Swedish police probe water sabotage attempt on Gotland
Monday, March 3, 2025
How you pay the anti Semites of NYC
NYC politician funneled thousands of taxpayer dollars to her hubby’s organizations
A liberal City Council member known for anti-Israel remarks funneled more than $149,000 of taxpayer money to various Arab immigrant groups tied to her husband, The Post has learned.
Brooklyn Councilwoman Shahana Hanif (D-39) used her discretionary funding to pay various nonprofits where her husband is involved, including Arab American Association of New York, The Arab American Family Support Center and the New York Immigration Coalition.
And the pro-Palestinian lawmaker increased or decreased the amount she gave away to several groups depending on her husband’s involvement, according to public records.
Hanif’s husband, Abdullah Younus, joined the board of the Arab American Family Support center in 2024, when she donated $35,000 dollars to the group — a $15,000 increase from years prior. In the 2025 fiscal year, she upped the ante again — giving $50,000.
In 2022, Hanif donated to the Arab American Association while her then-boyfriend Younus was serving on the board, but dropped her funding when he left to join the Family Support Center.
Neither Hanif nor the Arab American Family Support Center disclosed any conflicts of interest to the New York City Council, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
Christine Doyle, 56, a retired attorney who lives in Hanif’s district discovered the councilwoman’s suspicious spending patterns after she became frustrated with the council member’s attitude toward her own community members.
“I don’t think there’s a group of constituents she hasn’t offended,” said Doyle.
“She was completely inaccessible with no physical office for over a year – and then when her office opened she was outright rude to constituents,” she said.
Doyle clarifies she doesn’t have an issue with the mission of the organizations receiving the funds, but the seemingly shady nature of the transactions.
“It’s like now we’re married, this organization is going to get 50,000 dollars,” Doyle said.
“You don’t do that – and if you do, you tell people you’re doing it. I liked her better when she was single in Gowanus with a cat,” she said.
Hanif has a history of controversy with her own constituents, as she represents neighborhoods with high Jewish populations including Park Slope and Kensington.
In 2023, she was arrested at a “Ceasefire now rally for Gaza” where protesters chanted anti-Israel slogans and she was one of only two council members to vote against instituting an “End Jewish Hatred Day” in New York.
Hanif said the claims were “false, and frankly desperate” though she didn’t contest the publicly available information.
“Before every budget vote, I’ve consulted directly with the Office of the General Counsel to ensure full compliance with disclosure requirements,” she said in a statement.
“Organizations like the New York Immigration Coalition, Arab American Association of New York, and the Arab-American Family Support Center provide critical services to my district while standing up against Eric Adams’ open collaboration with Donald Trump,” she went on. “Clearly, some have a problem with that, but I’m proud to stand by this work.”
Kidnapping and sex trafficking
Two men nabbed for kidnapping, sex trafficking after cops issue Amber Alert for missing 15-year-old NC girl
Wanna bet he's an illegal alien?
Brute randomly kicks elderly woman down staircase in NYC subway station, sparking manhunt: cops
Newsom the terrible
Newsom moves to clear flammable brush from California forests after Trump’s criticism over wildfire policies
We knew who you were before this!
NY Ex-Rep. Jamaal Bowman launches Super PAC to defeat pro-Israel pols ‘from Yonkers to Gaza’
Note the lack of diversity...the cost to the public for these arrests is enormous
Meet the five worst subway offenders in NYC — with 590 career busts between them: ‘Wanted, dangerous people’
They’re the Big Apple’s worst transit terrors.
The five worst subway career criminals in the five boroughs have a whopping 590 busts between them — including more than 100 arrests for violent felonies like robbery and rape, The Post has learned.
The five repeat offenders were among hundreds of transit terrors rounded up under a “quality of life” pilot program at NYPD transit districts in Brooklyn and Queens — and three of the alleged criminals are now behind bars.
“It’s encouraging that we can prove that with proper enforcement of the laws, shockingly, we can get actual known, wanted, dangerous people off the streets and out of the subway system without doing indiscriminate ’round ups,'” one law enforcement source said.
No perp identification is a clue
Pedestrian dead, dozens injured after driver rams into crowd in German city in terrifying scenes at street market
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Why Arabs Don't Want To Receive Palestinian Ex-Prisoners
Why Arabs Don't Want To Receive Palestinian Ex-Prisoners
The Jordanians and Lebanese, for their part, have not forgotten how Palestinians sparked civil wars in their countries in the 70s and 80s.
