Ofir Winter is a left-wing plant

Mark Levin's got something to say about fishy election candidate Ofir Winter, who, despite his supposedly being a right-wing candidate, is only giving signs he may actually be a left-wing plant:

American conservative commentator Mark Levin attacked Amcha Yisrael Chairman Ofir Winter after the latter refused to withdraw the race for the Knesset, despite pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of the current coalition.

Sharing a post on X that claimed that Winter boycotted the other members of the right-wing camp, Levin, a close friend of Prime Minister Netanyahu, wrote: "This saboteur Winter looks like a plant by the left wing. Or he’s the biggest dumb*** of all time." [...]

The criticism comes amid mounting pressure on Winter to withdraw from next week's Knesset elections over concerns that his party will fail to cross the electoral threshold, potentially costing the right-wing bloc enough votes to prevent it from forming the next government.

The pressure intensified following Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz's decision to withdraw from the race. Religious Zionist Party chairman Bezalel Smotrich, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar subsequently urged Winter and other right-wing candidates polling below the electoral threshold to follow Gantz's example.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Smotrich met with Rabbi Eli Sadan, founder of the Bnei David pre-military academy and Winter's former rabbi, in an apparent effort to enlist his influence in persuading Winter to withdraw.

On Wednesday, Netanyahu publicly appealed to Winter to withdraw after dozens of bereaved families from the recent war published an open letter warning that votes for his party could jeopardize a right-wing victory.

"Ofer Winter, listen to the bereaved families, show responsibility and withdraw, for the sake of right-wing victory!" Netanyahu stated.

So far, he refuses to listen to reason, and if his party does end up costing votes for the right, he'll have to bear serious accountability for that. Levin's got some valid points.

More younger Haredis leave the lifestyle than previously thought

A recent study discovers more Haredis of a younger age are leaving the insular lifestyle than previously thought:

Young ultra-Orthodox people are leaving Haredi society at a faster rate than expected, according to data published by the research and strategy division of the nonprofit Yotzim L’shinui.

An estimated 15.3 percent of young Haredi men and 11.9% of young Haredi women leave ultra-Orthodox society by the age of 30, the figures, based on data from Israel’s latest population census, showed.

Several months ago, Yotzim L’shinui, which provides resources for Haredim seeking to integrate into broader society, said in its annual report that the departure rate stood at 13.5% for men and 9.6% for women.

The earlier figure was based on an annual Social Survey conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics based on a sample of several thousand people, while the updated number comes from more detailed data published in the national census, conducted once a decade and covering a sample of over 15% of the population, the organization said.

The data “serves as a wake-up call to all decision-makers regarding the scope of the phenomenon and the urgent need for a national program that will help this population integrate into society in the best possible way,” said Adar Anisman, head of Strategy and Research at Yotzim L’Shinui.

Yotzim L’Shinui, along with several other organizations, is calling on the government to adopt a comprehensive national program to help those leaving the community obtain education, enter the workforce, serve in the military and contribute to society.

I think this is a very good sign, and will hopefully one day lead to a better society with less strife than what extremist clans like the "Jerusalem Faction" and even Neturei Karta have led to. I wish all those leaving the lifestyle good luck, and also wish the organization good luck helping them integrate into society.

Trump endorses Netanyahu

Donald Trump has announced his support for Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli election, which will take place next week:

President Donald Trump endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection, describing him as having “been strong, brave, and brilliant.’

In a post on Truth Social, Trump addressed a letter to the people of Israel and warned that “if Israel has the wrong Leader,” which is someone other than Netanyahu, the United States will have to do the job of fighting Iran by itself.

“Bibi Netanyahu has been a Great Warrior Prime Minister, and an even greater Partner for Peace in combatting the Islamic Republic of Iran, with its 51 year old chant, ‘Death to Israel, Death to America! We will destroy the Little Satan and the Big Satan,” Trump wrote. “What Country can survive when things such as this are allowed to be said, because eventually, they always end up being true?”

Trump continued, pointing out that “it would have been only a question of time until Iran would have put that ominous phrase into effect.”

“But they have been systematically destroyed, both Militarily and Financially, and unless they change their ways, rapidly, we will soon finish the job,” Trump continued. “If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so. Bibi Netanyahu has been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant in the face of tremendous opposition, including that coming from even Israel, itself.”

I certainly hope this encourages and convices the Israeli public to vote for Netanyahu's Likud party. It's also important for the future of Europe.

10 embassies now in Jerusalem

Columbia's become the 10th foreign country to open an embassy in Jerusalem:

Colombia opened its new embassy in Jerusalem, Israel, on Wednesday thus fulfilling one of the campaign promises of conservative President Abelardo de la Espriella.

The opening of the facility restores Colombia’s decades-old friendly relations with Israel — undoing the unilateral rupture of diplomatic ties ordered by Marxist former President Gustavo Petro in 2024. Colombia has now become the tenth country to open its embassy in Jerusalem.

The ceremony took place on Wednesday morning (local Jerusalem time) and was presided over by Colombian Foreign Minister Omar Bula alongside his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa’ar, who described Wednesday as an important day not just for Jerusalem, but for Israel and Colombia’s relations.

Sa’ar, in a social media post, thanked President de la Espriella and recounted a past interaction that both shared in Buenos Aires in the past, when de la Espriella told him, “if I am elected President of the Republic, I will immediately move the Colombian embassy to Jerusalem.”

“He promised, and he delivered,” Sa’ar wrote.

“This is the tenth embassy to open in Jerusalem. Since I took office less than two years ago, the number of embassies in Jerusalem has doubled,” he added. “There will be more, God willing, and soon.”

Well that's exactly why European governments are going to have to start considering there's no longer any point to refusing, because already, those countries who've opened their embassies in Jerusalem are making their dhimmitude into a moot point.

Barack Obama incites against Israel at Irish university

The leftist ex-president of the USA told anti-Israelists at an Irish university exactly what they wanted to hear:

Former US president Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Israel "took land off people and they were excessive," in reference to Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people throughout the history of the nation.

Obama made his comments while visiting Belfast, Northern Ireland, to receive an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast.

In a conversation with journalist Susan McKay, the former president referred to the Palestinians' reaction to the Jewish people's exerting cultural and military control over the State of Israel by explaining that "those people understandably said, 'This is injustice, and I want my land back.'"

