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“Today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies”
The D-Day commemorations have long since become stellar exercises in which sterile phrases about the courage and honor of those young men who fought to liberate Europe from fascism are mouthed by politicians and leaders enabling the contemporary mass invasion of Europe by Islamofascism.
Even as Pope Leo was visiting Spain to promote mass Muslim migration being enabled by its corrupt, mostly under indictment, leftist regime, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told some troubling truths at Normandy.
Speaking on the 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944, Allied beach landings in Normandy, Hegseth said: “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies — beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria; boats and men arrive.”
“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not,” Hegseth said in his speech at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer in northwestern France.
“Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not.”
“The men who fought and died here restored freedom to Europe. That freedom must be maintained by this generation of leaders and war fighters, or what they fought for, was merely temporary!”
There’s no point in empty recollections of past defenses of civilization only to abandon it to a new barbarism.
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Victor Davis Hanson: That’s the first video I couldn’t finish. It was just sick.
To remind everybody what happened, we had a 19-year-old who had a confrontation with a 23-year-old immigrant, [a] Sikh from India. We don’t really know the particulars except the Sikh person was carrying a “ceremonial sword,” which is apparently allowed under DEI auspices because he has a religious exemption, but it was a pretty big blade.
He stabbed this 19-year-old white male repeatedly. Then his brother called the police and said the perpetrator was a victim of racism. The police came to the scene. The perpetrator said he had a little mark, which I couldn’t even see, and that this racist on the ground had attacked him and he had only defended himself.
That was all they needed.
So, then, the DEI police, and that’s what I’m going to use because that’s the thematic narrative, went to the anti-DEI person who was dying with a deep wound to the chest. His lungs were filling up with blood. I can relate to that because I had the same experience with three pulmonary arteries that were cut or broke apart, and I had two to three liters immediately in my lung cavity.
That’s not a good feeling when you can’t breathe and you’ll die with that blood in your cavity. They have to suck it all out.
So, he was there alive, and the police saw that. He was lying down, and they pulled on him to prop him up. He said, “I’m dying. I can’t breathe.” They completely ignored him, kept the cuffs on, and he literally bled to death in front of them.
They were just clueless and more worried about the perpetrator. Then they went home and hid the murder weapon. His mother did.
They found out the particulars of the assault and came back. The brother, I don’t think, has been arrested, even though he was the one who called in with the fake narrative that it was a matter of white racism, which really killed the kid.
Then the family hid it, and the Sikh leader in the community said, “Oh, this is terrible. People are blaming us. We’re victims of hate now.”
My answer to him is: Don’t identify an individual as a collective unless you want to be a collective.
There was a member of your Sikh community who killed a person and murdered him. He is a murderer. He was convicted. Then there was another member of that Sikh community, a member of that family, who lied to a police officer.
That’s a felony. Then they hid the weapon. They were accessories after the fact. That’s a felony.
All you have to do as a self-proclaimed Sikh leader is say the following: “This does not represent the Sikh community. We are a group of individuals, and any time we find one of the members of our community has acted antithetical to our values, we condemn it most heartedly.”
That’s all he had to say.
Instead, he turned around and said, “Well, the poor Sikh community is now getting … ” If you’re going to be a collective, then people are going to say, “Well, this is what you do.” If you want to be individuals, then act like individuals.
The same thing is true here in the United States. No one has been more supportive of the Sikh community than I have, both on this broadcast and in person.
Sometimes I kid my Sikh friends at one of the largest temples that’s 2 miles from my house. I’ve talked about them many times.
Yes, they’re all good friends. They’re wonderful people. They’re wonderful citizens. I don’t even think I should use the term “wonderful people.” They’re wonderful individuals that I know.
One of the most admirable is Simon Siyodi. He’s a good friend of mine. I like him enormously.
But my point is this. I teased him. I said, “If you’re going to have this huge Sikh temple with these flags of the Sikh nation, why don’t you at least put an American flag on your temple?” Sometimes I’ve seen it, sometimes I haven’t.
When these accidents were overwhelmingly perpetrated by illegal aliens, and here in California, overwhelmingly the Sikh drivers did not know English, did not take the regular test, and were given exemptions.
There was an attempt by federal authorities to say those licenses, which were fraudulently issued and led to some deaths of innocent people, would not be valid in other states.
The Sikh community then said, “We want a letter in support.”
That was the same idea. Why would you do that? Why wouldn’t you say, “These members of the Sikh community who entered the United States illegally, resided illegally, got driver’s licenses under fraudulent circumstances, acted recklessly, and killed people through their recklessness, we condemn these people. They’re not representative of our community.”
They didn’t do that.
I think that’s another sign that it’s going to hurt the community and hurt the community terribly.
Yes, I’m on a working farm, and there’s a big machine that is very important to finish.
The other thing, very quickly, Jack, is that this is the anti-George Floyd scenario.
Here we have parallel tracks. Here is a 19-year-old without a record who was minding his own business.
Here is George Floyd, a career felon who broke into a home, put a knife at a pregnant woman’s belly, and was convicted. In the process of encountering the police, he was:
A) Committing a felony by passing counterfeit currency.
B) Committing a felony by resisting arrest.
C) Committing a misdemeanor by being under the influence of fentanyl.
The police intervened in both cases.
In the case of George Floyd, they used an approved police maneuver to subdue him. Due to his ongoing COVID-19 condition, his fentanyl intoxication, a jury found Officer [Derek] Chauvin’s use of his knee—he passed out and said he couldn’t breathe.
At that point, they called an ambulance. The ambulance came, took him to the hospital, and he died.
Officer Chauvin was given a murder charge, convicted, and has since been attacked in prison, as I understand it.
The country’s reaction to that was four months of looting, arson, violence, 35 people killed, 1,500 officers injured, $2 billion in damage, courthouses burned, precincts burned, churches burned, and 14,000 people arrested.
That day almost ruined the universities because afterward they dropped the SAT and standards for admissions.
Now, of course, you see left-wing faculty saying, “Please bring back the SAT. The students are too poor to do the work. We don’t know what we’re going to do.”
Stanford said the same thing.
“We can’t water down the curriculum anymore because the graduates cannot get the type of jobs the Stanford brand would ensure them because employers caught on to us.”
It changed everything. It changed the military with DEI. It changed popular culture with critical race theory. It started the defund-the-police movement.
All from that incident.
In Britain, there will be no mass arson, riots, nothing.
The murderer was convicted.
I hope the members of the family who either hid the weapon or gave fraudulent information to the police will be charged and held accountable.
I hope the Sikh community will say, “These people do not represent our values and are not really members in good standing of our community. We want to integrate and assimilate into British culture.”
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Now that I have arrived in our summer quarters in the South of France, I am discovering the secret animal nature of Iran’s current leaders.
More than any other animal, they resemble the boar.
I know them well — both the Iranians, and the boar.
This winter, my boar were particularly aggressive — boorish, if you will. They crashed through my electric fence like it was an Arleigh Burke destroyer in dry-dock, with devastating results.
I tell them every year not to do this, because they will get shot. And without fail, every year they do it.
They can’t help it. It is their boar nature. And neither I nor the local guns managed to catch them in the act and shoot them.
