More wisdom from Melanie Phillips: Why the West Fell for the Palestinian Lie

Matan Hasidim  "Melanie Phillips is a British-Jewish author and journalist, known for her ideological journey from the liberal left to the conservative right. She is a frequent guest on international podcasts and media channels.

"To watch my full conversation with her, click here: • מלאני פיליפס: "המערב החילוני מתאבד אל מול ...  

"Among her books are "Londonistan" (2006), which warned of the Islamization of Britain, and "The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth and Power" (2010), on the dangers of secularism and the collapse of Western identity. Her latest book, "The Builder's Stone: How Christians & Jews Built the West", was published in 2025." #israelnews #israel #israelhamaswar

Nova survivor recounts her experience with Palestinians on Oct 7th:

Worst Outlet of the Week - Who Took Bottom Honors in the Latest Round of Dysfunctional Media?

 RedState

"It was an active time for the press, coming off the nation’s birthday. So much was swirling that the media did not know where to focus. There were continuing Texas flood accusations to be made, a recalibration of a communist running for the New York City mayoral post, more anxiety over the Epstein List, and the needed hysteria over ongoing deportation actions and the detention facility being opened in the Florida Everglades.

"All of this amounted to a severe lack of balanced thinking, the kind of thing we have come to expect from the press. In other words, it was a case of hysterical status quo. So amid all of the talk of activities in The Swamp, as well as teeth gnashing over what is going on in an actual swamp, let’s tug on the hip waders and begin trudging through the muck and mire that is our media complex and determine who took top (bottom) honors this week.

     THE CONTENDERS

The Bulwark – In one podcast, they claimed 93 percent of ILLEGAL immigrants were not criminals. With blatant wishcasting at play, Bill Kristol tried to position that Elon Musk’s bid to form a new political party would threaten the Republicans. Sam Stein had to take down his insults of EPA administrator Lee Zeldin being a contrails conspiracy nutter because he neglected to read Zeldin’s link he had posted, which debunked the theory. The site called for Democrats to boldly take over the dialogue regarding LGBπ issues and then shut off the replies on the column.

NBC News– Kristen Welker peppered Kristi Noem with accusations that detainees are being put in “cages”, something that is never a complaint when a Democrat is in the White House. Meanwhile, the network took it as gospel what those held in Alligator Alcatraz were describing about the conditions. In one report they tried to blame the ending of USAID as leading to a possible increase in pregnancies in another country (while ignoring the fact that needed aid money is handled by the State Department). As for those losing their jobs at State, Ken Delaninan arrived with a bat-crap sympathetic announcement – that it could impact our fight against climate change.

Washington Post – WaPo’s CEO delivered an our-way-or-the-highway command to the staff, telling them a buyout is their choice if they do not follow the new standards. The paper claimed relief aid was being blocked to California fire victims by President Trump, but then was hit with the statistics of FEMA’s efforts. They actually ran an op-ed from a genuine clown, stating his profession was insulted by having the president compared to them. 

CNN – Natasha Bertrand was back to shilling for intel activists by stating Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arbitrarily halted arms shipments to Ukraine, only to be dispelled by the facts that the DoD was reassessing the domestic needs ahead of shipments. Dana Bash continued her fractured focus on blaming Trump for the Texas flooding response. She claimed Republicans were incapable of politicizing the event as it was in a red state - as she continued to politicize it. She then brought on Bill Nye to blame the flooding on Trump’s opposition to climate change. Resident polling contrarian Harry Enten broke hearts at his own network by showing that the general public has not grown to accept climate change hysteria.

THE WINNER:  THE MIAMI HERALD:  With the Alligator Alcatraz development rolling out, the South Florida newspaper was not just on the case – it was positively obsessed.

"They were at the forefront of reports that the detainees were claiming the conditions were horrific, with mosquitoes the size of elephants and the food served containing maggots. (This, after just a day or so.) One new resident also said the facility is "about minus two degrees" – in Florida, in a Swamp… IN JULY.

"That this was all an example of the Telephone Game-level of reporting needed to be ignored, as it relied on third-hand accounts passed to them through family members.

"Along with detainees, unsurprisingly, Democrat lawmakers gave the location a 1-Star Yelp review." . . .

David Hitch

Gavin Newsom’s Donors Marijuana Farm Now Under Federal Investigation For Child Labor Violations After ICE Raid

 TFPP Wire

Gavin Newsom:  "Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields. Trump calls me “Newscum” — but he’s the real scum."

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

"Federal agents raided a prominent California cannabis farm linked to top Democratic donors, rescuing illegal unaccompanied minors allegedly working there. The fallout has exposed deep divides between state leaders and federal immigration enforcement.

