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@NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani threatened to arrest Netanyahu. He had no authority to. So he released a propaganda video instead — declaring Netanyahu a "war criminal" and "architect of genocide" without a single conviction, without a single ruling. He's never once called for Hamas leaders' ICC warrants to be enforced. Never mentioned October 7, the hostages, the sexual violence. His own administration reportedly tried to arrange a meeting with Iran's UN ambassador — during an active war with Iran. Since taking office he's made 10+ public statements on Israel, Gaza, and Iran. Zero on crime, housing, or the city he was actually elected to run. This isn't foreign policy. It's a preview of what happens when anti-American ideologues capture American institutions. by @emilykschrader 👇 emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Mamdani #NYC #Israel #Iran #Antisemitism
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CENTCOM says the IRGC "has no navy" and the US "clearly controls" Hormuz. The same day, a Singapore-flagged container ship sank there, one of four merchant ships struck. Since October 1, there have been 24 attack warnings in the strait, and six ships were hit in a single day. Kpler counted 2.9 million barrels moving through the strait on October 11, not the 22 million claimed days earlier. Then Trump announced: "We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the midterm elections." Telling the enemy your military timetable follows the domestic calendar invites exactly this. Messaging isn't control. Finish the job. By @emilykschrader — 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Hormuz #Iran #CENTCOM #Trump
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Hours before he was hanged, 25-year-old Alireza Sepahi married his fiancée, Mahshad Keshani, herself a political prisoner, over a prison phone line. He was arrested in Isfahan during the January uprising, tortured, and sentenced to death. He was executed on October 5. When his lawyer spoke publicly about the wedding, the regime arrested the lawyer. Since September 30, rights groups have recorded more than 30 named executions across Iran. Jaber Khosravi, a man with documented severe mental illness, was hanged without his family being told. Ali Sina Mostafavi, a 38-year-old mountaineer and musician, was hanged this week. Najmeh Amini, a 23-year-old accounting student, is sentenced to death over a social media post. This is death by a thousand executions. A mass hanging would bring sanctions. A steady drip, one or two at a time, spread across provinces and timed between news cycles, keeps every Iranian terrified while handing Western governments nothing "big enough" to act on. The regime has calibrated its killing to the West's attention span. 46 countries signed a joint statement condemning the executions. The hangings continued. Governments still hosting this regime's diplomats are lending legitimacy it has never earned. Are we really going to keep watching and call it diplomacy? By @emilykschrader — 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Iran #FreeIran #HumanRights #Executions
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On September 8, Britain sanctioned Israelis in Judea and Samaria and assumed nothing would come of it. Israel ordered the UK's East Jerusalem consulate shut within 30 days. This week it was finalized: twenty British diplomats, the consul-general among them, are leaving. The building survives as a "UK Mission" with seven staff. London threatened to expel 27 Israeli diplomats unless Israel backed down. Israel didn't. Britain folded, kept every Israeli diplomat in London, and took the loss of twenty of its own. Israel also ended British training of Palestinian Authority security forces, removed UK personnel from the Gaza support centre, and barred 12 British MPs from entering the country. Two of those moves hit programs Britain itself runs for Palestinians. And Britain gets far more from this relationship than it gives. Mossad intelligence led MI5 to 3.5 tons of ammonium nitrate Hezbollah had stockpiled in northwest London. Netanyahu says Israel warned Britain of the Iranian-sponsored plot near RAF Fairford, and Downing Street hasn't publicly thanked him. What did the sanctions accomplish? No settlement dismantled, no behavior changed. Britain spent a diplomatic post and its credibility as an honest broker. London confused a press release with leverage. By @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Israel #UK #Jerusalem #Miliband