So they tore up acres of cultivated ground, ripping out flowers and shrubs, leaving behind hillsides looking like a swarm of mosquito boats had just swept past at 50mph.
This week, Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezai (there is no “ret.” after that, despite the fact he was fired as Rev. Guards commander in 2007), announced that Iran had no intention of making a deal with the United States unless Donald Trump authorized the release of $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
I write about Rezai extensively in my new book, The Iran House: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue. One reason is that his son Ahmad defected to the United States in 1997 and not long thereafter called upon me to parole him into the country, where he learned English in our Kensington, Maryland basement for six months.
Rezai was sidelined for power for years because of his son’s actions. And when his son was murdered in Dubai in November 2011, I went there to investigate on behalf of his widow and young daughter. And what I found troubled me.
You can read the full story in the book. But in short, I believed Dad showed the regime he was capable of Abrahamic loyalty.
Mohsen Rezai reappeared in 2021 as a vice-president under the Raisi government. And now, he has reinvented himself once again, this time as the military advisor of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
It’s a convenient job, if true. Because Mojtaba is 1) shy, or 2) disabled, or 3) paranoid that the CIA will track him if he ever appears on a video, so he issues written statements that get read by a succubus.
Mohsen Rezai is that succubus.
His latest gambit — or invention, and we don’t really know which — is that El Supremo wants Trump to return $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets as a “sign of good will.” Otherwise, the negotiations are over.
Now that’s an interesting gambit. Eventually, if Iran gives up its enriched uranium — all of it, not just the HEU — and opens the Strait and pledges to never seek a nuclear weapons capability in the future, ever — well, then sanctions relief becomes possible.
But not upfront. Trump made that clear.
But SOMEONE talked the US Navy into easing the blockade of the Strait to allow four Iranian-flagged supertankers to slip the noose this week, carrying 7 million barrels of Iranian crude they loaded at Kharg more than 6 weeks ago.
I suspect Trump’s Svengali, Steve Witkoff. I can picture him whispering in the president’s ear: Mr. President, it’s such a small gesture, but for the Iranians, it will show our good faith and unblock the negotiations. That’s all they are asking. Just a little gesture or good will.
Here’s a lesson in Iranology for Mr. Witkoff. Offer the mullahs carrots and they will consume them, burp, and not even say thank-you. Instead, they will ask for more.
And that’s exactly what Mohsen Rezai is doing.
The president today made his deadline clear. He wants a deal over the weekend, and a signing ceremony next week in Geneva. Mohsen Rezai and the Gayatollah can pound sand in their bunker as it collapses on top of them. Or so we can hope.
I discuss the Iran talks, as well as Zelinskyy’s asking Putin for lunch, Turkey’s ambitions to strike Israel, and Trump’s plan to restructure our NATO assets so the Germans can’t suck us into another senseless war, in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.
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People talk about the California disaster, but I don’t think we fully appreciate the severity and the manifestations of it. And the best barometer to discover that is how many people are leaving. It’s estimated that somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 Californians left in ’25, ’26.
Now, the problem with that is they’re not leaving a barren state. They’re not leaving a cold Alaska. They’re leaving the most beautiful state in the country that for years under a bipartisan system of Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, and to some extent Arnold Schwarzenegger, it had wonderful governance.
So, why are they leaving? Why have 11 to 12 million people, a quarter of the present population, left California?
Well, the Reason Foundation just did a comprehensive study of all the roads in all the states and ranked them according to congestion, quality of roads, bridges, everything. California was 49th, 49th in the country.
In terms of school scores, it’s down to about 40 to 41 in the nation, even though it’s 13th in the amount of money it spends. It’s got one-third of all the homeless people, maybe up to nearly a half in some studies.
It’s got a third of all the welfare recipients. Twenty-two percent of the people live below the poverty line.
Think of this. It has the highest gasoline taxes in the nation and the highest gas prices, and that’s a combination. It refuses to tap its considerable fifth-in-the-nation oil and natural gas reserves to the full extent that it could.
It shut down the timber industry. It shut down the mining industry.
So, we’re paying because of our green fanaticism on oil blends, and we’ve been driving out oil refineries, and we have these high taxes.
We’re paying $7 to $8 a gallon right now for gas. We have the highest electricity rates in the continental United States. Only Hawaii has it higher. Think of that.
We have some of the highest property crime rates in the country. San Francisco, until recently, was the highest property crime rate city per capita in the nation.
Our sales tax is among the top 10. We have the highest income taxes. Now, we know why this is the problem.
We know why, why this all happened. We haven’t had a Republican governor in nearly 20 years since Arnold Schwarzenegger left. We have no statewide offices that are Republican, no attorney general, no lieutenant governor, no state controller, nothing.
We have 52 seats in the Congress. We only have seven, you know, it’s like 12% … We only have seven Republican congressmen, and yet Donald Trump almost got 30%, 40% of the vote. So, we have less than a third of what we should be proportionally represented in Congress.
All of the state and local judges, after 20 years of governance by left-wing [officials], are left-wing themselves.
So, the judicial, the executive, and the legislative branches are all one party, supermajorities in both legislatures. No statewide officer that’s a Republican.
What do you do about it? Well, who is the iconic victim? Who has been at the center of this maelstrom for the last 30 years? One man, Gavin Newsom.
He’s never had a job outside the public sector since 1997 when Jerry Brown appointed him to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was there for eight years. Then where did he go? He went to mayor of San Francisco for eight years. Then where did he go? He went to lieutenant governor.
Then where did he go? He’s governor for six years. And why did this happen? We see all the symptoms, but why did it happen? Why did we have a monoparty state?
I think it’s pretty easy. Three things happened. No. 1: One quarter of the population, as I said, fled the country.
And these weren’t just anybody. These were the middle, upper-middle, and upper, upper-middle-class taxpayers, small businesses who couldn’t take the high taxes and the poor infrastructure.
And they left. And they left a beautiful scenic California to places, I’ll be frank, that are not so hospitable, Utah, Tennessee, Nevada.
In other words, they left California that was a paradise, and they went to places that were man-made paradises, but had none of our natural advantages. So, that was one factor.
We have the highest number of foreign-born people of any state, any state. It’s about 11 million people in California were not born in the United States.
It’s up to nearly 29% of the population. Many of them, not all, but many of them are here unlawfully. That required an enormous civic project of assimilation, acculturation, integration.
And what did we get instead from these Democrat administrations? We got DEI tribalism and ethnic chauvinism, and that manifests itself in higher crime rates, in truck drivers who are issued licenses who are not qualified to drive and pose a hazard on the freeway, to drug cartels, you name it.
San Francisco, as I said, had the highest per capita property crime rate.
And then the third tester in this sad mosaic is not just people leaving and not just people coming in unlawfully in many cases, but without sufficient preparation to be an American citizen from a different country without civic education.
We have now about $14 trillion of market capitalization in Silicon Valley, and the whole political nexus has shifted to San Francisco, where the most radical politicians the last 20 years were funded with this huge war chest by very affluent people who were never subject to the consequences of their baleful ideology.
And I’m talking about Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, some of the most powerful politicians in the state and the country, and very left-wing have moved the state from a centrist, center-right state that was well-governed under Reagan and Deukmejian and Wilson to one of the most poorly governed states in the nation that people do not want any part of.
