BY: ELIANA JONSHON 2 JUL 2026 ---------------------- https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W-vK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59a450c8-de88-4ac8-8141-6a1510b6da67_778x518.jpeg Ramy Abdu (Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor) The Hamas-linked founder of the anti-Israel advocacy group Euro-Med Monitor is defending Gaza-based “journalists” who serve double duty as Hamas terrorists, writing in an Arabic-language Facebook post that it’s their “right” to engage “in acts of resistance.” The group, led by Ramy Abdu, happened to be a key source in New York Times columnist Nick Kristof’s outlandish May 11 piece accusing Israel of training dogs to rape Palestinians—and the Times won’t comment on Abdu’s remarks, our Adam Kredo reports. Abdu, who has known ties to senior Hamas terrorists, acknowledged in his June 23 post that a “limited number” of “slain journalists had engaged in acts of resistance prior to their journalistic work—a right belonging to a people living under injustice and occupation, which no fair-minded person can deny.” He also said that the publication of Palestinian “obituary statements” listing the “slain journalists” as terrorists “serves the false Israeli narrative.” The post came two days before another primary source cited in the Kristof piece, the New York City-based Committee to Protect Journalists, announced a wholesale review of its list of journalists killed in Gaza, which has included dozens of confirmed terrorists. “While the Times’s public relations department has vigorously defended Kristof’s report, and the sources behind it, the outlet has declined to comment—or not responded to requests for comment—as both the CPJ and Euro-Med Monitor are picked apart by various media watchdog groups. Two senior Times employees are on the CPJ’s prestigious board of directors, including the anti-Israel polemicist Lydia Polgreen,” writes Kredo. “The Times did not respond to a request for comment on Abdu’s remarks, questions about Euro-Med Monitor’s credibility, or its reliance on the CPJ’s slain journalists list for the Kristof piece and multiple other reports published by the outlet’s two newsrooms.” READ MORE: Key Source for Kristof’s New York Times Gaza ‘Rape’ Column Now Claims Palestinian ‘Journalists’ Can Also Be Terrorists: Times Won’t Comment Elsewhere: Kamala Harris is plotting a presidential comeback run in 2028 by… calling socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani “to talk about the party’s future” and “holding lengthy, closed-door meetings with other prominent progressives—including pro-Palestinian activists,” Axios reported. She met with a founder of the Uncommitted Movement that demanded a Palestinian speaker at the Democratic National Convention and declined to endorse Harris in 2024. Best of luck. Harris isn’t the only prominent Democrat courting the terrorist sympathizers. Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed recently said he was “honored” to earn the endorsement of the Dearborn-based Arab American Political Action Committee, led by an unabashed supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah who has called for Israeli Jews to be sent “back to Poland.” Remember former CNN “chief national security correspondent” Alex Marquardt, who was canned from the network after he smeared a Navy veteran, refused to apologize, and then lost a multimillion-dollar defamation judgment? He has a new job hosting a show called This Is America for—wait for it—the Qatari state-run Al Jazeera English channel. Marquardt clearly needed the money—after all, flights to his family’s 400-year-old estate in Mallorca, Spain, aren’t cheap. Another week, another batch of headlines detailing panic among House Democrats as socialists take over their caucus. This time they were reacting to socialist Melat Kiros’s defeat of a 15-term incumbent in Denver. “One more case in the growing dynamic of performative politics,” one House Democrat told Axios. “I told everyone that would listen in 2024, that Trump winning was like manna from heaven to DSA,” said another, referencing the Democratic Socialists of America. The socialist takeover is a particular problem for House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.), who is likely to face a mutiny when the 120th Congress kicks off in January. In the wake of her win, for example, Kiros told Politico that she will oppose “any of the incumbents that are standing in our way by taking that kind of corporate PAC money,” including Jeffries. Check out our full Thursday lineup below. Darializa Avila Chevalier’s Hostility to Interracial Romances and ‘Ugly Colonizer Women’ Earns Praise From Ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke ‘What Would Jesus Do? Socialism’: Archived Website Shows Colorado Democrat Pushed for ‘Socialistic Society’ Key Source for Kristof’s New York Times Gaza ‘Rape’ Column Now Claims Palestinian ‘Journalists’ Can Also Be Terrorists: Times Won’t Comment ‘I Am Honored’: Abdul El-Sayed Accepts Endorsement From Arab-American PAC Led by Hamas Cheerleader Who’s Called for Israeli Jews To Be Sent ‘Back to Poland’ Wisconsin Dem House Candidate Touts College Students ‘From Minnesota’ as Crucial ‘Voting Bloc’: ‘Let’s Re-Register Them, Like, That’s Great’ Thanks for reading the Washington Free Beacon! Subscribe for free to receive new posts.