Something Obama completely obscures in this disgraceful tommyrot of his is the question of whether men and women who commit murder and rape deserve any kind of sovereignty and whether they deserve to be politicians and be recognized as "leaders". Obama's proven he hasn't changed a bit in all the years since he was president, and continues to spread anti-Israel libels in even worse ways than when he was in office. And the university in Belfast even gives him an award he doesn't deserve. Which only proves how these types of honorary degrees and awards only exist today for leftist causes.

Ultra-Orthodox lead to Shabbat wars

This article tells about the continuing sad hostility the Haredi clans in Israel have led to, all over Shabbat driving and there's other disturbing things they've done too:

Jerusalem on a Saturday, about an hour before the end of Shabbat. Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews block buses arriving in the capital from northern Israel with metal barriers — a routine move, part of the long-standing status quo. Hours earlier, protests at Cafe Basimta, and far away, in another city — Safed — clashes over operating buses for soldiers and civilians.

The night before, metal barriers were placed at the entrance to a mixed neighborhood in Bnei Brak, where secular and ultra-Orthodox residents live side by side. Within 24 hours, ultra-Orthodox activists tried to change long-standing arrangements in the name of Shabbat, with complete disregard for the wishes of others. And some people have simply had enough.

'Go live in Ramat Aviv for 5,200 shekels'

Friday evening, as Shabbat begins. Bnei Brak police are called by secular residents of the Writers’ Compound neighborhood, also known as Ayelet HaShahar, after construction waste containers are used to block the neighborhood’s main access road. Police arrive and remove the containers from the middle of the road, reopening the bridge. The truck driver who placed the construction waste containers is summoned for questioning. According to a police source, he said he had been hired by someone at the Bnei Brak municipality and believed everything was legal and authorized.

I should hope he's not going to take such jobs again entirely unquestioned. Suppose those containers made it hard for fire trucks to reach a burning building with people in danger there? Do they realize the serious dangers they're risking? And then:

Posters plastered around the neighborhood proclaim a religious ruling stating that “it is strictly forbidden to rent apartments in the neighborhood to people who are not ultra-Orthodox.”

One poster reads: “Everyone has an obligation to protest against anyone who breaches this barrier, because our very lives depend on it. There is no need to fear the prohibition against humiliating others and the like, and in this merit we will ensure that the place develops in Torah, holiness and the presence of the Divine.”

Another poster condemns the “phenomenon of secular tourists” who behave “in a manner inconsistent with our way of life, in immodest clothing.”

“Why are there areas in this country where I am not allowed to live?” another secular resident protested. “The ultra-Orthodox knew they were going to live in a mixed neighborhood, and now they want to take over the public space. It is time for us to fight for our right to live according to our values, and for the ultra-Orthodox to learn to respect their secular neighbors.”

What's disturbing about the first paragraph here is that it reeks of Islamic rulings that it's forbidden to sell homes to Jews. And then, as if things told couldn't get worse:

“Anyone who desecrates Shabbat does not belong to the Jewish people,” shouts one of the people detained by police in Egged Square in Safed, where for 11 consecutive Saturdays a religious conflict has been playing out between ultra-Orthodox and secular residents over buses leaving shortly before the end of Shabbat from the central bus station toward central Israel, without entering the city.

“Anyone who desecrates Shabbat is liable to death by stoning,” he continues. “When the Creator comes and gives punishment to all those who desecrate Shabbat, don’t be surprised afterward when what happened on Simchat Torah happens,” referring to the October 7 massacre.

“Those who desecrate Shabbat betray the Holy One, blessed be He. There is no permission in any form to desecrate Shabbat. Anyone who desecrates Shabbat risks a death sentence from the Creator,” said the Haredi demonstrator.

Read the whole article, but the above makes clear I for one have read enough. That anybody would say a horror as repulsive as October 7, 2023 was "deserved" over petty issues is virtually antisemitic as it's also gender-bigoted and stuff like that. This reeks of leftists in the USA who're now saying America "deserved" September 11, 2001. What next, will the monster who was arrested for acting disorderly go and meet with Hasan Piker? These Haredi clannists are practically acting as agents of leftists in the USA and Europe. And no doubt, they're well aware of what repugnant monsters they're making of themselves too. They do not belong in this country any more than many of the leftists here who've done similar damages.

Poll finds 4 in 10 young USA citizens support Islamic sharia

I rarely read the Federalist site now, because of how some writers like editor John Daniel Davidson leave a bad aftertaste, but the following report (via Jihad Watch and Front Page), which is favorable to Israel as well, tells the USA has a very sad case of whole generations who were indoctrinated into being Vladimir Lenin's "useful idiots":

A set of polls released this week by Our Republic and Rasmussen show a concerning trend among American youth, especially in light of recently revealed immigration numbers under Biden: A quarter of 18-35 voters polled would support a community implementing Sharia law as the legal code for the entire town, city, or state if the majority of residents living there desired its adoption.

Additionally, according to the Our Republic poll:

Overall, 21% of likely voters said they have a mostly or somewhat positive opinion of sharia, compared with 57% who have a negative opinion. Positive views were much higher among younger Americans, including 43% of voters ages 18–24 and 39% of those ages 25–29.

The reason American youth may be trending this way, according to Justin Haskins, president of Our Republic, is a lack of understanding about the “value [of] the Constitution and the protections it provides.”

It could also be that they lack appreciation of civilized values, and if it turns out they know more than we think about what Islam is like, they're actually okay with it.

Other findings from the same set of polls clarify the suspicion young people have of Israel, with 46 percent of voters ages 18–24 and 60 percent of those ages 25–29 reporting they would support a proposal “to completely dismantle Israel and replace it with a Palestinian-led nation in exchange for ending the war with Iran and providing the United States with lower oil and gas prices.”

Haskins does not believe that American youth who take these positions are necessarily committed Islamists, nor does he believe they are considering Sharia primarily “as an extension of religious liberty.” Rather, says Haskins, “the more important factor is that Muslims are widely perceived as an oppressed or marginalized group in the United States,” he says. “Within that framework, groups perceived as marginalized are often treated sympathetically without much scrutiny of what those groups or their belief systems actually teach.”

That's another chilling problem - they practically indoctrinated into taking predetermined positions, yet if and when it turns out some leftists get caught committing crimes, those who pretend they're not guilty complain the MSM is just cliche-hunting and never does any research. This is exactly why laws are badly needed to deal with such an issue as sharia. It wouldn't be shocking if the pro-sharia crowd they speak of is already willing to support imposing sharia in cities like Dearborn and Hamtramyck, Michigan. Also, if they're against the war on Iran's autocrats, that too speaks volumes, as does their hostility to Israel, and their potential desensitization/willingness to commit violence, the latter which is particularly offensive.