Is there any hope? Well, we would have to do a lot of things. We would have to tell people that we’re not gonna tolerate one-third to almost 40% of the nation’s homeless people.
Maybe Spencer Pratt, if he’s elected mayor, or Steve Hilton can say, “We’re not going to put up with it. You can’t do it.
“We’re not going to issue all these general benefits for people who fornicate, inject, urinate, and defecate on our streets in a medieval fashion, and we’re going to close our borders. We’re gonna operate closely with ICE because we’re trying to stop this high crime rate, much of it from people who are here unlawfully.
“More importantly, we’re gonna have to cut the taxes and regulations or every oil refinery is gonna flee the state.”
Two big ones have just left, and that’s one reason, along with the high taxes and the prohibition on new oil and gas development, even though we’re number five in the nation on potential reserves, that we have the highest gasoline prices by far in the country.
We’re also going to have to look at voter fraud. We know that California has the most liberal, lax mail-in and early voting protocols in the country. The stories abound, the statistics are there, that there’s no way to verify who gets a ballot and how many ballots a person gets. There’s no photo ID, nothing, and that has to be radically changed.
Can we do all of these things? I don’t know. But if we continue to elect the people who are responsible, what’s gonna happen? People are going to flee, flee, flee.
And remember a final thing. There’s a very strange dynamic. The people on the left who created this mess were primarily the denizens from San Diego to Santa Rosa on the coast, about 700 or 800 miles.
Some of the wealthiest real estate in the United States, some of the wealthiest people in the United States.
This was a utopian project on homelessness, on DEI, on open borders, on lavish budgets. Gavin Newsom, remember, came in with about $214 billion budget, just six years ago. It’s $350 billion now. He raised the budget 64% in just six years.
So, they are exempt. We’re the lab rats. They are exempt from their experiment, this utopian California experiment.
And who else keeps voting these people in? The people who are exempt vote them in, and the people who are very poor from countries around the world, impoverished, they find the California entitlement and welfare system, nothing’s wrong with it.
It’s full of fraud. It’s full of mismanagement, waste, and abuse, but it is very generous.
So, you’ve got a medieval society with a very small but powerful wealthy elite that keep voting in this left-wing project, and then a large pyramid base of poor people. As I said, probably 27% not born in the United States, and then you’ve got a shrinking middle.
Add it all up and you have the mess we have today in California.
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The nightly news, and social media, are full of stories on the latest on-again-off-again American negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and stories, too, about Israel under American pressure agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Gaza has been much less in the news, but for the IDF, Gaza has not been forgotten, as the latest reports from the Strip make clear. More on the IDF’s most recent “mowing the lawn” in Gaza, with help from the Shin Bet’s Arab assets inside Gaza, can be found here: “IDF, Shin Bet kill several Hamas General Security Apparatus officials in Gaza,” Jerusalem Post, June 4, 2026:
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) struck and killed several senior members of Hamas’ General Security Apparatus in the Gaza Strip overnight, a clandestine group which is responsible for protecting and assisting Hamas leadership.
The General Security Apparatus’ responsibilities include maintaining communication and coordination between Hamas leaders, protecting them and escorting them to emergency facilities, and collecting intelligence and guiding the leadership in decision-making….
The General Security Apparatus is in charge of protecting Hamas leaders from attack, helping them to communicate safely with each other, and providing intelligence to those leaders that will enable them to make well-informed decisions. Their record is not impressive. The last four leaders of Hamas were killed one after the other. The Shin Bet appears to have penetrated the ranks of the GSA with its Arab agents, and knows exactly where its own senior officials are hiding, when and how they change dwellings, and when they come out into the open.
“The senior members of the General Security Apparatus were eliminated in order to remove an immediate threat, after recently engaging in efforts to rebuild the Hamas terrorist organization and assisting its leadership in advancing terrorist activity against the State of Israel and IDF troops,” the IDF said.
The IDF also stated that, prior to the strikes, steps had been taken to reduce and mitigate the potential threat to civilians, including through the use of precision munitions and aerial surveillance.
The IDF certainly kept civilian casualties to a minimum. A total of ten people were killed, four of them the senior leaders of the GSA, while four of the other six casualties are almost certainly to have been their wives in the four apartments that were struck before dawn; the remaining two dead were possibly their children. That is what precision bombing can accomplish.
In Gaza, Hamas is again licking its wounds, counting its dead, and wondering who in the terror group the relentless IDF will eliminate next, with the aid of Palestinian Arab informants in the Strip. Trump may call Netanyahu “f**king crazy,” but that is not how they think of Netanyahu in Gaza. They are terrified.
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Memorial Day, a federal holiday held the last Monday in May, is the nation’s foremost annual day to mourn and honor its deceased service men and women.[1]
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIRR) has a problem with Memorial Day. There are instances of inattention to the actual date of Memorial Day, unopposed criticism of the U.S. military on Memorial Day by some CAIR officials, and years of apparent indifference to the Day itself. Consider the following:
When is Memorial Day?
On November 9, 2006, CAIR issued the following press release:
DC: MUSLIM VETERANS TO LAY MEMORIAL DAY WREATH. The Muslim American Veterans Association (MAVA) will conduct a wreath-laying ceremony at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, Area 5 in Washington, D.C., on 11 November at 0700 A.M.[2]
November 11, 2006, was Veterans Day, honoring all U.S. military veterans, especially those still alive. CAIR apparently did not know the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
I could not find another mention of CAIR and Memorial Day until 2014.
Memorial Day 2014
On May 22, 2014, CAIR issued the following press release:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today marked the upcoming Memorial Day holiday with the release of a video featuring American Muslim veterans expressing pride in serving their nation through military service and sacrifice. In the 44-second video, three CAIR representatives describe their service in the Army and Navy:
“My name is Dawud Walid. I’m executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and I served honorably in the Navy. “My name is Sakinah Mujahid. I’m on CAIR’s Minnesota board of advisors and I served 13 years in the Army. “My name is Wilfredo Ruiz. I am an attorney with CAIR’s Florida office and I am a former officer in the U.S. Navy. “American Muslims serve our nation’s military and have died for our freedoms.”
The video ends with the tag line: “On this Memorial Day, CAIR honors all who served our country.”[3] So far so good.
However, on May 23, Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director of CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area chapter, tweeted that she:
“struggles with Memorial Day each year. How does one balance being pretty staunchly anti-war while honoring those who died in the military”
She also quoted Dawud Walid, who said:
If one dies in an unjust war in which we illegally invaded and occupied a sovereign nation, should that person be honored?[4]
Billoo also retweeted “hateful anti-American comments” by Remi Kanazi, a Palestinian poet, writer, and political organizer.[5]
It was reported that:
CAIR-St. Louis Executive Director Faizan Syed came to her [Billoo’s] defense, retweeting a message claiming that the U.S. army “often murders innocent women and children.”[6]
Other CAIR officials had no criticism of any of these comments.
Memorial Day 2015
Billoo “again slandered the U.S. military and said servicemen often ‘murder’ innocent civilians.”[7] CAIR officials had no criticism of this.
Memorial Day 2016
Billoo stated “that she is ‘proud’ to stand by her inflammatory comments.”[8] Later that year Billoo equated the U.S. military with ISIS.[9] CAIR officials had no criticism of this.
