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Australia’s Fantasy of Social Cohesion by Nils A. Haug

Posted By on September 15th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21906/australia-fantasy-of-social-cohesion

As early as 1974, the Islamist agenda to dominate Western nations was disclosed by Algeria’s Houari Boumedienne in his speech to the United Nations: “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”

Australia’s decision to recognize a fictitious Palestinian state, as well as France’s, Britain’s and Canada’s, totally contravenes the current requirements of international law for nations.

The Australian government apparently believes that Islamophobia adversely affects social cohesion. What it has yet to comprehend is that the concept of Islamophobia is a two-edged sword, sometimes employed to suppress genuine criticism of some of the tenets of Islam, but also to neutralize any criticism of the religion before it can even begin

“Hamas is not just at war with Israel. It is at war with Jews, Christians, and the very foundations of civilization itself…. This is not politics, this is a religious war. Its purpose is to replace Judaism and Christianity with radical Islam. If the world does not understand this, everyone will pay the price.”– Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, jns.org. August 17, 2025

“The hardest decision any leader has to make is to thwart a danger before it fully materializes.” — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, israelhayom.com, June 13, 2025

Europe’s weak leadership has failed in this regard, resulting in a catastrophic social crisis for their nations. The question is whether or not Australia will follow a similar course of submission, a recipe for losing the West.

In accordance with a policy of purported social cohesion and ostensibly to prevent “Islamophobia,” Australia’s Labor Party government, primarily represented by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, perturbingly appear to be minimizing the malignant, often violent Jew-hatred now occurring in the major cities of Australia.

While many acts of terror are being perpetrated against the Jewish community (here and here), the Australian government has been fast-tracking hundreds of potentially dangerous Palestinians into the country as refugees without proper vetting.

The only country really suited to properly vetting Palestinians and potential jihadist radicals would be Israel. Israeli representatives however, are regarded almost as “personae non gratae” in Australian these days. Some have actually been barred entry.

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The Latest Jihad Terror Attack in Jerusalem Why Israel fights. Hugh Fitzgerald

Posted By on September 15th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-latest-jihad-terror-attack-in-jerusalem/

The manic focus on the IDF’s war in Gaza, and the denunciation of the Jewish state by much of the world for its putative “war crimes” and “genocide” in the Strip may have just been temporarily halted, as the latest terror attack in Jerusalem reminds the giddy globe of why Israel fights. More on the jihad attack can be found here and here: “Six killed, 6 seriously injured in Jerusalem as terrorists open fire on bus, pedestrians,” by Emanuel Fabian, Charlie Summers, Jeremy Sharon and Nava Freiberg, Times of Israel, September 8, 2025:

Six people were murdered Monday and 12 were wounded, six of them seriously, when a pair of Palestinian terrorists opened fire on vehicles and pedestrians in Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction.

The two gunmen, residents of the West Bank, arrived at the junction shortly after 10 a.m. — according to some reports, by car — and opened fire at people waiting at a bus stop as well at a bus that had just stopped there.

Police said that a soldier and a number of civilians who were present at the scene fired at the terrorists and killed them.

The military said the soldier was an off-duty squad commander in the military’s new Hasmonean Brigade, a unit for ultra-Orthodox troops. Magen David Adom said four of the victims were declared dead at the scene, while two others were rushed to hospital and later succumbed to their wounds.

At least six others were listed in serious condition, as well as two whose status was moderate and three who were lightly hurt, according to MDA.

The dead were named as Levi Yitzhak Pash, 57, Yaakov Pinto, 25, Yisrael Matzner, 28, and Rabbi Yosef David, 43, Rabbi Mordechai Steintzag, 79, and Sarah Mendelson, 60.

The two terrorists were identified by the Shin Bet security agency as Mohammad Taha, 21, from Qatanna, and Muthanna Amro, 20, from Qubeiba. Neither had prior arrests, according to the Shin Bet.

“Why they fight” — why the Israelis fight — has just been brought, again, to our collective attention.

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The Qatar Lobby Is Real — and a Real Problem Andrew Doran

Posted By on September 15th, 2025

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/the-qatar-lobby-is-real-and-a-real-problem/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=second

The Israel lobby (if there even is one) is merely a distraction from the Qatar lobby — perhaps the most pernicious foreign influence inside America today.

