Kamala's Criminal Justice Reform Comrade Accused Israel and America of 'Apartheid' in Fiery Sermon After Hamas Attack

In a sermon last month, the Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III told worshippers at his Dallas church about two encounters he had with his longtime criminal justice reform comrade-in-arms, Kamala Harris, after her ascension to the Democratic presidential ticket.

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WSJ Journo Spread 'Antisemitic Slurs' and Pro-Hamas 'Propaganda' Online, Watchdog Finds

Wall Street Journal contributor Abeer Ayyoub has spread "terrorist propaganda" and "antisemitic slurs" on social media networks, including expletives directed at Israelis, according to a media watchdog group.

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Make a (Wild) Wish! PA Congresswoman Organized Birthday Fundraiser for Radical Group That Supports 'Decriminalizing Hamas'

Rep. Susan Wild (D., Pa.), considered one of the most vulnerable House incumbents running for reelection, personally raised money for a "social justice" group that wants to defund police and abolish immigration agencies. It has also expressed support for "decriminalizing Hamas."

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'Screams Before Silence' gives voice to October 7 survivors

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Director Anat Stalinsky felt like many of her fellow Israelis in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks that killed 1,200 people and left hundreds more taken hostage.

Helpless.

Few documentaries pack the news value of 'Screams Before Silence,' yet it’s been roundly ignored by professional film critics.

So when asked to direct a documentary letting the survivors share their stories, she signed on without hesitation.

“I had an opportunity to use my professional skills and creative abilities to change something,” Stalinsky tells Align.

“Screams Before Silence,” available for free on both YouTube and its official web site, confronts viewers with all the brutality of that day. Death. Rape. Torture. Cruelties that recall the Third Reich’s barbarism through a 21st-century lens.

The images are stark and relentless, the testimonies depict atrocities that shock the senses. The focus is on sexual torture, something downplayed by organizations like the United Nations women’s rights agency.

That body took 55 days to condemn the Oct. 7 attacks.

The terrorists used cell phones and GoPro cameras to capture some of the horrors. Stalinsky purposely avoids that footage, letting the survivors paint the scene with words and tears.

“I decided not to go with explicit graphic visuals, although I could have. I wanted the people to be able to watch it,” she says of the decision to leave the horrors off screen. “It allows the viewers to go through the emotion process but not to drop out of the film,” she says.

The film remains hard to endure.

Those interviewed on screen couldn’t want to relive the nightmares. For them, they had little choice.

“They all understood the importance of the documentary and felt the need to share their story,” Stalinsky said of the film’s participants. It ties back to groups like the USC Shoah Foundation, an organization that gathers first-person testimonies from Holocaust survivors to teach future generations.

The documentary’s value has only grown since its May release.

It’s likely many of the pro-Palestinian protesters raging across American campuses haven’t seen or even heard about the film. Others may deny its conclusions, as if Stalinsky’s subjects collectively dreamt up the nightmare.

“Rape is not freedom fighting,” Stalinsky says as one reason to deny what happened.

Even higher profile names suggest what “Screams Before Silence” reveals is misinformation on steroids.

Public figures like Bassem Youssef (dubbed Egypt’s Jon Stewart) and Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon have questioned whether Hamas terrorists sexually assaulted countless women on that fateful day. They ignore the video shot and shared by terrorists along with the 45-minute video compiled by Israeli forces screened for select celebrities and politicians.

Former Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg is not just a driving force behind the film but the on-screen presence asking the tough but necessary questions of each survivor. Sandberg appears on the verge of tears repeatedly through the film.

Few documentaries pack the news value of “Screams Before Silence,” yet it’s been roundly ignored by professional film critics. TheWrap.com posted an early review of the film. Independent critic Danielle Solzman did, too.

That’s essentially it for a powerful movie wedded to the daily news cycle. It’s also available 24/7 online and would set a critic back far less than 90 minutes. A full month after its release, and the official reviews can be counted up on one hand.

“I think maybe people don’t want to deal with the subject,” she suggests. “You can’t review the film only as a film.”

“Screams” is not available on Max, Netflix, or other prominent platforms.

The Hollywood community has been similarly mum on the film. No hashtag campaigns or calls for activism, even from the feminist stars who rose up during the height of the MeToo movement.

“It’s kind of shocking. You would have thought it would get more reaction from people who tell stories,” she says. The lack of similar projects from inside the creative community didn’t dissuade her mission. It fueled it.

“It made us more driven to do the film, to break the silence, in a way,” she says.

Haunting play 'October 7' lets Hamas terror survivors speak

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I missed the show Monday night outside the Nova Music Festival Exhibition on Wall Street, where anti-Israel protesters gathered to wave Palestinian flags, light flares, and remind anyone observing the “in-depth remembrance of the brutal October 7th attack” that “IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL – ISRAEL, GO TO HELL!”

Instead, I went to Hell’s Kitchen to watch Phelim McAleer’s "October 7: In Their Own Words." McAleer’s production is a verbatim play — a documentary style of theater, which in this case means the source material comes from the testimony of real-life survivors of Hamas’ 2023 attack on the Nova Music Festival and nearby kibbutzim. McAleer and his wife, Ann McElhinney, conducted the interviews.

