As per usual, the BBC offered an apology for another <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwqpdy00w2o">manipulative anti-Israel piece</a> that was presented as impartial.
This time, the BBC acknowledged that a BBC documentary titled “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone,” which was narrated by a boy from Gaza, neglected to mention that the boy just happened to be the son of a high-ranking Hamas official.
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BBC Gaza documentary breached editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose child narrator was son of Hamas official, review finds <a href="https://t.co/0YkaPtGUX5">https://t.co/0YkaPtGUX5</a>
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1944715012628431237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
A review of the situation found that three members of the independent production company Hoyo Films knew the narrator’s father served as deputy minister of agriculture for Hamas in Gaza and the BBC team was not “sufficiently proactive” with initial editorial checks and displayed a “lack of critical oversight of unanswered or partially answered questions” before the broadcast aired.
A spokesman for the media watchdog Ofcom, which will conduct an investigation, stated, “Having examined the BBC&#8217;s findings, we are launching an investigation under our rule, which states that factual programmes must not materially mislead the audience.&#8221;
BBC News CEO Deborah Turness admitted, “We are owning where we have made mistakes, finding out what went wrong, acting on the findings, and we&#8217;ve said we&#8217;re sorry.”
BBC&#8217;s director general, Tim Davie, said the report “identifies a significant failing in relation to accuracy.”
“It&#8217;s not for the government to say who should and shouldn&#8217;t work at the BBC,” British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy stated. “My job is to make sure that we uphold the highest standards and that the public and parliament can have confidence in the BBC. I think, given the recent events, that has been called into question, but the BBC in recent weeks has made big strides to try to reset that relationship with the public, and show that they have grip on the very, very serious issues.”
The Campaign Against Antisemitism responded to the report, calling its recommendations — which included creating “a new leadership role in news documentaries and current affairs,” issuing “new editorial guidance,” and a new “first gate” process — “frankly insulting. &#8230; The report says nothing we didn&#8217;t already know: paying licence fee money to a Hamas family was bad. The report yields no new insight, and almost reads like it&#8217;s trying to exonerate the BBC.”
In March, a producer for the BBC contacted the Israeli Embassy in London and asked if it could supply “an Israeli military voice” who would “be critical of” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s military offensive against Hamas.
In August 2024, the BBC rejected a call from more than 200 Jewish staffers, contractors, suppliers, and contributors for a formal investigation into its alleged antisemitic reporting.
“We write to you today to request an urgent formal investigation by the BBC board into systemic problems of anti-Semitism and bias at the BBC, alongside senior management’s demonstrable failure to properly address the issue,” the letter stated, adding the signatories’ “anguish and disbelief because we fear we have now exhausted the process of raising our very serious concerns about anti-Jewish racism with BBC Management,” <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/01/bbc-chairman-dismisses-staff-complaints-anti-semitism/#:~:text=If%20other%20minorities%20were%20treated,pointed%20to%20the%20whistleblower%20process.">according</a> to The Telegraph.
“The group also sent the board members what they describe as a non-exhaustive list of social media breaches and ‘impartiality breaches in matters of public controversy relating to Israel and Gaza,’ broadcast mistakes that ‘suggest bias,’ and an account from anonymous sources ‘of the fear and mental health toll on Jewish BBC staff, their feelings of isolation and alienation from their bosses and experiences of prejudice and racism at work,’” Deadline <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/08/bbc-formal-antisemitism-investigation-jewish-group-1236028620/#recipient_hashed=08fffa7c82ea6b2d094e763900bf54666b85ace76f2a09af81b15c839e1ca06f&amp;recipient_salt=1a059f2921757ba80b9af3ebcdcec73bbac911a89a1e4e907fd2e8fe6b1d8fc1&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Deadline_IntlBNA&amp;utm_content=540896_08-01-2024&amp;utm_term=11484234">reported</a>.
The letter pointed out “impartiality breaches in matters of public controversy relating to Israel and Gaza,” broadcast mistakes that “suggest bias,” and an account from anonymous sources “of the fear and mental health toll on Jewish BBC staff, their feelings of isolation and alienation from their bosses and experiences of prejudice and racism at work.”
But BBC Chairman Samir Shah dismissed the call for a formal investigation, responding that the BBC was “successful” in creating an “inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds feel welcome, safe and supported. &#8230; I am satisfied, however, that where we have made errors, the executive has acted appropriately and handled matters in accordance to the guidance as they apply to my colleagues. Following your correspondence, I have asked the executive to review the papers you sent and to see if there’s anything included that has not been previously considered.”
In November 2023, the BBC, which had presented an editorial slant against Israel for years, was forced to apologize for falsely accusing the Israel Defense Forces of committing war crimes in its attack on a Hamas command node at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.
A BBC presenter falsely claimed twice on air that Reuters had reported that the IDF had targeted medical teams, as well as Arabic speakers, instead of what Reuters actually reported, which was that the IDF had included medical teams and Arabic speakers on its team.
Later, another presenter offered a muted apology on behalf of the network, stating, “And now, an apology from the BBC. BBC News, as it covered initial reports that Israeli forces had entered Gaza’s main hospital, we said that medical teams and Arabic speakers were being targeted; this was incorrect and misquoted a Reuters report. We should have said IDF forces included medical teams and Arabic speakers for this operation.”
