Trump College Crackdown Cut Anti-Semitism by 66%  

Paul Schnee:  The perceptive article below by Daniel Greenfield of the David Horowitz Freedom Center demonstrates how the Anti-Defamation League has been confusing activity with achievement and raking in plenty of money doing so.

For the past 11 years, the ADL has had the misfortune of having the vastly overpaid Johnathan Greenblatt as its CEO. Of course, he is one of Obama’s former devoted choir boys and as such he has deliberately tilted the ADL much farther to the left than when Abe Foxman was in charge.

Somehow, towards the end of Foxman’s stewardship he became afflicted with some form of Jewish advocacy dementia. Nothing else can explain why he became so fixated on Islamophobia or why he thought Greenblatt would make a suitable successor.

Mark Twain once remarked that if you give a man a reputation for being an early riser he can sleep until noon. This is what has happened to the ADL. Due to its early effective advocacy people still think the ADL can be taken seriously as a Jewish civil rights organization. It does just enough to make it look as if that is the case, but it’s deceptive. Greenblatt understands that you can’t keep the balloon rising without the usual infusion of hot air.

But the ADL is trying to take the credit.

Daniel Greenfield | May 11, 2026

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When the Trump administration began its crackdown on campus antisemitism that had proliferated when it was backed by deans and faculty members, many liberal Jewish groups were uncomfortable with the blunt confrontational style of the White House and members of Congress like Rep. Elise Stefanik. Now the numbers are in and they’re undeniable.

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May 12, 2026 | 10:18 am | Comments »

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Mark Levin: Confronting Iran and the Fate of America  

Peloni & David Fieldstone

The Mark Levin Show of Sunday, May 10, 2026 – was outstanding. ** After ML’s opening “perorational speech” – ML separately interviewed 2 Famous Patriotic Americans. ** They were (1) Newt Gingrich – the American former politician, and an historian, and (2) Jack Keane – the famed American 4 Star General- who is technically retired ** with all 3 – opining on the matter of the current Wars in the Middle East – and the now 250 old America as it is today (the good, the bad, the evil – and the ugly)

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May 11, 2026 | 11:50 pm | Comments »

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US military weighs Israel as a key regional base after successful Iran War cooperation  

Peloni:  Such a permanent association between America and Israel would come to be seen as both a blessing and a curse, but more a curse than a blessing, I would argue. If the US is serious about enforcing any ‘deal’ struck with Iran, it needs a constant presence in the region which does not limit US freedom of action against an intransigent and feckless Iran when, not if, they violate any deal which might be foolishly agreed upon with the US. As we have recently seen, US command in coordination with Israel leaves the US in command over Israel, even in so far as existential threats and sovereign interests are relevant. And this is the point of both the blessing and the curse. It must be noted that the Trump admin has been the most friendly US admin to Israel in history, and yet it has had no hesitation in both humiliating Israel [forcing stand down at end of 12 Day War and recent stand down order in Lebanon by Trump] before the world and forcing it to act against its own interest with impunity [The Gaza Deal, UNSCR 2803].  So what might we expect under a Vance administration, or G_d forbid a Harris administration or its like. Furthermore, while the blessing aspect would provide the US with the means by which to threaten and actually strike Iran, the political reality of Israel’s expected diminishing support in the US over the coming years will turn this US protection racket into a source of keeping the peace in the ME at any cost to Israel, which is the only nation which the US seems able to intimidate and control even without its army becoming part of the Israeli defense structure. Israel needs to be sovereign, and stationing US force in times of need should not be turned into a permanent condition, or sovereignty at every level will be lost to the Jewish people, and the Jewish State will simply become on large ghetto where Washington decidedly calls the shots, leaving court Jews to intercede for permission as to what Israel can and can not do in what was previously the independent Jewish State of Israel. And all of this doesn’t even address the greatest point of policy friction which exists between Israel and the US, which is the creation of a second Pal state. So, yes, A formalized US base in Israel would be a blessing and also a curse, but a far greater curse than a blessing, IMO.

