COMMENTARY / OPINION
Mamdani is MAGA’s Golden Ticket to Win 2026 CLANDESTINE
NOV 05, 2025
Now that the dust has settled, can you see how Mamdani helps us more than he hurts us?
Yeah things are going to be terrible for NYC, but that place is already a hellhole.
Now Trump gets to run on “Communism vs. Common Sense” in 2026.
Mamdani just gave MAGA a golden ticket. Trump now has unlimited talking points and can draw more of the middle towards MAGA during the midterms. Now Trump can run on the Dems going full-blown Communist, which is a very easy sell.
And what price do we Trump supporters have to pay for this? Absolutely nothing. Unless you live in NYC, it doesn’t affect your life at all. He is just a mayor of a city all of us avoid anyways. Trump is still POTUS and holds all the cards.
Mamdani supplies us with significant political ammunition, at minimal to zero cost.
The Jewish golden age in New York is over. BENJAMIN KERSTEIN
The question now is how the Jews ought to deal with the fact that an open antisemite will soon rule America’s leading, if declining, city with its million-strong Jewish population.
NOV 06, 2025
I do not care for delusions, and we should have none.
It is all-important, then, to acknowledge the fact that Zohran Mamdani will be the mayor of New York City for the next four years, starting January 1, 2026. There were too many votes in cheap populist demagoguery and hating the Jews to stop him.
So, the question now is how the Jews ought to deal with the fact that an open antisemite will soon rule America’s leading, if declining, city with its million-strong Jewish population.
There would seem to be four options:
1) Quiescence
Historically, Diaspora Jews’ default option has been to keep quiet, avoid trouble, and hope for the best. This strategy has been somewhat viable in the short term, but it always fails in the long term, with devastating consequences. Despite this, it has been learned over centuries and will likely be the initial reaction to Mamdani’s election.
Indeed, it has already been effectively adopted by America’s decadent and depraved Jewish leadership. These so-called “leaders” have said little if anything against Mamdani, for obvious reasons: They are prisoners of their own privilege and their useless loyalties to the Democratic Party and progressive politics.
Even in the medium term, quiescence will not work. It is all but inevitable that Mamdani and his minions will enable and incite violence against Jews of a much more extreme variety than we have yet seen, including outright pogroms. Those who commit such crimes will be protected by Mamdani and his administration, facing few if any consequences. The result, of course, will be further escalation.
In the face of this, a strategy of quiescence is not only bound to fail. It will also be a shameful submission to racist violence, oppression, and violation. This is the worst of all possible options.
Jews are targeted in hate crimes far more than any other group in New York City, accounting for 62 percent of all bias incidents reported to police last month. The incidents range from harassment to vandalism and physical assaults.
2) Flight
Flight is also a well-worn Jewish survival strategy: When things become intolerable, get out.
Jews are already leaving systemically antisemitic northern U.S. cities for less racist southern municipalities. Under a Mamdani regime, this trend could accelerate, leading to the disappearance of a significant portion of the New York Jewish community.
Mamdani and his minions would no doubt rejoice in this, regarding it as “the chickens coming home to roost.” It would also remove a possible source of powerful political opposition. It would, however, be a historical tragedy and, on Mamdani’s part, a historical crime.
The New York Jewish community is, after all, several centuries old. To New York Jews, Mamdani just got here yesterday, and in persecuting them, he is invading their centuries-old home. It is their city, not his.
Given this, Jews should not give Mamdani the satisfaction of seeing them decamp elsewhere. They ought to stay and engage in the long but promising struggle against him and his neo-antisemitic movement.
3) Organize
This struggle will require extensive organization and activism. What form this might take is not currently known. However, New York Jews have a good model in the form of the movement undertaken by British Jews to oppose the former neo-antisemitic head of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.
Coordinating non-violent action both in the streets and through official channels, British Jews slowly wore down Corbyn’s authority, punctured his carefully crafted image of compassion and care, exposed the crypto-racism behind his façade of anti-racism, and contributed mightily to his ultimate landslide defeat.
Such a struggle will require the extensive and coordinated organization between individuals and groups that American Jews excel at on behalf of others but rarely undertake on behalf of themselves.
This, in turn, will require a change in mentality. New York Jews will have to accept that they are no longer a comfortable and prosperous community, but an embattled minority under existential threat that can no longer afford quiescence.
It remains to be seen if this change can and will happen.
4) Resist
Finally, there is the “nuclear option.” If Mamdani’s tyranny will not yield to non-violent tactics and the neo-antisemites succeed in committing and getting away with increasingly violent atrocities, then New York Jews will have to look to their own physical self-defense.
This will involve organizing not just for opposition but active resistance. New York Jews will have to form aggressive self-defense organizations, exercise their Second Amendment rights to arm themselves for self-defense, and prepare for potentially violent confrontations with Mamdani’s street minions within the bounds of law and morality.
This will require an even greater change in mentality than non-violent organization. The change, however, will be the simple recognition of a reality widely accepted among non-Jews. It was put concisely by the writer James Burnham when he said, “In real social life, only power can control power.”
So, if they are to survive “real social life,” the Jews must have power. If Mamdani gives them no option other than the acquisition of power by active resistance, so be it. Under such circumstances, resistance will be nothing more than the logical outcome.
There is no doubt that New York’s Jewish community is about to face an ordeal of the most grievous kind. It will be a long, sometimes twilight struggle that, if they steel themselves for the task, they can and will win. But victory will require a sea change in the mentality of New York Jews and a new understanding of their place in the city’s social, cultural, and political hierarchy.
We should hope that this change takes place and yet another millennial crime is prevented. It must be prevented before the new Hamans seize not only municipal but potentially national power. This is the great task before New York’s Jews, who, whether they know it or not, are about to become the vanguard of the struggle.
Mamdani plays NYC like a fiddle Jack Engelhard
Bob Dylan sang “the times they are a-changing”, but he did not know how right he was. You did it to yourselves, New Yorkers. Opinion.
Nov 6, 2025, 11:58 AM (GMT+2) Israel National News
Part of his strategy was to play the victimhood card en route to his triumph.
During his campaign, slick Zorhan Mamdani tricked New Yorkers into believing that there was such a thing as Islamophobia.
Stupid, or gullible, New Yorkers fell for the ruse, and so he got their pity, and their votes, among them Jews, ignoramuses one and all.
In fact, only moments after the twin towers fell from the handiwork of Islamists, President H. W. Bush rushed to a mosque to assure Muslims that there are no hard feelings.
Quite the contrary…he offered his CONDOLENCES to Muslims who might be worried about a backlash.
That never happened in the moments, hours, days or years that followed.
Unless you believe the lies of AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and snake oil salesman Mamdani, Islamophobia does not exist.
Nowhere in New York City. Nowhere in the United States…save for pockets here and there which amount to seven percent who qualify as Islamophobes.
Meanwhile, antisemitism is at a record high… the trend covers a 344 percent increase over the past five years.
All thanks to immigration and to dunces being turned out by the Ivy Leagues, tops among them Columbia and Harvard.
Mamdani, during his campaign against two woeful candidates, let it be known emphatically that for far too long “Muslims have been in the shadows.”
He plans to correct this.
New Yorkers need to get ready for an influx that mirrors London…the streets full of them and prayers to Allah five times a day.
As Hemingway used to say when he was down in the dumps….”How do you like it now, gentlemen?”
Remember that movie when all that was left standing was the Statue of Liberty?
Somewhere the comment, what have we done?
You did it to yourselves, New Yorkers.
One day when you ask that famous question, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” Heifetz won’t be around to say…practice, practice.
There will be no Carnegie Hall.
That grand auditorium that was saved by Isaac Stern, will have become a grand mosque.
Yankee Stadium? A perfect place to gather the multitudes out of the shadows.
Then the Avenue, glorious Fifth Avenue? Soon to become a tearful memory, and Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village.
There, Bob Dylan sang, the times they are a-changing.
He did not know how right he was, nor that Islam is incompatible with Western and American and Judeo/Christian Values.
This is now New York City according to Zorhan Mamdani.
How do you like it now, gentlemen?
Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. New from the novelist, the gambling thriller Compulsive. Website: www.jackengelhard.com
Now available, a collection of Jack Engelhard’s op-eds, “Writings.”
From the esteemed John w. Cassell: “Jack Engelhard is a writer without peer, and the. conscience of us all.”
Al-Jazeera Host Starts PANICKING As Israeli Historian Spits Facts [7:11] Mordechai Kedar
The Islamist capture of New York Melanie Phillips
America must wake up. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary. Opinion.
Nov 6, 2025, 7:42 PM (GMT+2) Israel National News
(JNS) The victory of New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election was long heralded by the opinion polls. Yet its effect upon America threatens to be nothing less than seismic.
It’s not just that Mamdani may wreck the city through the expected multiple failures of his infantile magic money-tree wish list. It’s not just that his antisemitism and hatred of Israel make him a potential threat to the city’s Jewish community.
More importantly, what’s happened is a major strategic victory for the Islamic world in its war against the West. Muslim activists are ecstatic that Mamdani has conquered New York-the city with the largest number of Jews outside Israel-for Islam.
They’re linking this directly to the onslaught that they’ve mounted against the Jewish world for the past two years by weaponizing Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas in Gaza. Qatari journalists, reports MEMRI, have exulted that Mamdani’s victory was the outcome of the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Jaber Al-Harmi, the editor of the Qatari state daily Al-Sharq, wrote that New York was “the capital of the Zionist lobby” as the largest stronghold of the Jewish community in the United States. “Two years ago,” he wrote, “no one could have imagined such a major shift against the Zionist narrative. The steadfastness and resistance of our people in Gaza have turned the tables on the Zionists and exposed their colonialist settlement project to the entire world.”
Mamdani’s victory has put rocket fuel behind the already delirious feeling among Muslim radicals that they are now on the cusp of conquering the West for Islam.
This euphoria was triggered by the fact that on Oct. 7, the Hamas-led forces had been able to do what had previously been thought impossible-breach Israel’s apparently impregnable fortress.
The ensuing demonstrations on the streets and campuses of Western cities-with intimidation and violence towards Jews, chants for their murder, and calls to destroy Israel and America, producing next to no pushback by the police or other authorities-weren’t just protests against Israel or demands to “Free Palestine.” They were demonstrations of raw Islamic power over the bamboozled and supine West.
That campaign was organized by a global alliance between Islamists and the hard left. A similar alliance has brought Mamdani to power.
Palestinian-Arab American activist Linda Sarsour has said that a fund controlled by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was Mamdani’s largest institutional donor. CAIR, which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a 2007 terrorist-funding case that linked it to Hamas, is a Muslim Brotherhood outfit.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda is to conquer the West for Islam. Its strategy includes infiltrating democratic institutions in order to subvert them. And now, its biggest prize by far is to have captured the mayoralty of New York, America’s commercial and cultural heart.
Mamdani achieved this by concealing what he is. A Shia Muslim who is reportedly driven by hatred of Jews and an obsession with “Palestine,” he works for the destruction of Israel and has refused to condemn chants of “globalize the intifada,” the call for the murder of Jews around the world.
In his victory speech, his mask slipped. He did not project himself as a unifier of the city he now leads. He did not display the smiley charm and charisma that had wowed so many New Yorkers. Instead, he made an angry, divisive speech.
He declared that New York was now “a city where more than a million Muslims know that they belong … in the halls of power.” And he also threatened that any criticism of the Islamic world, which he termed Islamophobia, would now not be allowed.
At a post-election rally in Times Square, where hundreds of Muslims prostrated themselves in prayer to the chants of Allahu akhbar! (“God is great!”), he declared that New York was “a city of immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.” Of the city’s white-skinned, native residents, he made no mention.
The city’s Muslims responded to his triumph by jubilantly stating, “Now this is our time,” calling for Sharia law to start and hailing an “Islamic caliphate of New York.”
The prospect of Mamdani now controlling the city’s police and what children are to be taught in school chills the blood.
But New York is by no means the only place in America where Islamization is making important inroads. The Palestinian Arab-American influencer Abdul Eyad celebrated Mamdani’s victory by telling Israelis in New York to pack their bags and get out. He said that they should go to Poland or Cyprus, but not to “Palestine,” where they would be humiliated and removed.
This charming individual appeared to be speaking from Plano, Texas. This city hosts the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), a restricted Islamic community governed by Sharia law that has existed for nearly 12 years and comprises a mega-mosque, homes restricted to Muslim purchasers, Islamic schools, an Islamic medical clinic and Islamic businesses.
The community’s resident scholar, Yasir Qadh, has declared democracy incompatible with Islam, refused to condemn terrorist groups like Hamas, and preached that Islamic law-not Western governance-should dictate every aspect of life. Now he is leading a coordinated effort to Islamize Texas, using EPIC as the nucleus of a growing network of Islamic enclaves designed to operate outside the framework of U.S. law.
According to the RAIR Foundation, which campaigns against Islamization in America, plans are in the works to expand EPIC to create EPIC City, a 402-acre residential and commercial enclave that will include more than 1,000 homes and community provisions structured to function within an Islamic legal and social framework.
At a public inquiry into this development last April, Lt (Rtd) Douglas Deaton, an expert in SWAT tactics and urban threat analysis, gave evidence based on his experience with the Plano police department.
One of the first houses in EPIC, he said, had been positioned with a clear view of some of the police department’s most sensitive tactical assets. “That house has all the hallmarks of a fortress and a command post,” he said. “The rear of the house looks a lot like an observation post and a shooting platform.”
The original owner of that house, says RAIR, is listed in public records as Junaid Din, a prominent fundraiser for EPIC and a co-founder of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research based in the city of Irving, Texas, which promotes the integration of Sharia law into Western societies. Its founder and chairman, Omar Suleiman, described Zionists in 2014 as “the enemies of God, His messengers, sincere followers of all religions and humanity as a whole.”
The EPIC development is part of a calculated, long-term political strategy to carve out a separate, parallel society where Islamic law-not American values-dictates daily life. The jaw-dropping thing is that this is happening not in Dearborn, Mich., a long-standing Somali Islamic stronghold (which is troubling enough), but in the state of Texas, the standard-bearer of robust American Christianity.
That, of course, is precisely the point. The choice of Texas in which to develop this openly defiant, parallel Islamic society is not random. It’s strategic.
Islamic jihadis draw their strength from the symbolism of their conquests, which inspires their own forces and demoralizes their victims. The Twin Towers, Texas, now New York- the Islamists are steadily destroying these icons to conquer America.
When nearly 3,000 New Yorkers were murdered on Sept. 11, 2001, the city came together against the threat of jihadi Islam. Now, in November 2025, Islam has captured New York through a civilizational jihad few Americans acknowledge or understand.
Americans have naively believed that Islamization is confined to Britain and Europe. They’ve failed to see how it is advancing in America as well.
Shockingly, some 30% of New York Jews voted for Mamdani. They need to rip off their liberal blinders and wake up. The Trump administration must wake up, too. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary. America is the frog in the Islamist pot that’s being slowly boiled alive.
Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save It, is published by Wicked Son and can be purchased on Amazon. To access her work, go to: melaniephillips.substack.com.
Why Gaza Does Not Need ‘Peacekeepers’ and ‘Monitors’ by Khaled Abu Toameh
November 6, 2025 Gatestone Institute
- Hamas is not the only terror group that opposes the presence of international forces in the Gaza Strip. On October 8, two other terror groups, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, also rejected the idea of any “foreign guardianship” over the Gaza Strip. “We are ready to benefit from Arab and international participation in the fields of reconstruction, recovery and development support,” the two groups said in a joint statement with Hamas.
- For them, the international community’s role in the Gaza Strip should be limited to pouring billions of dollars into reconstruction and development.
- When Hamas officials such as Abu Marzouk say they will not allow any force to replace the Israeli army, they are actually threatening to carry out terror attacks against members of such a force.
- “Whoever comes to replace Israel will be treated as Israel.” — Osama Hamdan, senior Hamas official, arabi21.com, February 15, 2025.
- [T]he terror group may accept the presence of troops from some Arab and Islamic countries such as Qatar and Turkey, which are longtime sponsors of the terror group. The presence of such friendly forces will undoubtedly ensure Hamas’s continued dominion over the Gaza Strip and allow the terror group to rearm, regroup and rebuild its military capabilities. It is simply unrealistic to expect Qatari or Turkish soldiers to forcibly disarm Hamas.
- Notably, the Arab and Muslim ministers did not call on Hamas to cede control of the Gaza Strip or lay down its weapons.
- Turkey clearly considers Hamas a legitimate and acceptable actor in any future administration of the Gaza Strip…. This position is shared by Egypt….
