brotherhood-aligned entities.
The Order also gives new opportunities to investigate local organizations tied to designated foreign chapters. Texas, for example, already has an Executive Order banning Sharia governance. Under this federal action, a district attorney in Texas would need only probable cause linking a nonprofit to a designated Brotherhood chapter to launch a formal investigation.
This designation process may also trigger scrutiny from financial institutions. Banks may begin filing Suspicious Activity Reports or closing accounts tied to groups flagged through the review process.
What the Executive Order Does Not Do
The Executive Order does not designate the Muslim Brotherhood chapters in Qatar, Turkey, or Syria. It does not designate the Brotherhood’s international media arms, its political machinery, or its global infrastructure. It does not impact most U.S.-based Brotherhood nonprofits, political advocacy groups, or influence networks. And it does not restrict Qatari money flowing into American institutions.
In plain terms: it designates the least dangerous elements of the network while protecting the most dangerous ones.
A Critical Moment—But Not a Victory
This Executive Order marks the beginning of a fight, not its resolution. If Americans mistakenly believe “the Muslim Brotherhood has been designated,” the Brotherhood will continue operating exactly as it did before, shielded by the regimes that fund it.
The Order raises the risk for Brotherhood-linked groups and creates openings for future investigations. But it also protects Qatar and Turkey, generates political optics without structural consequences, and avoids confronting the organization’s true centers of gravity.
The Brotherhood has spent decades embedding itself inside American institutions—political, educational, legal, media, and religious. It will not be confronted or dismantled through half-measures or symbolic gestures.
Now is the moment for vigilance, not celebration. If the country becomes complacent, the most dangerous branches of the Muslim Brotherhood will continue expanding their influence, untouched and unchallenged.
Americans must stay loud, stay focused, and stay on offense. The fight is only beginning.
Can’t fight the Muslim Brotherhood while groveling to Qatar JONATHAN S. TOBIN
The Trump administration’s move toward designating the Islamist group as terrorists is long overdue. But it makes no sense to treat the Brotherhood’s sponsor as an ally.
November 25, 2025 JNS
President Donald Trump finally took the first step on Nov. 24 toward an action that many of his allies and supporters have been calling for since his first term in office. He signed an executive order setting “in motion a process by which certain chapters or other subdivisions of the Muslim Brotherhood shall be considered for designation as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”
The Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist group that spreads fundamentalist Sunni Muslim ideology around the world, preaching hatred for and war against the West—co-religionists who do not share their extremism, as well as for Israel and Jews. It acts as a support network for terrorists such as Hamas, which was founded as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as for those who are working to undermine or overthrow non-Islamist governments in Arab and Muslim countries, such as those in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan.
The grandfather of jihadism
The Brotherhood is an open and avowed enemy of the United States and is allied to many of those with American blood on their hands. As U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said, “the Muslim Brotherhood is the progenitor” and “the grandfather of all modern global jihadism.”
Moreover, to speak, as the executive order does, of only the group’s “military wing” being subject to sanctions as a result of the designation is to fall into the trap of thinking that organizational divisions within the group are meaningful distinctions with respect to terrorism and other illegal acts. As is the case with Hamas and Hezbollah, these are distinctions without a difference. Though different branches have different roles in their war on the West, all have the same objectives.
So, the question to be asked about Trump’s decision is not why the United States has done something that many Arab and Muslim countries, who rightly fear the group, have already done, and which members of the administration, including the secretary of state and White House staffer Sebastian Gorka, have openly called for. It’s why didn’t this happen in Trump’s first term or earlier in his second? And, just as importantly, why is the executive order Trump signed so narrowly drafted and tentative in its approach?
The answer is that the Muslim Brotherhood has powerful friends, both foreign and domestic, who seem to have Trump’s ear. In particular, the emirate of Qatar, which has spent vast sums freely to acquire enormous influence over the worlds of American business, education and politics, doesn’t want the administration to act against the group.
