Just five hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee shocked the world by handing its 2026 Peace Prize to virulently anti-Israel ideologue Navi Pillay, Secretary of State Marco Rubio fired back with a devastating broadside.
Taking to X on Friday, America’s top diplomat put the illegitimate International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on notice, declaring that the United States was officially sanctioning the rogue tribunal and warning foreign allies to rein in the runaway bureaucrats or watch Washington tear the ICC down piece by piece.
Rubio’s fiery warning followed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-loses-nobel-to-israel-genocide-accuser-who-then-mocks-him-on-stage?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Loses+Nobel+To+Israel+Genocide+Accuser+Who+Then+Mocks+Him+On+Stage">outrageous announcement</a> from Oslo crowning Pillay, the 85-year-old former judge who served on the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2003 to 2008 and whose career has been defined by relentless attacks on Israel. Pillay, who famously spearheaded a discredited U.N. report falsely accusing Israel of &#8220;genocide&#8221; in Gaza while turning a blind eye to Hamas terror, even sneered at President Donald Trump during a conference in Germany shortly after receiving the honor.
Rubio wasn&#8217;t having any of it. He stated:
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President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans. And that&#8217;s why today the United States is sanctioning the International Criminal Court. We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling their ability to operate against us. Because our message is clear. The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC. Both parties agree on this. But only President Trump has the resolve to take the action needed to end this threat once and for all.
Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. And we expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC and that rely on American service members for their defense, to rein in this rogue court. If they do not, the United States will continue its campaign to dismantle the ICC piece by piece until Americans are threatened no longer.
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Today, the Trump Administration is sanctioning the ICC.
This action should encourage our Allies within the Court to work for solutions to end this threat to U.S. sovereignty forever. <a href="https://t.co/D86dCqLUaZ">pic.twitter.com/D86dCqLUaZ</a>
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The high-stakes clash is the culmination of a decade-long power struggle between globalist lawyers in Europe and American leaders protective of national sovereignty. The bad blood reached a boiling point back in 2017 when ICC prosecutors tried to <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1432230/us-warns-icc-against-probing-its-troops-for-excesses-in-afghanistan'">launch a witch hunt</a> into American soldiers and intelligence officials over alleged detainee abuse in Afghanistan.
That move prompted then-National Security Adviser John Bolton to threaten ICC personnel with arrest, financial ruin, and entry bans in 2018, calling the body &#8220;outright dangerous.&#8221; By March 2020, when the court officially greenlit the Afghan probe, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href="https://www.voanews.com/amp/usa_us-outraged-reckless-icc-ruling-afghan-war-crimes/6185335.html">slammed</a> the tribunal as an &#8220;unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body.&#8221;
The warfare reignited after the ICC issued shameless arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense officials over Israel’s war against Hamas, drawing fierce pushback from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/international-law-expert-condemns-icc-for-arrest-warrant-targeting-netanyahu">top legal scholars</a> who noted that the court had turned a blind eye to bloodthirsty dictators like Syria&#8217;s Bashar al-Assad and North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un.
President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sanctions-icc-threatens-to-infringe-upon-the-sovereignty-of-the-united-states">responded</a> in February 2025 by signing a sweeping executive order targeting the ICC with aggressive sanctions. Since then, the administration has steadily tightened the vise by launching visa bans, freezing assets, and slapping personal sanctions on ICC President Tomoko Akane and top prosecutor Abdoulaye Seye.
Now that the Nobel committee is crowning an anti-Israel zealot and the ICC is trying to flex its muscles, Washington is drawing a line in the sand: the fake court’s reign over Americans and their allies is officially over.

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Mike Ditka, the cigar-chomping, clipboard-snapping embodiment of Chicago football who won titles as both a Hall of Fame player and a legendary head coach, died on Friday. He was 86.
The cause of death was not immediately released. Ditka, known as &#8220;Iron Mike,&#8221; leaves behind a legacy as broad, loud, and indestructible as Chicago itself.
Born Michael Dyczko in the Western Pennsylvania steel town of Aliquippa, Ditka brought a lunch-bucket, blue-collar fury to the NFL that defined his entire life. Drafted fifth overall by the Chicago Bears in 1961, he revolutionized the position of tight end. Before Ditka, tight ends were glorified offensive linemen. Iron Mike turned the position into a lethal weapon, dropping a 56-catch, 1,076-yard, 12-touchdown monster of a rookie season that earned him Rookie of the Year honors.
Nothing encapsulated Ditka the player better than his signature moment in 1963. Trailing the Pittsburgh Steelers late in a crucial December match, Ditka caught a short pass and went on a rampage for more than 60 yards. He bounced, dragged, and violently threw off six or seven helpless defenders before finally being hauled down out of sheer exhaustion. That legendary run set up the game-tying field goal, keeping the Bears alive on their way to defeating the New York Giants for the 1963 NFL Championship.
He was a five-time Pro Bowler in Chicago, but his time as a Bears player ended bitterly in 1967 after a contract feud with owner George Halas, prompting Ditka to famously quip that Papa Bear &#8220;threw nickels around like manhole covers.&#8221;
After stints with the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys, where he caught a touchdown in Super Bowl VI, Ditka retired as a player in 1972 and entered the Hall of Fame in 1988 as the first tight end ever inducted. But his greatest chapter in Chicago was yet to be written.
In 1982, Halas hired Ditka back as head coach. Three years later, Ditka helmed the 1985 Bears — a dominant, unstoppable circus of a team that went 15-1 and remains one of the greatest squads ever assembled.
