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Friday Nite Videos | September 25, 2026

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The Radical Solution to our Rigged Tax Code. Naza | Documentary. Ape News: Humans Give AI the Keys. Paige Gebhardt Cognetti | Political Ad. Playing For Change | Behind All Along The Watchtower.

Naza | Documentary

Award-winning documentary, produced with the team behind the Zone of Interest and directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, includes testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders

Israel’s Elections Committee Votes To Bar All Arab Parties

Michael Hauser Tov, Chen Maanit, Noa Shpigeland Jack Khoury Haaretz
The decision to ban the UAL, the Joint List and Balad's party leader Sami Abu Shehadeh and Jewish MK Ofer Cassif from Hadash is expected to reach the Israel High Court for review. The committee said they reject Israel as a Jewish and democratic state

Tidbits-Sept. 24: Reader Comments: We Know Where Talk of Erasing a Population for Generation Leads; Press Pool Turned Its Cameras Away; Was “Defund the Police” Crazy? And Defund? No; for or Against Murder of 20,000 Children; Resources; Virtual Events

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Reader Comments: We Know Where Talk of Erasing a Population for Generation Leads; Press Pool Turned Its Cameras Away; Was “Defund the Police” Crazy? and Defund? No; Are You For or Against the Murder of 20,000 Children; resources; virtual events;

Are the UK Sanctions on Israel Real Progress, or More Illusion?

Mitchell Plitnick Mondoweiss
The UK's new sanctions on Israeli settlements may be groundbreaking, but they're also full of loopholes. F-35 parts are exempt, the state itself is untouched, and enforcement won't start for months. Real progress, but far from enough.

It’s Not Just the West Bank Settlers. It’s Israel

Mairav Zonszein The New York Times
The West Bank is far more strategically and ideologically vital to Israel than any war it is fighting-it is the area in which Israel has the most longstanding, coherent and unchallenged goal: as much land for Jews with as few Palestinians as possible

Where Hatred Lies

Omer Bartov The New York Review of Books
A nuanced new history by Mark Mazower reminds us that antisemitism, an age-old threat to Jewish life, can be warped into a political tool—as we see today, when any criticism of Israel can be deemed antisemitic.
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