Now since we're on the subject, the Van Zandt County committee in Texas passed a resolution condemning sharia:

Van Zandt County Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday denouncing Sharia, making it the first Texas county to pass a resolution specifically addressing use of the Islamic religious code.

Van Zandt County Precinct 2 Commissioner Cliff Williams said he brought the resolution forward because of an 80-acre land purchase in southern Van Zandt County by a family with ties to Muslim youth organizations.

The resolution was inspired by a draft resolution introduced by Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, that denounces Sharia in the United States. Self’s resolution has not been passed by Congress.

While introducing the resolution, Williams explained how Sharia is practiced in various Muslim-majority countries.

“Sharia, as practiced by governments around the world, is more than a private devotion. It operates as a complete political and legal order,” he said. “Where states enforce it, the record speaks for itself. In Iran, women have been beaten in jail for uncovering their hair. In Pakistan, blasphemy laws have sent people to prison and stirred mobs against them on a single person’s accusation.”

Williams also discussed the treatment of women under some interpretations and applications of Sharia, saying a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s, her inheritance is half that of her brothers, and her ability to work, marry or travel can depend on a male guardian.

“It’s not American,” Williams said. “Compare that with what we hold as Americans and Texans. Every person stands equal before the law.”

This is also exactly why even abroad/overseas, we can't just stand idly by while Islam dominates anywhere else. And parents who really care have to start taking serious responsibility for what their children think and end up advocating.

Update: the surveys get worse, as the following from the Buckley Institute reveals there's a considerable number of undergraduate students who believe what Hasan Piker espoused:

Just weeks after the United States commemorated the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks, a new poll reveals more than one in five undergraduate students believe America deserved the attacks, while nearly half of all undergraduate students think physical violence is justified to stop so-called hate speech.

The Buckley Institute’s 2026 National Undergraduate Student Survey polled 803 American undergraduate students between September 5 and 14.

A shocking 22 percent agreed that America deserved 9/11, including 28 percent of liberal students. Notably, leftist streamer Hasan Piker — who campaigned with Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and cozies up to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — has said America deserved 9/11. Meanwhile, Aber Kawas, a Democratic Socialist of America member and nominee for the New York state Senate, has said that America brought on 9/11 because of capitalism, alleged white supremacy and racism, and alleged Islamophobia.

The poll also found that 45 percent of American college students believe physical violence can be justified to stop hate speech — among which 54 percent of liberals agree compared to 30 percent of conservatives.

“Interestingly, 72% of those who agree that physical violence can be justified to stop hate speech also agree that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment,” The Buckley Institute found.

Shortly after Charlie Kirk was murdered on a Utah college campus for his free speech, a YouGov survey conducted from September 10-12 asked respondent whether they think “it is ever justified for citizens to resort to violence in order to achieve political goals?” Twenty-five percent of respondents who identified as “very liberal” said it can be justified, while 17% of self-identified liberals said the same. Just nine percent of people who identify as either conservative or very conservative said it was justified.

Meanwhile, a recent poll conducted by the Center for Strategic Politics found “Democrats want Trump out by (almost) any means necessary” — including assassination.

Well this is also very chilling, and fully confirms why parents need to stop even sending their children to universities, even if they don't espouse this kind of garbage indoctrination. The influence of violence is a very grave issue that needs serious address everywhere, and Europe too is in sore need of it.

Defeatism in the 1990s

In this article, Dror Eydar talks about the Islamofascist horror engulfing Europe, and brings up something he was told about that occurred in Belgium during the 1990s:

A prominent professor once told me about a conversation he had with a Belgian colleague back in the 1990s. "Look at all the mosques springing up on every corner," he told him. "What will you do when the Muslims actually start taking over Belgium? How will you fight them?"

The Belgian, a devout Catholic, answered candidly: "We won't fight. We'll convert to Islam. They ruled Western Europe once before, so they'll rule it again." While the enemies of the West are prepared to sacrifice their lives to destroy Judeo-Christian civilization, European society is unwilling to pay a price to defend its freedom.

This reminds me of what was said about what the Christian leadership response could be to a movie based on Betty Mahmoody's horrifying experiences in Iran today. Do these people really lack that much confidence they're willing to literally sell out? Additionally terrifying is what the USA public's positions could be on this, recalling how, in a way, the surveys they led to crippled the military's ability to fight the war against Iran on the ground as much as in the air. If the Bush administration, pretentious as it was, was willing to fight Iraq on the ground, and they had no problem with that, why do they suddenly have a problem now, if it could be done the same way and just as effectively? Of course, let's not forget the horrible example Ronald Reagan set when he withdrew the army from Lebanon in 1983, and it's become largely Islamic since.

The incident aboard the flight from Dubai illustrates this principle. Thanks to the sacrifice and quick thinking of Yaniv Hayun, along with the courage of the Indian pilot and other Israeli passengers, many lives were saved and a catastrophe was averted, one that could have emboldened Islamist terrorism.

And if the pilot adheres to Hinduism, it indicates even they have a much more realist view of the need to be vigilant. So perhaps that's why Europeans who need a faith that can give them a reason to live should consider either Judaism or Hinduism? And if it's the former, it needs to be offered without demanding or even expecting the possible convert to follow what the ultra-Orthodox do. That would be a most utterly unsuitable way to handle things.

Trump administration is enabling exile of Christians from Syria

Catherine Salgado points to how Christians are disappearing from the middle east, and one part sticks out in particular for pondering:

Between the Islamic civil war in Syria and the current dictatorship under the genocidal Syrian President Abu Mohammad al-Golani (also known as Ahmed al-Sharaa) and his terrorist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, the Christian population of Syria has almost vanished. Within living memory, Lebanon was Christian; now it is mostly Muslim. In Iran and Iraq, ancient communities of Christians have shrunk almost to nonexistence. In Turkey, where Constantinople was once a glory of the Christian world, the Muslims have stolen Christian heritage and Christian lands. In Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and numerous other countries in the Middle East, Christians have disappeared or are barely hanging on. Gaza’s and Bethlehem’s Christian populations have dropped under Palestinian Authority control. This is the legacy of Islamic takeover. Israel stands out in the Middle East because its Christian population is actually growing. Christians can visit the holiest sites of our religion because of the Israeli government.

