Rabbi Don Israel 🇮🇱

1/ Perpetrators within networks like the Com use everyday social media platforms and online gaming spaces to target and exploit vulnerable youth, coercing children and teens into self-harm, sharing sexually explicit images, and even running away from home. But the exploitation of minors is only part of the threat. ADL research finds that extremist imagery and rhetoric, including antisemitism, are deeply woven into these online communities, used to shock, glorify violence, and reinforce extremist ideology. This extreme ideology doesn’t just stay online. Since 2024, the ADL Center on Extremism has documented several attacks tied to gore sites, including school shootings whose perpetrators shared similar online footprints along their pathways to violence. ADL’s @BenAPopp spoke to @KGWNews about the threats these groups pose. kgw.com/article/news/crime/f…

There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of intellectually honest Jews worldwide who share this man’s sentiments.

Asked about recent debates over U.S. aid to Israel, former Secretary of State Tony Blinken said he hopes the U.S. will continue selling weapons to Israel and said he’s “very concerned” about newly elected officials who oppose Israel’s existence, not just its policies.