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Al Sharpton, a radical organizer with a platform on MSNBC and wide influence within the Democratic Party, protested Thursday outside the New York City office of billionaire investor Bill Ackman to protest the resignation, days before, of Harvard president Claudine Gay.

Tamir Adar, 38, a married father of two, was declared dead on Friday, as his community of Kibbutz Nir Oz announced that he had been murdered by Hamas on October 7, and not a hostage in Gaza, as was previously thought.

President Joe Biden kicked off his reelection campaign on Friday at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with recycled attack lines against Donald Trump that he had previously used in the 2020 presidential campaign.

The son of an imam in Gaza who was abducted by Hamas for refusing to preach its propaganda says that ordinary Palestinians want the terrorist organization to be defeated and to disappear from their lives.

Biden will say nothing about the “insurrection” in California this week, nor about any of the insurrections that he and his party have tolerated, and at times encouraged, for years.

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant released a plan on Thursday that outlines his vision for the next phase of the war against Hamas in Gaza, and for the structure of government in Gaza once Hamas has been destroyed.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby defended the Biden administration’s support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Thursday, as UNRWA faces accusations of allowing Hamas terrorists to use its facilities.

Former Harvard University president Claudine Gay claimed in a New York Times op-ed on Wednesday that she was the victim of a “trap” by “demagogues,” and that she had “been called the N-word more times than I care to count.”

Anti-Israel radicals staged an insurrection in the California State Assembly on Wednesday, shutting down the first day of the state legislative session and forcing lawmakers to flee. There were no arrests, as insurrectionists were allowed to linger in the chamber.

Pro-Palestinian protesters who marched in downtown Chicago over New Year’s weekend waved a Palestinian flag emblazoned with the image of Abu Obaida, the spokesman for the Hamas terrorist group’s military wing.

The White House called South Africa’s “genocide” claims “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without basis in fact whatsoever.”

The Hamas terror organization trains Palestinian children to prepare them to become terrorists as adults, allowing them to handle heavy weapons and guiding them through mock terror tunnels, according to videos and photos released on Wednesday.

The Palestinian Hamas terror organization has cut off talks about releasing Israeli hostages, following an attack in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed Deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri and several other Hamas officials.

Israel killed Deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri in the suburbs of Beirut in a drone attack on Tuesday evening, according to media reports that were not confirmed by the Israeli government.

A caravan of pro-Palestinian demonstrators driving around John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York City on New Year’s Day and releasing balloons, caused 60 flights to be delayed and created chaos on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

When the dust settles, Israelis need to create a process to find national consensus, if not an actual constitution, about the judiciary and other unresolved issues.

Israel’s Supreme Court struck down the first, and most moderate, of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms on Monday in a close 8-7 decision that risked dividing the country again in the midst of an existential war against Hamas terrorists.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released footage Monday taken from a GoPro camera found on the body of a dead Hamas terrorist in which another terrorist is shown disguised as a civilian while firing an anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade (RPG).

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas once again denied that its members committed rape and sexual violence during the October 7 attacks, despite ample evidence from eyewitnesses and forensic evidence recently documented by the New York Times.

The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard College, has published a series of essays offering a set of different “perspectives” on antisemitism at the university — a skeptical approach, two writers pointed out, not followed for any other group.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) told Breitbart News over New Year’s weekend that Democrats could take control of the House “without going through an election process in November of 2024.”

The UK Daily Mail has published a report on the radicalization of Palestinian children in Gaza through children’s television programming and summer camps geared to teach them to hate Jews and to commit themselves to violence against Israel.

Los Angeles County has reinstated a mask mandate for all patients and staff at health care facilities heading into 2024, as a winter surge in coronavirus cases has reached key benchmarks.

Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams says that 2024 is going to be “surprising on the upside,” rather than the grim year many observers expect.

Palestinian terrorists rang in the New Year on Sunday evening by firing a large barrage of rockets at Israeli cities at midnight, in a statement of defiance against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) advance deep into the Gaza Strip.

Massive waves resulting from a storm in the north Pacific continued to pound the California coast, posing a danger to coastal residents — but creating a unique opportunity for big wave surfers, who braved the rough conditions to ride rare monsters.

The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen fired a missile that struck the Maersk Hangzhou in the Red Sea on Saturday, according to U.S. Central Command — the first successful strike against a commercial ship since the U.S. formed a coalition to deter attacks.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Saturday that Hamas terrorists continued fighting because they believed that Israel would soon have to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) evacuated Palestinian civilians from a school in central Gaza that was being used by Hamas terrorists to fire at Israeli soldiers, and arrested and interrogated the terrorists from the building, Israel announced Saturday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed his nation on Saturday, telling them that the war against Hamas would continue for “months,” until all of Israel’s goals had been met, including the destruction of Hamas and the return of the hostages.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Friday that soldiers had found a “hideout” belonging to Gaza-based Hamas leader Yayha Sinwar, as well as a tunnel underneath the building that led to a large underground command center, which was later destroyed.

Hamas, and its Iranian sponsors, had underestimated the resilience of Israeli society. They had railed for so long against the “Zionists” that they never stopped to think what made Zionism work.

Activists for the Palestinian cause decided to protest Thursday at the World Trade Center, the site of the most destructive terror attack in American history on September 11, 2001. Last night, pro-Palestinian activists protested at the site of the World

President Joe Biden is reportedly putting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to transfer tax money to the Palestinian Authority (PA) that Israel collects on its behalf, but which it has suspended since the terror attacks of October 7.

The New York Times published a lengthy and disturbing summary on Thursday of the evidence gathered thus far supporting the accusations that Hamas terrorists raped and mutilated many Israeli women during the terror attack of October 7. Hamas also murdered about 1,200 people, and took about 240 hostages to Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released the results of its investigation into the accidental shooting of three Israeli hostages on December 15 who had escaped their Hamas captors in northern Gaza and were trying to signal to Israeli soldiers for help.