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Brad Lander is running for Congress in New York. With Election Day less than two weeks away, he’s in the West Bank picking olives and filming campaign content. He says the trip is about exposing the “reality of the occupation.” But the timing makes the political calculation hard to miss. Instead of spending the final stretch before an election talking to New Yorkers about New York, he’s attaching himself to one of the most viral international stories of the moment. No new policy. No solution. No meaningful change for Israelis or Palestinians. Just a foreign conflict turned into congressional clickbait.

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Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank haven’t voted in legislative elections since 2006. Meanwhile, Arab citizens of Israel, who make up roughly 21% of the population, vote in Israeli elections just like every other citizen, as they have throughout Israel’s history. The media can keep repeating the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state, but the inconvenient reality remains: Arab citizens of Israel have an equal vote and a voice in the country’s democracy.

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UK, Australia, Canada, and France recognized a Palestinian state after Mahmoud Abbas promised elections in 2026. He just postponed them again, to 2027. Pay-for-slay continues under a new name. School textbooks still glorify terrorists and reject a two-state solution. Recognition was the prize. The conditions were the price. The price was never paid, and there are no consequences. Why trust any PA promises about peace?

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Peter Beinart defended Brad Lander’s West Bank olive-harvest stunt by comparing him to the Jews who went to Mississippi for Freedom Summer. The Palestinians Beinart champions did not respond to their circumstances with nonviolent marches. They responded with kidnappings, suicide bombings, and October 7. Lander is not a Freedom Summer volunteer. The West Bank is not Jim Crow Mississippi. Hijacking Black history to launder anti-Israel activism does not make the comparison true.

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s own memorial film shows Muhammad Nabil al-Zaq adjusting a professional camera. Then it cuts to him training with a rifle, wearing Military Media insignia, and standing in armed formation. He identifies himself as “a son of the Al-Quds Brigades.” The camera was part of the unit, and it provides one last picture into the mechanisms behind PIJ's military media system.

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Brad Lander’s West Bank olive-harvesting publicity stunt. Palestinian flags at violent protests in France. Hamas banners at rallies marking the October 7 massacre. And a media narrative that increasingly treats Israeli society itself as the problem, regardless of who wins the election. Four stories, one familiar pattern: political messaging dressed up as something else. We cut through the spin in this week’s roundup.

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When David Ellison’s Paramount closed its takeover of Warner Bros., it put HBO, DC, CNN, and CBS News under one company: Skydance AJ+ built a video around a simple idea: one pro-Israel family now decides what America watches. It spread everywhere. The Murdochs own Fox News and the New York Post. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Neither got this video. What AJ+ never tells you is who is making that argument. AJ+ is Al Jazeera, and Al Jazeera is owned and funded by the government of Qatar, a country with numerous human rights abuses. Here’s what else they never tell you. Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund owns 10.6% of the company AJ+ just made a video attacking. They’re not outside observers. They’re shareholders. Why is a state broadcaster warning you about a private owner’s influence, while never once disclosing its own? That’s not a question about media ownership. It’s a government using a newsroom to decide which owners you should distrust. And of all the men who own American newsrooms, they picked the Jewish one. Presenter: Jacob Gold #Skydance #AlJazeera #Paramount #WarnerBros

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With Election Day approaching, Brad Lander chose to visit the West Bank to pick olives and accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing rather than campaign in his own district. He has opposed Iron Dome funding and advocated alliances with anti-Zionists, yet was still denounced as a “Zionist.” Justin Pozmanter argues that Lander is learning the hard way that appeasement never satisfies those demanding it.

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