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“More Jews will get hurt at or because of CUNY Law’s bigoted and violence-inciting incubator. It’s time for the American Bar Association or New York State to shut them down and ensure that no one else gets hurt,” Prof. Jeffrey Lax told World Israel News.

By World Israel News Staff

Two vehemently anti-Israel activists who delivered CUNY Law School’s commencement speeches in 2022 and 2023 were key speakers at a New York city pro-Palestinian rally that culminated in antisemitic attack against a Jewish man.

Both Nerdeen Kiswani and Fatima Mohammed made headlines for leveraging their commencement speeches as an opportunity to slam the Jewish state and promote a pro-Palestinian narrative.

Pro-Israel and Jewish activists have pointed to the speeches by Kiswani and Mohammed as evidence of pervasive antisemitism at CUNY, which makes Jewish staff and students feel unsafe at the educational instituion.

But according to a Times of Israel report on Tuesday, the women’s involvement with pushing a virulent anti-Israel narrative has led to real-world consequences for Jews off-campus as well.

The women are members of the If Not Now organization, a pro-Palestinian group that has called for the destruction of Israel and demonizes Zionism. Both Kiswani and Mohammed spoke at an If Not Now rally held near the Israeli consulate in Manhattan in April 2022, TOI reported.

During that demonstration, Kiswani led chants accusing “Zionists” of committing “genocide,” called for a “globalized intifada,” and advocated for “freeing every inch of Palestine” by “any means necessary.” Notably, Mohammed made those same points the following year in her commencement speech.

At the rally, Mohammed chanted, “Glory to the martyrs, glory to the resistance, glory to Palestinian men fighting on the land,” and swore “by Allah” that the collapse of the State of Israel was imminent.

Matt Greenman, a Jewish man who was participating in a counter-rally, was then viciously beaten on the street nearby in an unprovoked attack by attendees of the pro-Palestinian demonstration.

One of Greenman’s assailants was recently sentenced to prison after being found guilty of hate crime charges.

“In calling for ‘revolution’ against capitalism and ‘rage’ against Zionist Jews, Fatima Mohammed’s commencement speech came dangerously close to incitement to violence which, of course, is not protected under the First Amendment. So, it is hardly surprising to hear that she spewed similarly venomous and dangerous language at Nerdeen Kiswani’s rally the year before. That rally did lead to violence against a Jewish victim,” Prof. Jeffrey Lax, business department chair at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community College and founder of S.A.F.E. CUNY, a non-profit that advocates for Zionist Jews systemically discriminated against and excluded by the CUNY, told World Israel News.

“Instead of taking precautions to protect its students, and especially its Jews, CUNY School of Law praised Kiswani and now stands proudly behind Mohammed’s hate, vitriol, and dangerous language,” Lax said. “More Jews will get hurt at or because of CUNY Law’s bigoted and violence-inciting incubator. It’s time for the American Bar Association or New York State to shut them down and ensure that no one else gets hurt.”

In a separate incident in 2021, several pro-Palestinian men affiliated with If Not Now attacked a Jewish man wearing a kippah shortly after a demonstration. One of them, Wasseem Awawdeh, was recently sentenced to 18 months in jail for the assault.

Citing a policy of refusing to speak to “Zionist media,” If Not Now declined to comment on the TOI report.

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Funeral of Islamic Jihad terrorist Ahmed Daraghmeh was broadcast to his incarcerated brother in an Israeli prison, thanks to an illicit smartphone.

By World Israel News Staff

A terrorist currently incarcerated in an Israeli prison watched his brother’s funeral on Monday afternoon, thanks to a smartphone that had been smuggled into his ostensibly high-security unit.

Ahmed Khaled Daraghmeh, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative, was killed during clashes between the terror group and Israeli army forces operating in Jenin.

Daraghmeh’s brother Muhaib, who is serving a sentence for terror-related charges at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel, was able to participate in the funeral virtually.

Someone at Daraghmeh’s funeral video called the prisoner, and images of the incarcerated man viewing the body of his slain brother quickly went viral on Palestinian social media.

Likely embarrassed by the widespread distribution of the photos, which demonstrated a major security failure on the part of the correctional institution, prison authorities placed Daraghmeh in solitary confinement as a punitive measure.

Associates of Daraghmeh then rioted for several hours, which culminated with them setting a prison cot’s mattress on fire.

Eventually, guards were able to quell the riot and the prisoners who participated in the disturbance were also placed in solitary confinement.

On Monday, firefights between Israeli troops and Jenin-based terror groups left six Palestinians dead. At least four of those killed were claimed by Palestinian Islamic Jihad as being members of the organization.

Seven Israeli soldiers were wounded by a roadside improvised explosive device during the clashes. One of the soldiers was released from the hospital several hours later, while six remained hospitalized as of Tuesday morning.