So as you see, Salgado doesn't hold back in her description of al-Sharaa, and she's right that the whole notion anything is literally improving for Christians in other parts of the middle east is mistaken. Let's also not forget what it's like in certain parts of Africa like Nigeria, which Trump has addressed, but lately hasn't done so as much, and that could be troubling too. Either way, that he would be willing to recognize an Islamofascist and approve of his becoming an autocrat in Syria is very disturbing, and does serious damage to the efforts to put an end to the Religion of Peace's tyrannical reign anywhere.

It's not enough that Israel be considered a place where Christianity can survive. Even other parts of the middle east and Europe have to count.

Haredi cult leader keeps up the victim-blaming tactics

"Rabbi" Dov Lando depises Zionists so much, he launches repellent attacks on them:

Rabbi Dov Lando, the leader of the Slobodka Yeshiva and a senior leader of the non-Hasidic Haredi community, was heard in a recording of a private conversation in his home in Bnei Brak leveling strong criticism against the religious Zionists.

The conversation, which was republished, addressed, among other issues, the question of how young haredi men should relate to the service and sacrifice of members of the Religious Zionist community, who combine Torah study with IDF service and combat.

"The confused people with the knitted kippot, we won't talk about them. They have their own theories, and it's difficult with them," Rabbi Lando said.

He later tied the killing of soldiers to his perception of Torah study. "Those who are killed, they were killed because we don't learn enough. We could save even more," he said. "They are killed because their rabbis teach them a distorted Torah. And they do a lot of what they do not to save people, but for the glory of the state. They kill people for glory."

Rabbi Lando later portrayed Torah students as the ones who defend the residents of Israel. "There is no explanation why Arabs don't join together to flood the entire land, and G-d forbid, annihilate us all. There is no explanation," he said, referring to the protection provided by Torah study.

A significant portion of his remarks focused on the very establishment of the State of Israel. Rabbi Lando argued that Jewish life in the Land of Israel could have existed even without an independent state and even raised the possibility of international or Arab rule.

“I don’t know what would have happened if, at the beginning, there had been no state and they had established some kind of UN rule here - the situation would have been excellent," he said. “It is possible to live without a state, to live well with the Arabs... It was quite good when Arabs ruled here; that was the best situation. The Arabs ruled, they were respected, and people did not interfere with them. Money was brought into the country, and Arabs like money."

Rabbi Lando also accused the Zionist movement of intensifying Arab hostility toward Jews. “They caused the Arabs to hate us. The Arabs were never good, but they had to be respected," he said. According to him, Zionism, which he said sought “to save the Jewish people," brought “the physical disasters, not only the spiritual ones, upon the Jewish people."

I think I've read enough. This man, who likely never served in the military or fought serious alongside his non-Haredi counterparts in defense of the country, has one of the most repellent, insufferable visions of what "outsiders" are like, and what makes this particularly damaging is the indoctrination he's inflicted upon his cult followers, who doubtless do nothing to question or argue with him. Also notice how he doesn't identify the enemies as Muslims, and Lando likely never learned a thing about what's inside the koran. Lando's decidedly a traitor who has desecrated the memory of October 7, 2023 victims, and shouldn't be recognized as a true leader at all.

What the hero who saved FlyDubai plane says about the incident

Here's some more about the hijacking incident on the FlyDubai plane that thankfully was thwarted:

The captain of the Flydubai jet targeted in Wednesday’s attempted hijacking said his co-pilot asked to pray just minutes before striking him from behind with a cockpit crash axe, as new evidence revealed the suspect’s apparent affinity for al-Qaeda and pro-al-Qaeda propaganda calling for further attacks on aircraft carrying Americans and Israelis.

Captain Smit Machchhar, who was badly wounded during the attack aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv, gave his most detailed account yet of the ordeal Saturday in a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“It was a normal flight,” Machchhar said, recalling that his co-pilot, 29-year-old Omani national Hamam al-Hammami, told him that he wanted to pray.

Machchhar said the request did not initially strike him as unusual and that he turned forward out of respect.

“Suddenly, after four or five minutes, there was a big blow to the back of my head,” he said.

“My first thought was that there was catastrophic damage to the aircraft,” Machchhar continued. “But after that, the blows kept coming, one after the other. That’s when I realized it’s not the aircraft, it’s the other guy who was in the cockpit with me.”

The United Arab Emirates’ attorney general revealed Saturday that Hammami had armed himself with the Boeing 737 MAX’s cockpit crash axe — an emergency tool kept aboard commercial aircraft — and attacked Machchhar before attempting to seize the flight controls in what Emirati authorities formally described as an attempted “terrorist attack.”

Badly injured and with his vision blurred by repeated blows to the head, Machchhar said he then felt the aircraft “sharply going down.”

He initially tried to open the cockpit door but was stopped by Hammami, who was also preventing crew members outside from entering with the door’s access code. Lying on the cockpit floor as he heard screams from the cabin, Machchhar said he summoned what strength he had left for one final attempt.

“I had one last fight left in me,” he said. “If I don’t do it, I’m going to die.”

Machchhar lunged for the door and managed to open it.

“People were waiting to pounce back, and take control, and the rest is what you know, sir,” he told Netanyahu.

He did the right thing. And thankfully lived to tell about it. Machchhar deserved many awards and accolades for his act of courage, and should also be promoted to more prominent jobs.

As for the terrorist himself, here's another part of his motivation besides the koran's indoctrination itself:

Al-Hammami, an Omani citizen, was born in the United Arab Emirates to an Omani father and Syrian mother and spent several years of his life in the UAE, according to CNN. An Israeli official and Saudi state media have confirmed his identity, according to the outlet.

CNN reviewed a LinkedIn profile bearing the name Hamam al-Hammami that said he worked at Oman Air for seven years, leaving in February 2025, before joining Royal Air Maroc in June 2025 and departing in January 2026. The page made no mention of Flydubai. The profile has since been deleted.

The suspect’s LinkedIn page reportedly said he studied at Buckinghamshire New University in England. A university source confirmed to CNN that a man by that name completed a three-year distance-learning course and graduated with a degree in aviation management in 2023. The outlet also reviewed a now-deleted X account that portrayed the Omani national as “deeply religious and misogynistic.”

In deleted posts, al-Hammami reportedly complained that his mother was having trouble finding him a bride willing to wear a niqab and give up her job once they were married.

“They all refused. Then my mother told them, ‘My son is a pilot,’ and they all suddenly agreed,” one post from February 2022 said, according to the outlet.