[The Arab countries'] refusal to take in Palestinian prisoners probably arises from the fact that these countries actually do not care about the Palestinians and even consider them an ungrateful people and troublemakers. Many Arabs also seem to have lost faith in the Palestinians' ability to implement reform and end rampant financial and administrative corruption in their governing bodies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
"The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization. Help us modern-minded, secular, liberal Muslims marginalize their influence by declaring what they are: a terrorist organization." — Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, in testimony before the US House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, July 11, 2018.
"In point of fact, nothing would be more pro-Muslim than the marginalization of the Muslim Brotherhood and its direct affiliates. Making the Muslim Brotherhood radioactive would allow the light to shine upon the most potent antagonists in Muslim communities: those who reject political Islamist groups and believe in liberty and the separation of mosque and state." — Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, in testimony before the US House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, July 11, 2018.
"Call on American Muslim leaders to take a position on the Muslim Brotherhood and its overarching theo-political ideology. I ask my fellow Muslims: Will they be the side of freedom, liberty, and modernity, or will they be on the side of tyranny of the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey's AKP, the Iranian Khomeinists, or Pakistan's Jamaat e-Islami?" — Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, in testimony before the US House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, July 11, 2018.
"Develop foreign policy mechanisms to disincentivize Qatari and Turkish Government facilitation of the Brotherhood and ultimately think about suspending Turkey from NATO." — Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, in testimony before the US House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, July 11, 2018.
"And please stop engaging Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups in government, media, and NGOs, and recognize their Islamist terrorist sympathies." — Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, in testimony before the US House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, July 11, 2018.
Such a designation would also make it far more difficult for the countries that support the Muslim Brotherhood, especially Turkey and Qatar, to keep on doing so. The Muslim Brotherhood has already been declared a terrorist organization by the governments of Austria, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Most of the Arab countries are refusing to receive Palestinians released from Israeli prison as part of the US-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire-hostage deal. In the past few weeks, Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners -- many of whom were imprisoned for acts of terrorism -- in return for Israeli hostages who kidnapped to the Gaza Strip during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel. At least 1,200 Israelis were murdered and thousands wounded on that day. Another 251 were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and "ordinary" Palestinians.
Some of the prisoners were released to the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and east Jerusalem. Many others were released to Egypt, with the hope that other Arab countries would host them. According to Palestinian sources, the Egyptians have agreed to allow only a handful of ex-prisoners to remain in Egypt, while dozens of others are searching for countries that will agree to receive them. With the exception of Qatar and Turkey (a non-Arab Muslim country), most of the Arab countries have reportedly refused to allow the released prisoners into their borders, the sources revealed.
The ex-prisoners, many of whom belong to the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups, are stuck in Cairo, where they are staying in hotels and hospitals.
The Arab countries that refused to host the ex-prisoners have not announced their position officially, for fear of facing a backlash from Palestinians and their own people. It seems the Arab states are not eager to provide shelter to Islamist jihadists who could join forces with other terror groups and pose a threat to the regimes that have taken them in.
The Jordanians and Lebanese, for their part, have not forgotten how Palestinians sparked civil wars in their countries in the 70s and 80s.
After the Palestinians tried to overthrow their host, King Hussein of Jordan, in 1970; then started a civil war in Lebanon right after that; then, when welcomed into Kuwait, took the side of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait in 1990, it is hard to blame any regime.
The refusal of the Arab countries to play host to the ex-prisoners is seen by many Palestinians and Arabs as yet another sign that the Arab heads of state and governments do not really care about the Palestinians, which largely may be true. It also exposes the big difference between the Arabs' public support for the Palestinians and their true actions, or rather inaction, to help them.
Egyptian-American author Dr. Sam Yousef commented:
"Arabs are really a disgrace to humanity and Islam!
"Tunisia and Jordan refuse to receive any of the released deported prisoners stuck in Egypt, and Algeria has not responded yet, while Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan will each receive 45 prisoners."
Nizam Mahdawi, a former Palestinian correspondent for several Arab satellite channels, also expressed outrage with the Arab countries for refusing to host the ex-prisoners:
"Algeria gave initial approval to receive a number of prisoners from a specific faction [belonging to the ruling Fatah faction headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas], while Tunisia refused to receive any of the released prisoners.
"The Algerian regime raised the slogan of solidarity with Palestine and affirmed that it is its cause and that it will not abandon the Palestinians, but now it agrees to receive prisoners from a specific faction only. Yet, it has not received anyone so far.
