Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English: Everyone come home. New York was a refuge for us. Now???
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Remember what happened after Kristallnacht 1938, The Hate and Violence will only increase. Time to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) Do it for yourself, Do it for your Family, Contact X: @NefeshBNefesh https://www.nbn.org.il/
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New York City Jews Do not Repeat history!
30 NovemberIn November 2014 the Israeli government dedicated November 30 of every year as a day to honor and remember the Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab countries following 1948’s Arab-Israeli War. These are some of their stories
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When do we leave?Posted 28January2016 Lori Palatnik of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project thinks it is time for Jews to send their kids to live in Israel. She explained that after 9/11, she started reading about “the end of days,” and asked “a very great” rabbi – “when do we leave?” He said that the time to get out was when “they start killing Jews in the street.”Unfortunately, she said – this is precisely what is already happening in France and New York.
 How to combat the looming perfect storm for antisemitism in America A.F.BRANCO
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Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English: the place to be is Israel NOW
Don’t take risks. I pray constantly that every Jew should be safe around the world, but the place to be is Israel NOW At some point when the miracles begin – the gates to Israel will close for some time. You want to be here already! Bring your kids, prepare for them, prepare for your parents. Come because it’s the right thing, or come because you are running away BUT COME! Open your “Tik Aliyah” and fill it with prayers for Hashem to help you, your loved ones and all Israel, that there should be homes and jobs and schools and shuls for everyone! An old friend, who is considering Aliyah in the near future said the following. “We know the future of the Jewish people is not in America or Europe or Australia. It’s in Israel. Yes, moving to Israel right now is hard. There are many obstacles and challenges. Leaving our life in Teaneck or the five towns or Melbourne or London or Paris isn’t easy. It’s downright difficult. That being said, it’s not a question of “If” we’ll end up in Israel. It’s a question of “When”. So now I have a choice. Either I make the move and deal with the challenges associated with moving to Israel or I leave it to my kids to go through it. Either I make the move and build a life in Israel now, which would mean that my kids would grow up here in Israel, or I don’t, and then my kids will have to make the move with their kids and they’ll have to deal with whatever hardship arises. I’d rather make the move and deal with those challenges now then make my kids do it later. That’s what any good parent would do.” This point hit home for me. I had never thought about it that way, but it’s spot on. And if you still believe that the Jewish people have a future in the diaspora, well then, we have a whole different discussion to have.  Rabbi Shalom Arush-Breslev English-tweet-25November2025-the place to be is Israel NOW
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 Nefesh B’Nefesh-Violent Protest Outside of Park East Synagogue, NYC-Our commitment remains unwavering
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The Rebbe Fled During Danger!
In 1940, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, didn’t stay behind in Warsaw. He fled. He saw what was coming — Nazi tanks, burning synagogues, and roundups — and made the painful but necessary choice to leave. Today, Jewish life in New York faces growing danger. Jewish leaders must learn from history. The Rebbe’s strength was not in standing still but in acting early — protecting life so faith could continue elsewhere. It’s time for honest leadership. New York is no longer safe for Jewish life. Leave while you still can — and rebuild wherever you go. Today we have a Jewish state  Betar Worldwide-tweet-6November2025-The Rebbe Fled During Danger
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Some really creative ideas to deal with Zohran Mamdani
Israel needs to have an Emergency Aliyah program that will entail both Nefesh B’Nefesh, The Jewish Agency and Israeli family contacting their friends and family members still living outside of Israel.
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2 Israeli women mugged at New York subway stationTwo Israeli tourists attacked, robbed at knife-point in mugging at Brooklyn subway station.Arutz Sheva Staff, 08December2019 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/272879 |
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 A_F_BRANCO Mamdani for NYC Mayor Free Stuff Mousetrap NYC-No Trucks No Goods: The Former Cuban Jews need to talk to the New York City JewsJerusalemCats Comments: Zohran Mamdani is a Jihadist Socialist. Think Cuba under Fidel Castro
“We’ve instructed our dispatchers to reject loads to any of the Five Burroughs,” said Company Spokesman Joe Barron, “We don’t see a way to continue doing business in the Big Apple..” The news comes as Mamdani released his plan to increase revenue across the city by quadrupling the cost of tolls, licensing, permits, and inspections of all commercial vehicles. “He’s going to put a lot of the independent truckers out of business.”  Capt Kyle-tweet-9November2025-NYC-No Trucks No Goods
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Zohran Mamdani (D) wins New York City mayor election
Zohran Mamdani (D) wins New York City mayor election, according to DDHQ.  JerusalemCats-tweet-5November2025-Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor election
Zohran Mamdani’s “Useful Idiots”
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Women are preparing for Zohran Mamdani with Pigs
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AMICHAI CHIKLI — Israel’s minister for combating antisemitism warns Mamdani win a wake-up call for JewsMamdani’s victory raises concerns about community safety in city with world’s largest Jewish population outside IsraelBy Amichai Chikli Fox News
On Tuesday night, New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani mayor. By doing so, the city that once stood as the world’s beacon of liberty has handed the keys of power to a Hamas sympathizer.
This marks a critical turning point for the city of New York — home to the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel. The city’s elections have determined whether New York remains a safe home for more than a million Jews or continues the dangerous slide that began two years ago, when vile pro-Hamas protests took over campuses like CUNY and NYU — and especially Columbia University, which became a symbol and stronghold of Hamas support in the United States, spilling into the streets of Manhattan.
It is almost unthinkable that New York — the proud and historic center of Jewish life — could become the American city where Jews no longer feel at home or safe.
But with the election of Mamdani as mayor, that unthinkable scenario is now a reality. New York will never be the same — particularly for its Jewish community. Mamdani, like his mentor Linda Sarsour, represents the “Red-Green Alliance” — the dangerous strategic partnership between radical Islamism and the far-left progressive movement. What unites them is a loathing for the very idea of liberty — the symbol of New York itself — and a pathological hatred of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
This alliance works to infiltrate political Islamism within the United States under the camouflage of social welfare and human rights. Their goal is to take over America’s cultural, academic, and political institutions just as they have done successfully in parts of Western Europe. They say it openly: all that’s needed is a willingness to listen. And New York is now one step closer to becoming the next London.
They work to infiltrate political Islamism within the United States under the camouflage of social welfare and human rights. Their goal is to take over America’s cultural, academic and political institutions just as they have done successfully in parts of Western Europe. They say it openly: all that’s needed is a willingness to listen. And New York is just moments away from becoming the next London.
This wasn’t an election only between Cuomo and Mamdani, but between liberty and the values of the American Republic on one side and political Islam on the other. This is, without a doubt, the biggest Muslim Brotherhood victory in the United States — and possibly the entire Western world. From the capital of the West to electing a mayor who embraces the genocidal call to “globalize the Intifada.”
This infiltration is backed by Muslim Brotherhood regimes, first and foremost by Qatar.
It must also be recognized that under the leadership of President Donald Trump and his team, this administration has tackled antisemitism like never before — unlike the previous administration, which thought it was a good idea to include CAIR in its strategic plan to combat antisemitism. With decisive action — not empty words — this current administration is making Jewish students safe again throughout America.
Yet at the same time, a toxic strain of antisemitism is rising rapidly from within the political right. Influencers, media personalities, think tanks, student organizations and even elected officials are giving platforms and legitimacy to neo-Nazi rhetoric, Holocaust deniers, and the most absurd conspiracy theories — all under the deceptive banner of “free speech.” The same foreign powers that drove the pro-Hamas demonstrations throughout America just last year are very likely driving this divide within the political right today.
Their goal is clear: to sow division between Christians and Jews and break the unbreakable alliance between the U.S. and Israel.
Three years ago, when I became Israel’s minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, I viewed right-wing antisemitism in America as marginal and fringe. Yes, we confronted neo-Nazi attacks like the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. But I believed the true ideological threat came from the woke left — and at the time, that was correct.
But today, the tide has shifted. Neo-Nazism is being normalized, amplified and excused. And now, as Senator Ted Cruz said so powerfully, the conservative movement in America stands at a dramatic crossroads. This is a moment of moral choosing.
As Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks taught: “The hate that begins with the Jews never ends with the Jews.” The same forces that hate Jews also hate Blacks, Hispanics and anyone who refuses to submit to their ideological purity.
As a conservative, I know it is easier to call out antisemitism when it comes from the left. But today, the most dangerous rising wave is coming from within the right, and we must say this clearly: this is not conservatism.
Conservatism is incompatible with fanaticism and racism. It is rooted in truth, faith, and human freedom. You cannot call yourself a conservative while admiring Hitler, Stalin, or the theocratic dictator who rules Iran.
You cannot call yourself a conservative while admiring Hitler, Stalin or the theocratic dictator who rules Iran.
The foundations of the American –Jewish and Judeo – Christian alliance remain strong, built upon a principle expressed by the Founders themselves: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God,” Benjamin Franklin’s proposed motto for the Great Seal of the United States in 1776, later adopted by Thomas Jefferson for his personal seal.
This is the cornerstone of the Judeo – Christian tradition and of the American–Israeli partnership.
And in the end — truth prevails. Amichai Chikli has been the Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism in the Israeli government since Dec. 2022.
Sunday NY Memorial for Rav Kahane – after Mamdani victory Please forwardYekutiel Ben Yaakov from E-Mail 6November2025
*Jews to Memorialize Kahane This Sunday in New York**
As Jihadists Celebrate Mamdani’s Victory
Mamdani’s landslide victory on the 35th anniversary of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s assassination has reminded many of Kahane’s chilling predictions.
Ironically, it was 35 years ago today that Rabbi Meir Kahane, zt”l, was assassinated in the first major jihadist attack in New York City. In his final New York speech, he called for emergency aliyah. His predictions have, sadly, become a reality. New York City has just suffered another major jihadist onslaught in the form of Mamdani’s sweeping victory in the mayoral race.
With Mamdani holding the keys to Gracie Mansion, he will have the power to appoint the New York City Police Commissioner as well as the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education—two extremely sensitive positions that will profoundly impact the lives of every New Yorker who remains in the city. What was once referred to as “Jew-York” and “Hymietown” for its large and influential Jewish community is now being referred to by some as “Mamdani’s Jihad-NY.”
This Sunday, November 9, the Jewish community will gather in Brooklyn to memorialize Rabbi Kahane, reflect on his prophetic warnings, and discuss the importance of Jewish self-defense and aliyah. Clearly, many New Yorkers do not believe that Mamdani will provide Jews with the protection they need. Many fear he will allow Jew-haters free rein to attack Jews. Some still remember the Crown Heights pogrom after the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum, when then-Mayor David Dinkins did little to protect the Jewish community.
The memorial will take place at
Organizers are urging the Jewish community to attend.
Yekutiel Guzofsky, Rabbi Kahane’s Chief of Operations, has flown in especially to address the gathering. Noted journalist Fern Sidman, former Director of the JDL, and others will also speak.
On Sunday evening another interesting and important event will be held in NYC at the Blue Moon Hotel in the Lower East Side, a fundraising donner for the IDU Israel Dog Unit, for mor e info email guzofskyyekutiel@gmail.com
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October 20, 2023.jihadist enabler, Zohran Mamdani leads an anti-Israel rally.Zohran Mamdani is a jihadist enabler
Just 13 days after Gazans butchered 1,200 Israelis in a single day. A jihadist in a suit. He’s not a lawmaker—he’s a jihadist enabler in a blazer, normalizing “intifada” chants as NYC’s Jewish community braces for his mayoralty. Adams fights crime. Cuomo restored order. Mamdani? He’d turn NYPD into a DEI seminar while Columbia’s Hamas fan club drafts his policy.  Vivid.-tweet-3November2025-20October2023-Zohran Mamdani leads an anti-Israel rally
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JerusalemCats Comments: The warning is real even if it is from The Babylon Bee
State Department Issues Travel Advisory For New York City5November2025 · BabylonBee.com https://babylonbee.com/news/state-department-issues-travel-advisory-for-new-york-city  New York City Travel Advisory level 4
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the city’s election of an avowed and unrepentant socialist, the U.S. State Department issued an immediate and urgent travel advisory for New York City.
According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, New York City had become too dangerous for any casual tourists to visit.
“As of this morning, the State Department has chosen to issue a ‘Level 4: Do Not Travel’ advisory for New York,” Rubio said at a press conference. “Because of significant threats to life and limb, U.S. citizens are advised to avoid any non-essential and even most necessary travel to New York. Should such visits prove absolutely necessary, travelers should arrive prepared with combat helmets, bulletproof vests, and any necessary air support on speed dial.”
Officials within the administration confirmed that it simply wouldn’t be right to allow Americans to travel to such a dangerous place without warning them beforehand.
“It’s no Afghanistan — or worse, L.A. — but New York will get there pretty soon,” said one White House insider. “Americans should get out of there before things really start to fall apart. May God have mercy on those poor souls who are currently being trapped under the Mamdani regime.”
At publishing time, matters in New York had escalated so quickly that senior military leaders were debating whether to launch a ground offensive to liberate the city.
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New York City Antisemitism after Zohran Mamdani became New York City Mayor
Unbelievable.  Vivid.-tweet-5November2025-Nazi swastikas on the Magen David Yeshiva
Zohran Mamdani wants October 7
Zohran made it crystal clear: That’s not “policy disagreement.”  Jews Fight Back-tweet-8November2025-Zohran Mamdani wants October 7
Israel considers CLOSING CONSULATE in NYC after MAMDANI VICTORY!