If he's still not married, I'm not sure what the drivel he wrote is about. He doesn't deserve to get married, and it's repulsive he'd expect a wife to don a niqab, and have no identity nor a job. This is another example of what's horrifyingly wrong with the Religion of Peace.

Here's more about what the hijacker used as a weapon on board:

The co-pilot accused of attacking his captain aboard an Israel-bound FlyDubai flight last week used the cockpit’s own emergency crash axe and was attempting a terrorist attack, United Arab Emirates authorities said Saturday.

UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi told the country’s state news agency that investigators had determined the co-pilot set out to commit a “terrorist act” aboard Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30. It was the first time officials had identified the weapon. Initial passenger accounts had reportedly pointed to a knife.

Large commercial aircraft generally carry a crash axe that crews can use to cut their way out of the cockpit during an emergency.

And that too is one of the most repugnant things about the hijacker. He should receive the death sentence, but who knows if he will? Even today, Saudi Arabia can't be overestimated on issues like these.

3 years since horrifying disaster

The third year since October 7, 2023 saw a memorial held today:

President Isaac Herzog on Monday morning opened the national day of remembrance for the events of October 7, 2023, by lowering the Israeli flag to half-mast at the President’s Residence.

The lowering of the flag symbolizes the collective national mourning of the State of Israel and its citizens. It honors the men, women, children, infants, elderly, civilians, and soldiers who were murdered or fell during the October 7 terrorist attack and the subsequent Swords of Iron War.

The day is also dedicated to honoring all those who were physically and emotionally wounded, and who continue to carry the deep scars of October 7 and the war.

Here's also an article about families sharing last messages of their beloved relatives. This marks a very sad day since the past 3 years.

Rotten leftist apple in France tries to defame Jordan Bardella

It appears the business of a man who's supposedly favorable to the Jewish community has followed in the footsteps of Britain's, when they refused to support Tommy Robinson earlier. Here, it's a case of the French-based Mediapart trying to defame Jordan Bardella of the National Rally party for antisemitism on social media, even though the primary founder of Mediapart did something very offensive himself:

Jordan Bardella on Tuesday categorically denied being the author, denouncing these messages as “crude forgeries.” He has filed a defamation lawsuit against Mediapart.

In a lengthy post published on X, Amichai Chikli called into question the outlet’s credibility in its coverage of the allegations against Jordan Bardella. He directly attacked Mediapart and its co-founder Edwy Plenel, who led it until 2024. The Israeli minister specifically references Plenel’s early writings in support of Black September, the Palestinian organization responsible for the hostage-taking at the 1972 Munich Olympics, during which eleven members of the Israeli team were killed.

Chikli also taook aim at Mediapart’s current president, Carine Fouteau, for her highly critical stance toward Israel and the way she characterized the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. The minister thus calls into question the outlet’s credibility in its coverage of the allegations against Jordan Bardella.

Chikli highlighted the National Rally president’s recent statements against Hamas and antisemitism. In particular, he recaleds Bardella’s visit to Israel last year, during which he went to the Nova Festival site and to communities near the Gaza Strip affected by the October 7 attack. He also highlighted Bardella’s speech during a conference in Jerusalem against antisemitism and his decision to cancel a speech in Washington after a gesture by Steve Bannon that Bardella deemed comparable to a Nazi salute.

For Amichai Chikli, the accusations against Jordan Bardella are part of a campaign to “destroy his reputation” led by a segment of the French left. “We have no confidence in those who spend their adult lives fighting the right of the small Jewish state to exist,” he wrote, before directly calling out those who, in his view, have in the past supported the perpetrators of the massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich.

I seem to recall noticing that years before, Mediapart was going after right-wing figures like Nicholas Sarkozy, and while he was otherwise a disappointment, right down to his being anti-Donald Trump, he's still peanuts in comparison with figures like the leaders of France Insoumise, and that Mediapart would only concern themselves with people like Sarkozy but not leftists like Jean Luc Melechon does speak volumes.

So I'm not accepting what Mediapart says about Bardella, and I hope Jewish leaders in France know better than to go along with this entirely at face value, mainly because one report stated Mediapart didn't explain how exactly they got the "dirt" on him.

And Chikli's right to point to how Bannon sadly wrecked his credibilities by being lenient on antisemitism and doing sick tricks like National Socialist salutes. That was simply repellent and in poor taste.

Self-haters give leftists in Europe exactly what they want at film festivals

Some survivors of October 7, 2023 are rightfully outraged at how 2 "documentarians" made a film hostile to Israel:

A confrontation broke out Thursday evening during a screening of the film NAZA in the Dutch city of Delft after the wife and mother of two Israelis murdered by Hamas during the October 7 massacre confronted the public about the film’s directors, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, and the assertions they reached during the documentary.

“Look me in the eyes," Sabine Taasa urged Abraham and Szor. "You’re talking about collateral damage? My husband and my son were murdered by Hamas. Where does this appear in your film?”

Taasa's husband, Gil, and one of her sons, Or, were murdered during the massacre. Additional children of hers were also wounded in the attack. She traveled to the screening in the Netherlands with members of Ad Kan, intending to protest the way the war is portrayed in the film and to share her family’s story with the audience.

"I came here to tell my story. My name is Sabine Tassa. I came from Israel to tell you the truth," she said.

According to footage shared by the Israeli organization Ad Kan, several audience members responded by shouting, “We don’t care,” “Shame on you,” and “We don’t want to hear.”

Dutch Party for Freedom founder and leader Geert Wilders slammed the audience members in a post to X/Twitter responding to the incident.

"The callousness is staggering," Wilders wrote. "Sabine Taasa survived the October 7 massacre. Her 17-year-old son was murdered at Zikim Beach. Her husband was killed shielding their two young sons from a grenade."

“'We don’t care.' That is their answer to her suffering."

"The truth means nothing to the Left. Its alliance with Islam is an expression of moral bankruptcy that threatens the future of the Netherlands and of our civilisation. A crowd can drown out a voice. Not the TRUTH," said Wilders.

In a later post, Wilders stated he hosted Taasa at the Dutch Parliament.

"Her 17-year-old son and her husband were killed. She is a strong and wise Israeli friend," he said. "I will always support Israel and fight Islamic terrorism. Never surrender."