Memorial Day 2017
This year CAIR took a different approach to Memorial Day. On May 26, 2017, CAIR
…released a video message marking Memorial Day from Gold Star father Khizr Khan in which he urges all Americans to “recommit ourselves to unity, liberty, justice, and finally – to an end to all wars.[10]
CAIR must have considered this video as compensation for previous Memorial Day issues placing CAIR in a poor light, and as a years-long pay-it-forward, because in an internet search I was unable to find any mention of CAIR and Memorial Day until 2025.
Memorial Day 2025
On May 27, 2025, one day after Memorial Day, CAIR posted an article titled, “Honoring Muslim American Veterans on Memorial Day.”[11] CAIR was reaching back into the archives, because this article had been written by Craig Considine for the Huffington Post on May 27, 2013.[12] Why would CAIR post a Memorial Day article one day after Memorial Day? Perhaps because Considine’s article started out, “On May 27th, Americans will celebrate Memorial Day…” and whoever posted the article didn’t realize that it had been written in 2013, when Memorial Day was on May 27th.
Memorial Day 2026
Instead of trying again in 2026, CAIR apparently decided to lay low and ignore Memorial Day. On Memorial Day, May 25, I went to the websites of the following CAIR organizations: CAIR (National), CAIR California, CAIR Chicago, CAIR Michigan, CAIR Minnesota, CAIR New York, and CAIR Texas. At each website I took screen shots of the various webpages, allowing some overlap to show continuity, to see if there was any mention of Memorial Day on any of these websites. There was no mention of Memorial Day on any of these websites. Those screen shots, listed by CAIR organization, are found in Appendix 1.[13]
I also checked the Facebook page posts for these CAIR organizations on and around May 25. There was no mention of Memorial Day.
Conclusion
Is Memorial Day important to CAIR? Is it even relevant to CAIR? From what we have seen, the answer to both questions is “No.” So, here are some things to think about.
In 1919, Theodore Roosevelt stated:
We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people. .[14]
CAIR touts itself as an organization representing Muslims in America. So, who are the Muslims CAIR is representing? Here are some considerations.
The majority of Muslims in the United States are not native-born Americans. A survey was taken between July 17, 2023, and March 4, 2024, and found that 59% of adult Muslims in the United States had been born outside the United States.[15]
Muslims in the United States are generally considered to be devout in their adherence to Islam, and the mosque is where they learn about their faith from imams. A 2020 study found some interesting facts about imams in the United States:
Over half (55%) of imams had a BA, MA, or PhD in Islamic studies from an overseas university. Only approximately 6% of all imams had a degree in Islamic studies from an American university or institution.
68% of the imams were born abroad and 32% were born in the US. 78% of full-time paid imams were foreign born.
Of those imams born abroad, almost half were from Arab countries, with Egypt being the origin of most Arab imams.[16]
So Muslims in the United States are going to mosques and learning their religion mostly from imams born outside the United States. And as I wrote about in an earlier article, there are some common themes being taught in those mosques:
Hostility toward Israel and calls for its destruction;
Hostility toward Jews and Christians and calls for their death;
Great antipathy toward the United States;
The lauding of designated foreign terrorist organizations and individual terrorists;
Praise for the October 7, 2023, attack on Israeli civilians and the subsequent fighting by Hamas.[17]
And the doctrines of Islam are not compatible with the Judeo-Christian heritage of the United States. I wrote about this in a brochure titled Islamic Doctrine and Muslim Immigration to the United States.[18] I concluded:
How can Muslim immigrants assimilate into a society of non-Muslims toward which their religion teaches such hatred and violence, and the intent to destroy? The reality is that they can’t. That is why Muslims already in the United States seem to stay mainly socially separated from non-Muslim Americans. So, where does their “one sole loyalty” truly lay? As we can see above, it is not with Jewish and Christian Americans.
This is why CAIR has a problem with our Memorial Day.
Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books and numerous articles about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.
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Another $12 million in addition to $8 million she previously spent, bringing the total legal fund for illegals to $20 million of taxpayer dollars.
These acts of treasons by our elected officials are unconscionable but I blame the Democrat voter. There are always evil people with mal-intent, they should be relegated to the absolute fringe of decent society not elevated to enormous positions of power.
New Jersey’s Democratic governor announced Thursday night that the state will pour millions more taxpayer dollars into a legal slush fund protecting illegal aliens from deportation.
“We are increasing funding for the Detention Deportation Defense Initiative by $12 million – for a total of $20.2 million,” Gov. Mikie Sherrill wrote on social media.
She also announced the new Rapid Legal Response Initiative to “expand statewide legal capacity for emergency immigration defense.” The program provides free counsel to migrants in the state who are subject to removal proceedings.
Sherrill excused the multi-million-dollar move as a way to protect human rights of those in the U.S. illegally.
“These actions will help ensure more people in New Jersey’s communities receive due process under the law and more New Jersey attorneys are mobilized to stand up for the fundamental human rights of detainees and their families,” she said.
The announcement comes after nearly two weeks of violent clashes between rioters and immigration authorities outside the Delaney Hall illegal alien detention facility in Newark.
New Jersey state police joined their federal counterparts to help quell rioters earlier this week.
The latest round of interference with federal immigration enforcement operations featured far-left agitators forming human blockades at the entrance of the facility, impeding agents’ abilities to enter and exit. Rioters scrummed and hurled death threats at law enforcement.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced several arrests stemming from the clashes.
Detainees at the facility were reportedly on a hunger strike inside the facility.
Sherrill’s actions to further protect immigrants in the country illegally drew sharp rebukes from conservatives.
“Once again, using the tax dollars of Americans to benefit illegals,” Fox News and Outkick host Tomi Lahren said in reply to Sherrill’s post on X. “At least Democrats are finally admitting it. Shameless traitors. All of you.”
Agitators throw mattresses and other objects at ICE agents during a protest at Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, N.J., on May 27, 2026. (Oliya Scootercaster/Freedom)
Agitators throwing mattresses and objects at ICE agents outside detention center
“The Governor spending over $20 million for a defense fund for illegal aliens is outrageous at a time when the budget is a disaster and the residents of New Jersey are struggling with one of the highest tax burdens in the nation,” New Jersey Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger said.
“As a NJ taxpayer: nothing says ‘priorities’ like blowing another $12M of our money on lawyers for people who shouldn’t be here in the first place,” said another X user. “How about fixing our roads, schools, and property taxes for actual New Jerseyans instead? Clown show.”
The world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism should never have been allowed another day in power—and certainly not another opportunity to pull garbage like this. Every extra day this regime remains standing comes at the expense of freedom, stability, and human life. They forfeited any right to exist through decades of terror, oppression, and bloodshed.
A nuclear deal between these two evil besieged allies wreaks of desperation.
Iran, Russia Sign $25 Billion Nuclear Cooperation Deal as Tehran Presses Ahead Amid U.S. Talks
Iran and Russia have signed a sweeping $25 billion nuclear cooperation agreement to expand Tehran’s civilian nuclear infrastructure, deepening strategic ties between the two countries even as negotiations with the United States continue over efforts to curb the Islamist regime’s nuclear activities.
