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By Bill Pan Israeli military’s top intelligence officer has resigned over his role in failing to prevent last October’s surprise attack on Israel. Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, who served the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for 38 years, will step down as the chief of its intelligence arm and retire. He is the first senior Israeli official to take responsibility for failures surrounding the events of Oct. 7, during which thousands of Hamas-led terrorists broke through the high-tech security barriers around Gaza to launch a killing and kidnapping spree through the Israeli communities around the enclave. The Israeli government says that 1,200 of its citizens and foreigners died in the massacre, most of them civilians. Around 250 were abducted and brought to Hamas-controlled Gaza, where 133 remain as hostages. “The intelligence directorate under my command did not live up to the task we were entrusted with,” Mr. Haliva wrote in a resignation letter released by the military on Monday

By Becky Noble In most cases, when school boards are confronted about issues, it is the parents confronting them. After all, not only are they the taxpayers, but they also have a vested interest in their children's education. In a recent case, however, one student didn't wait around for her parents to take on her local school board. In what is a pretty gutsy move for someone her age, she decided to take the school board on herself. When it's parents taking on the school board, in many cases, they turn a deaf ear to the parents' concerns. Will having a student in their face finally make a difference? In Lansdale,  Pennsylvania, at a recent North Penn School District  school board meeting, a middle school student identifying as "Emily" addressed board members and parents in attendance about a  13-year-old transgender student  who violently attacked a fellow 12-year-old student, beating her with a metal Stanley cup. The student was hospitalized after the atta

By Tyler Durden Via The Publica Team, Sheetz Convenience Stores Accused of Discriminating Against Minority Job Seekers by Refusing to Consider Applicants with Criminal Record A popular US convenience store chain has been hit with a civil rights  lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against minority job seekers because it requires applicants to have no criminal record. On April 18, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Sheetz Inc., accusing the 24/7 convenience store chain of having discriminatory hiring practices that targeted minority applicants. According to the lawsuit, Sheetz has maintained  a longstanding practice of screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction and then denying them employment  based on those records. As a result, the EEOC is  accusing Sheetz of “disproportionately screening out Black, Native American/Alaska Native and multiracial applicants.” This is despite the fact that the  l

By Bonchie There is no more of an entitled group on earth than those who fancy themselves "pro-Palestinian," and Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter has become a shining example of that. After being  arrested and suspended  from Columbia University on Thursday for setting up a CHAZ-style pro-Hamas encampment on campus, Isra Hirsi ran to Teen Vogue to  whine  about her ordeal. "Tone-deaf" doesn't even begin to describe her statements. "Hilarious" does, though. “I was a little bit frantic, like, where am I going to sleep? Where am I gonna go? And also all of my s–t is thrown in a random lot. It’s pretty horrible,” she  told Teen Vogue . “I don’t know when I can go home, and I don’t know if I ever will be able to Watching these spoiled, rich kids face even a semblance of the real world for the first time is incredibly satisfying, if not a bit disturbing. What did Hirsi think was going to happen when she illegally trespassed, set up a tent city, and refused

By Melissa Fine Just over 200 miles from the U.S. Virgin Islands, and less than a five-hour flight to Florida, the Caribbean island of Antigua is “about to be razed for a Chinese-run special economic zone.” According to leaked documents reviewed by  Newsweek , the zone “will have its own customs and immigration formalities, a shipping port and a dedicated airline and will be able to issue passports. It will establish businesses offering everything from logistics to cryptocurrencies, facial surgery to ‘virology.'” “China, its state-owned companies and aligned private businesses are expanding rapidly in the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda and in other Caribbean countries in this strategic region long known as ‘America’s third border,’ according to a Newsweek investigation of government and corporate documents as well as interviews with Antiguan leaders,” the outlet reports. It likens China’s presence in the area to the last time a Communist nation attempted

By David Lindfield A Black Lives Matter (BLM) leader from Toledo, Ohio has been convicted of fraud charges after he was caught stealing donation money to fund his lavish lifestyle. The BLM “activist,” Sir Maejor Page, was found guilty of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering. Page, who is also known as Tyree Conyers-Page, was convicted by a jury after a six-day trial this week. He was stealing money that was donated money to his BLM organization and using it for personal gain, according to the Northern District of Ohio U.S. Attorney’s Office. Court documents and testimony cited by the U.S. Attorney’s Office report that 35-year-old Page created a 501(c)(3) Facebook page called Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta (BLMGA). He later used it to defraud donors out of more than $450,000 after BLMGA’s tax-exempt status as a charity with the IRS was revoked. Page created the Facebook page in 2016 and registered it as a domestic non-profit with the Georgia Secr

By Joe Schaeffer It’s an election year and, by now, you should know what that means. Progressive globalist billionaire George Soros is on the loose on multiple fronts, and his overarching reach is profoundly influencing US politics, culture, and the judicial system. “Soros’ Fund for Policy Reform poured $60 million into the Democracy PAC in the first quarter of this year, which then funneled millions of dollars into top Democratic committees benefiting House and Senate races, along with other liberal groups, FEC records posted on April 15 show,” Fox News reports. “Of the $21 million that Democracy PAC sent to a dozen left-wing groups, $8 million was evenly divided between a pair of top outside groups benefitting House and Senate Democrats, $2.5 million to Planned Parenthood, $2.5 million to BlackPAC and $1.8 million to American Bridge, a Democratic opposition research firm,” the network relates. Connecting the Soros Cash Dots It’s  business as usual  for Soros. He has f

By Frank Bergman Democrat President Joe Biden has just signed a pact with Bill Gates to “partner” with several foreign countries in a claimed effort to “combat future pandemics.” Biden’s White House  announced  that America has joined 50 other countries in signing the “ Global Health Security ” agreement. The “partnership” is being led by several of Microsoft co-founder Gates’s groups. The Biden administration claims that the pact will help to “combat future pandemics” by identifying and responding to infectious disease outbreaks. This response will involve rapid roll-outs of lockdowns and vaccine mandates across multiple sovereign nations simultaneously in the event of a pandemic or “climate change-related emergencies,” according to the agreement. Despite the White House claiming the “partnership” is about “global health security,” the agreement mentions the word “climate” 28 times. The agreement also states that measures could be enforced to ensure “gender equity, e

By C.K. Bouferrache Google’s head of Child Safety, Kate J. Sim, was fired after taking part in a sit-in at an employee protest at the company headquarters this week. But rather than the protest drawing people’s attention — it’s Sim’s social media history. On April 18, Sim took to Twitter to reveal that she had been one of the 28 staff members who fired after participating in an anti-Israel protest at Google Headquarters the day prior. The protest had lasted approximately 10 hours, and was sparked in response to Nimbus, Google’s cloud contract with the Israeli government. In a statement, Google said the terminations had come because protesters were “physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies and completely unacceptable behavior.” The company continued that it had concluded individual investigations, resulting in the termination of two dozen employees, and would continue to investigate and

By Jeff Charles A pro-Hamas protester stabbed a Jewish student journalist in the eye Saturday night during an anti-Israel protest at Yale University. The incident is the latest in a series of reports about antisemitic elements threatening and assaulting Jewish students on college campuses. The individual who assaulted the Jewish student has not yet been identified. The incident has prompted criticism against the university’s leadership for not doing enough to address the rise of antisemitism on its campus since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Sahar Tartak, the editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, was covering the protest – which saw hundreds of students camping at the campus in support of Palestinians – when she was suddenly surrounded by demonstrators. Tartak said she and a friend were signaled out for wearing Hasidic Jewish attire as the crowd formed a blockade around them to interfere with their filming. “There’s hundreds of peo