"As for Tunisia, its president, Kais Saied, used the Palestinian cause as a slogan for his election campaign, but today he refuses to receive the released prisoners.
"A nation that is unable to receive its heroes! If the rejection was out of fear of Israel and America, Turkey and Pakistan agreed to receive them without fearing anyone. This is a lack of courage [on the part of the Arabs].
"We are in the stage where the masks are being removed."
The Palestinian social media account Al-Quds Yantafeth ("Jerusalem Erupts") pointed out that many of the ex-prisoners remain stranded in Egypt:
"The prisoners who were released and deported from Palestine and now stuck in hotels in Cairo. They are still wearing their prison clothes and have not changed them.
"There is no Arab country willing to accept them, not even those countries that were crying over the Gaza Strip, the Gazans and Palestine [during the Israel-Hamas war], and even keyboard heroes are unable to pressure their governments to accept the prisoners."
The Arab countries' refusal to receive the ex-prisoners should not come as a surprise to those familiar with the problematic relationship between the Palestinians and their Arab brethren. It is not uncommon to hear from many Palestinians how they have always felt betrayed by the Arab countries.
Most of the Arab states did almost nothing to help the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the war, which was triggered by the October 7 massacre of Israelis.
Their refusal came about partly because those countries despise Hamas and, unsurprisingly, consider it a threat to their national security.
The refusal to take in Palestinian prisoners probably arises from the fact that these countries actually do not care about the Palestinians and even consider them an ungrateful people and troublemakers. Many Arabs also seem to have lost faith in the Palestinians' ability to implement reform and end rampant financial and administrative corruption in their governing bodies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Many Arabs have evidently not forgotten how the Palestinians sided with Iraq's then dictator Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait in 1990. Kuwait was one of many wealthy Arab countries that used to provide the Palestinians with millions of dollars in aid every year. After Iraq invaded Kuwait, most of the Palestinians there took Hussein's side, not Kuwait's. When the Iraqi occupiers were driven out of Kuwait in 1991, roughly 400,000 Palestinians who had lived and worked in the emirate found themselves abruptly deported.
In the past few decades, many Arab states, despite repeated pledges of hundreds of millions of dollars, have significantly reduced financial aid to the Palestinians. According to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Finance Ministry, the PA's funding from Arab countries dropped from $265.5 million in 2019 to $40 million in 2020. The biggest cut was from Saudi Arabia, which reduced its $174.7 million aid to the PA in 2019 to only $32 million in 2020 -- a decrease of 81.4%.
The Arab countries' refusal to accept the released Palestinian prisoners also shows what a mistake it would be to rely on these countries to assist in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip in the post-war era.
The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, has become the source of almost all Sunni Islamic extremism and terrorism, and is currently represented in more than 70 countries. Its ideology is being spread throughout the Middle East and Asia by Qatar's Al-Jazeera broadcasting empire, as well as in Europe and the United States. The motto of the Muslim Brotherhood is:
"Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."
Ironically, both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in what must be one of the few matters about which they agree, recently banned Al-Jazeera from operating in their jurisdictions.
It would be extremely helpful if the US were officially to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, in addition to Hamas, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It is the root from which so many of the Islamic terrorist organizations grow.
Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, an observant American Muslim, testified in 2018 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security:
"The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization. Help us modern-minded, secular, liberal Muslims marginalize their influence by declaring what they are: a terrorist organization.
"Unfortunately, much of the conversation about the Brotherhood has been obstructed, muted, marginalized, deferred, minimized by the Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers or their allies here in the West....
"In point of fact, nothing would be more pro-Muslim than the marginalization of the Muslim Brotherhood and its direct affiliates. Making the Muslim Brotherhood radioactive would allow the light to shine upon the most potent antagonists in Muslim communities: those who reject political Islamist groups and believe in liberty and the separation of mosque and state...
"So my final recommendations, Chairman, is to, one, designate the MB a foreign terrorist organizations beginning in Egypt, and then on a country-country basis in Libya, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, and Yemen. Call on American Muslim leaders to take a position on the Muslim Brotherhood and its overarching theo-political ideology.
"I ask my fellow Muslims: Will they be the side of freedom, liberty, and modernity, or will they be on the side of tyranny of the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey's AKP, the Iranian Khomeinists, or Pakistan's Jamaat e-Islami?
"Develop foreign policy mechanisms to disincentivize Qatari and Turkish Government facilitation of the Brotherhood and ultimately think about suspending Turkey from NATO....
"And please stop engaging Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups in government, media, and NGOs, and recognize their Islamist terrorist sympathies."