The question the executive order raises goes to the heart of the struggle to determine Trump’s Middle East policy. While the president has always been eager to fight Islamist terrorism and support American allies, such as Israel and moderate Arab governments that the Brotherhood is seeking to destroy, he is also clearly enamored of and influenced by Qatar and the American friends the emirate has purchased.
As a result, this order may turn out to be nothing more than an impotent gesture rather than a genuine policy shift aimed at combating a sly and dangerous foe of the United States. Unlike many other such orders that have flowed in plentiful numbers from the Oval Office as Trump has undertaken a comprehensive effort to overturn many of the policies of his predecessor and beloved by the Washington establishment, this one leads to no immediate action. Indeed, unless the forces within the administration that have pushed for the designation of the Brotherhood are ready to spend political capital and really fight to commit the government to rolling back the influence of the Islamist group, this may be as far as Trump goes on the issue.
A contradictory policy
This highlights a basic contradiction in Trump’s stance. You can’t seriously fight the Brotherhood and its terrorist offshoots like Hamas while at the same time cozying up to the government that is their chief donor and protector. Yet that’s exactly what the administration has done.
Qatar is not just the object of Trump’s trademark flattery when he is seeking to engage with allies or adversaries and to get them to do what he wants. It is being treated as a full-fledged ally of the United States and even as a nation whose security will be treated as a national priority to the point of recently issuing a White House statement to the effect that, “The United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States.”
That gives Qatar, which hosted the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood Yusuf al-Qaradawi and his successors, as well as the leaders of Hamas, impunity to act as a headquarters for international terrorism.
The argument in favor of close relations with the Gulf state, despite it being integral to the spread of terror and the Islamist ideology that is its foundation, rests on the notion that the emirate is an essential middleman in the effort to contain the threat from radical Muslims.
A successful foreign policy often requires leaders to see the world in shades of gray as opposed to merely black and white. So, it is arguable that there are times when the United States may want to deal with a treacherous government such as that of Qatar, in spite of its record and actions. But what the Trump administration—and, to be fair, what was also true of the Biden administration, which made it a major non-NATO ally—has done is to skew the balance between the two countries in favor of Doha.
Doha needs America, not the other way around
Qatar has played a double role in the region for years, simultaneously hosting a major regional U.S. airbase and a wide array of terrorist functionaries. The Al Udeid base is well-suited to help America project power in the Persian Gulf, especially after Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, in which the United States abandoned the Bagram base there to the Taliban. Moreover, Qatari officials have also been the intermediaries by which the United States was able to broker the ceasefire-hostage release deal with Hamas that halted the war in Gaza with Israel.
These are not unimportant considerations. But the problem with embracing Qatar is the misnomer that Washington needs the emirate more than it needs Washington. The truth is quite the opposite. Other nations in the Gulf could host that base. And it is equally obvious that playing the role of go-between with Hamas allows Qatar to both launder its international image and help its terrorist friends survive the war they started with the atrocities committed on Oct. 7, 2023.
By committing itself to an alliance with Qatar, the United States isn’t engaging in a productive transaction with a problematic frenemy. It is completely undermining any effort to craft a coherent anti-terrorism policy and setting itself up for more misery in the years to come. And a half-hearted executive order with no teeth in it about the Muslim Brotherhood can’t rectify this mistake.
Why is Washington so willing to ignore the obvious and embrace Qatar?
A great deal of attention has been focused on Qatar’s “gift” of a 747 jetliner to Trump to serve as a new Air Force One to replace one of the two other ones that have been in use for that purpose for the last 35 years. But that is more symbolism than a bribe. The plane will require extensive renovations for it to be used to securely transport a president, which will likely cost more than double its value at a reported $200 million. But the Qatari plane is still believed to be likely to wind up at a Trump presidential library and museum.
But whatever one thinks of the airplane, the answer as to how the emirate has acquired so much traction in Washington is no secret. Qatar’s influence-buying operation, which operates on a virtually unprecedented scale, has been enormously successful in either persuading many American leaders of its value as an ally to cause them to downplay its role in promoting terrorism or in purchasing them outright.
