Bethlehem, the birthplace of David and Jesus, could possibly be where the next war breaks out. A new film called “UNRWA at War” indicates Hamas would be involved, with the United Nations even playing a role. When Israel entered Gaza after October 7th, soldiers found evidence that Hamas had used the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) facilities for training and weapons storage and that a number of UN workers were also active Hamas members. In the film, produced by the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research and Israel Behind the News, Hamas Minister of Religion Ismail Radwan discusses the terror group’s connections to the U.N. agency.

Over the past year since the October 7th massacre, and for most of the past four years of the Biden Presidency, we have witnessed a spike of Jew hatred and open anti-Semitism on the campuses and streets of America, with pro-Hamas Muslims and Arab-Americans at the vanguard. During this period, many of these Muslims and Arab-Americans have made the leap from harboring anti-Semitic thoughts to physically attacking Jews, desecrating Jewish institutions, and any symbol of the Jewish people or the State of Israel. Over a relatively short time span, these Jew hating mobs have created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation that most Diaspora Jews are conscious of whenever they exit the front door of their homes.

In what was commonly referred to as “the good old days”, we were accustomed to the classical type of anti-Semitism, the “gentlemen’s agreement” type of bigotry and discrimination against Jews; residential restrictions, academic restrictions, cultural restrictions, and employment restrictions. American Jews did not condone it, but overcame it and even thrived. For the past century America was a “safe haven” for American Jews enabling the Jewish community to reach the highest pinnacles in all fields of endeavor. Yet as we move backwards to the future, and as Jews are hunted down and attacked violently in broad daylight on the campuses and streets of America, all you have to do to understand this new phenomenon is listen to the declarative pronouncements made by these mobs of Muslims and Arab-Americans as they viciously attack Jews arbitrarily for no other reason than the fact that they are Jews. They openly express that they want Jews to die, and that they want to annihilate the Jewish community as a whole. They want to “kill the Jews,” perhaps with their own bare hands, and show their actions to the world through social media.

The common thread unifying this desire for the total destruction of Jews is shared by both radicalized pro-Hamas Muslims/Arab-Americans and classical Nazi ideology prior to and during the Holocaust era. This modern alliance between pro-Hamas supporters and the Nazi ideology is only the latest manifestation of a common bond dedicated to “purifying” humanity of any Jewish presence and promoting the total destruction of Jews and the State of Israel.

Underlying this unholy alliance of Jew hatred upheld by modern day radical Muslims and the Nazi ideology now spans a period that began during the 1920’s of the previous century. The Nazi ideology spoke of “redemptive anti-Semitism”, namely a form of anti-Semitism that explains all in the world by offering a form of “redemption” by exterminating and purifying humanity from the Jews. According to this idea, exterminating the Jews will prevent them from corrupting the world any further and will enable people to be redeemed and purified. “Redemptive anti-Semitism” provides a pathway to be liberated from the Jews. It begins with physically attacking Jews, expelling Jews from their homes and communities, and ends with their physical annihilation. The manifestation of “redemptive anti-Semitism” diligently implemented throughout Europe during the Holocaust, has been passed on to pro-Hamas supporters who freely profess their hatred of Jews and the State of Israel.

Islamic religious and political leaders adhere to a parallel concept that divides the world into Dar al-Islam (House of Islam) and Dar al-harb (House of War) as they broadcast daily sermons of incitement to murder Jews, promising heaven and redemption for those that carry out this call to rid the world of Jews. The Dar al-Islam are all those lands in which a Muslim government rules and the Holy Law of Islam prevails. Non-Muslims may live there on Muslim sufferance. The outside world, which has not yet been subjugated to Muslim rule, is called the “House of War,” and strictly speaking is in a perpetual state of jihad, of holy war, as imposed by the Sharia law, a canonically obligatory perpetual state of war until the whole world is either converted or subjugated to Islam.

These Islamic doctrines dissociate themselves from the prevailing values, mores, constitutions, laws, and legal regulations of American culture and society. They go one step further and claim that Sharia Law is above all “human made” local rules and regulations and have no true intent to allow for real integration but want to use the freedom of Democratic societies to strengthen their message, that Islam is not and will never be subservient to any other religion or political system. Hamas, the terrorist group that occupies Gaza, is dedicated to the murder of all Jews in Israel – a goal spelled out in its charter: the end to the Jewish state and the creation of an Islamic state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. As stated in its founding document, the Hamas Charter, Hamas is committed to waging Jihad, or holy war, in order “to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.” Its stated goal is to eliminate the Jewish state and kill Jews. That is precisely what Hamas has set out to do, and has been doing, in its present savage campaign of mass slaughter since Oct 7th.

