Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer drew sharp rebuke from lawmakers and commentators after opening a press conference on recent mass shootings with a celebratory shoutout to the Buffalo Bills — a moment critics called “unbelievable” and “disgraceful.”
Leading Australian Jewish advocate Dionne Taylor declares Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “has blood on his hands” after the Bondi Beach massacre targeting Jewish locals celebrating Hanukkah. She described the terrorist attack as “a transformational watershed moment” for the country, while urging the left-wing PM to “call President Trump” to learn how to lead with strength in protecting citizens and countering rising threats, citing Trump’s success in combating antisemitism “on campuses and elsewhere.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the mass-casualty terrorist shooting that killed at least 11 people at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney came after he warned left-wing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese months ago that Canberra’s policies were “promoting and encouraging antisemitism.” He further charged that Australia “replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement” as Jewish blood was spilled.
President Donald Trump declared that “Israel has never had a better friend in the White House” as the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) honored him last week at its annual Chairman’s Gala in Washington, D.C., recognizing what the organization described as his historic leadership on Israel — from Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to confronting Iran and brokering the Gaza ceasefire that secured the release of the final remaining hostages.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder warned Wednesday that surging antisemitism in the West amounts to a “full-scale assault on the truth, on democracy, and on the safety of the Jewish people,” urging Jews and their Christian allies to confront it on campuses, in classrooms, and across social media.
Israel’s Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday unveiled what they called a first-of-its-kind global parliamentary bid to nominate President Donald J. Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, declaring that “no one has ever deserved that honor more” and that “no person in the world has done more for peace over the past year.”
Former Miss Slovakia Miriam Mattova says a Toronto Uber driver slammed on the brakes and ordered her out of the car after overhearing her talk about a recent visit to Israel, telling her, “we don’t drive Jewish people,” in what she calls a “blatant act of antisemitism” that must carry real consequences.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashal declared that “the resistance and its weapons are our honor and glory” and that “the battle is not over,” boasting that rights are won “at the recruitment office, not the U.N. Security Council” — a declaration that directly contradicts President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan and celebrates the October 7 “Al-Aqsa Flood” massacre as a turning point to push Israel off “our homeland” and the international stage.
Freed American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander returned this week to the Gaza border in IDF uniform and warned the Hamas terrorists who held him underground for 584 days that “you gave me hell — I’ll give you hell back,” saying his story “does not end with survival; it continues with service.”
U.S. Central Command has launched a new task force deploying America’s first one-way “suicide drone” squadron in the Middle East, saying the move “sets the conditions for using innovation as a deterrent” as Iran and its proxies escalate low-cost attacks across the region.
Over 200 Hollywood stars and cultural figures have signed a new petition urging Israel to free a convicted Palestinian terror chief serving five life sentences for Second Intifada murders, prompting warnings they are “sanitizing the crimes of a serial killer” even as they hail him as a “powerful symbol of unity” and the “Palestinian Nelson Mandela.”
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said Tuesday that Tennessee voters must “wake up” and turn out for GOP nominee Matt Van Epps in the state’s special election, warning that Democrat Aftyn Behn — whom he called a “homegrown Marxist” — threatens to flip a deep-red district that President Donald Trump carried by more than 20 points.
Israel will deploy its first full-power Iron Beam laser defense battery by year’s end, with senior defense officials declaring the system will “fundamentally change the rules of engagement on the battlefield” as the Jewish state braces for continued clashes with Iran and its terror proxies.
“A society that sacrifices its own children for pity and power is a death cult — and the liberal West is feeding the beast by validating its lies,” the son of a Hamas co-founder warned, describing Hamas’s strategy of turning Gaza’s civilians into human shields to win global sympathy.
Argentine President Javier Milei formally launched the “Isaac Accords,” declaring Argentina would serve as a “pioneer” with the United States in advancing a new regional framework to expand political, economic, and cultural cooperation with Israel.
The far-left Nation used the Thanksgiving holiday to recast the Pilgrims and Puritans as “radical Protestant doomsday groups” whose “cultish” ideology, it argues, “became the foundation of American culture,” urging Americans to treat the day as “as good a time as any to begin coming to terms with the country’s radical cultish origins.”
Republicans and conservative voices blasted what they called Democrats’ “vile,” “dangerous,” and “reckless” rhetoric toward the National Guard, arguing that days of escalating attacks from leading Democrats have “put a target on the backs of every person in uniform” and created real-world danger for service members — pointing to Wednesday’s shooting of two Guardsmen near the White House as the latest consequence.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz vowed that “we’re going to clean house” at the UN as he and reform envoy Jeff Bartos walked outside UN headquarters in Manhattan, blasting the body as “bloated and bureaucratic” while touting more than a billion dollars in early savings and what he called “DOGEing” — his push to apply Trump-style waste-cutting to the UN system.