Adecade ago, a colleague and I developed a proposal for a project that would provide legal representation to Christian, Yazidi, and other ISIS victims then residing in the U.S. against those who had materially cooperated in the terrorism they had endured.

There was considerable evidence that wealthy individuals and even some governments — one prominent among them — had financed the terrorists, especially in Syria and Iraq, using various financial institutions and transfer mechanisms along the way, in violation of several U.S. laws. The goals were to punish the financiers, compensate the victims, and deter such conduct in the future.

We approached a law firm led by a distinguished attorney, someone we believed, as a former public servant and avowedly devout Christian, would be sympathetic. At the second meeting, a snag arose: The firm could not, or perhaps would not, represent the victims pro bono.

Months later, that law firm was retained by Qatar. The firm had sold its services to one of the leading financiers of extremism, which precluded the firm from pursuing legal action against Qatar or individual Qataris who funded U.S.-designated terror groups, and made their lawyers aware of possible legal vulnerabilities. It was a bitter reminder that Beltway ruthlessness can know few limits — and that the most influential also tend to be the quietest.

Foreign influence has been a challenge since America’s Founding, when domestic factions often favored alliances with either Britain or France. In recent years, the malign influence of adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran has made headlines. But it is Israel’s putatively disproportionate (and putatively malign) sway over U.S. foreign policy that has been the most enduring controversy.

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Mind Your Language, Lefties Phil Shannon

Posted By on September 15th, 2025

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/the-left/mind-your-language-lefties/

There is a push by some of the less insane lefties in the US to get the Democrats to talk normally, like the rest of humanity, instead of in their progressive pidgin patois.  According to a liberal (i.e. leftist) think-tank calling itself The Third Way, Democrats “who wish to stop Donald Trump and MAGA” should first stop using “words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dream of saying”.

So, it’s out with terms like “birthing person” and “LGBTQIA+” and it’s in with words like mother and gay or homosexual.  Out, also, go the lazy, dismissive labels and clichéd epithets which the more highly strung reaches of the Left use for people of differing political opinions, terms such as ‘cookers’, ‘anti-vaxxers’ (of course), the go-to slur of ‘far right’ and ‘conspiracy theorists’ (who are often further vilified by the adjective ‘fringe’ and sometimes additionally dirtied by a second adjective making them ‘dangerous fringe conspiracy theorists’).

Calling everyone who marches for curbs to immigration an evil Nazi white-supremacist, which I’m sure we can all agree is a deeply original and compelling political critique the likes of which nobody has heard for at least ten, oh even twenty, seconds, may actually be a little overwrought and not all that conducive to halting the steady stream of sensible Democrats who are deserting their political home.

The words and phrases to be exiled from leftist discourse are classed under six categories:  Therapy-speak, Seminar Room Language, Organizer Jargon, Gender/Orientation Correctness, The Shifting Language of Racial Constructs and Explaining Away Crime.

The following examples give a flavour of just how far the linguistic gangrene has spread in the progressive patient and which The Third Way wishes to excise (my suggestions about what these terms really mean are added in italics):

♦ incarcerated people [criminals]

♦ justice-involved individuals [ditto, for example the repeat offender Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., with at least fourteen prior arrests, who offed the Ukrainian lass on the train was a justice-involved individual].

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The ignorance and idiocy of Hollywood’s Israel boycott These Israelophobic luvvies care about one thing only – their self-image. Jake Wallis Simonsn

Posted By on September 15th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/14/the-ignorance-and-idiocy-of-hollywoods-israel-boycott/

In Israel, there is a thriving television and film industry, which in recent years has become admired around the world. If you are one of the few people who have not watched the thriller, Fauda, a global sensation in Hebrew and Arabic that is particularly popular in the Arab world, binge it immediately; a new season is due for release in the coming months.

Shtisel is another example of Israeli creativity, though in a very different way; it is a profound and reflective series about life in ultra-orthodox Jerusalem. And the brilliant Hatufim, or Prisoners of War, which was the model for American smash hit Homeland, is harder to track down but well worth the effort.

For those with arthouse tastes, I’d recommend The Band’s Visit, a lovely little film about the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra travelling from Egypt to perform in Israel and getting lost in a small town in the Negev desert.

Good stuff. It’s no surprise, really. As the only democracy in the Middle East, which faces enemies on every border and holds a remarkable history of anguish and triumph, the Jewish State has much material on which to draw.

