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The Right’s Sectarian Moment
Tony Badran
March 24, 2025

Many Americans, particularly those who get their information from popular right-wing social media accounts [eg Candace Owens] and podcasters [eg Tucker Carlson], now take it as an article of faith that there are ongoing massacres of Christians in Syria. Syria’s Islamist government, which in December replaced the Assad family regime that had ruled Syria for over five decades, is generally blamed. But more prominently, the massacres are said to be the fault of the United States and Israel, and the “neocons” who allegedly control both governments. In fact, there has been no massacre of Christians in Syria. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Inside the hunt: New exclusive footage shows how IDF cornered Sinwar A video obtained by Israel Hayom shows Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza sitting wounded and exhausted on a couch in a house in Rafah, where he was eliminated by IDF forces on October 16, 2024. The video, filmed by soldiers from Battalion 450, is being published here for the first time, alongside an interview in which they describe how they killed the architect of the October 7 attack. The 37-second video was filmed at the end of a pursuit, during which Battalion 450 soldiers captured Sinwar in a building that received the nickname “Red House.”