Many killers of U.S. citizens walk freely in territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority or nations that America considers allies, such as Egypt and Jordan.
Moshe Phillips | Dec. 1, 2025
After the terrorist attack by an Afghan national on two members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump labeled the murderer a “savage monster” and an “animal.” He also said about Rahmanullah Lakanwal: “We will bring the perpetrator of this barbaric attack to swift and certain justice.”
All of these remarks by Trump bring to mind that there’s another Islamic terrorist who targeted Americans, and all of the things that he said about Lakanwal apply just as much to this other man.
Two days before the D.C. attack, NPR aired an over-the-top favorable profile on another terrorist and completely left out that he also planned a deadly surprise attack on American diplomats. NPR’s editors decided to mark Thanksgiving week by broadcasting a story that allowed the convicted murderer to blame Israel for his crimes and to whitewash his terrorism.
With an example like this, it is hard to argue with Trump’s July quip, when he called NPR “atrocious.” It is entirely appropriate when they choose to publish articles such as this.
HonestReporting correctly criticized the NPR headline, “A Palestinian man who became a novelist while in an Israeli prison is now free,” by tweeting: “This ‘Palestinian man’ was a PFLP member who dispatched a suicide bomber to a Tel Aviv market, killing 3 and wounding over 30 people. So, @NPR, Bassam Khandaqji is not just a ‘Palestinian man who became a novelist.’ He is a convicted terrorist. Put that in your headline.”
Unfortunately, the journalistic failures go very far beyond just the headline here. The true story of Bassam Khandaqji’s evil is completely glossed over by NPR staffer Daniel Estrin. What is missing from the story is that while the attack that Khandaqji was convicted for relates to his involvement in a suicide bombing on Nov. 1, 2024, at the crowded Carmel shuk open-air market in Tel Aviv —a target he had personally visited the day before—the terrorists also carried out reconnaissance at the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem.
Estrin has a long history of being caught by HonestReporting for his bias. These reports go back more than a decade, when he was still with the Associated Press. All of the convicted terrorist’s claims about himself went completely unchallenged by Estrin, including this: “(h)e calls himself anti-colonialist,” as if, of course, an “anti-colonialist” has every reason to want to see Israel cease to exist as a Jewish state.
NPR’s Estrin could have explained to his audience that Khandaqji, who is now in Egypt, should be arrested and tried for planning a terrorist attack against Americans and a U.S. diplomatic office.
How many U.S. citizens would have been murdered by Khandaqji’s fellow terrorist if they had not decided just hours before to switch the U.S. Consulate to the outdoor market?
The U.S. State Department has a program called “Rewards for Justice,” which offers multi-million-dollar rewards for information leading to the capture of terrorists around the world. Its website specifically states that it will pay for information that “(l)eads to the arrest or conviction of anyone who plans, commits, aids, or attempts international terrorist acts against U.S. persons or property in the United States or abroad.”
The U.S. Department of Justice should launch an investigation into Khandaqji and ask the Egyptian government to arrest him. According to Estrin, Khandaqji was recently at the Cairo Marriott Hotel.
More than 150 Americans have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists since the 1960s. Many of their killers walk freely in territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority or nations that the United States currently considers allies, such as Egypt and Jordan.
The U.S. State Department’s “Rewards for Justice” website also lists attacks in which Americans were harmed and displays photos of many victims. The attack on the Jerusalem Consulate is not listed because, thankfully, it didn’t happen. But planning attacks against Americans is a crime.
Every American should be able to agree that terrorist killers should be subjected to “certain justice” and be placed behind bars. We should all come together to demand that our government make a serious effort to capture Bassam Khandaqji and everyone who plotted with him to murder Americans.
In “Antizionism: The Reinvention of a Racist Hate Movement,” Kathleen Hayes describes the importance of identifying antizionism as the impulse to eliminate Jews to redeem the world.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/385036/antizionism-the-reinvention-of-a-racist-hate-movement/
“Two concrete outcomes became immediately evident,” he (Professor Pearl) wrote. “(1) Zionist faculty and students at UCLA will now be asserting their right to a name, a voice and institutional representation on campus. (2) Antizionist faculty and students will now be facing a new, no-nonsense environment in which their rhetoric and ideology are exposed — and named — for what they are: racist.”
There can be no compromise with this inevitably genocidal solution.”
“And there’s little point in earnestly explaining what Zionism is in the hope that antizionists recant. They are drunk on the wine of righteousness, and obsessed with a phantom having nothing to do with actual Zionism. Their movement thrives on lies that spread like forest fires, against an enemy whose very humanity is denied.”
“In conversation with the Jewish Journal, Professor Pearl said: “My argument with Erakat is more personal. She wants me purged from this campus — along with some 400 other professors who share the noble Zionist aspiration for Jewish self-determination. We intend to remain here, on our campus, and we call her position racist in the first degree: Any activity that demeans, defames, or invalidates the core identity of a group of faculty or students is racist — and has no place in a university.”
Sebastien,
Thanks for quoting Genesis 9:6. It’s good to hear God’s opinion when discussing how to run His people and His world.
Ordinary people believe legacy media outlets and allow them to direct their attention. These outfits are owned by a handful of corporations which follow the ideological bent of their directors. Larry Ellison buying Paramount and hiring Bari Weiss as head of CBS News is the very first serious effort to put a dent in the antisemitic corporate environment.
Here is another enemy of the West who is getting lots of favorable publicity due to his incredible abilities to lie and charm. He is a Bangladeshi punk, one Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, twice imprisoned for embezzlements, now accepted as a legit journalist in spite of his ties to Islamists and mobsters.
Read a full account of his long history of deceptions here:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/unmasking-a-false-friend-of-the-west-salah-uddin-shoaib-choudhury-2/
How often do they stay behind bars? Genesis 9:6 is the only practical, as well as moral solution.