Key Facts:

• Glass House Farms in Camarillo, CA was raided by federal authorities on Thursday.
• DHS confirmed nine unaccompanied illegal minors were rescued during the operation.
• The farm’s president, Graham Farrar, has donated thousands to Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
• Protesters clashed with federal agents; one suspect allegedly fired at law enforcement.
• Gov. Newsom condemned the raid and deflected when asked about the shooting incident.

The Rest of The Story:

Federal authorities executed immigration raids on Glass House Farms in Camarillo and Carpinteria, California, detaining illegal workers and rescuing nine unaccompanied minors.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin praised the operation, stating, “So glad our law enforcement could rescue another child.”

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott revealed the farm is now under investigation for child labor violations.

Military helicopters flew low over fields to flush out hidden individuals.

Protesters soon gathered, some clashing with agents who used tear gas and smoke bombs to maintain control.

An unidentified individual allegedly fired a pistol at federal officers.

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to that suspect’s conviction. . . . More...

Legal Insurrection: Dems Outraged Over Lawful ICE Raid, Silent on Child Labor at Illegal Weed Farm  . . . "So when Democrats learned that ICE agents had conducted a lawful immigration raid at Glass House Farms — an illegal cannabis grower near Camarillo, California — they went into a collective meltdown. Protestors tried to block military vehicles as they arrived at the site. They tried to jam the poles of their Mexican flags into the vehicle’s tires and smash their windows. They threw rocks and one demonstrator is caught on video firing a pistol at law enforcement agents. I wrote about the protest this morning here.

"But it didn’t stop there. Grandstanding Democratic politicians and pundits have spent the last 24 hours filling the airwaves with condemnations of the raids." . . .

UPDATE: Oops: Gavin Newsom's 'Strawberry Farmer' Turns Out to Be a Child Predator  

. . ."Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom stayed busy, of course, preening for the cameras as he readies his expected 2028 presidential run. He waxed poetic about the wonderful souls working on the farm and blasted the feds for trying to help clean up the disastrous mess that he helped create:" . . .

. . ."Gavin Newsom didn’t care about these people before, and he didn’t care that there was forced child labor going on at pot farms in his state. He only cares now because he hopes it will give him some sort of political edge. He has ushered in a massive decline in almost every area in what was formerly one of the great states in the union, and he wants to bring his dystopian vision to the rest of America." . . .

After a Week of Fumbles We Need to Ask: How Are Democrats at All Enamored of a Dunce Like Gavin Newsom?!    Behind a paywall, but TD wants you to know of this post, liking the tone of it.

Will John Brennan Ever Tell the Truth?

Victor Davis Hanson

"Brennan was at the center of three of the greatest scandals in recent history that may well have changed American history. His promotion of the fake Steele dossier sought to destroy the Trump campaign and sway the election in favor of Hillary Clinton." 

"When asked why the current Department of Justice might be investigating him, former CIA Director John Brennan answered, as was his wont, with a complete lie: “I am clueless about what it is exactly that they may be investigating me for.”

"Clueless? Hardly. Brennan knows full well that his fingerprints are on some of the greatest scandals of the last decade. These machinations have threatened the very integrity of our institutions and elections.

"He has a record of serially lying to Congress, the public, and the media, and doing so emphatically.

"In 2011, as the government’s chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan absurdly insisted that the Obama administration’s drone strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border had not killed a single civilian noncombatant. Yet multiple sources proved the claim was clearly false. In truth, the number of innocents killed was likely somewhere between 50 and 70.

"In 2014, as director of the CIA, Brennan lied again, doubling down by denying that CIA operatives were hacking into U.S. Senate staffers’ computers.

" 'As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. . . . We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.”

"Here, too, he was caught lying and forced to apologize—but never charged with perjury.

"But Brennan’s biggest fabrications came in 2017 when, as an ex-CIA director, he testified before a congressional committee that he neither knew who had commissioned the now-infamous bogus Steele dossier nor whether the CIA had relied on it for its intelligence assessments.

"But Brennan knew well at the time that then NSA director Michael Rogers and James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, had both gone on record that the dossier did play a major role in the intelligence community’s interagency assessment. Indeed, the concocted dossier was delivered directly to President Obama. And John Brennan was one of its most ardent advocates, seeing in it a way to undermine the Trump campaign." . . .   More...

Soros machine hands Mamdani millions for his socialist quest for control of New York City

 Monica Showalter 

"Now the Soros plan is to take mayoralties, the better to finish off cities in ways district attorneys and secretaries of state cannot. Yet they present this boob as an independent. He's a puppet on some strings." . . .

