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Memri
a day ago
- Politics
- Memri
The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 21, May 30, 2025
1. MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11995, Abdullah Al-Amadi, Journalist For Qatari Government Daily And Former Advisor To Qatari Education Minister, Regularly Publishes Antisemitic Content And Incitement To Violence Against Jews and Israelis, May 28, 2025. 2. MEMRI Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1840, Qatar-Funded Media And Islamist Groups Renew Their Attacks On Moderate Muslim Scholar Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Over His Peace Advocacy And UAE Ties, Following His Appointment To Advisory Board Of New U.S. Religious Liberty Commission, May 23, 2025. 3. Asked on Fox News if Qatar is supplying fuel to the antisemitic incitement and anti-Israel propaganda on U.S. campuses, as stated by Consul General of Israel in New York Ofir Akunis, Department Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said: "There's validity to what he has said, but I also think that we've got a lot of influences here and we've got a lot of people that have facilitated this that have a different agenda." Fox News, YouTube, May 22, 2025; May 22, 2025. 4. Qatar: Authorities' Religious Discrimination Against Baha'is – Members Unlawfully Detained, Deported Due to Their Faith, Human Rights Watch, May 25, 2025. 5. Qatari lobbying machine finds friends in South Carolina, Washington Examiner, May 27, 2025 6. Qatari Push to Dominate Another Sport, Table Tennis, Draws Scrutiny: A wealthy Qatari businessman's campaign to lead the sport's global body is being investigated; one of his critics was detained and interrogated in Doha, New York Times, May 25, 2025. 7. Trump's Air Force One deal with Qatar not final, despite U.S. claims: The delay reflects lingering concerns about legal liabilities stemming from a White House maneuver to transform what was originally a sale between two countries into a "gift." Washington Post, May 28, 2025. 8. Naftali Bennet: Qatar Is A Kingdom Of Evil, Terror, And Incitement; We Must Act Against It With All Our Might, N12, May 20, 2025. * Yigal Carmon is Founder and President of MEMRI.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Opinion - Pipeline of hate: From campus rhetoric to capital murder
Hatred doesn't erupt — it festers, it seeps quietly into our culture through rhetoric, ideology and the institutions we trust to educate our young. Then, one day, it explodes. Last week, that hatred turned lethal in the heart of our nation's capital. Two young Israeli diplomatic staffers were killed — victims not of a random act of violence, but of a deep-seated ideology that has been allowed to metastasize from college campuses to city streets. The depraved act of terror stripped the world of two beautiful souls, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim; two souls filled with love for each other who dreamed of a future together; two souls this world needed so desperately to address the issues confronting the crisis of morality and security we are facing; two souls who strived for peace in the Middle East, on our campuses, and global city streets. This tragedy did not begin with a gunman. It began with a lecture, a slogan, a chant shouted in the quad, a speech at commencement, or a tenured professor's tweet. It began the moment elite institutions chose to confuse academic freedom with moral ambiguity or abdication, and to shelter calls for violence under the banner of 'resistance.' The alleged shooter was none other than a radicalized Elias Rodriguez, who had absorbed such teachings and joined the movements supporting them. What we witnessed on that dark Washington street was not an isolated act. It marked the end of a pipeline of hate that starts in the classroom and ends at a killing scene. This hatred is cultivated, permitted, and even sanctioned, masked under the guise of academic freedom. The killing of Lischinsky and Milgrim personifies when theory kills, and 'academic freedom' incites. It is the deadly price of moral relativism — and of university leaders choosing neutrality and cowardice, of institutions that protect hate speech until it ends in bloodshed. Today's antisemitism is not merely a hatred of Jews. It has evolved into a broader, more insidious ideology and terror — one that disguises itself as human rights advocacy while glorifying violence and demonizing the Jewish state. American institutions have long been dangerously naive about its reach and power. The words of two former university presidents during the most widely viewed congressional hearing in American history echo with new, painful meaning today: Then-Harvard President Claudine Gay declared, 'We encourage the vigorous exchange of ideas, but we will not … permit speech that incites violence…. Antisemitic rhetoric, when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation — that is actionable conduct, and we do take action.' When Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) asked then-University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill whether calling for a genocide of Jews violated the university's code of conduct, she responded that it was a 'context-dependent decision.' The rhetoric has crossed into conduct; the context has become terribly and most tragically clear, written in blood that stained the streets of the capital of the free world. The hateful anti-Israel tirades with the same calls for 'free Palestine' aired by students at graduation ceremonies — Logan Rozos at New York University and Cecilia Culver at George Washington University — certainly have origins. Their context is found within a societal culture that has been plagued by perverse notions of social justice that have masked themselves under academic freedom, free expression and context-dependence. It is when calls for 'Global Intifada' are dismissed as student activism; when 'Free Palestine' veils antisemitic hatred; when anti-Zionism is legitimized as academic discourse; and when anti-Israel dogma is turned into moral virtue. What will the faculty who defended these students in the name of Palestine say to the shooter of the two precious souls killed in our nation's capital? Will they plead innocence? They cannot. The words that George Washington University professor William Youmans spoke at last year's anti-Israel encampment take on new weight: 'Students enact what we teach.' His words were extended by an entire group of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at George Washington University. They praised Culver, who wielded