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This isn’t McAleer’s first dance with verbatim theater or controversy. For his play "Ferguson," McAleer used evidence and testimony presented to the grand jury in the case against Darren Wilson that ultimately cleared the police officer of charges in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

While I 'knew' what was going to happen, I was not prepared for the experience. Once the action gets going — which is pretty straight away — it doesn’t let up.

I thought going from debunking “Hands up — don’t shoot!” on stage to a play about the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust would dial down the controversy. But then I remembered some early responsesto the October 7 massacre. In the days after it, when bodies and body parts were still being counted, I watched an activist get on the mic in Union Square to praise “the resistance” for taking out “at least several dozen hipsters.”And who can forget BLM Chicago using the iconography of the Hamas paragliders to declare (in a soon-to-be-deleted post) “I STAND WITH PALESTINE”?

June 10, the night I went out to review the play, coincided with the “Citywide Day of Rage for Gaza,” where anti-Israel protesters were spotted around the city (not just outside the exhibit in downtown Manhattan) with at least one banner reading “Long Live October 7th” and chants of “LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA!” I can see why all ticket-holders had to pass through a metal detector to enter the Actors Temple Theater, where "October 7" has its run.

I left my pocketknife in my car and passed through security. It was only when I took my seat and noticed some of the actors on stage dancing to techno music that I realized I’d been disarmed. It was haunting. The wise security move also worked symbolically. I was now at the Nova Music Festival, and there was nothing I could do about it. (As if a pocketknife would have helped anyway!)

While I “knew” what was going to happen, I was not prepared for the experience. Once the action gets going — which is pretty straight away — it doesn’t let up. Nearly all the actors play multiple roles, which at times makes it hard to track who’s who and where we are. Intentional or not, this kind of casting lends itself to the reality of the situation: We are thrown into the chaos of the massacre(s) happening on multiple fronts, whether it be on the festival grounds, in the kibbutzim, or on the roads that connect them.

McAleer does a fine job weaving together so many stories. There are powerful moments like the woman whostares down her would-be assassin and says, “He doesn’t deserve my fear.” Or another woman, forced to hide in her safe room while terrorists infest her home — she has nothing but some water and a pot to pee in, and in order to keep her sanity, she goes to museums in her mind.

But I believe the verbatim genre can be too restrictive, because there are moments that ring true but sentimental. For example, while there are a number of characters who attribute their survival to “God was with me,” there are none I remember who ask, “Where was God through this hell?”

Spoiler: The final line of the show, “We will dance again,” is perfect and saccharine. But considering all the bitterness in the streets surrounding the play, I’m more than fine with it.

Before the show started, I was listening to a conversation in the row behind me. A Jewish woman was explaining that she has certain friends with whom she doesn’t talk about Israel. She won’t even bring up the latest news about the hostages being rescued. Just broaching the topic risks her losing friendships. And that is the biggest downside of "October 7: In Their Own Words": to attend it is a political act. I know that’s kept many people from attending. But there are only a few dates left. Take the risk.

Fetterman stuns Bill Maher; calls out Democrats for supporting Hamas

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While Sen. John Fetterman has a history of gaffes almost as long as Joe Biden’s, he’s becoming more coherent by the day.

In a recent appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the Democrat from Pennsylvania stunned the crowd when he dropped his party’s talking points and did what Democrats rarely ever do: make sense.

“I didn’t leave the label, it left me,” Fetterman told Maher regarding where he stands politically. “After what happened on October 7, I really knew that that whole progressive stack would be blasted apart.”

Fetterman went on to say that he “decided early on” that the right side of the Israel-Hamas war would be Israel, though he knew Democrats as a whole would “continue to peel away and kind of walk away from standing with Israel.”

“How do you explain that?” Maher asked Fetterman. “If you can, that the people who consider themselves the most liberal have abandoned Israel, which was always a liberal darling, for the people, a terrorist organization, the people who outwardly say they want a genocide, who outwardly are the one side of this who is against the two-state solution.”

“Some of the most progressive and left parts of the Democratic Party are standing, you know, for the kind of side that have kinds of organizations like Hamas, or these kind of nations that there are no rights for women, and they certainly don’t embrace the LGBTQ kinds of lifestyle,” Fetterman said.

Fetterman then explained that even in Philadelphia, Queers for Palestine blocked the Pride parade.

“I never saw that on the bingo card,” he added, as the crowd — and Maher — erupted in laughter.

While Dave Rubin knows that none of what Fetterman said is shocking to those who already believed it, he is shocked that a Democrat said it.

“It is good that a Democrat, who, as Bill is saying, is sort of an old school Democrat, is saying the progressives really are bananas now.”


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Trump says Israel's 'Netanyahu rightfully has been criticized for what took place on October 7'

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Former President Donald Trump said that Israeli Prime Minister "Bibi Netanyahu rightfully has been criticized for what took place on October 7," according to Time, which noted that the transcript of Trump's remarks had been "lightly edited."