- It is equally unrealistic, unfortunately, to think that soldiers of any outside force — especially Arab and Muslim troops — would risk being shot at by trying to stop any military reconstruction in Gaza by Hamas or other terrorist groups. This bad bet was made unmistakably clear by the presence of UNIFIL in Lebanon, where it took about a minute for the UNIFIL forces to support the terrorists, not confront them.
- Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups — as well as deeply fundamentalist Muslim countries, such as Turkey, Qatar and Egypt — will simply use any international force as cover to avoid being targeted by Israel and to maintain control of the Gaza Strip.
Is Hamas planning to thwart US efforts to deploy an international force in the Gaza Strip?
On November 4, Musa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, told Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV network that “a military force that could replace the [Israeli] occupation is unacceptable.”
Abu Marzouk, based in Qatar, stressed that there is a “Palestinian consensus that the security force in Gaza should be Palestinian, under the leadership of the committee managing the Strip.” This option, he said, enjoys Palestinian consensus and reflects the will to manage security independently without external interference.
The Hamas official was commenting on reports that the US has sent several United Nations Security Council members a draft resolution for the establishment of an international force in the Gaza Strip. According to an unnamed US official, the proposed International Security Force (ISF) will be an “enforcement force and not a peacekeeping force.”
According to the draft, the ISF would “stabilize the security environment in Gaza by ensuring the process of demilitarization and prevention of rebuilding of military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, as well as the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups.”
Hamas is not the only terror group that opposes the presence of international forces in the Gaza Strip. On October 8, two other terror groups, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, also rejected the idea of any “foreign guardianship” over the Gaza Strip. “We are ready to benefit from Arab and international participation in the fields of reconstruction, recovery and development support,” the two groups said in a joint statement with Hamas. The Palestinian terror groups, in short, argue that the governance and security of the Gaza Strip must be a Palestinian matter. For them, the international community’s role in the Gaza Strip should be limited to pouring billions of dollars into reconstruction and development.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, triggered by the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel’s southern communities, the terror group has come out against the idea of involving non-Palestinians in governance and security.
In July 2024, Hamas announced that it rejects any measures that would override the “will of Palestinians regarding the future of the Gaza Strip,” and said that the administration of the Strip constitutes a “purely Palestinian affair.”
In a statement, Hamas expressed its refusal to accept any plans, projects, proposals, statements, or positions supporting moves for the entry of foreign forces into the Gaza Strip under any name or pretext, adding:
“The Palestinian people will not allow any guardianship or imposition of external solutions or equations that diminish their constants based on their inherent right to achieve their freedom and determine their destiny.”
When Hamas officials such as Abu Marzouk say they will not allow any force to replace the Israeli army, they are actually threatening to carry out terror attacks against members of such a force.
Earlier this year, another senior Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, said that his group would treat any force that replaces Israel in the Gaza Strip as an “occupying force,” adding: “Whoever comes to replace Israel will be treated as Israel.”
The Hamas official is saying that his group will act against any force that seeks to replace Israel, even if that force consists of a Palestinian party other than Hamas.
Hamas is opposed to an international force: the terror group views it as a direct threat to its rule over the Gaza Strip. Hamas leaders and officials have repeatedly emphasized that their group has no intention of laying down its weapons and have said they would do so only after the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Despite Hamas’s declared opposition to the deployment of an international force in the Gaza Strip, the terror group may accept the presence of troops from some Arab and Islamic countries such as Qatar and Turkey, which are longtime sponsors of the terror group. The presence of such friendly forces will undoubtedly ensure Hamas’s continued dominion over the Gaza Strip and allow the terror group to rearm, regroup and rebuild its military capabilities. It is simply unrealistic to expect Qatari or Turkish soldiers to forcibly disarm Hamas.
Recently, foreign ministers of several Arab and Muslim countries who met in Istanbul to discuss the future of the Gaza Strip seemed to support Hamas’s position. The ministers stressed that governance of the Gaza Strip must be in the hands of Palestinians alone and rejected any “new guardianship regime” over it.
After the meeting — which included Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan and Indonesia — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told a press conference:
“Palestinians must govern themselves and guarantee their own security…. Gaza needs to be rebuilt, and its residents must return to their homes. It needs its wounds healed, but… no one wants to see the emergence of a new guardianship regime.”
Notably, the Arab and Muslim ministers did not call on Hamas to cede control of the Gaza Strip or lay down its weapons.
Instead, Fidan expressed hope for a “quick internal Palestinian reconciliation” between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas, indicating that this reconciliation would “enhance Palestine’s representation within the international community.”
Turkey clearly considers Hamas a legitimate and acceptable actor in any future administration of the Gaza Strip. The minister would like to see Hamas patch up its differences with its rivals in the Palestinian Authority and agree on a joint government to manage the affairs of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. This position is shared by Egypt, which recently hosted a meeting of Palestinian factions, including the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, to discuss the formation of a “technocratic committee” to administer the Gaza Strip.
In light of Hamas’s opposition and threats, any international force that enters the Gaza Strip will have to act as an anti-terrorism force, not as a peacekeeping or monitoring force. Its No. 1 mission should be to crack down on all terror groups, confiscate their weapons, destroy their military infrastructure, and prevent the smuggling of weapons from Egypt into the Gaza Strip. Members of the proposed force should have a clear and strong mandate to open fire at any terrorist roaming the streets of the Gaza Strip.
It is equally unrealistic, unfortunately, to think that soldiers of any outside force — especially Arab and Muslim troops — would risk being shot at by trying to stop any military reconstruction in Gaza by Hamas or other terrorist groups. This bad bet was made unmistakably clear by the presence of UNIFIL in Lebanon, where it took about a minute for the UNIFIL forces to support the terrorists, not confront them.
Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups — as well as deeply fundamentalist Muslim countries, such as Turkey, Qatar and Egypt — will simply use any international force as cover to avoid being targeted by Israel and to maintain control of the Gaza Strip.
Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.
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Terminate it! Peggy Tierney
NOV 06, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
Many people still do not understand the filibuster or why it matters. It matters very very much. In fact, the future of MAGA and our country depends on TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER right now.
If you are still confused – read my newsletter on it. I explain in detail and I repeat myself in the hopes that it becomes more and more clear as you read on. Once you understand it, please share the truth with others.
People keep telling me that MAGA and the Republicans can’t terminate the Senate filibuster now because we’ll need it later to stop the Democrats from installing Communism. WRONG.
That tells me they don’t understand what they are talking about and are just spewing left-wing talking points! Democrats will terminate it themselves the first chance they get! They’ve done it before!
The ONLY way that MAGA can codify VOTER ID & get rid of cheat-by-mail for Federal elections is to TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!
The GOP has 53 votes in the Senate & all they need is 51 votes to TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER & pass every single MAGA agenda item RIGHT NOW. Do it! They don’t need 60 votes to terminate the filibuster and open up the Government. They can terminate the 60-vote filibuster threshold on anything they want – with a simple majority of just 51 votes!
This isn’t just about opening up the government! Here’s a list of actions that a majority of Republican Americans want to see accomplished through the nuclear option on the filibuster:
1. Voter ID Laws
2. Restrictions on Mail-In Voting
3. Election Integrity Act
4. Border Wall Funding
5. Immigration Reform
6. Deportation and Enforcement
7. Permanent Tax Cuts
8. Corporate Tax Reductions
9. Deregulation
10. Repeal and Replace Obamacare
11. Medicare and Medicaid Reforms
12. Energy Independence
13. Climate Policy Reversal
14. Federal Judges and Supreme Court Nominees
15. Abortion Restrictions
16. Religious Freedom Laws
17. DOGE Initiatives
18. Agency Consolidation
19. Military Spending Increases
20. Foreign Aid Reform
21. School Choice Expansion
22. Curriculum Control
Listen to Trump explain: https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1986447950328029516
If Republicans in the Senate do not terminate the filibuster immediately, with 51 votes, the Democrats (Communists) will keep the nation shut down until mid-terms.
The MAGA agenda will die, we will lose the Senate & the House, our borders will open wide, and we will lose our country. Trump will be impeached for a 3rd time and the White House will fall to the Communists in 2028.
It’s as simple as that, folks.
The filibuster is just another form of COVID – except it won’t be a two week shutdown to stop the spread – it will be three years and then permanent. Got it? I hope so.
The filibuster is a gimmick – a legislative tool that allows a single U.S. senator to hold the Senate floor in order to slow or block a vote on a bill, and under current Senate rules, it can be “broken” only by a vote of 60 or more senators. The filibuster is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. It was made up and now it’s abused!
[Ed.: Capiche?]
Democrats’ Islamist-Marxist Alliance Could Destroy US: Rep. Randy Fine ALEX NEWMAN
Zohran Mamdani illustrates the Commie takeover of the Democrat party and the broader Islamist-Marxist partnership to destroy America as a nation and as an ideal, Congressman Fine told us.
NOV 06, 2025
The success of Islamo-Socialist Zohran Mamdani is a bad sign, showing a shifting of the Democrat Party into an all-out anti-American alliance seeking to destroy and conquer the United States, explained Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL) to The New American’s Alex Newman for Conversations That Matter. There can be no unity with such radicals, he said.
[Please note: This interview was the day before Congressman Fine began his very public feud with Tucker Carlson or we would have certainly asked him about it!]
Congressman Fine has introduced multiple bills addressing the issue, including the Disqualifying Dual Loyalty Act, which would prohibit dual citizens from becoming congressmen, and the No Shari’a Act, to stop the application of Shari’a law where constitutional rights might be violated.
Pivoting to the government shutdown, Fine, serving Florida’s 6th congressional district, said the Democrats are holding out to protect the failure of Obama’s unconstitutional “Affordable Care Act” and provide healthcare for illegal immigrants. Republicans, he concluded, must fight to stop the national debt, or the country will collapse.
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Filibuster Nuclear Option Peggy Tierney
NOV 05, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
People keep telling me that MAGA and the Republicans can’t terminate the filibuster now because we’ll need it later to stop the Democrats from installing Communism.
That tells me they don’t understand what they are talking about and are just spewing left-wing talking points!
The filibuster is a legislative tool that allows a single U.S. senator to hold the Senate floor in order to slow or block a vote on a bill, and under current Senate rules, it can be “broken” only by a vote of 60 or more senators. The filibuster is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
The filibuster evolved almost by accident – a strategy born from the absence of a rule. An obscure rule change pushed by Vice President Aaron Burr in 1805 and adopted in 1806 unintentionally created the possibility that a single Senator could stop passage of legislation by refusing to yield the floor and preventing unanimous consent to proceed to a vote.” The first time the filibuster was used was in 1837.
Well, the Islamo-Communists in control of the Democrat party now have already declared that they will VOTE OUT the filibuster the minute they gain control again in the Senate.
They WILL gain control in the Senate again if we allow them to obstruct everything we do for the next year! They will use the filibuster to render MAGA useless and then regain power and use it to totally surrender us to the RED-GREEN AXIS.
All the party in charge in the Senate needs is 51 votes, a simple majority, to vote out the filibuster. They don’t need 60 votes. Does everybody get that?
When a law comes up for a vote – it now takes 60 votes to pass in the Senate with the filibuster. That’s why nothing the Republicans try to do – even with a majority – can pass, because Democrats obstruct it all and refuse to vote with the Republicans on anything.
People say we can’t change the filibuster. BS, the rules governing the filibuster have been changed several times.
Cloture, adopted as Rule 22 in 1917, required a two-thirds majority vote (67 votes) to break a filibuster.
In 1974, the Senate dropped the cloture vote threshold to 60.
In November 2013, Senate Democrats led by Harry Reid used the “nuclear option” to eliminate the 60-vote rule and implement a simple majority rule of 51 votes on executive branch nominations and federal judicial appointments by President Barack Obama.
Then, in April 2017, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell eliminated the 60-vote rule for Supreme Court nominations, which ended debate on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch and allowed him to be confirmed with only 54 votes.
Today, the filibuster cannot be utilized for any nominations or appointments, but can still be utilized for most legislation.
The use of the filibuster has skyrocketed in recent years.
From 1917 to 1970, the Senate voted 49 times in total to end filibusters. Since 2010, it has taken an average of more than 80 votes per year to break filibusters. From January 3, 2019 through January 3, 2021, 328 cloture motions were filed. This dramatic increase in cloture motions might be due to the 1970 “two-track” procedure implemented by the Senate, which prevents filibusters from disrupting all other Senate responsibilities.
That’s why the Government is still shut down because 7 Democrats refuse to vote with the 53 Senate Republicans (for a total of 60 votes) to re-open it. They want Trump to give the Democrats $1.5 TRILLION in healthcare for illegal aliens for those 7 votes and Trump says NO.
Democrats ALWAYS EXTORT Republicans for those votes and Republicans always cave. Trump says no more!
Republicans have 51 votes NOW and could remove the 60-vote filibuster requirement TODAY. They could reopen the Government right now and do all the things that the Democrats been obstructing for years: VOTER ID, get rid of mail-in ballots, save our supreme court from packing, fix Obamacare, etc. etc. etc.
The feasible approach is changing Senate precedent through the “nuclear option.”
This process involves a senator raising a point of order (claiming a rule is violated), which ultimately can be settled by a simple majority vote (51 senators) if the Senate appeals the presiding officer’s decision. This method has been used in recent years to eliminate filibusters for judicial and executive nominations.
The “nuclear option” in the U.S. Senate is a parliamentary procedure that allows the Senate majority to change the Senate rules by a simple majority vote (51 votes), bypassing the usual supermajority threshold (typically 60 votes) required to end debate or overcome a filibuster. It works by a senator raising a point of order that a Senate rule (for example, the 60-vote cloture rule) should be interpreted differently.
The presiding officer initially rules on this point of order based on existing rules and precedents, often against the majority. Then the majority appeals this ruling, and the appeal is decided by a simple majority vote, effectively overturning the chair’s decision and setting a new precedent. This new precedent allows future similar actions to proceed with a simple majority, effectively weakening or removing the filibuster on that issue.
Rather than eliminating it entirely, the Senate could also weaken the filibuster in specific ways:
- Prohibit filibusters on certain motions, such as starting debate on a bill (“motion to proceed”), while retaining the supermajority for further stages.
- Adjust thresholds for cloture, such as requiring three-fifths of “present and voting” senators instead of all “duly chosen and sworn” senators, lowering the effective hurdle.
- Modify the Byrd Rule and the use of budget reconciliation, allowing certain bills (usually budget-related) to pass by simple majority.
- Require senators to physically hold the floor and speak to maintain a filibuster, increasing the difficulty of sustaining one.
REPUBLICANS NEED TO TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER WITH 51 VOTES NOW – USING THE NUCLEAR OPTION – SO THAT OUR AGENDA CAN BE PUT IN PLACE BEFORE THE COMMUNISTS CAN DESTROY AMERICA.
This is New York City – the beginning of the United States of Soros & Mamdani, the Bolshevik-Jihadi party. You get this right? Should we let Senate Democrats use filibusters to control America & allow Zohran, Ilhan, AOC & the Islamo-Communists to TAKE OVER?
TRUMP: “I think these guys are kamikaze, they’ll take down the country if they have to.”
Sundance thinks that the establishment Republicans and the Koch Libertarian RINOs are conspiring with the Democrats to make sure that JD Vance and Marco Rubio are NOT allowed to be the Republican nominees for President in 2028.
The establishment RINOs want Ron DeSantis (one of the founders of the Koch-funded Freedom Caucus) & Thomas Massie (Koch Libertarian) in 2028 – to replace Vance and Rubio on the GOP ticket.
I agree that’s the plan. Vance & Rubio are America First. DeSantis & Massie are Globalists who pretend to be America First.
In order to cripple JD Vance & Marco Rubio before 2028, they need to make sure that MAGA is divided and obstructed over the next 3 years – and nothing gets done.
They also need to make sure Democrats win back the House in 2026 so that they can impeach President Trump a 3rd time.
To do that they need to keep the filibuster in place and let the Democrats win on every issue. They need to keep good judges OUT and let the liberal judges obstruct everything MAGA tries to do.
See how this works? This is the same playbook that Paul Ryan (DeSantis’ mentor) used in Trump’s first term.
If MAGA loses the House in 2026, I’m done and so is our nation. If we let that happen – we deserve what we get and that will prove that the Communists have won – and there’s no coming back.
As I said early – we can stop all this by TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER NOW and installing the MAGA agenda with a simply majority vote.
Or, should we let the Democrats use the filibuster to control America, keep cheating in elections, open our borders wide & allow Zohran, Ilhan, AOC & Islamo-Communists to run America?