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I came to London for the third anniversary of October 7. On the anniversary itself, the Met Police let a student march go ahead in Russell Square, and another protest gathered outside the Board of Deputies. The Met said it had no power to stop it, but this is a force that arrests people over social media posts all the time. Three days later, several thousand marched in the national Palestine Coalition protest, many waving the flag of the Islamic Republic and carrying portraits of Khamenei. Right beside them: "Queers for Palestine," marching next to the fan club of a regime that hangs gay men from cranes. None of it was spontaneous. Fox News found the day of action was coordinated by the Global Alliance for Palestine, with Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, and Gerry Adams on its steering committee: 179 groups, 322 events over three days, ready-made placards in seven languages. The Singham network and CodePink are in the mix. Meanwhile, 700+ French schools have seen riots and 5,000 arrests, and only 15 of the 50 groups driving them are actually student groups. British Jews are scared, and they came out anyway, standing behind police lines with their flags. That takes courage when your own government won't stand up for you. By @emilykschrader — 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #London #Israel #Antisemitism #October7
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Tucker Carlson spent three years building a show where every guest agrees with him. Then he sat down with Jacob Rees-Mogg. Carlson insisted Russia's economy is bigger than Britain's. It isn't. Rees-Mogg told him it's about two-thirds of the UK's. Carlson said he "never understood why fight the Second World War in the first place" and claimed "the idea that Hitler just randomly rolled into Poland is a lie." When Rees-Mogg pointed out Britons would otherwise be speaking German, Carlson answered: "Who cares?" Rees-Mogg's reply: he seemed to be "verging on defending Hitler." Carlson joked he's "hardly a public Nazi." The history Carlson skipped: Britain helped negotiate Versailles, then handed Hitler the Sudetenland at Munich. Six months later he seized the rest of Czechoslovakia. The SS had already compiled a list of nearly 3,000 people in Britain to arrest after occupation. Britain's Jews would have shared the fate of the six million on the continent. That's what "who cares?" means. And the alliance Carlson mocks? Britain answered NATO's only Article 5 call after 9/11. 457 British service members died in Afghanistan for America. By @emilykschrader — 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #TuckerCarlson #WWII #Britain #Antisemitism
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سه سال پیش، ۱۲۰۰ اسرائیلی در یک روز به قتل رسیدند و ۲۵۱ نفر به غزه برده شدند. امروز، جهان یهود برای خواندن نام کشته‌شدگانش گرد هم می‌آید. و همان روز، گروه‌های معترض در سراسر جهان تجمع برگزار می‌کنند. دانشجویان در لندن با شعار «فلسطین آزاد از رودخانه تا دریا» راهپیمایی می‌کنند. پلیس متروپولیتن از آن‌ها خواست تاریخ دیگری انتخاب کنند. دانشجویان یهودی هم همین را خواستند. نپذیرفتند. در تورنتو مراسمی با عنوان «بزرگداشت شهدای ما» درست در روز ۷ اکتبر برگزار می‌شود. دست‌کم ۷۵ تجمع حامی فلسطین در سراسر جهان برای این سالگرد برنامه‌ریزی شده است. سال گذشته در نیویورک، فعالان با پرچم حماس و نامی که خود حماس بر این کشتار گذاشته بود راهپیمایی کردند، و گروهی در برانکس برای یحیی سنوار مراسم یادبود گرفت. فلسطینی‌ای که بخواهد برای کشته‌شدگان غزه سوگواری کند، ۳۶۴ روز دیگر فرصت دارد. انتخاب این روز سوگواری نیست؛ جشن گرفتن رنج یهودیان است. غم آن‌ها همان هدف است. @emilykschrader emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #۷_اکتبر #اسرائیل #یهودستیزی #فراموش_نمی‌کنیم #October7
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Three years ago, 1,200 Israelis were murdered in a single day. 251 were dragged into Gaza. This Wednesday, the Jewish world sits down to read their names. And across the world, protest groups have scheduled rallies for that same day. London students are marching from King's College to UCL under "Palestine free from the river to the sea." The Met Police asked them to pick another day. Jewish students asked them to pick another day. They refused. In Toronto, a group is holding "Honoring Our Martyrs" on October 7th itself. Watchdogs count at least 75 protests planned worldwide for the anniversary. Last year in New York, activists marched under "Flood NYC for Gaza" — Hamas's own name for the massacre — and a group in the Bronx held a vigil for Yahya Sinwar. A Palestinian who wants to mourn the dead of Gaza has 364 other days to do it. Choosing this one isn't mourning. It's a day to gloat, and the grieving is the point. Imagine Jews gathering outside mosques on Eid. There'd be no debate about what that was. By @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #October7 #Israel #Antisemitism #NeverForget