Terrorists perpetrated horrific atrocities, slaughtering, raping, and kidnapping people on October 7 last year.

"I had a bad experience with Bibi," Trump said, according to the outlet. "And it had to do with Soleimani, because as you probably know by now, he dropped out just before the attack. And I said, 'What's that all about?' Because that was going to be a joint and all of a sudden, we were told that Israel was not doing it. And I was not happy about that. That was something I never forgot. And it showed me something."

During Trump's White House tenure, the U.S. announced that it had killed Qasem Soleimani. A Pentagon press release described the man as "the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force."

"I would say that what happened on—the October 7 should have never happened," Trump said, according to Time. The presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee said, "People said that shouldn't have happened. They have the most sophisticated equipment. They had—everything was there to stop that. And a lot of people knew about it, you know, thousands and thousands of people knew about it, but Israel didn't know about it, and I think he's being blamed for that very strongly, being blamed."

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Giant screen erected at UCLA confronts student radicals nonstop with grisly footage of Hamas' Oct. 7 atrocities

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Anti-Israel protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles, secured endorsements from the terrorist organizations Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine last week with their genocidal rhetoric, violent outbursts, and denunciations of Israel.

Counterprotesters have since helped the anti-Israel radicals understand precisely who they have gotten into bed with.

An anonymous group installed a large screen outside UCLA's Kaplan Hall over the weekend, where multitudes of pro-Hamas radicals have been encamped since Thursday. The screen — which is gated off and flanked by signs that read, "Hamas, free the hostages" — has apparently been playing footage of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on loop, confronting protesters with the reality of the atrocities they might otherwise continue to downplay, deny, or celebrate.

The individuals who erected the screen would not give their names on account of safety concerns, according to TheWrap.

"Israel is an ally to America. How dare you live in America and stand with a known terrorist organization?" one of the anti-terrorism protesters near the screen said in a declaration captured by TheWrap. "UCLA has prioritized a political agenda over the safety of their students. I'm concerned for my safety and everyone here on campus, both sides. We're trying to educate people on what actually happened."

The filmic reminder of the need to eliminate Hamas coincided with a pro-Israel counterprotest at UCLA, which the Los Angeles Times confirmed was organized by the nonprofit Israeli-American Council.

The IAC said in a statement, "The recent escalating antisemitic events at US universities, have hit close to home for many of us. It is painful and troubling to see our collective history repeat itself, as it puts both our Jewish community and our nation's security at risk. From the burning of flags, to calls for violence against Jews and the undermining of Israel's existence, these incidents must not occur at any university, and no student should fear for their safety because of their identity."

A GoFundMe campaign allegedly raised nearly $90,000 for the counterprotest, but Elan Carr, head of the IAC, indicated that it was not affiliated with his organization.

Nathan Mo wrote on the crowdfunding page, "Thank you to everyone that donated! Today was a monumental success! The energy today was electric and we danced and celebrated Israel in the faces of those that call for our demise and that is the best type of resistance that we can possibly show."

According to the Daily Bruin, the counterprotest originally received a permit to use the screen and loudspeakers; however, it continued playing the videos through the night Sunday and into Monday morning.

"The big screen on the east lawn of Royce Quad is not permitted, and there are no current plans to remove it," said UCLA spokesman Ricardo Vazquez.

A graduate student named Kai, from the pro-Hamas camp, told TheWrap, "A bunch of Zionist counter-protesters — most of which are not students — had a big fundraiser and brought this screen and set it up. They're trying to basically blast us with noise and disrupt us."

The "noise" Kai was referencing included the sounds of Hamas terrorists gunning down unarmed civilians and their subsequent boasting over body counts. The visuals Kai apparently found disruptive included footage of Israeli children shot up and scattered across bloody floors by the very group that student protesters now want shielded with a ceasefire.

Kai added, "They set up a whole scene and there were a bunch of agitators trying to come and harass students here and stir things up."

The pro-Hamas encampment in the quad reportedly does not have a permit for the protest.

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The anti-terrorism protesters across the quad expressed outrage that the radicals were being permitted to ruin the remainder of the spring semester without consequence. They suggested further that the administration has been playing favorites, asking them to turn the volume down on the massacre footage but letting off the radicals for various violent outbursts.

Footage shared to X appears to show a pro-Hamas protester viciously assaulting an anti-terrorism protester and threatening him with a taser while another radical swoops in to steal his sign.

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According to the campus paper, faculty members at the university, led by Faculty for Justice in Palestine, have rallied in solidarity with the pro-Hamas protesters. However, not all have fully jumped on board.

Dov Waxman, a UCLA professor and the director of the university's Nazarian Center sympathetic to the protesters but unwilling to join them, noted on X, "Students and faculty demonstrating in support of Palestinians shouldn't ignore the fact that the organizers of these demonstrations are, in many cases, ideologically committed to eradicating Israel and expelling Israeli Jews, supportive of violence against Israeli civilians, and willing to ignore or even justify Hamas' strategy of sacrificing Palestinian civilians for their political ends."

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