David Isaac

(JNS) - Under a law meant to crack down on those cooperating with Israel and other states, Iran this week published a list of networks, media personalities and others it deems hostile to its regime.

Share (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Sid Rosenberg, host of 77 WABC radio’s “Sid & Friends in the Morning,” that he was in “tatters” over the sudden death of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

The national platform, meant to guide the party for the next three years, calls for an end to the “occupation" and condemns "extremist settler violence."

Describing the move as “unprecedented and highly controversial,” Israel's Foreign Ministry said it ties “the hands of his successor” and degrades the U.N.'s “rules-based order.”

David Isaac Jul 27, 2026 Posted 17 mins ago at 9: 05 AM Israel's Foreign Ministry has condemned United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for reappointing Volker Turk, his former policy chief, for a second term as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday. Describing the move as “unprecedented and highly controversial,” Israel's Foreign Ministry said it ties “the hands of his successor” and degrades the UN's “rules-based order.” “By extending the mandate of an OHCHR that erased the atrocities of Oct. 7, misused funds, and betrayed UN neutrality in favor of corrupt political radicalism, Guterres cements, for years to come, the deeply politicized legacy of his tenure,” the Ministry posted to X on July 24. Guterres, who is nearing the end of his 10-year term, nominated Turk, an Austrian attorney and U.N. careerist, without public discussion. The U.N. General Assembly voted 144-10 with 13 abstentions in favor of his reappointment on Friday. Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, a human rights NGO, told JNS: “The U.N.'s rubber-stamp renewal of Volker Turk for an unprecedented second four-year term was a quiet, last-minute maneuver by Secretary-General Guterres, pushed through with minimal scrutiny, no open call for candidates, and no public debate." “No independent human rights figures endorsed him; on the contrary. That China and so many other human rights abusers backed the extension is the clearest verdict on his record: he never spoke out with the courage the job demands,” he said. Turk earned the ire of Israel for adopting wholesale the libels spread against it during the Gaza war. In a Sept. 8, 2025, address to the U.N. Human Rights Council, he condemned “Israel's mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza”; its hindering of aid and “the ensuing starvation of civilians”; “its killing of journalists, U.N. staff and NGO workers;” and “its commission of war crime upon war crime.” Just over a week later, on Sept. 16, 2025, Turk condemned Israel's airstrike against a Hamas compound in Doha as “a shocking breach of international law, an assault on regional peace and stability, and a blow against the integrity of mediation and negotiating processes around the world.” He then demanded that U.N. member states stop the flow of arms to Israel “that risk violating the laws of war.” Associated Press reported. The United States also opposed Turk's reappointment. “Make no mistake, if this assembly tolerates procedural overreach, backroom deals and the misuse of U.N. posts, there will be consequences,” U.S. deputy ambassador to the U.N. Jeff Bartos warned before the vote, AP reported. “The United States will immediately reassess our engagement, participation and funding,” he said. Explaining America's opposition, Neuer said, “According to a U.N. Watch study of his first two years, Turk condemned the United States more often than China, North Korea, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Qatar combined. “He stayed completely silent on gross abuses by Cuba, North Korea, Algeria, Eritrea, Mauritania, Lebanon and Qatar, never once mentioned the mass imprisonment of more than a million Uyghurs, and issued dozens of statements against Israel while soft-pedaling or ignoring the world's worst dictatorships. “A high commissioner who mutes his voice to please the powerful has already failed the victims he was appointed to defend,” Neuer said. How do you feel about this article? Choose from the options below. (0 Ratings)

In an uncharacteristically emotional outburst by the party leader, Abbas refused to directly answer the question repeatedly posed to him by interviewer Esti Perez-Ben Ami: “Can you say unequivocally, clearly, that Hamas is a terrorist organization that massacred Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs, on Oct. 7, [2023] and needs to be eliminated?”

The justices said they would issue a final ruling soon after hearing arguments against the legislation, which temporarily blocks arrests of yeshivah students who evade military service.

“This application is legally flawed, evidentially deficient, and procedurally defective,” the judge said.

Foxtrot, a Swedish gang, looks for kids as young as 13 for missions. One online group, “Samurai Kids,” included up to 11,000 members.