Idaho ambush suspect’s social media post released after firefighter shooting

Authorities on Monday released a social media picture of the suspect in the Idaho firefighter shooting and identified the firefighters who were killed and injured in the ambush.

The suspect, 20-year-old Wess Roley, was seen in a picture posted to his Instagram story wearing black face paint and camouflage clothing with a bandolier on his waist, authorities shared at a news conference.

Roley, who was found dead near the scene of the shooting hours after the attack that killed two firefighters and injured another, is believed to have killed himself, according to Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris.

The firefighter victims in the attack were identified at the news conference. Frank Harwood and John Morrison were killed, while Dave Tisdale is hospitalized in stable condition.

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The suspect is believed to have deliberately set a brush fire on Canfield Mountain, near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on Sunday to lure in first responders arriving to put out the blaze. The suspect was found to be in possession of a Flint starter that Norris said Monday was believed to be used to ignite the fire.

Fire crews responded to the blaze at around 1:30 p.m., and gunshots were reported about a half-hour later.

In audio from the scene, a firefighter said there was an “emergency situation” and an “active shooter at a fire.”

“We need law enforcement up here immediately,” the firefighter told a dispatcher, adding that there were “two battalion chiefs down.”

“We have another Coeur d’Alene firefighter down … we’ve got two unresponsive battalion chiefs down, multiple gunshot wounds, two Coeur d’Alene are down … I’m pinned down,” the caller continued.

The caller also said that the fire “was set intentionally to draw us in.”

“It’s clear to me that this fire was set intentionally to draw us in,” the caller said.

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Law enforcement launched a manhunt, tracking the suspect through the terrain. Using cellphone data, a tactical team located Roley’s body and a firearm several hours later in a wooded area near the origin point of the fire.

Idaho Governor Brad Little condemned the incident as “a heinous, direct assault on our brave firefighters” and pledged full state support for the investigation. 

“They answered the call to protect others and paid the ultimate price,” Little said.

The motive behind Roley’s actions remains unclear, and Norris said Monday that no manifesto has been found. Federal authorities, including the FBI, are assisting in the investigation.

“We have information that he at one time wanted to be a firefighter,” Norris said. “So we don’t know if there’s a nexus to that desire. And what happened yesterday. But, there is information that we’ve received that he at one time wanted to be a firefighter.

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Norris said there had been five law enforcement interactions with Roley, which he said were very minor in nature, such as trespassing incidents.

Roley had an interaction with firefighters before shooting about where his car was parked, the sheriff said.

It appeared that the suspect was living in his vehicle, Norris noted.

“We know that he was a transient here,” the sheriff said. “We knew that he lived here for the better part of 2024. But as far as when he got here, why he was here, why he chose this place. I don’t know. He has relatives in the Priest River area, but I don’t know why he chose that. We don’t find any nexus to anything else. Maybe we’ll find more once we do an inventory of the vehicle. But as of right now, we don’t know.”

Dad reportedly dives into sea to save daughter in Disney cruise disaster

A family vacation aboard Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Dream took a terrifying turn when a father reportedly jumped into the ocean to save his daughter after she fell overboard.

Thanks to the response from the ship’s crew, both were rescued within minutes.

The June 29 incident occurred as the Disney Dream was returning to Fort Lauderdale following a four-night Bahamian itinerary, which included a stop at Disney’s new private destination, Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, a Disney Cruise Line spokesperson confirmed the successful rescue:

“The Crew aboard the Disney Dream swiftly rescued two guests from the water. We commend our Crew Members for their exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship within minutes.”

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Passengers described the rescue in real time on social media. Kevin Furuta, who witnessed the incident, recounted in a Facebook post that a girl fell from the fourth deck.

“A girl fell overboard from the 4th deck & her dad went in after her,” she wrote. “Thankfully, the DCL rescue team was on it immediately and both were saved!”

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Dewayne Smith, another passenger, wrote that “Man Over Board” rang across the loudspeaker as rescue teams sprang into action.