Israel considers CLOSING CONSULATE in NYC after MAMDANI VICTORY !  Shiri_Sabra-tweet-5November2025-Israel may close NYC consulate
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New York City under Zohran Mamdani
RIP New York  Chaya’s Clan-tweet-5November2025-New York City under Zohran Mamdani
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Trump admin doesn’t trust NYC to handle Jew-hatred, Terrell saysThe head of the U.S. Justice Department antisemitism task force told JNS that the president will take “decisive action” if the city’s mayor-elect “turns his back on the Jewish American community.”https://www.jns.org/trump-admin-doesnt-trust-nyc-to-handle-jew-hatred-terrell-says/ Mike Wagenheim
(2December2025 / JNS) The Trump administration will not allow Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, to neglect Jews in the city, according to Leo Terrell, chair of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism.
“If this mayor turns his back on the Jewish American community, President Trump will take decisive action and the weight of the Department of Justice will be in New York City,” Terrell told JNS. “I can guarantee you of that.”
U.S. President Trump held a civil press conference with Mamdani, who has said he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if the premier comes to the city, after the two met in the Oval Office. The president called the meeting “very productive” and joked about the mayor-elect considering him a fascist.
Terrell told JNS that there is an “ongoing investigation” about a chaotic, antisemitic protest outside a Nefesh B’Nefesh event at Park East Synagogue in Manhattan last month.
“We don’t trust the city of New York to do the right thing,” he said.
Terrell told JNS that he doesn’t think Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, will pursue charges against protesters who blocked the synagogue’s front entrance, barring congregants from safely accessing the building.
The Trump administration “will not allow Jewish Americans to be denied their right to practice their religion,” Terrell said.
The Justice Department official said that time will tell whether Mamdani, whose press secretary responded to the protest by stating that synagogues shouldn’t host events that violate international law, will change his behavior once he becomes mayor.
“I don’t think there is any prior indication that Mamdani is going to protect Jewish Americans,” he told JNS.
Terrell told JNS that Northwestern University’s $75 million settlement with the Trump administration over a probe that included alleged Jew-hatred was the result of a “full frontal attack” to eradicate antisemitism on campus.
“We’re expanding our efforts to K-12,” he said.
Some schools have been turning to courts to challenge the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze grant money and to push punishing settlements. Terrell said Trump has a high rate of success in the U.S. Supreme Court, even as some lower-level court decisions have gone against the administration.
“I can guarantee you that President Trump is going to pursue every avenue legally, and if it takes going to the Supreme Court, he will do it,” Terrell said. “That’s why these universities, before they get to the Supreme Court, many of them will try to resolve these cases.”
If anything, the Trump administration isn’t sufficiently aggressive, according to Terrell.
“These universities have been used to indoctrinate hate, and now they’re targeting K-12, and what I feel is that if there’s going to be a settlement, let’s make sure there’s safeguards in place where kids, students, faculty members and anyone of the Jewish religion are not to be intimidated or harassed,” he said.
The Trump administration began pursuing cases against Ivy League schools and large university systems, such as the University of California, to “provide a deterrent effect,” but it is well aware of problems at smaller and lesser-known schools. “This phone never stops ringing, because there are problems all over,” Terrell said.
He added that his task force is working on a “50-state rapid response, to make sure we go where the problem is and not ignore any state, any city,”
“I will submit to you that a lot of local mayors, prosecutors, law enforcement agencies, they don’t even know how to address antisemitic behavior,” he said. “They don’t record it properly in their criminal reports.”
The task force, which Terrell said aims to set up “policies and doctrine” for the Justice Department but isn’t involved in litigation, is trying to codify policies on Jew-hatred so they will have a longer shelf-life than the executive orders the president signs. The panel is also meeting with members of Congress to discuss its projects.
“We want to make sure legislation is in place, to make sure not just Jewish Americans, but all Americans are protected in their protected class status and religious freedom,” he said.
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Zohran Mamdani’s campaign was backed by the Muslim Brotherhood
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Inside the Mamdani Machine: Soros cash, socialists and radical imams engineered Zohran Mamdani’s path to powerZohran Mamdani’s political ascent involved $2.5M in Soros funding and ties to controversial imamsBy Asra Q. Nomani Fox News
In late September 2017, Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, once the darling of the Women’s March and the self-declared face of the “resistance” against Donald Trump, was facing mounting criticism for antisemitic remarks and her embrace of extremist views.
But, beaming in a photograph taken on a city sidewalk, Sarsour appeared unfazed, her iconic fist pumped in the air as she knelt shoulder-to-shoulder with campaign volunteers for City Council candidate Khader El-Yateem. The photo was posted by El-Yateem on the Facebook page he used to promote his campaign, which he lost, but among the smiling faces was a young organizer named Zohran Mamdani.
 In late September 2017, Palestinian American pastor Khader El-Yateem shared a photo of his campaign team from his bid to be elected to New York’s City Council from Brooklyn’s District 43. Palestinian American political organizer Linda Sarsour (far left, front row) took a knee with Zohran Mamdani (fourth from right, white shirt). El-Yattem lost the race. (@Khader El-Yateem/Facebook) (@Khader El-Yateem/Facebook)
That photo would mark the start of a carefully constructed political project that, in less than a decade, would propel a now-34-year-old socialist newcomer to the precipice of running America’s largest city – even while campaigning with radical imams, some of whom have supported terrorists and terrorist financiers.
A Fox Digital investigation reveals that Mamdani’s rise was no accident. It was engineered.
A database of 110 groups backing Mamdani exposes a tight inner circle of organizations that identify as Muslim or socialist, working hand-in-glove with 76 Democratic Party affiliates, allied groups and unions. Particularly important in this political machine are two networks – Sarsour’s MPower organizations and another constellation of groups called Emgage, with which she works closely.
The organizations have been generously funded. In total, billionaire George Soros’s Open Society philanthropies have given MPower and Emgage nearly $2.5 million in recent years, according to tax filings.
 #MyMuslimVote Organizing Summit” with Zohran Mamdani, then the Democratic nominee for the 36th District to New York’s General Assembly, Women’s March cofounder Tamika Mallory and former Michigan gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed. ( MPower Change/email)
“We fund a range of civil society organizations that work to deepen civic engagement through peaceful democratic participation, counter discrimination including against Muslim Americans and advance human rights,” a spokesperson for Open Society Foundations told Fox News Digital. “The grants that you cite all occurred years before the mayoral race, and we are a nonpartisan organization that does not fund political candidates and their campaigns.”
Mamdani, Sarsour and the groups supporting Mamdani’s campaign didn’t return requests for comment.
MPower and Emgage have been part of a tight inner circle of 30 ethnic and religious groups, that also includes CAIR Action, the 501(c)(4) political wing of the 501(c)(3) Council on American-Islamic Relations nonprofit, the Islamic Circle of North America,“ “Muslim Action Coalition,” Yemeni American Merchants Associations Inc., the “Bangladeshi American Advocacy Group” and “Desis Rising Up and Moving.” They have pumped up Mamdani’s campaign with social media campaigns, canvassing, voters and buzz.
Altogether, they have annual revenues of about $24 million, and they have worked to promote Mamdani’s campaign with endorsements, fund-raising, social media campaigns and canvassing.
The result: a carefully constructed political career that mainstreams the socialist goals long embraced by Sarsour and fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America.
It’s a machine that is expressing itself in races from New York to Virginia, Minnesota, Texas and California with MPower and Emgage aligning with the Democratic Socialists of America and the Democratic Party to propel candidates who may share their views. In a campaign called “Defend and Advance,” Emgage SuperPac is pushing Mamdani and Democratic Virginia Lt. Governor candidate Ghazala Hashmi as its “star candidates.”
Emgage’s “Defend and Advance” roster of supported candidates and office holders includes Dearborn, Mich., Mayor Abdullah Hammoud.
“I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here,” Hammoud recently told a Christian pastor who objected to a proposal to name a street in honor of a local man who had allegedly praised terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. “And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence.”
Emgage’s donations include $175,000 from a group little-noticed by political observers but important in Islamist circles: Sterling Charitable Gift Fund, based in Herndon, Va. It is part of a network of groups that FBI agents raided in 2002 as part of wider investigations into the funding of Palestinian terrorist groups, including Hamas. Federal prosecutors ultimately didn’t file criminal charges against any officials at Sterling Charitable Gift Fund.
 Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros smiles after delivering a speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 24, 2022. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
Over almost a decade, Sarsour and her allies have orchestrated a network of well-financed and tightly connected socialist activists, radical imams, political organizers and nonprofit organizations funded with millions of dollars by major philanthropies including Foundation to Promote Open Society, the Ford Foundation, Macarthur Foundation and the Tides Foundation.
The confluence of big philanthropy, partisan operatives and clerical authority has helped drive Mamdani’s ascent. Its architecture combines nonprofit activism with faith-based politics and the precision of a professional campaign operation.
“To the casual observer, Zohran Mamdani’s rise might appear meteoric – a story of grassroots energy and demographic change in America’s largest city,” said Dalia Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi American Muslim who is running against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, with Omar supported by the same kind of political machine being unleashed to propel Mamdani to office.
“The data, the money trail and the affiliations, from the Democratic Socialists of America to the Islamists, tells a different story.”
“Mamdani’s ascent is the product of deliberate design: a sophisticated collaboration between socialist activism and Islamist organizing, lubricated by millions in foundation grants and political donations and normalized through a revolving door of political operatives and nonprofits who embrace Islamists, the destruction of the state of Israel and hostilities to the police, the U.S. and the West,” Al-Aqidi said.
The timeline of Mamdani’s rise tracks precisely with the growth of this network. In 2012, as a student at Bowdoin College, in Maine, he cofounded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the campus organization known for its rabid anti-Israel activism. By 2017, he was canvassing for El-Yateem’s campaign with Sarsour’s mentorship.
 Activist Linda Sarsour, shown here at a demonstration in Manhattan’s Foley Square, was an early backer of Mamdani’s political aspirations. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
In 2018, Mamdani formally entered Sarsour’s orbit through the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, an organization she co-founded in 2013 to mobilize Muslim voters and elect progressive Democrats to local office. The Muslim Democratic Club of New York served as both incubator and amplifier for Sarsour’s political brand, one that fused progressive politics with an explicitly Islamist social identity. By December 2018, Mamdani joined the board, in an announcement in which the group said, “Help build Muslim power across the city with us!”
 Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani supporters gather outside 30 Rock in New York City on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Fox News Digital/Deirdre Heavey)
With his new role, Mamdani gained access to an emerging infrastructure of influence: voter lists, donor networks and organizing muscle that would later power his campaign to a seat on the New York General Assembly. The Muslim Democratic Club endorsed Mamdani.
Around that time, Sarsour was building her own empire, founding MPower Change as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit housed at Neo Philanthropy Inc. Public filings show MPower Change took in at least $2.4 million between 2017 and 2024, the latest year available, with Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society giving her organization $1.125 million and the Macarthur Foundation funneling her $450,000. It would become a flagship digital organizing hub for not just Sarsour but Mamdani.
Meanwhile, Emgage Action was expanding its footprint nationally. Also backed by the Open Society network, Emgage Action received a share of $42.5 million that Soros’ foundations pledged to Muslim, Arab and South Asian civic groups beginning in 2021. It has received $1.8 million from the Open Society Policy Center and another $1.35 million from the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Together, MPower Change and Emgage created an unprecedented financial and political ecosystem, leveraging big philanthropy’s dollars and digital strategy to elevate candidates like Mamdani under the banner of Muslim empowerment.
In 2020, Mamdani won his first election to the New York State Assembly, with Sarsour’s explicit endorsement and fundraising help.
By 2020, Mamdani was being featured in Sarsour’s #MyMuslimVote summit, promoted by MPower Change as the face of a new generation of unapologetic Muslim progressives. By this year, his campaign for mayor became the culmination of that project — backed by PAC money, boosted by clerical endorsements and legitimized by an activist ecosystem that had spent a decade grooming him for this very moment.
 New York City Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, spoke to supporters at a canvass launch event in Prospect Park on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
To push Mamdani toward the helm of the nation’s biggest city, the network extended far beyond activist circles. Central to Mamdani’s political ascent was a series of carefully cultivated relationships with clerics with some troubling views.
In January, Mamdani courted Imam Muhammad Al-Barr of the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, visiting his mosque just months after Al-Barr had publicly prayed to “annihilate” Israel.
In May, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, the longtime imam of Brooklyn’s Masjid Al-Taqwa, personally donated $1,000 to the Unity and Justice Fund. More recently, Mamdani met with Wahhaj and called him “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community.”
Wahhaj, who served as a character witness in the trial of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh” later convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has a long history of calling for the exploitation of America’s democracy to further a conquest for Islam.
“You don’t get in politics because it’s the American thing to do,” he said in a videotaped 1991 sermon. “You get involved in politics because politics can be a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”
Wahhaj has also denounced the U.S. government as “controlled by Shaitan,” the Arabic word for the devil, urged Muslims not to befriend “non-believers,” condemned homosexuality as “a disease of this society,” and supported Islamic laws that punish sex outside of marriage with 100 lashes and stoning. In 2011, Wahhaj urged Muslims to donate to the legal defense of the since-convicted Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist dubbed “Lady Al Qaeda” for attempting to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Over the years, Wahhaj’s sermons have praised “jihad” without “a gun,” called for an Islamic America governed by sharia law and urged the creation of an “army of 10,000 men in New York City.”
Other imams now backing Mamdani’s mayoral run have also been controversial. Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, a cleric leading the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem, co-founded the Muslim Alliance in North America, alongside Wahhaj. In 2005, Abdur-Rashid publicly defended Rafiq Sabir, an American doctor who joined Al Qaeda and was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison.
 Independent candidate and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, speaks during a mayoral debate with Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, center, and Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in New York City. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, Pool)
In 2008, Abdur-Rashid defended Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian American professor whom the U.S. later deported to Turkey for “conspiring to provide services” to Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Still in the U.S., Al-Arian’s wife joined the anti-Israel encampments at Columbia University.
