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They say they’re freeing Palestine, avenging Gaza, or simply against Israel. They call it anti-Zionism. They swear they aren’t antisemitic. But their targets are the same: Jews

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Israelis are heading to the polls on October 27 🇮🇱🗳️. But unlike elections in the US, they're not voting for a specific candidate, they're voting for political parties. With 120 seats in the Knesset, a 3.25% electoral threshold, and 61 seats needed to form a government, winning the most votes doesn't necessarily mean taking power. So how does Israel actually choose its leaders? Check out our full breakdown here: https://honestreporting.com/how-does-israels-electoral-system-really-work/

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Brad Lander is running for Congress in New York. With Election Day less than two weeks away, he’s in the West Bank picking olives and filming campaign content. He says the trip is about exposing the “reality of the occupation.” But the timing makes the political calculation hard to miss. Instead of spending the final stretch before an election talking to New Yorkers about New York, he’s attaching himself to one of the most viral international stories of the moment. No new policy. No solution. No meaningful change for Israelis or Palestinians. Just a foreign conflict turned into congressional clickbait.

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Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank haven’t voted in legislative elections since 2006. Meanwhile, Arab citizens of Israel, who make up roughly 21% of the population, vote in Israeli elections just like every other citizen, as they have throughout Israel’s history. The media can keep repeating the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state, but the inconvenient reality remains: Arab citizens of Israel have an equal vote and a voice in the country’s democracy.

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UK, Australia, Canada, and France recognized a Palestinian state after Mahmoud Abbas promised elections in 2026. He just postponed them again, to 2027. Pay-for-slay continues under a new name. School textbooks still glorify terrorists and reject a two-state solution. Recognition was the prize. The conditions were the price. The price was never paid, and there are no consequences. Why trust any PA promises about peace?

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Peter Beinart defended Brad Lander’s West Bank olive-harvest stunt by comparing him to the Jews who went to Mississippi for Freedom Summer. The Palestinians Beinart champions did not respond to their circumstances with nonviolent marches. They responded with kidnappings, suicide bombings, and October 7. Lander is not a Freedom Summer volunteer. The West Bank is not Jim Crow Mississippi. Hijacking Black history to launder anti-Israel activism does not make the comparison true.

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s own memorial film shows Muhammad Nabil al-Zaq adjusting a professional camera. Then it cuts to him training with a rifle, wearing Military Media insignia, and standing in armed formation. He identifies himself as “a son of the Al-Quds Brigades.” The camera was part of the unit, and it provides one last picture into the mechanisms behind PIJ's military media system.

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Brad Lander’s West Bank olive-harvesting publicity stunt. Palestinian flags at violent protests in France. Hamas banners at rallies marking the October 7 massacre. And a media narrative that increasingly treats Israeli society itself as the problem, regardless of who wins the election. Four stories, one familiar pattern: political messaging dressed up as something else. We cut through the spin in this week’s roundup.

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When David Ellison’s Paramount closed its takeover of Warner Bros., it put HBO, DC, CNN, and CBS News under one company: Skydance AJ+ built a video around a simple idea: one pro-Israel family now decides what America watches. It spread everywhere. The Murdochs own Fox News and the New York Post. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Neither got this video. What AJ+ never tells you is who is making that argument. AJ+ is Al Jazeera, and Al Jazeera is owned and funded by the government of Qatar, a country with numerous human rights abuses. Here’s what else they never tell you. Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund owns 10.6% of the company AJ+ just made a video attacking. They’re not outside observers. They’re shareholders. Why is a state broadcaster warning you about a private owner’s influence, while never once disclosing its own? That’s not a question about media ownership. It’s a government using a newsroom to decide which owners you should distrust. And of all the men who own American newsrooms, they picked the Jewish one. Presenter: Jacob Gold #Skydance #AlJazeera #Paramount #WarnerBros

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With Election Day approaching, Brad Lander chose to visit the West Bank to pick olives and accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing rather than campaign in his own district. He has opposed Iron Dome funding and advocated alliances with anti-Zionists, yet was still denounced as a “Zionist.” Justin Pozmanter argues that Lander is learning the hard way that appeasement never satisfies those demanding it.