Israel-bashers like former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and his counterparts on the left, like congressional far-left “Squad” members Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), often speak as if supporters of the Jewish state, specifically the AIPAC pro-Israel lobby, have bought an alliance with the United States. But the truth is that the amounts spent by AIPAC and pro-Israel sources on lobbying in Washington or in supporting political candidates are dwarfed by the vast sums expended by Qatar in the United States.
Influence buying
Doha is involved in lobbying, though it exerts more influence as a major player in the business world, creating connections with a broad array of political affiliations on both sides of the aisle. In this way, it has used its financial clout to help and/or bail out some prominent persons, such as Trump’s foreign envoy Steve Witkoff, with purchases amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. It has also invested heavily in American media outlets that add to its ability to project its views on the world. That is in addition to the clout it has via its Al Jazeera news station, which dominates the market in the Arab and Muslim world.
Just as important is the way Doha has poured money into academia, essentially purchasing the Middle East studies departments at many prestigious institutions of higher learning. Qatar isn’t just the largest foreign donor to American education. It has played a part in ensuring that these schools are uniformly bastions not only of anti-Zionism, but also of exponents of anti-Western and anti-American ideologies.
The point here is that the differences with Qatar go far beyond the obvious ones in terms of the values of a diverse democracy and those of an Islamist absolute monarchy. Qatar does business with the West while playing both ends against the middle in a never-ending game of diplomacy with Washington in a way that can be represented as similar to that of any nation with interests that don’t coincide with those of the United States. The regime’s real goals, however, are no different from those of the Brotherhood—namely, to undermine and subvert the West.
Both Qatar and the Islamist government of Turkey, which plays its own double role seeking a restoration of the old Ottoman Empire and supporting terror groups like Hamas while also remaining a NATO member, have clout in Washington. They also sit on both sides of the American dispute with an aggressive, terror-supporting Islamist regime in Iran. They and their American clients and auxiliaries have a pro-Islamist agenda and were able to stop the first Trump administration from taking action against the Brotherhood. And they have helped limit its current tentative steps toward designating it as a terrorist group and, no doubt, think they can prevent the follow-up necessary to put the executive order into effect.
The irony here is that while the portion of the political right led by Carlson that is hostile to Israel, and soft or even welcoming to antisemitism, likes to speak of defending “America First” or “America only” policy priorities against those who support the alliance with Israel, who are falsely labeled “Israel firsters.” But they seem completely uninterested in noting the way a country like Qatar is actively seeking to undermine a bipartisan American foreign-policy goal of opposing Islamist terror that threatens the West. While Carlson falsely labels Qatar as a faithful U.S. ally and trashes Israel as manipulating Washington against its own interests, the truth is just the opposite. The real opponents of “America First” are not supporters of Israel but the pawns, both witting and unwitting, of the jihadists of Qatar and the Brotherhood.
Trump’s choice
Trump faces an important choice about the Muslim Brotherhood. If he allows this toothless order to be as far as he goes with respect to efforts to stop this dangerous group, then he will be demonstrating that the administration is hopelessly compromised by its ties to Qatar. That ought not to happen. The president needs to understand the dire nature of the threat from fanatic Islamic terrorists, along with the insidious impact the Brotherhood’s Qatari funders and hosts are having on American media, culture and education. And, as he’s done time and again on many issues—not least his support for Israel—he needs to ignore the voices telling him that protecting U.S. interests means groveling to establishment thinking and Islamists.
The time is long past due for the United States to recognize that it is at war with the Brotherhood and act accordingly. If it doesn’t, it will just be setting in motion a process by which those who seek to spill American blood as well as that of Israelis will be given a leg up in their generational war against the West. That is something an administration that represents its policies as a clean break from the failed ideas of the Washington establishment and which says it is all about defending Americans, should avoid at all costs.
JONATHAN S. TOBIN Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.
[Ed.: Groveling to Qatar and treating the Muslim Brotherhood as an ally is exactly what Trump has been doing! It’s his ‘strategy’! Why else would he have placed Qatar in charge of the Hamas-Israel negotiations? Why else would he put a Syrian Embassy in Washington? Trump has nothing ‘up his sleeve’ but naivety.]