With a ferocious defense coached by rival Buddy Ryan and an offense powered by Walter Payton and quarterback Jim McMahon, Ditka steered a locker room full of madmen to a 46-10 blowout of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX.
The classic moment came on a Thursday night in Minnesota in September 1985. McMahon had been in the hospital with a neck and back problem and wasn’t supposed to play. Trailing in the second half, he kept badgering Ditka on the sideline until Ditka finally sent him in. McMahon threw a touchdown on his first pass, another one soon after, and three in about seven minutes, and the Bears won going away.
Along the way, Ditka weaponized 300-pound rookie defensive lineman William &#8220;The Refrigerator&#8221; Perry as a goal-line fullback and embraced the team’s wild &#8220;Super Bowl Shuffle&#8221; craze.
Ditka branded his hard-nosed squad the &#8220;Grabowskis.” He contrasted them with flashy, soft teams he dubbed the &#8220;Smiths.&#8221; The city ate it up. He survived a screaming halftime feud with Ryan in Miami, constant side-line clashes with McMahon, and a terrifying 1988 heart attack, returning to the sidelines just 11 days later.
Later in life, Ditka coached the New Orleans Saints. He infamously traded away an entire draft class for running back Ricky Williams, later becoming a mainstay on ESPN. His gruff mustache, dark sunglasses, and sweater-vest look spawned the iconic &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; “Bill Swerski’s Superfans” sketches, with George Wendt and Chris Farley worshipping “Da Bears” and “Ditka,” which turned him into a pop-culture icon well beyond football. The joke was that Ditka could beat a hurricane or anything else in a fight, and he played along with it for years.
One of only two men to win a Super Bowl as a player, assistant coach, and head coach, Iron Mike was the last of a dying breed: a fearless, unfiltered titan who hit life head-on and never backed down from a fight.

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In a stunning display of moral bankruptcy, the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded its 2026 Peace Prize to former United Nations tribunal boss Navi Pillay, a militant anti-Israel ideologue whose career has been defined by an obsession with delegitimizing the Jewish state.
Giving the top international honor to the 85-year-old South African jurist came about a year after her biased U.N. “Commission of Inquiry” issued a discredited hit piece falsely accusing Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza, NPR <a href="https://www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking-news/2025-09-16/a-u-n-inquiry-accuses-israel-of-genocide-in-gaza-joining-a-rising-chorus">reported</a>.
Critics blasted the decision as a direct slap in the face to international justice and an outrageous validation of systemic bias at the United Nations.
“The system of international law is under tremendous pressure, and its institutions are under attack,” the Oslo-based Nobel committee claimed in its citation, completely ignoring Pillay’s track record of turning human rights panels into anti-Israel kangaroo courts.
Pillay’s actual record shows a complete indifference to antisemitism and terror. Under her watch as chair of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the panel effectively functioned as an arm of Hamas propaganda, erasing context, ignoring Palestinian terror networks, and minimizing the horrific October 7 massacres in which Hamas terrorists butchered over 1,200 Israelis, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/un-taps-three-rabid-israel-haters-to-push-genocide-smear">reported</a>.
Her hypocrisy isn’t new. Back in 2010, Pillay’s office refused to pull a monstrous antisemitic blood libel from its website that falsely accused Israeli doctors of a conspiracy to steal Palestinian organs, according to a <a href="https://unwatch.org/letter-to-un-high-commissioner-of-human-rights-navi-pillay/">letter</a> from U.N. Watch. She later defended fellow commissioner Miloon Kothari after he complained that social media was “controlled largely by — whether it is the Jewish lobby or specific NGOs.”
And far from being an impartial judge, Pillay has actively dodged accountability for her anti-Israel crusade. In a telltale moment in June 2023, a hot mic recorded Pillay and her fellow U.N. commissioner Chris Sidoti chuckling about how they ran out the clock to avoid answering tough questions from human rights watchdog U.N. Watch regarding their rampant bigotry and bias, U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer <a href="https://x.com/HillelNeuer/status/1671266414232219649">posted</a> on X.
The exchange went like this:
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Pillay: I thought both of you handled it really well. Sometimes having a limited time is a blessing.
Sidoti: For sure.
Pillay: And you did well, Chris, not to, you know, visit every question that was raised.
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That callous arrogance was on full display again on Friday. Reacting to news of the award at a conference in Nuremberg, Germany, Pillay couldn’t resist mocking President Donald Trump, who has moved to sanction the hyper-politicized International Criminal Court, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/navanethem-navi-pillay-wins-2026-nobel-peace-prize-2026-10-09/">Reuters</a>.
“The last thing I did is the delivery of the report on Gaza, naming what’s happening there as genocide,” Pillay sneered to a cheering crowd. “If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump.”
The joke was a clear dig at last year’s Nobel laureate, Maria Corina Machado, who handed her medal to Trump in January to gain backing for democracy in Venezuela.
Trump, who withdrew the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council after calling its bodies “contrary to the interests of the United States while attacking our allies and propagating antisemitism,” has long slammed the U.N.’s relentless campaign against Israel.
By crowning Pillay, the Nobel committee didn’t honor peace. It rewarded a person whom history will remember for shielding terrorists.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is amassing a huge amount of money for the midterms.
Johnson pulled in a whopping $30 million in the third quarter, pushing his war chest to a staggering $156 million this cycle. That&#8217;s the most ever raised by a Republican speaker or leader at this point in an election cycle, Fox News <a href="https://x.com/aishahhasnie/status/2108146677211165182">reported</a> Thursday.