“Lots of praying folks on this ship! Both the little girl and dad were both successfully rescued!” he wrote.

The rescue team launched life rings and deployed a rescue boat. There were no injuries reported in the incident.

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“We are committed to the safety and well-being of our guests, and this incident highlights the effectiveness of our safety protocols,” a Disney Cruise line spokesperson said.

The spokesperson did not confirm how the guests ended up in the water. Their ages were also not immediately released.

Americans weigh in on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’: polls

President Donald Trump is cheering on the GOP’s landmark spending and tax cut bill, as it faces judgment day in the Senate.

“ONE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL, is moving along nicely!” the president wrote in a social media post hours before the Senate on Monday began to take a slew of votes on the Republican-crafted measure.

The bill, which the president is insisting pass Congress and reach his desk by this Friday, July 4, is stuffed full of Trump’s campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and the debt limit. 

It includes extending his signature 2017 tax cuts and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay, providing billions for border security and codifying his controversial immigration crackdown.

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However, many of the latest national surveys indicate that Americans are far from thrilled with the measure.

By a 21-point margin, voters questioned in the most recent Fox News national poll opposed the federal budget legislation (38% favored vs. 59% opposed), which passed by the House of Representatives by just one vote last month.

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The bill was also underwater in national surveys conducted this month by the Washington Post (minus 19 points), Pew Research (minus 20 points) and Quinnipiac University (minus 26 points).

As Democrats attack the bill, they’re highlighting the GOP’s proposed restructuring of Medicaid — the nearly 60-year-old federal program that provides health coverage to roughly 71 million low-income Americans. Additionally, Senate Republicans increased cuts to Medicaid over what the House passed.

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The changes to Medicaid, as well as cuts to food stamps, another one of the nation’s major safety net programs, were drafted in part as an offset to pay for extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which are set to expire later this year. The measure includes a slew of new rules and regulations, including work requirements for many of those seeking Medicaid coverage.

Meanwhile, Republicans criticize Democrats opposing the bill for voting to increase taxes on most Americans.

About half of respondents questioned in the Fox News poll said the bill would hurt their family (49%), while one quarter thought it would help (23%), and another quarter didn’t think it would make a difference (26%).

Sixty percent felt they had a good understanding of what is in the measure, formally known as the One, Big, Beautiful Bill, and while those voters were more likely to favor the legislation than those who are unfamiliar with it, more still think it will hurt rather than help their family (45% vs. 34%).

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The latest surveys all indicate a wide partisan divide over the measure.

According to the Fox News poll, which was conducted June 13-16, nearly three-quarters of Republicans (73%) favored the bill, while nearly nine in ten Democrats (89%) and nearly three-quarters of independents (73%) opposed the measure.

Teachers’ union leaders clash over court decision on religious families’ rights

The bosses of America’s largest teachers’ unions appear to have taken opposite stances on the recent Supreme Court ruling about LGBTQ books in school, with one saying the “expertise of trained educational professionals” should have been deferred to, while the other said, “Parents must have a say.”

On Friday, the justices decided 6-3 in Mahmoud v. Taylor that parents could opt their children out of a Maryland public school system’s lessons that contain themes about homosexuality and transgenderism if they feel the material conflicts with their religious faith. 

“Students pay the price when books are censored and educators are silenced,” National Education Association President Becky Pringle said in reaction to the decision on BlueSky. 

“Today, in the ruling on Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court failed students. They have discounted and ignored the expertise of trained educational professionals, and harmed students in the process,” she added. “Shameful.” 

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The National Education Association is the largest teachers’ union in the country, presiding over 3 million members.

However, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said on Friday that parents and families should be respected.

“We have to respect all children and all families. Bad facts make bad law. Mahmoud should have been worked out on a local level, it’s a shame it went all the way to SCOTUS,” Weingarten said. “Parents must have a say about their own kids, they are our partners in education.”

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Weingarten shared similar sentiments on “The Story” in April, when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the case.

