British police on Sunday said they’re “aware” of “Death to the IDF” chants in London at an annual anti-Israel rally that was originally established by the Iranian regime, but that indictments depend on prosecutors.
The Crown Prosecution Service declined to say whether it would act on the chants.
Pascal Robinson-Foster, a musician whose stage name is Bobby Vylan and is part of the Bob Vylan duo, led the chants at a rally in central London for al-Quds Day. Police arrested 12 people there for disruptive behavior or displaying symbols of a proscribed terrorist entity.
The event was launched by Iran and popularized internationally to express support for the Palestinians and oppose Zionism and Israel’s existence. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. The event is held at the end of Ramadan.
Organizers in London sought a permit to march through the city but police allowed them to hold a static rally instead.
In a post on X, the Metropolitan Police wrote: “We are aware of chanting made by a speaker at the Al Quds protest and will be investigating.” A spokesperson added: “We recognise the concern footage and chanting like this causes, particularly with London’s Jewish communities.”The spokesperson said: “When this language had been used previously we sought advice from the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] who determined that there would be insufficient evidence to take a case forward.”
No criminal charges were brought against Robinson-Foster after he led “Death to the IDF” chants at the Glastonbury music festival in June 2025. The chants prompted several criminal complaints.
James Marlow, a political analyst and former head of the U.K. National Jewish Assembly, criticized prosecutors for failing to address the “Death the IDF” chant, which many British Jews interpret as a call to murder Israelis and Jews.
“It’s ONLY a call to violence and hate crime, but who cares as it’s just against the Jews,” Marlow wrote on X, telling the Crown Prosecution Service: “Do your job.”
Queried by JNS, a spokesperson for the CPS wrote in an email: “We carefully consider each case referred to us for charging decision or early advice to see whether it can be taken to court.”
Where the evidence is insufficient, the CPS works “with police to identify what more can be done,” the spokesperson said. “Hateful chanting or waving of offensive flags may constitute an offence and where behavior goes beyond lawful protest we will not hesitate to prosecute.” JNS
President Donald Trump publicly voiced support for conservative commentator Mark Levin on Sunday as Levin’s heated dispute with podcaster Megyn Kelly intensified online.
In a post on Truth Social late Sunday, Trump praised Levin and defended him against critics, describing the radio host as a “truly Great American Patriot” who was “somewhat under siege by other people with far less Intellect, Capability, and Love for our Country.”
Trump continued by emphasizing Levin’s intellect and character, writing that Levin is “far smarter than those who criticize him but, above all, he is a man of Great Wisdom and Common Sense who truly loves our Country.”
The public show of support came as Levin and Kelly exchanged sharp personal attacks over the weekend. Their argument unfolded against the backdrop of a wider dispute among several prominent conservative media personalities — including Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, and Candace Owens — with disagreements touching in part on U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran.
Trump suggested that Levin’s critics were driven by resentment, accusing them of attacking the talk show host out of envy. He wrote that those targeting Levin were “jealous and angry Human Beings, whose ‘sway’ is much less than the Public understands.”
“Those that speak ill of Mark will quickly fall by the wayside, as do the people whose ideas, policies, and footings are not sound,” he wrote.
Trump then linked his support for Levin to broader foreign policy concerns, particularly the threat posed by Iran.
“THEY ARE NOT MAGA, I AM, and MAGA includes not allowing Iran, a Sick, Demented, and Violent Terrorist Regime, to have a Nuclear Weapon to blow up the United States of America, the Middle East, and, ultimately, the rest of the World,” Trump railed.
Levin responded warmly to the president’s comments, saying he was deeply moved by the message.
“Your courage, strength, and moral clarity are truly unparalleled. And your leadership has made our country and the world much safer,” the pundit wrote on X. “Both you and what you are doing deserve our support. And I will not be intimidated and bow to threats.”
