We would like to extend our highest respects to the Irish national football team, the men of honor.

The new Dutch BDS law forces Americans and American companies to undergo intrusive searches and prove that they do not possess any goods from Jerusalem or Judea and Samaria. This is absolutely unconscionable and @USTreasury should IMMEDIATELY add the Netherlands to the list of countries requiring cooperation with a boycott under Section 999 of the Internal Revenue Code.

In my 22 years at United Nations Watch, I have never witnessed a Secretary-General legitimize lies, propaganda, and antisemitism on this scale. António Guterres has appeased tyrants and terrorists. He has disgraced his office. He is the worst Secretary-General in U.N. history.

I'm a journalist. And I happen to be Jewish. On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters trying to taunt and intimidate me from entering the building. 1/5

As a former National Merit Scholar, I'll say this simply so that you can understand: There is no way to game the system here, it is merit based The founders believed that your ancestry should not determine your destiny - you work hard, you build, you contribute to society, you succeed Indian Americans studying hard, raising high-achieving kids who become doctors, engineers, and entrepreneurs is not a problem America needs to solve You'd be upset if they weren't successful and mooching off society, you're upset that they ARE successful -- it's almost like their success is not what upsets you Incredible mask-off moment The right will lose all normies this way, and we will lose for a long time if you keep dragging us down this odious path You're an embarrassment

Yesterday, I had the privilege of meeting a true American hero. 25 years ago this morning, Kevin Tolan was one of the NYPD officers who responded to 9/11. He was supposed to be undergoing surgery that morning. Instead, he put on his uniform, raced to the World Trade Center, and answered the call to rescue others. Joseph Viggiano, Kevin’s partner, was tragically killed on 9/11. In addition to the invisible wounds Kevin has carried ever since, he now battles the health-related repercussions of his selfless, heroic actions. 9/11 represented the largest single day loss of first responders in American history. “Never forget” calls us not only to remember the tragedy of 9/11, but also the courage and sacrifice of heroes like Kevin, his fallen partner Joe, and so many other firefighters, police officers, EMTs and others, and every innocent life lost that day. The passage of 25 years has not dimmed our memory or diminished our gratitude — no amount time ever could. It was an honor to meet Kevin and his wife Kit in Windham and thank them both for a sacrifice to big to truly put into words.

This is not a rabbit hole the umpires want to enter.

Seat belts? Never. But two drops of rain and Susan had the kids decked out like the fucking Gorton’s fisherman.

Bemused by the outrages over Nolan's Odyssey. It's not Kurosawa, but I enjoyed it on its own terms as a cinematic spectacle. If it's not 'faithful' to its source, I'm not sure how it could be, given how complex Homer's work is. And if this film promotes the arts, all to the good!

Morning coffee and croissants 🥐

Michaelson: How do you feel about Trump and what he's doing? Tom Selleck: Well, he's certainly a mixed bag. I stay out of the current political world. Why piss off half the country when you're in the business of entertaining people?

A few days ago, I tried to enter the Dome of the Rock. The guard saw the Star of David around my neck and stopped me. “Only Muslims allowed,” he explained. It made me want to write about the site itself, because most people, Muslims included, don’t actually know why it’s called the Dome of the Rock, what it has to do with Al-Aqsa, or why the same rock sits at the center of two very different stories. Why is it called the Dome of the Rock? The name comes from a bare stone — the Foundation Stone — enclosed beneath the golden dome. Both Muslim and Jewish tradition consider this rock holy, but for entirely different reasons. ✋ A. In Muslim tradition • The Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque are two separate buildings. The Dome of the Rock is a shrine, built to enclose and honor the rock; it has no minbar and was never built for congregational prayer. Al-Aqsa is the actual mosque, a separate structure at the southern end of the same compound, completed years later. • The link between this rock and the Isra and Mi’raj (Muhammad’s night journey and ascension) comes from hadith and later Islamic tradition — not from the Quran itself. Quran 17:1 mentions a night journey to “al-Masjid al-Aqsa” (“the farthest mosque”) but does not name Jerusalem anywhere. That identification was made decades after Muhammad’s death. • The identification of the Quranic “farthest mosque” with Jerusalem has been contested since Islam’s earliest centuries. Al-Waqidi, an 8th-century historian, described Muhammad stopping at two sanctuaries near Mecca — al-masjid al-aqsa and al-masjid al-adna — during his return from the Battle of Hunayn, which modern skeptics cite as the term’s original, pre-Jerusalem meaning. Ibn Taymiyyah (14th century), by contrast, fully affirmed Jerusalem as the location of the Night Journey; his objections targeted later devotional excesses around visiting Jerusalem, not the identification itself. In modern history, Egyptian intellectual Youssef Ziedan revived al-Waqidi’s account in 2015, a position echoed since by researchers like Suleiman al-Tarawneh and Osama Yamani. It remains the mainstream Islamic belief, but it is tradition, not Quranic text or archaeology. • The Dome of the Rock was built by Caliph Abd al-Malik, completed in 691–692 CE — after Islam had already spread across the region and needed to establish its own sacred geography in Jerusalem. • Important detail: Abd al-Malik was the Umayyad caliph based in Damascus. At the time, Mecca was controlled by a rival caliph, Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr, during the civil war known as the Second Fitna. A long-standing historical theory holds that Abd al-Malik elevated Jerusalem as an alternative pilgrimage site because his own subjects in Syria and Iraq couldn’t perform Hajj in Mecca while it was in his rival’s hands. ✋ B. In Jewish tradition • The rock is identified as the Even HaShtiya, the Foundation Stone, traditionally the point from which creation began, and the site of the Holy of Holies in the First and Second Temples. • Excavations in the City of David, just south of the site, have uncovered First Temple-period structures, seals (bullae) bearing Hebrew names, and administrative artifacts confirming a major Israelite capital on this exact spot centuries before Islam existed. • The Temple Mount Sifting Project, which has sifted soil removed from the Mount itself, has recovered First and Second Temple-period pottery, seals, arrowheads, and opus sectile floor tiles matching Josephus’s description of Herod’s Temple. • The visible retaining walls, including the Western Wall, are Herodian-era construction, dated by archaeologists to the Second Temple period centuries before Islam’s founding. • Unlike the Isra and Mi’raj, which rests on tradition, the Jewish connection to this site is anchored in physical remains, contemporaneous written sources like Josephus, and continuous religious practice recorded over three millennia.

Is Spain turning Africa into a giant open-air prison in order to protect an apartheid enclave it established on colonized land?

Boy George has been pulled out of the upcoming production of Jesus Christ Superstar following Boy George's recent song standing up for Jews. There has been an influx of hate towards Boy George since the release of his song, from threats to disrupt the show and to his safety. In all this chaos and growing unease, I hope @BoyGeorge knows how appreciated he is for speaking out for Jews when speaking out evidently cost so much.