“This is something that has to be happening at the local level and not in the Supreme Court,” Weingarten said, while also noting that the books containing LGBTQ content are not ones she would read to children.

The two teachers’ union bosses usually align in political views, having both endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

In the past, Weingarten has pushed back on book challenges from parents. In 2023, Weingarten launched a hotline called “Freedom to Teach and Learn” to report instances of book banning and challenges against curricula.

Weingarten, the leader of the 1.7 million-member union, claimed at the time that “MAGA lawmakers have used culture wars to divide communities and other schemes that drain resources from public education.”

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Actor says Iran should build nukes to protect Middle East from US and Israel

Anti-Israel and anti-Trump actor John Cusack expressed hope last Friday that Iran will get a nuclear weapon.

In a post shared to X, the actor said Iran should get a nuclear weapon so that it can deter the U.S. and Israel’s aggression in the Middle East.

“Iran will surely rush to get a nuclear weapon- and they should get one,” he wrote, adding, “it’s the only way to deter US and Israel from bombing every country in Middle East.”

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Cusack published his post almost a week after President Donald Trump ordered U.S. military strikes on three major Iranian facilities believed to be developing nuclear weapons.

Long-range B-2 stealth bomber aircraft dropped 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on the locations on June 21 in an attack that Trump called “a spectacular military success.”

Cusack has been harshly critical of Israel’s actions in its war in Gaza and war with Iran on social media. Prior to posting support for Iran getting nukes, he appeared to suggest that U.S. support for Israel meant the country was supporting a “genocidal” regime.

He wrote, “Blind allegiance for Israel is alliance to a genocidal regeme[sic] –  it’s a nation state – run [by] a murderous gangster – not some fixed star.”

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Earlier, he posted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been killing innocent children, and he accused the U.S. of being complicit.

The actor also condemned both countries for recent strikes in Lebanon. 

“Isreal [sic] bombs Lebanon! [W]ell they can’t have any days when they are not illegally bombing someone while US grovels,” he wrote.

Additionally, Cusack posted that democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani winning the New York City mayoral Democratic primary was a “f— you to billionaires, dem establishment, and the genocide in Gaza – the bombing of Iran.”

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And in a post from last Wednesday, Cusack accused Israeli soldiers of murdering innocent Palestinians seeking aid and blasted Democratic Party figures for not speaking out about it.

“The fact that so many in the dem party will not speak out and work every day to stop this genocide –  Should haunt them for the rest of their lives – and end their political  careers,” he wrote in part.

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Rosie O’Donnell slams Bezos’ ‘gross excess’ wedding, attacks bride’s appearance

Rosie O’Donnell is sharing her two cents when it comes to Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos’ lavish, three-day Italian wedding.

On Monday, O’Donnell took to Instagram and shared side-by-side photos of Sánchez with “then and now” printed at the bottom.

“The BEZOS wedding. It turned my stomach seeing all these billionaires gathering in the gross excess of it all, the show of it. Is Oprah friends with Jeff [Bezos]. Really – how is that possible. He treats his employees with disdain. By any metric he is not a nice man,” O’Donnell’s caption began.

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She continued by attacking Sánchez’s appearance and praising Bezos’ ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott.

“And his fake fem bot wife. Who looks like that? Why would he choose her? After the salt of the earth MacKenzie. Sold his soul is what it looks like from here. The devil is smiling at all his conquests,” she concluded.

O’Donnell shared that she continued her commentary about Bezos’ wedding on her Substack account.

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On her Substack account, O’Donnell wrote, “Bezos was raised by a single mother. He knows exactly what he does. So do all of his guests. Posing for photos forgetting themselves. In their designer outfits. Ready for a ‘Vogue’ cover. A spot on ET. More worthless performative nonsense.”

She mentioned the Trump administration and how citizens have “become numb to gross excess. We have learned to tolerate it.” 

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“Celebrity worship. Devoid of humanity… As we worship the ones hurting us. Numbly asking for nothing. In an American stupor. Of [our] own making,” O’Donnell continued. 