"Al Takiya"

"Investigative reporter Paul Sperry has uncovered an interesting fact about leftist mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani:

BREAKING: Alex Soros has funneled $24 mil to the NYC mayoral campaign of Muslim Zohran Mamdani thru his fundraising arm Working Families,which means Soros' wife HUMA ABEDIN,whose parents are Muslim Brotherhood, "will control the mayor of NY," a lawyer investigating Abedin told me

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 12, 2025

"The New York Post reported something similar:

Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.

...

... in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation’s records show.

"So this freak is no maverick. He's not a fresh face, an independent voice, a new political concept. He's a creature of the tired old Soros project, a pawn, a foot soldier in the great Soros quest to dismantle rule of law and create chaos, just as the Soros catspaws have done in virtually all blue cities where Soros-backed district attorneys no longer prosecute crime, and in blue states where Soros-backed secretaries of states preside over elections filled with fraud and long, long delays in counting." . . . More here...

The Rise of the Islamo-Nazi Left in America 

 . . ."The head of the SS then addressed the fact that Germany and Islam had common enemies: “the Bolsheviks, England, America, all constantly driven by the Jew.” "The Nazis of yesteryear loved Islam, as do the European and American leftists of today who promote the same antisemitic, anti-Christian, Islamo-Nazi philosophy of Hitler and al-Husseini.  For example, modern-day Democrats turn a blind eye to the Muslim death penalty for gays and transexuals, as well as the Muslim groomers and rape gangs that terrorize girls and women." . . .

early and often America Would Be Better Off If Trump Won in 2020

  Intelligencer  

"A Trump win would have also meant no second Trump impeachment, then no federal criminal prosecution of Trump for his involvement in an attempted insurrection."

"When Donald Trump’s megabill passed the Senate, consummating nearly a half-year of aggressively reactionary policymaking by the 47th president, a colleague commented that “it’s like the Biden presidency never happened.” That’s true in the sense that between Trump’s executive orders and the megabill, it’s hard to find a single stone unmoved from where he found it when he took office in January. But on reflection, it might be quite literally true. The country, and even the Democratic Party, would very likely have been in better condition today had Trump been reelected in 2020 over Joe Biden.

"By that, I don’t mean Trump reversing his 2020 election defeat in Congress, the courts, or via the Capitol riot; I mean had he gained 77,000 more votes in four battleground states and hence won a majority in the Electoral College. Barring some lurid scandal, Democrats (with scattered dissents) would have accepted Trump’s victory as legitimate just as they did after his 2016 win, which similarly came with a national popular-vote deficit" . . .

Being affiliated with New York Magazine, author Kilgore is strongly anti-Trump.

AOC Defames Trump, and Now She Better Lawyer Up

Robert Spencer 

 "And now AOC has done the same thing Stephanopoulos did. She only did it once, however, whereas Stephanopoulos did it ten times. ABC News and Stephanopoulos paid Trump $15 million. So should AOC be prepared to fork over $1.5 million to Orange Man Bad?. . . "

"It’s common for leftists to refer to Trump in the most luridly negative ways they can come up with, and to insert these references everywhere they can, no matter how inappropriate, so as to demoralize patriots and give them the impression that the left’s cultural victory and hegemony are total. Just the other day, by way of example, I was innocently reading the local sports section and saw a columnist decrying gambling in baseball and saying that with a “convicted felon” in the White House, what could anyone expect? Generally, however, the left’s claims about Trump, while wildly misleading and tendentious, aren’t legally actionable. Leftist darling AOC, however, has just crossed the line. 

"On Friday afternoon, as the controversy over Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi was raging, the left’s next senator from New York or (egad) presidential candidate, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Would You Like An Olive?) posted this on X: “Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?” 

"Interesting question. Here’s another question, one for AOC to ponder: Who would have thought that a sitting congresswoman would openly defame the president of the United States in such a craven fashion?

"AOC sent this post, moreover, from her personal X account, not her congressional account, making a case for congressional immunity extremely difficult to make.

"The left’s great fake Bronxite hope could soon find herself in a heap of legal trouble. Remember what happened to ABC News and one of its leading propagandists, the far-left apparatchik George Stephanopoulos: Fox News Digital reported back in Dec. 2024 that “ABC News and their top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit, which will result in the news network paying the president-elect $15 million.”

"Stephanopoulos and ABC News also issued a statement: “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024.” 

"Why did ABC and Stephanopoulos have to give Trump $15 million and issue a statement of “regret”? Trump “filed a defamation suit against Stephanopoulos after he asserted that Trump was found ‘liable for rape’ in a civil case during a contentious interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., last March.”