In September, Mamdani appeared as the special guest speaker at Abdur-Rashid’s annual gala. A month earlier, Muslim Association of North America’s social media featured Abdur-Rashid visiting Wahhaj’s mosque, underscoring the continued collaboration between the two imams.
In Manhattan, Imam Khalid Latif, the executive director of the Islamic Center at New York University, has been another prominent Mamdani backer. Latif publicly endorsed Mamdani on Facebook in June, calling him “a bearer of compassion in a time where it is far too rare.”
In 2012, Latif led a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia that included Omar Mateen, who would later murder 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest anti-LGBTQ attack in U.S. history. He has denied radicalizing Mateen and he hasn’t faced the same type of allegations that surround the other imams.
 Zohran Mamdani meets Imam Siraj Wahhaj and Yusef Abdus Salaam on Oct. 17, 2025. (@ZohranKMamdani/X)
For many Muslim political organizations backing Mamdani, these clerics are not liabilities but assets, serving as trusted gatekeepers to the city’s growing community of Muslim voters.
After Mamdani visited Wahhaj’s mosque earlier this month, he tweeted out a photo of the two with the caption: “Pleasure to meet Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders.” When a firestorm ensued, several allies rose to his defense: Sarsour, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the leaders at Emgage Action.
Sarsour shared a selfie with Mamdani, beaming, like they did back in 2017, and wrote, “May Allah continue to bless and protect you.”
A defiant Wa’el Alzayat, the executive director of Emgage Action, sent out a dispatch to followers on Tuesday, amid criticism for their political work, promising, “We are in this for the long haul.”
Back in Minnesota, Al-Aqidi closely watched the defense of Mamdani.
“For over a decade, Linda Sarsour and her network of allies have built the Mamdani machine piece by piece: the institutions, the donors, the narratives and now, the candidate. There was no way they were going to throw him under the bus for one photo with one imam whom they happen to love,” said Al-Aqidi. “Mamdani is the fresh face of a radical coalition, and I hope New Yorkers will reject him. Win or lose, one fact remains undeniable. His rise was not spontaneous. It was engineered and the machinery behind it is only getting stronger.”
Al-Aqidi said; “I hope New Yorkers will shut the Mamdani machine down.”
Asra Q. Nomani is the author of “Woke Army: The Left-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America’s Freedom,” and the founder of the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative. She is co-founder of the Clarity Coalition and Muslim Reform Movement, opposing Islamic extremism and advocating for Muslim reform. She can be reached at asra@asranomani.com and @AsraNomani on X.
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Starbucks abruptly closes dozens of NYC locations in ‘chaotic’ downsizing: ‘No warning, no heads up’By Lisa Fickenscher
Starbucks’ surprise plans to close dozens of stores across New York City are claiming dozens of high-profile locations — and sparking chaos for employees, city officials and landlords alike, The Post has learned.
The Seattle-based coffee giant – which laid off 900 corporate staffers last week in a $1 billion restructuring plan — is shuttering some 400 plus stores across the country after reporting six consecutive quarters of sales declines.
Those include 54 coffee shops across the city’s five boroughs, according to the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Among them are seemingly prime locations on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich Village, according to a crowd-sourced spreadsheet being circulated to media this week.
Shops in the Upper West Side and the Financial District and Midtown Manhattan were likewise affected — with shuttered locations in the latter including 156 W. 52nd and 871 8th Ave.
Across the city, landlords were shocked by what insiders said was an unusual and chaotic approach to the closures.
“They literally put signs in windows overnight without telling landlords and building managers,” Newmark Retail vice chairman Jeffrey Roseman told The Post. “There was no warning, no heads up.” Typically, retail tenants will reach out to their landlords to negotiate potential rent concessions, Roseman said.
“There was no outreach to landlords in this case and that’s unusual for a company that’s not in bankruptcy.”
Historically, the 18,000 store chain in the US and Canada has “prided itself on having a story on every other block,” Roseman added.
A Starbucks spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
“We identified coffeehouses where we’re unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect,” Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol — hired away from Chipotle a year ago to spearhead the company’s turnaround — said In a Sept. 25 blog post.
Starbucks is likewise shuttering coffee shops “where we don’t see a path to financial performance,” Niccol added.
Nevertheless, the company may be running afoul of local labor laws, according to a warning letter the city sent to the java giant on Tuesday. Employees at stores that are closing are entitled to be offered jobs elsewhere in the same borough under the city’s Fair Workweek Law, the letter said.
“Starbucks appears poised to violate its legal obligations to employees in New York City locations,” Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga said in the letter.
Mayuga added that by law laid-off workers get first dibs on job openings near the stores that closed. She gave Starbucks until Friday to explain how it will comply with New York City labor laws.
Starbucks is facing a perfect storm of challenges, including increased competition from newcomers and fast food chains like McDonald’s, which is testing a new beverage concept in 500 stores in Wisconsin and Colorado.
An aggressive labor campaign by Starbucks United has resulted in 650 stores with labor contracts, of which 59 stores have been targeted for closure according to the labor group.
What’s more coffee prices have skyrocketed under new tariff policies.
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Bigwig on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team railed against Jews, questioned gay rights in vile unearthed posts: ‘Horror show’By Carl Campanile
A bigwig on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team spewed hatred against Jews and Israel and questioned gay rights in a series of odious social media posts from a decade ago.
Hassaan Chaudhary, who identifies himself as newly appointed political director for Mamdani’s transition and inaugural committee on LinkedIn, used the word “Jew” as a slur, and even praised former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who infamously said Israel is “a cancer which will be eliminated soon.”
Chaudhary, who was the director of Muslim engagement for the Mamdani campaign, also described Israel as a “bloody country” and a “barbaric nation” in the posts — some of which date back to when he was 18 years old.
More recently, Chaudhary reshared a post on X in December 2024 aimed at pro-Israel Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who is Jewish.
“If Luigi [Mangione] had shot a Gazan toddler instead, Josh Shapiro would have given him a medal,” the original post said.
Responding to Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi on February 9, 2012, Chaudhary said, “Hitler..why dont you face our Pakistani people? Your daughter works at WSJ [the Wall Street Journal].”
He then invokes an Urdu phrase, saying, “oh forgot that Jew hoga tera baap” — which loosely means “Jew will be your father.”
In another post, a thrilled Chaudhury also lauded Ahmadinejad and called him “fearless.”
 Chaudhary shared a post on X taking aim at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
“This banda [person] is fearless RT ‘@murtazasolangi President Ahmedinejad has declared Israel as cancer which will be eliminated very soon,’” Chaudhury wrote in an X post to Pakistani official Murtaza Solangi.
He spewed venom toward Israel in other posts.
“There is a barbaric nation who’s killing indigents and innocent Palestinians called ISRAEL. TALK about it. #stupid media,” Chaudhury said in a November 2012 post to a Pakistani journalist.
In another post, he called Israel a “bloody country” for claiming a pro-Palestian resolution was undermining peace instead of promoting it.
In one November 2012 tweet, he questioned gay rights.
“@SaifsDen I too read a piece on Gay rights. To be honest, it is purely claptrap. Doesn’t make sense. Boundary line should be drawn somewhere,” said Chaudhury, now 31.
Chaudhary apologized for the comments in a statement to The Post on Sunday.
“I apologize for my tweets, as they do not reflect my current views, or represent who I am today,” he said. “Those comments from over a decade ago are not in line with how I see the world, and I look back at that rhetoric and mindset with deep regret.”
Jewish activists said Chaudhary’s statements reek of antisemitism and that he doesn’t belong in a Mamdani administration.
“This is Adolf Hitler language. It’s antisemitic. It’s a horror show,” said Dov Hikind, a former Brooklyn assemblyman and founder of Americans Against Antisemitism.
He blamed Mamdani — who supports the controversial boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel — for setting the example.
“The fish stinks from the head. Mamdani sets the tone. It’s a hate-filled administration,” Hikind said.
Veteran political consultant Hank Sheinkopf railed that “words matter.”
“This advisor to the mayor is clearly by his own words a Jew hater,” said Sheinkopf, who is Jewish and a rabbi. “The only issue: it always begins with the Jews but never ends with the Jews. Who’s next on the list?”
A representative for Mamdani’s transition team condemned Chaudhary’s remarks, and said he is a Muslim outreach director for the mayor-elect, not the political director for the transition team.
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New York as it has been forever
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The halcyon days of Jewish New York City are overThe city’s newly elected Democratic Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, supports the BDS movement and is likely to push an anti-Israel agenda. New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks on Election Night during a campaign rally in Brooklyn, N.Y., after winning the race, Nov. 4, 2025. Photo by Liri Agami/Flash90.
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(14November2025 / JNS) The post-World War II halcyon days for the American Jewish community in the United States have ended. New York City, which has more Jews within its population than any place on earth outside of Israel, elected its first jihadist mayor.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim. It has everything to do with the very words that have come out of his mouth. Two years ago, Mamdani said, “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it has been laced by the IDF,” a reference to the Israel Defense Forces. He has also passionately stated (that is, until he camouflaged his ideas while running for mayor), “to globalize the intifada.”
Now, as the polished, pre-eminent politician that he is, when asked about these statements, he conveniently smiles and adroitly changes the subject to rent control, free childcare and free buses. Mamdani supports the BDS movement and has gone so far as to call Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide.”
On Oct. 8, 2023, the day after the barbaric Hamas genocide of 1,200 innocent people in southern Israel, Mamdani stated: “A just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.”
The sadistic atrocities committed by Hamas were not once mentioned
And Israeli apartheid? Walk into any hospital, and you will see Israeli-Arab doctors, patients, nurses and orderlies. According to a 2023 survey, at least 25% of all doctors in Israel are Israeli Arabs, along with 49% of all pharmacists. Khaled Kabub is the first Arab Muslim member of the Israeli Supreme Court; as such, he holds the power to indict any member of the Israeli Knesset, including the prime minister of Israel.
Yet Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America friends conveniently ignore these facts and push an anti-Israel agenda that, according to leaked documents, includes:
Given his history, Mamdani will likely push some, if not all, of these items once he’s sworn in as mayor of New York City. Consider that Mamdani founded the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Bowdoin College in Maine, where he unsuccessfully lobbied for BDS. Immediately after its failure, he severed all ties with the J Street colleague who assisted him.
In 2014, he wrote in The Bowdoin Orient, “Israeli universities are both actively and passively complicit in the crimes of both the Israeli military and the Israeli government in all its settler-colonial forms.”
On his podcast, “Talking Palestine,” in 2020, Mamdani said: “If you were to look at the lens of BDS and how it applies here in New York City, you would say that Cornell-Technion is something you would be talking about.”
He is now talking about shutting down Cornell Tech’s joint research educational program between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, housed on the city’s Roosevelt Island.
Mamdani’s cultivated “coolness” and chic affectations have gotten him to where he is today. There is a pretension calibrated to cultivate the image of the most liberal, open-minded, “woke” politicians who deal in empty aphorisms and vacuous phrases. It is all calculated to appeal to the millennial liberal and the identity of Muslims, who feel “under-represented.”
Should American Jews who care passionately about the survival of Israel—the sole Jewish nation in the world, out of 195—be worried?
The answer is, unfortunately, a resounding yes.
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What New Yorkers look forward to when Zohran Mamdani is Mayor
Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993)Type: Information – Topic: Terrorism – Secondary topic: Palestinian Terror and Incitement – Publish Date: 06April1994 – https://www.gov.il/en/pages/suicide-and-other-bombing-attacks-since-the-declaration-of-principles
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 Suicide terror attacks 2000-2007
Apr 6, 1994 – Eight people were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 13, 1994 – Five people were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 19, 1994 – In a suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in Tel-Aviv, 21 Israelis and one Dutch national were killed.
Nov 11, 1994 – Three soldiers were killed at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated explosives strapped to his body. Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack to avenge the car bomb killing of Islamic Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2.
Jan 22, 1995 – Two consecutive bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, killing 20 soldiers and one civilian. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 9, 1995 – Seven Israelis and one American were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jul 24, 1995 – Six civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Ramat Gan.
Aug 21, 1995 – Three Israelis and one American were killed in a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus.
Feb 25, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, 26 were killed (17 civilians and 9 soldiers). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 1996 – One Israeli was killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber at a hitchhiking post oustide Ashkelon. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 3, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 19 were killed (16 civilians and 3 soldiers).
Mar 4, 1996 – Outside Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a suicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians and one soldier).
Mar 21, 1997 – Three people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded.
Jul 30, 1997 – 16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive suicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.
Sep 4, 1997 – Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three suicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.
Oct 29, 1998 – One Israeli soldier was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.
Nov 2, 2000 – Ayelet Shahar Levy, 28, and Hanan Levy, 33, were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. 10 people were injured. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 20, 2000 – A roadside bomb exploded at 7:30 in the morning alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, were killed and 9 others, including 5 children, were injured, 5 of them seriously.
Nov 22, 2000 – Shoshanna Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was denotated alongside a passing bus on Hadera’s main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work.
Dec 22, 2000 – Three soldiers were injured in a suicide bomb attack at the Mehola Junction roadside cafe in the northern Jordan Valley. The terrorist, who detonated a belt of explosives strapped to him, was killed in the blast.
Jan 1, 2001 – A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in the shopping district in the center of Netanya. About 60 people were injured, most lightly. One unidentified person, apparently one of the terrorists involved in the bombing, died of severe burns. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 8, 2001 – A powerful car bomb exploded at 4:40 PM in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Yisrael in Jerusalem, causing mild injuries to four people.
Feb 14, 2001 – Eight people were killed and 25 injured when a bus driven by a Palestinian terrorist plowed into a group of soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus stop near Holon, south of Tel-Aviv.