Representatives for the newlyweds did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

The couple were married Friday, June 27, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore with A-list stars packing the guest list. 

Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Tom Brady and Sydney Sweeney were just a few of the stars in town for the Amazon founder’s wedding.

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O’Donnell isn’t the only celebrity who has taken aim at the Bezos-Sanchez wedding. 

Charlize Theron voiced her thoughts on Saturday while hosting the fifth annual Block Party for her Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project on the Universal Studios backlot.

Before diving into immigration policy issues, the Oscar-winner slammed the Bezos bash and its attendees.

“I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding,” Theron told the crowd, per The Hollywood Reporter. “But that’s OK because they suck, and we’re cool.”

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Ryan Lochte’s estranged wife hints at painful truth behind marriage split

Kayla Lochte, the wife of Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte, posted on social media about “betrayal” weeks after the couple announced they were getting a divorce.

Reid on Friday posted a slideshow of “reminders” she said she was telling herself amid the divorce with Lochte.

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“You’re stepping into the best chapter of your life – you just have to heal first,” the first slide read. “Sometimes God allows the betrayal…. because it leads to the breakthrough.

“Most people have no idea what I’ve endured. Ignore their opinions. Truth always reveals itself,” another slide read. 

“Divorce isn’t the end of my story. It’s the beginning of my rebirth,” she concluded.

Reid and Lochte revealed earlier this month that they were set for a divorce after seven years of marriage. TMZ reported Reid filed for divorce earlier this year, a decision that came “after deep prayer and reflection,” she said.

“I hold marriage in the highest regard, so this has been one of the most painful, revealing, and challenging seasons of my life. I’ve been hesitant to share until I could do so from a place of healing – not from fresh, open wounds,” Reid wrote on Instagram at the time.

“Sometimes we face trials we didn’t choose or see coming. And in those moments, we’re forced to make the hardest decisions to protect our peace, our children, and our future. I’ve come to understand that staying isn’t always the most loving decision someone can make. For me, leaving was an act of love – for those around me and for myself.”

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Lochte then took to Instagram, saying the decision “hasn’t been easy.”

“I want to take a moment to acknowledge what Kayla shared. This past year has brought major changes for both of us as we’ve come to the difficult decision to end our marriage. I’m deeply grateful for the life we’ve built together and especially for the love we share for our three children,” he wrote on social media.

“Although this decision hasn’t been easy, I believe it’s the right step toward peace and well-being for us both. I remain committed to healing, growth, and co-parenting with care and respect as we move forward. Thank you to our family and friends for your continued support – it truly means a lot as we begin this new chapter.”

The couple got engaged in 2016, the same year Lochte was involved in a controversial incident at a gas station during the Rio Olympics. Lochte initially claimed he and his teammates were robbed at gunpoint, but it was determined those with the guns were actually security guards at a gas station where the swimmers had urinated outside a bathroom. Lochte eventually lost four major sponsorships, and USA Swimming suspended him for 10 months.

Lochte won his sixth and final medal in Rio, a gold as part of the 4×200-meter freestyle.

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Reid was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for July 2015.

‘Thousands of North Korean operatives’ infiltrated US firms in massive fraud scheme

Federal authorities have unraveled several schemes by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) that were used to fund its regime through remote information technology (IT) work for U.S. companies, resulting in two indictments, tech and financial seizures and an arrest.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday that North Korean actors were helped by individuals in the U.S., China, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan to obtain employment with over 100 U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 companies.

In one scheme, U.S.-based individuals created front companies and fraudulent websites to promote the legitimacy of remote workers, while hosting laptop farms where remote North Korean IT workers could remotely access company-provided laptop computers.

In another scheme, IT workers in North Korea used false identities to gain employment with a blockchain research and development company in Atlanta, Georgia, and steal virtual currency worth over $900,000.

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Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg of the DOJ’s National Security Division said the schemes target and steal from U.S. companies and are designed to evade sanctions while funding illicit programs, including weapons programs, in North Korea.