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If you don&#8217;t want to apologize over and over again for the false information you propagate against Israel &#8211; maybe just start publishing the truth? <a href="https://t.co/uc62A93yqG">pic.twitter.com/uc62A93yqG</a>
— יוסף חדאד &#8211; Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) <a href="https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1724744461236715836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, fed up with the allegations being peddled that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had worked for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, issued a statement condemning those who purveyed such a notion in a desire to harm the Jewish state.
The allegations that Epstein may have worked for the Mossad have been pushed openly by influencers on the Right, such as <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/tucker-carlson-suggests-jeffrey-epstein-was-working-for-israels-mossad-spy-agency/">Tucker Carlson,</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PtBr4Brp12U">Megyn Kelly</a>, and Charlie Kirk, among others. Carlson went so far as to <a href="https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1943833522344755521">imply</a> that Israel was “committing crimes on our soil.”
“As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty: The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” Bennett wrote on X. “Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel. Epstein never worked for the Mossad. This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending they know things they don’t. They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it’s Israel. There’s a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won’t take it anymore.”
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As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty:
The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false. 
Epstein’s conduct,…
&mdash; Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט (@naftalibennett) <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1944721571555270793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/jeffrey-epstein-documents-woody-allen-larry-summers-edb3e9b2?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhXVtdTlCTnGZDiERtnXgINffkfg2C25hQmsNPfzt08SI1zfEvjPUN0yCU1eHg%3D&amp;gaa_ts=687524df&amp;gaa_sig=GsX86L0NYenWcSz_5QnUD8Qes-wzV64xmMZgg9JgKvVt_z9meYIFYInVkjhV6aOkXBIfbDRoN1Jt_5fk3uL1_A%3D%3D">noted</a> that Epstein had met numerous celebrities and politicians between 2013 and 2017, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, hard-core leftist and Israel-hater Noam Chomsky, Eva Andersson-Dubin, the wife of hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, leftist donor Reid Hoffman, filmmaker Woody Allen, Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen, former Treasury secretary and onetime Harvard University president Lawrence Summers, and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, the leader of the leftists in Israel opposed to Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu.

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A man reportedly looking for his wife at a Lexington, Kentucky, church gunned down a grandmother of eight and her daughter after shooting a state trooper near the city’s airport on Sunday. The gunman also shot the two women’s husbands, one of whom is the pastor at the church, before police responding to the emergency shot and killed him.
The suspected shooter, Guy House, 47, shot a state trooper outside Blue Grass Airport before fleeing, then carjacked a vehicle and headed to Richmond Road Baptist Church, the Lexington Herald Leader <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article310590260.html">reported.</a> The small church is comprised mainly of families related to one another, Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/13/us/kentucky-shooting-lexington-church-ky">said</a>.
Beverly Gumm, 72, and her daughter, Star Rutherford, were cooking lunch in the basement of the church on Sunday afternoon when House barged in and asked for his wife, the mother of their three children, who is Gumm’s daughter and Rutherford’s sister. When they informed him she wasn’t there, he said, “Well, someone is gonna have to die, then,” and started shooting, Rutherford told the Herald-Leader, which added, “Gumm, 72, ducked and avoided the first shot, but the second hit her in the chest, killing her. The man then went outside and shot and killed another of Rutherford’s sisters — Christina Combs, 32 — and injured two others: Gumm’s husband and the longtime pastor of the church, Jerry Gumm, and Combs’ husband, Randy Combs.”
Another daughter of Gumm’s, Rachael Barnes, said Combs had five children, including a 6-month-old baby, and had plans to graduate from nursing school in December. Of her slain mother and sister, she said, “They were both fantastic moms.” She said Jerry Gumm and Randy Combs were in critical but stable condition. The injured trooper is reportedly also in stable condition.
Star Rutherford said she held her mother as she died. Gumm’s surviving daughters said she was a “faithful member of the church who loved God,” and her “love language” was feeding “homeless people, drug addicts, strangers.”
“In 2022, the Lexington Police Department and Madison County Sheriff’s office featured House as the Crimestoppers ‘Wanted Person of the Week,’” Fox 56 r<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKEVJXLCGec">eported</a>. “He was wanted for wanton endangerment of a police officer.” Other charges against House included theft of a vehicle, fleeing and evading, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, and receiving stolen property.

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Over a dozen Muslim imams from Europe defied the anti-Israel sentiments of much of the Muslim world and met in Jerusalem with Israeli President Isaac Herzog this week.
The imams came from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the U.K., The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-860380">reported</a>. “We are all children of Abraham, and I believe the historic progress in our region is a progress of dialogue between Muslims and Jews, and Jews and Muslims,” Herzog said, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/group-of-europe-based-imams-visits-israel-bearing-message-of-peace/">noted</a>. “What you’re doing on this visit, and in your courageous work, reflects the silent majority in the Middle East and around the world who yearn for this kind of shared life.”
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“You represent the world of brotherhood, humanity, and liberty”. The words of Imam Hassen Chalghoumi from France to me today. 