Mar 1, 2001 – One person was killed and 9 injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara.
Mar 4, 2001 – Three people were killed and at least 60 injured in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya. Mar 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at 7:40 in the morning in the Talpiot industrial/commercial zone in Jerusalem. Seven people were injured, one moderately. The Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 27, 2001 – 28 people were injured, two seriously, in a suicide bombing directed against a northbound No. 6 bus at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 28, 2001 – Two teenagers were killed and four injured, one critically, in a suicide bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom (“peace stop”) gas station several hundred meters from an IDF roadblock near the entrance to Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 22, 2001 – A terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was carrying near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and Tchernichovsky streets in Kfar Sava. One person was killed and about 60 injured in the blast, two severely. The terrorist was also killed in the explosion, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
Apr 23, 2001 – Eight people were lightly hurt in a car bombing in Or Yehuda, a few kilometers north of Ben-Gurion Airport, which senior police officers said could only be described as a “miracle” in an area packed with pre-Independence Day shoppers.
Apr 29, 2001 – A car bomb blew up close to a school bus travelling near the West Bank city of Nablus. There were no injuries in the attack. The body of the suicide bomber was found in the car. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 18, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest detonated himself outside the Hasharon Shopping Mall in the seaside city of Netanya. Five civilians were killed and over 100 wounded in the attack. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 25, 2001 – 65 people were injured in a car bombing in the Hadera central bus station. The two terrorists were apparently killed in the explosion. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
May 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded in the center of Jerusalem shortly after midnight. There were no injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
May 30, 2001 – A car bomb exploded shortly before 16:00 outside a school in Netanya while a number of students were still in the building studying for matriculation exams. Eight people were injured, suffering from shock and hearing impairment. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
June 1, 2001 – 21 people were killed and 120 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a disco near Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on Friday, June 1, while standing in a large group of teenagers waiting to enter the disco.
June 22, 2001 – Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates, supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 2, 2001 – Two separate bombs exploded at about 8:20 Monday morning in cars in the Tel-Aviv suburb of Yehud. Six pedestrians were lightly injured. Police sources say the bombs were probably set by terrorists. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical PLO faction, claimed responsibility.
July 9, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber was killed in a car-bombing attack near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties. Disaster was averted as the bomb exploded without hitting any other vehicles. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 16, 2001 – Cpl. Hanit Arami, 19, and St.Sgt. Avi Ben Harush, 20, both of Zichron Yaakov, were killed and 11 wounded – 3 seriously – when a bomb exploded in a suicide terrorist attack at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa, at about 19:30 Monday evening. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 8, 2001 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated his car bomb, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B’kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00. One soldier was lightly wounded.
Aug 9, 2001 – 16 people were killed, including 7 children, and about 130 injured in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 12, 2001 – 21 people were injured in a suicide bombing in the Wall Street Cafe in the center of Kiryat Motzkin at 17:30. The terrorist was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 21, 2001 – A bomb placed under a car exploded at 14:15 near the Russian Compound in downtown Jerusalem; one woman was treated for shock. A second, very large unexploded bomb was discovered inside the car and dismantled.
Sept 4, 2001 – 20 people were injured when a suicide terrorist exploded a powerful charge on Hanevi’im Street near Bikur Holim hospital in central Jerusalem shortly before 8:00 AM. The terrorist, disguised as a Jew in ultra-orthodox clothing, aroused the suspicion of passersby due to the large backpack he was wearing. As two Border Police officers approached the man, he detonated his shrapnel-packed bomb. Both officers were wounded – one critically. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility.
Sept 9, 2001 – Three people were killed and some 90 injured, most lightly, in a suicide bombing near the Nahariya train station in northern Israel. The terrorist, killed in the blast, waited nearby until the train arrived from Tel-Aviv and people were exiting the station, and then exploded the bomb he was carrying. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 9, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17 people. One person killed in the explosion is believed to be the terrorist bomber.
Oct 1, 2001 – A large car bomb exploded in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Several people were lightly injured.
Oct 7, 2001 – Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a Palestinian suicide terrorist affiliated with the Islamic Jihad detonated a large bomb strapped to his body near the entrance of the kibbutz in the Beit She’an Valley.
Nov 26, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and lightly wounded two Border Policemen at the Erez crossing point in the Gaza Strip. The bomber joined workers waiting to be cleared for entry into Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 29, 2001 – Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 1, 2001 – 11 people were killed and about 180 injured when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 2, 2001 – 15 people were killed and 40 injured, several critically, in a suicide bombing on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 5, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb shortly after 7:30 AM on King David Street in Jerusalem. A number of people waiting at a nearby bus stop were lightly injured. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Police are investigating whether the bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, went off prematurely. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Dec 9, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb near a bus stop at the Checkpost Junction in Haifa shortly after 7:30 AM. About 30 people were injured, most lightly and suffering from shock. A second explosive device was found and detonated nearby. The terrorist was killed.
Dec 12, 2001 – Four people traveling in two cars were lightly wounded in an attack at 18:00 PM by two suicide bombers near the Gaza Strip community of Neve Dekalim.
Jan 25, 2002 – 25 people were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a cafe on a pedestrian mall near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station at 11:15 AM on Friday.
Jan 27, 2002 – Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a suicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.
Feb 16, 2002 – Two teenagers were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. A third person subsequently died of his injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 18, 2002 – Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a suicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma’ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 27, 2002 – A Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up at the Maccabim roadblock on the Jerusalem-Modi’in highway Wednesday night, injuring three policemen.
Mar 2, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 – Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large number of people injured, most lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 7, 2002 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of a hotel in the commericial center on the outskirts of Ariel in Samaria. 15 people were injured, one seriously. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 9, 2002 – 11 people were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday night in the crowded Moment cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 17, 2002 – A suicide bomber exploded himself near an Egged bus no. 22 at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 25 people were lightly injured.
Mar 20, 2002 – Seven people, four of them soldiers, were killed and about 30 wounded, several seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 21, 2002 – Three people were killed and 86 injured, 3 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 27, 2002 – 30 people were killed and 140 injured – 20 seriously – in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder with 250 guests. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist was a member of Hamas from Tulkarem, on the list of wanted terrorists Israel had requested be arrested.
Mar 29, 2002 – Two people were killed and 28 injured, two seriously when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 30, 2002 – One person was killed and about 30 people were injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 31, 2002 – 15 people were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 31, 2002 – An MDA paramedic was very seriously injured along with three other people at 17:00 Sunday afternoon in a suicide bombing at the emergency medical center in Efrat, in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem.
Apr 1, 2002 – A police officer was killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian suicide bomber heading toward the city center blew himself up in his car after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 10, 2002 – Eight people were killed and 22 injured in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 12, 2002 – Six people were killed and 104 wounded when a woman suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 7, 2002 – 16 people were killed and 55 wounded in a crowded game club in Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel-Aviv, when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in the 3rd floor club, causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 19, 2002 – Three people were killed and 59 injured – 10 seriously – when a suicide bomber, disguised as a soldier, blew himself up in the market in Netanya. Both Hamas and the PFLP took responsibility for the attack.
May 20, 2002 – A suicide bomber, apparently bound for Afula, killed himself after Border Policemen approached him for questioning at a bus stop. There were no other injuries.
May 22, 2002 – Two people were killed and about 40 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall of Rishon Lezion.
May 23, 2002 – A bomb planted by terrorists exploded underneath a fuel truck at the Pi Glilot fuel depot north of Tel Aviv. The truck burst into flames, but the blaze was quickly contained.
May 24, 2002 – A security guard opened fire on a terrorist attempting to ram a car bomb into the Studio 49 Disco in Tel Aviv. The terrorist was killed and five Israelis slightly injured when the bomb exploded prematurely.
May 27, 2002 – A grandmother and her infant granddaughter were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 5, 2002 – 17 people were killed and 38 injured when a car packed with a large quantity of explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near Afula. The bus, which burst into flames, was completely destroyed. The terrorist was killed in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 11, 2002 – A 14-year-old girl was killed and 15 others were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.
June 18, 2002 – 19 people were killed and 74 injured – six seriously – in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 19, 2002 – Seven people were killed and 50 injured – three of them in critical condition – when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 16, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 20 injured in a terrorist attack on Dan bus no. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. An explosive charge was detonated next to the bullet-resistant bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing IDF uniforms, and opened fire on the bus. While four terror organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, it was apparently carried out by the same Hamas cell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel on Dec 12, 2001.
July 17, 2002 – Five people were killed – two Israeli and three foreign workers – and about 40 were injured, four seriously, in a double suicide bombing on Neve Shaanan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 30, 2002 – Five people suffered light to moderate injuries in a suicide bombing at a felafel stand on Hanevi’im Street in the center of Jerusalem. The bomber, who was killed, apparently exploded prematurely.
July 31, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 85 wounded, 14 of them seriously, when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra student center cafeteria on the Hebrew University’s Mt. Scopus campus. The explosive device was planted inside the cafeteria, which was gutted by the explosion. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 4, 2002 – Nine people were killed and some 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 5, 2002 – A bomb exploded in a car at the Umm al-Fahm junction in northern Israel, killing the terrorist and wounding the driver, an Arab Israeli resident of Nazareth.
Sept 18, 2002 – Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah, 21, of Elyachin was killed and three people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction. The terrorist, who was apparently planning to detonate the bomb after boarding a bus, set the charge off early when approached by the police for questioning. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 19, 2002 – Six people were killed and about 70 wounded when a terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsbility for the attack.
Oct 10, 2002 – Sa’ada Aharon, 71, of Ramat Gan was killed and about 30 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 21, 2002 – 14 people were killed and some 50 wounded when a car bomb containing about 100 kilograms of explosives was detonated next to a No. 841 Egged bus from Kiryat Shmona to Tel-Aviv, while traveling along Wadi Ara on Route No. 65 toward Hadera. The bus had pulled over at a bus stop when the suicide bomber, from Jenin, driving a jeep, approached from behind and exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 27, 2002 – Two IDF officers and a non-commissioned officer were killed and about 20 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at the Sonol gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria. The victims were killed while trying to prevent the terrorist from detonating the bomb. The terrorist was identified as a member of Hamas.
Nov 4, 2002 – Two people – a security guard and a teenage boy, both recent immigrants from Argentina – were killed and about 70 were wounded in a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 21, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and some 50 wounded by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. The bus was filled with passengers, including schoolchildren, traveling toward the center of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 5, 2003 – Twenty-two people were killed and about 120 wounded in a double suicide bombing near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad.
Mar 5, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 30, 2003 – Over 40 people were wounded in a suicide bombing on the pedestrian mall at the entrance to the London Cafe in the center of Netanya. The bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 24, 2003 – Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.
Apr 30, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 60 peoople were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub “Mike’s Place” in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation. Investigation revealed that the two British Muslims involved in the suicide bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military command in the Gaza Strip.
May 17, 2003 – Gadi Levy and his wife Dina, aged 31 and 37, of Kiryat Arba were killed by a suicide bomber in Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 18, 2003 – Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus no. 6 near French Hill in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 19, 2003 – Three IDF soldiers were lightly injured when a Palestinian on a bicycle detonated explosives next to a military jeep near Kfar Darom in the southern Gaza Strip. The bomber was killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 19, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 22, 2003 – Nine Israelis were injured when a roadside bomb was detonated next to a bus near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
June 11, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Clal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 19, 2003 – Avner Mordechai, 58, of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when a suicide bomber blew up in his grocery on Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean. The suicide bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 7, 2003 – Mazal Afari, 65, of Moshav Kfar Yavetz was killed in her home on Monday evening and three of her grandchildren lightly wounded in a terrorist suicide bombing. The remains of the bomber were also found in the wreckage of the house. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 12, 2003 – Erez Hershkovitz, 18, of Eilon Moreh, was killed and three people wounded when a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself at a bus stop outside Ariel. Amatzia Nisanevitch, 22, of Nofim, died of his wounds on August 28.
Aug 19, 2003 – Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 9, 2003 – Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 30 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a hitchhiking post for soldier outside a main entrance to the Tzrifin army base and Assaf Harofeh Hospital. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 9, 2003 – Seven people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim St., the main thoroughfare of the German Colony neighborhood in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 4, 2003 – Twenty-one people were killed, including four children, and 60 wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin in the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 9, 2003 – A Palestinian suicide bomber exploded himself at the DCO located at the entrance to Tulkarm. The bomber approached the reception window and exploded himself, injuring two IDF soldiers and a Palestinian.
Oct 15, 2003 – Three Americans were killed and one wounded at the Beit Hanoun junction in the Gaza Strip when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in a convoy carrying U.S. diplomats.
Nov 3, 2003 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the West Bank village of Azun, near Kafr Qasem, when he saw Israeli security officials searching for him. One IDF soldier was lightly wounded. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade claimed responsibility for the failed attack.
Dec 25, 2003 – Four Israelis were killed and over 20 wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east of Tel Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 14, 2004 – Four Israelis – three soldiers and one civilian – were killed and 10 wounded when a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
Jan 29, 2004 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian policeman from Bethlehem.
Feb 22, 2004 – Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za’ul, from the Bethlehem area.
Mar 6, 2004 – Two Palestinian policemen were killed in a terror attack on the Erez crossing in northern Gaza involving rifle fire and suicide car bombs, including jeeps camouflaged as IDF vehicles. Two of the vehicles exploded on the Palestinian side of the crossing, and four terrorists were killed. There were no IDF casualties. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the military wing of Fatah all claimed responsibility.
Mar 14, 2004 – Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 17, 2004 – Border Policeman Sgt. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
May 22, 2004 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated an explosive device at the Bekaot checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley. The commander of the IDF checkpoint was lightly injured, as well as several Palestinians. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 11, 2004 – Sgt. Ma’ayan Na’im, 19, of Bat Yam, was killed and 33 wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about 7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded, and the rest were lightly hurt.