Who knows if the festival in focus even ever screened documentaries about 9-11 and the Bataclan massacre with objective viewpoints? If they never have, that says more of what you need to know what's wrong with such festivals too. And the filmmakers who did a repulsive disservice to Israel should also be ashamed of themselves, and ostracized.

Nobody wants leftist/atheist actor Adam Brody if this is how he's going to act

Brody, the star of an unsurprisingly shoddy depiction of a "rabbi" on Netflix's Nobody Wants This, has decided he's taking the Moslem side against Israel:

A rabbi who served as a consultant on the first season of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” blasted the show’s lead actor, Adam Brody, in an Instagram video on Tuesday after the latter accused Israel of committing a genocide in the Gaza Strip.

In a new interview with GQ magazine, Brody, who is Jewish, spoke publicly for the first time about his thoughts on the Middle East conflict.

“Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” the “OC” star told the publication. “Put me down as wanting a free Palestine. It’s awful that it’s taken so much death and misery, but it does feel like it’s reaching a breaking point that it should have a while ago.”

Brody also said he wished for another presidential administration to “correct some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.”

Brody previously described himself to The New York Times as “not religious at all, a nonbeliever.” He told the same publication he “barely got bar mitzvahed and retained nothing from it.” [...]

Rabbi Steve Leder said he was the “technical advisor” for season one of “Nobody Wants This.” His job was to ensure that the show portrayed Judaism and Brody’s rabbi character authentically and respectfully. In an Instagram video, Leder, who is also the former senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in California, said Brody’s accusation about a genocide in Gaza was “truly shocking.”

“Not only because of your misuse and mischaracterization of the word genocide, there is no genocide in Gaza, there are genocides in other countries happening, but you failed to mention any of them,” Leder said. “You by your own admission are a relatively ignorant Jew and your ignorance really showed the other day.”

“And by the way, being so flippant about a word like genocide, is disgusting,” he added. “Here’s some more technical advice: If you know nothing about something, you should say nothing about it.”

The problem is, it doesn't look or sound like Leder's technical advice actually made it into the final drafts of the teleplay. At least he condemns shoddy Brody for his apparent self-hatred stance. His Netflix program is decidedly something we don't want to view at all, and his far-left, pro-Islam politics are insufferable.

A close call on a flight from Dubai

A Muslim pilot working on FlyDubai heading for Israel tried to commit martyrdom suicide to bring down Israelis inside, and thankfully, passengers aboard managed to thwart him, as did extra pilots aboard:

A flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was diverted to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for an emergency landing after a “brawl” between the pilots.

Off-duty pilots on board the Boeing 737 saved over 170 Israeli passengers when they stepped up to take control on the bloodied flight deck as other passengers ran towards a man who had a knife. [...]

AP reports passengers on the plane told Israel’s Channel 12 by phone they heard shouts from other travelers in the forward cabin during the altercation, saying the plane dipped steeply before landing in Saudi Arabia.

The Flydubai plane is now known to have descended 17,400 feet in just over two minutes during the flight deck fracas.

Israeli fighter jets were launched after the emergency signal was sent, a military spokesperson said, per a CNN report. [...]

An Israeli passenger on board has told journalists the crew asked for help and that passengers then helped tackle one of the pilots and tie him down.

In an interview with Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, a female passenger described the “very stressful” moment people on board realised the plane was rapidly descending.

“We understood the pilots lost control,” she says, recounting terrified screams from passengers.

She told the outlet one pilot suffered serious stab wounds before the attacker could be dragged away.

“There are people here with shirts covered in blood,” she said adding: “Now we are fine and want to return home.”

This was certainly miraculous. Benjamin Netanyahu warned a short time ago there could be terrorist attacks prior to elections, and this definitely confirms the danger is around. Here's more on the incident:

"Citizens of Israel, this morning there was an extremely serious security incident on a flight from Dubai to Israel. Almost all of the passengers on the flight were Israelis. During the flight, as they approached Israel, one of the pilots stabbed the other pilot, and apparently he tried to crash the plane with everyone on board," Netanyahu said.

The Prime Minister said he spoke with one of the Israeli passengers aboard the aircraft and heard from him about the dramatic moments during the incident.

According to Netanyahu, the passenger told him that the aircraft went into a spin and began to dive. The passenger managed to break into the cockpit together with a crew member, and the two neutralized the pilot who carried out the stabbing as he was attempting, according to the Prime Minister, to sabotage the aircraft's systems.

Another flight crew that was aboard the plane then entered the cockpit and managed to stabilize the aircraft.

"I salute these heroes, who displayed extraordinary resourcefulness and courage," Netanyahu said. "They saved many lives and prevented a major disaster."

The Prime Minister said the aircraft landed safely at an airport in Saudi Arabia and that all of the passengers were out of danger.

He added that the pilot who carried out the stabbing had been arrested and was currently being questioned by Saudi authorities. According to Netanyahu, Israel is in continuous contact with the relevant authorities in an effort to ensure the passengers' safety and their return to Israel.

Concluding his remarks, Netanyahu also addressed the possibility of additional threats, saying he had instructed the security establishment to prepare for other potential threats.

"We are conducting ongoing situation assessments, and we will update you in accordance with developments," he said.

As lucky as this was, I still wouldn't FlyDubai myself, since it's rather apparent they can't seem to prevent Muslim moles from infiltrating and answering the call of jihadism. If I ever fly abroad, I'll hopefully find better companies.

Update: the lesson as explained here is that one shouldn't mess with Zionists.

The USA Girl Scouts sell out to Islam

Without a doubt, the Boy Scouts have too, but for now, what's really chilling is how the Girl Scouts have done exactly that:

[SADLER] We’re going to talk about something about the Girl Scouts and trouble within the Girl Scouts, in a column that Maggie wrote for us. Maggie, I’m going to let you jump right into this, because when I was reading the column, I could not believe this was actually happening. But the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts, they just keep stepping in it, in terms of the wokeism. So describe to me your column, the problems and the concerns that you have with the Girl Scouts.

[MCKNEELY] This is such a crazy and troubling story. The Girl Scouts was founded back in 1912 to help empower women. This was back before women had the right to vote. And so this organization was started to help enable women to go pursue their dreams, pursue careers they thought they would be best at, and to enable and encourage their talents. And yet now, fast forward to 2026, and we have the Girl Scouts giving a platform to Islam, a religion that does not allow women to even have their hair uncovered.