The fact that it has a vibrant gay scene – Tel Aviv hosts one of the best Pride parades on Earth, I’m told – is testament to its liberal heart, despite the far-right thugs temporarily in its governing coalition. And where you find an open society, you find a vibrant arts scene.

Palestine, not so much. Whether on the West Bank or in Gaza, this is a place where it can be fatal to be homosexual. This was appallingly demonstrated by the 2022 murder of Ahmad Abu Marhia, a gay Palestinian who was kidnapped from Israel where he was seeking refuge, dragged back to Hebron and beheaded.

Television programmes and films are produced by Palestinians, of course, but suffice to say that none of them has appealed to Western tastes. Our enthusiasm for their culture seems limited to that which we can appropriate, like the keffiyeh. Anything that requires a deeper engagement with the autocratic society that has laboured so long under corrupt and brutal leaders is rather more tricky.

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Heather Mac Donald An Ideology Whose Logic Leads to Murder It was grimly fitting that Charlie Kirk was slain on a college campus—source of the “hate speech equals violence” ethic that demonizes opponents and demands that they be silenced.

Posted By on September 15th, 2025

https://www.city-journal.org/article/charlie-kirk-murder-speech-violence

Not even Utah Valley University is immune.

On August 31, 2025, a Change.org petition titled “Stop Charlie Kirk From Spreading Hate on Utah Campuses” started circulating. Motivated by Kirk’s upcoming appearances at Utah Valley University and Utah State University, the petition embraced the equations favored by student narcissists everywhere when those students seek to censor and exclude:

Proposition one: speech that challenges campus orthodoxies is “hate speech.”

Proposition two: people who disagree with campus orthodoxies are “haters.”

Proposition three: “hate speech” and “haters” cause harm.

Proposition four: because of that harm, “hate speech” and “haters” should be silenced, stigmatized, and excluded from college campuses and other citadels of tolerant, inclusive culture.

The petition dressed up those equations with the familiar tropes of student sanctimony and fragility:

Kirk’s presence on campus would be a “threat to the inclusive, respectful environment that our campuses are supposed to represent.”

Universities have a “responsibility to protect students from harassment, hostility, and the legitimization of hate under the banner of ‘debate.’”

“When speakers with a record of targeting marginalized groups are given the microphone, the result isn’t dialogue—it’s harm.”

Were Utah Valley University and Utah State University to allow Kirk to speak, they would be “endorsing rhetoric that directly undermines their stated commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

These hothouse phrases are usually associated with the denizens of the Ivy League and other selective colleges, but the ideology of totalitarian safetyism has spread to every college campus that is not explicitly and militantly countercultural—including, it would seem, Utah Valley University.

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Was the Current Madness Birthed in the University? America’s descent into violence and moral chaos—from Kirk’s assassination to suppressed crime truths—traces back to the toxic ideologies nurtured in universities. By Victor Davis Hanson

Posted By on September 15th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/15/was-the-current-madness-birthed-in-the-university/

America is currently sick.

The young conservative organizer and media personality Charlie Kirk was just murdered in a political assassination by a 22-year-old ‘anti-fascist’ and trans advocate, Tyler Robinson. As planned, he eliminated the most astute and successful political activist in a generation. Indeed, Kirk may well have ensured that Donald Trump won the 2024 election by not just increasing his youth vote by 6 percent since 2020 but, more importantly, by margins in the swing states of 15-24 percent, ensuring Trump’s victory.

No sooner was he killed than thousands on left-wing social media erupted in celebration—among them scores of teachers and professors. Their venom was eerily reminiscent of their earlier canonization of left-wing murderer Luigi Mangione. Recall, Mangione was the spoiled nepo baby who lethally ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Thereby, he became an icon to the Left as a social justice warrior fighting the evil capitalist system, which had so enriched himself and his own family.

Such utter moral bankruptcy was on display as well by the social media praise of Palestinian activist Elias Rodriguez (“Free Palestine”), after he brutally murdered a young Jewish couple at the Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Rodriguez supposedly showed the world how to deal with Zionists—reifying the hateful rhetoric that pervades the modern campus.

Was that ghoulishness confined to such anonymous left-wing nuts and fringe trolls?

Not really.

MSNBC’s guest “analyst,” Matthew Dowd, casually raised an asinine suggestion that the lethal shot came from a Kirk supporter firing off a round. And then, in Pavlovian fashion, he blamed the assassination of Kirk—on Kirk himself—for being an unapologetic “divisive” activist.