Speaking at a conference attended by senior officials and nuclear experts from both countries in the Russian capital, Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, unveiled what he described as the most extensive nuclear cooperation project ever launched between Tehran and Moscow, centered on the development of the Hormoz Nuclear Power Plant.
With the signing of a $25 billion memorandum of understanding, Jalali said the Hormoz project — alongside the ongoing expansion of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant — represents one of the most significant pillars of Iranian-Russian cooperation in the field of what Tehran describes as “peaceful nuclear energy.”
The Hormoz project is set to be developed by Iran’s “private sector” in cooperation with Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, according to Iranian media.
The memorandum also includes the expansion of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant — Iran’s only operational nuclear power station, which is currently generating electricity — with its second and third reactor units already under construction.
During the conference, Jalali also highlighted plans for joint cooperation on small-scale nuclear power plants, expressing optimism that the projects would soon move from the planning stage into full implementation.
The Iranian diplomat further underscored the growing scientific and technological partnership between Tehran and Moscow in the nuclear sector, particularly in the production of radiopharmaceuticals, which are used in nuclear medicine for diagnosis and cancer treatment.
“Iran has made remarkable progress in this field,” Jalali said. “We now produce 70 radiopharmaceutical products. In 2025, Iran ranked among the world’s top three producers of radiopharmaceuticals – demonstrating that our use of nuclear technology is strictly for peaceful purposes.”
In recent weeks, regional tensions have intensified as negotiations between US and Iranian officials have failed to produce a breakthrough, even as US President Donald Trump repeatedly insists that he still believes a strong agreement can be reached that prevents Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
While Iran has long denied plans to develop nuclear bombs, Western countries have argued weaponization is the only reason for much of Iran’s nuclear activity, including building secret sites into mountains and enriching uranium well beyond what’s needed for civilian use.
For its part, Iran is now pushing for an interim agreement that could potentially include sanctions relief, thus granting the regime access to billions of dollars in oil revenue. However, Washington has continued to impose economic sanctions on Iranian entities even as talks have taken place.
According to multiple media reports, Iran is seeking a limited interim agreement to ease mounting economic pressure and respond to rising domestic risks driven by a deepening economic crisis, while steering clear of any major concessions on its nuclear program.
Tehran’s latest diplomatic maneuvering follows weeks of negotiations after US-Israeli strikes in late February spiraled into a broader regional conflict. Iranian attacks across the Gulf have heightened fears over the security of the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for roughly a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.
Three months later, despite a fragile ceasefire reached in early April, the conflict has settled into a tense stalemate, with a US blockade on Iranian ports and Tehran’s continued leverage over the Strait of Hormuz sustaining pressure on both sides while leaving the threat of renewed fighting unresolved.
Now, both Washington and Tehran appear to be lowering expectations for a comprehensive settlement, instead exploring what officials have described as a temporary memorandum of understanding — effectively an interim arrangement designed to prevent a return to open conflict while postponing core disputes surrounding Iran’s nuclear activities.
If finalized, a potential framework would reportedly focus on phased sanctions easing and limited access through the strait while leaving unresolved the most contentious issues, including Iran’s uranium enrichment capacity and its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
It remains unclear whether Iran’s ambitious nuclear projects with Russia have been discussed with US negotiators.
The reign of terror in the Islamic Republic of Iran deepens. Eighty percent of political prisoners executed in the world during the last year were from Iran. Anyone deemed an enemy of the state can be summarily executed without a trial. Ethnic minorities are targeted, too. So are homosexuals. And now the European Parliament has called on Iran to end its executions and release political prisoners.
More on this reign of terror, and the ineffectual European efforts to end it, can be found here: “European Parliament Slams Iran Over Surge in Executions, Brutal Repression,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, May 21, 2026:
European lawmakers have stepped up pressure on Iran amid mounting alarm over the country’s human rights situation, marked by a surge in executions, mass arrests, and an intensifying security crackdown, warning of what they described as a growing campaign of repression.
On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, adopted a resolution — 516 votes in favor, 14 against, 92 abstentions — calling on the Islamist regime to immediately halt executions, release political prisoners, and hold officials accountable for alleged human rights violations.
The newly adopted resolution also voiced deep concern over escalating pressure on women, civil society activists, and religious minorities, warning of a widening climate of intimidation, surveillance, and systematic restrictions on basic freedoms across the country….
Since March 17, at least 36 people have been executed in Iran on political charges.
Earlier this year, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), an independent monitoring group, released a report outlining a deeply troubling human rights situation all across the country over the past 12 months, citing crackdowns on protesters, harassment of activists, threats to minorities, executions of children, violations of women’s rights, and dire prison conditions.
According to HRANA’s Statistics and Documentation Center, 78,907 people were arrested on ideological or political grounds from March 2025 to March 2026, highlighting a pervasive climate of repression across the country.
But the report warned that the number of arrests was likely much higher, given the difficulty of tracking such cases — especially earlier this year during recent nationwide anti-government protests, which security forces violently crushed, leaving thousands of demonstrators tortured or killed.
HRANA reported in February that over 7,000 protesters, including hundreds of children, were killed during the protests, with an additional nearly 12,000 cases still under verification. Multiple reports have put the death toll at over 30,000, and US President Donald Trump claimed the figure was over 40,000….
The larger figure, of over 40,000 killed on Jan. 8 and 9, comes from Iran International, a well-informed group of Iranians in exile who base that number on reports from inside Iran.
On women’s rights, HRANA reported that 105 women were murdered, including seven so-called “honor killings” — murders committed under the pretext of preserving family honor — and documents 68 cases of rape or sexual abuse.
Some women have been killed, such as Mahsa Amini, simply for not wearing their hijabs correctly. Other women have been killed for such “crimes” against the family honor as being out with an unrelated male.
Members of the ethnic minorities, like the Kurds and Azeris, can also be killed for supposedly posing a threat to rule by the dominant Persians. Political dissidents deserve death as they are a threat to the regime. Homosexuals are hung for their crimes against nature.
The fanatics in Iran will not stop. They are determined to crush any conceivable dissent, and to strictly enforce the Sharia. The European Parliament’s denunciation is sloughed off in Tehran. The only way to end the reign of terror is to change the regime, as the Israelis had initially insisted must be done. But Trump has decided that that is no longer one of his war aims; he will be content if he can obtain a guarantee from Iran to give up its 440 kg. of uranium enriched to a just-below weapons-grade level of 60%. Still worse, he has cut Israel out of the negotiations. Meanwhile, the miserable people of Iran will have to endure their torment, until that moment when the economic collapse of the country becomes so severe that millions of Iranians will again take to the streets, and this time their numbers will overwhelm those of the Basij and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who are sent out to crush them.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center built its brand on fighting hate groups. Donors gave it more than $100 million a year because they believed the SPLC was destroying the KKK, the neo-Nazis, the Aryan Nations. But… a new federal indictment says the SPLC quietly funneled about $4.1 million in donor money to the super-pale leaders it was publicly attacking. (Doug Ross)
The Justice Department said Tuesday it obtained a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center that contained new allegations about how its donations were purportedly used to pay informants inside hate groups.
Indict these terrorists, IMMEDIATELY revoke their 501c3 status, seize their assets, distribute to their victims.
The most explosive allegations in this indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are not simply financial irregularities—they amount to accusations of a long-running scheme to secretly funnel donor money to leaders of white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and Ku Klux Klan organizations while publicly fundraising off opposition to those same groups.