For most of the Girl Scouts’ history, a lot of the troops — you can have freestanding troops, but you can also have Girl Scout troops that are sponsored by a church, by a cathedral, or a synagogue. But apparently you can also have troops that are sponsored by a mosque. And so there was a recent report that came out recently that showed that there are a lot of troops that are not just encouraging girls to deepen their Islamic faith, but also to share it with the non-Muslim communities. So there’s now an organization called the Islamic Community of Girl Scouting. And what they have done is create a number of badges related to Islam. So you can be the Girl of Islamic Faith, which requires a number of steps to go through to get this badge, to be the Girl of Islamic Faith. But what’s more insidious is that there are also badges related to sharing Islam. Like, you can get a Share Ramadan With Your Friend badge. You can get all sorts of badges related to actually sharing Islam with the non-Muslim community.

And a number of these troops are also putting on events to share Islam. There was a troop out in Sacramento that had an event to bring the non-Muslim community in, and they had things like a try-on-a-hijab booth or a learn-about-Palestine booth to create empathy — I’m using air quotes there — with the Palestinian cause.

It seems really endemic. We’re seeing this all across the nation. It’s not just California. We’re seeing it in Virginia and Florida and New York and Indiana. So it is — it’s all over the place. And it’s just really troubling because it’s such a departure from what the Girl Scouts was originally meant to be.

[SADLER] And the proselytizing, that’s the other thing. It’s not only if you visit a mosque you get a badge — it’s how many people can you convert? Are there similar badges for the Catholics? Is there similar badges for the Baptists, for the evangelicals? Is there similar badges for the Jews?

[MCKNEELY] No, no, there’s not. There’s no Share Communion With Your Friend, no Have Shabbat With Your Friend badge. This seems to be specific just to the Islamic-sponsored troops.

[SADLER] And it’s just really incompatible. Islam is incompatible with Western values. As you mentioned, there is no freedom of religion for women in Islamic countries — in Iran, in Afghanistan. If you look at Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women can’t even get an education. They are subject to childhood marriage at around nine years old, before they even mature. They’re already sold off from their families to a man who could have multiple wives — not even, not even one wife.

Without a doubt, the Islamic movements with Girl Scout charters are under no obligation in any way to accomodate LGBT ideology. It's only the Judeo-Christian movements that are, and even the Buddhist/Hindu/Shinto movements, if there are any in the USA with Scout charters. This is absolutely awful, and one of the leading reasons many families have hopefully distanced themselves from the Girl Scouts movement itself, and shifted to movements like the American Heritage Girls, a similar movement I heard of years ago. No more Girl Scout cookies, and I've got a bad feeling there's quite a few charters that're now making halal cookies, as if things weren't bad enough.

Holland's left-wing government imposes sanctions on goods made in Judea/Samaria, causing serious offense

Following Britain's own hypocrisies, the Netherlands has also acted offensively, taking actions that only legitimize what even Geert Wilders and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have been in danger of, and now, Israeli government officials have had to respond accordingly:

Israeli officials are tired of being the target of European sanctions when the problems in Judea and Samaria are all caused by Palestinian terrorists, not by Israelis rightfully living on their ancient land.

As I have explained many times, the so-called Palestinians have no right to own Judea and Samaria, which was part of the land that God gave from the river to the sea to the Jewish people as a perpetual possession thousands of years before the invention of Islam (Genesis 17:8, Joshua 1:4). Furthermore, modern Israelis have generously given certain towns to the Palestinians, such as Bethlehem, which only resulted in those towns becoming hotbeds of terrorist activity and anti-Christian persecution. Right around the time that Palestinians committed multiple attacks, including at least one deadly shooting, in Judea and Samaria, the UK and Dutch governments punished the Israeli government, as if it were the cause of the violence instead of fundamentalist Islam.

Gideon Sa’ar, minister of foreign affairs for Israel, announced on September 27, “Following the entry into force last week of an order banning the import and sale of products from Judea and Samaria, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, we informed the Dutch Embassy in Israel this evening that Dutch diplomats operating in Ramallah must return their Israeli-issued diplomatic documentation within seven days. After this period, the diplomatic privileges and immunities granted to them by the State of Israel will expire.”

Such actions are long overdue. Why should Israel continue to host representatives of governments that have done everything possible to vilify and undermine Israel on the world stage? Why should Israel give diplomatic immunity to allies of its deadly enemies?

One of the saddest things about this scandal is that now, plenty of Israelis will likely boycott Dutch products like the Merba pastry brand, and from what I know, the USA ambassador Mike Huckabee told there's members of a Christian movement he knows who've been subject to this as well. The left-wing government now running Holland is definitely contributing in their own way to a very sad decline of civilization in Europe.

Update: here's also Israel's response to Britain's foreign secretary Ed Miliband:

Miliband previously drew a sharp response from Israel after announcing a ban on imports from Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria following Israel's issuance of construction tenders in the E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim.

In response, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced a series of measures against Britain. Israel said it would close the British Consulate in Jerusalem, remove British representatives from the International Gaza Support Center in Kiryat Gat and end British training activities for Palestinian Authority forces in Judea and Samaria under the “British Support Team in Ramallah." Israel also said it would bar 12 British elected representatives and other British nationals from entering the country over alleged antisemitic and anti-Israel activity or denial of Israel's existence.

Miliband's got a long record of these abominations too, and now, he's being just as repellent as his Dutch counterparts.

Update 2: what's also fascinating about the Dutch government's tactics is that, despite their supposed positions, they still end up targeting Arab residents:

There is just one catch. A review of the European Union's official postal code document, the operational backbone for Dutch customs and enforcement authorities, showed that officials in The Hague are no experts on the geography of the Land of Israel. Leaning on postal codes alone including Arab, Druze, and Christian communities, as well as residents who live within pre-1967 borders. The reason for the decision to blindly follow the EU table is unclear, but it could stem from the fact that Dutch law prohibits the specific targeting of communities based on ethnicity or religion; hence resorting to geography provides an easy way out. [...]

A review of the rest of the document's provisions showed that Dutch blindness does not stop at the Judea region, and it did not spare non-Jewish communities either, for instance in the Golan. The Druze and Alawite towns of Majdal Shams, Buq'ata, Mas'ade and Ein Qiniyye (Druze towns in the Golan Heights), all made the blacklist, alongside the Alawite village of Ghajar (an Arab village straddling the Israel-Lebanon border that was conquered together with the Golan in 1967). Apples, olives and other agricultural produce from these areas now fall under the Dutch trade ban.

