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| Channel migrant who chanted about killing Jews is arrested |
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An alleged Hamas supporter who has chanted about killing Jews has been arrested after crossing the Channel in a small boat. Palestinian asylum seeker Abu Wadee has posed for photographs with automatic rifles and boasted of terrorising Israel by sending improvised incendiary kites across the border. It is understood Wadee was arrested for entry without leave by immigration enforcement and is being held in custody. The Campaign Against Antisemitism has claimed the asylum seeker, whose full name is believed to be Mosab Al Qasas, was involved in serious violence on the Gaza-Israel border. |
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| US authorities arrest Palestinian Columbia student who led anti-Israel protests |
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A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s student encampment movement was arrested Saturday night by federal immigration authorities, who claimed they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card, according to his attorney. Mahmoud Khalil was at his university-owned apartment blocks from Columbia’s Manhattan campus when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered the building and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told The Associated Press. Khalil has been one of the negotiators with school administrators on behalf of the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian student protesters, who set up a tent encampment on a Columbia lawn last year. He became one of the most visible faces of the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia. One of the agents told Greer by phone that they were executing a State Department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated in December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer. Khalil’s detention appears to be one of the first efforts by US President Donald Trump, who returned to the White House in January, to fulfill his promise to seek the deportation of some foreign students involved in the anti-Israel protest movement amid a drive to combat antisemitism. The October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel and ensuing Israeli war with the Palestinian terror group in the Gaza Strip led to months of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests that roiled US college campuses. Those protests have continued at Columbia, and in the past two weeks, at the university and its affiliate Barnard College, student protesters invaded campus buildings and distributed Hamas propaganda material on multiple occasions. The authorities declined to tell Khalil’s wife, who is American and eight months pregnant, why he was being detained, Greer said. Khalil has since been transferred to an immigration detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. “We have not been able to get any more details about why he is being detained,” Greer told the AP. “This is a clear escalation. The administration is following through on its threats.” A spokesperson for Columbia said law enforcement agents must produce a warrant before entering university property. The spokesperson declined to say if the school had received a warrant for Khalil’s arrest. Spokespeople for the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State, which oversees the country’s visa system, did not respond to questions. In an interview with Reuters a few hours before his arrest on Saturday, Khalil, at the university’s School of International and Public Affairs, said he was concerned that he was being targeted by the government and some conservative pro-Israel groups for speaking to the media. The Trump administration on Friday said it had canceled government contracts and grants awarded to Columbia University worth about $400 million. The government said the cuts and the student deportation efforts are due to antisemitic harassment at and near Columbia’s Manhattan campus. “What more can Columbia do to appease Congress or the government now?” Khalil said before his arrest, noting that Columbia had twice called in police to arrest protesters and had disciplined many pro-Palestinian students and staff, suspending some. “They basically silenced anyone supporting Palestine on campus and this was not enough. Clearly Trump is using the protesters as a scapegoat for his wider agenda fighting and attacking higher education and the Ivy League education system.” |
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| IDF to Send 14,000 Draft Orders to Yeshiva Students – But Will They Go? |
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In a shocking development, the IDF is set to send 14,000 draft orders to young men who dedicate their lives to full-time Torah study. Speaking before the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday, Lt. Col. Avigdor Dickstein, the officer in charge of increasing ultra-Orthodox enlistment, confirmed the move but admitted that it is unlikely to achieve the IDF’s recruitment goals. According to Dickstein, the draft orders will be issued in three waves: March 13 – 5,000 draft notices For generations, Torah learning has been the bedrock of Jewish life, and for thousands of yeshiva students, it remains their highest calling. The response from the community is clear: 99% will not abandon their yeshivos, no matter the pressure or threats. With tensions mounting, questions arise about what will happen next. Will the government attempt to enforce these draft orders through arrests? Will the IDF continue pushing for numbers that simply do not align with reality? One thing is certain: Klal Yisrael stands with its lomdei Torah, and no decree will break their unwavering dedication. |
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| MIRACLE IN HAMAS CAPTIVITY! Released Hostage Shares Modern Day Chanukah Miracle |
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Released hostage Omer Shem Tov says he experienced a miracle in Hamas captivity; he was able to make kiddush for 5 months from a small container of grape juice that never ran out. Omer, 22, drew close to Hashem while in captivity, and began wearing Tefillin when he was released. At an event organized by the Jewish Connection, Omer says he drew strength drom the prayers of the Jewish people, saying their unwavering support gave him hope and courage during his horrific ordeal. Omer began his message by saying: “Creator of the world, thank you for being with me at every moment.” “During my captivity I felt every prayer that you prayed for me; I felt the light that you sent me. A small story: for a period of 5 months in captivity, I had a small bottle of grape juice which I used to make Kiddush. During those 5 months the bottle would not empty and the juice would not turn sour; this really reminded me of the miracle of the cruse of oil of Hannukah. This is just one story of many that occurred to me, that shows how good G-d is, how much G-d was with me there.” |
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| Government to hold discussion on potential firing of attorney general on March 23 |
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The cabinet will meet to discuss the potential firing of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on March 23, as the government pushes ahead with the almost unprecedented move that critics have warned will undermine the rule of law in Israel. The discussion on Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s motion of no-confidence in the attorney general is set to be held at the next cabinet meeting. There will be no weekly meeting on Sunday due to the festival of Purim. Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, one of those leading the push to oust Baharav-Miara, asserted that once the government approves a no-confidence move against the attorney general, she will no longer have any authority. “No confidence in the attorney general” equals having been ousted or incapacitated, he wrote on his X account. “From that moment there will be no significance to opinions she writes or advice she gives,” he said. Last week, Levin began the process of removing Baharav-Miara from her post, accusing her of having politicized her office and repeatedly thwarting the will of the government. Tensions have long simmered between the current government and Baharav-Miara, who was appointed under the previous one led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid. The attorney general has repeatedly opposed the government over legislation it has proposed, as well as appointments it has made and actions it has taken, arguing on numerous occasions that its measures — including its divisive judicial overhaul agenda — have contravened the law and undermined the rule of law in different ways. Levin has set in motion various bureaucratic processes required under the law to fire the attorney general. On Sunday, the presidents of Israel’s eight research universities said their institutions will go on strike if the government fires Baharav-Miara. In a letter, they warned “of the unprecedented danger to the rule of law if the attorney general is fired.” To fire an attorney general, the justice minister must write to the five-member public committee that appoints the attorney general, detailing the government’s objections to the functioning of the attorney general. The committee must then hold a hearing for the attorney general to allow her or him to present their position, after which it must issue a recommendation to the government on whether or not to dismiss them. |
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| Rubio and Saudi Arabia’s MBS discussed Gaza reconstruction in Riyadh |
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed the “reconstruction of Gaza” during their meeting in Riyadh earlier today, the State Department says in its readout. Rubio thanked the Saudi leader for “hosting Arab countries,” the State Department says in an apparent reference to the summit Riyadh hosted for Arab leaders last month to prepare for another confab held in Cairo last week, where Egypt unveiled its plan for the post-war management of Gaza. The Trump administration has called the plan a good start, while indicating that it doesn’t sufficiently address Hamas’s role, which Washington wants to be non-existent. Rubio “reiterated [to MBS] the United States’ firm commitment that any solution to the situation in Gaza must not include any role for Hamas,” the US readout adds.
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