The haul tops Johnson&#8217;s own previous best. In the third quarter of 2024, he took in $27.5 million, then a record for a GOP speaker heading into Election Day, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-breaks-fundraising-record-as-republicans-seek-to-hold-house-majority">reported</a>.
The cash keeps piling up. Back in July, Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/can-mike-johnsons-record-fundraising-smash-the-midterm-curse">announced</a> a $19.1 million second quarter, which pushed his 2026 total past $53 million and his cycle total to $135 million. Since grabbing the gavel more than two and a half years ago, he has generated more than $200 million for House Republicans. That doesn&#8217;t count the hundreds of millions more stacked up at the Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC he backs.
&#8220;While Democrats lunge further into disarray and to the far-left, House Republicans are united, well-funded, and on offense to win the midterms,&#8221; Johnson said in July.
He isn&#8217;t sitting on the money, either. Johnson has spread more than $91 million across the party, including $46 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee, $21.5 million to shore up vulnerable incumbents, and $7 million to boost GOP challengers, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/10/08/mike-johnson-fundraising-house-republicans-midterms">Axios</a>.
Republicans are clinging to a razor-thin majority, which stood at 218-212 with four vacancies this summer. Democrats need to flip only a handful of seats to grab back the speaker&#8217;s gavel.
History isn&#8217;t on Johnson&#8217;s side either. The party holding the White House has lost House seats in 90% of midterms since 1946, and forecasters are predicting a backlash that could cost the GOP around 28 seats.
There is also a stampede for the exits.
As of October 2, 71 members of Congress — 11 senators and 60 House members — aren&#8217;t seeking re-election, according to <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S._Congress_incumbents_who_are_not_running_for_re-election_in_2026">Ballotpedia</a>. Republicans account for 44 of them. NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/09/16/nx-s1-5971264/congress-retirement-2026-house-senate-primary-defeat">counts</a> 73 lawmakers retiring or running for another office, and says 99 seats will have new occupants compared with the start of 2025. That total includes members who died or resigned, plus 13 incumbents who lost primaries, among them Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).
According to Brookings, the only cycle in the past century with more lawmakers heading for the exits was 1992. The open seats mean Republicans will be defending them without the built-in edge of an incumbent, which makes the climb steeper.
Johnson has built a financial fortress. On November 3, voters will decide whether the midterm curse can be broken.

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Where in the world is James Talarico?
That was the burning question in San Antonio on Wednesday night as Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton took to the stage at a rally, turning his Democrat opponent&#8217;s sudden disappearance from the campaign trail into a crowd participation game.
Paxton called out the Democrat senatorial candidate for pulling a nine-day vanishing act, demanding to know why the state’s political press corps had also gone missing.
&#8220;Where do you think they hid that little socialist?&#8221; Paxton <a href="https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2107974924434567382">asked the crowd</a>. &#8220;So I want you to help me, because the media hasn&#8217;t been really asking, &#8216;Where is he?&#8217; They would be asking where I was after two minutes. So I want you to help me. We&#8217;re going to practice something.&#8221;
Paxton then led the auditorium in a chant, counting off &#8220;one, two, three!&#8221; before the audience bellowed in unison: &#8220;Where is James Talarico?&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe we&#8217;ll get an answer for that,&#8221; Paxton grinned.
The 37-year-old Democratic contender hasn&#8217;t been seen at an in-person campaign stop since a September 28 fundraiser in New York with actor Robert De Niro. After scrapping a series of Texas events, Talarico’s team scrambled to clear the air. A campaign spokesman insisted the candidate simply caught a case of the flu after shaking &#8220;tens of thousands of hands&#8221; and promised he would return to the trail this weekend ahead of a scheduled CNN town hall.
But President Donald Trump had his own theory for why &#8220;Tofu Talarico&#8221; was out of action.
Taking the mic at the rally, the president mocked Talarico’s past crusade against meat, zeroing in on a 2022 clip where the Democrat announced his campaign was going strictly &#8220;non-meat&#8221; to combat climate change. Trump suggested Talarico wasn&#8217;t suffering from the seasonal flu at all, but rather suffering from forced meat consumption on the campaign trail.
&#8220;You haven&#8217;t seen him in a couple of weeks. I hear the guy&#8217;s disappeared,&#8221; Trump told the crowd. &#8220;He&#8217;s sick because he&#8217;s been forced to eat meat for political reasons! And he&#8217;s throwing up all over the place!&#8221;
Trump painted a vivid picture of the Democrat trying to look tough for Lone Star State voters by forcing down Texas brisket against his inner vegan beliefs.
&#8220;He&#8217;d show up at a barbecue, and he&#8217;d stuff little ribs down his throat,&#8221; Trump quipped. &#8220;He&#8217;d go to the back of the tent, and he&#8217;d throw up all over the place because he doesn&#8217;t want meat! This is a guy that likes lettuce, not steak.&#8221;
Days earlier, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-trump-serves-up-talafreako-roast-when-asked-about-steak">took a swipe</a> at &#8220;Talafreako&#8221; while answering a reporter&#8217;s question in Nebraska about his favorite cut of steak, declaring that the Texas Democrat eats steak only to get sick later.
Talarico&#8217;s camp has frantically tried to squash the &#8220;vegan&#8221; label. They have called it &#8220;fighting words in the state of Texas&#8221; while the DNC posted photos of him eating local barbecue.
Early voting kicks off on October 19.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was heckled by pro-Palestinian protesters Wednesday night when the mob overran a Union Square vigil marking the third anniversary of the horrific October 7 Hamas terror attacks.