The West is abandoning the Jewish idea that made it free. LUCY
The West’s greatest moral innovation came from Judaism — and its amnesia is proving dangerous.
NOV 25, 2025 The Future of Jewish
Many of us grew up asking, “How could they let it happen?”
I’m talking about the ghettos, the yellow stars, the camps, the silence.
We saw the grainy footage, the hollow faces behind the barbed wire, and reassured ourselves we would’ve done better. We would’ve hidden Anne Frank. We would’ve refused the salute.
I don’t think that anymore.
For years I believed conviction guaranteed virtue. It took me a long time to learn that good intentions guarantee nothing, and that righteousness can be its own kind of blindness.
I also believed progress moved in a straight line, that the moral arc bent toward justice. But civilisation rises and falls, and the peace we’ve known was only a pause between storms. The decades after World War II were not proof of enlightenment, but a pause bought by exhaustion. Tyranny and antisemitism are not deviations from history; they’re recurring chapters in it. We are drifting back toward the norm, and the ones most fixated on “human rights” are leading the descent.
When I look at my friends and former allies in activism, I see history replaying itself in real time, though most cannot see it. They believe the past is settled, that barbarism happens elsewhere, to other people, in other times.
We live in what Polish philosopher and politician Ryszard Legutko dubbed “comfort democracies,” societies so safe and prosperous that we forget how fragile freedom is.1 We inhabit the freest, most tolerant era in history, yet it teems with people who despise the civilisation that made it possible and use its privileges to “liberate” others from it. As Somali-born writer, activist, and former politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali observed, “You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don’t know what it is not to have freedom.”2
Having lost contact with real oppression, we invent new tyrannies to fight or project our outrage onto distant conflicts, often getting them backwards. Comfort dulls our defences and leaves us open to manipulation; we mistake feeling for thinking and moralise whatever flatters our egos. Too much freedom breeds restlessness. We begin to crave limits, order, and meaning. When we cannot find them in faith or tradition, we construct them out of ideology instead. The same creeds return, promising purity and redemption, and we fall for them again, convinced this time will be different.
We tell ourselves we’ve learned from the past, but we haven’t. The horrors of the past rarely return in the same form. They come disguised as moral crusaders, convinced they are fighting fascism while echoing it.
Across history, every utopian doctrine, religious or secular, has followed the same fatal logic: that purity can redeem the world through destruction. Each begins with a dream of renewal and ends by making cruelty a virtue. The Nazis believed they were saving civilisation. The Communists believed they were freeing the worker. Joseph Stalin, once hailed as a secular champion of equality, turned his revolution into one of history’s great engines of repression and pioneered modern “anti-Zionism.”
Once harm is sanctified, there are no limits. As English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote in 1952, “To be able to destroy with a good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behaviour ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”3
That is how the 20th century happened: Jews slaughtered in the name of civilisation, “class enemies” worked to death in the gulags, Ukrainian farmers starved in the Holodomor, and Chinese villagers denounced and beaten to death during the Cultural Revolution, all purged for the sake of progress. Today’s moral crusaders claim to save the world from “hate,” driven by the same inner engine that turns idealism into a licence to harm.
Over the past two years we’ve watched crowds fill Western streets under the banner of “Palestine,” calling for a global intifada. Beyond the spectacle are millions of quiet betrayals, relationships fracturing, and lifelong friendships abandoned over a war most understand only through memes and viral seconds-long video clips. Antisemitism does this to societies; it drives them mad. They decay slowly, through ordinary acts of cowardice multiplied by millions, each one committed in the name of good. Evil’s greatest trick is to make itself feel like moral courage.
If we study how empires fall, we are in the early stages of collapse. Acts of bloodshed and even assassination attempts are no longer seen as aberrations, but celebrated as “justice.” The applause that follows reveals the sickness spreading through once tolerant societies. The growing appetite for vengeance suggests we are turning inward, sociopolitical tribe against tribe, losing the ability to speak across the lines we once called democracy.