Aug 11, 2004 – Two Palestinian bystanders were killed and 18 people were wounded, including six Border Policemen, when a bomb was detonated south of the Qalandiyah checkpoint at the northern entrance to Jerusalem.
Aug 31, 2004 – Sixteen people were killed and 100 wounded in two suicide bombings within minutes of each other on two Beersheba city buses, on route nos. 6 and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba’s main street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall. Hamas in Hebron claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 8, 2004 – A booby-trapped car exploded next to Israeli security personnel at the Baka al-Sharkiyeh checkpoint, near the Green Line border with the West Bank. The Palestinian driver of the car was killed in the blast. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 14, 2004 – A suicide bomber riding on a bicycle blew himself up near an armored IDF jeep at an agricultural gate, south of Qalqilyah, injuring two IDF soldiers.
Sept 22, 2004 – Two Border Policemen were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 7, 2004 – A total of 32 people were killed in terror bombings at two Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and three at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis; over 120 were wounded.
Nov 1, 2004 – Three people were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out by Amar Alfar, 18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus.
Dec 7, 2004 – St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinsky, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with his dog, when a booby-trapped chicken coup exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing in the Gaza Strip. Four soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire while evacuating him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 5, 2005 – A terrorist infiltrated the Erez crossing terminal in the Gaza Strip, activated an explosive device, hurled grenades and opened fire. An IDF force shot and killed the terrorist. The Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 12, 2005 – One Israeli civilian was killed and three IDF soldiers wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 13, 2005 – On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side of the crossing, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and during exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack.
Jan 18, 2005 – An ISA officer was killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and 4 IDF soldiers and 3 members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search procedures were being carried out, the suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 2005 – Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 12, 2005 – Five people were killed and about 90 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 28, 2005 – A suicide bomber detonated himself outside the Beersheba Central Bus Station. Two security guards who stopped the bomber were severely wounded and about 50 people were lightly wounded or treated for shock. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 26, 2005 – Seven people were killed and 54 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 5, 2005 – Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 29, 2005 – Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. A second intended suicide terrorist was also killed in the blast as well as the taxi driver and a third passenger. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.
Jan 19, 2006 – Thirty-one people were wounded in a suicide bombing in a shawarma restaurant near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Jerusalem Battalions of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 30, 2006 – Four people were killed when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised as an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student detonated his explosive device in a private vehicle near the entrance to Kedumim.
Apr 17, 2006 – Eleven people were killed and over 60 wounded in a suicide bombing during the Passover holiday near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv, at the Rosh Ha’ir shawarma restaurant, site of the Jan 19 bombing. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 29, 2007 – Three employees of a bakery in the southern city of Eilat were killed in a suicide bombing. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 4, 2008 – Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73, of Dimona was killed and 38 wounded – Razdolskaya’s husband critically – in a terror attack carried out by a suicide bomber at a shopping center in Dimona. A police officer shot and killed a second terrorist before he detonated his explosive belt. A Hamas statement from Gaza praised the attack, calling it an “heroic act”.
Mar 6, 2008 – Eight students of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem were killed when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and opened fire in the library where about 80 people were gathered, mostly teenagers. Eleven others were wounded, three critically. The terrorist, a resident of East Jerusalem, was killed by an IDF officer.
May 14, 2008 – At about 6 pm an Iranian-made Grad rocket launched from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip hit a busy shopping mall in central Ashkelon. 90 people were wounded, four of them seriously, among them a 24-year-old mother and her infant daughter.
July 2, 2008 – Three people were killed and over 50 wounded in a terror attack in Jerusalem. Driving a bulldozer on Jaffa Road between the Central Bus Station and the Mahane Yehuda market, the terrorist plowed into cars and pedestrians as well as two public buses carrying some 50 passengers. Police shot and killed the terrorist.
Mar 23, 2011 – One woman, a 59-year-old British national, was killed and about 50 wounded when a bomb exploded across from the Jerusalem Convention Center, near the Central Bus Station. The bomb had been placed near a telephone booth at a crowded bus stop next to Egged city bus #74.
Aug 18, 2011 – In a series of terrorist attacks was perpetrated against civilians and IDF soldiers in Israel’s southern region, six civilians were killed as well as one soldier and a police officer, and at least 31 were wounded. The terrorists responsible for the attacks originated in the Gaza Strip and crossed into Israel via Egypt. IDF forces pursued and killed a number of the terrorists responsible for the attacks.
July 18, 2012 – Six people, five Israelis and the Bulgarian bus driver, were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing attack on a bus carrying Israelis at Sarafovo Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria. The seventh body was identified as the suicide bomber.
Nov 21, 2012 – Shortly before noon a bomb exploded in a Dan city bus no. 142 on Shaul Hamelech Street in the center of Tel Aviv. 21 people were wounded, three in moderate to serious condition. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised the bombing.
Oct 11, 2015 – A female terrorist detonated an explosive device, lightly wounding a police officer near the checkpoint on the road between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem. A traffic police officer stopped the driver, who was in the lane reserved for public transportation, and approached the car. The driver exited the vehicle, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and detonated an explosive device. The terrorist was seriously injured in the attack and was evacuated to hospital in Jerusalem with burns to her entire body.
April 19, 2016 – Jerusalem: In the early evening, an explosion on a bus and a subsequent fire led to the injury of 21 people, including passengers on a passing bus and in a nearby car. Two of the injured are in serious condition, 7 were moderately injured and 12 were lightly injured.
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Israel prepares for Jewish Mass Exodus
BARRY’s NewsletterIsrael readies for a mass exodus from failing Western countries of Jews living in increasing fear.BARRY SHAW
Israel is preparing for the increasing wave of antisemitism. accompanied by rising violence that could trigger large-scale Jewish immigration to the Jewish State.
The Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, together with the National Emergency Authority (RAHEL), conducted on Thursday a strategic exercise simulating a national emergency scenario for absorbing a significant influx of Jewish immigrants from around the world.
The exercise, held at the National College for Israeli Resilience attended by representatives from government ministries, NGOs, and essential partner organizations, rehearsed a scenario in which tens of thousands of new immigrants arrive in Israel all at once.
Increasingly, Jews in failing Western countries, with governments and mayors that cater to anti-Semitic migrants that import their hate culture into the host countries as they threaten and attack Jews as they curse Israel, are looking, with increasing seriousness, at making Aliyah to the Jewish State of Israel in which minorities are treated far better than minority Jews in an increasingly intolerant West.
Paris, anyone? Malmo, anyone? Sydney or Melbourne, anyone? Amsterdam, anyone? Milan, anyone? New York, anyone? London, Birmingham and Manchester, anyone?
Add your example here…
Barry Shaw, The View from Israel.
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Israel prepares for Jewish Mass Exodus
Emergency drill simulates massive intake of tens of thousands of Jews fleeing their countries due to severe antisemitic or security incidents (via Walla News) Is the great escape coming? Here’s the full article: https://news.walla.co.il/item/3797473 Israel Radar-tweet-27November2025-Israel prepares for Jewish Mass Exodus
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Today in Israel, the National Emergency Authority (RAHEL) and the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration carried out a major national drill preparing for a mass wave of global Jewish immigration — a scenario that is no longer theoretical. Since October 7th, we have seen historic levels of antisemitism, institutional hostility in major Western cities, and political changes that directly endanger Jewish communities. As part of this drill, tens of thousands of Jews arriving at once were simulated, alongside assessments of government coordination, emergency housing, data systems, and security protocols. This is the reality for Jews across the world today. Betar Worldwide participated in this national preparedness effort. We will continue to: Our message is simple: Am Yisrael Chai. היום בישראל ערכו רח״ל (רשות החירום הלאומית) ומשרד העלייה והקליטה תרגיל לאומי רחב-היקף לקראת גל עלייה מסיבי של יהודים מכל העולם — תרחיש שכבר איננו תיאורטי כלל.
מאז 7 באוקטובר אנו רואים רמת אנטישמיות שלא נראתה מזה דורות, עוינות מוסדית בערים מערביות גדולות, ושינויים פוליטיים שמסכנים ישירות קהילות יהודיות. בכירי המשרד אומרים בפירוש: ייתכן שבתוך חודשיים תקרוס קהילה יהודית גדולה בעקבות אנטישמיות, כאוס כלכלי או מהפכה פוליטית — ותזדקק להצלה מיידית לישראל.
במסגרת התרגיל דימו קליטה של עשרות אלפי עולים בבת אחת, כולל תיאום בין משרדי הממשלה, לוגיסטיקה, שיכון חירום, מאגרי מידע וביטחון. מנכ״ל המשרד הדגיש שגם מדינות מערביות — כולל ארה״ב — עלולות להיקלע לאירוע פתאומי. הוא ציין במיוחד את מצב הקהילה היהודית בניו יורק, לאור כניסתו של ראש העיר הנבחר ממדאני, שמייצג שינוי אידיאולוגי קיצוני ומדאיג. מנהיג יהודי בכיר באנגליה אמר לאחרונה: ״עד השבעה באוקטובר חשבנו שאנחנו בריטים יהודים. אחרי השבעה באוקטובר — אנחנו קודם כל יהודים.״
זה המצב היום ליהודים בעולם.
בית״ר העולמית לקחה חלק במאמץ ההיערכות הלאומי. כדברי ז׳בוטינסקי — העם היהודי חייב להיות מוכן, חזק, ואחראי לכל יהודי בכל מקום.
אנו נמשיך: •לעודד עלייה כמעשה של עוצמה יהודית •לתמוך בקהילות יהודיות בעולם מול האנטישמיות הגוברת •לפעול יחד עם מוסדות המדינה כדי להבטיח שישראל מוכנה לקלוט ולהגן על כל יהודי הזקוק לבית •לעמוד כבית״רים גאים — התנועה שאינה מפקירה אף יהודי בסכנה
המסר שלנו ברור: ישראל היא הבית של כל יהודי. ובית״ר תמשיך לעשות הכול כדי להביא את אחינו ואחיותינו הביתה — בגאווה, בעוצמה ובאמונה ציונית מלאה.
עם ישראל חי.
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Jews Across the World Are Repeating the Mistakes of the 1930sby Ronn Torossian17November2025 1:18 pm https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/11/17/jews-across-world-repeating-mistakes-1930s/
 A shop damaged in Magdeburg, Germany, during Kristallnacht. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
In August 1933, only months after Hitler rose to power, a chilling article appeared in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Dr. Max Naumann, a proud German patriot and the founder of the Verband nationaldeutscher Juden — the Association of National German Jews — declared his unwavering loyalty to the Nazi government. Even as Jewish livelihoods were being dismantled and the beginnings of the Holocaust were in place, this group of proper, fancy German Jews insisted that Jews had nothing to fear if they behaved correctly, shed their national identity, rejected Zionism, and embedded themselves wholly within German society.
But history was about to deliver its verdict.
This is the story of a worldview that has reappeared across Jewish history again and again: the belief that if Jews abandon their nationalism, and appease their oppressors, they will be spared. They condemned the very concept of Jewish self-defense.
The existence in Germany of Betar, a Zionist movement founded in 1923, presented an ideological threat to this worldview.
Betar youths sang Hebrew songs, carried themselves with discipline, and insisted the Jewish people were a nation with a destiny. In the eyes of people like Naumann, Betar represented a dangerous idea: that Jews could survive only by standing as a proud, independent people — not by pleading for acceptance. History proved Betar right.
At first glance, one could treat Naumann as a figure locked in the past, but his story remains painfully relevant today. Across the Diaspora, Jewish communities are living through a renewed wave of open antisemitism not seen in generations. And how does a certain segment of world Jewry respond?
With fear. With appeasement. With approximately 33 percent of New York City’s Jews voting for Zohran Mamdani. They repeat the same delusions Naumann preached: that appeasement will earn respect, that silence will earn safety, that bowing one’s head will spare us.
We know where that path leads.
One of the most important lessons of the Holocaust — and indeed of all Jewish history — is that Jews need to fight back. This truth remains unchanged today. And just like in 1933, the Jews most desperate to blend in, the ones who insist “We’re not like those other Jews,” will end up being persecuted and targeted by those they try to appease.
This is the moment when we must remember the Zionist leader who founded Betar, Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky believed that every Jewish person must stand tall, walk with pride, and never bow their head. Jabotinsky taught that Jewish dignity must never be surrendered, and that Jewish self-defense and a Jewish state is the only real guarantee of Jewish safety.
In the 1930s, Jabotinsky warned that Europe was becoming unsafe for Jews. Most of world Jewry dismissed his most dire warnings of death as hysteria.
Today, not a single one of the mainstream Jewish leaders of the Diaspora is talking about aliyah, the process of Jews immigrating to Israel.
Across the Diaspora, Jewish communities cling to institutions that no longer protect them, governments that no longer defend them, and illusions that no longer serve them. They dedicate themselves to endless dialogues with activists who openly seek their destruction. They send letters, petitions, pleas, and polite condemnations, all while their enemies march in the streets and terrorize their children on campus.
This is a Naumann mindset reborn. And just like in 1933, it is a deadly delusion.
World Jewry has failed to learn the most basic lessons of Jewish history. The lesson that no society, not even the most enlightened, guarantees Jewish safety. The lesson that Jewish security cannot depend on the goodwill of others.
And the only difference between then and now is the Jewish State.
At a time when New York, London, Toronto, Paris, Melbourne, and Johannesburg are becoming unsafe for Jews, Israel is thriving. Our cities — Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Herzliya, Haifa — are full of innovation, culture, Jewish life, and Jewish safety. Hebrew is spoken without fear. Soldiers protect us. Our national institutions — flawed as they may be — defend us. The Diaspora is in deep trouble, in part because many Jewish leaders abroad, like Naumann in his time, are enemies of the Jewish people.