Such a designation would also make it far more difficult for the countries that support the Muslim Brotherhood, especially Turkey and Qatar, to keep on doing so. The Muslim Brotherhood has already been declared a terrorist organization by the governments of Austria, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Many of these Arabs understand that Hamas and many other Palestinians have no intention of abandoning the fight against Israel, a move that will result in more violence, bloodshed and destruction. That is also probably why no Arab country is going to invest one dollar in the Gaza Strip as long as Hamas remains in power and as long as Palestinian children are indoctrinated to murder Jews.
Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.
The Resistance To Climate Alarmism Grows
The Resistance To Climate Alarmism Grows
The end is near. That’s what we’ve been told since the beginning. The doomsdayers have cited a variety of cataclysms that will do us in, from asteroids to resource exhaustion to a dying sun. But they all have one thing in common: So far, they’ve all been wrong. Same with the climate alarmists. And the public is catching on.
A study, published by the Stanford University School of Sustainability, no less, found that “resistance to climate action has become a global movement that strengthens after governments implement climate-related policies.”
“We found that counter climate change organizations tend to emerge after pro-environmental policies are institutionalized in government,” said the study’s senior author.
Of course they do. As our friends at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity observed, this has happened “maybe because the war on fossil fuels has deindustrialized Germany and many other European nations. Maybe it’s because green energy is so much more expensive to produce. Maybe because the biggest polluters like China have done nothing.”
Let’s add another “maybe.” The resistance is likely also based on a growing skepticism. We have been bombarded by global warming scare stories for more than three decades and yet we’re still here. No matter how much the alarmists cheat, lie, obfuscate and bully, it’s obvious that the entire narrative is based on assumptions, speculation and political ideology. Every claim they make can be easily refuted. To name a few, which we’ll call the big three:
We just lived through the hottest year/month/week/day on record. This is meaningless. Hottest compared to what? The only reliable measure we have is from satellite readings that go back to only 1979 and they show nothing to get worked up about.
All other data are entirely unreliable. Mixing tree rings, mercury thermometer records that are “adjusted,” numbers from nonexistent and compromised weather stations and modern equipment to whip up widespread fear is scientific malpractice.
Let us muddy the climate waters even more by mentioning that the concept of a “global temperature” is “thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility.”
The experts, using their climate models, tell us that we’re headed toward disaster. Steve Koonin, who is no Republican operative nor corporate shill but a Massachusetts Institute of Technology- and CalTech-educated physicist and Obama appointee, has pointed out that results produced by models “generally don’t much look like the climate system we observe.” To keep the fearmongering hot, the “modelers then adjust (‘tune’) these parameters to get a better match with some features of the real climate system.”
“Climate models overheat,” is another way to say it.Let’s add another “maybe.” The resistance is likely also based on a growing skepticism. We have been bombarded by global warming scare stories for more than three decades and yet we’re still here. No matter how much the alarmists cheat, lie, obfuscate and bully, it’s obvious that the entire narrative is based on assumptions, speculation and political ideology. Every claim they make can be easily refuted. To name a few, which we’ll call the big three:
We just lived through the hottest year/month/week/day on record. This is meaningless. Hottest compared to what? The only reliable measure we have is from satellite readings that go back to only 1979 and they show nothing to get worked up about.
All other data are entirely unreliable. Mixing tree rings, mercury thermometer records that are “adjusted,” numbers from nonexistent and compromised weather stations and modern equipment to whip up widespread fear is scientific malpractice.
Let us muddy the climate waters even more by mentioning that the concept of a “global temperature” is “thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility.”
We just lived through the hottest year/month/week/day on record. This is meaningless. Hottest compared to what? The only reliable measure we have is from satellite readings that go back to only 1979 and they show nothing to get worked up about.
All other data are entirely unreliable. Mixing tree rings, mercury thermometer records that are “adjusted,” numbers from nonexistent and compromised weather stations and modern equipment to whip up widespread fear is scientific malpractice.
Let us muddy the climate waters even more by mentioning that the concept of a “global temperature” is “thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility.”
The experts, using their climate models, tell us that we’re headed toward disaster. Steve Koonin, who is no Republican operative nor corporate shill but a Massachusetts Institute of Technology- and CalTech-educated physicist and Obama appointee, has pointed out that results produced by models “generally don’t much look like the climate system we observe.” To keep the fearmongering hot, the “modelers then adjust (‘tune’) these parameters to get a better match with some features o
f the real climate system.”
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