I was moved and inspired to meet him and a delegation led by <a href="https://twitter.com/elnet_global?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elnet_global</a> of Imams and Muslim community leaders from across Europe. They stand bravely… <a href="https://t.co/gpJja2tQne">pic.twitter.com/gpJja2tQne</a>
&mdash; יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) <a href="https://twitter.com/Isaac_Herzog/status/1942178750319186206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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🇮🇱 It was a great pleasure to meet the President of Israel <a href="https://twitter.com/Isaac_Herzog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Isaac_Herzog</a> along with European Muslim religious leaders led by <a href="https://twitter.com/Imam1chalghoumi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Imam1chalghoumi</a> and organised by <a href="https://twitter.com/elnet_global?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elnet_global</a>. 
It was a peace journey from European Muslim Imams to Israel. We want peace between both nations and… <a href="https://t.co/oMiDsHhnLs">pic.twitter.com/oMiDsHhnLs</a>
&mdash; Noor Dahri &#8211; نور ڈاہری ‎ 🇬🇧 (@dahrinoor2) <a href="https://twitter.com/dahrinoor2/status/1942202717981585737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Herzog noted that on October 8, 2023, the day after the Hamas massacre of 1200 Israelis, he visited the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba — which was struck by an Iranian ballistic missile on June 19 —  where Jewish and Arab staff worked beside one another to treat the wounded and the injured.
Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, the chairman of the Conference of Imams of France and the chair of People for Peace, led the group of imams; he stated that the group prayed for the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7. “He introduced each of the members of the delegation to Herzog and explained that they all love, respect, and admire Israel, believe in its right to defend itself, applaud its resilience, and are opposed to terrorism, violence, and the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas and Iran,” the Jerusalem Post noted.
Imam Youssef Masbeh, who came from the Bilal Mosque in the northern Dutch city of Alkmaar, chanted a song of praise for Herzog and suggested everyone sing HaTikvah (The Hope), Israel’s national anthem. Masbeh sang the same lyrics as the anthem but in Arabic and used a different melody.
“Here in Israel, we want peace,” Herzog told the group. “We want to see all our hostages back home, and we want to see an end to the suffering of the people in Gaza, too. We want to see better lives for everyone.” He said he hoped “peace will come with Syria, with Lebanon, inshallah even with Saudi Arabia, and that we will continue moving forward.”
“When they finished, they all rose and individually and collectively embraced Herzog,”  the Jerusalem Post reported.
The day after the imams met with Herzog, Masbeh’s mosque in Alkmaar suspended him. “Following recent political statements by the imam, the board has decided to suspend him with immediate effect,” the mosque <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dutch-imam-suspended-after-meeting-isaac-herzog-delegation-israel">stated</a> on Instagram. “As of this moment, the institution has no relationship with him.”

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In his latest attempt to disguise his immeasurable leftism, California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom insisted that he was “not anti-gun at all” after being given a gun by former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan on the veteran’s podcast. California Democrat governor Gavin Newsom insisted that he was “not anti-gun at all.”
Ryan handed Newsom a “California-compliant” Sig Sauer P365 X-Macro pistol, prompting Newsom to respond, “The last thing people would expect is that I respect this gift.”
“I’m not anti-gun at all,” Newsom protested. “I’m for just some gun-safe, common sense. I’m challenged by large capacity magazine clips in urban centers, weapons of war, sometimes outgunning the police, but otherwise, man, people have the right to bear arms, and I got no ideological opposition to that at all.”
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Shawn Ryan gifts Gavin Newsom a California compliant SIG Sauer P365 X-Macro. <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a><a href="https://twitter.com/sigsauerinc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sigsauerinc</a> <a href="https://t.co/Cv5DJ1rsFt">pic.twitter.com/Cv5DJ1rsFt</a>
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Let’s take a look at Newsom’s record on guns.
In June 2021, Newsom <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/06/04/governor-newsom-statement-on-assault-weapons-court-decision/">bashed</a> a federal judge after the judge ruled that California’s assault weapons ban was “unconstitutional” and violated the Second Amendment.
“The fact that this judge compared the AR-15 – a weapon of war that’s used on the battlefield – to a Swiss Army Knife completely undermines the credibility of this decision and is a slap in the face to the families who’ve lost loved ones to this weapon,” Newsom claimed. “We’re not backing down from this fight, and we’ll continue pushing for common sense gun laws that will save lives.”
But the AR-15 is not a “weapon of war,” and it is not “used on the battlefield” by modern militaries. The AR-15 is the civilian version of the U.S. military’s M4 rifle. The M4 is able to fire in a fully automatic mode, while the AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle.
In December 2021, after the Supreme Court decided to leave a Texas anti-abortion law in place, Newsom responded by threatening gun sellers and manufacturers with fines of “at least $10,000,” posting on X, “SCOTUS is letting private citizens in Texas sue to stop abortion?! If that’s the precedent then we’ll let Californians sue those who put ghost guns and assault weapons on our streets. If TX can ban abortion and endanger lives, CA can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives.”
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SCOTUS is letting private citizens in Texas sue to stop abortion?!
If that&#39;s the precedent then we&#39;ll let Californians sue those who put ghost guns and assault weapons on our streets.