Across Europe, synagogues and Jewish businesses are being targeted, and Jewish schools face threats. In city after city, it has become normal to see Jews harassed or attacked in the street simply for looking Jewish, and it is they who are told to stay home “for their safety,” not the mobs who threaten them. Governments preach tolerance while choosing appeasement over action, overseeing a downward spiral they seem unwilling to stop. The same fever that once set the world on fire is rising again, and this time there can be no ignorance, no innocence. We know where this road ends.
The most dangerous people in any era are those convinced they are fighting for good. Once moral certainty takes hold, individuals disappear and only categories and enemies remain. The “Stanford Prison Experiment” demonstrated how little it takes for decent people to become cruel when morality yields to obedience. Most do not crave hatred; they crave belonging and the thrill of feeling virtuous. When a culture begins to mistake cruelty for compassion, the descent is swift.
History shows the mob is almost never right. It cheered as heretics burned, applauded segregation, and looked away as Jews were forced into ghettos. The Nazis didn’t win power because every German was evil, but because everyone wanted to belong, and ordinary teachers, journalists, and artists convinced themselves they were defending the oppressed. They were not monsters, which is what makes it terrifying.
A decade ago, I read “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.” It is about the author Christopher Browning’s account of middle-aged German policemen, not fanatics or ideologues, but shopkeepers and fathers who became mass murderers. They were told they could opt out. Almost none did. The chilling lesson was not that the Nazis were uniquely evil, but that they were not. They were “just like us.”
When I see people reposting propaganda, justifying murder, and calling for “resistance” against Jewish existence, I see the same moral fever that has infected humanity again and again.
Antisemitism isn’t just another prejudice; it is the world’s oldest hatred, mutating endlessly to survive, adapting itself to every ideology that hosts it. The Nazis dressed it in race science, the Communists in class struggle, the Islamists in religion, and the modern West in the language of “decolonisation” and “resistance.” Each insists its version is different. None of them are. And history shows that wherever antisemitism takes root, it poisons and ultimately destroys the civilisation that harbours it.
What predicts antisemitism is not whether someone is on the Right or the Left, but their proneness to conspiratorial thinking. Now I watch friends and family, the same people who once shared animal-rights petitions and anti-racism slogans, posting claims that Jewish DNA drives the killing of children, sharing theories that Israel staged the October 7th attacks, or that Jews secretly control the media and global finance. They believe they’ve uncovered the sinister truth about the Jews. So did the Nazis. So did the Soviets.
That is how history repeats. Anyone who believes Jews are hated because Israel exists misunderstands history. Israel exists because Jews were hated, because centuries of exile, pogroms, and genocide made a homeland not a privilege, but a necessity. To invert that truth is to blame survival for persecution, the same moral reversal that has always sustained antisemitism.
Many still believe the conflict in Gaza is about land or borders, but Muslim antisemitism has never been about territory; it is about the existence of Jews. For those who preach jihad, Israel comes first, and Europe and North America follow. The war against the Jewish state is only the opening act in a wider war against the culture and moral order that sustain it.
Think this is new? It isn’t. From the 7th century onward, Muslim empires swept through North Africa and into Spain, stretching from the Atlantic to India. Persian Zoroastrians, Coptic Christians, Assyrians, Kurds, Yazidis, Berbers, and countless others were subjugated or obliterated. Many of these ancient communities survive only in fragments today.
To acknowledge this history is not to be “Islamophobic,” but to recognise that the oppressive strains of Islamism now visible in Tehran, Gaza, and beyond are revivals of older imperial traditions. The tragedy is that millions of Muslims are their first victims. Of the roughly 250,000 people killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades, most have been Muslims. When we invoke “racism” or “Islamophobia” to silence criticism, we abandon these individuals and embolden their oppressors.
For centuries, Europe held the line through faith and the conviction that its civilisation was worth defending. Today that faith has vanished. Europe, consumed by guilt over its colonial past, forgets the far older imperial history of Islam. It flattens complex realities into a single moral tale that casts Muslims as eternal victims of Western power. In its eagerness to atone, it no longer distinguishes between those seeking refuge and the ideologies that seek dominance.
