Anti-masking laws worked against the KKK. They’ll work against today’s criminals and bigots, too

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Ban Masking Now
Ilya Shapiro
January 6, 2025

“Wearing a mask for the purpose of committing crimes against innocent New Yorkers or for the purpose of intimidating and harassing Jewish students on college campuses should be strictly prohibited by state law,” [Congressman Ritchie] Torres posted Thursday on X. As it happens, New York State had the oldest anti-masking law in the nation but repealed it during the pandemic. Torres is correct in calling for its reinstatement. He’s also right to connect the state legislature’s failure to do so to the abuse of Jewish college students by pro-Hamas fanatics. The State Assembly considered two bills to bring the ban back last year, but didn’t act amid pushback from left-wing groups. Despite the state’s dithering, it has become obvious that the repeal of anti-masking laws has had disastrous consequences for cities like New York. READ MORE

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“The unchecked spread of antisemitic narratives under the guise of academic freedom, diversity initiatives, and political activism signals a dangerous shift”

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The Antisemitic Virus Infecting America’s Education System
Toni Airaksinen
January 5, 2025

In recent years, America’s education system has increasingly become a battleground for ideological conflict, where antisemitism is no longer a fringe sentiment — but a rising force within academic institutions. From university lecture halls to diversity offices, the normalization of rhetoric that delegitimizes Israel and marginalizes Jewish students has revealed a troubling trend. Professors openly celebrate acts of terror, campus officials perpetuate harmful stereotypes, and faculty members penalize colleagues for defending Israel or expressing Zionist views…Through a series of alarming incidents, this analysis aims to uncover the systemic failings that allow antisemitic rhetoric to thrive and the consequences for Jewish students and faculty who dare to dissent. READ MORE

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Islam must never be to blame. And leftists would sooner submit to torture than admit that the problem is not white supremacists, but Islamic supremacists”

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Even After New Orleans, the Left Won’t Name the Ideology Behind the Attack
Mark Tapson
January 3, 2025

…I don’t have a degree in criminology or a special Taylor Swift bracelet from the New Orleans FBI, but to me, all that sounds suspiciously like Jabbar’s motive could – hear me out, now – be classified as Islamic terrorism. But if you think the Left will acknowledge the threat of Islamic “radicalism” to this country, then you have been living under a rock since the Jimmy Carter era. Check out the reports on Jabbar from the Left-dominated media. Most headlines refer to him as “New Orleans Attacker” or “Army vet” or maybe “Texas man.” You will not find one that states right there in the headline that he was an “ISIS Devotee” or even “Devout Muslim,” much less anything labeling him an “Islamic terrorist,” even an alleged one. Again, I’m no criminal psychologist, but I feel safe saying that Shamsud Din Jabbar did not attach an ISIS flag to his truck and mow down as many New Years revelers as possible – men, women, and children – and then open fire on cops because he was a “devout” Army veteran or Texas man. READ MORE

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Jeannette Bougrab’s partner was murdered at Charlie Hebdo 10 years ago—in the name of values, she said, ‘that we’ve forgotten to defend.’

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Things Worth Remembering: ‘He Died Standing Up’
Douglas Murray
January 5, 2025

This has been a week of mourning for the families of the Americans who lost their lives to Islamism in New Orleans. The attack bears all the hallmarks of the atrocities that have taken place in European capitals in the past decade. Indeed, in a disturbing coincidence, this coming week marks the 10th anniversary of one of the most appalling acts of terrorism seen in modern times. It was on January 7, 2015, that two Islamists went into the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, murdering a caretaker on their way in, and burst into the weekly editorial meeting. Calling for the editor, Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier, and four other cartoonists by name, they proceeded to murder them all—as well as three other members of the editorial staff, one of Charb’s police bodyguards, and a guest at the meeting. While fleeing the scene, the two terrorists, who turned out to be brothers, shot and killed a Muslim police officer at point-blank range. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Charlie Hebdo won’t back down: 10 years after attack, mag provokes with ‘God caricature’ competition French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo is set to publish a special God-mocking edition next week to mark 10 years since an attack on its offices by jihadist gunmen that left eight staff members dead. The anniversary of the shocking attack on freedom of expression is being used by the atheist publication to send a message of defiance to the extremists who burst into its offices on January 7, 2015, then fled shouting they had “killed Charlie Hebdo”.

STEYN ONLINE The Ghosts of Charlie Hebdo Exactly a decade ago – January 7th 2015 – two Muslim fanatics burst into the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed a dozen people, including the bulk of the senior editorial staff and some of France’s best known cartoonists…Throughout the very bad ten years for free speech that followed, I have thought often of Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier, the editor of Charlie Hebdo and a great cartoonist in the French style. Two years before his death, he said: It may seem pompous, but I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.

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Reminiscent of anti-Israel reporting: “If you’re finding improvised explosive devices — whether they’re viable or not — why would you declare that it is not a terrorist event?”

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Has Europe’s Islamist Threat Come to America?
Madeleine Kearns
January 1, 2025

Two suspected terror attacks on New Year’s Day signal a new worry for Americans that Europe has long faced: a deadly threat from our own citizens…The New Orleans massacre should be a wake-up call to those who see Islamism primarily as a problem far away from home, Hannah E. Meyers, director of policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute, told The Free Press…Though there is much still to be learned about the New Orleans attacker, “clearly, he was an American,” Weiss said. “That’s what frightens me more, to be honest.” READ MORE

FRONT PAGE MAG Mark Tapson: Is the New Orleans Attack Going to Be Our New Normal? Contrary to what the multiculturalists of the Left obstinately insist, cultural diversity is fine when you’re talking about restaurants, but is not inherently a societal strength. A burgeoning Muslim population anywhere in the Western world ultimately means the spread of no-go zones and sharia law, including the supremacist contempt for, and surging aggression against, our willfully oblivious, tolerant and inclusive host culture. 