If TX can ban abortion and endanger lives, CA can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives. <a href="https://t.co/N5Iur9PEUZ">https://t.co/N5Iur9PEUZ</a>
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1469865185493983234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In July 2022, Newsom signed a law permitting lawsuits to be filed against gun makers. The law, <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1594">AB 1594</a>, created a “firearm industry standard of conduct,” including the requirement to “[e]stablish, implement, and enforce reasonable controls” and “[t]ake reasonable precautions to ensure that the firearm industry member does not sell, distribute, or provide a firearm-related product to a downstream distributor or retailer of firearm-related products who fails to establish, implement, and enforce reasonable controls.”
In June 2023, Newsom <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/08/newsom-gun-control-amendment-00100954">proposed</a> a 28th Amendment to the Constitution that would ban “assault weapons,” implement universal background checks for gun purchases, raise the federal minimum age for buying a firearm from 18 to 21, and impose a mandatory “reasonable” waiting period for all gun purchases.
In September 2023, Newsom signed into law a bill that “specifically bans people from carrying guns in 26 places, including public parks and playgrounds, public demonstrations and gatherings, amusement parks, churches, banks, zoos and ‘any other privately owned commercial establishment that is open to the public’ unless the owner puts up a sign saying guns are allowed,” the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-guns-ammunition-tax-school-safety-0870a673a3d4e85c78466897cfd7ff6f">noted</a>.
He’s not anti-gun at all.

Mayor Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris laugh at a Time magazine breakfast for up and coming politicians as part of the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008,  in Denver, Colorado.

‘Not Anti-Gun At All’: Newsom’s Latest Attempt To Disguise His Rampant Leftism

'Not Anti-Gun At All': Newsom's Latest Attempt To Disguise His Rampant Leftism

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Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, celebrated the fact that people in his party embrace “Globalize the Intifada,” contending that you “win through addition” and the party should “celebrate” the difference of opinion.
“Globalize the Intifada” <a href="https://www.ajc.org/news/what-does-globalize-the-intifada-mean-and-how-can-it-lead-to-targeting-jews-with-violence">is</a> a “phrase used by pro-Palestinian activists that calls for aggressive resistance against Israel and those who support Israel. The most prominent expressions of intifada have been through violence so this phrase is often understood by those saying and hearing it as encouraging violence against Israelis, Jews, and institutions supporting Israel,” according to the American Jewish Committee.
During the most recent terrorist intifada, over a thousand Israelis were killed, predominantly civilians. During an interview on PBS Newshour, host Amna Nawaz asked the Democratic chairman about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani refusing to condemn the incendiary phrase: “What about concerns from some of your Jewish colleagues in particular about him not outright condemning the phrase ‘Globalize the Intifada’ in a recent interview? Some of your Jewish colleagues have said that that could be very disturbing, potentially dangerous. Do you agree with that?”
Martin said he&#8217;s happy to have that point of view in the Democratic coalition.
“There’s no candidate in this party I agree 100% of the time with, to be honest with you,” Martin answered. “There’s things that I don’t agree with Mamdani that he said. But at the end of the day, I always believe, as a Democratic Party chair in Minnesota for the last 14 years and now the chair of the DNC, that you win through addition. You win by bringing people into your coalition.”
“We have conservative Democrats. We have centrist Democrats. We have labor progressives like me, and we have this new brand of Democrat, which is the leftist,” he stated. “And we win by bringing people into that coalition. And at the end of the day, for me, that’s the type of party we’re going to lead. We are a big-tent party. Yes, it leads to dissent and debate and there’s differences of opinions on a whole host of issues, but we should celebrate that as a party and recognize at the end of the day, we’re better because of it.”
Yet prior to that statement in which Martin spoke of including all perspectives, he made it clear that political positions were secondary to the need to regain power, declaring, “We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about, but we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power. And that’s really critical.”
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The First Palestinian Intifada lasted from 1987-1990, and the Second Intifada from 2000-05.
According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Institute_for_Counter-Terrorism">International Institute for Counter-Terrorism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_Second_Intifada">during</a> the Second Intifada, 887 of the 1,137 Israelis murdered in attacks from September 2000 – 2005 were civilians.
Just between May 2001 and May 2002, prior to the bombing at Hebrew University, there were these massacres: five Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the HaSharon Mall in May 2001; 21 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the Dolphinarium Discotheque in June 2001; 15 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at Sbarro’s Pizza in August 2001, including six children and a 31-year-old woman who was the only child of her parents and was five months pregnant; 11 Israelis murdered in a bus bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem on December 1, 2001; 15 more Israelis murdered the very next day in a Haifa suicide bombing; 11 more Israelis murdered in a bus attack 10 days later in Immanuel; six Israelis murdered in an attack at a bat-mitzvah in January 2002; 11 more Jews killed in an attack on a yeshiva in March 2002, including a five-month-old child; 11 Jews murdered in a bombing at Café Moment in March 2002; 30 Israelis killed as they celebrated Passover in Netanya on March 27, 2002; 16 Israelis murdered in a suicide bombing four days later at the Matza restaurant, and 16 Israelis murdered in Rishon LeZion in May 2002.

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Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) who is unfailingly left on political issues but is also a fervent supporter of the State of Israel, admitted this week that the reason allies of hard-Left New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani want to primary him is because of his support for Israel.