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The copilot of FZ1073 confessed. He told investigators he intended to crash the plane in Israel. Oman had already pulled him from flight training over extremist views. He was found with jihadist material in 2024, including "Free Palestine" leaflets, and CNN found deleted Instagram posts full of jihadist imagery featuring Zawahiri. None of that stopped the internet from deciding it was staged. Marjorie Taylor Greene questioned why oxygen masks dropped — they drop from cabin depressurization, not a dive. People insisted the cockpit door couldn't have opened mid-struggle — except Captain Smit Machchhar himself told CNN he forced it open while badly wounded, saying "I couldn't let everybody else die." A viral "party on the plane" video, supposedly proof it was fake, turned out to be Israeli basketball players on a totally different flight from August 2025. Ana Kasparian called it "fishy" and said she doesn't trust Israelis — the same person who's floated the "dancing Israelis" 9/11 conspiracy and downplayed Iran's massacre of its own protesters. A confessed jihadist tried to murder 170+ Israelis, and the "skeptics" still can't bring themselves to believe him. By @emilykschrader — 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Israel #FlyDubai #MediaBias #Terrorism
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This week alone: Iran's military spokesman promised "surprises" for the enemy. Five men were arrested outside RAF Fairford with vans full of gasoline and plastic drums. An Iranian-British dual national was arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. A co-pilot tried to crash a flight full of Israeli families into the ground. The IRGC read out a letter telling America the war only ends when Washington admits defeat. In the middle of all of it, a new documentary dropped showing exactly who's making these threats. "This Is Our Story" compiles over 10,000 phone videos filmed by ordinary Iranians during January's uprising — footage the regime tried to erase by cutting the internet for months. People shot in the back while others try to drag them to safety. Morgues with body bags lined up floor to floor, families unzipping them one by one looking for their children. The UN's own fact-finding mission has called it crimes against humanity. Watch two minutes of this and then listen to Pezeshkian tell Fox News that only 500 security forces and some "rioters" died. The people who filmed this knew the regime wanted no record to exist, and they filmed anyway. This is the regime now threatening London, Washington, and Tel Aviv. The Iranian people already showed the world exactly who they are. By @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Iran #FreeIran #HumanRights #IRGC
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A terrorist stabbed a pilot and tried to crash a plane carrying 170+ Israelis, 27 of them children, into the ground over Jordan. Israeli passengers stormed the cockpit and subdued him. An Israeli dentist on board kept the stabbed captain alive. Netanyahu confirmed all of this publicly the same day. Here's how the world's biggest newsrooms reported it: ⚪️The New York Times: "an altercation." ⚪️Sky News: "a brawl between pilots." ⚪️Reuters: "a pilot brawl, then a rapid descent" — for a 16,000-foot plunge in under a minute. ⚪️The BBC: "fight between pilots," while its on-air coverage called it "Ben Gvir Airport." ⚪️AFP: "two pilots were wounded after they reportedly fought," complete with Israeli and Emirati flag emojis. The Wall Street Journal: "an apparent struggle." ⚪️CNN put "violent" in scare quotes and told viewers on air it "definitely" wasn't a hijacking. ⚪️The LA Times ran a photo of balloons at Ben Gurion under the headline "a fight between pilots." If any other nationality had been saved by passengers storming a cockpit, these same outlets would run hero profiles by nightfall. Israelis got "altercation" and scare quotes instead. By @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Israel #MediaBias #Terrorism #FZ1073
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Britain's Foreign Secretary told a cheering Labour conference this week that everyone who's spent three years raging against Israel "were right." He said it one day after the Sunday Times revealed Britain had granted citizenship to Ismail Haniyeh's former bodyguard — now accused of plotting attacks on Jews and Israelis in Germany. The movement Miliband just endorsed broke into RAF Brize Norton and caused £7 million in damage to British military aircraft. Its activists fractured a police officer's spine with a sledgehammer. They've carried Nazi symbolism and swastikas through central London. His own government proscribed one of these groups as a terrorist organization — and he called Israelis in the West Bank "settler terrorists" in the same breath. Meanwhile it was Mossad intelligence that led MI5 to a Hezbollah ammonium nitrate stockpile in north London, helped foil an Iranian plot against Israel's own embassy there, and helped catch the Hamas operative Britain had just naturalized. The Palestinian Authority his government now recognizes as a state has done none of that. Miliband sanctioned the ally protecting British lives to win back a grassroots movement that attacked British soil. That's not policy. That's a choice about whose side he's on. By @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #UK #Israel #Antisemitism #Miliband