At the event, at which many of the speakers at the event <a href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/854492/protesters-overrun-oct-7-israeli-peace-vigil-attended-by-mamdani/">called</a> Israel’s war against Hamas a “genocide,” the demonstrators swarmed the park, drowned out speakers with megaphones, <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/pro-israel-pro-palestinian-crowds-converge-on-union-square-for-oct-7-vigil">waved portraits</a> of Hamas mastermind Yahya Sinwar, and shouted &#8220;Death to the IDF!&#8221; Some <a href="https://twitter.com/saidmehr_simone/status/2107980753925439936?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">chanted</a>, “We don’t want no two state, we want 48,” “Traitor!,” and “Zohran, what do you say? How many boots did you lick today?”
The Union Square vigil was organized by the Left-wing group Israelis for Peace NYC. Pro-Palestinian protesters grabbed electric candles meant for mourning, mockingly sang &#8220;Hava Nagila,&#8221; and shouted, &#8220;We sent your people to hell on October 7!&#8221; while Mamdani stood alongside allies like anti-Israel U.S. House candidate Brad Lander.
When Mamdani left the vigil later, he was <a href="https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2108006197945143561">followed</a> by the angry mob of pro-Palestinian protesters, who continued to scream at him, with some calling him an &#8220;opportunist piece of sh*t.&#8221;
To the untrained eye, it looked like a classic case of a politician caught in the crossfire between two warring sides. But while the socialist mayor loves to play the even-handed peacemaker mourning &#8220;all sides,&#8221; his own rhetoric proves he remains firmly in the tank for the anti-Israel movement as he attempts to camouflage his deep-seated hostility toward Israel.
While the agitators slammed Mamdani for supposedly &#8220;capitulating to Zionist pressure,&#8221; his official actions told a very different story.
On the exact same day, Mamdani released an official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-marks-october-7-by-taking-another-shot-at-israel">statement</a> that paid lip service to the October 7 victims in a single line before he unleashed three blistering paragraphs accusing Israel of &#8220;devastating, ongoing genocide,&#8221; occupation, and &#8220;apartheid.&#8221; He even whined that New Yorkers&#8217; tax dollars were funding &#8220;war crimes.&#8221;
On the same night that he attended the October 7 vigil, Mamdani was <a href="https://x.com/kendisgibson/status/2108018741539950930?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">spotted</a> dining at the only Palestinian restaurant in NYC&#8217;s Upper West Side.
The Jewish Community Relations Council slammed Mamdani for failing to bring the city together on the October 7 anniversary.
“It does not honor the dead to pit them against each other. It is shameful,&#8221; the Jewish Community Relations Council said. &#8220;Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs walked through metal detectors to drop off our children at preschool, thanked the police officers posted outside our synagogues for keeping us safe, tucked in our Jewish stars on the subway, and felt the gut punch of grief remembering the 1,200 innocent people who were slaughtered in their homes, in front of their families, and dancing at a music festival just because they were Jewish.”
Mamdani has built his brand on anti-Israel rhetoric. <a href="https://canarymission.org/campaign/Zohran_Mamdani">According</a> to Palestinian-American socialist activist Sumaya Awad, within a month after the October 7 massacre, Mamdani called her and said, “We need to do more for Gaza. We need to organize a hunger strike for ceasefire, to pressure Biden to stop arming this genocide.”
From <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-escalates-war-with-pro-israel-democrats-as-he-builds-his-squad">calling</a> AIPAC &#8220;monsters&#8221; to suggesting he <a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/article-902872">might arrest</a> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in New York City, Mamdani has consistently pushed an anti-Israel agenda. He&#8217;s <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-859627?dicbo=v2-puQTs4k#google_vignette">pushed legislation</a> to fine Jewish charities donating to emergency responders in Israel, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-of-mamdanis-anti-nypd-anti-israel-rhetoric-resurfaces-as-critics-warn-of-dangerous-extremism">claimed</a> the NYPD&#8217;s &#8220;boot&#8221; is laced by the Israeli military, and refused to affirm Israel&#8217;s right to exist as a Jewish state.
In May, Mamdani <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cry-bully-bulls-mamdani-trashed-after-shilling-for-nakba-day">issued</a> a public statement championing “Nakba Day.” Mamdani’s public commemoration of the Nakba — the Arabic term for “The Catastrophe” — focused heavily on the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians during the founding of the State of Israel. By framing the event as a unilateral act of Zionist aggression, Mamdani completely erased the fact that Arab leadership initiated the hostilities, while simultaneously ignoring the systematic expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab lands during the same era.

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Mamdani Gets A Taste Of The Anti-Israel Mob At October 7 Vigil

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A powerhouse roster of 76 retired American military officers, 74 of them generals and admirals, fired back Wednesday at the claim that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. They called it a legally bankrupt charge that &#8220;do[es] not stand up to common sense scrutiny.&#8221;
The declaration was timed to the third anniversary of Hamas&#8217;s October 7, 2023 slaughter in southern Israel. Its signers include 13 generals, 27 lieutenant generals, 19 major generals and 5 brigadier generals, including legal experts.
&#8220;Israel has neither intended to, nor destroyed, Palestinians as a group in Gaza,&#8221; they wrote.
The officers said the accusation fails the legal test set by the 1948 Genocide Convention, which requires proof of intent to destroy a protected group. They argued the evidence points the other way. After the October 7 massacre, the IDF fought in self-defense and went to extreme lengths to shield Gaza&#8217;s civilians, including from Hamas itself.