I say get rid of the filibuster NOW and take back control. If we do that – the Communists will never have a chance to take over America!
PS: People tell me that Republicans don’t have the stomach to do this. The truth is that, before Trump took over the GOP, Republicans have preferred to be the losing party. They make more money being the losing party and being the resistance. They love to fundraise off how awful the Democrats are – rather than actually leading and changing things. That was a very lucrative strategy for the GOP since Reagan. Look how the Republican party let Democrats install voter fraud and ObamaCare – they LET THEM DO IT.
However, Trump wants MAGA to lead and make real change and codify immigration reform and election reform and that’s why they hate him. He loves this country and does not want to see it fail – he’s not in it for the money or himself.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Republicans need to do what they have to do and terminate the filibuster. We should get out, we should do our own bills. We should start tonight, with ‘the country’s open, congratulations.’ Then we should pass voter ID, we should pass no mail-in voting, we should pass all the things we want to pass to make our elections fair and safe, because California’s a disaster, many of the states are disasters.”
Please, please, please – stop listening to left-wing talking points and encouraging the Koch Libertarians and the Never Trump losers who only know how to obstruct MAGA. Most of the obstructionists have had decades to save America and they have proven they can’t do it.
End the filibuster – let Trump be Trump. God saved him for a reason and let’s get out of His way.
What made a Mamdani win possible? Demography and normalizing antisemitism JONATHAN S. TOBIN
The media and a Democratic Party that moved the Overton Window to treat the call for Jewish genocide as an idea worthy of debate helped elect a Marxist mayor of New York.
Nov. 5, 2025 JNS
In the end, the last four and a half months of arguments and desperate appeals meant nothing.
The New York City mayoral race was essentially decided on June 24, when New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani decisively won the Democratic Party primary over second-place finisher Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York. All efforts to stop Mamdani from winning in November went essentially for naught. In deep-blue New York City, with the support of the Democratic Party and almost all of the nation’s liberal mainstream media outlets, coupled with the poor alternatives on the ballot, the chances of preventing him from winning the general election were always negligible.
There were good reasons to worry about the consequences of electing not only a Democratic Socialist who will bring a laundry list of Marxist patent nostrums to City Hall, but someone whose political career has been defined by his obsession with opposing Israel and the Jewish people. In the end, though, the main obstacles to the campaign to mobilize the city’s moderate voters and Jews to do everything they could to defeat him were not so much the reluctance of many to vote for Cuomo or Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
The liberal ecosphere
The real problem is the qualities that should have rendered Mamdani an implausible choice in the eyes of a majority of voters—and therefore unelectable—were no longer seen as disqualifying. Being a Marxist and a supporter of anti-Jewish positions should have relegated Mamdani to the margins of the political spectrum. But among Gotham’s Democrats, that’s no longer true.
In the current liberal political ecosphere, the mayor-elect’s ideology and record had been normalized in the past decade.
In the not-so-distant past, someone like Mamdani would have never stood a chance. But in 2025, a man who had trafficked in blood libels about Israel and the Jews being responsible for New York City cops targeting African-Americans or endorsed chants calling for Jewish genocide and the destruction of Israel (“From the river to the sea”), in addition to terrorism against Jews everywhere (“globalize the intifada”), was not merely acceptable but acclaimed as a breath of fresh air.
The long march of progressives through American institutions over the past decades, during which they have made toxic ideas like critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism a new orthodoxy, has taken its toll on society. Along with their imposition of the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion that exacerbates racial divisions and labels Jews and Israel as “white” oppressors, their conquest of not merely academia, but much of the nation’s political and cultural establishments prepared the way for accepting Mamdani.
American political liberals of the past century would never have accepted for a minute the idea that a Mamdani could represent them or their party. But if The New York Times is already routinely publishing antisemitic articles calling for Israel’s destruction and falsely labeling it as an “apartheid” state and guilty of “genocide,” it’s obvious that the Overton Window of acceptable discourse has moved to make Jew-hatred kosher in the public square. Why, then, would one expect an electorate dominated by contemporary political liberals to treat a mayoral candidate who did the same as out of bounds?
In the face of that fact, nothing the anti-Mamdani coalition could do could put the genie of antisemitism back into the bottle.
A changed New York
There’s also the plain fact that the electorate of New York City has changed dramatically in the last generation.
The New York that elected Republican Rudy Giuliani twice to the mayoralty in 1993 and 1997—a choice that signaled a remarkable revival of the city both in terms of its economy and livability—and then elected moderate Independent Michael Bloomberg, who is Jewish, in 2001, 2005 and 2009, simply doesn’t exist anymore.
In the last quarter-century, much of the city’s working-class population, including white ethnics and others who shared their values, has left New York for the suburbs or for sunnier, better-governed places such as Florida. That shift was accelerated by the decline set off by the left-wing policies of Bill de Blasio, followed by the incompetence and corruption of Eric Adams, which sent the city into a tailspin.
The increase of Muslim voters, especially those from South Asia and the Middle East, where discriminatory attitudes toward Jews, such as those that Mamdani has exemplified, are normative, has become a major part of that change. They gave him an edge that may have offset any outrage about him from the majority of the still-significant Jewish population in the five boroughs, even as a leftist minority of Jews who have lost touch with any sense of Jewish peoplehood embraced him.
Still, the particular set of circumstances that led to this result came about due to a combination of factors.
Dismal opposition
The first of these is that Mamdani was fortunate in his opponents.
Cuomo was his most plausible alternative; however, convincing people to unite behind a man with a record of thuggish authoritarian rule as governor, costly COVID-19 pandemic blunders, and who was chased out of office in disgrace by charges of sexual harassment and bullying was always a heavy lift.
Sliwa, the founder and leader of the Guardian Angels, was a gadfly candidate of a minority party that commands the support of a fraction of the city’s voters, whom few outside his devoted friends and followers could envision as mayor.
Could they have joined forces with incumbent Mayor Eric Adams to create a fusion ticket that would have defeated Mamdani?
Perhaps that might have been possible if they had done so immediately after the June primary. Yet delusions about what would happen in the general election, as well as egos and hard feelings between them, prevented it. That was unfortunate since it was clear from the start that no one but the former governor had a chance of catching Mamdani. Even if they had, it might not have altered the outcome since Mamdani appears to have won a narrow majority rather than a plurality.
Ironically, the withdrawal from the race of Adams, who chose to run for re-election as an Independent rather than as a Democrat after being saved from corruption charges by President Donald Trump, and his subsequent endorsement of Cuomo, who also switched to run as an Independent after losing in June, may have actually helped Mamdani. Without an African-American or other minority opponent in the field, Mamdani apparently did far better in the general election among blacks and Hispanics than he did in the primary.
Mamdani also benefited from being the most anti-Trump candidate in a city where the president is deeply unpopular.
Ignorant and indoctrinated youth
It’s also true that for a lot of voters, the 34-year-old was a fresh face running against two older men who have been public figures in New York for decades. Young voters liked his Marxist promises of lower rents, cheaper groceries and free bus rides, even if they are unachievable in the largest and overall most expensive city in the country. Apparently, every generation needs to learn the lesson for themselves that socialism doesn’t work. But that is even truer for those who get their information about the world from TikTok and other social media. They may well have also been indoctrinated into believing woke myths about the world by an American education system that is in desperate need of the sort of reform that Trump is attempting to enact with his efforts to rid higher education of DEI and antisemitism.
Still, there’s no getting around the fact that New Yorkers have now elected an individual whose entire public career has been largely driven by his opposition to the existence of the State of Israel and the belief that supporting those who seek its destruction is the key to a better world.
This will mean, as he has promised, the implementation of policies targeting Israel and Jews in ways that will be deeply consequential for Jewish New Yorkers. How will this impact their lives?
His election-night promise to oppose antisemitism, which has surged to unprecedented levels in the two years since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, is nothing more than gaslighting, as it was accompanied by his claim that he will also fight the mythical menace of Islamophobia. Since almost everything that is defined as “Islamophobic” is nothing more than drawing attention to the Jew-hatred that is normative among American Muslims and Arab-Americans, his pledge to defend Jews is meaningless.
In Mamdani’s New York, no Jew should think that they can count on the city to protect them. And that is on top of the fact that his pro-criminal policies and hostility to police will make the city less safe for everyone.
Mamdani’s triumph and the support that he’s getting from the country’s liberal establishment will also make the already uphill struggle of moderate and pro-Israel Democrats to keep their party from heading even further to the left even more difficult. At a moment when Democrats are primarily motivated by their hatred for Trump, normalizing Mamdani may seem natural, and perhaps, even inevitable. While that may ultimately harm Democrats in future national elections, there’s no avoiding the fact that it will fuel the increased normalization of Jew-hatred throughout the party, as well as the liberal cultural and media worlds that the left dominates.
A tragic day
Whatever the ultimate political consequences for Democrats, Mamdani’s victory must be marked as a tragic day in the history of American Jewry. Not in living memory has someone who harbors such hostility to this religious minority won high public office in the United States while at the same time being treated by mainstream media as a national political star.
It is the culmination of a process by which vile lies about Israel and the Jews became acceptable public discourse rather than the sort of thing that was confined to the fever swamps of the far left and far right. Conservatives are at least struggling to fend off the efforts of Jew-haters like former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and even more hateful figures on that end of the spectrum to establish themselves and their ideas as legitimate on the right. Liberals, however, have effectively surrendered their party to Mamdani and other woke progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the rest of the antisemitic, progressive “Squad” in Congress.
The result is not just a tragedy for New York Jews, but a milestone in which the efforts of all decent Americans to marginalize antisemites became that much more difficult.
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.: Mornings like this one make editors like me want to just hang it up! 30% of the ‘juice’ voted for Mamdani. Now they can be called ‘toast’ instead of ‘juice’.]
Note to JD Vance: Catering to extremism is a losing political strategy JONATHAN S. TOBIN
Democrats have largely surrendered to the antisemitic left that many on the right pushed back against, including the lunatic fringe in the GOP tent.
Nov. 4, 2025 JNS
Recent events have been an object lesson in the basic truth of the “horseshoe theory” of politics. The theory argues that the far left and the far right are almost always closer to each other in their ideas and even their tactics than either is to the political center and the people who are presumably on the same side of the great issues of the day. Rather than a linear continuum, the political alignment is, in effect, a horseshoe-shaped diagram.
Nothing better illustrates this than the way antisemites on the left and the right have been working from the same playbook. Both Democratic Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson share a hatred for Israel and its Jewish supporters. Each not only taps into anti-Jewish sentiments latent in society. They also speak to growing constituencies within the Democratic and Republican parties that share this point of view and such prejudices.
Mainstreaming antisemitism
At this point, there are two questions to ask about both sides.
One is whether their ideas, which might have been dismissed as inherently marginal only a few years ago, have been mainstreamed in public discourse. The other is whether or not, once that has been accomplished, their toxic views about Israel and the Jews will come to dominate America’s two main political parties, and thus eventually be transformed from ideological obsessions to policy.
With respect to the Democrats, the answer to both questions appears to be “yes.”
When it comes to the Republicans, the answer is far from conclusive. President Donald Trump and most conservatives, as well as members of the GOP, are pro-Israel and philo-semitic. But as we saw last week with the shocking decision of the Heritage Foundation, a highly influential think tank in Washington, D.C., to come to the defense of Carlson after he aired a podcast when he gave a friendly platform to neo-Nazi hatemonger Nick Fuentes, it’s now indisputable that the right has its own very serious antisemitism problem.
Still, unlike the acquiescence and support that Mamdani’s candidacy has generated from within his party, the pushback against Heritage president Kevin Roberts among Republicans has been as loud as it was encouraging. Indeed, most of the conservative ecosphere seemed to react with outrage against Roberts’ shocking video in which he cast those opposed to Carlson’s stands as a “venomous coalition” as well as seemed to indicate that there was something sinister about supporters of Israel, both Jewish and evangelical Christians, who believed the podcaster and his prejudiced views had no place in the GOP mainstream. The outrage among employees and donors at Heritage, which has devoted considerable resources to support for Israel and targeting antisemitism via its “Project Esther,” was also considerable.
As Commentary magazine executive editor Abe Greenwald aptly noted: “The right responded to half a dozen Jew-hating podcasters and one think tank president with overwhelming and immediate condemnation. The left encouraged two years of abject pro-jihad support and terrorism to thrive without ever putting its foot down.”
Is JD Vance Trump’s successor?
The key to the future of the GOP, however, may lie with someone who was conspicuously silent about the controversies over the Carlson-Fuentes podcast and the situation at Heritage. By that, I don’t refer to Trump but to the person who is the current favorite to succeed him as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee: Vice President JD Vance.
Though three years is a lifetime in politics, Vance has not only been anointed by Trump, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as the only viable GOP candidates in 2028, but his rapid rise to popularity on the right should not be underestimated. His embrace of populist national conservative positions on a host of issues has earned him the special contempt of the liberal media, but it has further endeared him to his party’s voters, as the very early 2028 polls have indicated.
And that is why Vance’s continued embrace of Carlson is deeply troubling. It raises questions about his political judgment and his moral compass.
Vance and Carlson have been friends for years. Carlson actively promoted Vance’s successful run for the Senate in 2022, especially in a difficult multi-candidate GOP primary, which he wound up winning easily, though with less than a third of all votes cast, on his prime-time Fox News show. In 2024, he played an active and reportedly decisive role in persuading Trump to tap Vance for the vice presidential nomination.
So, aside from any feelings of friendship, Vance owes Carlson. That’s part of the reason why he refused to disassociate himself from him even after Carlson hosted a Holocaust denier on his podcast in September 2024 and continued to make joint appearances with him during the campaign.
And when given the honor of hosting Charlie Kirk’s podcast on the first episode after the activist’s assassination in September, Vance invited Carlson to join him, among other prominent guests, in a program broadcast from the White House.
That’s astonishing when you consider that Carlson has smeared Christian supporters of Israel like Kirk as guilty of “heresy” and suffering from a “brain virus” in his friendly interview with the antisemitic “groyper” Fuentes.
It also stands in strong contrast to Vance’s strongly articulated views about the importance of the U.S.-Israel alliance. But, as Vance made clear in a disturbing exchange with a student voicing antisemitic smears of Israel at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi, he also is acting as if he is concerned about keeping Carlson-style Israel-haters or even Fuentes’ groypers inside the GOP tent.
In comments that brought to mind then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ response to a left-wing student who voiced blood libels against Israel, Vance chose not to chide or even disagree with his questioner, but instead to signal his solidarity with their concerns that Israel is manipulating Washington.
All of which raises the question as to whether Vance really thinks the path to winning the presidency or even a successful rest of Trump’s term lies in retaining the support of the small but vocal far-right extremist wing of the GOP.
Democrats’ costly tilt to the left
If so, he may be making the same sort of mistaken calculation that many Democrats have made.
Over the past decade, the Democratic Party’s intersectional left-wing has become a dominant factor in its politics as it went from skepticism about the U.S.-Israel alliance to one of hostility, and now, apparent comfort with open antisemitism. That was made obvious during the 2024 presidential campaign when President Joe Biden and Harris demonstrated that they were far more fearful of losing the votes of the anti-Israel left than they were of fending them off.
Any doubt about the direction of Democratic Party discourse has been removed by the current New York City mayoral campaign in which Mamdani has been largely embraced by the Democratic establishment, despite his vocal antisemitic stands, not to mention his Marxist economic program. While some Jewish Democrats have sounded the alarm about him, they are clearly in the minority. Party leaders have either reluctantly made their peace with him or, like former President Barack Obama, have become his enthusiastic backers and mentors.
The liberal media, including its leading outlets like The New York Times, has gone down a similar path. That’s hardly surprising given the fact that publications like the Times have mainstreamed anti-Zionist views that negate Jewish rights, while published Hamas propaganda and blood libels against Israel and the Jews. In such an environment, Mamdani’s extremist views are made to appear legitimate, if not reasonable.
The notion that a “no-enemies-on-the-left” policy—in which the anti-Israel and Jew-hating faction of the Democrats is embraced, rather than expelled—is politically wise ignores everything we know about American politics, both historically and in the present day.
Democrats lost in 2024 for a number of reasons, not the least of which was their denial of Biden’s mental incapacity until it was late in the campaign, and then his replacement by an incompetent and unpopular candidate in Harris. A more important explanation for their troubles was a matter of the broad center of the electorate’s dislike for the way Democrats had embraced the concerns of woke progressives and credentialed elites. Their obsessions with race via the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) woke catechism, gender ideology, open borders, restricting gun rights and climate change doomed them with the working-class voters of all races who cared far more about stopping illegal immigration, crime and the opioid epidemic.