antisemitic rhetoric for four minutes unchecked at this year's commencement ceremony, calling her 'a stellar example of the type of student GW should seek to cultivate.' Indeed, these faculty have taught their students to conflate the anchor of Jewish identity, Zionism and Israel, with colonialism. They have taught them to see Israel as a moral failing worthy of violent opposition. They have taught that resistance is necessary, and that 'globalizing the intifada' is indeed a call for liberation. Just last week, that ideology pulled the trigger. Thus, it should come as no surprise when some of those radicalized and indoctrinated turn their mission into Jew-hunting on the streets of America. It is too late to bring Lischinsky and Milgrim back, but the reckoning is here. Every university leader still clinging to hesitation must finally decide: Will you defend civilization, or will you excuse the ideologies that lead to its destruction? Please act now, before more lives are lost. Sabrina Soffer is a recent graduate of the George Washington University. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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The Hill
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Hill
Pipeline of hate: From campus rhetoric to capital murder
Hatred doesn't erupt — it festers, it seeps quietly into our culture through rhetoric, ideology and the institutions we trust to educate our young. Then, one day, it explodes. Last week, that hatred turned lethal in the heart of our nation's capital. Two young Israeli diplomatic staffers were killed — victims not of a random act of violence, but of a deep-seated ideology that has been allowed to metastasize from college campuses to city streets. The depraved act of terror stripped the world of two beautiful souls, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim; two souls filled with love for each other who dreamed of a future together; two souls this world needed so desperately to address the issues confronting the crisis of morality and security we are facing; two souls who strived for peace in the Middle East, on our campuses, and global city streets. This tragedy did not begin with a gunman. It began with a lecture, a slogan, a chant shouted in the quad, a speech at commencement, or a tenured professor's tweet. It began the moment elite institutions chose to confuse academic freedom with moral ambiguity or abdication, and to shelter calls for violence under the banner of 'resistance.' The alleged shooter was none other than a radicalized Elias Rodriguez, who had absorbed such teachings and joined the movements supporting them. What we witnessed on that dark Washington street was not an isolated act. It marked the end of a pipeline of hate that starts in the classroom and ends at a killing scene. This hatred is cultivated, permitted, and even sanctioned, masked under the guise of academic freedom. The killing of Lischinsky and Milgrim personifies when theory kills, and 'academic freedom' incites. It is the deadly price of moral relativism — and of university leaders choosing neutrality and cowardice, of institutions that protect hate speech until it ends in bloodshed. Today's antisemitism is not merely a hatred of Jews. It has evolved into a broader, more insidious ideology and terror — one that disguises itself as human rights advocacy while glorifying violence and demonizing the Jewish state. American institutions have long been dangerously naive about its reach and power. The words of two former university presidents during the most widely viewed congressional hearing in American history echo with new, painful meaning today: Then-Harvard President Claudine Gay declared, 'We encourage the vigorous exchange of ideas, but we will not … permit speech that incites violence…. Antisemitic rhetoric, when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation — that is actionable conduct, and we do take action.' When Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) asked then-University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill whether calling for a genocide of Jews violated the university's code of conduct, she responded that it was a 'context-dependent decision.' The rhetoric has crossed into conduct; the context has become terribly and most tragically clear, written in blood that stained the streets of the capital of the free world. The hateful anti-Israel tirades with the same calls for 'free Palestine' aired by students at graduation ceremonies — Logan Rozos at New York University and Cecilia Culver at George Washington University — certainly have origins. Their context is found within a societal culture that has been plagued by perverse notions of social justice that have masked themselves under academic freedom, free expression and context-dependence. It is when calls for 'Global Intifada' are dismissed as student activism; when 'Free Palestine' veils antisemitic hatred; when anti-Zionism is legitimized as academic discourse; and when anti-Israel dogma is turned into moral virtue. What will the faculty who defended these students in the name of Palestine say to the shooter of the two precious souls killed in our nation's capital? Will they plead innocence? They cannot. The words that George Washington University professor William Youmans spoke at last year's anti-Israel encampment take on new weight: 'Students enact what we teach.' His words were extended by an entire group of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at George Washington University. They praised Culver, who wielded antisemitic rhetoric for four minutes unchecked at this year's commencement ceremony, calling her 'a stellar example of the type of student GW should seek to cultivate.' Indeed, these faculty have taught their students to conflate the anchor of Jewish identity, Zionism and Israel, with colonialism. They have taught them to see Israel as a moral failing worthy of violent opposition. They have taught that resistance is necessary, and that 'globalizing the intifada' is indeed a call for liberation. Just last week, that ideology pulled the trigger. Thus, it should come as no surprise when some of those radicalized and indoctrinated turn their mission into Jew-hunting on the streets of America. It is too late to bring Lischinsky and Milgrim back, but the reckoning is here. Every university leader still clinging to hesitation must finally decide: Will you defend civilization, or will you excuse the ideologies that lead to its destruction? Please act now, before more lives are lost. Sabrina Soffer is a recent graduate of the George Washington University.