The conversation stemmed from CNN’s Abby Phillip noting that Mamdani’s allies have a list of congressional representatives they want to challenge in primaries and Torres is on the list.
Torres is not the only Democrat to be pilloried by members of his party for supporting Israel; Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-fetterman-defends-israel-dems-suddenly-question-his-mental-health">targeted for the same reason</a>.
“I want to ask you this,” CNN’s Ana Navarro said. “How the hell does the first openly gay Afro-Puerto Rican congressperson from the Bronx, end up being establishment? What — what does establishment mean these days in the Democratic Party?”
“For me, the lesson learned from Mamdani&#8217;s victory is that there is no Democratic establishment,” Torres replied, alluding to Mamdani&#8217;s recent win in the Democratic Party&#8217;s primary for New York City mayor.
“What do you mean by that? What do you mean by that?” Phillip interjected.
“Are you being honest when you say you don&#8217;t know why they&#8217;re targeting you?” CNN conservative political commentator Scott Jennings asked bluntly. “ You know why they&#8217;re targeting you.
“Oh, no, I&#8217;m not — I know why they&#8217;re targeting —” Torres managed.
“But you know why they&#8217;re targeting you,” Jennings persisted.
“But I don&#8217;t — I don&#8217;t care that they&#8217;re targeting me,” Torres protested.
“So, why don&#8217;t you say it?” Jennings challenged. “You know why they&#8217;re targeting you.”
“I think they&#8217;re targeting me because I&#8217;m pro-Israel,” Torres admitted.
“That&#8217;s 100 percent correct,” Jennings agreed.
“That&#8217;s the issue,” Torres finished, adding, “I am specifically targeted because of my position on Israel.”
“And by the way he&#8217;s been courageous on this issue and he&#8217;s had a backbone and he stood up to the wacko radicals in his party on this, and he deserves all the credit in the world for it,” Jennings declared. “But that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s on the list, because these people have a burning hatred for Israel. It&#8217;s one of their main pieces of their platform and that&#8217;s why they put them on the list and it&#8217;s terrible.”
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Often, my main function is to get to the heart of the matter 👇
In NYC, Mamdani’s radical, socialist, anti-Semitic supporters are trying to primary <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRitchie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepRitchie</a> for one reason only: because of his courageous stance on Israel. Let’s not pretend there’s any other reason. <a href="https://t.co/M66fhAbkrf">pic.twitter.com/M66fhAbkrf</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1943166021025616070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Three months after the Hamas massacre of roughly 1,200 people in Israel on October 7, 2023, Torres gave <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ritchie-torres-gives-impassioned-speech-denouncing-those-cheering-celebrating-october-7-massacre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impassioned</a> response to those who had cheered and celebrated the attack.
“Like all of you, I was profoundly shaken, not only by October 7, but by its aftermath. I found it utterly horrifying to see fellow Americans openly cheering and celebrating the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,” he stated at the annual Martin Luther King sermon at Central Synagogue in Manhattan.
“And for me, the aftermath of October 7 revealed the barbarity of the American heart that reminded me of an earlier and darker time in our nation’s history; a time when the public mobs of Jim Crow would openly celebrate the lynching of African-Americans or the lynching of a Jewish-American like Leo Frank,” he continued.
“And so words cannot express the overwhelming outrage that I felt at the barbaric reaction to the barbarism of October 7. You know, people often ask me, ‘Why do you care so deeply? Why do you speak out so frequently and forcefully against antisemitism?’ And I simply reply, ‘You are asking the wrong question. The question is not why have I chosen to be outspoken; the question is why have others chosen to be silent amid the deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust.’”
“Dr. King once said that history will record that the greatest tragedy is not the strident clamor of the bad people, but it’s the appalling silence of the good people,” Torres recalled. “Elie Wiesel once said that the opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference. And what we’ve seen in the aftermath of October 7 is appalling silence and indifference and cowardice from so-called leaders in our society; from institutions that we once respected and admired. And if we as a society cannot bring ourselves to condemn the murder of innocents with moral clarity, then we must ask: What are we becoming as a society? What does that reveal about the depth of anti-Semitism in the American soul?”
“October 7 has been an awakening for the Jewish community, but it must be a reckoning for all of America,” he declared. “We must confront the deepening rot of anti-Semitism; on social media platforms, on college campuses, and elsewhere in America. We must ask ourselves: What kind of society do we wish to be? Do we wish to be a society that affirms that every life, every Jewish life, every black life, every life, has inherent dignity and value and worth? That each of us is a child of God, that each of us is an equal creation in the image of God?”
“Or do we wish to be a society that affirms that violence and terror, no matter how barbaric, can be justified and even glorified, under the guise of ‘resistance,’” he asked pointedly.
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I had the honor of delivering the annual MLK sermon at Central Synagogue.
My speech touches on a range of topics and themes: October 7th, Jim Crow, Leo Frank, MLK, Elie Wiesel, silence, indifference, moral clarity, nonviolence, Israel, Am Yisrael Chai, Hatikvah, and hope. <a href="https://t.co/stxqxzgyLi">pic.twitter.com/stxqxzgyLi</a>
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1747065334467584292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-fetterman-defends-israel-dems-suddenly-question-his-mental-health">As Fetterman Defends Israel, Dems Suddenly Question His Mental Health</a>

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The former President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), who, serving as a judge, gave the preliminary ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, took issue with the media claiming the International Criminal Court (ICC) had accused Israel of genocide, saying, “I’m correcting what’s often said in the media.” The ICJ is the principal judicial entity of the United Nations.