In the same way, the Democrats’ more hostile attitude toward Israel and their failure to take a strong stand against pro-Hamas mobs on college campuses, at the very least, didn’t help and may well have contributed to their problems.
That’s the context for the choice that rests before Republicans, and most particularly, Vance, as they ponder the same question about how to deal with their own extremists.
Some might argue that the broad turn against Israel in American public opinion since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab attacks on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023, should lead Republicans to do as the Democrats have done. In stark contrast to their opponents, Republicans remain overwhelmingly supportive of Israel. The margin on this issue, however, is far smaller when it comes to younger GOP voters, who, like their counterparts on the left, also get much of their information about the world from TikTok and other dubious sources.
Extremists are political poison
Still, Vance and any other Republican who might think there are more votes to be gotten by clinging to Carlson than by behaving responsibly, and having nothing to do with him and his even more extreme and hateful friends and podcast guests, is likely wrong. A “no-enemies-on-the-right” strategy would be a blunder.
U.S. elections are largely won by candidates who show that they are not beholden to crackpots, let alone willing to embrace vile hate-mongers like those that Carlson thinks deserve a platform. That was the lesson learned by Biden and Harris, whose inability to distance themselves from woke progressives with extreme views was out of touch with most Americans. The way the media has published Hamas propaganda about “genocide” and “famine” as facts rather than fiction has hurt Israel’s image and bolstered an international backlash against Jews and Israel. Still, the notion that the kind of Jew-hatred Carlson is enabling and promoting is popular remains detached from reality.
Many Americans, and especially Jews, are alarmed about the prospect of Mamdani using his power to harm Israel and its supporters, as well as to negatively impact the lives of Jewish New Yorkers. A great many national Republicans, however, have appeared gleeful about the prospect of Mamdani becoming the poster child for a left-leaning Democratic Party. Should the Democrats continue their drift to the left, with perhaps fellow Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) running for president in 2028, the expectation among political observers is that this is a prescription for a colossal defeat. Extremism has always been political poison, and there’s no reason to think that’s changing.
With that in mind, if Vance wants to claim the political center and succeed Trump in the White House, he’d do well to keep his distance from Carlson and his groyper pals in the next three years. Despite the way primary and base politics exerts a centrifugal pull of leaders to the margins where left and right-wing extremists have so much in common, that’s also the way to lose touch with ordinary voters, as both Democrats and Republicans should have learned by now.
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.: Vance is a Sophomore who caters to extremism. He’ll never get my vote! Might as well vote for Tucker…]
Tucker Carlson aims to poison us with hatred — but Donald Trump stands in the way By Rich Lowry
Nov. 3, 2025 New York Post
Nick Fuentes hit the jackpot.
The white-nationalist influencer made it on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” the nation’s foremost vehicle for laundering noxious ideas into the conservative mainstream.
Fuentes is a Holocaust denier and self-avowed racist whose goal is to remake the right in his image.
Carlson, who prides himself on asking the supposedly telling questions when it comes to promoting any number of conspiracy theories, couldn’t really bring himself to ask any of Fuentes.
Instead, he gave the 27-year-old Nazi sympathizer a tongue bath and said at one point of the Fuentes ideological project, “I guess you won.”
This was just another day in the office for Carlson.
The former Fox News host has made it his business to promote antisemitic tropes and conspiracies.
What Stephen A. Smith is to sports talk, Tucker Carlson is to obsessive anti-Zionism.
There is almost no anti-Jewish theme — dual loyalty, usury, sinister plotting — that he doesn’t elevate, although he occasionally stipulates that he likes Israel and has no interest in talking about it.
When Carlson interviewed Ted Cruz before President Trump launched his strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites earlier this year, he bristled with hostility for the hawkish Republican senator from Texas.
When Cruz noted that Carlson seemed fixated on Israel, the podcaster retreated to his favorite dodge that he was “just asking questions.”
Obviously, though, if your questions all tend toward one set of insinuations — casting aspersions on one country and suspicion on one group of people — you aren’t engaged in genuine inquiry but pursuing an agenda while trying to maintain a modicum of plausible deniability.
A while ago, Carlson welcomed on his podcast a crank “historian” with revisionist views on World War II, Darryl Cooper, and enthusiastically endorsed him as “the most important historian in the United States” (move over, Gordon Wood, Niall Ferguson, and Allen Guelzo, among others).
While Carlson served as his caddy, Cooper explained that Winston Churchill was “the chief villain” of World War II, while Hitler “didn’t want to fight.”
According to Cooper, the Holocaust was just a product of inept military planning.
SEE ALSO: Conspiracy kook Tucker Carlson is no conservative and no friend to Charlie Kirk and JD Vance
Conspiracy kook Tucker Carlson is no conservative and no friend to Charlie Kirk and JD Vance By Douglas Murray
Published Nov. 3, 2025 New York Post
Tucker Carlson is not a good friend.
Just a few years ago, when the podcaster was pretending to be friends with President Trump, Carlson was caught privately saying of Trump: “I hate him passionately.”
In September, another person whom Carlson claimed to be friends with — Charlie Kirk — was shot dead. Carlson used the aftermath of his friend’s assassination not to demand that the suspect in the shooting be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He didn’t seize the moment to insist that perhaps the radical left dial down its hateful rhetoric against conservatives and Republicans. Nor did he keep attention focused on the trans-extremist links of the alleged shooter.
No — Carlson chose to use the occasion to deflect attention from the perpetrator seized by the FBI and return to his pet obsession: the Jews.
In the wake of the assassination, Carlson was one of a number of kooky online influencers who suggested that Kirk’s views on Israel had been changing and that perhaps for this reason, the state of Israel had something to do with his murder.
It was a crazy conspiracy theory, but Carlson was happy to push it. What a way to honor a friend.
Then this past week, Carlson proved again what an appalling person he has become. He invited onto his show an avowed Holocaust denier and racist, Nick Fuentes.
We don’t need to linger here over all the horrifying bile that Fuentes has spewed out to his online followers. It is enough to say that he is so toxic, he could almost have been invented by the radical left as a way to delegitimize the political right in this country.
Any normal person would want to keep a million miles away from such a snarling, ugly actor. But if anyone was to sit down and give Fuentes one of the largest audiences of his career, you would have thought that there would be some hostile questions. The kind of relentlessly hostile questioning Carlson can do — such as in his recent astoundingly hostile interview with Ted Cruz.
But no — Carlson used his hours with Fuentes to simply launder Fuentes’ reputation and try to give him a veneer of reasonableness and respectability.
Which brings me back to what an appalling friend Tucker Carlson is.
Carlson might have used the opportunity to put to Fuentes some of the disgusting things Fuentes had said about the assassinated Kirk. He might have raised the way in which Fuentes and his “groyper” followers promised to hound and torment Kirk while he was alive. Carlson might also have asked Fuentes why he had seen fit to use the weeks after Kirk’s assassination not only to push the claim that the Jews murdered Kirk, but to also attack Kirk’s widow.
In a recent online rant, Fuentes said: “Erika Kirk is a spook. Erika is a plant. We all know that. That is a fact. That is basically established. She was shopping around for a political husband. God knows where she comes from. She found one in Charlie Kirk. Charlie is not a good-looking guy.”
Fuentes went on to suggest that Kirk’s mourning widow is just acting.
It’s a heck of a thing to claim to be friends with someone and then bring a guest onto your show who not only hounded your friend in life but mocks and smears his widow after his death. But then, that’s the sort of friend Tucker Carlson is.
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How Political Leaders Are Fast-Tracking the Islamification of Europe by Guy Millière
November 4, 2025 Gatestone Institute
- Surveys have been exposing what British Muslims think. In March 2024, a poll conducted by the Henry Jackson Society reported that 32% of British Muslims favor the implementation of Sharia law in the UK; 48% feel more sympathy with Hamas than with Israel; 80% believe that Israel is committing genocide. 49% think Israel has no right to exist, and 46% think Jews in the UK — only 0.5 % of the population — have too much power.
- The situation in the United Kingdom is worrying: what affects the UK affects all Western Europe. While the situation in France may seem a bit better, it is probably worse.
- While the UK Labour Party expelled its former leader, Jeremy Corbyn in 2024 over accusations of anti-Semitism, a French political party, La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), includes several MPs who are on record as having made anti-Semitic remarks. One of its MPs, Rima Hassan, openly supports Hamas.
- Millions of people in Western Europe appear anxious about the future they see taking shape in their countries and have been turning to political parties that address their concerns. Since these parties have been growing in strength, current leaders are doing everything they can – such as preventing their leaders from running for election, or forming a coalition, or branding their policies as “fascism” and “Nazism” – in an apparent effort to bury these concerns. These are virtually the only parties that support Israel and denounce rising anti-Semitism by actually calling it by its name.
- Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is leading in voter polls, but the next elections will only take place in 2029. During the next four years, the ruling Labour Party can continue to radically transform the country.
- “The great replacement” — the eventuality of a basically Christian Europe being slowly replaced by a Muslim one — is not a conspiracy theory. It is rapidly underway. The birth rate of Muslim populations remains higher in Western Europe than that of non-Muslim populations, whose birth rates have been collapsing and are now vastly below the replacement level. Muslim births add to the numbers of those who have immigrated from the Muslim world. The proportion of Muslims in Western European countries continues exponentially to increase. Data further shows that Muslim populations are integrating less and less, and that the influence of radical Islam has also been exponentially increasing.
Surveys have been exposing what British Muslims think. In March 2024, a poll conducted by the Henry Jackson Society reported that 32% of British Muslims favor the implementation of Sharia law in the UK; 48% feel more sympathy with Hamas than with Israel; 80% believe that Israel is committing genocide. 49% think Israel has no right to exist, and 46% think Jews in the UK — only 0.5 % of the population — have too much power. Pictured: Anjem Choudary (right), a British Islamic radical, speaks at a protest in London on March 21, 2011. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Manchester, England, October 2, 2025: In the most violent act of antisemitic hatred Britain has seen in years, a Muslim man rams a car into a group of Jews on a sidewalk in front of a synagogue, exits the vehicle and begins stabbing other Jews. He is shot by the police. Two Jews are killed, one by the murderer and another who was shot accidentally by police.
Antisemitic violence has become deeply entrenched in the country. Since Hamas’s jihadist massacre of October 7, 2023, in Israel, it has increased considerably.
For more than 30 years, successive British governments have promised to fight antisemitism but never did. Now they deny reality. Antisemitism in the UK is now mostly Islamic antisemitism, perpetrated by radicalized Muslims. Islamic antisemitism in these times has become closely linked to a hatred of Israel, and it is now widespread and shared by a large part of the political “left.” On the evening of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre, thousands of Muslims celebrated it in major cities across the country.
In London, the very day after Hamas had murdered 1,200 people in Israel and seized 251 more as hostages, Muslims and “leftists” organized and gathered together in anti-Israel demonstrations, which have continued ever since.
Two years later, on October 7, 2025, protesters assembled in London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh to “celebrate” the second anniversary of the massacre. The demonstrators shouted slogans such as “Israel is a terrorist state” and “death to the IDF.” “
We will continue to fight for the abolition of Zionism both in Palestine and in our own Jewish communities,” one speaker said.
Islamic violence in Europe has not been limited “just” to Jews. Some of the deadliest Islamist attacks in recent years appeared to be against all “infidels”: the jihadist attacks of July 7, 2005 on London’s mass-transit system; the slaughter at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the jihadist massacre at the Bataclan Theater in Paris; the truck-ramming attack in Nice on July 14, 2016 ; the Madrid and Barcelona terrorist attacks in Spain; New Year’s Eve mass rapes in Cologne, Germany; the Christmas Market rammings in Berlin in 2016 and Magdeburg in 2024; a murder at the Krudttønden cultural center in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as countless individual murders: Father Jacques Hamel, Fusilier Lee Rigby, Ilan Halimi ; Theo van Gogh, Sarah Halimi, Mireille Knoll, to name just a few. In the United Kingdom, in 2017, at the end of a concert, a British Muslim suicide bomber of Libyan ancestry attacked the Manchester Arena: 22 people were murdered and 1,017 wounded.
For years, in the Muslim neighborhoods of London, Paris, Brussels, Malmö and major British cities, radicalized Islamic preachers have been spreading hatred against Jews, Israel and Western civilization — and calling, with impunity, for armed jihad. Anyone who so much as questions this call is labelled a racist or an Islamophobe.
British non-Muslims bemoaning Islamic terrorism are being jailed. In 2018, Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen, leaders of the right-wing movement Britain First, were sentenced to prison for having distributed leaflets allegedly showing “hostility toward Muslims and the Muslim faith.”
In November 2024, former soldier Daffron Williams posted on Facebook a simple observation about the rise of Islamic violence in the country: “Civil war is here. The only thing missing is bullets, that’s the next step.” He, too, was imprisoned.
In September 2025, Pete North, a blogger who had shared a meme saying “F*ck Hamas,” was arrested at his home and charged with “spreading racial hatred” – among many other such arrests.
Although Muslims make up only 6.5% of Britain’s population, successive governments, like those in France, Germany and the Netherlands, have shown signs of gradual submission to Islam. Since UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was elected, this trend has intensified. In March, as antisemitism was exploding in the country, Starmer attended a Ramadan fast-breaking ceremony in Westminster Hall, where he announced that 2024 had been the “worst year on record” for “anti-Muslim hate crimes.”
Surveys have been exposing what British Muslims think. In March 2024, a poll conducted by the Henry Jackson Society reported that 32% of British Muslims favor the implementation of Sharia law in the UK; 48% feel more sympathy with Hamas than with Israel; 80% believe that Israel is committing genocide. 49% think Israel has no right to exist, and 46% think Jews in the UK — only 0.5 % of the population — have too much power.
Starmer recognized the non-existent “state of Palestine” in September and claimed that his decision helped US President Donald Trump strike a Gaza peace deal. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded that Starmer had bowed to pressure created by politically active “foreigners” and that his decision had actually been an “impediment to peace” in the Middle East.
The situation in the United Kingdom is worrying: what affects the UK affects all Western Europe. While the situation in France may seem a bit better, it is probably worse.
In France, a rabbi and three Jewish children were murdered by a radicalized Muslim in Toulouse on March 19, 2012. Jews were murdered in a kosher supermarket on January 9, 2015. Compared to the rest of Europe, it is in France that the largest number of individual Jews have been murdered by radicalized Muslims and the deadliest Islamic attacks have occurred.
The massacre at the Bataclan on November 13, 2015, left 130 dead and 413 wounded. A July 14, 2016 truck-ramming attack in Nice on people celebrating Bastille Day left 86 dead and 458 wounded. In 2020, the school teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded, and in 2016, a priest, Father Jacques Hamel, was beheaded while celebrating mass.
After each jihadist attack on Jews, government officials say they will combat antisemitism. They never have. Only one French politician, former MP Meyer Habib, in 2020, dared to denounce Islamic antisemitism explicitly. A text signed by 300 prominent French figures repudiated this “new anti-Semitism“: “In our recent history, eleven Jews have just been murdered – and some tortured – because they were Jewish by radical Islamists.” The statement was quickly forgotten. When a march against anti-Semitism was organized on November 13, 2023, roughly a month after the October 7 massacre, French President Emmanuel Macron chose not to attend.
In many mosques throughout France, imams preach hate. Sometimes, rarely, one is expelled. Commentators in France who criticize Islam are sentenced by the courts to heavy fines. The leader of the National Rally Party, Marine Le Pen, widely predicted to win the next presidential election, was sentenced to prison and banned from holding public office for alleged “embezzlement”. Former journalist Éric Zemmour, for instance, had to pay thousands of euros. Author Renaud Camus, also fined, now finds that no publisher will publish his books anymore. Hundreds of lesser-known figures have also been sentenced to fines and censorship.
Demonstrations against Israel in Paris have been as abundant as in London. Muslim and “leftist” protesters shout slogans hostile to Israel, including “Death to the Jews.” Polls conducted among French Muslims produced results as disquieting as those conducted among Muslims in the United Kingdom: in 2020, a poll showed that 38% of French Muslims think that Sharia law is more important than the laws of the Republic. A poll conducted in December 2023 showed that 45% of French Muslims think that the October 7 massacre was an “act of resistance”.
Similar conditions can be seen in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden.
While the UK Labour Party expelled its former leader, Jeremy Corbyn in 2024 over accusations of anti-Semitism, a French political party, La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), includes several MPs who are on record as having made anti-Semitic remarks. One of its MPs, Rima Hassan, openly supports Hamas.