Under the banners of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion, Europe has opened its doors to movements that despise its freedoms. If these groups were only building mosques for prayer, few would object.
But much of this expansion serves a political and ideological agenda of conquest. Persian Gulf money funds religious centres and universities that spread Islamist ideology rather than faith, turning tolerance into a weapon of influence. The Muslim Brotherhood — banned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Russia — thrives in the free West, embedding itself in institutions, lobbying policymakers, and cheered on by “progressives” who mistake it for diversity. Once, Europe fought to preserve its civilisation; now it dismantles it in the name of virtue.
The continent that once resisted conquest now subsidises it, insisting all cultures are equal, even those that call for its destruction. Karl Marx called religion the opiate of the masses; now secular Europe has made relativism its drug of choice.
While external ideologies pose real dangers, the most profound threat to Western civilisation lies within itself: a society cannot defend what it no longer believes is worth defending.
The pattern did not end with the fall of the Reich or the collapse of the Soviet Union. It found new hosts and lay dormant for decades. Stalin’s Soviet Union rebranded antisemitism as “anti-Zionism” and exported it through propaganda across Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The ideology spread through Arab regimes and revolutionary movements, changing words but not intent.
The West was built on the memory of what happens when good people stay silent. Those who would have resisted in the 1930s are resisting now, but far fewer than I once imagined. We like to think of ourselves as rational beings who learn from history, but we are not. We are creatures of faith and fear, drawn to conspiracy and myth, forever dividing the world into good and evil. Whatever many people are doing now — ignoring rising antisemitism, blaming Jews for a war far from home, denying or minimising October 7th, or repeating old lines about Jewish power — is exactly what they would have done back then.
Instead of watching aghast as history’s darkest chapters repeat, we should ask why they always do. The answer is simple: Human beings are wired to worship. When genuine faith collapses, counterfeit faiths rush to fill the void.
As a long-time atheist and defender of secular values, I never expected to find myself here, acknowledging that what I once dismissed as superstition might have been the only thing strong enough to hold us together. My logical mind led me, sometimes reluctantly, to the transcendent. Because without something higher than ourselves, we end up worshipping ourselves: our feelings, our politics, our tribes.
We are a society no longer held together by anything greater than the self. We have forgotten our roots, our story, and the principles that once gave our civilisation meaning. We preach human rights while forgetting that the idea of individual worth was born from the Jewish belief that every human being is created b’tzelem Elokim (in the image of God) and therefore possesses an unbreakable, non-negotiable dignity. Catholicism and Christianity followed that with the belief that every individual carries divine value. Severed from the past, we drift toward tribalism and chaos.
Every ideology becomes a kind of religion, complete with its martyrs, heretics, and commandments. It is not belief that corrupts us, but the loss of humility that should come with it. In the absence of redemption, we demand purity; in the absence of grace, we turn to punishment. The result is always the same: righteousness without restraint.
This is why the pattern repeats. Not because we have forgotten religion, but because we cannot escape it. Until we remember what once bound us and why it was worth defending, history will keep repeating.
When Israel Went Its Own Way JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
In October Netanyahu Attacked Hamas in Qatar without Consulting US, Big Mistake
NOV 25, 2025
President Trump’s strong support of Israel diminished as his irritation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu increased.
Trump’s brilliant construct of a deal between Hamas and Israel was accepted, but Netanyahu was still pressing to continue the fight in order to completely destroy the terrorist threat once and for all.
Only God has a solution for the Middle East, and his plan may be unfolding as world leaders attempt to assert their own wills.
US ALREADY a Police State as NSA Collects ALL, Whistleblower Warns [VIDEO 28:31] ALEX NEWMAN
William Binney warns that America has become a police state through mass AI surveillance. Despite being targeted for exposing it, he says the same tools could reveal government treason & waste.
NOV 25, 2025
The United States has already become a police state as the National Security Agency spies on everyone and everything so evildoers and tyrants can control society from top to bottom and target opponents, former NSA technical director turned whistleblower William Binney warned in this explosive interview on Behind The Deep State with The New American magazine Senior Editor Alex Newman.