Later on Monday, two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a car-ramming attack in northern Samaria, near the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Nazlet Zeid.

“The soldiers responded with live fire,” the IDF said in a statement, adding that the perpetrators of the attack were shot by troops.

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The US Coast Guard in Boston and Canadian rescue teams have initiated the search for a submarine carrying five people which was heading towards the wreckage site of the Titanic and went missing on Sunday night, 435 miles south of St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Rear Admiral John Mauger, commander of the First Coast Guard District, reported that two aircrafts coming from both the US and Canada are searching the area, along with a commercial ship. The search is challenging as it needs to be conducted on the surface and below the sea, as the area is located 900 miles east of Cape Cod and can reach a depth of up to 13,000 feet.

The submersible, called “Titan,” departed from St. John’s on Sunday morning, however the vessel lost contact with the Polar Prince, the Canadian ship providing assistance to the watercraft, approximately an hour and 45 minutes later. The vehicle belongs to OceanGate Expeditions, a Washington-based deep-sea exploration company. The company’s expeditions to the Titanic wreckage include archaeologists, marine biologists, and people who pay to come along, known as “mission specialists.” The Coast Guard reported that the submersible had one pilot and four “mission specialists” on board.

OceanGate has expressed their appreciation for the aid they have received from various government agencies and deep sea companies, and stated that they are “working towards the safe return of the crewmembers.” Furthermore, Rear Admiral Mauger indicated that the submersible has a 96-hour emergency sustainment capability, including oxygen and fuel, which implies that it can survive between 70 and 96 hours.

NATO – All Was for Nothing

By Karsten Riise, June 19, 2023

Many of you have probably seen that even the Washington Post is admitting to complete failure for Ukraine, NATO, and the US in their so-called “counteroffensive”. More …

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Fatal Clashes in Jenin on Monday called for an Apache helicopter to the rescue. Brigadier-General (res.) Amir Avivi, CEO and founder of the Israel Defense & Security Forum, joins ILTV to discuss the latest developments.

 

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When the official reasons given for the Oct. 2022 gas deal with Lebanon unravel, who can be blamed for allowing “heretical” alternative explanations to creep into one’s mind?

By Martin Sherman

“We will divide up the region. Israel will return most of the West Bank, and the Palestinian flag will fly on public buildings in East Jerusalem – Yair Lapid, Der Spiegel, May 8, 2008.

“Jerusalem is not a place; it is the constitutive concept of Israeli identity and our most fundamental ethos…We will not divide Jerusalem. No matter what happens. If that eventually means that there will be no resolution [of the conflict], then there will be no resolution – Yair Lapid, Walla, December 27, 2014.

This week, the leader of Israel’s opposition, Yair Lapid, appeared in the Jerusalem District Court as a prosecution witness in the trial of his primary political adversary, incumbent Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. As before with a string of previous prosecution witnesses, his testimony ended up strengthening the case for the defense rather than for the prosecution.

But beyond that, his performance on the stand underscored just how little credibility the man has, and how little store can be placed on anything he says. Indeed, it would be difficult to find any topic on which Lapid has expressed an opinion that, elsewhere, he has not expressed a diametrically opposite one.(For example, see the introductory citations regarding his position on Jerusalem.)

No less striking is Lapid’s breathtaking about-face on judicial reform. Whereas today he is a vociferous opponent of the changes in Israel’s legal system proposed by the current coalition, just a few years earlier, he endorsed the very same measures he now purports to reject as imperiling Israeli democracy.

Indeed, a cursory Google search will reveal similarly dramatic U-turns on the 2005 Disengagement and on the Golan Heights.

Unavoidably, this compels us to the conclusion that Lapid does not have an opinion on anything. All he has, it seems, is an ambition, and opinions are merely tools for fulfilling that ambition—and can be changed at will, depending on transient needs required to further that ambition.

Rushed and rash

This lamentable conclusion cannot but make scrutiny of his conduct, during his fleeting term as prime minister, necessary.

The decision that calls out most for review is the rushed and rash agreement in October 2022, for adjustments to Israel’s northern maritime border. This entailed the transfer of large portions of potentially rich marine gas resources to Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, earmarked for development by a French concern, Total S.A.

This was a move that defies logic both in terms of its purported rationale and its precipitous execution.

The ostensible justification for entering into the agreements was to persuade Hezbollah to refrain from attacking a nearby functioning Israeli oil rig—for all intents and purposes, surrender to extortion by the Islamist terrorist organization, which had threatened to hit the Israeli drilling site, if concessions were not made.

The agreement was heralded by shamelessly hyperbolic fanfare, being dubbed as “historic” by Lapid himself.