US-led Gaza ceasefire HQ scales back activity but remains operational

All Israel News Staff | Published: May 10, 2026

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The U.S. military is considering making Israel one of its main bases in the region, following the intense and successful cooperation between the U.S. and Israeli military over the past few years, particularly during the two wars against Iran, Israel Hayom reported.

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This is what Israel must do in Gaza if Trump gives the green light  

Peloni:  Israel must take back the land in Gaza, establish settlements which would in turn support the military presence there.  Simultaneously, emigration from Gaza must be established such that Israel facilitates the freedom of movement so the psychopathic Jew Hating community in Gaza might successfully relocate elsewhere.  This is how peace and security might be restored to Gaza, and simultaneously, Gaza will return to its rightful place under the ownership of the Jewish people, to whom Gaza belonged going back millennia.

Reports from Washington indicate that the Americans, too, have finally gotten the message, and that they, too, have lost patience in the face of Hamas’ refusal. The question, however, is where we go from here, assuming the Americans give us a green light to carry out Trump’s threat: If Hamas refuses to disarm, I will let Israel do it. 

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser | May 10, 2026

Hamas gunmen capturing civilian hostages from Kibbutz Beéri on October 7 2023. By Bodycam footage: No human authorship - https://www.wsj.com/video/cctv-shows-hamas-militants-attack-on-kibbutz-beeri/BD0AE9E0-36E8-43A1-88F9-30794FC02977, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144136312Hamas gunmen capturing civilian hostages from Kibbutz Beéri on October 7 2023. By Bodycam footage: No human authorship – WSJ, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Reports from Washington indicate that the Americans, too, have finally gotten the message, and that they, too, have lost patience in the face of Hamas’ refusal. The question, however, is where we go from here.

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May 11, 2026 | 1:48 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Saudi ‘No’  

Peloni:  The path forward on which Riyadh might restore an interest in peace is to accept that there already exists a Palestinian state, that it was created a century ago with the flip of a pen at the Cairo Conference, that this arbitrary decision by Winston Churchill to vivisect the territory which had been intended to be the Jewish Homeland was endorsed into international law by the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.  If MBS could acknowledge this fact, many things would become possible for Saudi and Israeli relations.  It would also resolve the crisis of having to deal with the Arabs described as Palestinians as if they had a formal right to Jewish lands included in the state of Israel, when the reality is that three quarters of the land which had been intended for the Jewish Homeland was instead siphoned off for the Muslims living in the area, and which did not at any time include the territory of Judea and Samaria.

by Pierre Rehov  •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 10, 2026

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  • The Abraham Accords, once touted as a breakthrough, have quietly moved, in Saudi political conversation, into the deep freeze.

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May 11, 2026 | 11:53 am | 1 Comment »

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The October 7 trials are coming  

Peloni:  The crimes of October 7 are nearing 3yrs old while we are still waiting for any glimmer of what might approach justice for that slaughter.  Unlike the Nuremberg Trials, those in the dock in the coming October 7 trials will not be limited to a bare few number of leaders and representatives of Nazi Germany.  Also, unlike in the Nuremberg Trials, the judges will be representatives of the people who were the subject of the slaughter.  In fact, the judgements which were handed down in Nuremberg at the end of WWII were applied with an incredibly slight regard for the incredible crimes committed by both the men in the dock and the German population more generally.  Our slaughtered relatives who were consumed in the Shoah gained little purchase in the form of justice in Nuremberg, specifically because the focus of the Nuremberg Trials was to establish a new world order in which the United Nations might be used to prevent or rectify such tragedies as occurred under Nazi Germany.  The tragic reality of this fact, however, is exposed by the revelations in which UN representatives have acted to shield the perpetrators of October 7, to mask the crimes against the victims of that slaughter, and to instead weaponize what amounts as the justice from the system created following the Nuremberg Trials into an instrument in which to indict the response to this modern day genocide rather than to promote the slightest effort in which to prevent such a harrowing event from occurring again in the future.  As the docks will include the perpetrators of this latest genocide against our people, we can be sure that a greater sense of justice will be forthcoming for these more recent crimes against humanity, and more specifically, against we Jews.  So it is good that the trials are this time to be held in courts comprised of our own people, and that the forthcoming judgements will be the full responsibility of what comprises Israeli justice, rather than as a vehicle under which some new world order might be structured.