France has a larger Muslim population than the United Kingdom: 10% of the total in 2019-2020. The number of Muslims in both countries keeps on growing. France also has a larger Jewish population than the United Kingdom: 438,500, or 0.88% of the French population, compared to 0.5% in England and Wales. French Jews, however, are fleeing the country, so their number is decreasing, as is the number of Jews in Western Europe altogether.
When Macron, at the UN General Assembly in September 2025, formally announced France’s recognition of a non-existent “state of Palestine”, he was quickly followed by United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Portugal and Belgium. Rubio slammed Macron’s decision as a “slap in the face to the victims of October 7” that served Hamas propaganda. Macron, who had not even made his “recognition” contingent upon Hamas releasing the Israeli hostages, declined to react.
US Ambassador to France Charles Kushner wrote in an open letter to Macron: “Public statements haranguing Israel and gestures toward recognition of a Palestinian state embolden extremists, fuel violence, and endanger Jewish life in France.”
Macron called Kushner’s words “unacceptable“.
Millions of people in Western Europe appear anxious about the future they see taking shape in their countries and have been turning to political parties that address their concerns. Since these parties have been growing in strength, current leaders are doing everything they can – such as preventing their leaders from running for election, or forming a coalition, or branding their policies as “fascism” and “Nazism” – in an apparent effort to bury these concerns. These are virtually the only parties that support Israel and denounce rising anti-Semitism by actually calling it by its name.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is leading in voter polls, but the next elections will only take place in 2029. During the next four years, the ruling Labour Party can continue to radically transform the country.
In France, the next presidential election is scheduled for 2027. Le Pen, as mentioned, was leading the polls, but was declared ineligible to run in 2027 by a French court. Jordan Bardella, the current president of Le Pen’s party, has a good chance of winning, but in July 2025, on the order of the judges who charged Le Pen, masses of documents were seized from the party headquarters. Many judges in France practice “political justice”. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy recently began serving a five-year sentence handed down by leftist judges – despite no evidence of guilt and before his appeal has been heard. He is now behind bars. Bardella is already the subject of a complaint, allegedly for a pseudonymous online account that was racist. Bardella has stated, “I am sorry to disappoint you but I only have one Twitter account. I will not stand by comments I did not make.”
In 2024, in the last French legislative election, called by Macron, he established quarantine to contain the National Rally party, leaving conservative voters with a choice of only left-wing parties, resulting in a hung parliament and the impossibility of forming a stable government.
In Belgium, the Flemish Interest party is gaining ground, but is only present in the Flemish-speaking regions of the country and similarly facing a quarantine. The center-right New Flemish Alliance has been in power in the country since February 2025. It refuses to include Vlaams Belang in any coalition, supports “controlled migration”, has no clear position on Islam apart from objecting to the hijab headscarf in public, but did join the government in recognizing a “state of Palestine” and imposing sanctions on Israel.
In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom won the most seats in the November 2023 elections, but Wilders was prevented from becoming prime minister by a coalition of other parties that formed a barrier. He recently withdrew his support for the government, and elections held last week resulted in his party receiving the second-largest share of the vote.
Alternative for Germany (AfD), that country’s second-largest party, is also being kept out of power by other parties. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency stated — apparently innocent of all irony — that the existence of AfD was “incompatible with the free democratic basic order”. AfD could be banned altogether.
The possibility that these parties will triumph over those anti-democratic maneuvers appears remote. The politicians in power who are carrying out these maneuvers show no intention of responding to the growing concerns of much of their public.
What is taking place in Western Europe is likely to get worse.
“The great replacement” — the eventuality of a basically Christian Europe being slowly replaced by a Muslim one — is not a conspiracy theory. It is rapidly underway. The birth rate of Muslim populations remains higher in Western Europe than that of non-Muslim populations, whose birth rates have been collapsing and are now vastly below the replacement level. Muslim births add to the numbers of those who have immigrated from the Muslim world. The proportion of Muslims in Western European countries continues exponentially to increase. Data further shows that Muslim populations are integrating less and less, and that the influence of radical Islam has also been exponentially increasing.
If profound changes do not occur, Western Europe tomorrow will be unrecognizable.
“If we do not stop Islamification now,” Geert Wilders said in 2007, “Eurabia and Netherabia will just be a matter of time”.
Eighteen years later, the Islamification of Europe seems only to have begun.
Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.
November 3, 2025 ZOA
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research & Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
Earlier today, ZOA issued a press release detailing Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ disgraceful defense, whitewashing of, and alliance with Tucker Carlson, following Carlson’s string of libels (such as stating that Christian supporters of Israel are infected with a “brain virus” (I guess that includes Trump, Reagan, Rubio, Hegseth and Truman) and fawning interviews with notorious neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, Israel defamers and Jew-haters whom he did not push back on. Carlson’s actions are a blatant attempt to turn conservatives into antisemites and Israel-haters. ZOA explained that allying with Tucker Carlson will destroy the Heritage Foundation’s reputation as a bastion of honest, intelligent, moral, pro-Israel conservatism. (See “ZOA States Kevin Roberts Is Unfit to Lead Heritage Fdn. & Must Condemn & End Support for Jew-Hating, Israel-Hating Tucker Carlson,” Nov. 3, 2025.)
Up until now, ZOA was proud and gratified to be a key participant in the Heritage Foundation’s excellent Esther Project initiative to combat antisemitism. However, we believe that the Heritage Foundation can no longer capably combat antisemitism while its president defends and allies with leading forces that are defaming Israel and the Jewish people. ZOA has thus sadly and painfully concluded that we will terminate our participation in Heritage’s Esther Project, unless Heritage President Kevin Roberts publicly and immediately condemns Carlson’s actions and statements; apologizes for Roberts’ video statements; and ends Roberts’ and Heritage’s relationship with Tucker Carlson. The only alternative would be for Kevin Roberts to resign or be removed.
ZOA notes that our friend (and ZOA Coalition candidate for the World Zionist Congress) Rabbi Mark Goldfeder, Esq., CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, has already quit Heritage Foundation’s antisemitism task force over Kevin Roberts’ statement normalizing anti-Jewish hate. There are others who have informed us they are also leaving the Esther Project and urging Roberts’ dismissal unless other similar actions are taken, as ZOA recommends. In these difficult times for the Jewish people, it is tragic that Kevin Roberts has severely harmed Heritage Foundation’s reputation and that it may soon become an institution that is anathema to Jewish and pro-Israel American leaders.
JD Vance Just Switched Up on Israel (and Joined Team Tucker Carlson!?) Yishai & Malka Fleisher
Nov 2, 2025
Can we be open and honest about Christian and Jewish different views? How can we come together to build Israel even when we disagree about fundamental theology. Many have found a way – let’s be part of the positive and joyous process of bringing God’s plan to fruition in the physical world.
Red Cartel Tsunami: Venezuela is Tip of the Iceberg [40:45] ALEX NEWMAN
Trump’s quiet war with Venezuela is more significant than people realize, explains Alex Newman in a shocking interview with Greg Hunter on USA Watchdog. Americans must learn the truth.
NOV 03, 2025 Liberty Sentinel
Journalist Alex Newman is out with a new ominous warning about the military operation going on around Venezuela. This is way more than a counter-narcotics operation, as the president of Venezuela is head of a government criminal cartel called “Cartel of the Sun.”
Newman explains, “I grew up in Mexico and Latin America, and what is happening is we are watching the total communist takeover of the entire region.” It has been aided and abetted by people like Joe Biden, Obama, and George Soros, Newman said, pointing to key figures in the Council on Foreign Relations such as Julia Sweig.
“Let’s start with Venezuela. You cannot tell the difference between the cartels and the government. ‘The Cartel of the Sun’ is run by the leaders of the military, intelligence agencies. Nicolas Maduro, who got in by voter fraud, is the head of that cartel. This cartel is worth more money than anybody can fathom. It has diplomatic immunity and smuggles drugs using military and government airplanes.”
Newman goes on to say, “This is so big, and you will not be able to piece it together by reading fake news in the fake media… The Trump Administration knows this is much bigger than a counter-drug operation, but for whatever reason, they have chosen not to talk publicly about this.”
Going back to Cuban terrorist efforts in the US in the 1960s and 1970s through the Weather Underground, the FBI knew what the plan was—revolution, occupation by foreign powers, and systematic change. What happens to the people that will not go along with the communist takeover? Newman, pointing to revelations by FBI operative Larry Grathwohl, explained: “They fully intend to get rid of us—tens of millions of Americans.”
Newman also points out that the Venezuelan government is involved in voter fraud all over the world, including the 2020 US election. Yes, the Trump Administration knows this too.
There is much more in this essential 40-minute video.
The genocide lie: What is really happening in Gaza MOSHE PHILLIPS
Repeating a falsehood again and again doesn’t make it true.
November 3, 2025 JNS
There is no genocide in Gaza. What followed the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, was a military response by Israel aimed at dismantling the group responsible. It was the logical result of attacking a sovereign state and using civilians as human shields.
The accusation that Israel is committing genocide in the Palestinian enclave has become a popular slogan among Israel’s critics and far too many hostile governments ever since that Black Shabbat. It’s repeated in protests, in the media and even in international courtrooms. But slogans are not evidence, and repeating a falsehood again and again doesn’t make it true.
Genocide has a specific legal definition. According to the 1948 Genocide Convention, it refers to acts committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group in whole or in part. Not simply killing. Not even killing large numbers of civilians. Intent is essential, and there is no credible evidence that Israel intends to eliminate the Palestinian people.
Israel’s stated goal has been the elimination of Hamas, a terrorist organization that has ruled Gaza for nearly 20 years and concentrated on attacking Israeli families ever since. This is not speculation. It is backed by years of rocket attacks, terror tunnel construction, hostage-taking and open calls for Israel’s destruction. Hamas is a legitimate military target by any standard of warfare. It is a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Hamas was not imposed on the civilian population in Gaza by force. It was elected in 2006 and never removed. Its rule has continued with the support or acquiescence of much of the population. After the Oct. 7 massacre, many Gazans were seen celebrating. Crowds cheered as hostages were dragged into the Strip. There were no mass protests against the attack. No significant internal resistance to the regime.
Gaza is not an occupied territory. It is a self-governing entity that chose—and stood by—the group responsible for triggering the war.
The civilian death toll is often used as evidence of genocide. But numbers alone don’t prove intent. And in Gaza’s case, they don’t even support the claim of mass extermination. Before the war, Gaza’s population stood at roughly 2.1 million. As of 2025, it has dropped by around 6%—a number that includes those killed, missing or displaced. That figure also reflects large-scale evacuations.
And the source of those casualty numbers—Gaza’s Health Ministry—is entirely controlled by Hamas. It is not an independent agency. It operates under Hamas authority, uses Hamas-provided data, and has every incentive to inflate numbers and blur the line between militants and civilians. Its claims should be treated as propaganda, not fact.
Egypt has confirmed that more than 100,000 Gazans crossed its border since October 2023. The World Health Organization reports nearly 5,000 medical patients were evacuated, most with companions. Israeli media reports that about 36,000 Gazans have left for third countries like Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and parts of Europe.
In a genocide, civilians are not permitted to flee. Corridors are not opened. Hostile states do not coordinate evacuations. But in Gaza, tens of thousands have left. Many more were repeatedly warned to evacuate combat zones. This is not what genocide looks like.
Moreover, the Gaza population still numbers in the millions. There is no plan to erase them. There is no forced sterilization, no ethnic cleansing campaign, no effort to eliminate their identity or culture. What there was, before the current ceasefire, was a military operation aimed at destroying a terrorist regime hiding among civilians.
Hamas deliberately operates from hospitals, mosques and homes—not because it has no choice, but because it understands Western media and politics. Every civilian death is a tool. Every destroyed building is a headline. This is intentional, and it’s effective. Accusations of genocide are the payoff.
The legal and moral absurdity of this claim is compounded by the fact that Gaza’s suffering is not a one-sided tragedy; it is a consequence of actions that derive from the Strip. It is a direct result of supporting, harboring and celebrating a group committed to endless war. Responsibility matters. Choices have consequences.
The misuse of the term “genocide” is not harmless. It distorts international law, insults the victims of real genocides, especially Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and fuels further conflict. It gives cover to terrorist groups who understand that hiding behind civilians earns them global sympathy.
This is not a genocide. It is a war. And like all wars, it ends when one side is defeated. If Gazans truly want to avoid further suffering, the path is not through protest slogans or legal theatrics; it’s through cutting ties with Hamas and rejecting its vision of perpetual violence.
Anything less is just blaming others for a war they helped start by electing Hamas and supporting it.
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.
Where Is Trump’s DoJ On Denaturalizing Zohran Mamdani? By Joseph Ford Cotto
October 28, 2025 American Thinker
When a man seeks to lead the largest city in America, his citizenship should be beyond question. Yet the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani, an avowed socialist Democrat and recently naturalized U.S. citizen, has raised a troubling question: Did he obtain his citizenship under false pretenses?
That question became official on June 26, when Congressman Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, formally asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Mamdani’s 2018 naturalization should be revoked under 8 U.S.C. §1451(a) for “willful misrepresentation or concealment of material support for terrorism.”
The request, addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, was not a partisan stunt. It was a carefully structured one-page letter that laid out specific evidence, cited public sources, and explained why Mamdani’s own words may point to something more serious than youthful rebellion or artistic expression.
At the center of the controversy is a rap song Mamdani recorded in 2017, titled Salaam. In that track, he praises the “Holy Land Five”—five leaders of the Holy Land Foundation, who were convicted in 2008 of funneling over $12 million to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. His lyrics were direct: “Free the Holy Land 5, my love to the Holy Land 5, my guys.”
Hamas, of course, carried out the October 7, 2023, slaughter of Israelis.
Mamdani’s declaration came just one year before he took his oath of allegiance to the United States. Ogles noted that when applying for citizenship, applicants must disclose any affiliations or support for organizations that threaten U.S. security. Concealing such ties, if proven, would constitute a direct violation of federal law.
In his letter, Ogles wrote that “the naturalization process depends on the good-faith disclosure of any affiliation with, or support for, groups that threaten U.S. national security.” He stressed that glorifying convicted Hamas financiers as “my guys” was not mere free speech, but a legitimate basis for inquiry into whether the candidate withheld relevant information from federal authorities.
The congressman also pointed out Mamdani’s refusal to disavow the slogan “globalize the intifada.” That phrase, popularized in Palestinian activist circles, calls for expanding violent anti-Israel uprisings around the world, including in the United States. To Ogles, this pattern of expression reflects more than rhetoric; it suggests a worldview incompatible with American allegiance.
The legal argument for denaturalization rests on whether Mamdani knowingly concealed material facts about his views or associations when he became a citizen. Courts have long held that if citizenship was obtained through fraud or deliberate omission, it can be revoked, even years later. The DoJ has the authority to pursue such cases where there is credible evidence of deception.
Ogles was careful to anticipate objections about free speech. He acknowledged that the First Amendment protects artistic expression but emphasized that speech suggesting illegal conduct or the concealment of material support for terrorism warrants scrutiny. Simply put, if an individual’s words reasonably imply conduct that would have been disqualifying for citizenship, the government has every right to investigate.
In a public statement accompanying his letter, Ogles described Mamdani as “an antisemitic, socialist, communist radical” whose rise to prominence in New York politics represents a direct threat to American values. He called for denaturalization and deportation if the allegation proves true.
The response to Ogles’ referral spread quickly. By June 27, major outlets such as NewsNation highlighted the congressman’s central argument: that Mamdani’s omission of his pro-Hamas sympathies during naturalization, if confirmed, constitutes lying under oath. Ogles’ demand for a DoJ investigation resonated with citizens across the country who feel that national security has too often been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
Two days later, The Western Journal framed Ogles’ action as a warning against complacency. It observed that Mamdani’s pattern of behavior—his lyrics, his public statements, his refusal to disavow violent slogans—could not be dismissed as a coincidence. The publication suggested that bureaucratic leniency toward such figures endangers the nation by allowing anti-American ideologies to spread unchecked.
The issue gained further traction when, on June 30, the Trump administration’s DoJ issued an internal memorandum directing federal prosecutors to pursue denaturalization cases aggressively wherever evidence of fraud exists. The timing of this policy reaffirmed Ogles’ call for stricter enforcement and signaled that Washington was finally taking citizenship fraud seriously.
The next day, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that President Donald Trump supported investigating Ogles’ claims, stating that “any evidence of concealed terrorism ties should be investigated without hesitation.” Trump himself addressed the matter on July 2, during a press conference, calling Mamdani a “100% Communist lunatic” whose citizenship “was likely a scam built on lies.”