"Stephanopoulos was played “a clip of Mace discussing being a victim of rape,” and then asked her, "How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?" The rabidly partisan pseudo-journalist continued: "You've endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape."  

"Stephanopoulos was referring to fantasist E. Jean Carroll’s claim that Trump raped her many years ago in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room." . . . More...

Woman Allegedly Burned Alive On Train By Illegal Migrant Finally Identified

 DC Enquirer   ["Allegedly?]

One feels for this lady and the children burned alive by Hamas

"Local law enforcement said they finally identified the woman burned alive while riding on a New York City subway car earlier in December, ending days of public speculation.

"Debrina Kawam, a 61-year-old woman from Toms River, New Jersey, is the individual who was burned alive while riding the F train in Brooklyn on the morning of Dec. 21, the New York Police Department (NYPD) confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The man charged with the attack is Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, a 33-year old previously deported Guatemalan national who is living in the United States unlawfully.

"After days of law enforcement failing to identify the victim and no apparent family or friends coming forward, some speculated that the victim may have been homeless. The NYPD on Tuesday gave no further details about Kawam beyond her name, age and home address.

"The gruesome details of the attack sparked national media coverage, and once again spotlighted the issue of illegal migrant crime in the U.S.

"Investigators believe Kawam was sleeping on the train when Zapeta walked up to her and used a match to light her clothes on fire, which quickly became fully engulfed in flames. The illegal migrant then allegedly remained on scene, sitting on a bench platform, to watch her die from her injuries.

“As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim who was in a seated position at the end of the subway car,” New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated during a press conference shortly after the incident. “The suspect used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds.”

"Local police who were on patrol at an upper level of that train station went to investigate after they smelled and saw smoke, according to Tisch, who described the attack  as “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit” against another human being. Upon their arrival to the scene, officers discovered the victim standing in the train fully engulfed in fire, and made attempts to put the fire out." . . .   More...

Y'All Got Took: There Was Never Going to Be Any 'Rebuilt' Pacific Palisades

 Hot Air  

"Those who actually are 'rebuilding their lives' because of the fires are not going to qualify for what is being rebuilt. You just knew."

You knew in your heart of hearts from the very beginning.

"Even as you watched those first flames take the first houses and then leap up through the canyons and down through the hillsides, through the breaks, even jumping PCH to gobble up the houses tucked next to the highway itself - those uniquely SoCal structures sandwiched between the asphalt and that big, blue Pacific surf...you knew.

"You knew would never see it again, for all the gargoyle grin assurances of the mayor who couldn't be bothered to be there when the flames broke out. For all the slickster, huckstering, faux promises of a governor faking phone calls as he skittered like a cockroach from angry, heartbroken residents who only wanted answers.

"You knew.

"You knew when comedian turned prophet Adam Corolla went on an epic rant from a hotel room desk, a fire refugee himself waiting on word whether he had a home or not, telling you then and there if your home was gone, it was gone for good.

"Because Mayor Karen Bass, Governor Gavin Newsom, and the soul-crushing machinery of the State of California had the will and the power to ensure you would never rebuild, one way or the other." . . .

In a self-congratulatory moment, Newsom grandly announced his intentions to bring 'multifamily low-income housing development' to Pacific Palisades, Eaton, and Altadena, creating a more 'resilient and - keyword here - equitable Los Angeles.'

Think of the few beautiful homes that survived the inferno only to sit in this new development, walls covered with graffiti.   More...

Pam Bondi Says She Has ‘Every Intention to Stay and Serve’ Amid MAGA Backlash

RTM  

Eric Daugherty 

Dan Bongino will RESIGN from the FBI if Pam Bondi refuses to leave the DOJ, per Daily Wire "AG Bondi needs to think about this one, and not put Trump in a bad spot."

Broc Smith

"Attorney General Pam Bondi has stated she has “every intention to stay and serve,” despite widespread reports of internal turmoil surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

"The news follows reports of a heated meeting at the White House involving Bondi, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, FBI Director Kash Patel, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

"During the meeting, tensions reportedly escalated as Bongino and Patel were questioned about a NewsNation story. The article claimed that the FBI sought to release more Epstein-related documents but was blocked by the Department of Justice.

"Bongino denied leaking any information to the press, according to a source familiar with the meeting who spoke to CNN. However, he did not sign a statement included in the article defending the DOJ’s handling of the files.

"While sources say Bongino has not made a final decision, CNN reported he indicated he may resign if Bondi remains in her position.

"CNN also reported that Bongino did not show up to work on Friday, which has fueled speculation about his potential departure. As of Friday afternoon, no formal resignation had been submitted.