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UN Secretary General António Guterres used his farewell address to give October 7 exactly one word — "abhorrent" — then spent the rest calling Gaza the worst thing he's witnessed "in all my years." A decade that included Assad gassing his own people, famine in Yemen, Iran massacring its own protesters, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. His own investigators found UNRWA staff may have taken part in October 7 itself. Even the walkout during Netanyahu's speech was theater. 116 countries — 61% of the General Assembly — actually stayed. The Palestinian delegation packed extra staff into their seats beforehand so the walkout would look bigger on camera, then went straight to the monitors outside to watch the rest of the speech. Meanwhile Iran's delegation, under travel restrictions and barred from Costco, got a friendly roundtable with the New York Times and regime apologists. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called himself "a proud British Jew," announced sanctions on Israel, then met with Iran's foreign minister — the same regime behind dozens of terror attacks on UK soil. Also this week: Belgium officially confirmed Tehran ordered attacks on Belgian synagogues, and the BBC listed 53 Hamas-linked "journalists" already claimed as "martyrs" by the group itself. By @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #UNGA #Israel #Iran #UN #MediaBias
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CBC pulled veteran anchor @NEWSneil off the air this week — not for editorializing, but for filming a protester who put a megaphone in his face and screamed "You're going to hell!" as he tried to walk into Yom Kippur services. CBC won't say who complained or which rule he broke. The video has no opinion on Israel or Gaza in it. It's a Jewish man, whose father survived the Holocaust, describing what it's like to walk into synagogue in Toronto in 2026. This happened the night after a gunman shot the officer guarding a Belleville synagogue on Kol Nidre, and six months after three GTA synagogues were shot at in five days. Meanwhile a CBC Gaza freelancer has spent years accusing Israel of "massacres" and sharing AI-generated propaganda images on social media. CBC's response in 2024: his posts "presumably reflect his lived experience." He kept his job. CBC's own standards chief has written that campaigns from groups like CJPME "can be incredibly harmful" to journalists. That concern apparently expires the moment the journalist is Jewish. by @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #CBC #Antisemitism #YomKippur #MediaBias
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Iran's regime just announced, openly, that it's recruiting children into its war effort. A spokesman for the "Janfada" mobilization campaign confirmed boys over 15 are already registered and children under 15 are next — training starts this week in one of Tehran's busiest public squares. This isn't new, just newly admitted. Since March, Amnesty International has documented children as young as 12 at Basij checkpoints holding AK-pattern rifles. An 11-year-old, Alireza Jafari, was killed on duty at a checkpoint in March. He was eleven. The regime still celebrates a 13-year-old who died throwing himself under an Iraqi tank as a national hero — that's literally the model they're building this program on. Recruiting children under 15 into armed forces is a war crime under international law. The regime is doing it in plain sight, filming it for state TV, and daring the world to look away. The UN has a list for states that recruit child soldiers. It's long past time the Islamic Republic was on it. By @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Iran #ChildSoldiers #HumanRights #FreeIran
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On Yom Kippur, when most of Israel was offline, Politico's Playbook ran a story calling David Milstein, a senior adviser to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, a "giant walking counterintelligence red flag" — on the word of anonymous sources. The evidence: a wedding invitation with a QR code accepting gifts in dollars or shekels. That's not a scandal. That's an Israeli wedding. Cash gifts, digital payment links, envelope safes at wedding halls — this is completely normal custom there, regulated by Israeli police licensing guidance. Milstein hasn't been accused of a crime. Politico admits that, then calls it a national security threat anyway. The piece also flags Jonathan Pollard's embassy visit as suspicious, even though Huckabee says he personally approved it, it went through standard security, and Milstein had nothing to do with it. Anonymous sources claim people are "afraid" of Milstein because of his stepfather, Mark Levin — a name Huckabee says Milstein has never once invoked. Strip away the sourcing and what's left is the oldest smear in the book: dual loyalty, dressed up as counterintelligence reporting. The Daily Caller ran the same play on me last month. By @emilykschrader — 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Politico #Antisemitism #MediaBias #Israel