“North Korea remains intent on funding its weapons programs by defrauding U.S. companies and exploiting American victims of identity theft, but the FBI is equally intent on disrupting this massive campaign and bringing its perpetrators to justice,” Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI Counterintelligence Division said. “North Korean IT workers posing as U.S. citizens fraudulently obtained employment with American businesses so they could funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to North Korea’s authoritarian regime.”

As part of its announcement about the North Korean scheme, the DOJ unsealed a five-count indictment against Zhenxing Wang, a U.S. national living in New Jersey, who has since been arrested.

Wang and his co-conspirators, the DOJ said, obtained remote IT work with U.S. companies and generated over $5 million in revenue.

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Also charged in the indictment are Chinese nationals Jing Bin Huang, Baoyu Zhou, Tong Yuze, Yongzhe Xu, Ziyou Yuan and Zhenbang Zhou. Taiwanese nationals Mengting Liu and Enchia Liu were also charged in the indictment.

Also indicted was U.S. national Kejia “Tony” Wang, also of New Jersey, who was charged separately.

“The threat posed by DPRK operatives is both real and immediate. Thousands of North Korean cyber operatives have been trained and deployed by the regime to blend into the global digital workforce and systematically target U.S. companies,” U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley for the District of Massachusetts said. “We will continue to work relentlessly to protect U.S. businesses and ensure they are not inadvertently fueling the DPRK’s unlawful and dangerous ambitions.”

The indictment alleges that from 2021 and through most of 2024, the defendants and other co-conspirators compromised the identities of over 80 people in the U.S. to obtain remote jobs at more than 100 companies. As a result, the victim companies incurred legal fees, computer network remediation costs and other damages and losses to the tune of at least $3 million.

Kejia and Zhenxing, along with at least four other U.S. facilitators, allegedly helped overseas IT workers with various parts of the scheme.

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For example, the allegations claim the U.S. facilitators received laptops from U.S. companies at their homes and enabled overseas IT workers to access the laptops remotely. This was done by connecting the laptops to hardware devices designed to allow for remote access — things like keyboard-video-mouse, or KVM, switches.

Kejia and Zhenxing allegedly established shell companies with websites and financial accounts to make it appear as though the overseas IT workers were affiliated with legitimate businesses in the U.S. Once established, the two allegedly received money from U.S. companies, and the funds were transferred to co-conspirators overseas.

In exchange for their services, Kejia, Zhenxing and the other four conspirators in the U.S. received at least $696,000 from the IT workers.

The DOJ said one of the companies the schemers allegedly accessed data from was a defense contractor that develops artificial intelligence-powered equipment and technology. By accessing the company’s data, the schemers were privy to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the DOJ said.

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The DOJ also announced that the FBI and Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) seized 17 web domains used as part of the scheme, along with 29 financial accounts holding tens of thousands of dollars, used to launder revenue for the North Korean regime.

The DOJ unveiled another part of the scheme, which resulted in a five-count wire fraud and money laundering indictment against four North Korean nationals: Kim Kwang Jin, Kang Tae Bok, Jong Pong Ju and Change Nam II.

The suspects are accused of scheming to steam virtual currency from two companies, with a value of over $900,000 at the time of the thefts, and to launder the proceeds.

All four nationals, the DOJ said, are at large and wanted by the FBI.

“The defendants used fake and stolen personal identities to conceal their North Korean nationality, pose as remote IT workers, and exploit their victims’ trust to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars,” U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg for the Northern District of Georgia said. “This indictment highlights the unique threat North Korea poses to companies that hire remote IT workers and underscores our resolve to prosecute any actor, in the United States or abroad, who steals from Georgia businesses.”

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The indictment alleges the four defendants traveled to the United Arab Emirates on North Korean travel documents and worked as a co-located team.

Jin and Ju were also allegedly hired by a blockchain research and development company in Atlanta, and a virtual token company based in Serbia.

While hired, Jin and Ju hid their North Korean identities from their employers and provided false identification documents, the DOJ alleged.