Neve Shalom, the Jewish-Arab cooperative village founded to promote coexistence, also made the list, though it landed in the second tier requiring special customs checks rather than an outright ban because it is on the Green Line. Latrun Monastery, the well-known Trappist monastery (an order of monks bound by a vow of silence) in the Latrun area, which belongs to the Cistercian Christian order and produces wine and oil, was also included on the list requiring review.

Nof Ayalon and Sha'alvim, communities near the Green Line in the Ayalon Valley (an area in central Israel), were also flagged under the special review category.

The Dutch move has drawn sharp reactions in Jerusalem. Israel's Foreign Minister recently stripped Dutch representatives working with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah of their diplomatic status and immunities. Israeli exporters, meanwhile, must now produce detailed supply chain paperwork to prove their goods do not come from the flagged postal codes.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee was not indifferent to the new draconian sanctions either, writing on X, "There were some people from Netherlands in our church this [Sunday] morning who are flying back tomorrow and have to check their souvenirs to make sure they aren't from Judea and Samaria, [since that could bring] a possible six year prison term. A Nativity scene set from Bethlehem could put you in prison! Insane!"

It's disgusting, and requires serious response from the USA too.

Sydney Sweeney would make a perfect representative for Judaism, if she converts

Actress Sydney Sweeney's rumored to be considered a conversion to Judaism, based on her relationship with music producer Scooter Braun:

Hollywood's most talked-about romance of the year keeps generating headlines, and this time the story has taken a distinctly Jewish turn. According to rumors, "Euphoria" and "The White Lotus" star Sydney Sweeney is weighing a dramatic, life-changing step for her partner, successful Jewish American music producer Scooter Braun – conversion.

The conversion rumors surfaced after the popular gossip account Deuxmoi reported that the Emmy-nominated, 29-year-old actress was spotted at synagogue with Braun during Rosh Hashanah prayers. People close to the couple say Sweeney is head over heels in love and is eager to build a Jewish home with him.

It would be a striking shift for Sweeney, who was raised in a devout, conservative Christian household. Braun, 45, by contrast, comes from a Conservative Jewish family, grew up keeping kosher, and is the grandson of Holocaust survivors. Reports suggest Sydney's push to fast-track both the wedding and the conversion has unsettled her Christian family, who are wary of just how quickly the relationship has moved.

In less than a year: sharing a home

Since October 7, Braun has been considered one of the most prominent and outspoken pro-Israel voices in the American entertainment industry, and he has managed to bring his partner along with him. In January 2026, Sweeney touched the Jewish and Israeli community when she met in Los Angeles with Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or, the couple kidnapped together from the Nova festival, who survived prolonged Hamas captivity before their release.

A photo circulated by the advocacy group StandWithUs showed Sweeney smiling as she embraced Noa and Avinatan warmly. The encounter, made possible by Braun's close relationship with the pair, won her praise from Israel's supporters even as pro-Palestinian users online pushed back with criticism and boycott calls. Sweeney did not let the backlash rattle her.

Again, Sweeney's an amazing girl, based on her solidarity with Israelis, and if she converts, she could become what the Judaist movement needs: a sex symbol in entertainment. Of course, to convert, she should not have adhere to any dress code or wear a wig like a Columbian soap opera start did when she converted. By doing that, she not only validated propaganda that being beautiful is somehow inherently wrong, in and out of marriage, she was also erasing her national history. And that's wrong. So I hope any rabbis who oversee a conversion for Sweeney will do it in a way that respects her ethnic/national heritage, along with her God-given gifts. That's the real way to manage the Judaist religion.

A former Neturei Karta member who was lucky to leave

Here's an interview with the son of a Neturei Karta family who got shunned, and is lucky that's what happened:

If Moshe Avraham had been asked a decade ago what his life would look like at 22, it is unlikely he would have imagined where he is today. He has completed his high school education, trained in electrical work, holds a steady job and is in a relationship. This Sukkot, instead of searching for somewhere to sleep, he will spend the holiday with his partner and her family.

Getting there took years. Avraham grew up in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood in the extremist ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta community. His parents were divorced and he had no relationship with his father. “The community was very extreme. We would throw things at police officers,” he recalled.

From childhood, he said, he was taught to be suspicious of nearly everyone outside that world: the military, state institutions and even Zionist Haredi Jews. Then, when he was 13, his own home was suddenly closed to him.

After his family moved from Mea Shearim to Jerusalem’s Romema neighborhood, Avraham began spending more time outside the house. He also secretly acquired a cellphone. “One day my family found out,” he said. “They told me, ‘From now on, neither you nor the phone are coming into this house.’ They locked the door, and that was it. I had nobody to talk to. I banged hard on the door and there was no answer. They never opened the door for me again.”

He was actually lucky. It certainly seems to be an important example of how somebody woke up to how bad a cult that could be described as comprised of the most anti-semitic "Jews" is such a bad influence. To be sure, that the dad didn't have a serious presence in his life is what enabled the Karta kreeps to exploit him so badly.

That was the beginning of a period of homelessness. Avraham slept in bomb shelters, in bathrooms at Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station, camped in a forest and occasionally stayed with friends.

When Sukkot arrived the following year, he still had no home. “I was 14 and I had nowhere to be,” he said. “I wandered the streets, and then I found a sukkah in Sacher Park. My sister and I slept there.”

Was she also kicked out? If so, she's lucky too.

The holiday has carried a painful double meaning for him ever since. “For me, Sukkot has been a trauma ever since, because it is basically the story of my whole life: I didn’t have a home. I had nowhere to be,” Avraham said. “Everyone goes out for the holiday dressed in white, dressed nicely, and you’re the only strange one. You can’t understand what that feels like.”

That same year, welfare authorities found him and assigned him a social worker. “He told me, ‘Listen, you can’t live on the street. I want you to have a warm bed,’” Avraham recalled.

That intervention eventually brought him to Otot, an Israeli nonprofit that operates shelters, homes and support programs for young people at risk. But accepting help was not easy. At Etnahta, one of the nonprofit’s programs for at-risk youth, Avraham said everything initially felt foreign and threatening because of the worldview in which he had been raised.

“But from the first moment, I was shocked,” he said. “They offered me food. They changed my sheets. I grew up being taught to hate Zionists and secular people in general. We were afraid to enter their institutions, and in the end I was treated wonderfully there.”

And this is how they proved to him they're not the menace the Neturei Karta indoctrinated their subjects into seeing them as. Thank goodness the guy was able to see the light, brought to him by saner people.