The Herald Scotland
23-05-2025
- Politics
- The Herald Scotland
Israeli Embassy staffers were shot. I'm not shocked
Police say the suspect accused of killing the couple shouted, "Free, free Palestine" after he was taken into custody. "It strongly appears that this was an attack motivated by hate against the Jewish people and the Jewish state," Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, said in a statement. "This senseless hate and violence must stop." Yes, it must stop. But this kind of hate crime targeted against Jews in our country and around the world is sadly not unusual. Opinion: Salman Rushdie canceled? Pro-Palestinian groups hamper speech for everyone else The attack on Lischinsky and Milgrim was not about a "free Palestine" or ending the war in Gaza. It was about targeting two young people because of their faith and heritage. Antisemitic violence is all too common Murder is, of course, always horrifying. But to see a young couple representing Israeli interests on American soil, on the cusp of spending their lives together, gunned down in the seat of our democracy is especially tragic. Yet, it's not shocking. Not after Hamas' terrorist attack on innocent civilians in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Not after violent antisemitic protests at many of our nation's most elite universities. Not after a prominent political leader, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and his family were targeted by an arsonist in their home during Passover. Opinion alerts: Get columns from your favorite columnists + expert analysis on top issues, delivered straight to your device through the USA TODAY app. Don't have the app? Download it for free from your app store. Now, a young couple is dead - and for no apparent reason other than the fact they were Jewish. Where are Jewish people safe in America? It is terrifying that such an attack happened in our nation's capital. If Jews serving in Washington, D.C., where security should be robust, can be shot and killed in public, where are they safe? We must do better as a nation to ensure that people of all faiths, ethnicities, races and nationalities are safe. We must make clear that antisemitism has no acceptance in America. Opinion: Hamas released me. But with my partner still held hostage, I cannot be truly free. And all of us - Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, Jewish and non-Jewish - must clearly and forcefully speak out to condemn such hatred and violence. Nicole Russell is an opinion columnist with USA TODAY. She lives in Texas with her four kids. Sign up for her newsletter, The Right Track, and get it delivered to your inbox.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Source: Two Israeli embassy employees killed in shooting outside D.C. Jewish Museum
Antisemitic violence struck at the heart of the nation's capital on Wednesday evening when an as-yet unidentified attacker shot and killed two Israeli embassy employees, according to a source familiar with the situation, outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum for young diplomats and Jewish professionals hosted by the American Jewish Committee. 'Two staff members of the Israeli embassy were shot this evening at close range while attending a Jewish event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC,' embassy spokesperson Tal Naim Cohen said in a statement. 'We have full faith in law enforcement authorities on both the local and federal levels to apprehend the shooter and protect Israel's representatives and Jewish communities throughout the United States.' 'American Jewish Committee (AJC) can confirm that we hosted an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. this evening,' AJC CEO Ted Deutch said in a statement. 'We are devastated that an unspeakable act of violence took place outside the venue. At this moment, as we await more information from the police about exactly what transpired, our attention and our hearts are solely with those who were harmed and their families.' Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said on X that the two Israeli embassy staff were killed. The Israeli embassy in Washington and Metropolitan Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said on X that 'Israeli embassy employees were also injured in the shooting, and described it as a 'depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism.' Local news outlets reported that a man and a woman were killed in the incident, which took place just blocks from the local FBI field office, U.S. attorney's office and the D.C. police headquarters. FBI officials and Attorney General Pam Bondi and interim U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro have joined the response alongside D.C. police. One eyewitness told Jewish Insider that, after the shooting, a man entered the museum saying he needed water and a safe place before pulling out a keffiyeh and shouting, 'Free Palestine.' The individual was removed by police. A person of interest is reportedly in custody, though earlier reports said that a suspect — a white man with a goatee, wearing a blue jacket and jeans, remained on the loose. A short video obtained by JI showed an individual roughly matching that description in the lobby of the museum chanting 'Free, free Palestine' being detained by police and removed from the building. According to an invitation to the event viewed by JI, the event planned to discuss efforts to respond to humanitarian crises in the Middle East and North Africa, including in Gaza.