NATIONAL REVIEW Jim Geraghty: A Bloody, Fiery Start to 2025 When you detonate a truck made by the company of Elon Musk in front of a hotel with Donald Trump’s name on it, I think the political message of the attack is awfully darn clear. Nonetheless, the New York Times reports that as of yesterday, the FBI was still attempting to determine whether placing gas canisters, camp fuel canisters, and large firework mortars in a car associated with Musk, and in front of a building associated with Trump, meets their technical definition of “terrorism.”

JEWISH INSIDER Two Israeli men remain hospitalized in New Orleans after terrorist attack Two Israeli men in their mid-20s remain hospitalized — one in critical condition — after a driver intentionally rammed a pickup truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, killing 14 and injuring at least 30 in Wednesday’s terror attack.   Both men were tourists from Israel, traveling through several American cities and expecting to end their jaunt in Florida.

FUTURE OF JEWISH Daniel Greenfield: White House says Muslims were the real victims of October 7th. On October 7th, Islamic terrorists invaded Israel and murdered over 1,000 people. They raped, looted, and burned families alive in their home. Those whom they did not kill, they took hostage. According to the U.S. President Joe Biden administration’s newly announced Islamophobia strategy, however, Muslims in America were the real victims of October 7th — just like they were the real victims of 9/11.

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“A U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear program during the lame duck period would be an enormous gamble from a president who promised he would not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon”

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Biden discussed plans to strike Iran nuclear sites if Tehran speeds toward bomb
Barak Ravid
January 2, 2025

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan presented President Biden with options for a potential U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities if the Iranians move towards a nuclear weapon before Jan. 20, in a meeting several weeks ago that remained secret until now, three sources with knowledge of the issue tell Axios…The sources said some of Biden’s aides, including Sullivan, think that the degrading of Iran’s air defenses and missile capabilities, along with the significant weakening of Iran’s regional proxies, would improve the odds of a successful strike and decrease the risk of Iranian retaliation and regional escalation. READ MORE

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The report documented widespread abuse of returned hostages, including sexual abuse, beatings, starvation, and isolation.

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Health Ministry report exposes horrific experiences hostages endured in captivity
Shir Perets
December 29, 2024

The medical and psychological conditions of hostages who returned from Hamas captivity in Gaza were revealed in a Saturday Health Ministry report, which will be submitted to the United Nations this week. The report described aspects of abuse inflicted on the hostages and the consequences on their physical and mental health based on conversations with personnel who treated the hostages upon their return to Israel…According to the report, women, men, and children who returned from captivity were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, such as beatings, isolation, deprivation of food and water, branding, hair-pulling, and sexual assault. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Teens forced to perform sexual acts on each other: Report to UN details Hamas torture Government document compiles grim details of abuse of hostages, including whipping, branding with heated iron, isolation, binding, starving, maltreatment and psychological torment

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At least one driver is shot each day in Gaza by looters forcibly stopping aid trucks to pull off whatever they can to make a profit in the middle of the devastated war zone

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Humanitarian aid stacks up at Gaza border as relief organizations won’t deliver out of fear of Hamas, violent looters
Caitlin Doornbos
December 26, 2024

Thousands of pallets of humanitarian aid stacked at the Gaza border — from sacks of flour to blankets and canned food — are awaiting delivery by relief organizations that are unwilling to send supply trucks likely to be looted by Hamas terrorists and other street criminals. The aid, coming in on trucks from Jordan, Egypt and the West Bank, has already been inspected by the Israel Defense Forces before entering Gaza, where the international community and humanitarian organizations are in charge of delivering the assistance to Palestinians. But the path from the Israel-Gaza border to where the aid is needed in the central and north is long — and repeatedly targeted by violent thieves. READ MORE

COMMENTARY Seth Mandel: The Truth About That Famine Report This week, a group of USAID-funded famine researchers went rogue, knowingly publishing false statistics in a politicized attempt to sway U.S. foreign policy and calling into question its ability to conduct independent research. Employees with the Famine Early Warning Systems compiled a report warning that northern Gaza would soon sink into famine. USAID, in reviewing the report, noted that FEWS’s numbers were wildly inflated and demonstrably false, rendering the conclusions unreliable.

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Carter: The truth is that historians have not been harsh enough

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Jimmy Carter Was a Terrible President — and an Even Worse Former President
Philip Klein
December 29, 2024

After being booted out of office in landslide fashion, the self-described “citizen of the world” spent the rest of his life meddling in U.S. foreign policy and working against the United States and its allies in a manner that could fairly be described as treasonous. His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him…Carter’s friendship with Arafat was part of a pattern in which he would chastise Israel in the most extreme terms while ignoring or minimizing the actions of terrorists and dictators whose enemies happened to be Israel. On a Middle East trip in 1990, he visited Syria to meet with Hafez al-Assad and had nothing to say about the brutal dictator’s violations of human rights, but then he went to Israel and blasted its human rights record as it was trying to form a government. READ MORE

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“Israeli authorities have indicated that Prime Minister Netanyahu will not attend the ceremony to avoid potential arrest”

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Holocaust Memorial Mission to Poland canceled due to threats of arrest of Israeli PM
January 1, 2024

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) announced on Monday the cancellation of its Holocaust Memorial Mission of a group of leading academics and policymakers to Poland, which was set to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The decision comes in response to the Polish government’s announcement that it could arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he attended the January 27 commemoration event at the concentration camp, citing the flawed and contentious International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant. READ MORE

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