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Hollywood's loudest anti-Israel voices get plenty of attention. Here's a better headline. Israeli designer Arik Weiss has won an Emmy for Outstanding Title Design for Marvel's Spider-Noir, starring Nicolas Cage. His striking opening sequence draws on French New Wave cinema. And Weiss says that in Hollywood, being Israeli was a non-issue. Turns out great work can still speak louder than politics.

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American Jews and Israeli Jews share a history, an identity, and a future. But do they still understand each other? October 7 exposed a divide that had been growing for decades. On this episode of The Honest Take, Ben Chertoff sits down with author Daniel Gordis to discuss why American and Israeli Jews see the world so differently, how antisemitism and the war have reshaped their relationship, and whether the growing rift can be repaired. Two communities. Two very different realities. One Jewish people.

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For years, Dustin Hoffman appeared to keep Israel at arm’s length. Now he’s delivered a welcome Hollywood plot twist. The Oscar-winning actor joined a star-studded UCLA event celebrating the Jewish people’s historic connection to Israel and raising funds for Israelis recovering from October 7. He even joined singer Ester Rada for “Hatikvah.” When so many celebrities prefer silence, Hoffman deserves credit for showing up.

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What's in the headlines and on feeds shapes what audiences care about. And right now, the priorities are badly skewed. Douglas Murray makes the case that newsrooms cover what’s easy to reach, not what matters most. The Iranian regime censors local media and keeps a tight grip on foreign journalists. So while hundreds of thousands of deaths do not make it to the front page, a land dispute in the West Bank gets nonstop coverage. The result: people come to believe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the world’s most urgent crisis, simply because it’s the one they see most. As Murray puts it, the media “is not honest anymore about what it cannot report.” Have you noticed how coverage of the West Bank compares to any other part of the Middle East, and how has it shaped your understanding of what's happening here? Tell us in the comments.👇

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France was burning over wages, schools and the cost of living. So why were Palestinian flags flying at protests about French domestic issues? And why were those flags missing from photo roundups by Magnum, AFP and TIME? AFP even photographed one but omitted it from its own Instagram selection. Photo editors can't show everything. But what they choose to leave out can be just as revealing as what they publish.

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Still confused about how Israeli elections work? No people on the ballot. 38 parties to choose from. Coalition talks that can go on for weeks and may even send the country back to the polls. We get it, it's confusing. Here’s everything you need to know before October 27.

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Australian MP Helen Haines was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle outside her office. The arrested suspect, Brendan Nugent, had a social media history increasingly dominated by anti-Israel rhetoric, including content sympathetic to Hamas and the Houthis. Police have not established a political motive. But when hatred and calls for violent “resistance” become normalized, the potential consequences cannot be ignored.

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Palestinian media called Ubaida Murtaja a journalist killed by Israel. But Hamas-linked sources told a very different story. A Telegram channel identified him as a Hamas fighter in the Shuja’iyya Battalion, while footage from his funeral showed him wearing a Hamas bandana. Another supposed journalist. Another Hamas connection. Another reminder of why Gaza's media narratives cannot be accepted at face value.

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This past weekend, violent protests hit France and Italy over the cost of living and the state of schools. None of them were about Gaza. Rioters in Milan clashed with police and looted a luxury shopping arcade. In France, a 140-year-old historic building was set on fire and a town hall was stormed. Hundreds were arrested. And there, in the middle of it all, were Palestinian flags. Different countries. Different grievances. Same flag.

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London was warned. The warning signs were there, the rhetoric was escalating, and the normalization of anti-Israel extremism was impossible to ignore. Yet too many politicians, institutions, and media outlets chose to look the other way. When hatred is tolerated, excused, or dressed up as legitimate activism, the consequences should surprise nobody. The question isn't whether London was warned, but why those warnings went unheeded.

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