Dowd, who was subsequently fired by an embarrassed MSNBC president, only took his cue from anchorwoman, the untouchable Katy Tur, who first editorialized Kirk as a “divisive” figure. By her logic, would that mean that, say, a Bernie Sanders or Zohran Mamdani would also be divisive? What does Joe Biden, by Tur’s logic, deserve after labeling half the country as “semi-fascists” or reducing them to “garbage,” “chumps,” and “dregs”—or boasting he’d like to take Trump behind the gym and beat him up?

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Now We Know: Voters Were Right, ‘Experts’ Wrong, About The Biden Economy

Posted By on September 15th, 2025

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/09/15/now-we-know-voters-were-right-experts-wrong-about-the-biden-economy/

All last year, we were treated to a steady stream of stories about the “huge” and “baffling” gap between the public’s negative views about the economy and its “actual performance.”

Our favorite “economist” Paul Krugman was apoplectic. “Why are so many Americans still telling pollsters that the economy is in bad shape” when “it’s hard to overstate just how good recent economic numbers have been.”

Last week, the government issued two reports that explain why. And the reason is simple. The experts were wrong. The public was right.

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after a string of glaring mistakes in its jobs report, announced the mother of all screw-ups.

In its preliminary “benchmark” revision, the BLS admitted that almost 1 million jobs that it claimed to have been created from April 2024 through March 2025 didn’t actually exist.

This, mind you, is on top of all those monthly revisions that cut back on the number of jobs created each month. And it comes one year after the BLS made a huge downward “benchmark” revision for the year prior.

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POSITIVE NEWS FROM ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

Posted By on September 14th, 2025

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com 

Psalm 147:3. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 104:14-15
“You cause the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for people to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth. You make wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread that sustains his heart”
Millions of people are getting the message loud & clear that Israel is vital for all of us who wish to see a better future and the end of evil. This newsletter filters out the lies from biased and corrupt journalists, politicians, activists etc., to give a clear picture of what Israel is really doing for humanity.

In medicine, an Israeli Arab Professor has cleared away dangerous proteins to potentially prevent millions of young patients dying from loss of blood.  Another Israeli invention clears wounds of dead tissue to enable faster healing. And an Israeli blood test gives doctors a clear indication of the best treatment for a patient with major depression. Michael Ordman

An Israeli father, mother and two sons are in the same IDF unit in Gaza.

An Israeli invention to stop bleeding wounds could save millions of lives.

Israel honors some of its many friends in Africa and South America.

Vegan “real” milk is being launched into Israeli supermarkets.

Israeli companies are soaring in value.

The US and NATO are buying more Israeli defense systems.

More “golden” Israeli sports men and women.

Beautiful views of the pre-New Year lunar eclipse from the Holy Land.

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
And mother makes four. (TY Yanky) Shlomit has left her job as a nurse at Meir Medical Center in order to enlist in the IDF reserves. She treats wounded soldiers in the IDF’s 401st Armored Corps deep inside Gaza where her husband (600 days reserve duty) and two sons (total of 10 months in the reserves) all serve.
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/s18v004rdlx
 
The barriers are coming down. With no more threats from snipers, anti-tank weapons and mortars from Gaza, the concrete barriers that concealed Kibbutz Nahal Oz from north and central Gaza are being taken down. All terrorist infrastructure has been destroyed and the IDF now control the vantage points.
https://worldisraelnews.com/kibbutz-nahal-oz-barriers-dismantled-amid-diminished-gaza-threat/
 
A performance of honor. Singer Idan Amedi performed at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park for 30,000 reservists, their families, wounded IDF soldiers, and bereaved families. The performance was dedicated entirely to honoring those who have risked their lives and made significant sacrifices for the security of the State of Israel.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414803
 
$1.2 million for Ashkelon schools. (TY Yanky) The UK-based Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation donated $1.2 million for two Sci-Tech schools in Ashkelon, a city heavily impacted by Hamas rockets. Ronson Afridar school will receive a new state-of-the-art open-air theatre. Henry Ronson school will also be renovated.
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/ronson-family-foundation-gives-890k-to-israel-sci-tech-schools-affected-by-gaza-war/
 