350 will be prosecuted for the pogrom

Barbara Kay | National Post | Published May 10, 2026

Prosecutor Ralph Albrecht making an address at the Nuremberg trials. Photo by United States Army Signal Corps photographer - Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13279704Prosecutor Ralph Albrecht making an address at the Nuremberg trials. Photo by United States Army Signal Corps photographer – Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University [1], Public Domain, Wikipedia

Israel’s kinetic war against Hamas has been successful. Although still defiant, Hamas is a shadow of its pre-October 7 self. The possibility of an October 7 reprisal is forever nil. But Hamas and their supporters are winning the equally important battle for hearts and minds in demonizing Israel and Jews.

May 11, 2026 | 10:12 am | 1 Comment »

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EU Approves Sanctions on Israel  

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The European Union approved a new round of sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and organizations connected to the targets of the Settler Violence campaign in Israel. According to the reports, EU foreign ministers agreed to the measures on May 11, just days after Hungary’s block on the sanctions was lifted as part of the consequence of Orban having recently lost his election.  The timing is such that it appears that this was one of Peter Magyar’s first moves upon taking power only two days ago.  EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc approved sanctions on Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar responded by condemning the sanctions, highlighting their “arbitrary” and “political” nature.  He rejected what he described as a moral equivalence.

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May 11, 2026 | 6:33 am | 3 Comments »

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From Yamit to Gaza & Israel’s Temptation of Dangerous Illusions  

Peloni:  Another insightful analysis by Victor Satya.

Victor Satya | TOI Blog | May 8, 2026

For decades, Israel traded land for promises, restraint for applause, and strategic depth for the fantasy of “quiet.” October 7 exposed the brutal reality: Israel’s enemies were never fighting over borders alone; they were fighting over Israel’s existence itself.

There is now a diplomatic ritual so painfully predictable that one imagines it being taught in European policy schools and rehearsed annually by Brussels bureaucrats over imported wine. The world expresses horror for approximately forty-eight hours. Then Israel retaliates, and suddenly the conversation shifts from murdered Jews to “restraint,” “de-escalation,” and the urgent need to revive the peace process, that enchanted Middle Eastern unicorn perpetually sighted by diplomats and never by reality.

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May 11, 2026 | 5:44 am | 1 Comment »

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The ‘stolen land’ hoax  

Pro-Hamas protesters in New York City and elsewhere are perpetuating falsehoods to the extreme.

Leonard Grunstein | May 11, 2026

Efrat is located in the area known as Gush Etzion in Israel. Before 1948, the residents of the Gush were Jews residing in four thriving kibbutzim, known as Kfar Etzion, Massu’ot Yitzhak, Ein Tzurim and Revadim.

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PM Netanyahu: 60 Minutes Interview  

Peloni:  It is obscene that an interview with the leader of America’s greatest ally in the Middle East, if not more generally, has not been conducted in the past three years of war, conflict and attempted regime change in Israel.  As the Middle East had been discussed on 60 Minutes with numerous other guests, the central focus of these discussions revolved around the one character who was never granted a voice by CBS to defend his nation nor to answer the antisemitic cat calls from his adversaries.

The interview itself was a fair interview, granting Bibi the ability to fully answer questions without being talked over or leaving him no chance to respond.  In fact Bibi, the ever capable communicator, took full advantage of the interview and openly addressed difficult questions with candor and reflection.  From the topic of responsibility for the October 7 to the Iran War, to the potential of regime change in Iran, to the investment by the US in Israel better known as ‘aid’, Bibi openly shared fair and credible responses, many of which had previously been shared by Israel’s longest living premiere to outlets which unlike 60 Minutes were not selectively preventing their vast audience from hearing over the past several years.

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May 11, 2026 | 4:28 am | 1 Comment »

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Mark Levin: Iran, Regime Change, and Trump’s Middle East Strategy  

Peloni & David Fieldstone

Mark Levin’s Show on FOX NEWS of Saturday, May 9, 2026.