Ronn Torossian is an Israeli-American Jewish communal leader and entrepreneur who lives in Israel.
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Zohran Mamdani and the great American Jewish reckoningThe community is fracturing along three intertwined axes—support for Israel, level of religious observance and political orientation.
https://www.jns.org/zohran-mamdani-and-the-great-american-jewish-reckoning/
(18November2025 / JNS) New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s ascent to political prominence as the mayor-elect of New York City has illuminated the fault lines long running beneath the surface of American Jewry. To even refer to it as a single “community” is, by now, an anachronism.
What was once a network of shared fate and memory has splintered into ideological camps, each convinced the other has betrayed the essence of Jewish life in America. American Jewry’s vulnerability now exists on two levels: internal and external.
Internally, the community is fracturing along three intertwined axes—support for Israel, level of religious observance and political orientation.
Once a bastion of liberal values and progressive ideals, Jewish progressives now find themselves unwelcome in spaces increasingly hostile to Jewish identity, especially when expressed through support for Israel and Jewish self-determination. Meanwhile, conservative Jews find little refuge on the right, where extremist antisemitic currents, once confined to the margins, have been inching into the mainstream.
The ordinary rhythms of Jewish communal life now unfold with a kind of surreal dissonance. Spreadsheets circulate tallying which rabbis signed which open letters about Mamdani’s candidacy—and yes, there is both a liberal and a conservative version—with congregants refusing to attend the services of a rabbi who signed the “wrong” one. Synagogue listservs and WhatsApp groups have become political battlegrounds. The question of whom to invite to the Shabbat table now hinges on one’s opinion of Mamdani. The very spaces meant to foster belonging are now defined by estrangement.
Yet these internal fractures are magnified by a more alarming external shift: the crystallization of a bipartisan front increasingly hostile to Israel.
Events of the past few weeks alone suggest that positions once relegated to the political fringe—anti-Israel, and at times, openly antisemitic—are moving closer to the center in both major parties.
On the Democratic side, Mamdani’s victory as the party’s nominee for mayor of New York City marks a turning point. Despite credible reports from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy linking select campaign donors to the Muslim Brotherhood, posing for selfies with an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and proclaiming admiration for the “Holy Land Five”— individuals convicted of funneling $12.4 million to Hamas—Mamdani nonetheless enjoys the backing of prominent mainstream figures such as presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
His rise signals that anti-Israel positions no longer incur political cost within progressive circles; they may, in fact, confer political capital.
On the Republican side, a parallel shift is unfolding. At a recent Turning Point USA conference, Vice President JD Vance entertained questions about America’s relationship with Israel that dripped with antisemitic undertones—asking why the United States “owed Israel anything,” given that “their religion does not agree with ours.” His response emphasized “national interest” over shared democratic values or historic alliances.
Soon after, former Fox News host and current conservative media figure Tucker Carlson, who termed Christian Zionism a “brain virus,” hosted on his program far-right activist Nick Fuentes—a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier. When Carlson was criticized, Kevin Roberts, head of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, rushed to his defense. The Heritage Foundation is particularly known for publishing “Project Esther,” a national strategy to combat antisemitism.
Taken together, these episodes mark a bipartisan normalization of antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiment that once lingered at the edges of public discourse. On both the left and the right, antipathy toward Israel is being reframed—on one side as moral virtue, on the other as nationalist authenticity.
The first casualties of this realignment are American Jews themselves.
Those on the left feel exiled from movements they helped build. Those on the right feel unsafe among allies who trivialize or excuse antisemitism. The result is a community adrift—politically, spiritually and morally—at the very moment when solidarity is most needed.
For Israel, the implications are profound. Jerusalem must resist the temptation to align itself exclusively with one American party or ideological camp. Instead, it should nurture channels of dialogue with American Jews across the spectrum—both institutional and grassroots. Such engagement serves a dual purpose: to fortify Jewish identity and resilience amid rising hostility, and to foster within Israel a deeper understanding of how it might support the continued vitality of American Jewry.
The survival and flourishing of Jewish life in America cannot depend on the favor of transient political winds, nor can it retreat into sectarianism. The task now is to recover a sense of shared destiny—rooted not in unanimity of opinion, but in the recognition that Jewish life, wherever it unfolds, remains bound by a moral covenant older and deeper than any party line.
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‘Destroy Israel’: Rabbi of NYC shul recounts targeting by mobRabbi Arthur Schneier, 95, who leads the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, is a Holocaust survivor who saw his synagogue burn on Kristallnacht.JNS Staffhttps://www.jns.org/activists-chant-destroy-israel-and-we-need-to-make-them-scared-outside-ny-shul/
 Rabbi Arthur Schneier (center), the senior rabbi of Park East Synagogue, and Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, alongside N.Y. and Israeli officials at a ceremony inaugurating Yad Vashem Way on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Jan. 30, 2025. Photo by Vita Fellig.
(23November2025 / JNS) The 95-year-old senior rabbi of Manhattan’s historic Park East Synagogue, which was targeted by an anti-Israel mob earlier in the week, recounted the unsettling experience in an interview on Friday with the New York Post.
“I’m a Holocaust survivor. I saw my synagogue [in Vienna] burn on Kristallnacht with the police standing by and not intervening,” Rabbi Arthur Schneier was quoted as saying.
“Thank God in the United States, the police are protecting us against the hate-mongers,” Schneier said.
Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, was an event orchestrated by the Nazis on Nov. 9-10, 1938, in which more than 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms, and Jewish businesses, homes, hospitals and schools were burned, damaged and ransacked in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland.
Although the anti-Israel activists who gathered outside the synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Wednesday did not employ physical violence, they used incendiary language such as “Destroy Israel” and “We need to make them scared,” calling on the “resistance” to “take another settler out,” the Post reported.
Schneier said the disturbing event should serve as a “warning not to be silent. No house of worship should be subjected to this type of demonstration.”
Schneier has led the congregation for five decades. The synagogue was established in New York in 1890. On Wednesday night, it hosted an event by Nefesh B’Nefesh, an Israel-based organization encouraging North American Jews to relocate to Israel.
Mayor Eric Adams condemned the protesters, saying “Houses of worship are where people go to heal, reflect and respect one another. Church, mosque, synagogue, it makes no difference. Screaming vile language outside any of them isn’t ‘protest’ it’s desecration. It shows how sick and warped these agitators have become.”
He added that he will pay a visit to the synagogue when he returns from his trip abroad.
When I’m back in New York, I’ll be stopping at Park East to show my support. Pray for our city. Today it’s a synagogue. Tomorrow it’s a church or a mosque. They come for me today and you tomorrow. We cannot hand this city over to radicals. The protesters chant, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” “No peace on stolen land,” and , “We don’t want no two states, we want ‘48.”  Eric Adams-tweet-20November2025-it’s desecration
The anti-Israel Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani issued a statement saying that he “discouraged” the language used at the protest, but coupled it with a criticism of the event, saying that “these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law,” the Post reported.
“Pal-Awda NY/NJ,” the anti-Israel group behind the protest, doubled down on its behavior, tweeting on Friday that it “showed up to declare ‘Death to the IDF’” in response to the effort to “recruit American settlers to illegally occupy stolen Palestinian land.”
According to the Post, the group moreover legitimized the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, against Israel during the second anniversary of the massacre this year.
“Two years ago today, the Palestinian Resistance broke the gates of the world’s largest open-air prison, disrupting the norm of decades of dispossession and apartheid imposed by ‘Israel,’” the report cited the group as tweeting.
Meanwhile, Schneier told the Post he was “very, very touched” by the show of support for the Jewish community from prominent officials such as N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
“I’m touched by the solidarity of good people outraged by what has taken place. And also, by the way, I’ve received calls from clergy from many denominations,” the Holocaust survivor said.
Violent Antisemitic mob Protest Outside of Park East Synagogue, NYC
“Do the world a favor, k*ll yourself, sl*t your throat!” A few months earlier, she was also filmed tearing down posters of Israeli hostages. This is sick.  Combat Antisemitism Movement-tweet-27November2025-Violent Antisemitic mob Protest Outside of Park East Synagogue
Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English-tweet-22November2025-this cannot be tolerated
The NYPD must explain why it allowed Hamas of New York to come so close to the door of a New York City sending out, why it kept so many Jews away, and why it allowed the anti-semitic goons to stand right outside a synagogue.  Leo Terrell-tweet-22November2025-I am doing something
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Nefesh B’Nefesh-23November2025-Our commitment remains unwavering
For more than two decades, Nefesh B’Nefesh has been dedicated to supporting, educating, and advising individuals and families throughout their Aliyah (immigration to Israel) journey. We are deeply concerned by, and firmly condemn, the violent rhetoric and aggressive behavior that took place outside of the Park East Synagogue. Our commitment remains unwavering. We will continue to serve Olim (immigrants to Israel) with professionalism, compassion, and the highest level of care, ensuring that every individual and family feels supported.  Nefesh B’Nefesh-tweet-23November2025-Our commitment remains unwavering
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Rabbi Poupko-20November2025-Antisemitism is a sweet poison pill
To the person who showed up outside Park East Synagogue last night chanting to “globalize the intifada” , and saying “de@th to the IDF”. I will not appeal to your moral sensibilities. I will not tell you this is a synagogue that was home to the most Holocaust survivors in New York, about the children who go through the synagogue door, about the people who find meaning and community within its sacred walls. You probably knew all that before you showed up, and you still showed up. It probably felt good and empowering for you to stand there and shout at us. Here is what I will bring to your attention. To the Brownshirts who went from being bitterly unemployed to standing with a uniform and a group outside of Jewish stores in Berlin in the 1930s, it probably also felt very good. They went from being lonely economically and socially broken individuals, to a place of belonging and power. Here’s what those Brownshirts enjoyed less. Just 10 years after they stood outside of those Jewish stores in Berlin, they were freezing and starving for months outside the gates of Stalingrad. Most of them did not make it out alive. They froze or starved to death. Just 10 years after those rallies in Munich and Nuremberg, they were laying at the feet of British soldiers in the deserts of North Africa. Antisemitism is a sweet poison pill; it feels good at the moment and the price comes only later. This kind of chaos, hate, and incility will affect us first, but the consequences for a society that allows such hate, are disintegration the kind of which we have seen in World War II.  Rabbi Poupko-tweet-20November2025-Antisemitism is a sweet poison pill
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The siege of Park East Synagogue and cooperating with MamdaniSome leaders think they must make nice with the mayor-elect. But how can you work with a hostile mayor who openly sympathizes with those attacking Jewish houses of worship?https://www.jns.org/the-siege-of-park-east-synagogue-and-cooperating-with-mamdani/
(21November2025 / JNS) In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in the New York City mayoral election, most Jewish leaders believed that they had no choice but to do their best to cooperate with him. Doing so was in keeping with the traditions of American democracy.
But how do you work with someone who is sending mixed messages to antisemitic mobs about whether it is OK to besiege synagogues and threaten Jews with violence?
That’s the dilemma facing New York Jewry in the wake of Mamdani’s equivocal comments about the siege of Park East Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on the evening of Nov. 19 by an anti-Zionist mob who harassed those entering the building and chanted slogans like “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada” and “Resistance you make us proud, take another settler out.”
Lying about aliyah and international lawSpeaking through a spokesman, the mayor-elect issued an anodyne statement about “discouraging” the use of such slogans threatening Jews with violence. It said, “He believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation.”
Had it stopped right there, it would have been appropriate and engendered no criticism. But Mamdani couldn’t leave it at that. In the same sentence, the statement went on to qualify his condemnation of the incident by declaring that “these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.”
Let’s be clear: What happened in the synagogue that night was no violation of international law. It was a gathering organized by a group that promotes Jewish immigration to Israel. Far from illegal, that’s a right that is secured by international law dating back to the aftermath of the First World War. It was established in the 1920 San Remo Agreement that guaranteed the right of Jews to settle in their ancient homeland, and then the 1922 League of Nations creation of the British Mandate for Palestine in order to implement this principle.
The founding of the modern-day State of Israel as a result of the U.N. 1947 Partition Resolution (or Resolution 181) further clarified the principle.
But to Mamdani, a man who has been obsessed with opposition to the existence of a Jewish state his entire adult life, merely thinking about moving there is wrong and in violation of some entirely fictional “law” in which Jews—unique among all the peoples in the world—are to be forbidden from living in the place where they are indigenous.
The message he was sending to both the antisemitic mob and to the Jews was clear. The 34-year-old may not yet feel comfortable openly supporting incidents in which Jews are threatened with violence and harassed while entering a synagogue. But not even a desire to ensure that he has a honeymoon period with New Yorkers after his election is enough to prevent him from stating unambiguously that he is definitely on the side of those making such threats.
If nothing else, that should give pause to the city’s Jewish establishment, which has spent the weeks since Mamdani’s election signaling to him that they want to make nice with him and have no intention of actively working against a man who has no scruples about siding with antisemites.
An abnormal situationIf this had been a normal mayoral election, that’s exactly what they should be doing.
Many, especially in deep-blue New York, have treated President Donald Trump’s two election victories as an exception to that basic premise of democracy. That notwithstanding, it is necessary for those who back the losing candidates in elections to act as a loyal opposition to the winners, as opposed to a “resistance,” as Trump’s adversaries have done. Whatever one thinks about the outcome, those who care about democracy are obligated to treat the results of the ballot box as legitimate and to work with the victors for the betterment of all citizens.