By early autumn, the issue had escalated far beyond a single letter. On October 8, Florida Congressman Randy Fine, a Republican, reignited national debate by denouncing Mamdani as “little more than a Muslim terrorist” and demanding his deportation to Uganda. Fine’s comments reflected genuine anger among voters who believe the system too often protects destroyers rather than creators.
On October 25, the Hindustan Times reported that Fine’s advocacy was energizing conservatives nationwide. His insistence that Mamdani’s path to citizenship “reeks of rule-breaking fraud” tapped into widespread frustration among Americans who feel betrayed by leaders unwilling to defend the bedrock principle of national integrity.
The larger issue transcends one man. It’s about whether the United States still enforces the standards that define what it means to become an American. Citizenship is not a costume to be worn when convenient. It’s a literal pledge of allegiance to the red, white, and blue.
Ogles’ referral is serious. It has forced an uncomfortable reckoning. If a mayoral candidate can publicly glorify convicted Hamas financiers, refuse to disavow terrorist rhetoric, and still be treated as an upstanding citizen, then this country is in for unfathomable trouble. The question isn’t whether Mamdani’s lyrics are art. The question is whether they reflect views that make him ineligible for citizenship.
Americans are right to demand answers. The law exists to ensure that citizens are made only of those who tell the truth about their allegiances. If that standard fails, so does the entire concept of citizenship.
When a nation forgets to defend its own integrity, it stops being one. That’s why Andy Ogles’ letter matters. It’s not an act of vengeance. It’s an act of guarding the meaning of American citizenship from those who would exploit it. If the facts prove that Zohran Mamdani lied to obtain his place among us, then revoking his citizenship is justice for all the American people.
So, where is Donald Trump’s DoJ on this? The clock is ticking, and it grows louder by the second. In the background, Mamdani’s mocking laughter echoes.
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Heritage Foundation Wants Jew-Hater Nick Fuentes in its Big Tent by Robert Spencer
Foes of jihad? Not welcome. Foes of the Jews? Come on in!
November 3, 2025 Frontpage Magazine
The Heritage Foundation gave efforts to bring the hatred of Jews into the mainstream among patriots a massive boost on Thursday, when its president, Kevin Roberts, published a video declaring the Foundation’s stout and wholehearted support for Tucker Carlson, who has done more than anyone (with the possible exception of Candace Owens) to make Americans believe that hating Jews and wishing the worst possible fates upon them is just good old-fashioned America-First patriotism.
Carlson did this most recently by having a friendly chat on his wildly popular podcast with the notorious provocateur Nick Fuentes, who is one of the principal drivers of the new antisemitism. Fuentes also likely is or was a federal agent, as he called upon people to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, actually exhorting passersby to “break down the barriers and disregard the police,” yet was never arrested, while others who did far less spent years in prison under appalling conditions.
Most notoriously, however, Fuentes has devoted his energy to making the hatred of Jews more mainstream in the United States than it has ever been before. He has said: “When we take power, the Jews will be needed to be given the death penalty.” He has repeatedly declared his admiration for Adolf Hitler, and has declared that Jews “cannot be allowed” to be in government or to be billionaires in the United States, because “they are a Fifth Column.”
There is much more from Fuentes in this vein, and so when the entirely predictable backlash followed Roberts’ refusal to condemn Carlson for lending this chaos agent his considerable platform, the Heritage top dog moved quickly to stop the bleeding. In a lengthy X post on Friday, Roberts excoriated Fuentes’ “vicious antisemitic ideology, his Holocaust denial, and his relentless conspiracy theories that echo the darkest chapters of history.”
Roberts adds: “Our task is to confront and challenge those poisonous ideas at every turn to prevent them from taking America to a very dark place. Join us—not to cancel—but to guide, challenge, and strengthen the conversation, and be confident as I am that our best ideas at the heart of western civilization will prevail.” And hey, that’s swell. Heritage is going to have a conversation with Fuentes’ followers, and everything is going to be just fine.
That might be convincing if it weren’t for the fact that Heritage, like other groups that dissent from the left’s agenda and ostensibly fight against its dominance, had always been open to having a “conversation” about points of view that don’t necessarily reflect the mainstream. Take, for example, Islamic jihad. Heritage’s website has a “Middle East” section, but nothing about the global jihad except for a handful of articles, some dating back over twenty years. One 2003 article focuses on the jihad group Hizb ut-Tahrir. There’s an even older one, from 2001, about the jihad in Sudan.
One of the more recent posts touching on this issue at the Heritage website is over eight years old; in March 2017, Heritage hosted a presentation entitled “Jihad as Grand Strategy: Islamic Militancy, National Security, and the Pakistani State.” There has been little from the group, however, about the jihad against the West, or the U.S. in particular. In 2012, Heritage published a report entitled “Fifty Terror Plots Foiled Since 9/11: The Homegrown Threat and the Long War on Terrorism,” but since then it seems to have largely lost interest in that long war.
Speakers who oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression and talk frankly about its roots within Islamic texts and teachings have been decidedly thin on the ground at Heritage. I myself spoke there about Muhammad and how he still serves as the inspiration for global terrorists, but that was back in 2006. Andrew Bostom, author of The Legacy of Jihad, spoke there around 2012. Heritage hosted a panel of foes of jihad in 2014 and another that dealt with the topic in 2018, but more recent such events are extremely difficult to find.
Heritage’s general reluctance even to go near any discussion of the beliefs and motives of Islamic terrorists came as George W. Bush’s September 2001 proclamation that “Islam is peace” gradually became the mainstream view of the issue on the right. High-profile conservatives happily joined the leftists who despised them and wanted to destroy them in branding honest examinations of jihad terrorists’ motivating ideology as “Islamophobia,” and shunned the alleged carriers of this fictional malady accordingly.
Now, however, when it comes to Jew-haters, Heritage and other groups on the right suddenly remember that the resistance movement against leftist hegemony is a big tent, with plenty of room even for toxic flamethrowers such as Nick Fuentes. There are big tents and there are big tents, you see, and not all of them are equal. Particularly not, apparently, when it comes to hating Jews and welcoming into the country the most violent global force arrayed against them. Kevin Roberts knows this. And clearly, he and the Heritage Foundation want you to know it as well.
Robert Spencer Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 32 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad, and The Critical Qur’an. His latest book is Antisemitism: History and Myth. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
Mamdani Unvarnished: Watch What He Said About Israel Before He Ran For Mayor by Steven Emerson
November 2, 2025 IPT News
On May 11, 2021, Zohran Mamdani participated in a virulently antisemitic 2-hour anti-Israel demonstration in NYC. Besides Mamdani, the rally featured some of the most notorious anti-Israel activists in the United States. Mamdani himself called for the effective destruction of the State of Israel in language that we feel every voter in NYC is entitled to hear, contrary to the false impression of moderation that Mamdani has tried to cultivate in this year’s election. As you watch this excerpt, think about whether you are comfortable with Mamdani as he spits out his real agenda.
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But more important than that I’m someone who I co-founded my college’s first Students for Justice in Palestine. The struggle for Palestine is the struggle for dignity. And every single one of us is committed to dignity in Greenpoint has to be committed to dignity in Gaza. Every single one of us who wants justice in Whitestone needs to be fighting for justice in the West Bank.
You might ask yourself what can you do in New York City to make sure that our brothers, our sisters, our families beyond the binary in Palestine are safe, and free, and receive justice. You can put pressure on every single one of your elected officials, at the city council, at the state assembly, at the state senate, we have elected officials who are taking paid for trips to Israel. They are going there paid for by your tax dollars. They show up at the Israel Day parade and they say stand in solidarity.
We want to let them know that there are three letters that we have as an answer to what’s happening in Palestine. It’s BDS (leads chants of “BDS”).
That’s what we’re fighting for. We saw it before with South Africa, we’ll see it again with Palestine. You cannot expect injustice to stop without international pressure on that very injustice.
3.8. billion dollars every year is sent from the United States to Israel. 3.8 billion dollars, while our family here are homeless, while our family here do not have money for schools, we are sending money to weaponize the IDF even more than they already are.
So let us say that from this day forward we will stand in solidarity with Palestinians and we will hold every single person who has power this city, in this state, in this country, accountable for their incomprehensible fealty to the Israeli state.
Some of you may know I’m a proud socialist and I’m a proud member of the New York City DSA. And what brought me to that organization is the endorsement by that organization of BDS, is the belief that there is no distinction between the fight here and the fight there, because I grew up in this country when we had a phrase, “Progressive Except Palestine.” And we cannot allow that phrase to flourish for any longer.
If you’re committed to justice show me your stance on Palestine. If you say you’re a socialist show me your stance on apartheid. That is what we’re asking for from now on. We’re not asking for it, we are demanding it.
So, I stand in solidarity with my Palestinian family, I will stand in solidarity with them until the occupation is over, until apartheid is over, and until we have no distinction of dignity within Palestine, within Israel, within any part of this very world. Thank you very, very much. Once again, the answer: BDS. (Leads chants of “BDS”).
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Alois Brunner: The Nazi Butcher of Thessaloniki’s Jews By Philip Chrysopoulos
November 1, 2025 Greek Reporter
Alois Brunner, one of the most ruthless figures of the Holocaust and a key collaborator of Adolf Eichmann, was directly responsible for the systematic deportation and murder of tens of thousands of Jews across Europe, with his actions in Thessaloniki, Greece, representing one of the most tragic episodes.
Brunner during his tenure as an SS officer.Oublic Domain
Brunner wiped out a centuries-old community in Thessaloniki
Brunner, known as Eichmann’s “right-hand man,” was dispatched to the Balkans in early 1943 specifically to organize the destruction of the large, centuries-old Jewish community of Thessaloniki.
Within a period of just two months, Brunner oversaw the systematic deportation of approximately 43,000 to 46,000 Greek Jews from the city.
The victims were crammed into sealed freight wagons for a harrowing nine-day journey to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in occupied Poland, where nearly all were murdered upon arrival.
Brunner’s efficiency and dedication to the Nazi agenda effectively wiped out the entirety of Greece’s largest Jewish community.
A career of atrocities
Brunner’s direct role in the Final Solution extended far beyond Greece. Conservative estimates suggest he was accountable for the deaths of at least 128,500 people in total. His other major assignments included:
- Organizing the deportation of 47,000 Austrian Jews.
- Commanding the notorious Drancy internment camp near Paris, overseeing the transport of thousands of French Jews, including hundreds of children, to the gas chambers
After the war, in the 1950s, he escaped to Syria, where he allegedly became an advisor to President Hafez al-Assad, father of Bashar al-Assad. He managed to escape two assassination attempts by members of the Israeli intelligence.
He was repeatedly convicted and sentenced to death in absentia in France during the 1950s.
The exact timing of Brunner’s death remains a source of conflicting reports. While some intelligence suggests he died in 2010, later investigations indicate his death may have occurred earlier, possibly in December 2001, allegedly while confined to a miserable basement in Damascus.
He was never brought to justice in person.
Related: Diane von Fürstenberg Honored in Thessaloniki, The Birthplace of Her Holocaust Survivor Mother
Michael Goodwin: A Zohran Mamdani mayoralty would mean a long, sour decline for NYC By Michael Goodwin
Nov. 1, 2025 New York Post
As a young reporter at The New York Times, I had the good fortune of working with an experienced political editor named Sheldon Binn.
A wounded veteran of World War II, he explained the simple yardstick he used to judge politicians.
“The only thing I ask is that they don’t make things worse,” I recall him saying.
“That’s the best you can hope for.”
As a wide-eyed idealist, I found his standard shockingly low and cynical.
But these days, Binn’s rule makes more sense to me than ever.
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Exhibit A is the New York mayoral race, where the Democrats’ nominee, Zohran Mamdani, is pushing a sweepingly radical agenda.
If voters are foolish enough to elect him Tuesday, his tenure wouldn’t just make things slightly worse.
His policies would inflict major damage in myriad ways, from declining public safety to out-of-control spending.
Schools would be further dumbed down and his pledge to hike taxes would drive away businesses, families and jobs.
His antisemitic attacks on Israel make him unfit to lead the Jewish capital of America.
Mamdani also vows to close Rikers Island, with no place to put the 7,000 inmates.
The result would be a rapid decline in the quality of life for the city’s remaining residents, workers and visitors.
And not just for a short time.
Gotham’s history is chock full of lessons on how the actions of a mayor, good or bad, can have an outsized impact for years and even decades beyond his tenure.
In addition to actual policies, a mayor helps shape the broader civic culture, including the role of nonprofits and private philanthropy.
In Mamdani’s case, a long, sour decline is guaranteed because his promise of free this and free that, combined with an expansion of government control over private housing and some supermarkets, would require punishingly higher taxes.
Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio attends the COVID-19 Five Year Remembrance event.
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His agenda is a carbon copy of failed socialist governments around the world and throughout history.
Cuba and Venezuela are two clear and close examples: Huge portions of their populations have fled to other countries, and they didn’t run to nearby socialist outposts.
They voted with their feet by aiming for New York and other cities in America.
If socialism is good and capitalism is evil, why is it that nobody, including Trump-hating celebrities, quits America to live in Cuba or Venezuela?
That dynamic gets to the heart of why I am voting for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and why it is essential that Mamdani and his snake oil never sets foot in City Hall.
Cuomo is far from perfect, but under the Binn test, the fact that he would do less harm makes him the right choice.
The damage the untested 34-year-old Mamdani would do would not be easily corrected, even if he were booted after a single term.
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Failed experiment
Four years is enough time to dig New York into a hole that it might not escape for years.
History shows the pattern.
Consider the relevance of events 50 years ago this week, when a famous headline summed up Gotham’s fiscal nightmare.
“Ford to City, Drop Dead,” shouted the Daily News after President Ford vowed to veto any federal effort to bail out the city from its financial mess.
For years, New York had lived well beyond its means.
So much so that banks took the drastic step of cutting off their lines of credit.
The mountain of debts wasn’t built overnight.
The eight-year tenure of Republican Mayor John Lindsay that started in 1966 featured a nonstop spend-a-thon and a breakdown of law-and-order.
The number of murders exploded, with the total in his final year three times higher than in his first year.
The city comptroller at the time, Democrat Abe Beame, never blew the whistle on the chaos, but the Dem machine still got him elected mayor in ’73.
His move to City Hall sped up deficit spending, and it was fitting that the banks stopped the grift on his watch.
It is also understandable that Ford was reluctant to help unless the city started to clean up its own act.
Beame lost his bid for re-election in part because the budget cuts needed to balance the books fell heavily on the NYPD.
The city became a filthy crime capital and the quality of life went to hell.
Over a few years, nearly 1 million people fled, most to the suburbs or Florida.
Ed Koch was the next mayor up, and his bold plans to reduce spending while also shoring up public safety were just what the doctor ordered. Koch’s popularity soared, and as Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan told me several years later, Koch’s great triumph was that he showed New Yorkers, Washington and the banks that finally, “somebody is in charge.”
Although the city had a new bounce in its step, the problems didn’t melt away and crime continued to grow as the outgunned NYPD couldn’t keep up.
It wasn’t until 1990, when Koch’s beleaguered successor, David Dinkins, worked with Council Speaker Peter Vallone to develop a plan that called for hiring 10,000 more cops.
But with a slow roll-out, murders hit an all time high, with about 2,000 a year recorded during Dinkins’ term.
Golden Age of NYC
It was only after Rudy Giuliani became mayor in 1994 that the police force was fully funded and smartly used.
Giuliani and his team, including top cop Bill Bratton, used the new officers in targeted enforcement campaigns under the revolutionary “broken windows” theory of policing.
The results came fast and were dramatic.
Within four years, the number of murders fell by 60%, with huge declines in other crimes, too.
The pattern continued through Giuliani’s second term and all through Mike Bloomberg’s subsequent three terms as Bloomberg and his top cop, Ray Kelly, kept the same policies and extended and improved them.
The result was a 20-year Golden Age of public safety and economic expansion that transformed New York into the safest big city in America and the world capital of capital.
Jobs and population booms followed, with the city gaining even more people than it had lost.
As I wrote at the time, an elderly friend who had spent his entire life in New York said he had never seen it shine as it did at the end of Bloomberg’s tenure.
Unfortunately, he was followed by Bill de Blasio, the worst mayor since Beame.
Anti-cop to the core and a lazy, anti-business leftist, Mayor Putz left with crime on the rise and the quality of life in decline.
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It is telling — and scary — that Mamdani calls him his favorite mayor.
As if to underscore the idiocy, he pledges to shrink the NYPD.