Judge Joan Donoghue appeared on the BBC’s “HARDtalk” with host Stephen Sackur.
“Would it be fair to say, and I’m no lawyer, and many people watching and listening will not be lawyers, but would it be fair to say that the key point that you made your initial order and ruling upon, was whether or not there was a plausible case that should be taken on by the court of genocide in the case of Israel’s actions in Gaza after October 7, and you quite clearly decided that there was a plausible case?” Sackur asked. “Is it right to say that’s at heart what you decided?”
Contending directly with Sackur’s supposition, Donoghue replied, “You know, I’m glad I have a chance to address that because the court’s test for deciding whether to impose measures uses the idea of plausibility, but the test is the plausibility of the rights that are asserted by the applicant, in this case, South Africa. So the Court decided that the Palestinians have the plausible right to be protected from genocide and that South Africa had the right to present that claim in the Court.”
“It then looked at the facts as well, but it did not decide — and this is something where I’m correcting what’s often said in the media — it didn’t decide that the claim of genocide was plausible,” she continued. “It did emphasize in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide, but the shorthand that often appears — which is there’s a plausible case of genocide —  isn’t what the court decided.”
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The president of the ICJ stated unequivocally that the ICJ did NOT find that there was a Genocide in Gaza.
She even specified that there is not even a “plausible” genocide.
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— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) <a href="https://twitter.com/EYakoby/status/1943154628750684271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Left-wing groups such as <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/">Amnesty International</a> and <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-extermination-acts-genocide-gaza">Human Rights Watch</a>, among others, have launched the claim that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.
“International law is clear on the need for ‘specific intent’ to accompany any acts falling within the actus reus of the crime of genocide, that is the intent to destroy in whole or in part one of the protected groups, as such,” the European Journal of International Law, arguing against the claim of genocide by Israel, <a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/rebutting-allegations-of-genocide-against-israel/">stated</a>. “Simply intending to kill or to otherwise harm individual members of that group would not be sufficient to reach this very high threshold of intent.”
The Journal continued:
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With respect to humanitarian aid, despite initial statements to the contrary, Israel later on allowed humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip during its military operation, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-biden/card/israel-says-it-will-allow-humanitarian-aid-into-gaza-N8P2H1SSRK9vhWZmn3Sa">clarifying</a> that its main concern after the 7 October 2023 attacks was that the aid would end up in the hands of Hamas. It has also taken steps to prevent harm to the civilian Palestinian population, including by: (i) encouraging civilians to move out of the line of fire through disseminating fliers, publishing information online, making thousands of individual phone calls, and communicating instructions and directions in Arabic via radio and other forms of media to guide Gazans to safer areas (see <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-army-publishes-map-it-says-advises-gazans-safe-evacuation-areas-2023-12-01/">here</a>); (ii) holding fire to enable Gazans to safely move through humanitarian corridors (see <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-16/israel-announces-another-safe-passage-for-gazans-to-move-south">here</a>); (iii) delivering incubators, baby food and medical supplies to Al-Shifa Hospital during a raid (see <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1724678643010404446">here</a>); and (iv) carrying out assessments and verifications that any strikes are directed at military targets.  
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A <a href="https://isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Intelligence-and-Security-Committee-of-Parliament-Iran.pdf">report</a> from Great Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament stated clearly that they saw Iran as a “significant threat to the UK.”
“The Iran threat should not be underestimated: it is persistent and  — crucially  — unpredictable,” the report — which was completed before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis and subsequent events occurred — declared. “Iran has a high appetite for risk when conducting offensive activity, which means it poses a dynamic and erratic threat. &#8230; it can escalate action sharply with little warning. This was seen following the 2022 protests in Iran, when there was a significant increase in the threat of a physical attack to individuals in the UK and the Middle East whom Iran perceives to be a threat to the regime.”
“Iran often operates through proxy groups — including criminal networks, militant and terrorist organizations, and private cyber actors. This provides it with a deniable means of attacking its adversaries with minimal risk of retaliation,” the report continued.
“The threat to the opponents of the Iranian regime residing in the UK is the greatest level of threat we currently face from Iran.’ It is on a broadly comparable level to that posed by Russia,” the report asserted. “Iran uses assassination as an instrument of state policy — targeting dissidents is a high priority for both the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the IRGC.”
“Iran proceeding with its nuclear weapons programme represents a critical threat to the UK’s national security,” the report warned. “The Supreme Leader of Iran (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) wields tremendous power — he is the ultimate decision-maker, setting the direction of Iranian foreign and domestic policy. In terms of the threat posed by Iran to the UK and its interests, the Supreme Leader is therefore key.”
“Iran is there across the full spectrum of all the kinds of threats we have to be concerned with,” the committee chair, Kevan Jones, said.