And that is exactly how Jewish leaders were treating Mamdani. His record of support for antisemitic BDS campaigns and opposition to the existence of the one Jewish state on the planet—not to mention his radical socialist ideas about governing the city—had frightened many Jewish New Yorkers, the overwhelming majority of whom voted against him. But the organized Jewish world made no secret about its readiness to cooperate with the new administration in City Hall.
They cheered the news that Mamdani was prepared to allow Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to stay in her crucial role, thus sending a message that Jews would not be abandoned. And Mamdani also sent representatives to meet with leaders of the city’s Jewish Federation and Community Relations Council.
Skepticism was warranted. Still, they were prepared to give the mayor the benefit of the doubt. They accepted the premise that his ideological obsession with opposing Israel and opposition to essential elements of Jewish identity related to the Jewish homeland and peoplehood would not impact his duties as mayor or endanger the Jewish community.
But the Nov. 19 incident gave Jewish New Yorkers an unwelcome reminder of what it means to have someone so closely associated with Jew-hatred in a position of power. More than that, they were put on notice about what they are likely to be in for during the next four years.
Making the Jews scaredWhen Park East Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation whose building is a historic landmark, hosted an event for the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization that promotes aliyah, it was besieged by a mob of more than 200 demonstrators shouting antisemitic slogans and harassing those entering the venue. As the New York Post reported, the swarm of angry Jew-haters chanted the usual litany of slogans that have become familiar since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab terror attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Their purpose was not merely to state their hostility to Israel or Jews. As one of their leaders told the mob, “It is our duty to make them think twice before holding these events.” As the Post reported, the agitator “repeated emphatically” that “we need to make them scared. We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared.”
And by stating that he agreed with the basic premise of their cause, the mayor-elect was telling Jews throughout the city that they had every reason to be afraid for their safety in a New York governed by the incoming mayor. And so, Mamdani needs to be sent an unequivocal message by decent New Yorkers, whether or not they are Jewish, that this kind of messaging is both unacceptable and dangerous.
It’s not just that he was lying about aliyah being a violation of international law rather than a basic right of the Jewish people. He also has no business spouting opinions about what sort of events should be held in synagogues. That’s especially true when those houses of worship are liable to be besieged by bloody-minded protesters who seek to intimidate Jews into silence, when the mayor is making no secret that he is in agreement with the thugs screaming at the Jews.
Despite the pious language about ensuring the safety of those entering synagogues, his talk about Jews holding illegal events is a bright green light to antisemites to repeat this outrage. Under the circumstances, Jews have every right to wonder what’s in store for them in Mamdani’s New York, regardless of Tisch’s continued tenure at the New York City Police Department. Indeed, it may well be a foreshadowing of even worse to come.
That’s why the “business as usual” talk from Jewish leaders has to cease.
It’s true that Jewish organizations need to ensure that there is some cooperation with the city administration when necessary. But they can’t ignore the fact that Mamdani isn’t being shy about telling Jews that they can only consider themselves safe if they disavow an essential element of their identity and faith. Support for Israel and Zionism is integral to being Jewish, and that is something that the overwhelming majority of Jews believe, whether or not they are observant or where their sympathies lie in terms of Israel or American politics.
In essence, Mamdani isn’t hesitating to send a message that he is at war not just with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he continues to threaten with arrest if the Israeli leader visits the city on his watch. Notwithstanding his pledges to be a mayor for all New Yorkers, he’s also at war with Jewish peoplehood. And that is something that no Jewish leader or entity should tolerate or let pass without vigorous protest.
Jewish leaders must actAt this point, responsible Jewish leaders, especially those specifically tasked with monitoring antisemitism and the defense of the Jews, like the Anti-Defamation League, need to stop talking about cooperation and start planning for a campaign of active resistance to Mamdani’s prejudicial attitudes towards Jewish life.
That means not only organizing the kind of demonstrations that make it clear that New Yorkers won’t accept his taking the side of violent thugs advocating for Jewish genocide.
It also should mean a policy of legal action designed to thwart those instances when the mayor and his staff of left-wing agitators and Marxist ideologues start trying to put their ideological obsession with destroying the Jewish state into action with BDS-style discriminatory policies. In addition, they must begin—to the extent that it is possible in a city and state where gun rights are not respected by local authorities—to prepare members of the Jewish community to defend themselves against what is likely to follow.
And they should also declare their willingness to support any actions by the president of the United States, who, though opposed by the liberal Jewish majority in New York, has a demonstrated record of support and friendship for Jews and Israel, intended to hamstring Mamdani’s ability to injure the Jewish community.
The coming months will be a test not only of how far Mamdani will go to antagonize and threaten the Jewish community, but also of the mettle of a generation of Jewish leaders who have heretofore shown little sign of being ready to lead their community in an unprecedented battle for their rights and safety. If they aren’t equal to this challenge, and instead prefer to seek to ingratiate themselves with an antisemitic mayor, then it will be time to replace them with others who are made of sterner stuff.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.
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Bagels, Smattering Of Yiddish Oddly Inadequate To Ensure US Jewish Continuity“I can’t figure out what else we have to offer the world.” lox and bagels
New York, November 12 [2025] – Heirs to an ancient tradition that has stood at the vanguard of human development for thousands of years and continues to foster achievement far in excess of what the numbers of its population might suggest, continued to discover this week that a connection with anything but the most superficial remnants of that tradition will, for mysterious reasons, not guarantee that they can carry the tradition forward.
Assimilated American Jews again faced the ongoing realization, some acknowledged today, that bagels, a few Yiddish words, Holocaust commemoration, and vague notions of “Tikkun Olam,” which they construe only as the application of contemporary left-wing values, constitute everything important about Judaism, and will secure the continuity of the ethnoreligion.
“I’m wracking my brains, though,” admitted Rabbi Timothy Lieberman of Temple Azaju in Tenafly, New Jersey. “For the life of me, I can’t figure out what else we have to offer the world. Gefilte fish? No thank you – neither savory nor sweet. Hava Nagila? Faaaar too explicit in its Zionism, and Zionism smacks of Jewish particularism, which goes against everything progressive, so it can’t be truly Jewish, can it? That leaves dill pickles, I guess.”
“Oh, and a Hanukkah bush.” He noted that until recently, Zionism also played a role, but progressive Jews have distanced themselves from Jewish sovereignty, both because it proved to be a bar to participation in coveted progressive spaces, and because it implies a level of commitment to Jewish history and peoplehood that grew inconvenient for those uncomfortable with religion-adjacent obligations.
Lieberman’s dwindling congregation once numbered more than a hundred families. His predecessors in the position welcomed intermarried couples and even performed weddings of Jews to non-Jews, despite statistical evidence that such unions seldom, if ever, raise offspring committed to Jewish heritage, let alone educated in it. Now, membership at Azaju has declined to a mere two dozen households, all but one of them older members whose children and grandchildren seldom attend services or community functions.
“We don’t understand what’s unattractive about bagels and lox,” lamented Selma Jacobs, whose father marched with Dr, Martin Luther King, Jr. “That should be all we need – sprinkle our conversation with ‘putz,’ ‘schmutz,’ and ‘bubbe-mayseh,’ lament the Holocaust, and place other minorities’ causes before our own. It worked for me, and don’t talk to me about not having any Jewish grandchildren. My children married non-Jews and none of them have any non-Jewish children because they decided not to have any children at all.”
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30 NovemberIn November 2014 the Israeli government dedicated November 30 of every year as a day to honor and remember the Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab countries following 1948’s Arab-Israeli War. These are some of their stories
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The Exile of Jews from Arab Lands – Noemi Lieberman |
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 On December 1, 1947, two days after the U.N. General Assembly approved the Partition Plan, pogroms erupted in most Arab states. These pogroms were a result of the incitement in the state-run media in those countries, and was supposed serve as retribution for U.N. plan. The Arabs considered the partition to be a betrayal by the international community, and many in Arab world still hold that view today and refuse to accept the notion that the Jews should have a state. |
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When they start killing Jews in the street, it is time to leave.Bernard-Henri Lévy — French philosopher, filmmaker, and activist warns American Jews; Bernard-Henri Lévy Says Election of Donald Trump a ‘Major Event for Jews’; Warns of Rise of ‘American Antisemitism’ |
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From Jewish Virtual Library the Jewish Virtual Library. logo https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org Fact Sheet: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries(Updated December 2015) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/jew_refugees.html |
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 Yemenite Jews flee during Operation Magic Carpet In 1945, roughly 1 million Jews lived peacefully in the various Arab states of the Middle East, many of them in communities that had existed for thousands of years. After the Arabs rejected the United Nations decision to partition Palestine and create a Jewish state, however, the Jews of the Arab lands became targets of their own governments’ anti-Zionist fervor. As Egypt’s delegate to the UN in 1947 chillingly told the General Assembly: “The lives of one million Jews in Muslim countries will be jeopardized by partition.” The dire warning quickly became the brutal reality. Throughout 1947 and 1948, Jews in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Syria, and Yemen (Aden) were persecuted, their property and belongings were confiscated, and they were subjected to severe anti-Jewish riots instigated by the governments. In Iraq, Zionism was made a capital crime. In Syria, anti-Jewish pogroms erupted in Aleppo and the government froze all Jewish bank accounts. In Egypt, bombs were detonated in the Jewish quarter, killing dozens. In Algeria, anti-Jewish decrees were swiftly instituted and in Yemen, bloody pogroms led to the death of nearly 100 Jews. In January 1948, the president of the World Jewish Congress, Dr. Stephen Wise, appealed to U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall: “Between 800,000 and a million Jews in the Middle East and North Africa, exclusive of Palestine, are in ‘the greatest danger of destruction’ at the hands of Moslems being incited to holy war over the Partition of Palestine … Acts of violence already perpetrated, together with those contemplated, being clearly aimed at the total destruction of the Jews, constitute genocide, which under the resolutions of the General Assembly is a crime against humanity.” In May 1948, the New York Times echoed Wise’s appeal, and ran an article headlined, “Jews in Grave Danger in all Muslim Lands: Nine Hundred Thousand in Africa and Asia face wrath of their foes.” With their lives in danger and the situation growing ever more perilous, the Jews of the Arab World fled their homes as refugees. Of the 820,000 Jewish refugees between 1948 and 1972, more than 200,000 found refuge in Europe and North America while 586,000 were resettled in Israel – at great expense to the Israeli government, and without any compensation from the Arab governments who had confiscated their possessions. The majority of the Jewish refugees left their homes penniless and destitute and with nothing more than the shirts on their backs. These Jews, however, had no desire to be repatriated in the Arab World and little is heard about them because they did not remain refugees for long. In Israel, a newly independent country that was still facing existential threats to its survival, the influx of immigrants nearly doubled the population and a put a great strain on an economy struggling to just meet the needs of its existing population. The Jewish State, however, never considered turning away the refugees and, over the years, worked to absorb them into society. |
 Iraqi Jews flee as refugees to Israel Overall, the number of Jews fleeing Arab countries for Israel in the years following Israel’s independence was nearly double the number of Arabs leaving Palestine. The contrast between the Jewish refugees and the Palestinian refugees grows even starker considering the difference in cultural and geographic dislocation – most of the Jewish refugees traveled hundreds or thousands of miles to a tiny country whose inhabitants spoke a different language and lived with a vastly different culture. Most Palestinian refugees traveled but a few miles to the other side of the 1949 armistice lines while remaining inside a linguistically, culturally and ethnically similar society. Moreover, the value of Jewish property left behind and confiscated by the Arab governments is estimated to be at least 50 percent higher than the total value of assets lost by the Palestinian refugees. In the 1950’s, John Measham Berncastle, under the aegis of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, estimated that total assets lost by Palestinian refugees from 1948 – including land, buildings, movable property, and frozen bank accounts – amounted to roughly $350 million ($650 per refugee). Adding in an additional $100 million for assets lost by Palestinian refugees as a result of the Six Day War, an approximate total is $450 million – $4.4 billion in 2012 prices. By contrast, the value of assets lost by the Jewish refugees – compiled by a similar methodology – is estimated at $700 million – roughly $6.7 billion today. … |
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Old Historians, New Historians, No Historians: The Derailed Debate on 1948 |
Why was there no UNRWA for our grandparents?
In the 1950’s, there were nearly 1 million #Jewish refugees from Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, and Egypt We, also, still have the keys 🗝  Zechariah Shar’abi-tweet-15February2024-no UNRWA for our grandparents
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One year later — the answer to “Where Are Your Jews?”