The generals also went after the casualty numbers critics wave around. Those figures come straight from Hamas and don&#8217;t separate civilians from combatants, they said, so they could not be relied upon. They added that genocide isn&#8217;t a numbers game, and that legal precedent holds that civilian deaths in combat, however tragic, aren&#8217;t enough on their own to prove genocidal intent.
Many signers have commanded U.S. troops against enemies who hide behind civilians, and they said they know firsthand how brutal that fight is. They noted that the IDF took an &#8220;unprecedented combination of precautions&#8221;:
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<li>leaflets, phone calls, texts, broadcasts and social media alerts warning civilians to get out</li>
<li>protected corridors and tactical pauses, even when those cost the IDF a tactical edge</li>
<li>strikes called off when civilians were present</li>
<li>legal review of targets as standard procedure</li>
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They added that IDF soldiers put themselves in harm&#8217;s way to protect fleeing Palestinians from Hamas attacks.
The letter also tallied the aid sent into the Strip: more than 3.5 million tons of food, 48,000 tons of medical supplies, 5,000 tons of baby food, and up to 15,000 cubic meters of Israeli-desalinated water a day. Over half a million Gazan kids were vaccinated, and about 5,000 Gazans were evacuated abroad for medical treatment.
&#8220;These are not the actions of a genocidal state,&#8221; they wrote.
Their sharpest warning was aimed at home. Letting the genocide charge stick, they said, would encourage future enemies to put civilians in the line of fire on purpose and then exploit the suffering to split America&#8217;s alliances.
&#8220;The precedent established today regarding Israel will shape the conditions under which American forces fight tomorrow,&#8221; they wrote.
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Breaking: &quot;As retired senior military leaders and legal experts, on this, the third anniversary of Hamas&#39;s October 7, 2023 brutal attack on Israel, we reject claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.&quot; <a href="https://x.com/jinsadc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jinsadc</a> 
I am honored to be a part of 76 retired U.S. officers… <a href="https://t.co/S7lU5mjfF4">pic.twitter.com/S7lU5mjfF4</a>
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Reuters marked the third anniversary of Hamas&#8217; October 7 massacre by posting footage of battered buildings and areas of Gaza.
The global news agency shared a video Wednesday showing Gaza City flattened by Israel&#8217;s military campaign. The war was Israel&#8217;s response to the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust. The caption simply described it as a view of Gaza City on the October 7 anniversary, with no mention of the 1,200 people Hamas slaughtered or the 251 hostages it dragged into the enclave.
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The backlash was swift.
Conservative commentator Dana Loesch posted a photo of the memorial set up for the victims who were killed by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival and blasted Reuters for not highlighting that site in its post.
&#8220;View of the Nova site, three years later. The response in Gaza happened because they chose to brutalize and butcher their neighbor. Again. And again. And again,&#8221; Loesch wrote.
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@Reuters View of the Nova site, three years later.
The response in Gaza happened because they chose to brutalize and butcher their neighbor. Again. And again. And again. https://t.co/yla5M1htjG
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Media watchdog HonestReporting <a href="https://x.com/HonestReporting/status/2107741135884173397">blasted</a> the post on X, writing, “The anniversary of Hamas&#8217; massacre of 1,200 people and abduction of 251, and this is how you mark the day? Speechless.”
Social media users savaged Reuters. One social media user <a href="https://x.com/redpill73/status/2107797417550917894">posted</a>, “Do you have a view of kibbutz Be’eri by any chance?” Another <a href="https://x.com/StrayedWest/status/2107772475711066133">wrote</a>, “Seriously? Are you kidding me? This is how you honor the thousands of innocent men women and children that were murdered on that day and the hundreds of hostages that were taken? And you want to be seen as credible? What a pathetic excuse for a news organization.”
Others circulated the images Reuters didn&#8217;t show, including footage from October 7 of Gazans <a href="https://twitter.com/October7Attack/status/2102081673168826540">cheering in the streets</a> as terrorists paraded the bodies of slain Israeli women.
Critics say the post fits a pattern with Reuters.
Pro-Israel watchdogs have spent years cataloging what they describe as slanted coverage from the wire service, whose stories reach roughly a billion people daily.
Last year, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) got Reuters to <a href="https://www.jns.org/antisemitism/reuters-takes-down-unauthenticated-article-after-camera-intervenes">issue</a> a rare full retraction. A Reuters story had described Amatzia Ben-Haim, an Israeli murdered by a Palestinian prisoner, as a Mossad agent. The claim came from the killer&#8217;s family, and Reuters admitted it couldn&#8217;t verify it.
CAMERA has also <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/12/04/reuters-carpet-bombs-the-truth-with-biased-reporting-against-israel/">accused</a> Reuters of falsely saying Israel &#8220;carpet bombed&#8221; Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs, of <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/author/tamar-sternthal/">undercounting</a> Israelis killed by terrorists, and of <a href="https://jewishpress.com/how-many-israelis-are-really-fleeing-islamic-jihad-rocket-fire/">downplaying</a> how many Israelis were driven into bomb shelters by rocket fire. It <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/05/reuters-corrects-caption-on-palestinian-stabbing-attack-after-media-watchdog-outreach/">flagged</a> a 2016 caption that said a Palestinian terrorist had merely &#8220;attempted&#8221; a stabbing, when in fact his victim died. In 2018, Reuters <a href="https://dailyalert.org/archive/index.php?id=69132">pulled a tweet</a> about deadly protests in Iran that had been illustrated with a photo of Benjamin Netanyahu.