The clash between Levin and Kelly intensified after Kelly shared a post from Drop Site News co-founder Ryan Grim. The post claimed that the suspect in last week’s synagogue bombing in Michigan had lost relatives in a recent Israeli airstrike.
Levin, who has been a vocal defender of Israel and a harsh critic of commentators such as Carlson and Owens, reacted angrily to Kelly’s post, labeling her “evil” and “diabolical.”
Kelly has taken a critical stance toward the military campaign conducted by the United States and Israel against Iran and has resisted calls from some quarters to condemn Carlson and Owens, who hold similar views.
The online feud escalated further Sunday morning when Levin posted a string of personal attacks directed at Kelly.
“Poor Megyn Kelly. An emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck,” Levin wrote Sunday morning. “She’s completely revealed and destroyed herself.
“She’s everything people say she is, but much worse. Never an intelligent, thoughtful, or substantive comment. Utterly toxic.”
Kelly quickly fired back with her own response on social media, mocking Levin and accusing him of repeatedly targeting her in crude posts.
“He tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible. Literally more than some stalkers I’ve had arrested. He doesn’t like it when women like me fight back.”
Levin currently hosts a program on Fox News. Kelly previously served as a primetime anchor at the network before later moving to NBC and eventually launching her own independent media platform.
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As Jewish families around the world prepare their homes for Pesach cleaning, organizing, and getting ready for the Chag one family in Eretz Yisrael is facing a heartbreaking reality: they have no home to prepare.
Several months ago, the Shachar family’s life was shattered when an electric scooter battery suddenly exploded inside their home, igniting a massive blaze that consumed everything within minutes. The fire left the family with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Their home, their belongings, their memories all reduced to ashes.
But the physical destruction was only the beginning.
The Shachars’ young son suffered severe, life‑altering burns across his body. Since the tragedy, he has been undergoing long, painful rehabilitation, with doctors warning that the road to recovery will take years. His father, Reb Avraham Shachar, a respected sofer who supported his family with dignity, was forced to stop working entirely in order to care for his injured child and his other children, who are struggling with deep emotional trauma.
Today, as Erev Pesach approaches, the contrast is painful. While families across Klal Yisrael are preparing their homes for Yom Tov, the Shachar family is living in a small temporary apartment, fighting simply to get through each day. Instead of cleaning for Pesach, they are battling insurance companies, overwhelming expenses, and the crushing weight of rebuilding a life from nothing.
Community leaders who visited the family described the situation as “heartbreaking beyond words” and emphasized that the family cannot manage without the support of Klal Yisrael.
The financial burden is enormous: medical treatments, trauma therapy for the children, basic living expenses, and the massive cost of rebuilding a completely destroyed home. With Reb Avraham unable to work, the family’s situation has become urgent.
A special fund The Rescue Fund for the Shachar Family has been established to help them rebuild their home, continue the child’s treatments, and restore stability to a family that has endured unimaginable suffering.
As one neighbor put it: “No Jewish family should face Pesach like this. Not when we can help.”
Klal Yisrael is being asked to come together during these days of preparation and chesed to help the Shachar family rise from the ashes and rebuild their lives.
The so-called ‘MAGA War’ was red hot long before the Iran War began, but now it’s ramped up even more, with Tucker Carlson visiting President Trump in the Oval Office a couple of times to try and talk him out of it. That battle of ideas is going nowhere fast, which is why presidential hopeful Ted Cruz sensationally branded Tucker ‘the most dangerous demagogue’… Tucker joined Piers Morgan to further discuss his thoughts on the war, his meetings with Trump and his feelings about Cruz and more.
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Israel’s military campaign against Iran, conducted alongside the United States, is advancing according to plan and even more quickly than originally anticipated, senior defense officials said Sunday, Times of Israel reports. At the same time, the military is preparing to expand attacks on Iran’s defense manufacturing sector while continuing operations aimed at limiting missile launches toward Israel.
Although progress has been faster than projected, Israeli officials say the operation is expected to continue for at least several more weeks. The military still has thousands of targets to strike across Iran, including sites in Tehran and other areas of the country.