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) warned that “unelected bureaucrats” at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have “betrayed” diabetic patients by secretly reviving a Biden-era rule on Halloween night in the middle of a government shutdown, slashing coverage for limb-saving skin substitutes and defying President Donald Trump’s directive to stop it.
Hundreds of Iranian-American scholars, professionals, human rights advocates, youth, and community leaders from across the United States joined prominent former U.S. and European officials in Washington to map what organizers called a concrete roadmap for democratic transition in Iran. The gathering warned the clerical regime has entered its “final phase” and insisted “a democratic alternative capable of replacing it” already exists in the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
House Republicans blasted Democrats on Friday after a majority refused to condemn the horrors of socialism, warning that the vote revealed “more Democrats support socialism than oppose it.”
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists besieged Manhattan’s prestigious Park East Synagogue on Wednesday night, chanting, “Globalize the intifada,” “Death to the IDF,” and “take another settler out,” in what critics warned is “just the beginning” of a radicalized climate under socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Israeli intelligence on Wednesday unveiled the dismantling of what it dubbed the “Hamas Octopus” — a sprawling Europe-wide terror network that stockpiled weapons to strike Israeli and Jewish targets on “command day.”
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia “should get top of the line” F-35 fighter jets “pretty similar” to Israel’s during an Oval Office meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, adding that Jerusalem is “aware” of the emerging deal and “is going to be very happy” as the two also discussed Riyadh potentially joining the Abraham Accords.
Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams used his visit to Israel to deliver one of his bluntest warnings yet about incoming socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, declaring, “If I were a Jewish New Yorker I would be concerned about my children,” and insisting, “Everything is not fine” for the city’s Jews as antisemitism surges and a new administration prepares to take power.
IIsrael is pressing the Trump administration to condition any sale of advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia on Riyadh agreeing to normalize relations with Jerusalem and join the Abraham Accords.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected a report that Jerusalem is pursuing a 20-year U.S. security-aid package, saying his “direction is the exact opposite” and adding that “it’s time to ensure that Israel is independent,” with an announcement expected “very soon.”
President Donald Trump formally requested Wednesday that Israeli President Isaac Herzog pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the corruption trial a “political, unjustified prosecution” in an official letter.
The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Ohio chapter described the election of New York City’s new socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, as both a “coup” against the Democratic Party elites and a “referendum” on Palestinian and Lebanese “resistance,” framing the victory as a political and ideological revolt against the American establishment.
Hungary’s annual pro-Israel summit rallied behind a single pledge — “No migration, no antisemitism, no terrorism” — as speakers from Hungary, Israel, and the United States declared that Central Europe is defending faith, borders, and freedom while much of the West drifts into moral confusion.
“The American taxpayer is being robbed in broad daylight,” Texas Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt said as he urged Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to widen her crackdown on illegal alien abuse of federal food assistance programs.
The son of Hamas’s co-founder delivered a chilling warning about New York City’s socialist mayor-elect, describing Zohran Mamdani as a catastrophic figure who will “only succeed in one thing — burning the castle down” by functioning as a “Trojan horse” for what he identified as the Red-Green Alliance — a coordinated effort between radical communist and Islamist forces seeking to dismantle Western capitalism and fundamentally transform America’s largest city.
With Election Day drawing to a close in New York City, veteran Democratic operative Hank Sheinkopf warned that a victory by socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani would mark not only the end of Jewish New York but the hijacking of the Democratic Party’s remains by radical forces determined to export their revolution nationwide.
Hamas returned the body of American-Israeli Capt. Omer Neutra to Israel on Sunday, a bittersweet handover his father marked with Jeremiah’s line that “your children shall return to their own land” — “Our Omer is on Israeli soil … so much pain, and so much relief.”
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) warned New York City — the financial capital of the world — would face “a complete disaster” if socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani takes power, cautioning his radical agenda on policing and governance will endanger the city’s safety and security and trigger a mass exodus that harms both New York and the nation.
Thirty days into the government shutdown, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) accused Democratic Party chiefs Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries of surrendering to the Marxist wing led by New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — a capitulation she said is now holding the government hostage.
A shocking poll shows that two years after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre that murdered more than 1,200 Israelis, a majority of Palestinians still say the terror group was right to launch the attack.
One of Israel’s most polarizing lawmakers — Ahmad Tibi, a member of the Knesset who describes himself as Palestinian-Israeli and once served as an adviser to Yasser Arafat — urged New Yorkers to “Go Zohran!” on Monday, hailing socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as a “symbol of unity, tolerance, and hope.”
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) accused Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) of treating the U.S. Senate like a retirement community, while arguing that after nearly 25 years in Washington, the career politician has become “a dinosaur in the halls of the Senate,” asserting Texas needs fighters, not fossils to carry forward President Donald Trump’s America First movement.
House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) unloaded Friday on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) after he officially endorsed “jihadist communist” Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, declaring the decision will doom Democrats’ chances of retaking the House.