Binney built unimaginably powerful systems to allow the government to access all communications and sort through them while still protecting the privacy and rights of innocent Americans. Unfortunately, after the September 11 attack, the federal government threw off the shackles and started spying on everyone, all the time. It has gotten so bad that, combined with Artificial Intelligence, liberty is in mortal danger.
For exposing this, Binney was ruthlessly targeted by the Deep State. In fact, twice during the interview, the connection dropped and Binney suggested something suspicious was going on.
However, Binney also said these powerful technologies could be used to expose all of those committing treason against the United States, the Constitution, and the American people. He also said he was willing to help the Trump administration figure it all out.
Leaked Emails Link Epstein to Rothschild-Backed Israeli Cyberweapons Deal Frank Bergman
November 23, 2025
Another explosive leak has blown open the long-suspected intelligence web surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, exposing how the disgraced financier was quietly working with a Rothschild-run Swiss bank to bankroll Israeli cyberweapon projects.
The bombshell comes from hacked emails belonging to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
The emails were obtained by the whistleblower collective Distributed Denial of Secrets and published by Drop Site News.
What the emails show is nothing short of stunning, revealing that Epstein wasn’t just a convicted predator mingling with billionaires, but was acting as a middleman between Barak and Ariane de Rothschild, the powerful executive of the Edmond de Rothschild Group.
Epstein Was Pushing Cyberweapons Money
According to the leaked messages, Epstein attempted to leverage his personal relationship with Ariane de Rothschild to raise capital for Israeli cyberweapons startups connected to elite military intelligence units.
Following his exit from Israeli politics in 2013, Barak partnered with Unit 81 alumnus Pavel Gurvich to identify cutting-edge cyberweapon companies, many of which were tied directly to Israeli intelligence.
The emails show Epstein aggressively inserting himself into the process.
One message relayed from de Rothschild, sent through Epstein to Barak, makes the dynamic explicit:
“If Ehud wants to make serious money, he will have to build a relationship with me. Take time so that we can truly understand one another.”
Barak replied:
“I’m ready. But I need your advice re HOW? (ladies is your forté)”
Epstein was effectively bridging Israeli intelligence circles and one of the most powerful financial families in the West, a combination with immense geopolitical implications.
Rothschild Bank’s Denials Have Collapsed
Back in 2019, Bloomberg revealed de Rothschild visited Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 2015. The bank denied involvement.
Four years later, after the Wall Street Journal exposed Epstein’s private schedules, the bank admitted the meetings did occur and claimed they were related to her “duties.”
But the new leaks paint a much deeper relationship.
Emails show Epstein arranging cultural outings with her, planning trips alongside her, and even coordinating financial discussions involving Israeli tech ventures.
And according to Drop Site News, in October 2015, de Rothschild negotiated a $25 million contract with Epstein’s Southern Trust Company.
It is the same company used earlier that year to fund Barak’s intelligence-linked startup Reporty Homeland Security (now Carbyne).
Intelligence Shadows Behind Epstein Grow Longer
The leaked Barak correspondence is only the latest revelation tying Epstein to intelligence-based operations.
Earlier this month, Drop Site News exposed that Epstein and Barak also aided Israeli intelligence in shaping surveillance and security systems in multiple African nations, especially Côte d’Ivoire.
Meanwhile, House Oversight Committee documents released in November show that Epstein and de Rothschild remained close and in contact far longer than anyone previously admitted.
Official Story Still Doesn’t Add Up
Epstein’s cushy 2008 plea deal, engineered by then–U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, has long raised suspicions.
Acosta told investigators he was instructed to “back off” because Epstein “was connected to an unnamed intelligence agency.”
However, no one in government has ever provided an answer to confirm which agency Acosta was referring to..
After Epstein’s 2019 arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges, he died under circumstances so suspicious they sparked bipartisan disbelief.
Authorities called it “suicide.”
Forensic experts disputed it.
And the surveillance cameras “malfunctioned.”
Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on sex trafficking charges, Epstein’s client list was buried, and the intelligence question remains untouched.