Both the national president of the American Front and the Imperial Wizard of the United Klan were allegedly on the SPLC payroll.
The Federalist: the most extraordinary allegation in the superseding indictment filed Tuesday by federal prosecutors against the Southern Poverty Law Center demands a screenshot so you can see it with your own eyes. In the indictment, people labeled with the letter F and a number are members of extremist organizations who were allegedly funded by the SPLC, so F-31 and F-32 are alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Demand for racism in America far exceeds supply so the supply of racism had to be created by Leftists.
The indictment alleges that between roughly 2010 and 2023, SPLC secretly routed approximately $4.1 million in donor funds through a network of allegedly fictitious entities and bank accounts to individuals identified as leaders or members of extremist organizations.
According to the indictment, donor money was allegedly used to:
Recruit new members into extremist groups
Expand extremist organizations
Fund rallies and events
Purchase materials for cross burnings
Buy materials for KKK robes and hoods
Produce racist propaganda
Pay the personal living expenses of extremist leaders
The indictment claims donors were told their money would help fight or dismantle extremist groups while portions were allegedly being used to support them.
Alleged Shell Companies and Secret Accounts
The indictment claims SPLC employees created or operated a network of fake entities, including:
Center Investigative Agency (CIA)
Fox Photography
North West Technologies
Tech Writers Group
Rare Books Warehouse
Imagery Ink
J&J Electronics
Kelly’s Marine
Turner Personnel
The indictment explicitly alleges these entities:
“were never incorporated, had no bona fide employees, and conducted no legitimate business.”
Prosecutors allege these accounts were used to conceal payments and move donor money.
Alleged Payments to Extremist Figures
Among the most politically explosive allegations:
F-42 (Former Chairman of the National Alliance)
The indictment alleges SPLC secretly paid him more than $155,000 while simultaneously featuring him on SPLC’s “Extremist File” webpage and soliciting donations to oppose him.
F-37
The indictment alleges SPLC secretly paid him more than $300,000.
The indictment further alleges he participated in leadership activities connected to the movement surrounding the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally and that SPLC continued funding him while publicly covering the movement.
F-27
The indictment alleges SPLC secretly paid him more than $350,000 through hidden accounts and pay cards.
F-43
The indictment alleges SPLC secretly paid more than $19,000 to a convicted felon and reported leader of the American Front.
F-18
The indictment alleges SPLC secretly paid a former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan while simultaneously publishing material condemning his organization.
Alleged Bank Fraud and False Documents
The indictment claims SPLC employees submitted false banking documents identifying employees as sole proprietors of various businesses that allegedly did not actually operate.
Bank records allegedly showed accounts opened under names such as:
Center Investigative Agency
Fox Photography
North West Technologies
Tech Writers Group
The indictment states the accounts were later closed after internal bank scrutiny.
Wire Fraud Charges
Counts One through Six charge wire fraud.
The theory is that SPLC allegedly obtained donations through material misrepresentations by telling donors their money would combat extremist groups while secretly diverting funds to individuals associated with those groups.
Money Laundering Charge
Count Eleven alleges Conspiracy to Commit Concealment Money Laundering.
Prosecutors claim SPLC used the shell entities and layered bank transfers to disguise the origin and destination of donor funds.
Asset Forfeiture
The forfeiture section seeks seizure of:
Property involved in the alleged offenses
Property traceable to the alleged offenses
Substitute assets if the original assets cannot be located
Why These Allegations Are So Significant
If proven, the indictment alleges a remarkable contradiction:
SPLC publicly raised money by portraying itself as fighting extremist organizations.
SPLC allegedly used hidden accounts and shell entities to channel millions of dollars to individuals connected to those same organizations.
SPLC allegedly concealed those payments from donors, banks, and regulators.
Those are the core allegations that make this indictment so explosive: wire fraud, money laundering, shell companies, secret payments to extremist leaders, and alleged misuse of donor funds on a multimillion-dollar scale.
The Justice Department’s superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center claims the SPLC paid people to stay in the KKK when they wanted to leave the movement.
The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid at least three people who wanted to leave the white supremacist movement not to do so, according to the Justice Department’s superseding indictment handed down Tuesday.
A federal grand jury in April had indicted the SPLC on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. The SPLC has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
While the organization “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press conference that “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”
The charges revolve around the SPLC’s program paying “field sources” inside white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups. The organization has maintained that it paid these informants in order to alert law enforcement to extremist violence before it happened, and some of the informants’ information did lead to prosecutions.
However, the indictment claims some of the SPLC money actually went to prop up the organizations—and the superseding indictment reveals more details of the allegations.
The superseding indictment alleges that the “field sources” used the money from the Southern Poverty Law Center to grow extremist groups.
Field sources used the money to attend and host “extremist group rallies”; grow and create “new chapters of extremist groups”; recruit new members; donate to extremist group leaders; “purchase materials for cross burnings; purchase materials to make Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods”; and more.
One of the field sources, identified as “F-9,” reportedly had a romantic relationship with an SPLC employee. F-9 infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance and received $140,000 from the SPLC. F-9 shared bank accounts with the SPLC employee, who used the cash to pay for the couple’s personal living expenses.
The superseding indictment alleges that the SPLC not only paid white supremacist leaders and members, but actually convinced them to stay in the extremist groups when they tried to leave the movement.
The field source identified as F-30, who led the National Socialist Party of America, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and led a faction of the Aryan Nations that had chapters in approximately 17 states, reached out to the SPLC while “seeking to get out of the white nationalist movement.”
An SPLC employee “offered F-30 a monthly salary of approximately $2,500.00 in addition to payment of expenses to continue to lead and maintain the violent extremist organization F-30 told the SPLC employee he wanted to leave,” according to the superseding indictment.
The SPLC used the shell company Rare Books to pay F-30 more than $70,000 in donor funds between 2010 and 2016, according to the indictment.
“F-30 used donors’ money to, among other things, travel to extremist rallies, host extremist rallies, donate money to leaders of other extremist organizations, recruit new members into his extremist organization, publish racist and extremist material for the purpose of recruiting new members, … and create racist paraphernalia to sell at rallies to raise money for his extremist organization,” the indictment states. “This was known to certain employees as they continued to secretly funnel donors’ money to F-30.”
Two more “field sources,” identified as F-31 and F-32, were members of a Ku Klux Klan organization who “feared for their safety from other Klan members and wanted out of the movement.” They reached out to the SPLC after seeing news reports about the center helping another person leave an extremist group.
“Despite their requests for help getting out of the movement, an SPLC employee encouraged F-31 and F-32 to stay in the movement and offered to pay them a $1,200.00 monthly salary as well as pay for expenses as incurred,” the indictment recounts. “Once they were financially backed by the SPLC to do so, F-31 and F-32 agreed to remain in the movement.”
The SPLC employee directed these field sources to falsely state they received the money for helping college students write and research essays, the indictment claims. Using this money, F-31 and F-32 “attended extremist group rallies in multiple states,” and the activity led F-31 to rise to “a leadership role within an extremist group.” In that role, “F-31 actively recruited new members using donors’ money.”