“Last year, the head of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 said since January 2022, his service and British police had responded to 20 Iran-backed plots to kidnap or kill British nationals or individuals based in the United Kingdom regarded by Tehran as a threat,” The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-poses-significant-threat-to-united-kingdom-british-lawmakers-say-in-new-report/">noted</a>. “In May, UK police<a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-arrested-iranian-nationals-were-planning-attack-on-israeli-embassy-in-london/"> arrested</a> eight Iranian men who were reportedly suspected of plotting to attack the Israeli Embassy in London.”

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The campaign team for U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn, which refers to him as a “lifelong Independent” as he challenges incumbent Nebraska Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts in 2026, has launched a group called “Conservatives for Osborn.”
That’s curious, since Brandon Philipczyk and James Vihstadt, the treasurers of the Osborn campaign and also &#8220;Conservatives for Osborn,&#8221; have strong ties to the Democratic Party.
Philipczyk “served as director of operations in Nevada for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 and national coordinated operations director for the Democratic National Committee until 2017, according to his LinkedIn profile,” The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/veteran-dem-operatives-behind-conservative-group-supporting-nebraska-independent-dan-osborn/">reported</a>, adding that he also worked on Mike Bloomberg’s Democratic presidential primary campaign in 2020. “Vihstadt is a delegate for the Nebraska Democratic Party and has donated exclusively to Democratic political candidates over the years,” the Beacon noted.
Osborn narrowly lost his race against incumbent Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) in 2024, but during the campaign, the Senate Majority PAC, run by then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), gave $3.8 million to the PAC Retire Career Politicians, which supported Osborn. “Nearly $30 million, that’s the amount of money out-of-state Democrats spent trying to buy a Nebraska Senate seat,” Fischer <a href="https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/11/05/red-scare-incumbent-fischer-survives-osborn-in-nebraska-u-s-senate-race/">stated</a>. “It did not happen. … They wasted their money.”
“Osborn launched his campaign in 2023 with the help of a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who authored a blueprint on how to achieve ‘socialism in our lifetime,’” the Washington Free Beacon noted.
In September 2024, Osborn <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3157103/nebraska-independent-dan-osborn-praises-bernie-sanders/">gushed</a> over hard-Left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), saying, “I love Bernie. But the bottom line is we do have to peel off some conservatives.” Then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “Dan is a ‘Bernie Sanders Democrat’ who does not stand for Nebraska Values, and never will.” Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton said Osborn “supports socialist Bernie Sanders but pretends to be non-partisan. A total fraud.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> is right. <a href="https://twitter.com/DebforNebraska?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DebforNebraska</a> is a strong conservative who fights for secure borders and to stop the Biden-Harris inflation. 
Her opponent supports socialist Bernie Sanders but pretends to be non-partisan. A total fraud. 
Support Deb here: <a href="https://t.co/wbtahofbhs">https://t.co/wbtahofbhs</a> <a href="https://t.co/7ci5pWkAzb">https://t.co/7ci5pWkAzb</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1833588954832212232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Dan Osborn is a Bernie Sanders Democrat who apparently can&#8217;t take no for an answer,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Communications Director Joanna Rodriguez <a href="https://nebraska.tv/news/local-politics/nrsc-launches-digital-ad-targeting-dan-osborns-senate-campaign">declared</a>. “Nebraskans rejected Democrat Dan after Chuck Schumer and national Democrats spent millions to prop up his fake &#8216;independent&#8217; campaign and they&#8217;ll do it again in 2026.”
The NRSC recently released an ad highlighting Osborn&#8217;s admiration for Bernie Sanders and inappropriate internet activity:
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Maybe Chuck Schumer should&#39;ve checked Democrat Dan Osborn&#39;s search history before recruiting him to run as an &quot;independent&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Nr8z2eykjx">pic.twitter.com/Nr8z2eykjx</a>
&mdash; Senate Republicans (@NRSC) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRSC/status/1942589276656488706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Arkansas GOP senator Tom Cotton, who has been at the forefront of efforts to protect the United States from Communist China, is introducing a bill that would expedite the harvesting of minerals needed for the nation’s defense and reduce the nation’s dependence on China.
The bill, titled the Necessary Environmental Exemptions for Defense Act, would make it easier for mining activities and permit the Pentagon to “operate with maximum agility and efficiency to ensure it is prepared to deter and, if necessary, fight and win a conflict with the Chinese Communist Party,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-republican-moves-give-u-s-edge-china-harvesting-minerals-weapons-systems">reported</a>.
“Currently, China produces roughly 60% of the world&#8217;s critical mineral supply, and processes up to 90%,” Fox News noted.
The group of rare earths is comprised of “17 elements composed of scandium,  yttrium, and the lanthanides,” James B. Hedrick of the US Geological Survey <a href="https://uscriticalmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Rare-Earths-in-Selected-Defense-Applications.pdf">noted</a>. The lanthanides include lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium.
“On April 4, China’s Ministry of Commerce imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements (REEs) and magnets used in the defense, energy, and automotive sectors in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff increases on Chinese products,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/consequences-chinas-new-rare-earths-export-restrictions">reported</a>. “The restrictions apply to seven medium and heavy rare earths: samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium. The United States is particularly vulnerable for these supply chains. Until 2023, China accounted for 99 percent of global heavy REEs processing, with only minimal output from a refinery in Vietnam. However, that facility has been shut down for the past year due to a tax dispute, effectively giving China a monopoly over supply.”