He had an opening, and as guests – (1) Rebeccah Heinrich of the Hudson Institute – and (2) Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute. ** See below for their Bios, etc. from the Internet.

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May 10, 2026 | 11:18 pm | Comments »

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No, AI Won’t Make Communism Work  

The latest twist is doomed to fail even worse than Communism did before

Daniel Greenfield | May 10, 2026

Communism failed when the monopolization of industrial and political power by a totalitarian state ended up oppressing all classes while failing to compete against industrial democracies, but the advocates of the constantly failing ideology have found a great new hope in Artificial Intelligence.

Podcasters and social media influencers are selling Gen Zers on the wonders of what they call ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’ in which most jobs will disappear and AI controlled industries will allow everyone to enjoy a guaranteed minimum income while producing everything they could desire.

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May 10, 2026 | 10:14 pm | 1 Comment »

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Drums of War Sounded in a Tweet  

They will be laughing no longer!

 

TEXT:

President Trump on TruthSocial:

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May 10, 2026 | 9:59 pm | 1 Comment »

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If and When It Is Offered, Trump Should Turn Down the Nobel Peace Prize Part 1  

By Walter E. Block and Oded J.K. Faran

Nobel Peace Prize. By ProtoplasmaKid - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30420065Nobel Peace Prize. By ProtoplasmaKid – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

The argument we wish to make has two distinct parts, and they point in different directions. The first establishes that Donald Trump has earned the Nobel Peace Prize by any fair reckoning of the criteria Alfred Nobel himself laid down. The second argues that, if the prize is eventually offered, Trump should refuse it. Both propositions can be true simultaneously, and understanding why they can be, reconciles the apparent paradox in the title above.

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May 10, 2026 | 9:45 pm | 2 Comments »

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Is Europe already dead?  

Peloni:  Dr. Mordechai Ben-Menachem, author and commentator on mid-east and world issues, joins Tamar Yonah on the Tamar Yonah Show.  Among the topics discussed is the curious distinction between European people and its elected corrupt leadership, the long term policy of Europe of supporting the killing of Jews, the demographics dependency of Europe on Muslims, Europe ability to exist without NATO, the war in Iran and the war in Lebanon. 

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May 10, 2026 | 9:36 pm | 1 Comment »

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The UN Tried Covering For Iran & Trump Taught Them A BRUTAL Lesson  

Peloni:  Rabbi Pesach Wolicki addresses the useless nature of the UN even while dealing with a rogue state which is bombarding its neighbors, seizing waterways, and attacking shipping.  He also raises the possibility that Trump is using this fairly obvious resolution which objects to these behaviors as a test for the viabilty of the UN going forward.

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States “Banning CAIR” Won’t Work: The Muslim Brotherhood Doesn’t Have Membership Cards  

Janet Levy:  Very important analysis!

The Muslim Brotherhood has operated in the U.S. for decades, way before 9/11.

As some MB organizations have been shut down and some individuals have been convicted, their many branches have been reorganized and rebranded, becoming new nonprofits or operating under other existing MB organizations and structures.

“Declaring the Muslim Brotherhood dangerous or threatening to designate CAIR may generate headlines, but if officials are serious, the focus must move toward investigating nonprofit operations, financial relationships, regulatory compliance, tax filings, grant structures, and institutional coordination networks already operating inside the United States.”

If Officials Were Serious, Investigations Would Already Be Underway, And Real Legislation Targeting Nonprofit Abuse Would Already Be On The Table

GlobalDisconnect | May 09, 2026

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The new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy directly names the Muslim Brotherhood as “the root of all modern Islamist terrorism predicated on recreating the Muslim Caliphate and killing or enslaving non-Muslims.” At the same time, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation targeting Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR financing into nonprofits, while Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered a cease-and-desist against TexAM, an Islamic university accused of operating unlawfully. In both Texas and Florida, CAIR is “declared a foreign terrorist organization.” While these actions suggest that some officials are beginning to understand the scale of the problem, they still do not amount to an actual enforcement strategy.

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