Not only, but also. The record $180 million to Rabin (Beilinson) Medical Center (see here previously) was not the only donation from Israelis Shmuel and Anat Harlap. They also contributed tens of millions of shekels to the Weizmann Institute for restoring a building damaged in last June’s Iranian missile attack.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkxliir5xl
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
The bleeding edge. (TY Hazel) Prof. Abd Al-Roof Higazi of Hadassah Medical Center has developed ClearPlasma, a device that removes clot-dissolving proteins from donated plasma to quickly stop bleeding, His startup Plas-Free is now marketing ClearPlasma in Israel. Blood loss is the leading cause of death in under-45s.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-plasma-filter-promises-cutting-edge-solution-to-life-threatening-bleeds/
https://www.plas-free.com/   https://www.plas-free.com/clearplasma
 
A clean wound heals faster. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s MediWound (see here previously) has successfully completed a Phase III trial that shows its EscharEx topical, non-surgical treatment to wound bed preparation ensures a much quicker recovery for venous leg ulcers. Trials on diabetic foot ulcers are being planned.
https://mediwound.com/product/escharex/
 
Blood test identifies depression treatment. Israel’s NeuroKaire (previously Genetika+ see here) has launched BrightKaire, the world’s first blood test to personalize depression treatment. It uses AI and stem cell tech to match patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) to effective medications. Approved in US and Israel.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/byof9tp9ge
 
Preventing deadly weight loss in cancer patients. Scientists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute, and Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, have discovered the cause of cachexia – deadly weight loss responsible for roughly one-third of global cancer deaths. Targeted blockade of the right vagus nerve could prevent onset of cachexia.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-866643
 
Millions for Hadassah hospital. Members and supporters of Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, pledged $23 million for Hadassah Medical Organization, its Jerusalem medical center, as well as programs in Israel and the US. It includes $5 million for a neurorehabilitation center and $3 million for IVF.
https://www.jns.org/hadassah-supporters-pledge-23-million-for-pediatric-care-ivf-neurorehabilitation/
https://www.hadassah.org/press-release/hadassah-supporters-pledge-23-million-for-its-jerusalem-medical-center-and-other-programs
 

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Why the Left Wants the Right to ‘Lower the Temperature’ Charlie Kirk’s assassination exposed the left’s projection, their calls to “lower the temperature,” and sparked a massive surge in Turning Point’s growth and influence. By Roger Kimball

Posted By on September 14th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/14/why-the-left-wants-the-right-to-lower-the-temperature/

In the aftermath of the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk last week, does the Right need to “lower the temperature” of its rhetoric? That’s what the usual suspects on the Left are saying.

As it happens, “lowering the temperature” while simultaneously raising the intelligence of discussion was one of Charlie Kirk’s specialties. A theme of his campus “American Comeback” tour (which his widow, Erika, plans to continue) was dignified debate. “Prove Me Wrong” was Charlie’s mantra. He eagerly engaged with college students who disagreed—or, sometimes, thought they disagreed—with him about a wide range of political, social, moral, and religious issues.

If you have never seen him debate, I recommend you consult Mr. Google or one of his professional counterparts and watch Charlie in action. He was robust but also unfailingly kind, patient, and attentive to his interlocutors. The reason? He wished to persuade his audience about the rightness of his point of view, about the virtues of America, the wisdom of Christianity, and the leadership of Donald Trump.

How about his opponents? The internet is full of revelatory compilations of left-wingers denouncing their opponents as “fascists,” “Nazis,” and so on.

One series (and here is another) includes CNN’s Anderson Cooper asking Kamala Harris whether she thinks Donald Trump is “a fascist.” “Yes, I do” was her answer.

The word “fascist” had obviously been circulated by Democrat headquarters on the run-up to the 2024 election. Tim “Nimrod” Walz (remember him?) told a crowd that “No one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump and he is a fascist to his core.”

“There needs to be blood,” we are told, which is only natural, since, as Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut said, “We’re in a war right now, so you have to be willing to do whatever is necessary to save the country.” New York Governor Kathy Hochul agreed. “We are at war,” she said. In his infamous speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Joe Biden said that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” “The very foundations of our republic,” forsooth! Nancy Pelosi, reflecting on Donald Trump’s border policy, said, “I don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country and maybe there will be.”

Uprisings are something that House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries can get behind. “We are going to fight this in the streets,” a sentiment echoed by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker: “Time to step out into the streets,” he said.

It is all part of the ethic summarized by Eric “Wingman” Holder, Barack Obama’s loyal attorney general. “They go low,” he said, “we kick them.”