In August 2025, Israel killed Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif, saying he commanded a Hamas rocket cell, and released documents and a photo of him embracing Hamas mastermind Yahya Sinwar. Reuters <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/13/gaza-journalist-was-a-hamas-terrorist-but-the-media-ignores-the-evidence/">reported</a> that Israel hadn&#8217;t disclosed evidence and noted that al-Sharif had once shared a Pulitzer Prize with a Reuters photo team.
HonestReporting <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/18/gaza-journalist-identified-as-hamas-terrorist-won-a-pulitzer-reuters-cant-see-the-problem/">contended</a> that four of the five Gaza members of that 2024 Pulitzer-winning team had ties to Hamas. Among them, it said, was photographer Yasser Qudih, who it claims crossed into Israel during the October 7 attack. It said two other team members had received honors from Hamas. The watchdog accused Reuters of using its prize as a shield against hard evidence.

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Reuters Savaged Over Video Posted On October 7 Anniversary

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London&#8217;s Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan sparked a firestorm Wednesday after he used his <a href="https://x.com/MayorofLondon/status/2107737697372758289">statement</a> marking three years since Hamas&#8217; October 7 massacre to <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/sadiq-khan-calls-out-reprehensible-actions-of-israel-in-october-7-statement-ujbeuhxj">condemn</a> Israel.
Khan opened his message by calling the 2023 slaughter an atrocity the world must never forget. He offered condolences to grieving families and pledged to fight antisemitism in the British capital. Then he pivoted to Gaza.
&#8220;Today is also a moment to reflect on the unfathomable suffering and killing of Palestinians over the last three years, both in Gaza and in the West Bank,&#8221; Khan bloviated. &#8220;The U.K. government is right to call out the reprehensible actions of the Israeli government and apply more pressure to keep the prospect of a two-state solution alive.&#8221;
Khan disabled comments under his statement on X, but the backlash still came quickly.
Israel&#8217;s embassy in London ripped the mayor for tainting a day of mourning by going after Israel, stating, &#8220;Today Jewish Londoners are marking the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It is a day for mourning, remembrance, and solidarity with a community that has lived with fear and a surge in hatred ever since.&#8221;
Diplomats noted that London Jews were marking the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. They also said anti-Israel hate marches were set to hit the mayor&#8217;s own streets that same day, and they were still waiting for him to condemn them.
Alex Hear, who chairs Labour Against Antisemitism, said the mayor failed to comfort the city&#8217;s Jewish community.
&#8220;A mayor who represents all Londoners should understand that on this day, above all, the Jewish community needed to be heard and comforted, not told where its grief fits among other priorities,&#8221; he said.
Gavin Stollar of Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel pointed to the roughly 1,200 people butchered by Hamas and the hostages dragged into Gaza. He reminded Khan that the year has 364 other days for commentary.
Campaign Against Antisemitism didn&#8217;t hold back either.
&#8220;If the Mayor of London can’t bring himself to remember the over one thousand victims of the 7th October atrocity without criticizing the Israeli government, and cannot talk about antisemitism in his city without referring to Gaza, then he may as well not say anything at all,&#8221; the organization said.
It also called the mayor&#8217;s statement &#8220;worse than nothing.&#8221; The group cited its own polling showing 85% of British Jews are unhappy with how Khan has treated their community since the 2023 attack.
It&#8217;s not the first time the mayor has drawn fire from London&#8217;s Jews.
In March, Khan faced harsh criticism after a suspected antisemitic arson attack torched four Jewish ambulances. He called it a &#8220;cowardly attack&#8221; on the Jewish community and promised more police patrols, while blocking replies to his post on X.
Critics <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/critics-torch-sadiq-khan-for-cynical-virtue-signaling-after-antisemitic-ambulance-attack">weren&#8217;t buying it.</a> Columnist Melanie Phillips <a href="https://twitter.com/MelanieLatest/status/2035997893069259003">dismissed</a> the post as cynical virtue signaling. She accused Khan of standing by through years of anti-Israel marches featuring chants she said call for the killing of Jews. Conservative London Assembly Member Neil Garratt <a href="https://twitter.com/NeilGarratt/status/2036027134813065279">said</a> Khan had once spoken at length about Gaza at a public forum without mentioning October 7, then stayed silent when challenged.
In October 2025, Khan <a href="https://combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/london-mayor-claims-from-the-river-to-the-sea-chant-not-antisemitic/#:~:text=Khan%20answered%2C%20%E2%80%9CI%20don',think%20it's%20all%20about%20context.%E2%80%9D">told</a> the Assembly he didn&#8217;t consider the slogan &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; antisemitic, arguing that context matters. He called protests timed to coincide with a Yom Kippur synagogue attack inappropriate but stopped short of branding them antisemitic.
Conservative MP Sir James Cleverly called that view absurd. Reform U.K.&#8217;s Alex Wilson argued the chant amounts to a call for eliminating Jews. Lord Walney, a former government adviser on political violence, said the slogan&#8217;s demand for a &#8220;free&#8221; Palestine means free of Jews.

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Disgraced manosphere kingpin Andrew Tate appeared in a sexualized video with an underage girl, British prosecutors claimed in court papers filed Monday.
The papers, filed in Florida federal court as part of the U.K.&#8217;s bid to bring Tate back to face trial, allege that police found 168 indecent images and videos of the teen on his phone and laptop after arresting him on suspicion of rape and sexual assault in July 2015, the Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/06/andrew-tate-sexualised-video-child-uk-prosecutors-claim/">reported</a>.