Watch—  Marina Medvin-tweet-8May2024-Real ethnic cleansing vs lies
 Displacement of Jewish communities and when they were founded
 This is Ethnic Cleansing
“Mr. President, one year ago in this chamber I asked the Arab states a simple question: ‘Where are your Jews?’ My question was met with dead silence. Millions of people worldwide watched the video, witnessing for themselves the hypocrisy and double standards that characterizes much of what is said and done here. Today I have come to provide the answer to my question. Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Libya—your Jews fled as refugees after suffering persecution and deadly pogroms like the Farhud of Baghdad in 1941. Fortunately, countries like Israel, the U.S., Canada, France and others opened their doors, offering citizenship and equal rights. These Jewish refugees from Arab lands—whose suffering and losses the UN has never addressed—put their hardship behind them and built great lives for their families. Now let us contrast this with the situation of those descended from Arab refugees who fled the area of British Mandatory Palestine during the invasion of nascent Israel by Arab armies. What is holding them back? The answer is simple. Palestinians are the only population in the world not eligible for services by the UN refugee agency (@Refugees). Instead these descendants are governed by @UNRWA, which holds generation after generation trapped in refugee camps, denied integration in the Arab countries they were born in and denied resettlement elsewhere. Some of UNRWA’s donors are waking up to the problem. As Swiss Foreign Minister @ignaziocassis recently has put it: ‘By supporting UNRWA, we are only keeping the conflict alive.’ I thank you, Mr. President.” – @HillelNeuer  UN Watch-tweet-30November2023-One year later-the answer to ‘Where Are Your Jews’
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The hidden Jews in Mashad, Iran
In 1839, thousands of Muslims viciously attacked the #Jewish ghetto of Mashad in a bloody pogrom known as the “Allahdad” (Gd’s Justice). 36 Jews were slaughtered. Many women were raped. 7 Jewish girls were kidnapped and forced to become child-brides. The remaining 300 Jewish families were given an impossible choice: convert to Islam, or die immediately. Like the Marrano Jews of Spain who pretended to convert to Catholicism while hiding their true Jewish identity, the 300 Jewish families in Mashad – including my best friend’s family – pretended to convert. Outside their homes, by all appearances, Mashadi Jews truly converted. They adopted Muslim But at home, in their basements and behind shuttered windows, they secretly continued to devoutly observe Judaism. Shabbat candles – which were made secretly in their basements – were lit under a cover, so they couldn’t be seen through windows. Women would wear traditional Muslim clothes – called chador – but would clandestinely use those cloaks to smuggle Torahs, prayer shawls and other ceremonial objects throughout the community. Families kept dogs and cats, so they could feed them the Muslim meat they bought while they themselves ate kosher meat, ritually slaughtered in secret and smuggled home under the women’s chadors. During Passover, women would bake Matzah in basements after the children were sleeping, so if the children were ever questioned by Shia fanatics (which was common) they wouldn’t have any information to divulge. And to keep their children from intermarrying, children were betrothed at a young age, so if Muslims came asking for their hand, they would be told the girls were already engaged. For 120 years Mashadi Jews prayed that the day would come when they would be able to live freely as Jews. They suffered a secret double life, filled with fear, because they had no way to escape the radical Muslims who wanted to oppress, persecute and erase Jews from existence. But today’s Jews are finally free. Today’s Jews have our ancestral indigenous homeland #Israel. Today’s Jews know that the #October7Massacre is just another rinse and repeat of bloody pogroms like the “Allahdad” where Jews are slaughtered, raped and looted to satisfy antisemitic blood lust. This war isn’t about land. It was NEVER about land. It’s about a genocidal desire to destroy Jews from existence. 🔥AND WE ARE GOING NOWHERE🔥 #AmYisraelChai
 The Persian Jewess-tweet-11February2024-hidden Jews in Mashad Iran
My ancestors had to hide their Judaism in Mashad, Iran. They survived by practicing Islam and would even make the Hajj, pilgrimage, to Mecca (which is where the “Haj” comes from in my family name). Despite that, my family stayed true to our roots and kept our Judaism alive. I am proud to belong to an ancestry who fought to stay Jewish. I am proud to be Mashadi and belong to a sisterhood of Iranian women who are fighting for their freedom. And I am proud to call Israel my home. Thank you @persianjewess for sharing our story  Keren Hajioff-tweet-11February2024-I am a Mashadi Jew
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Many of my aunts and uncles didn’t flee Iran quickly. What happened to them
They were older. They had multiple children. And they had established lives with businesses and homes. In many ways, they were also hopeful. “Maybe it won’t be so bad,” they thought. They were wrong. Seemingly overnight, the #Jewish schools my cousins attended fell under a new administration. Jewish teachers were fired and replaced with radicals loyal to the Islamic Regime. Each day in class, my cousins – some as young as 5 – and all their Jewish classmates had to stand up and recite “Death to America!” “Death to Israel!” as part of their morning ritual. If a child didn’t scream these phrases loud enough to the satisfaction of their sadistic teachers, they were punished. Parents were interrogated. If their answers weren’t satisfactory, they were imprisoned as “Zionist spies.” So the Jewish children made sure to scream these calls for death as loud as they could, to save their parents the wrath of the goons of the IRGC. And then, right on the heels of the Islamic Revolution, came the Iran-Iraq War and with it, the indoctrination of child soldiers into martyrdom. The IRGC drafted young boys, some as young as 9 years old, for mine-sweeping and other suicide missions. The children were given plastic ‘keys to paradise’ and promised that they would go directly to heaven if they died as martyrs against the Iraqi enemy. 9 out of 10 Iranian child soldiers died. An estimated 95,000 child soldiers were sacrificed by the Iranian Regime. My oldest cousin was 14. My aunt and uncle, desperate to save their son, scraped together what money they had to hire smugglers to sneak him out of Iran. The journey would take 2 weeks, with zero communication, and fraught with danger. Thousands who sought to escape via the smugglers never made it to their destination: killed or captured along the way. Their bodies lost to the desert. But staying was certain death. And so they sent off my 14 year old cousin by himself, praying they would be one of the lucky ones who would receive a phone call from their son in two weeks time once he reached Pakistan. It would be years before my aunt and uncle would be reunited with my cousin again. Today, we see the same sickening disregard for human life being carried out by the Islamic Regime’s proxy: Hamas. Islam is distorted and perverted to indoctrinate children into martyrdom and terrorism. Islamic Jihad and murder for the sake of “Allah” is glorified. Democratic countries like the #USA and #Israel are vilified. Because Hamas doesn’t care for Palestinians. Hamas is no more than Iran’s puppet. And Iran’s end goal is not Palestinian statehood, but the spread of radical Islam via the destruction of democracy. Israel, the only bastion of democracy in the Middle East, is just the Islamic Regime’s first target. This was NEVER about land. This was ALWAYS about the destruction of western values. And the war is already on our shores, in our schools, and in every violent Pro-Hamas protest we see in the streets. So 🔥WAKE UP AMERICA🔥 It’s time to smell the Jihad. Before it’s too late. #StandWithIsrael  The Persian Jewess-tweet-21February2024-What happened to them
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I have yet to see a Middle Eastern ‘AsAJew’
Many “western” Jews have spent generations living in the comfort of tolerant democratic societies. Their experience of persecution no more than an anecdotal story told about their Bubbe. Their connection with their Jewish identity no more than the act of eating a bagel with lox and shmear. What do the Chuck Schumers and the Jonathan Glazers of the world really know about living in continuous fear because they are #Jewish? Nothing. Because a fear so suffocating that it imbeds every moment of your existence cannot be described in mere words. Our minds, quite literally, are incapable of comprehending such a trauma. All my relatives have Arab/Farsi names, and secret Jewish names. Are those words sufficient to help you taste the bitter helplessness of my relatives who had to hide their Jewish identity? My friend’s great-aunts, from Kermanshah, were kidnapped from their homes and forced into marriages with mullahs, never to be seen again. Does that sentence make you feel the same shaking rage that her grandmother experiences to this day? My parents were forced to abandon their lives, their homes, their belongings, pack a few precious possessions into a suitcase, and flee Iran after the Islamic Revolution. Is that enough for you to experience my parent’s heartbreak as they left everything and everyone they loved behind because of radical jihadist terrorists? The answer is No. But the 1.2 Million Jews who were ethnically cleansed from the Middle East since the 1940’s don’t need to rely on inadequate anecdotal tales. We know, FIRST HAND, what it means to be persecuted for being Jewish. We know, what it means to have to flee your country, with nowhere to go except Israel. And most important of all, we know that it was solely because of the existence of #Israel that we were finally able to flee the persecution of MENA countries and seek better lives. We don’t need to “hijack the Holocaust” to justify the existence of Israel. Our own lived experiences are MORE THAN SUFFICIENT to justify the existence of Israel. And we know, without question, that the Jewish State is all that stands between a life as persecuted Dhimmis and a life as Free Jews. So go ahead and tokenize the Jonathan Glazers of the world who pretend that Jewish persecution began and ended with the Holocaust. Go ahead and pretend that Mizrahi Jews and the centuries of discrimination, forced conversions, rape, murder and ethnic cleansing don’t exist. Keep acting like this is about land and not about the rampant Jew-Hate that has existed in MENA countries since the dawn of Islam. This #ZionistJew will scream loud enough for the WHOLE WORLD to hear me. 🔥I STAND WITH ISRAEL🔥 Now and forever. 💙🇮🇱💙 #AmYisraelChai  The Persian Jewess-tweet-19March2024-I have yet to see a Middle Eastern AsAJew
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I was in my ELEMENT on Purim
I was an olive-skinned, dark-haired girl living in a world where Disney princesses had blonde hair and blue eyes and NOTHING around me reflected the reality of my personal life. As the only Persian kid at school, my teachers didn’t know where “I-ran” was on a map, let alone how to help an immigrant kid who was constantly bullied for being different. And even Hebrew school, which focused on Ashkenazi traditions, was always slightly off from my Jewish life at home. We would learn about the Holocaust and “Never Again,” and while my American classmates would go home with the confidence that their existential place in the world was assured…I’d be left even more confused. How is it Never Again if my family had to flee Iran for being #Jewish just a few short years ago? Their “Never Again” didn’t match with my “Never Again”. Was this another one of those things that was different between Ashkenazis and Mizrahis, like eating rice on Passover? The teachers never really had an answer. No one wanted to be the adult who told a class full of kids that yes, people on the world still want you dead because you are Jewish. But on Purim. I was in my ELEMENT on Purim. Fuck Cinderella. And Fuck Sleeping Beauty. They were nothing more than weak damsels waiting for a prince to save them. Queen Esther, with her bravery, beauty, and sharp wit not only saved herself, she saved her ENTIRE people. I’d put on my prettiest dress, let down my brown hair, plop a plastic crown on my head and OWN my role as one of the greatest female icons in history. “My family is from Persia, like Queen Esther,” I’d tell my Hebrew school class with pride. And for once, I wasn’t on the outside looking in. With my belly full of Hamantaschen and my ears ringing with the sound of groggers, I’d feel seen. But today, it’s not enough. I can’t put on a Queen Esther costume and overlook the fact that for Persian and MENA Jews, and many Jews from the post WW2 Soviet Block, the promise of “Never Again” never applied. Jewish persecution DIDN’T end in 1948. I hear so many Jewish voices say they were “blindsided” by antisemitism. The only reason they were “blindsided” was because post-WW2 Jewish persecution outside of #Israel, especially in MENA countries, has been overlooked and outright ignored. The Nazism that resulted in the Holocaust wasn’t destroyed, it was REBRANDED into Radical Islamic Jihadism. And the same Radical Islamic Jihadist ideology that forced 1.2 MILLION MENA Jews out of their homes is the one embraced by HMS and its many supporters now. This is why Pro-HMS groups have erased the existence of MENA Jews from their narrative altogether. After all, it’s impossible to continue the LIE of “colonial oppressor vs Arab oppressed” when faced with the complete ETHNIC CLEANSING of Jews from Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Morocco, Iraq, and all the other MENA countries. So this Purim, as you celebrate Queen Esther, don’t forget… MENA Jewish history is more than a story in the Megillah. And we need ALL our collective voices and experiences to defeat the hateful Nazi/Jihadists once and for all. 💙🇮🇱💙 #AmYisraelChai #StandWithIsrael  The Persian Jewess-tweet-23March2024-I was in my ELEMENT on Purim
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The Caribbean was the center for Jewish life in the New World for approximately 200 years
“One thing about the Caribbean is that for approximately 200 years it was the center for Jewish life in the New World.” #AmYisraelChai  The Persian Jewess-tweet-12May2024-The Caribbean was the center for Jewish life in the New World
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[Operation Solomon]When a Boeing 747 Carried 1,088 PassengersSeptember 20, 2024 Mond Ortiz
The Boeing 747 is truly an awesome plane, and I’m sure most of us can agree. Not only is it visually stunning, but it’s also highly versatile. Aside from carrying passengers and cargo, it has transported Space Shuttles, been used as a Doomsday plane, and even set a record by carrying 1,088 passengers. Yes, 1,088 passengers on a Boeing 747! This is a record that not even the larger Airbus A380 has surpassed. So, here’s the story behind it.
In 1991, an El Al 747 made history during Operation Solomon when it carried 1,088 people in a single flight. This is a record breaking feat that it even made it to the Guinness World Records as the most number of passengers carried on a plane, that still stands today. The story behind this record involves a daring airlift mission that rescued thousands of Ethiopian Jews in a time of crisis.
It was the year when Ethiopia was on the brink of political collapse, the year 1991. The government led by Mengistu Haile Mariam was close to being overthrown by Eritrean and Tigrean rebels. This instability posed a grave threat to the country’s Jewish population. World Jewish organizations, including the American Association for Ethiopian Jews and the state of Israel, were deeply concerned about their safety. The existing regime had previously made mass emigration difficult, but the imminent change in power presented a crucial opportunity for those wanting to move to Israel.
 This is a real photo of 1,088 passengers all inside an El Al Boeing 747. This holds the most number of passengers carried in an aircraft.
What followed was a covert operation known as Operation Solomon. Between May 24 and May 25, 1991, over a period of 36 hours, 14,325 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel. The operation involved non-stop flights of 35 Israeli aircraft between Addis Ababa and Tel Aviv. These included Israeli Air Force C-130s and notably, El Al 747s. Seats were removed from the jets to maximize capacity, transforming the Boeing 747 into a vessel of hope for thousands.
The Record-Breaking Flight of the El Al Boeing 747Among the 40 flights conducted during Operation Solomon, one El Al 747 set a world record by carrying 1,088 people in a single trip. This number is often cited and includes two babies born during the flight. Various reports mention slightly different totals, ranging from 1,078 to 1,122 passengers, but any figure within this range surpasses previous records. The Boeing 747, typically configured to carry between 350 and 400 passengers, was pushed to its limits. The successful transport of such a large number of people showcased the Boeing 747’s capabilities and how highly adaptable the aircraft is.
I mean, if it can carry one whole Space Shuttle in its back, what more 1,088 people. Amazing aircraft, ain’t t?
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