Social media tweets and comments such as “As long as there is Jewish life in the world, peace is not possible.” have become the new norm and “redemptive anti-Semitism” will continue to radicalize Muslims and Arab-Americans to continue their crusade to free humanity from the Jews. Signs in the campuses and on the streets of America held by supporters of Hamas; “From the River to the Sea” – “Hitler was right” while waving a Palestinian flag – “Do you want to survive America? Kill the Jew snake” – “God hates Jews” – “support humanity not Israel” – “glory to the martyrs” – “let’s wipe out Israel”, are all manifestations of how “redemptive anti-Semitism” has evolved over the past four years and more so since the Oct 7th massacre. Muslim and Arab-American supporters of Hamas no longer differentiate between American Jews and Israel, no longer differentiate between a rapist and his victim, and no longer differentiate between a murderer and those murdered.

Dar al-Islam begins with the Jews only as a first step, the rest of humanity will follow.

The New York Times has quietly corrected a false statement about “Israeli occupation” that it used repeatedly earlier this year. The change follows a protest by Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI).

The controversy began this past summer, when multiple Times reporters began using a new, identical phrase when referring to the Judea-Samaria territories, claiming that “three million Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation” there. The same phrase appeared in no less than six news articles in eight days in August and September.

In early September, AFSI published a report exposing the truth: that 98% of those Arabs actually live under the rule of the Palestinian Authority, not Israel; and that the Times was falsely inflating the Arab population from 2.7-million—which the Times itself had previously reported—to 3 million.

In the weeks since AFSI’s report, the Times has reversed course. Between September 13 and November 5, the Times published five news articles and one video report about those territories. Not one of those reports claimed that “three million Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation.” In addition, the video report revised the Arab population downward to the original figure of 2.7-million.

AFSI national chairman Moshe Phillips said:

“It seems clear that editors at the Times last summer instructed their reporters to make a false statement about Israel—but once they were exposed, the editors quietly stopped using that falsehood. The fight against anti-Israel media bias may be long and difficult, but this episode demonstrates that persistence can force biased editors and reporters to correct their misstatements.”

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Established in 1970, AFSI is one of the oldest and most influential pro-Israel organizations in the United States. Its advocacy and education campaigns serve as a potent counterweight to the rising tide of Arab propaganda. AFSI is not affiliated with any political party in the United States or Israel.

An Israeli broadcast journalist reporting on world leaders who condemned the pogrom in Amsterdam paused after quoting tweets by U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to ask a snide rhetorical question.

“And guess who hasn’t responded to the antisemitic attacks in The Netherlands?” she said, sneering with unadulterated schadenfreude.

“Donald Trump,” she answered, enunciating each syllable for effect, adding sarcastically that “he must be preoccupied with other matters.”

Unlike this media figure and so many of her colleagues in the biz, the majority of Israelis, who heaved a sigh of relief over Trump’s clean-sweep victory on Nov. 5, believe that the president-elect is, indeed, very busy at the moment—you know, assembling a crew that in no way resembles the current one.

It’s true, however, that Biden and Blinken were pretty prompt, and rightly so, in their response to the ambush on Thursday night.

“The antisemitic attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam are despicable and echo dark moments in history when Jews were persecuted,” Biden tweeted on Friday. “We’ve been in touch with Israeli and Dutch officials and appreciate Dutch authorities’ commitment to holding the perpetrators accountable. We must relentlessly fight antisemitism, wherever it emerges.”

Blinken wrote: “There is no place in our world for antisemitic attacks like those against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam yesterday. The United States stands with the Dutch and Israeli governments in strongly condemning these horrible acts of violence and antisemitism in all its forms.”

All well and good. But Team Biden has some nerve to highlight Jew-hatred in Holland while remaining silent on the phenomenon that’s been busting out all over the United States throughout its nearly four-year tenure, particularly since Oct. 7, 2023.

In the immediate aftermath of the invasion of Israel by thousands of Hamas terrorists—who slaughtered 1,200 men, women and children in their beds and at a music festival; committed rapes and decapitations; set homes and people on fire; and abducted some 250 people, living and dead, to the terror tunnels of Gaza—there was an unprecedented explosion of antisemitism across America.

Campuses around the country were overtaken by mobs rooting for Israel’s annihilation (with chants of: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Must Be Free”) and calling for a “globalization of the intifada.” Though clearly a well-oiled campaign, heftily funded from outside academia, students and faculty jumped happily on the bandwagon.

Nor were these protests aimed “merely” at Israel. On the contrary, the pro-Palestinian-terrorism activists haven’t even bothered concealing that their real animosity is toward Jews. Ditto for the daily violence committed against members of the tribe strolling to synagogue, taking their kids to school, eating at kosher restaurants or simply breathing in public.

The only reason the horrifying numbers aren’t higher is that not all Jews are outwardly recognizable as such. The bulk of cases of harassment, bullying and killing, therefore, almost invariably involve Orthodox Jews, whose garb and other symbols make them more visible to antisemites.

What have Biden (who boasts of being a “Zionist” at heart), Blinken (himself a Jew) or Vice President Kamala Harris (who’s married to a Jew) done to quash antisemitism in the “land of the free and the brave”?

Less than zilch. If anything, they’ve exhibited tacit acceptance.