Prosecutors say 66 of the files fell into &#8220;Category A,&#8221; Britain&#8217;s most serious classification, and 26 were &#8220;Category B.&#8221; Investigators reportedly seized the devices from Tate&#8217;s home in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
The girl was 17 at the time, according to the filing, and prosecutors claim Tate, who was 28, knew it.
According to the filing, the girl arrived in Britain from overseas in 2014 and quickly went to work for Tate&#8217;s webcam sex operation. Her passport, which police allegedly found inside his home, showed she was still a minor when he was arrested.
Prosecutors say a text exchange from January 2015 supports the claim that he knew her age. In those messages, the teen allegedly told Tate her parents had found out about her work and suspected he was pimping her out. Tate allegedly suggested he wouldn&#8217;t let her go home but worried her father might go to the cops, acknowledging in his reply that she wasn&#8217;t legally old enough.
Five months later, prosecutors allege, Tate shared videos of the girl in a WhatsApp group with three other men. He allegedly bragged that she worked for his webcam business and claimed one man had offered her $1,000 a day to perform a particular act on camera.
&#8220;Other videos seized from Tate&#8217;s devices allegedly involved extreme pornography, including a video of a person having sex with a live eel and another of a person having sex with a live horse,&#8221; the Telegraph reported.
Tate appeared on &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; in 2016, but producers booted him after six episodes when they learned of a video showing him whipping a woman with a belt. U.K. prosecutors declined to charge him in the 2015 case in 2019.
Monday&#8217;s filing also details claims from multiple women who say Tate choked them before and during sex they did not consent to. One accuser said he squeezed her neck so hard she feared her head would pop, and that she later lost consciousness.
Prosecutors claim Tate and his brother Tristan used recruitment, grooming, control and coercion as part of a pattern of sexual exploitation.
The brothers moved their webcam empire to Romania, where authorities arrested them in 2022 as part of a human-trafficking investigation. Romanian authorities later released them to house arrest, and prosecutors there indicted them. The brothers, who hold dual U.S. and U.K. citizenship, returned to the United States in 2025. Federal agents arrested them in Miami this July at Britain&#8217;s request. They now face 59 charges in the U.K., including rape and sex trafficking.
Last month Romanian prosecutors hit Andrew Tate with a fresh indictment for human trafficking and money laundering, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-tate-hit-with-fresh-indictment-over-sex-acts-with-15-year-old-girl-human-trafficking">reported</a>. Prosecutors accuse him of grooming a 15-year-old girl and forcing her into years of webcam work between 2012 and 2021, and of having sex with a second 15-year-old at two of his Romanian properties. They also accuse Tristan Tate of helping manage the victim&#8217;s accounts, roughing her up, and helping collect more than $1.25 million, some of which the brothers allegedly blew on four luxury cars.
Federal prosecutors have also flagged the brothers as flight risks, claiming they stashed fake passports, including a Mexican document Tristan allegedly held under the alias &#8220;Vladimir Scorpius.&#8221;
The Tates remain behind bars. Both have denied all wrongdoing and insist their encounters with women were consensual.

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He once dabbled in devil worship. Now he apparently prays toward Mecca.
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Tadaryl Shipp, the then-teenage accomplice in the gruesome 1995 &#8220;Job Corps murder&#8221; alongside Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/lethal-injection-survivor-christa-pike-former-satanist-boyfriend-could-be-released-5-years">appears to have converted</a> to Islam in prison. State records list him under the alias Abdul Khalip.
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In 2016, Shipp went to federal court demanding halal meals and Islamic prayer oils behind bars, Fox News investigative reporter Michael Ruiz was first to <a href="https://x.com/mikerreports/status/2107487001079320950">report</a>. He lost.
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Shipp explored satanism when he was a teenager, and after the murder of Colleen Slemmer, investigators found satanic paraphernalia in his dorm room. He and Pike were also reportedly sporting matching pentagram pendants when cops slapped the cuffs on them.
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Shipp, now 49, is locked up at Tennessee&#8217;s Northwest Correctional Complex. His latest mugshot, from June 2024, shows a bespectacled man with a graying beard. He&#8217;ll get another chance at parole in October 2031. The parole board <a href="https://digital-release.wate.com/news/knox-county-news/parole-denied-for-man-convicted-in-1995-knoxville-murder/amp/">turned him down</a> at his first hearing last October, citing the seriousness of the crime.
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On January 12, 1995, Shipp, then 17, and his 18-year-old girlfriend Pike <a href="https://volopedia.lib.utk.edu/entries/job-corps-student-murdered-on-agriculture-campus/">lured</a> 19-year-old classmate Slemmer to a secluded spot on the University of Tennessee&#8217;s agricultural campus in Knoxville. The jealous Pike believed Slemmer had her eyes set on her boyfriend.
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What followed was a nightmare. Prosecutors say Shipp pinned Slemmer down when she tried to flee and carved pentagrams into her chest and face. Pike slashed the terrified teen dozens of times before smashing her skull with a hunk of asphalt. She then <a href="https://www.wsmv.com/2025/10/02/state-sets-execution-date-east-tennessee-woman-convicted-grisly-1995-murder/">took</a> a piece of the girl&#8217;s skull as a souvenir and showed it off to a classmate.
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Retired Knoxville Police Chief Phil Keith, who spent nearly 34 years on the force, said the scene ranked among the worst he ever saw.
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&#8220;It was a grotesque crime scene,&#8221; he told Fox News.