“F-32 also participated in recruiting new members using donors’ money,” the indictment adds. “In addition, an SPLC employee knew that F-32 used donors’ money to purchase material to make Ku Klux Klan garments for others.” The SPLC also allegedly reimbursed these field sources for the expenses they incurred for cross-burning events.
Forfeiture
The superseding indictment also includes forfeiture allegations. The document states that, if the SPLC is convicted of the wire fraud or conspiracy counts, it will “forfeit to the United States … property, real or personal, which represents or is traceable to the gross receipts obtained” in violating the law.
SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair will testify before the House Judiciary Committee next week.
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As I wrote in November 2025, the Cuban regime has been trying to influence the new generations in America for years. The audacity with which some of their sympathizers operate on U.S. soil is reckless. What is most outrageous to a Cuban fleeing socialism is seeing a horde of so-called intellectuals marching against capitalism while wearing a T-shirt featuring the assassin known as Che Guevara.
Fortunately, however, the Trump administration has begun doing what no other has done before: confronting these propagandists with the full force of the law. Currently in the crosshairs are the influential Marxist commentator Hasan Piker and CodePink Co-Founder Susan Benjamin.
Both — having been issued citations by the Office of Foreign Assets Control — visited Havana in March on an “ideological safari,” aiming to echo the Castro regime’s narrative regarding the extent to which the U.S. “blockade” impacts the daily lives of ordinary Cubans. In a capital city shrouded in darkness, they stayed at the only place with electricity: a luxury hotel owned by the regime.
In doing so, both Piker and Benjamin allegedly violated U.S. law, which prohibits citizens from staying in state-owned facilities, based on the rationale that such funds would not end up in the hands of the Cuban people. Anticipating this, several American commentators who have traveled to the island to document its reality have chosen to stay in “casas particulares” — hostels run by ordinary Cubans.
The citations issued to Piker and Benjamin are not an isolated incident. Rather, it stems from a broader investigation seeking to determine whether organizations and U.S. citizens violated U.S. laws and sanctions by supporting a socialist tyranny.
Officials from the Departments of the Treasury, State, and Justice are reportedly coordinating efforts to curb malicious foreign influence operations within the country — particularly those activities related to supporting political violence, extremist movements, or acts of terrorism.
At the center of the investigation lies a single name: that of the leftist American tech magnate Neville Roy Singham, a key figure in the financing of a network of nonprofit organizations. According to Piker himself, these are dedicated to the “defense of political causes” and to “many political movements.”
However, this support comes not only from international capital but also from the “accompaniment” of Castroist diplomacy in the United States — regarded by analysts as a perennial source of espionage.
Federal authorities are investigating David Ramírez Álvarez, Second Secretary of the Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., for allegedly coordinating a malign foreign influence campaign on U.S. soil.
Fox News recently published a video in which Ramírez Álvarez participated in a meeting of left-wing radicals. But that is nothing new. This influence over potential community organizations and leaders dates back decades — to when the current mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, traveled to the island as part of the Venceremos Brigade, or when Cuban American socialist Danny Valdes was part of Zorhan Mamdani’s campaign.
As former Chavista general Hugo Carvajal confessed last year, Havana has been among the operators with spies infiltrated in American institutions, who have laundered money in Miami, New York, and Texas and who coordinate operations to influence strategic decisions in Washington.
How? One way we have known about for some time is through activists or proxy groups that it trains and that its diplomats support, such as Calla Walsh, co-founder of Unity of Fields, formerly known as Palestine Action US, the Armed Queers of Salt Lake City, or the Democratic Socialists of America.
As a Cuban exile, I thank U.S. authorities for working to ensure the national security of their citizens and of those of us who have found refuge in this beautiful nation. The most positive effect, I hope, is that other bad actors will think twice before violating the law in support of a tyranny like the Castro regime — at least during this administration.
Yoe Suárez is The Washington Stand’s international affairs correspondent. He is an exiled journalist, writer, and producer who investigated in Havana about torture, political police, gangs, government black lists, and cybersurveillance. A graduate of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, he was a CBN correspondent, and has written for outlets like The Hill and Newsweek. He has appeared on Vox, Univision, and Deutsche Welle as an analyst on Cuba, security, and U.S. foreign policy.
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Nearly a month after President Trump informed Congress that the Iran war is “terminated,” the belligerents continue to routinely trade fire in the Persian Gulf, as Iran refuses to abide by the ceasefire. The latest exchange of fire came Tuesday, resulting in one death and dozens of injuries after an Iranian missile struck civilian infrastructure in a country not at war with it. Iran is clearly the “bad guy,” but the breathless denunciations so freely hurled at the first insinuation of Israeli misconduct are strangely absent on the Left.
The skirmish began with Iran firing one-way attack drones at civilian shipping in the Persian Gulf. U.S. Central Command shot down three of the drones and responded with strikes on Iranian ground control stations on Qeshm Island.
After that, Iran launched a volley of projectiles toward Bahrain, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. Bahrain’s air defenses “intercepted and destroyed three missiles and a number of drones,” with no damage resulting.
Iran also launched a volley toward Kuwait, where the U.S. operates several military bases. Two missiles failed to reach their targets, and some were intercepted, but Kuwait had to deal with a total of 13 missiles and 17 drones.
One missile that was not intercepted crashed into Kuwait’s international airport at dawn, causing “severe material damage” and suspending air traffic. Clearly, the missile was not aimed at a U.S. military base, which would have been a legitimate military target. The Iranian attack killed one Indian national and injured 63 other people in the airport. It sounds like an open-and-shut war crime — or at least it would be, for anyone named “Israel.”
For their part, Iran pointed fingers at the U.S. Earlier on Tuesday, an American aircraft fired a missile into the engine room of a sanctioned oil tanker trying to run the U.S. blockade and reach Iran’s Kharg Island, its oil export hub. Iran claimed that it launched drones at ships in the Persian Gulf in response to this incident, and that it launched missile barrages at Bahrain and Kuwait in response to America’s retaliatory strikes.
By even issuing such an explanation, Iran continues to insult the world’s intelligence by insisting that they fall for a patent lie. Seizing or disabling ships that try to run a blockade is a basic function of maintaining a naval blockade. If there were no hazard to venturing past the U.S. Navy, then the presence of its ships would not slow traffic, and if it never made good on its threats to use force against ships that tried to slip past, then the threat of force would lose its effect.
Iran understands how this game is played. In fact, it previously blockaded the Strait of Hormuz, creating a precedent to justify America’s action. The entry to the Persian Gulf is like a high-stakes version of the playground game “sharks and minnows.” The shadowy fleet of ships aligned with Iran wants to slip past the powerful American sharks, but they understand that anyone who gets tagged in the attempt must be considered “out.”
Of course, in such a playground game, it would be entirely inappropriate for a child who was tagged out to stamp off in a huff and “retaliate” against the kid who tagged him by punching the tagger’s little sister in the face. It would be even more bizarre if he stamped off and punched some random little girl in the face and claimed that it was in retaliation. Such a child would face severe consequences, parents would be involved, and charges might even be filed. Certainly, a cloud would hang over his participation in future games.
Yet this is what Iran did Tuesday — and what it has done repeatedly and consistently since February 28. Iran’s war is with the U.S. and Israel. Yet it has fired the majority of its projectiles at defenseless shipping from unrelated nations and neutral Arab countries around the region. These are — and continued to be — unjustified acts of war, naked aggression.