“We have thousands of targets ahead,” IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin told CNN on Sunday. “We are ready, in coordination with our US allies, with plans through at least the Jewish holiday of Passover, about three weeks from now. And we have deeper plans for even three weeks beyond that.”
The war began with a series of targeted Israeli strikes on February 28 that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, along with more than forty senior Iranian officials. Since then, the IDF has carried out sustained attacks against ballistic missile launch systems and air defense networks. Military officials say the focus of the campaign has now shifted toward dismantling Iran’s defense manufacturing infrastructure.
According to Israeli officials, the current war differs dramatically from the brief twelve-day conflict that took place in June 2025 and is far broader in scope.
During that earlier confrontation, Israel concentrated primarily on neutralizing what it viewed as an imminent danger: Iran’s progress toward acquiring nuclear weapons and its accelerated production of ballistic missiles. The current campaign, however, is intended to go much further by removing not only the immediate threat posed by Iran but also the broader long-term strategic danger to Israel.
As a result, the military is now working to systematically damage Iran’s entire military production network, targeting facilities connected to ballistic missiles, nuclear development, and other weapons systems.
Iran’s defense industry is extensive and includes multiple branches of the military along with private companies that develop components used in weapons systems. These organizations manufacture a wide range of capabilities, including missile technology, air defense systems, naval weapons, cyber warfare tools, and even reconnaissance satellites.
Israel has targeted elements of Iran’s weapons industry before. In October 2024, Israeli fighter jets struck facilities producing planetary mixers used in the manufacturing of solid fuel for long-range ballistic missiles. Similar attacks were carried out during the June 2025 conflict, when Israel targeted locations tied to missile and air defense production.
Officials say the current campaign is far more comprehensive. The IDF now intends to strike every facility connected to Iran’s weapons production process, covering the entire chain of development and manufacturing.
Since the start of the war, Israel has already attacked more than 1,700 sites tied to Iran’s military industry, and hundreds of additional targets remain on the list.
The targets include major defense companies linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which produce ballistic missiles and other advanced weaponry, as well as smaller firms that supply key components for those systems.
According to Israeli officials, these strikes have inflicted heavy damage on Iran’s missile manufacturing sector. As a result, they say Iran currently lacks the capability to produce new ballistic missiles.
Israel has also continued striking facilities connected to Iran’s nuclear program, targeting research centers and companies involved in developing components used in atomic weapons.
In addition to military industry targets, Israeli strikes have focused on what officials describe as the regime’s “centers of power.” These include command headquarters and facilities used by internal security forces and the Basij paramilitary organization responsible for suppressing protests.
Military officials estimate that between 4,000 and 5,000 Iranian soldiers have been killed during Israeli strikes, with tens of thousands more wounded. Many of those casualties, they say, come from the regime’s internal security apparatus and the Basij militia.
Officials also report signs of weakening morale among Iranian troops, including cases of soldiers refusing orders or abandoning their posts.
These developments appear to be most evident among personnel responsible for operating Iran’s ballistic missile systems. Israeli officials say attacks on command centers and replacement headquarters have sharply reduced the number of missiles fired at Israel in recent days.
At the same time, the Israeli Air Force continues actively searching for and destroying missile launch platforms. In recent days alone, dozens of launchers have reportedly been destroyed, including several that were prepared to fire toward Israel.
Overall, the military says it has eliminated or disabled roughly seventy percent of Iran’s estimated fleet of about 500 ballistic missile launchers. However, officials acknowledge that Iran has previously demonstrated the ability to build new launch systems relatively quickly, as it did following the 2025 war.
Israeli airstrikes have also focused heavily on Iran’s air defense network. Within the first day of the conflict, the IDF reported gaining aerial superiority in certain parts of the country, allowing Israeli aircraft to carry out large-scale strikes in Tehran and other regions with reduced risk.