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Because Shipp was a juvenile, the death penalty could not be used. He got life for first-degree murder plus 25 years for conspiracy.
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Pike was sentenced to die.
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A third participant, Shadolla Peterson, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact, testified against both of her friends, and <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/only-one-woman-death-row-232215325.html">got probation</a>.
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Pike allegedly tried to <a href="https://genwhypod.com/blogs/the-generation-why-podcast-blog/christa-pike-execution-date-set-for-2026-first-woman-put-to-death-in-the-state-in-nearly-200-years">strangle a fellow inmate</a> with a shoelace in 2001 and reportedly plotted a prison break with a pen pal in 2012.
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Last Wednesday, Tennessee tried to execute her, but it didn&#8217;t work.
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Two doses of pentobarbital <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/02/christa-pike-in-critical-condition-after-tennessee-botched-execution-lawyer-says">failed to kill</a> Pike, who had asked for a different method of execution. Pike was rushed to a hospital, where she remains in critical condition.
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Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee, who had rejected her clemency plea just days earlier, <a href="https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/10/02/what-know-about-christa-pike-her-failed-lethal-injection-execution-attempt/">called</a> the failed execution &#8220;deeply disturbing.&#8221; He ordered an independent review and halted the state&#8217;s remaining executions this year.
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Pike&#8217;s lawyers are now demanding her sentence be commuted.
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Slemmer&#8217;s mother, May Martinez, <a href="https://thenightly.com.au/world/christa-pike-teen-killer-alive-and-receiving-lifesaving-care-day-after-botch-execution-failed-c-22956352">traveled</a> to Nashville to watch Pike’s execution.
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French teenagers <a href="https://x.com/AP/status/2107430843283026215">stormed back to the barricades</a> Tuesday for a third round of their increasingly violent school revolt, and this time the grown-ups joined them.
Scuffles erupted between protesters and cops on the streets of Paris, and clashes flared in <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/">Lyon and Strasbourg</a> as thousands of high schoolers once again blockaded their schools. Authorities braced for as many as 40,000 marchers to flood the capital.
The students now have reinforcements. A coalition of teachers&#8217; unions, the hard-Left Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) labor federation, the Socialist Party, and French Left-wing politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon&#8217;s La France Insoumise joined the students. A radical farmers&#8217; union even urged its members to roll up to the blockades on their tractors.
The movement, which started over complaints about crumbling classrooms, packed schedules, and a shortage of teachers, has spiraled into riots.
Cops have made more than 6,000 arrests since September 28, and over 5,000 people, most of them minors, have been hauled into custody, according to France&#8217;s Interior Ministry. More than 700 police officers and nearly 100 school staffers have been hurt.
Protests have disrupted 589 schools and left at least 190 students injured. In the northern town of Lens, a 15-year-old lost his hand after picking up a police grenade.
France&#8217;s internal police watchdog has now launched 10 investigations into officers&#8217; conduct since the unrest began.
Calls are mounting for a &#8220;black week&#8221; of protests, and the government appears to be blinking.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu told lawmakers Tuesday that regular class schedules will be suspended at high schools later this week. Principals will hold what he called sessions of &#8220;internal democracy&#8221; with the angry students.
But Lecornu also <a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/mobilisation-des-lyceens-sebastien-lecornu-annonce-une-suspension-des-cours-en-fin-de-semaine-pour-un-temps-de-democratie-interne-20261006">came out swinging</a>.
&#8220;Burning down a high school doesn&#8217;t improve the state of high school buildings,&#8221; he told the National Assembly. &#8220;Lynching a teacher doesn&#8217;t improve the teacher replacement rate.&#8221;
He warned there could be no tolerance for violence against educators, and insisted that minors are responsible for their actions too.
The prime minister saved his harshest words for the radical Left. He <a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/mobilisation-des-lyceens-sebastien-lecornu-annonce-une-suspension-des-cours-en-fin-de-semaine-pour-un-temps-de-democratie-interne-20261006">accused</a> La France Insoumise (LFI) of pursuing a &#8220;political project to create chaos in the country&#8221; ahead of next spring&#8217;s presidential election, and of fanning the flames.
He also flatly rejected claims of state-ordered police brutality, calling them &#8220;a lie.&#8221; Injuries in tense crowd-control operations, he said, were &#8220;accidents, not police violence.&#8221;
Famed French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy <a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/en-direct-blocage-des-lycees-des-dizaines-de-milliers-de-lyceens-dans-la-rue-pour-un-acte-iii-sous-haute-surveillance-20261006">blasted</a> Mélenchon for comparing the student blockades to the uprisings of May 1968, saying the LFI founder was &#8220;unworthy&#8221; of even invoking that era.
Lévy said the students have every right to be angry, but he called Mélenchon&#8217;s hijacking of their cause &#8220;disgusting.&#8221; He accused LFI of setting fires, dancing around them, and sending teenagers into the flames. He added that the party bears &#8220;considerable responsibility&#8221; for the movement&#8217;s ugly turn.
Lévy isn&#8217;t alone. Far-Right leader Marine Le Pen has also <a href="https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/education/blocus-lyceen-sebastien-lecornu-convoque-une-cellule-de-crise-a-13-heures">blamed</a> Mélenchon and his party for the riots. She said LFI put itself outside the bounds of the republic by urging activists to stand between kids and cops by branding police conduct &#8220;savagery&#8221; and suggesting violence can be legitimate. That echoes an LFI mayor in Saint-Denis who said violence &#8220;can be legitimate.&#8221;

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