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Macklemore didn't get dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour for having an opinion. He hijacked someone else's concert — keffiyeh, Gaza war footage on the screens, a genocide-accusation song, "Free Palestine" chants — turning an opening slot into a protest nobody signed up for. Robert Kraft barred him from Gillette Stadium. Other venues followed. Ed Sheeran said nothing about any of it. That's when the pile-on started: he was called spineless, accused of "caving to bullies," compared unfavorably to Macklemore by Roger Waters. Four acts dropped off the tour "in solidarity," one blaming "Zionist lobbies" for Macklemore's own choice to hijack someone else's stage. Compare that to Damon Albarn waving a Palestinian flag at Gorillaz shows with zero consequences, or P!NK getting harassed simply for opposing antisemitism. The difference was never the opinion — it's who gets protected and who gets punished for saying no. Then came the theater: Macklemore pledged $1M to "Palestinian relief," Kraft matched and doubled it. Palestinians already receive more international aid per capita than any population on earth — $50 billion since Oslo, more per person in 2023 than the Marshall Plan spent rebuilding all of postwar Europe. They don't need more aid. They need accountability. Also this week: Al Jazeera quietly fired 24 Gaza "journalists" with Hamas/PIJ ties, and a Gazan "photojournalist" admitted on camera he sat on hostage-abuse footage to protect Hamas. By @emilykschrader — 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Israel #Antisemitism #Macklemore #MediaBias
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A peer-reviewed Yale study just quantified what critics have said for two years: The New York Times' Israel-Hamas coverage isn't rigorous. It's imbalanced by design. Yale professor Edieal Pinker analyzed 1,559 NYT articles from October 7, 2023 through June 7, 2024 — 244 days of war. The findings: "Israel" appears 27,205 times, "Hamas" only 8,499. Despite 128 days with at least one IDF death, the Times mentioned Israeli casualties on just 74 of those 244 days — nine separate times, a full week or more passed without a single Israeli military casualty mentioned. 55% of articles about a war that began with a massacre left out the Israeli deaths from October 7 entirely. Fewer than 4% mentioned any Israeli civilian suffering unconnected to that day. This isn't sloppiness. It's the same stable pattern across 969 separate articles, written by different reporters, edited by different desks, for eight straight months. The Times has spent two years responding with statements about its own "intentions." The numbers say otherwise. By @emilykschrader — 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #NYTimes #Israel #MediaBias #Journalism
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Iran's regime just launched "Elaj" — a public platform publishing the real names, photos, national ID numbers, and family details of Iranians living abroad, and asking ordinary citizens to submit more. Organizers claim to have already profiled 1,600 people, calling them "traitors" who will lose their "citizenship privileges." State broadcasters IRIB and Fars News are promoting it without disclosing who runs it or how it obtained identity data that isn't publicly available anywhere. Americans and Europeans with dual citizenship are among the targets. This is the Soviet playbook. The KGB had an entire directorate devoted to hunting émigrés who thought leaving meant they were free — following them into Paris and New York, assassinating defectors in London and Munich. Tehran is running the same model now that it can no longer physically reach its critics. And it's doing this while the rial sits at a record low and ordinary Iranians can't keep up with inflation. A regime that spends its remaining capacity hunting people who already left isn't projecting strength. It's revealing exactly what it prioritizes. By @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Iran #FreeIran #HumanRights #IRGC
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Israel heads to the polls October 27 — the first election since October 7, and the governing coalition may no longer have the votes. The field is set: Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid merged their parties into a single centrist bloc, Beyachad, betting that unity beats splitting the anti-Netanyahu vote. Former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot broke off to lead his own party and is polling competitively enough to challenge Likud for first place. And the most interesting new entry: Amcha Yisrael, launched by retired IDF general Ofer Winter, bringing together veterans, bereaved families, and Arab-Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad — currently clearing the electoral threshold in multiple polls. Several recent polls put Netanyahu's current governing coalition short of the 61 seats needed for a majority. That's why realignment on both sides, not any single party's platform, is the real story of this election. By @emilykschrader — read more 👇 URL: emilyschrader.fromfrontline.… #Israel #IsraeliElections #Knesset #Netanyahu
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