Military officials say the Israeli Air Force now enjoys air dominance over most of Iran’s airspace after destroying more than one hundred air defense systems and roughly 120 detection installations.
At the same time, Israeli operations continue targeting the Quds Force, the IRGC’s overseas operations arm, both inside Iran and in Lebanon.
Israeli leaders say the joint campaign with the United States is intended to weaken the Iranian regime’s military capabilities, push threats farther away from Israel, and help create conditions that could eventually allow the Iranian population to challenge and potentially overthrow the ruling government.
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President Donald Trump dismissed reports suggesting a breakdown in relations between Washington and Yerushalayim during a phone interview with Israel’s Channel 14 on Sunday, strongly denying an Axios report that claimed disagreements had surfaced over the ongoing war against Iran.
Responding to the report, Trump flatly rejected the suggestion that tensions exist between the two governments.
“Wrong. Fake news. Third-grade fake news. The relationship has never been better,” Trump said, adding that the campaign against Iran is progressing at a wonderful pace.”
Trump also offered strong praise for Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, crediting him with playing a decisive role in Israel’s survival.
“You wouldn’t even have Israel right now if Bibi weren’t the prime minister. I’m all for Bibi.”
When asked whether the United States might take a direct military role in the fighting against Iran and its network of regional proxies, Trump declined to provide a clear answer.
Trump also urged Arab nations in the region to take part in efforts against Iran, particularly in ensuring that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains open.
“In keeping the Strait [of Hormuz] open – yes. They get all the oil, We don’t get anything from the Strait, so they should participate. The countries that get the oil, should keep the Strait open, not the US. We will help them a lot.”
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President Donald Trump is seeking to organize a multinational coalition to restore shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, with plans to potentially unveil the effort later this week, according to four sources who spoke with Axios on Sunday.
At the same time, U.S. officials say the administration is examining the possibility of taking control of Iran’s major oil terminal on Kharg Island if tankers continue to be unable to leave the Persian Gulf. Any attempt to seize the facility would likely require deploying American forces on the ground.
The discussions come as global energy prices climb following Iran’s blockade of the strategically vital waterway. The closure has interrupted the flow of a substantial share of the world’s crude oil shipments.
Tehran has prevented Gulf states from exporting their oil through the strait while permitting vessels carrying Iranian crude to pass, allowing the regime to continue selling oil to China and other buyers.
One individual familiar with the situation told Axios that if the blockade persists and Gulf oil exports remain constrained, Trump would not be in a position to end the conflict even if he wanted to.
While speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said he expects NATO countries and other major energy-importing nations — including China — to take part in securing the waterway.
“We are talking to other countries about policing the straits. It will be nice to have other countries policing with us. We will help. We are getting a good response,” Trump said.
Trump indicated that negotiations are underway with seven different countries regarding participation. He acknowledged that some governments have already declined but said the operation would still be limited in scale because Iran has “very little firepower” left.
At the same time, U.S. forces have continued striking Iranian targets across the country, concentrating in particular on locations near the Persian Gulf and around Kharg Island.
Kharg Island sits roughly 15 miles off Iran’s coastline and serves as the hub for about 90 percent of the country’s crude oil exports.
Trump said on Friday that he had directed attacks against military facilities on the island but had intentionally avoided hitting its oil infrastructure. In comments to NBC on Saturday, he remarked that the U.S. “may hit it a few more times just for fun.”
A senior White House official cautioned that no determination has been made about further action involving the island.
“No one should read into anything more than what the president announced,” the official said. “The president has made no decisions on Kharg Island.”
Still, the official noted that circumstances could shift if diplomatic and military efforts to reopen the strait fail.
“The president is not going to wait around and let the Iranians dictate the pace of the conflict,” the official said.
Another U.S. official said Trump has expressed interest in the possibility of seizing Kharg Island itself, characterizing the move as an “economic knockout of the regime” that could severely undermine Tehran’s financial lifeline.
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