Of course, bowing to extortion is a notoriously shortsighted policy; and sure enough, the rationale for the accords (read “Israeli concessions”) soon began to unravel. In May 2023, both the IDF chief of staff and the head of military intelligence warned of a real danger of war with Hezbollah, which—despite concession—was already engaged in ominous saber rattling.

Subordinating professional integrity to political allegiance

This is particularly troubling given the warm endorsement of the October 2022 agreements by former and serving senior officials in Israel’s security establishment.

Given the prevailing realities in Lebanon, their support seems to reflect an almost child-like naivete regarding both its prospective durability and the potential for future expansion of its terms. Indeed, the backing of the patently flawed pact, which—if nothing else—was an unmistakable feather in Hezbollah’s gory cap—is strongly reminiscent of the endorsement that senior echelons of the US intelligence community provided for the wildly mendacious claim that Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop was “Russian disinformation.”

Sadly, it appears that both in the US and Israel, it is not rare to find senior security personnel—past and present—who are prepared to subordinate their professional integrity to political allegiances.

It was particularly risible, especially in light of the gravity of later unfolding realities, to read of the hyped-up praise for the agreement from Orna Mizrahi, former Deputy National Security Adviser and currently a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). According to her: “…this is…a very important agreement. It even raises hopes that there could be real change in the relationship between the two countries.”

Yeah, right! I guess she must have missed the fact that Hezbollah is not party to the deal—and that the government of Lebanon refused to sign a pact directly with Israel, instead agreeing only to give a commitment to the US.

Untoward haste

Not only is the lavish praise from senior security experts for the contorted October 2022 agreement both puzzling and perturbing, but so is the untoward haste with which it was pushed through. The professed justification for the unbecoming rush was the claim that the term of then-Lebanese President Michel Auon (who, as mentioned, refrained from signing directly with Israel) was about to end and there was uncertainty about who would replace him.

Interestingly, up until the writing of this piece, Auon has not yet been replaced, mainly due to obstruction by Hezbollah. Apart from the fact that it borders on the absurd to believe that any Hezbollah-approved president would feel bound by a document signed by his predecessor, the heavy-handed manner in which the Lapid interim government pushed the agreement through in the final days of its term, is another disturbing aspect of the deal.

Riding roughshod over previously time-honored democratic norms and conventions, Lapid –with the collusion of his domesticated Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara—blatantly ignored the Knesset, arguing that, in light of what he considered its “wanton behavior“, it should not be consulted on the agreement—implying that for Lapid, only pliable and acquiescent parliaments merit his attention.

This brazen dismissal of the institutions of democracy was so stark that it prompted one of his ministers to express her discomfort. Underscoring the painfully self-evident, she confronted Lapid: “You describe the agreement as an historic agreement. If it is historic you are obligated to present it for the approval of the sovereign—the Knesset.” Pointedly, she asked: “What are you afraid of?”

What indeed!!

Is Israeli patriotism dead?

Given the refuted rationale for the agreement and the disproven arguments for the undemocratic haste for rushing the agreement, thorny questions are unavoidable.

In a time in which declarations once deemed well beyond the pale and deeds once considered inconceivable are becoming increasingly commonplace, nothing can be discounted as beyond the realm of reason. When former prime ministers, defense ministers and chiefs-of-staff openly call for violent civil insurrection and tax rebellion; when prominent public figures urge foreign governments to shun members of a democratically elected coalition; when calls for desertion are not only not condemned, but condoned—even commended—because of patently contrived grievances, fueled by personal and/or political malice, past assumptions and old taboos can no longer be considered valid. What once was thought outrageous, may no longer be so—even the demise of the patriotism of Israeli elites.

With this in mind, how are we to account for the October 2022 gas deal with Lebanon—given the highly unpersuasive official explanations for both the substance of the agreement and for how it was concluded?

In this regard, it is intriguing to note that Lapid and French President, Emmanuel Macron have a long, ongoing friendship, dating back to before either were heads of government in their respective countries. Lapid, in a highly unusual step, endorsed Macron’s 2017 presidential bid, and in return, Macron endeavored to help Lapid in the 2019 elections in Israel, with a high-profile meeting just days before the polls. Add to this that the giant French energy concern, Total S.A., 50%-owned by the French government, is due to have a major stake in the gas fields following the agreement, and it is difficult not to let “heretical” thoughts creep into one’s mind.

Thinking the unthinkable

After all, wouldn’t an alternative explanation for the “anomalous” gas deal be a personal bonanza for those who pushed so hard to rush it through? Indeed, how can a reasonable observer refrain from thinking the unthinkable…and from wondering just how much Lapid and his cronies were paid for it.

Dr. Martin Sherman spent seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli defense establishment. He is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a member of the Habithonistim-Israel Defense & Security Forum (IDSF) research team, and a participant in the Israel Victory Project

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