Reports that de Blasio is advising Mamdani and that there is overlap in their inner circles completes the horror scenario.
Polls showing Mamdani leading the race recall a definition of insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.”
Don’t do it, New York.
Exposed! Tucker Associate Dinesh D’Souza Reveals The REAL Reason He Hates Israel! [28:01] Alex Traiman interviews Dinesh E’Souza
Sep 15, 2025 JNS TV
Is Israel’s war with Hamas part of a deeper spiritual battle foretold in the Bible?
JNS CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman sits down with bestselling author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza to discuss his provocative new documentary “The Dragon’s Prophecy.” The film draws powerful parallels between the Oct. 7, 2023 war and ancient biblical conflicts, suggesting that Hamas’s tactics echo those of the Philistines and that the modern war on Israel may be a revival of age-old battles between good and evil.
D’Souza, known for films like “2016: Obama’s America” and “2000 Mules,” explains why this new project departs from his previous work and explores biblical archaeology, prophecy and the spiritual dimensions of Israel’s struggle. He and Traiman examine why radical Islam sees Israel not just as a military threat but as a moral and civilizational one: a liberal, Western outpost in the heart of the Middle East.
The conversation also confronts growing antisemitism in both left- and right-wing circles in the U.S., the ideological betrayal of Israel by figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and the disturbing rise in conspiracy theories that target Jews. D’Souza connects these trends to broader civilizational decline in the West and the abandonment of Judeo-Christian values, arguing that Jews and Christians must recognize the spiritual war they are both fighting.
They also reflect on the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk and the urgent need to restore sanity, morality and historical truth to public discourse.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Dinesh D’Souza and His Work
01:14 The Dragon’s Prophecy: A New Perspective on Israel
04:04 Hamas and the Philistines: Historical Parallels
05:58 The Alliance of Radical Islam and the Secular Left
09:00 Shifts in American Political Support for Israel
11:11 Understanding October 7th: A Historical Context
13:30 The Nature of Anti-Semitism and Criticism of Israel
15:40 The Role of Influencers in Shaping Opinions on Israel
18:50 Political Violence and Ideological Extremism
21:59 The Cultural War in America and Its Implications
24:31 The Spiritual Dimension of the Conflict
27:32 Conclusion and Call to Action
Trump Tried To Ignore Hamas, They’re Growing Stronger Every Day! [32:35] Yishai Fleisher
Nov 2, 2025
Will Hamas regroup in Gaza? What is the Mamdani NY election connection to Israel? Yishai interviews Dan Diker veteran political insider to unpack all of this and more…
Venezuela Is a Very Dangerous Enemy – Alex Newman [40:46] By Greg Hunter
November 1, 2025 USAWatchdog.com
Journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular book “Deep State” and the recent best-selling book called “Indoctrinating Our Children to Death,” is out with a new ominous warning about the military operation going on around Venezuela. This is way more than a counter-narcotics operation as the President of Venezuela is head of a government criminal cartel called “Cartel of the Sun.” Newman explains, “I grew up in Mexico and Latin America, and what is happening is we are watching the total communist takeover of the entire region. It has been aided and abetted by people like Joe Biden, Obama and George Soros. Let’s start with Venezuela. You cannot tell the difference between the cartels and the government. The Cartel of the Sun is run by the leaders of the military, intelligence agencies. Nicolaus Maduro, who got in by voter fraud, is the head of that cartel. This cartel is worth more money than anybody can fathom. It has diplomatic immunity and smuggles drugs using military and government airplanes. Oil is another big huge money maker. . .. This is not your run-of-the-mill corruption. . .. In Latin America, they are all part of the same thing. The cartels and government are essentially the same thing. You also see this in Mexico very clearly. You can’t tell where the government ends and cartels begin. The communist Chinese and the Russian government are critical players in this entire process. They have been from the beginning, and I have been covering this story for 15 years.”
So, when you see stories such as “Maduro Urgently Seeks Military Aid From Russia & China With US Bulls-Eye On Venezuela,” you should realize there is much more going on than meets the eye. Newman goes on to say, “This is so big, and you will not be able to piece it together by reading fake news in the fake media. . .. The Trump Administration knows this is much bigger than a counter-drug operation, but for whatever reason, they have chosen not to talk publicly about this. The drug cartels are a problem . . . but this is not about the drugs, it’s about the communist movement. The drugs are just a mechanism to bring in money. . .. What we are facing in Venezuela is a very dangerous enemy. They did this 50 years ago, and fast forward to today, they are doing it again. Once the revolution kicks off, they expect that the Russians, communist Chinese, North Koreans, Cubans and communists in Latin America will each occupy a piece of the United States as it is brought into the new system. They intend to establish a network of reeducation camps.”
What happens to the people that will not go along with the communist takeover? Newman says, “They will liquidate us, they intend to exterminate us, and that is tens of millions of Americans. Bill Ayres was the founder of the terrorist group The Weather Underground that wanted to overthrow the government of the United States. Barack Obama started his career in the living room of Bill Ayers. The real problem with the drug cartels is the profits are being used to build a totalitarian network that fully intends to enslave everybody in this hemisphere, and they intend to destroy the United States of America. Their assets are positioned all across this country. . .. The Venezuela tentacle is going to be a critical part. We are going to see the assets they have positioned all across our country unleashing hell on earth. I think this is why . . . the Trump Administration is so vigorously trying to track these guys down and get them out of the country. It’s absolutely essential that they do this.”
Newman also points out that the Venezuelan government is involved in voter fraud all over the world, including the 2020 US election. Yes, the Trump Administration knows this too.
There is much more in the 40-minute video.
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Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with hard-hitting journalist Alex Newman, founder of LibertySentinel.org and author of the upcoming book “Woke and Weaponized.” This is a stark warning for all parents about the communist agenda in our schools for 11.1.25.
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Divide and conquer Peggy Tierney
NOV 01, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
Rush Limbaugh’s little brother says Tucker, Candace and Fuentes are wrong and should just stop spewing ugly and sinister propaganda about Israel.
As you well know if you read my newsletters, Candace has gone off the deep end to hate on Israel and the Jewish people – and Tucker just hosted Fuentes to bash Israel as well.
Tucker and Fuentes both called Christians who stand with Israel “Christian Zionists” and said they despise them. Yes, they both said that.
So, Candace despises Israel and all Jews and Tucker & Fuentes went further to hate on any Christian who supports Israel. Here’s what Limbaugh had to say:
DAVID LIMBAUGH: “I would agree in principle that criticism of a country doesn’t by itself imply animus toward the people of that country or their ethnicity, but what we’re witnessing bespeaks of something more than that and if it didn’t many of us wouldn’t be concerned about it.
There is an obvious resentment toward Israel for the insane notion that they control the United States and I believe that resentment is inextricably tied to a suspicion of the Jewish people, including in America, over their alleged control over things and who knows whatever else.
So what I’m saying is that even viewed in their most favorable light, these people on the right like Tucker, Fuentes and Candace (forget the irredeemable left) who are palpably opposed to Israel and resentful of our ties to them and our alliance with them, are motivated by something more than just foreign policy concerns. That seems clear to me. I’m America first too, BTW.
I support Israel for geopolitical reasons, because they’re our natural democratic ally, because they are head and shoulders more moral and grounded than their surrounding nations and their cause is just, and, in my case, probably most of all because I think God commands it.
And you scoffers on the Christian right (I happen to be fervently on the Christian right) who dismiss my view as heretical dispensationalism, are wrong. We can debate dispensationalism some other time, but believing God’s promises to Israel are permanent and that the church has not replaced the discreet and specific Jewish people and Jewish nation does not necessarily make one a dispensationalist. So take shots at dispensational theology and eschatology if you want, but in this case it’s a straw man.
But one thing is clear — something ugly is going on on the right and it may be bigger than I wanted to believe. We must head it off at the pass.
If you are not otherwise disposed to believe something sinister is happening here, one thing should signal to you that there is indeed something quite ugly about this. Notice some of the outrageous positions some people are taking and then the unnatural hoops others are leaping through to defend indefensible and bizarre positions. For the sake of argument, forget Tucker for a moment, whose positions and interviews and platforming and the rest deeply bother me.
I’ve admired and liked Tucker for many good positions he’s taken, but this turn I don’t understand. I don’t have to call him evil to say I radically disagree with him, but I do radically disagree with him on some stuff. But his interview and elevation of Fuentes was over the top and monumentally troubling. Do you guys realize what a freak show this guy is?
So when I say forget Tucker for argument’s sake, what I mean is that we don’t have to point to him to prove that there’s an unhealthy sympathy for anti-semitism on the right. Forget him because we need look no further than Fuentes. BECAUSE NOW MANY OF THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WERE DEFENDING SOME OF TUCKER’S BIZARRE POSITIONS ARE NOW ALSO DEFENDING FUENTES. WHAT THE HOLY HELL? POINT, SET, MATCH. LIKE Megyn Kelly, I hate criticizing friends and people I’ve admired, but at some point people of principle and good will have no choice.
You don’t have to agree with me on my theological views toward Israel to side with me against anti-semitism. In fact I don’t expect you to. But I’d be ardently pro-Israel anyway — to the extent it’s even possible to separate this God-anointed nation from its roots. But seeing the latest round of defenses for these insane positions following the Fuentes interview I feel like I have to speak up — even beyond my usual statements of unequivocal support for Israel.
I don’t want an internecine war and I want to be disrespectful to people on our side and I don’t want to write Tucker off as an evil person, but I do think he’s way off the rails here and I hope a reasonable explanation for this regrettable turn emerges at some point.
But Fuentes? You’ve got to be kidding me? Candace Owens? Well, I won’t even go there.”
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Did you know that David Horowitz called Candace the MONSTER he created before he died?
So, Limbaugh agrees with me about Candace too!
Let’s dive into this further. Where is all this coming from? Are Tucker, Fuentes & Candace being paid to hate on Israel and on Christians who stand with Israel? Is it theological or political?
I found this post on X and I totally agree with this theory. She said it better than I ever could:
“If you are a Christian who is buying into the Democrat and Koch Libertarian-funded narrative about how we should all hate Israel – and embrace Hamas – please stop. You are only dividing MAGA and playing into our enemies’ hands. Here’s why:
The attacks on Israel have nothing to do with Israel. It’s all about fracturing Christian voters here at home.
If you strip away the emotion, and just look for pattern recognition it becomes clear as day.
People incorrectly assume that Tucker, Curt Mills, Nick Fuentes, Ian Carroll, Candace Owens and whoever else just hopped onto the anti-Israel train are targeting Jews because they hate them. NOPE, their goal is to divide and conquer MAGA and they are paid to do it.
Evangelical Christians are the strongest pro-Israel bloc in American politics AND in MAGA.
If evangelical Christians can be mocked, demoralized, or divided (Carlson calling “Judea & Samaria = Narnia,” Candace Owens blasting “Zionist elites,” Gaetz dragging the Gospel into antisemitism debates, MTG branding Israel “genocide”) – then the MAGA coalition fractures and the Democrats win and so do our Islamo-Communist enemies in the RED-GREEN axis of Russia, China & Iran.
The Globalists say restraint. Putin, Xi, and Khamenei say multipolarity. It’s the same script — a script that benefits Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, and billionaire elites in America, while weakening MAGA, evangelical Christians and Israel.
That is why think tanks and publications like The National Conservative and the CATO Institute take money from Globalists like Koch, Soros and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Koch Industries is a global energy and commodities giant. Less U.S. confrontation and fewer sanctions means smoother trade and better profits for the Kochs. Reduced defense budgets also mean lower taxes and less regulation for the Kochs.
The Rockefeller family has long transitioned from being oil barons to climate-policy funders. “Restraint” foreign policy supports their global agenda: more climate cooperation, less defense spending “crowding out” climate budgets. It also boosts the elite networks they sit in (UN, global philanthropy.)
As long as evangelical Christians are united and vocal, it’s politically impossible for the Globalists like Koch and Soros to win. But, if they can fracture us – if they can divide us on ANY basis – they split the vote so that Democrats prevail. That’s their real goal – because Koch, Soros, the CCP and the rest of the Globalists are playing for the atheist left.
So if you want the Globalists to win, you have to first break the evangelical Christians. How do you break them? By running psyops to make sure to fracture MAGA and the Christians on Israel (or anything else for that matter.) And paying a lot of money to silence those who dare call it.”
Oh, and I believe that this same reasoning would ALSO APPLY to DIVIDING the Mormon LDS church into two parts and to dividing TPUSA into two competing factions.
Meaning, the left-wing Globalists, Team Obama AND our Islamo-Communist enemies in the RED-GREEN axis of Iran, Russia & China want to fracture not only the Evangelical church and the Catholic Church – but the Mormon LDS church AND TPUSA as well – because they all support MAGA and support Israel.
Red-Green Axis TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS OCT 5
If you haven’t figured it out yet – Communist China & Iran-Qatar (backed by the NWO and the UN) want Islamo-Communism to rule America and for our country to be divided, sick and weak. Their foot soldiers are the enemy within.
So, what better way to do that than by trying to take out President Trump and then actually taking out Charlie Kirk and dividing their followers?
UPDATED Part 7: Who killed Charlie and why? TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
SEP 23
Some people ask me why I am so tenacious about covering every detail of Charlie’s assassination. Honestly, the focus helps me deal with my grief and keeps me from crying all day long. This one hit me hard, as I know it did you.
If you don’t buy that the sudden “let’s all hate Israel” narrative is strictly political, I did a little research on the possible theology behind it – I admit I am clueless about this so I had to investigate. Here’s what I learned.
There apparently is something called “Replacement Theology” or “Super-sessionism” which claims that the Christian Church has somehow replaced Israel as God’s chosen people due to Israel’s rejection of Christ.
I’ve never heard of this before – but apparently many people have.
Replacement Theology claims that after the Jews rejected Jesus, God transferred all covenants and promises to the Christian Church.
It seems to me that Replacement Theology is wrong, man-made and not Biblical – correct?
Could this be why people like Tucker and Candace and Fuentes have gone off the deep end and chosen to reject Israel and instead appear to claim themselves as the chosen ones?
HERE’S A SHORT VIDEO FROM PASTOR JACK HIBBS ON THIS: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BRWt3kvwo/
MORE: Replacement theology rests chiefly on the idea that the whole or part of the Abrahamic Covenant has been abolished, for it is this Covenant that promises to Israel eternal ownership of the land of Canaan (Genesis 17:7-8).
Once this ‘promise’ has been removed, the present-day restoration of Israel means nothing and her only hope is in the Church. Now it must be made clear that we believe that only in Christ Jesus can there be salvation for Jews and Gentiles alike (Romans 1:16-17).
However, Biblical Christians do not believe that the promise of God in the Abrahamic Covenant bequeathing the land of Canaan to Israel has been removed, and therefore Israel’s modern restoration to the land of Canaan is indeed the fulfillment of that promise and constitutes a milestone on her ‘way home’ to her Messiah (Ezekiel 36:24-28).
So, to me that says that those who claim Replacement Theory believe Israel has no right to the land of Canaan – and that Israel is irrelevant. The New Testament does NOT state that Israel is irrelevant, however.
The New Testament describes Israel as central to end-times events, including a mass return to the land, a time of severe persecution and conflict called the “Tribulation,” and the eventual recognition of Jesus as the Messiah.
Key events include the Antichrist’s covenant and subsequent betrayal of Israel, a supernatural protection for a remnant of the Jewish people, and the Second Coming of Christ to defeat Israel’s enemies and establish a kingdom. The New Testament teaches that this will ultimately lead to a future where “all Israel will be saved,” according to Romans 11:26, when they “will see me whom they have pierced” (Zechariah 12:10).
Dennis Prager, a Jew, did an interview, from his sick bed, explaining that liberal Jews and conservative Jews are NOT the same – JUST LIKE American liberals and American conservatives are not the same!
George Soros, a liberal Jew, and Bibi Netanyahu, a conservative Jew, are not the same! In other words, Dennis believes that the ONLY reason so many RINOs, Koch Libertarians and liberals (like Tucker, Candace, and Fuentes) hate Israel today is because Bibi is a conservative! I’ve been trying to convince people of this for years but Dennis did a great job.
WATCH: https://x.com/marissastreit/status/1971366854582247843
I tried to illustrate Prager’s point this way: We are not all the same TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
OCT 29
This is something that’s been bothering me lately, because I see it abused so often by influencers and pundits – so I thought I’d write about it. I hope this helps.