The sovereign state of Iran immediately resorted to the mewling tactics of a lowly terror group — like the network of terror groups it funds. Instead of playing by the rules everyone agrees to, Iran simply delights in sadistically inflicting maximum punishment on as many people as possible. Not only that, but Iran continues to violate the ceasefire while refusing to agree to reasonable terms.
The only conclusion to draw from this situation is that Iran is the “bad guy,” which every rational American already understood Iran to be.
Yet many leftists are not acting like Iran is the “bad guy.” The loud and omnipresent denunciations of Israel — heard for the past two years in every college, urban center, street protest, and even some political campaigns — are totally lacking. Yet, compared with Iran, Israel conducts wars with the care and gentleness of Mr. Rogers.
Where are the cries of genocide, of war crimes, of demands to use America’s full power to end the evil regime? They are not there. Does this mean there is a double standard for Israel? There seems to be no other explanation. And the word for such a double standard is “anti-Semitism.”
On Wednesday, House Democrats carried a resolution to force the president to end the Iran war, with support from four Republicans. The resolution perpetuates the charade of pretending that Iran is a normal state that plays by the rules, not one that lost every play in the war and still demands to be called the victor by cheating.
Yes, Iran is certainly the “bad guy.” Will we let the bad guy win?
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Social media users across the political spectrum are casting serious doubts on a new Axios report claiming President Donald Trump cursed out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Axios reported Monday that Trump “lashed out” at Netanyahu during a phone call concerning Israel’s threat to bomb Beirut, Lebanon, and the Israel Defense Force’s invasion of Southern Lebanon amid a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire. One anonymous official, “summarizing” the phone call, claimed Trump told Netanyahu, “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” Axios also reported that Trump “reined in” Netanyahu and convinced him to scrap the plans to bomb Beirut and Hezbollah targets.
However, many people aren’t buying it.
Progressive “Breaking Points” host Krystal Ball compared the new Axios story to nearly identical stories leaked during former President Joe Biden’s administration. Biden had reportedly described Netanyahu as a “bad f*cking guy” and an “asshole,” all while his administration continued to green-light U.S. weapons sales to Israel.
How many times have they sold and resold this same story about Biden and now Trump being secretly VERY VERY mad at Netanyahu https://t.co/uGpSULbhhM
Fox News host Mark Levin claimed the story was “largely fabricated” and called for one of its authors, Barak Ravid, to be fired.
MORE RE YESTERDAY’S LEAK ABOUT THE PHONE CALL BETWEEN POTUS AND BIBII
Barack Ravid at Axios should be fired. Reason: his story was largely fabricated by those leaking anonymously leaking to him. The media need to take seriously the accuracy of what they report and these media…
Amit Segal, a correspondent for Israel news outlet N12, reported that the Axios story was “inaccurate.”
EXCLUSIVE: According to a very senior official on the PM’s team on the late-night Netanyahu-Trump call, the Axios report is inaccurate. Trump did not make personal remarks about jail or claim Netanyahu is hated globally.
Instead, the tense call focused on conflicting social…
Independent journalist Caitlin Johnstone accused Ravid of making a “whole career” out of Biden-era leaks suggesting the former president was fed up with Netanyahu or on the verge of making an ultimatum to the Israeli prime minister.
Barak Ravid has made a whole career out of these articles telling Americans they don’t need to worry about the latest horrifying war because the president is taking care of it. Some Ravid headlines from the Biden administration:
For his part, Trump claimed that he acted as an intermediary between Israel and Hezbollah and prevented further attacks from happening Monday.
“I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back,” he said in a Truth Social post. “Likewise, through highly placed Representatives, I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.”
When polled, Michigan voters express their disapproval of the masses of Third World migrants in the United States. In fact, by a stunning 6-to-1 margin, Michigan voters believe the state welcomes too many Islamic immigrants.
For decades, ever since the disastrous Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965, America has invited in masses of migrants from the Third World, mostly based simply on family ties rather than skills, alignment with our values, and love of America. Now, new polling from the American heartland shows that voters have had enough and want to prioritize existing American citizens and fully assimilate the record number of immigrants already here.
Thankfully, President Donald Trump recognizes this unfolding movement in America. In fact, as The Heritage Foundation reported, 2025 was the first year with negative net migration since the 1960s, a huge accomplishment! A multi-layered “America First” agenda prioritizes citizens, including strong border control, internal immigration law enforcement, and more stringent controls over legal migration and work visas for foreigners.
This new trend counters decades of failures that attacked America’s culture, weakened societal cohesion, and saw an ever-lower share of U.S. economic output flow to regular workers. For too long, U.S. policies shaped by ruling-class elites seemed based on three inextricably linked blunders:
Outsource industry to the world through production offshoring.
Invade the world through constant warmaking.
Invite the world via mass migration.
But none of these approaches made Main Street America better. We did not become happier, more patriotic, or more prosperous. In fact, the exact opposite trends unfolded, and a once high-trust society devolved into a culture that tolerates the kinds of systemic, large-scale frauds that Somali migrants now perpetrate upon the citizens of Minnesota.
Like Minnesota, Michigan has struggled to integrate a wave of Muslim immigrants, especially in the Dearborn area outside Detroit. In this TIPP poll of nearly 1,500 voters, Michigan citizens push back. Overall, when asked about migration from poor countries, only 19% say it has been good for Michigan, versus 35% who say it has harmed Michigan, with 30% saying “not much difference” and 16% responding “don’t know.”
When asked about Christian immigrants, the approval numbers are roughly even, with 15% saying Michigan welcomes “too many” versus 12% saying “too few.” But regarding Muslim immigrants, the chasm widens materially. Only 6% of Michigan voters believe Michigan accepts “too few” Islamic immigrants, versus 37% who say there are “too many.”
Even Kamala Harris voters in Michigan agree, with nearly double saying there are “too many” Muslim immigrants compared to those who say “too few.”
Among Catholics in this very Catholic Midwestern state, the margin for “too many” Muslim immigrants versus “too few” is a whopping 47%-6%. Hispanics report a similar ratio, at 41%-5%. Will the open borders advocates simply label these hardworking Hispanics as “xenophobes” or “bigots”? Probably. But the reality is that patriotic, striving Americans simply do not want more mass migration into our homeland, and especially not from majority-Muslim countries.
This poll, mind you, is hardly some skewed MAGA sample. If anything, it’s a tough overall survey for Trump and the GOP. Trump’s job approval rating, in a state he won in 2024, declines all the way to net minus-22, with 36% approval and 58% disapproval. Looking at single women, long a challenging demographic for Republicans, Trump’s job approval is an abysmal minus-44, at 24% approval and 68% disapproval. But even within that group, they totally reject mass Muslim immigration, preferring fewer such migrants by more than a 3-to-1 margin.
Looking at this Michigan data holistically, a clear picture emerges. The public mood is sour. Americans have had enough of mass migration bringing wholesale changes to American life that few citizens actually support.
The sum? America for Americans. Focus here at home, not on faraway wars and not on waving in hordes of people from faraway places. Prioritize our people: American wages, safe streets, and rebuilding a higher-trust society.
As Trump said in his first inaugural address, “These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous people.”
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