Epstein as a Global Intel Asset
For years, intelligence veterans, investigative journalists, and even former Israeli officials have suggested Epstein was used as a blackmail agent, providing access to underage girls to compromise politicians, world leaders, academics, and businessmen.
The leaked Barak emails, showing Epstein brokering financial relationships between Rothschild banking leadership and Israeli cyberweapon developers, only strengthens the most explosive theory:
Epstein was not acting alone.
He was embedded in something far bigger.
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No F-35 fighter jets for Saudi Arabia MOSHE PHILLIPS
Once such stealth technology leaves American control, the strategic danger is nearly irreversible.
November 24, 2025 JNS
“We’re going to have a deal. They’re going to purchase F-35s. They’re buying them from Lockheed, and it’s a great plane,” stated U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week during the visit from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This news should alarm every American and all friends of Israel.
For all of Saudi Arabia’s perceived importance to the United States, it remains an authoritarian, repressive monarchy whose internal politics are far from stable. Arming such a regime with the most advanced stealth fighter jets carries risks that are just too high for today’s Middle East. Friendly-to-America strongmen rulers can be toppled, policies can shift overnight, and weapons placed in their hands can quickly be beyond U.S. influence or control.
This is not a routine arms sale. Granting Riyadh access to the F-35 means placing America’s most advanced stealth and sensor technology into the hands of a regime that has no democratic checks and balances, and zero long-term certainty of political continuity.
There is no guarantee that future Saudi rulers will align with American interests in the way current leadership claims to. The critical question is not whether the Saudis are friendly now, but whether the United States can trust any autocracy with such sophisticated systems when future use cannot be foreseen or constrained. The Arab world is legendary for its revolutions and violent coups.
History offers a warning. Washington once sold F-14s to the Shah of Iran, only for those jets to become assets of a radically anti-American regime after the 1979 Islamic revolution. Before this summer, Iran’s air force posed a threat not only to the United States but also to Israel—a threat that stemmed in part from a shortsighted arms transfer made under the pretense that an autocratic regime would remain stable. That lesson should loom large as Congress considers whether to greenlight even more advanced aircraft to another authoritarian state.
F-35 stealth fighter jets can reach Israel in mere minutes from Saudi Arabia—a country that still has no formal relations with Israel and a royal government that continues to boycott Israeli products.
The case for urgent congressional scrutiny is clearer than ever. Legislators cannot treat this as just another diplomatic favor; they must insist that any sale exclude stealth-sensitive technologies.
Moreover, national security officials are alarmed by the possibility that China could gain access to U.S. stealth technology through Riyadh. That is not a theoretical concern; reports suggest some in the administration worry the F-35 tech could be compromised given the strength of Saudi-China ties.
We must also remember that the Saudis could, for whatever reason, decide to transfer some of these high-tech supersonic stealth strike fighter/bombers to another country. In 1982, during Israel’s war against the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Lebanon, it was widely reported that among the weapons Israel seized were American-made M-16 army rifles that had been originally sold to Saudi Arabia.
Congress must act before contracts are signed and before jets are delivered. Once the stealth F-35s leave American control, the strategic danger is nearly irreversible. The United States must not let short-term geopolitical convenience or financial incentives cloud its long-term judgment. Promises from Riyadh, even on Abraham Accords-style normalization, are not worth surrendering America’s technological edge or undermining Israel’s security.
Allowing a deeply authoritarian monarchy to obtain the most sophisticated aircraft ever built is a historic risk. This could haunt both American and Israeli security for decades unless Congress steps in and places strict limits on F-35 sales to anti-democratic regimes.
MOSHE PHILLIPS Moshe Phillips, a veteran pro-Israel activist and author, is the national chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). A former board member of the American Zionist Movement, he previously served as national director of the U.S. division of Herut and worked with CAMERA in Philadelphia. He was also a delegate to the 2020 World Zionist Congress and served as editor of The Challenger, the publication of the Tagar Zionist Youth Movement. His op-eds and letters have been widely published in the United States and Israel.
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!
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
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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