After you’ve read all my evidence – what does your gut say the real reason these “influencers” want American conservatives to turn against Israel? Do you think it’s theology or politics? Do you think they believe what they say or are being paid to say it to divide and conquer MAGA? Reply to this newsletter and let me know.
Lawlessness Is a Choice Miranda Devine
OCTOBER 2025 IMPRIMIS | VOLUME 54, ISSUE 10
The following is adapted from a speech delivered on September 30, 2025, at Hillsdale College’s Blake Center for Faith and Freedom in Somers, Connecticut.
While being interviewed on a recent podcast, Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett decided to opine on crime, a topic on which she apparently considers herself to be an expert. Her nutty conclusion was this: “Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal.”
I can see how this logic would have a wide range of uses for politicians: “Just because someone told a lie, it doesn’t make them a liar”; “Just because someone took a bribe, it doesn’t make them corrupt.” It’s a bit like the thought experiment: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” If a crime is committed and no one is responsible, was there actually a crime at all?
Of course, it’s nonsense. A criminal is defined precisely as a person who has committed a crime. But when Crockett chooses her own definitions, she is simply echoing a progressive shibboleth that has turned blue cities across the country into lawless hellholes. It holds that people who commit crimes have no agency—that they are helpless victims of circumstance. Therefore, any attempt to hold them accountable by arresting them or putting them in jail is unjust—it further victimizes them.
The obvious result of this logic is that criminals are emboldened and their real victims become helpless hostages to lawlessness.
It is a short step from Crockett’s logic to the justification of defunding the police as a way to “make communities safer.” That communities become safer by having fewer police is, of course, a lie, but defunding police is what progressives have been doing since the anti-cop, BLM-Antifa riots of the “Summer of Love” in 2020.
As a former police reporter, I’ve seen how soft-on-crime policies hurt the very people progressives pretend to care about. It’s precisely the most vulnerable in our big cities who need the most policing and have the least resources to protect themselves from mayhem.
Living in New York City off and on over the past three decades, including in the pre-Mayor Rudy Giuliani era when it was a dystopian hellscape of crime and no-go zones, it’s striking how quickly soft-on-crime policies at the state and local level destroy your day-to-day sense of safety. Progressive criminal justice “reforms,” such as defunding the police, ending cash bail, refusing to prosecute misdemeanors, letting thousands of convicted felons out of prison early, and slashing the prison population, are the most obvious contributors to the escalating violent crime problem in blue cities.
In 2014, Bill de Blasio was elected Mayor of what he boasted was “the safest big city in America.” He championed all sorts of progressive policies, from bail reform to decriminalizing offenses such as public urination and marijuana possession—and eventually the New York City Council defunded the NYPD to the tune of $1 billion.
As predicted by everybody with any understanding of human nature, it did not take long for the city to become scary. There was a surge of mentally ill homeless people accorded the so-called freedom to sleep on the streets, and open-air drug bazaars popped up all over the place. This was followed by a surge of violent crime, including a spate of people being pushed in front of subway trains. Shoplifting became so normalized that convenience and drug stores had to lock up toothpaste.
The decriminalization of pot and public urination has only turbocharged the sense of chaos and disorder in blue cities. It marks a rejection of the famous “broken windows” theory that was the key to turning New York City around under Giuliani. The theory holds that addressing minor crimes, such as vandalism and public intoxication, creates an atmosphere of order and lawfulness. By contrast, the policy of ignoring so-called minor crimes encourages disorder and lawlessness.
People don’t knowingly or willingly vote for their quality of life to deteriorate. But this is the progressive template, whether in the cities they control or on a national level with the open borders policy that, under the Biden administration, brought in 20-25 million illegal migrants, many of them criminals.
It is common sense that law and order is an 80-20 issue. You don’t need a pollster to say so, although according to a recent AP-NORC poll, 81 percent of Americans across political persuasions say crime is a “major problem.” The other 19 percent must be either criminals, progressive politicians, or both.
In a world not defined by Jasmine Crockett, it makes no sense that progressives would remain stubbornly on the wrong side of their own voters. But their unhinged hostility to President Trump’s successful crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., suggests that that’s where they are.
In the first three weeks after Trump sent the National Guard into the nation’s capital, Attorney General Pam Bondi reported 1,528 arrests and 156 illegal guns seized. Nearly half of the arrests were of illegal migrant criminals, including violent felons convicted of rape, child molestation, assault, and robbery with a deadly weapon.
The D.C. crime rate plummeted across the board as a result, with violent crime down 30 percent in the first month after federal troops were deployed on August 7, according to the White House. The Metropolitan Police Department was even more bullish, citing a 40 percent drop in violent crime when compared to the same period last year, including a staggering 82 percent drop in carjackings.
D.C. residents, most of whom are black, expressed relief at being able to live without fear of being robbed or assaulted. Yet left-wing pundits on CNN and MSNBC called Trump a “dictator” and said his crackdown on “so-called crime” is racist and a “military occupation.” Bondi had to fire two of her staff members—left-wing paralegals who hurled foul-mouthed abuse and a Subway sandwich at federal officers who are bringing order to D.C.
Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser, who had been remarkably cooperative with the federal intervention, nonetheless testified on September 18 that Trump’s National Guard deployment had nothing to do with the newly safe streets. She would rather be seen as unmoored from the truth than publicly admit that more cops and more arrests reduce crime. The hostility to law and order runs deep in a party that has made defunding the police an article of faith.
Trump is plowing ahead regardless, vowing to expand his D.C. policies to high crime cities like Chicago, Memphis, and Baltimore, which he called a “hellhole.” He is onto a popular issue and has shown that crime crackdowns can rapidly improve American lives. Ultimately he hopes to shame big-city mayors into cleaning up their own cities before he sends in the troops.
When asked by a reporter if he would consider sending the National Guard into Republican-run cities that are “also seeing high crime,” Trump replied: “Sure, but there aren’t that many of them. If you look at the top 25 cities for crime, just about every one of those cities is run by Democrats.” Cue apoplexy from the usual suspects, but he was right. If anything, he understated the problem. A 2022 report by the Heritage Foundation, “The Blue City Murder Problem,” found that 27 of the top 30 cities with the highest homicide rates were run by Democrats.
Now, inexplicably, New York City is set to elect a far-left mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who wants to decriminalize misdemeanors and divert money from cops to social workers. The Democratic Socialists of America platform he ran on when he was elected to the New York Assembly in 2021 called for decriminalizing all drugs, letting illegal immigrants vote and hold elected office, and dealing with 26-year-old criminals as youth offenders. Now he plans to make New York a double sanctuary city for illegal aliens and transgenderism, mirroring the catastrophic soft-on-crime policies of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
Mamdani wants to ban ICE from removing violent criminals and predators, and he wants to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to create more “LGBTQIA+ Liaisons” in schools to brainwash more kids into thinking they are trapped in a body of the opposite sex. He also wants to codify transgender guidelines to force girls to share bathrooms with biological males.
Lawlessness and disorder are not inevitable in big cities. Giuliani demonstrated this 30 years ago in New York, and Trump has now proved it again in D.C. But the dwindling percentage of voters in New York who bother turning in a ballot for the mayoral race are determined to be the turkeys who voted for Thanksgiving.
The law-and-order paradox is even more stark when it comes to illegal migrant criminals. When Trump claimed on the campaign trail that other countries had opened their jails and set the inmates loose on America, it seemed like hyperbole. But among the bad hombres that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Czar Tom Homan have been arresting, there is an enormous preponderance of murderers, rapists, and child molesters.
You would think that we have enough home-grown criminals without importing new ones. But that is what Joe Biden and whoever was wielding his autopen decided willfully to do for four years while the nation’s media turned a blind eye.
After years of gaslighting and excuses from the Biden administration, Trump fulfilled his promise to secure the border within the first 100 days of his second term. But now comes the hard part: deportations. You would think every American would welcome the removal of the sorts of criminal degenerates who raped and murdered Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and twelve-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. But no! ICE and Border Patrol officers are under attack from violent, organized militants posing as protesters who throw rocks at their vehicles, slash their tires, and obstruct their movements. Officers have also been doxxed and labeled fascists.
Recently, an ICE officer was seriously injured when he was dragged down the road by a car driven by a criminal illegal alien resisting arrest. In January, a Border Patrol agent was ambushed and slaughtered by members of a vegan transgender cult on a murderous rampage across the country. On September 24, there was a sniper attack on an ICE facility in Dallas. That followed a July 4 shooting attack on an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas.
The job is made more dangerous by sanctuary city laws, whereby authorities refuse to hand over violent criminal illegal aliens for deportation. DHS and ICE are conducting operations right now in Chicago, but Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson are doing everything they can to obstruct these operations.
I went on a pre-dawn raid in Chicago recently with Secretary Noem and more than 100 heavily armed Border Patrol and ICE agents. We rode in armored vehicles with helicopter and drone support to execute a felony arrest warrant on a single criminal illegal alien who had previously been deported but returned under Biden and has convictions for violent assault. It was an extraordinary commitment of resources for one criminal—although, as often happens with these raids, it netted an additional four illegal migrants who were also in the house.
Given the challenges of each deportation, it seems unlikely that Biden’s toxic border legacy can be reversed in four years, so we may be stuck with extra mayhem from foreign criminals beyond the next election cycle.
Trump’s latest law-and-order crackdown comes in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. On September 22, the President designated the violent anarchist group Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. The 22-year-old leftist who shot Kirk in the throat as he was answering a question about transgender violence at a crowded campus event in Utah had carved Antifa slogans and transgender references onto his shell casings. Despite Jimmy Kimmel’s claim, the killer was not a “MAGA Republican.” He was a radicalized leftist with a trans lover who was also a “furry”—someone with a sexual fetish involving dressing up as an animal. The assassin told family members that Kirk was hateful and that “some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
Kirk’s murder has brought to the fore the leftist political violence that has engulfed this country in recent years. Only two months ago, Kirk warned that “assassination culture is spreading on the left,” citing a poll showing that
forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump. The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response.
The latest wave of violence began with the deadly BLM-Antifa riots of 2020, which were tacitly encouraged by Democrats like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as a way to destabilize then-President Trump. Then, of course, Trump was the target of two assassination attempts last year. There was the arson and vandalism against Tesla dealerships to intimidate Elon Musk and punish him for supporting Trump. In May, Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and his fiancée Sarah Lynn Milgrim were assassinated, allegedly by a left-wing Palestinian activist, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Even the arson attack on the home of Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro was perpetrated by a left-wing, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel activist.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated in Manhattan last December, shot in the back in cold blood, allegedly by wealthy leftist Luigi Mangione, who spouted left-wing critiques of corporate greed and has become a folk hero to the Left. When Mangione appeared in a Manhattan courtroom recently, a crowd of supporters chanted, “Free Luigi,” and cheered when the judge dropped some of the charges against him.
The public outpouring of sympathy for Mangione and the callous attitude towards his victim, a midwestern father of two teenagers who worked his way to the top, seem to have altered the political discourse on violence. “Violence is never the answer,” was Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren’s verdict on Mangione. “But people can only be pushed so far.” Warren’s colleagues doubled down on their dehumanization of Trump and his supporters, branding them as fascists and Nazis. All that was needed for tragedy to ensue was an unhinged person to take them at their word.
With their dehumanizing rhetoric and soft-on-crime policies, progressives create permission structures that excuse crime and violence, remove accountability, and blur the distinction between right and wrong. As if that weren’t enough, in New York they have also created powerful disincentives for good citizens to protect themselves or others from crime.
A case in point was the persecution of former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny, who subdued a homeless, mentally ill man, Jordan Neely, as he was threatening to kill passengers on a New York subway car. Neely died soon after police arrived, and Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg charged Penny with homicide. Penny was acquitted by a jury, but not before being portrayed by the media and others on the Left as a racist vigilante, despite the fact that passengers testified how scared they had been and how grateful they were that he had intervened.
It was a tragedy that there was no Good Samaritan like Penny in the light rail car in Charlotte, North Carolina, where 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was murdered with a knife by another homeless man with a lengthy criminal record. But that was the point of prosecuting Penny: to make an example of him and dissuade other valiant young men from protecting women like Iryna.
The intense blowback against Trump’s efforts to restore law and order rams home the point that it is a deliberate choice by progressives to preserve lawlessness in their cities. When you think about it, the strategy seems to have paid off, if all you care about is power, since progressives have a generational stranglehold on the cities with the worst crime.
From that skewed perspective, maybe Crockett isn’t so nutty after all.
Exposing the Red-Green Axis [12:07] Brigitte Gabriel
September 1, 2025
Islamists are murdering thousands of Christians but lefties focus only on ISRAEL’s supposed ‘sins’ By David Harsanyi
Oct. 31, 2025 New York Post
With so much of the legacy media’s focus spent on smearing Israel these days, you probably haven’t heard a ton about the ongoing massacres in Nigeria.
Islamists there have murdered tens of thousands of defenseless Christians, displacing around 15 million people from their homes.
Medieval sexual violence and torture are regularly practiced by Islamist militants, who also recruit children into their terrorist army.
The threat to the world from murderous Islamists is:
Thousands of churches and schools have been burned down.
Catholic priests are regularly targeted for kidnapping.
The victims of Boko Haram and other Islamist groups in Nigeria aren’t members of any army.
Yet, as far as I know, there have been no college protests or rallies in the streets of American cities decrying the systemic ethnic cleansing by Muslim forces.
The Israel-obsessed right-wing podcasters, who claim to stand for Christian values and decency, barely (if ever) mention the slaughter of their co-religionists.
They’re too busy with another topic.
In Sudan, another civil war has broken out.
Around 150,000 civilians have been murdered so far, while around 12 million have been displaced from their homes.
Again, Christians, along with non-Arab minorities, are among the most vulnerable.
Much like Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sudanese Armed Forces (backed by countries like Turkey and Iran) enjoy producing gleeful videos of their wanton killing sprees.
On the other side of the war is the Rapid Support Forces, who are not much better.
Not long ago they teamed up with SAF to ethnically cleanse the Sudanese population of non-Arabs.
Yet, this campaign of extermination garners no mentions from The Squad.
No Ben & Jerry’s co-founder has created a special flavor for the millions of victims of the Sudanese Islamist.
The leaders of France, Britain and Canada have yet to preen in front of the cameras as they recognize a state for the minorities of Sudan.
Then again, Christians, who predate Muslims in the Middle East by centuries, have been driven out or massacred in most Islamic nations.
In the 20 years since Iraq was freed from Saddam Hussein, the Christian population has shrunk from 1.4 million to around 120,000.
In Syria, the Christian population has dramatically contracted, as well, and is in constant danger.
Christians made up somewhere around 80% of the Lebanese population at one point.
Now it is under 30%.
In Turkey, where Muslims have hit a hat trick of genocides (Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks), the Christian population has shrunk from around 20% to somewhere around 0.2%.
The Coptic Christians of Egypt live in constant fear.
The Christian population in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank significantly decreased since Palestinians took control.
If Israel annexed Christ’s birthplace, Bethlehem, tomorrow, of course, the Christian population would immediately explode.
It’s difficult not to notice that Islamists are generally given a pass by the same Westerners who spend their days accusing Israel of war crimes.
Not that Israel-obsessives care about Muslim victims, either, mind you, if the oppressor isn’t a Westerner.
In Yemen, Iran-funded Houthis have sparked another civil war.
Somewhere around 17 million people teeter on the edge of starvation daily, including over a million children.
You won’t see any flotillas packed with privileged celebrities dressed in keffiyehs headed to a Yemeni port to feed children in hunger.
Of course not. Unlike the Israelis, who gave activists air-conditioned rooms and airline tickets back to the comforts of their European homes, the Houthis would almost surely be less gracious.
There are no protests over Turkish ethnic cleansing efforts of Kurds from their own nation to northern Syria and Iraq.
There are no big banners flown at left-wing protests condemning the Chinese Communists’ ethnic cleansing campaigns against Uighurs, Tibetans, Dzungar and Hui and others.
The Democratic Party’s mayoral candidate in New York City, who’s spent his adult life pretending to be a humanitarian, doesn’t think it worth mentioning this barbarism.
Those who rail against AIPAC never seem to care about the billions of dollars the petro-sheiks of Qatar dump into our institutions to corrode Western values.
Conversion to Christianity, incidentally, is still an apostasy in Qatar, punishable by the death sentence.
Do the young people, left and right, who’ve been propagandized into believing that Israel — and American Jews — are their enemy understand all of this is going on? Probably not.
Israel’s imaginary genocide dominates news coverage because progressives are obsessed with “colonizers” and the populist social-media bigots use the Jewish state to spread their own paranoia.
If they’re interested, however, there is plenty of real ethnic cleansing to protest.