One method is through vague language about “hate crimes.” Not that they’ve tackled any form of crime at all, either. They’ve been behaving like the owners of chain stores, locking up the Tylenol and toothpaste rather than the shoplifters who brazenly steal whatever’s not chained down.

Nor have the powers-that-be in D.C. made the slightest effort to demand that state and city law-enforcement agencies or courts crack down on the villains ruining the lives of hard-working, tax-paying citizens.

Meanwhile, they’re continuing to wag fingers at Israel for imaginary “crimes” in Gaza, going as far as to withhold weapons and threaten additional military sanctions. So, their “condemnations” about the Amsterdam atrocity—on the eve of the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, no less—are hollow, if not utterly worthless.

Trump may not have spoken up about the Islamist immigrant hooligans in Holland, but he’s been unequivocal in his promise to prevent similar future calamities at home.

At an event last month in Florida commemorating the Oct. 7 massacre, he declared: “I will defend our American-Jewish population. I will protect your communities, your schools, your places of worship and your values. We will remove the jihadist sympathizers and Jew-haters. We’re going to remove the Jew-haters who do nothing to help our country; they only want to destroy [it].”

Remarks like these aren’t responsible for the widespread support he enjoys in Israel, however. No, that’s something he earned for policies he implemented when in the Oval Office before being replaced by Biden on Jan. 20, 2017.

The following is a partial list of his administration’s accomplishments, which in the Jewish state are only dismissed, if not opposed, by the shrinking elitist echo chamber of the chattering classes:

It recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, then vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution denouncing the move and transferred the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. It canceled the 2015 nuclear deal with the Iranian regime. It blocked a UNSC statement calling for an independent investigation into the deaths of Palestinians along the Israel-Gaza border, caused during violent weekly protests spurred and funded by Hamas. This is because it accepted Israel’s insistence that the killings had been carried out in self-defense.

It vetoed a UNSC resolution calling for “international protection” for Palestinian civilians—due to the understanding that the only Palestinian “civilians” in danger were those attacking Israelis with firebombs, knives, rocks and rockets.

It confirmed that it would cease UNRWA funding over the body’s anti-Israel activities and perpetuation of a false refugee problem. It closed the Palestine Liberation Organization mission in Washington and subsequently revoked the visas of the PLO envoy and his family members, forcing them to leave the United States. It cut $10 million of funding for bogus “conflict resolution” programs aimed at bringing about reconciliation between Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and for Jews and Arabs in Israel.

In its annual global human-rights report, its State Department replaced the word “occupied” with “Israeli-controlled” in its reference to the Golan Heights (and the West Bank). The significance of this change in language became apparent when Trump signed a presidential proclamation recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan and published an official map reflecting the new reality.

Team Trump also designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. For all of the above and more, most Israeli Jews, unlike their American counterparts, have faith in the president-elect’s vow to combat antisemitism—not just spout empty words about it.

Professor of Law Eugene Kontorovich is one of the world’s preeminent experts on universal jurisdiction and maritime piracy, as well as international law and the Israel-Arab conflict.

(JNS) Here is a list, in no particular order, of some of concrete ways the Biden-Harris administration undermined Israel and encouraged the Iranian axis, even in the months after Oct. 7, 2023—and how the Trump administration can swiftly rectify them.

1) Making BDS government policy by creating a sanctions program aimed at Jews living in Judea and Samaria.

2) Preventing Gazans from fleeing conflict to increase pressure on Israel: The Biden Administration supported the Hamas/Egypt policy of keeping Gazans trapped in Gaza, the only people in the world not allowed to flee a conflict. Joe Biden treated Egypt’s border with Gaza like he should have treated America’s with Mexico, and vice versa. Asylum seekers to America in any number, to Egypt in no number. Now Trump can flip the script.

3) Biden’s “Four No’s”: By stressing the Iranian axis can pay no territorial price for its aggression (“no reduction in territory”), Biden gave Hamas and Hezbollah an insurance policy, and set the stage for them to threaten Israel again. Donald Trump can make clear that invading neighboring countries is not guaranteed to be an at least break-even proposition.

5) Undermining the Pompeo Doctrine, which announced that Jews living in Judea and Samaria is not a war crime. It is schizophrenic to have this legal issue toggle with every administration. Now Congress can enshrine this position into law.

6) Protecting the U.N., UNRWA and UNIFIL even as it justified Oct. 7 and allowed one of its agencies, UNRWA, to become a Hamas front, and UNIFIL to be a defensive screen for Hezbollah. Trump can again defund UNRWA, but also end its immunity to lawsuits for supporting terror, and cancel UNIFIL, saving American taxpayers hundreds of millions.

7) Weapons hold-ups, of course. The most important thing Trump can do is help Israel become self-sufficient in production.

All this just gets us back to what should be a baseline—supporting a close ally as it fights for its survival against genocidal Islamist militias and states on many fronts. These Biden administration policies have prolonged the war.

After this—it will be time to talk about finally resolving the conflict in a way that will bring peace to the region, rather than set the stage for the next pogrom.