"The ongoing dispute has sparked mounting frustration inside and outside the White House.

"Critics have pointed to Bondi’s management of the Epstein documents as a source of controversy, the Conservative Brief reported.

"The files became a political flashpoint after a Department of Justice memo released this week concluded there was no murder, no client list, and no blackmail evidence involving Epstein. The findings have angered many of President Trump’s strongest supporters." . . .

Trump rips MAGA ‘boys’ and ‘gals’ in epic Epstein-gate rant: ‘Let Pam Bondi do her job’   "President urges supporters to unify, saying he doesn’t ‘like what’s happening’" . . .

You lucky ones whose house survived, who will be your neighbors soon?

How the Left Lost Its Collective Mind

 Victor Davis Hanson 

. . . "Add it all up, and the impotent Left in all its orthodox and street manifestations has become unhinged. And why not when it rightly fears that not just its power, but the very sources of its power, are in mortal danger?"

"Across the political Left, from orthodox Democrats to Antifa in the streets, the opposition to President Donald Trump has lost its collective mind.

"The Democrat House minority leader and now self-styled tough guy, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, poses with a baseball bat to show how dangerous he is in opposing President Donald Trump’s budget bill.

"Jeffries harangued Congress for eight hours; New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker went on for 25—both to no effect.The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. 

"Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit the rally trail in private jets to rail about oligarchs, omitting that the ultrarich are not only mostly leftists but also the funders of the Democratic Party.

"Sometimes the Democrats in Congress make bizarre videos, featuring profanity like f— or s—. On other occasions, they scream and interrupt Congress.

"Some representatives now confess that they’re being pressured by their constituents to take a bullet for the cause. The racialist Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett—sometimes playing the prep-school prima donna, sometimes modulating her accent to pass as the authentic inner-city activist—gains headlines for monotonously ranting about old white men.

"On left-wing social media, the assassin Luigi Mangione remains a heartthrob for murdering a health care executive, replacing the Tsarnaev brothers as the hot new left-wing killer.

"He, too, might soon end up with a cover photo on Rolling Stone.

"The left-wing internet mob grotesquely claims that children lost to the recent flash flood in Texas deserved their fate.

"They even advance three sick reasons for their ghoulishness. Texas Christians supported the MAGA agenda and thus met a just fate. Or, as red-state Texans, they were deservedly collateral damage to the Department of Government Efficiency’s bureaucratic reductions. Or, as climate denialists would say, the flash flood took righteous revenge on children for their supposed ignorance.

"Add it all up, and there is a sizable leftist “base” that is completely amoral." . . .

More here.

Why Dan Bongino should not resign over the Epstein matter

 M.B. Mathews

  ". . . " I am convinced that the names on the Epstein “client list” are not worth knowing about because their revelation would deeply hurt some innocent people."

"Dan Bongino is among the most honorable of men. I trust his judgment and his political analysis more than I trust most others. His integrity is beyond question. When he says he will do something, it gets done. When he says he will find things out, things will get found out. He is a Godly man of commitment, prayer, and gratitude, and knows from whence comes his faith and grace.

"But on the matter of the Epstein case, I hope and pray he will stand down so as not to jeopardize the Trump Train and MAGA. In American history, we now have the opportunity to change everything for the better. Trump is moving at breakneck speed and has already had one unfortunate defection—Musk. Another defection could hurt the entire country because of the erroneous perception by others that Trump cannot be trusted and that Bongino also flew the coop. But some things are more important than this.

"At this point, I am convinced that the names on the Epstein “client list” are not worth knowing about because their revelation would deeply hurt some innocent people. Insignificant people who were stupid enough to get entangled with Epstein without even violating the law would have families who would be hurt.

"Yes, Epstein and Ghislaine were monsters, but Epstein is dead, whether by his own hand or nefarious means, and Ghislaine is in jail. The story was sensational, and now it’s over. I want desperately for it to be over for the sake of America’s Trump Train. He is doing near-miraculous things for us and for the world, and this matter is not worth jeopardizing that.

"My question for Dan is this: Is it worth it to derail the entire MAGA train just to find out prurient facts about people who don’t matter? How is America helped by more information about these two cretins? These are questions Dan Bongino might do well to ponder, and if I could beg him to stand down, I would, for America’s sake.

"Dan is a pivotal cog in the MAGA wheel. Trump needs him, and Dan is a deep-thinking, sensitive man of honor. His honor will not be sullied should he decide to stay on. He is more valuable inside than out, and I don’t believe the Epstein matter is the hill to die on. I pray Dan will not make it so."