“Current environmental laws put our readiness to counter Communist China at risk and waste taxpayer dollars on projects that stall out and die on the vine,&#8221; Cotton told Fox News Digital. &#8220;This bill will create jobs, better arm and prepare our soldiers, and spend taxpayer dollars more efficiently.&#8221;
Cotton’s bill would permit the administration to circumvent the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act and Federal Water Pollution Control Act; he stated that they “frequently and unnecessarily delay” the military’s readiness without “substantial benefit to the environment or protected species.”
Cotton suggested as far back as January 30, 2020, that the COVID-19 virus might have come from Wuhan, prompting harsh criticisms from leftists. Speaking at a Senate Armed Services Hearing, he asserted, &#8220;I want to talk about the biggest and most important story in the world. The Wuhan coronavirus. This coronavirus is a catastrophe on the scale of Chernobyl for China. But actually, it’s probably worse than Chernobyl, which was localized in its effect. The coronavirus could result in a global pandemic. While you were all sleeping overnight, the number of diagnosed cases in China increased by 30%. Let me be clear: that’s not new cases; that is just newly-admitted cases. It is probably several orders of magnitude higher than that.”
“We still don’t know where coronavirus originated,” Cotton said. “Could have been a market, a farm, a food processing company. I would note that Wuhan has China’s only biosafety level-four super laboratory that works with the world’s most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus.”
In March 2020, Cotton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tom-cotton-on-china-i-have-never-trusted-a-communist-and-i-never-will-trust-a-communist">said</a> bluntly, “I have never trusted a Communist and I never will trust a Communist. And that&#8217;s who runs China — the Chinese Communist Party.”
A 2019 <a href="https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/military-review/Archives/English/SO-19/Sec-Def-extract.pdf">Pentagon report</a> stated:
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China’s military modernization also targets capabilities with the potential to degrade core U.S. operational and technological advantages. China uses a variety of methods to acquire foreign military and dual-use technologies, including targeted foreign direct investment, cyber theft, and exploitation of private Chinese nationals’ access to these technologies, as well as harnessing its intelligence services, computer intrusions, and other illicit approaches. In 2018, Chinese efforts to acquire sensitive, dual-use, or military-grade equipment from the United States included dynamic random access memory, aviation technologies, and anti- submarine warfare technologies.
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The Trump administration’s Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that it will sue the state of California for alleged violations of Title IX, in reference to keeping men out of women’s sports.
“Title IX was enacted over half a century ago to protect women and girls from discrimination. The Justice Department will not stand for policies that deprive girls of their hard-earned athletic trophies and ignore their safety on the field and in private spaces,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-california-violating-title-ix-denying-girls-athletic-opportunities">statement</a>. “Young women should not have to sacrifice their rights to compete for scholarships, opportunities, and awards on the altar of woke gender ideology.”
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Actions have consequences—suit filed! California won’t get away with allowing males to take girls’ athletic opportunities away. Stay tuned for more! <a href="https://t.co/lsgSgEg9qI">pic.twitter.com/lsgSgEg9qI</a>
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) <a href="https://twitter.com/AAGDhillon/status/1942991236618420513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, California rejected the resolution agreement from the Trump administration to follow federal law and ban transgender-identifying males from competing athletically with females.
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) aligned itself with the California Department of Education (CDE) and refused to sign the resolution agreement. The resolution was proposed on June 25, when the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the conclusion of its Title IX investigations into the state for allegations of discrimination against women and girls on the basis of sex.
Federal officials found that California was in clear violation of Title IX.
“As a result of the noncompliance finding, OCR has issued a proposed Resolution Agreement to CDE and CIF to resolve their Title IX violations,” the U.S. Department of Education <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-finds-california-department-of-education-and-california-interscholastic-federation-violation-of-title-ix">said</a> in a press release issued last month. “OCR has offered both entities an opportunity to voluntarily agree to change these unlawful practices within 10 days or risk imminent enforcement action, including referral to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for proceedings.
In March, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, in a move widely regarded as an attempt to distance himself from his leftist record and position himself for a future presidential run, <a href="https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/03/newsom-transgender-athletes/">claimed</a> on his podcast that he opposed men competing in women&#8217;s sports. When criticisms were made of a high school boy who had won a regional meet, Newsom responded, “I think it’s an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness. It’s deeply unfair. I’m not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.”
The lawsuit filed by the DOJ reportedly cited Newsom’s own words, that biological males competing in women’s sports was “deeply unfair.”
The Justice Department slammed policies that “eviscerate equal athletic opportunities for girls &#8230; they also require girls to share intimate spaces, such as locker rooms, with boys, causing a hostile educational environment that denies girls educational opportunities,” Fox News’s Dana Perino <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375448094112">reported</a>.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon stated to Perino, “We investigated this; the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education investigated. We told Governor Newsom that we’d be investigating these violations. We found California to be in violation of Title IX; we turned it over to the Justice Department, and they announced this morning that they were filing suit against California.&#8221;
“This is something President Trump campaigned on; his ‘Promises made, promises kept,” she said, adding, “It is the law. The president means business with it.”

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