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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has reportedly backed down completely and will now “ensure” that a documentary about the Hamas terror attack of October 7, 2023, will be shown.

At least seven nations across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa have called for President Donald Trump to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, with the White House celebrating the endorsements as proof that he is the “President of PEACE.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar delivered a blunt rejection of international two-state solution pressure Wednesday, telling a delegation of American journalists that “a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel would indeed be a solution—for those who seek to eliminate us” and suggesting Western nations advocating for Palestinian statehood should “establish it on their own territory” instead.

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has canceled a documentary about the October 7, 2023, terror attack, ostensibly because of concerns that Hamas might have copyright claims to footage it of its murders.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it found that George Washington University (GWU) had been “deliberately indifferent” regarding antisemitic discrimination on campus, and that it was in violation of a federal civil rights law.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Christians who deny the Biblical basis for supporting Israel have been “indoctrinated” at universities or “come out of weak churches.”

Mike Huckabee, the current U.S. Ambassador to Israel, said Americans should be thanking the Jewish state for offering many advancements.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a direct call to revolution on Tuesday, urging the Iranian people to “take to the streets” and “protest tyranny” while promising Israeli water technology expertise to solve Iran’s devastating crisis once they overthrow the regime, stating “do not let these fanatic mullahs ruin your lives for a minute longer” and “now is the time to fight for freedom.”

Gen. Rudzani Maphwanya, chief of the South African National Defense Force, met in Tehran with his opposite number, Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “in denial” over the on-the-ground consequences of the violence roiling Gaza and should correct his thinking. So said his left-wing Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese knowingly on Tuesday from some 7,589 miles away in Canberra.

The antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement is achieving its goal of isolating Israel — thanks to the fact that Hamas has refused to end the war and release the last hostages it seized on October 7, 2023.

Worried about just what veteran Irish rockers U2 make of the geo-political upheavals currently roiling the Middle East in general and the future of a stand-alone Palestinian state in particular? Worry no more. The band has issued a statement on the matter.

Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh described Hamas’s October 7 terrorist massacre as a “courageous and unprecedented operation” that marked “an important crossroad in the history of the Palestinian struggle,” while simultaneously calling for the terror group to join the Palestine Liberation Organization under unified Palestinian leadership.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reportesr Sunday that Israel may sue the New York Times for defamation over a front-page photo that falsely purported to show a starving Palestinian child in Gaza.

Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Weisz of the Inter-Religious Council of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel has written to Pope Leo XIV to complain about rhetoric he has used to describe Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas. Last month, the Pope accused Israel

Germany will not authorize any exports of military equipment that could be used in Gaza “until further notice,” Chancellor Merz announced.

Israel’s security cabinet voted Thursday to approve a plan to reoccupy the Gaza Strip militarily, starting with Gaza City, the most populous area and the last refuge of Hamas, where it is also holding Israeli hostages.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Thursday that Israel “intends to” take full control of the entire Gaza Strip to eliminate Hamas and transfer authority to non-hostile Arab forces, outlining his most comprehensive vision yet for ending the war as his security cabinet met to approve the operation.

Iranian state media confirmed the execution on Wednesday of Rouzbeh Vadi, identified as one of the nation’s top nuclear scientists, on charges of alleged espionage and cooperation with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.

Amid a flood of internal criticism, the centre-right government in Sweden appears to be backtracking on its “one-sided” stance towards Israel, potentially including its calls to cut off EU trade.

The Israeli cabinet will consider a plan to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City, on Thursday, according to reports in the Israeli media.

The Associated Press (AP) faced fierce backlash on Wednesday after publishing a sympathetic article about Hezbollah terrorists “struggling to recover” from Israel’s pager attack, with critics slamming the report as terrorist propaganda that would make Nazi sympathizers blush.

Israel has formally summoned the Polish ambassador for a reprimand, after Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, suggested a comparison between Israel’s war in Gaza and Nazi Germany’s conduct in World War II.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda were met by pro-Palestinian protests as they shook hands outside the presidential palace.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a forceful defense of Israel’s conduct in Gaza on Monday, drawing parallels between contemporary anti-Israel accusations and the medieval blood libels that preceded centuries of Jewish persecution, while announcing that Israel has authorized airdrops of humanitarian aid to bypass Hamas’s theft of food supplies.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is reportedly threatening to withhold federal disaster funding to states and cities that are boycotting Israeli companies, according to a recent report.

Monday marked the fifth anniversary of the Beirut Blast, the incredibly powerful explosion that devastated the Port of Beirut and killed over 220 people on August 4, 2020.

Jeremy Ben-Ami, the leader of the far-left, George Soros-backed J Street, who lied for years about whether his group had taken money from the billionaire, now says Israel’s war of self-defense in Gaza is a “genocide.”

Comedian John Oliver claimed during his Last Week Tonight show that “Gaza is being starved by Israel” without mentioning Hamas. 

Senior Hamas political bureau member Ghazi Hamad openly credited the October 7 terrorist massacre with forcing Western nations to recognize a Palestinian state, declaring in a weekend Al Jazeera interview that “the initiative by several countries to recognize a Palestinian state is one of the fruits of October 7” while vowing that Palestinians will never surrender their weapons.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declared Sunday that it had defeated a Hamas battalion in northern Gaza, one of the last regions not yet fully controlled by Israel, and where Israeli hostages are thought to be held.

British pop star Jessie J has taken to social media to blast the Hamas terror organization over its treatment of Israeli hostage Evyatar David after he was shown starving and captive in a tunnel.

The Israeli foreign ministry challenged the New York Times and other major mainstream media outlets to publish a photo of a starving Israeli hostage — after publishing fake images of starving Palestinian children.

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas filmed Israeli hostage Evyatar David being forced to dig his own grave in a tunnel underneath Gaza, in a propaganda video meant to pressure the Israeli government to end the war.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group and Hamas published videos on Thursday and Friday of Israeli hostages Rom Braslavksi and Evyatar David, respectively, showing each starving and emaciated.

France suspended receiving Palestinians for investigation into how student sharing antisemitic posts was allowed into the country.