A journalist in Gaza who contributed to Al Jazeera held Israeli hostages in his family home, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday after a special forces operation rescued four hostages in central Gaza. The journalist, Abdallah Aljamal, was killed in the IDF operation on Saturday, which freed three hostages in his home. In a post on
A super PAC aligned with President Joe Biden is working with young TV writers, directors, and producers to increase the octogenarian president’s underwhelming youth support. Won’t PAC Down has “hired millennial and Gen Z writers, directors and producers”—including those who have worked on TV shows such as Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, and Big
Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors resigned from the embattled charity in 2021, but the charity suffered from the excesses of her tenure well into 2023, according to a copy of its latest tax return obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Under Cullors’s leadership, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation doled out massive contracts to
TEL AVIV—President Joe Biden has admonished Israelis to stop waging “indefinite war” and embrace his plan for Middle East peace. But more than half a dozen war-weary Israeli reserve soldiers told the Washington Free Beacon that Biden’s diplomacy is actually dragging out the Gaza war he is pressing Israel to bring to an end. By
No arrests were made on Saturday when pro-Hamas protesters surrounded the White House and scuffled with police as they advocated for Israel’s destruction, vandalized property, and called on Hamas to continue murdering Jews, the Secret Service and Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon. Thousands of protesters from across the country descended
What makes America exceptional—different from other nations—is that our nation’s strength and unity are not based on blood and soil or throne and altar. America is a racially, ethnically, religiously, and culturally pluralistic nation. It is more pluralistic today in these respects than ever before, but it was always pluralistic. What is it, then, that
On August 12, 2022, a man tried to kill Salman Rushdie. As the author prepared to deliver a talk in Chautauqua, N.Y.—on, ironically enough, the importance of keeping writers safe from harm—his assailant leapt up from the audience, ran on stage toward Rushdie, and stabbed him repeatedly in a frenzy of violence that was witnessed