Both defendants ultimately earned the trust of their employers and allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from them in multiple instances. The funds were then laundered and transferred to accounts held by Bok and Nam, which were allegedly opened fraudulently using Malaysian identification documents.

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During the investigation, the FBI executed searches of 21 premises across 14 states that were hosting known and suspected laptop farms. During the execution, the FBI seized 137 laptops.

DAVID MARCUS: It’s good news that ‘Death to IDF’ punk band got a swift visa revocation

In one of the most easily justifiable decisions in recent memory, the Trump administration has revoked the visas of the English punk duo “Bob Vylan,” in response to their disgusting call to murder members of the Israeli Defense Force during the Glastonbury music festival this weekend.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau took to X on Monday, saying, “The (State Department) has revoked the US visas for the members of the Bob Vylan band in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants. Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.” 

From the stage, the lead singer (both band members are named Bobby Vylan – go figure) chanted “Death, Death to IDF,” to an adoring crowd of wealthy progressive useful idiots who shelled out upwards of $500 bucks a ticket for this Hamas hootenanny.

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The most generous interpretation of Vylan’s blatant call to violence, which is still horrendous, is that he only meant that active-duty members of Israel’s army should be murdered, but given that almost every Israeli has served in the IDF, it could certainly mean murdering all Israelis.

We are under absolutely no obligation as a nation to invite people to come and lecture our citizens about how we need more anti-Jewish violence.

This October, Bob Vylan was set to bring their eclectic mix of punk, rap, and incitement to violence against Jews to New York City but thankfully, the Trump administration isn’t letting that happen.

Critics will argue that barring these babbling buffoons from American stages is a violation of the principles of free expression, but there are limits to free expression, especially when it comes from foreign agitators seeking to sow chaos.

Even during the Ellis Island period from the 1880s to 1920, the most liberal and open immigration regime in our nation’s history, anarchists were among the very few groups, along with the sick, who were barred entry.

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The architects of immigration policy at the end of the 19th century had seen the turmoil and bloodshed wrought by anarchists in Europe, and they wanted no part of it at home.

Is it so different now? As we watch terrorist-supporting immigrants swarm Europe, creating their own no-go zones of Sharia law and rape gangs, shouldn’t we keep that as far from our shores as possible?

Just as the anarchists of 1900 brought violence and bombings in their wake, so too, virulent and violent anti-Israeli rhetoric has just recently led to the murder of two young Israelis in Washington, D.C., a firebombing of Jews in Boulder, Colorado, and an arsonist setting Jewish Pennsylvania Gov.  Josh Shapiro’s house ablaze.

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We are under absolutely no obligation as a nation to invite people to come and lecture our citizens about how we need more anti-Jewish violence.

This is also not a matter of artistic exchange between competing national ideologies.

When the Ukraine War broke out there were legitimate questions about whether Russian artists and athletes should be invited to events in the West, but last I checked, no ballerina or gymnast ever shouted “Death to the IDF” from the stage or balance beam.

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On Sunday, the British Broadcasting Service apologized for its live airing of Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury Jew hatred, saying, “The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves.” I’ll go one better, they have no place anywhere in the United States of America.

The Trump administration’s efforts to combat antisemitism, including telling these punk rock jokers to stay in England or go to Iran, could not be more timely.

For years, the hard left has used explicit calls for violence and justified them as fighting for the oppressed, even today, zany Zohran Mamdani, the Democrats’ socialist nominee for mayor of New York City, refuses to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada.”

Make no mistake, two Jewish kids about to get engaged were gunned down in cold blood in our nation’s capital by the globalizing of the intifada, and if Mamdani can’t condemn it then their blood is on his hands, too.

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But for his part, President Trump is making it clear that calls for violence against Jews will not be acceptable under his watch, and his administration has shown real courage in combating antisemitism on college campuses, and now in our concert halls.

Many American Jews are tired of sitting back while being told that explicit calls for violence against Israel are not antisemitism, in Donald Trump they have a powerful ally who will not accept the euphemisms or lies of the global anti-Israel left.

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