Okay, good morning. I want to talk to you about fake news and why it is a national security threat, using the example of Brad Lander, because this is the example that showed up most recently when he claimed that he was detained in Israel for the crime of harvesting olives. Brad Lander makes me want to throw up.

It has now been revealed that Lander’s trip was organized by a group that handed him talking points explicitly stating that being detained in Israel helps the cause of the Palestinians—basically, that this has nothing to do with picking olives and everything to do with making Israel look bad. And Israel came out and said, “We told him he was going into a restricted security area,” which he totally ignored.

We told him he had to coordinate with us, and he totally ignored that, too. All he wanted was—you know, I don’t know if you saw the Brad Lander selfie—that selfie.

Now he looks like an idiot. Well, I don’t know if you recall, but this same Brad Lander, a politician from New York City, made a big fuss about ICE. He showed himself in a tussle with ICE.

He also wanted to make ICE look bad. And a politically aligned politician, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)—in 2019—claimed that migrant detention centers… okay, this is where, you know, illegal aliens… they’re not illegal people, but if you come over here and you are doing it illegally, you’re called an illegal alien. The illegal aliens are detained. She called them concentration camps. I remember saying to someone, “I can’t believe she would use a Holocaust term like that for normal detention centers.”

And full disclosure: I was a public affairs specialist at Customs and Border Protection for seven years. This has nothing to do with them, but I am very familiar with how they operate. They don’t run concentration camps.

Anyway, the person said, “Oh, they definitely are,” completely brainwashed. And I think what people are missing is that this effort to attack Israel is very closely linked with the effort to attack the United States.

Literally, the whole open-borders movement, which leads to actual terrorists coming into the United States, is affiliated with the left. It is not a benign humanitarian concept; it is a gateway to collapsing this country.

So there is a physical aspect to the national security threat, and there is also an intelligence aspect. If terrorists can succeed in decoupling the United States and Israel and delegitimizing Israel, what they want is for the priceless intelligence that Israel gives to the United States to disappear, because that intelligence implicates them. Now, I am not saying that there are no bad actors in Israel, the United States, or Trump world.

I am not saying that. What I am saying is that the whole leftist, open-borders, photo-stunt movement attacking Israel is a gateway to attacking the United States. And we know, going back to—I believe it was the late 1960s—that Russia promoted the concept of Palestinian liberation as a Western secular idea because they knew that leftists would seize onto it.

The whole Yasser Arafat persona was meant to not just destabilize Israel; it was meant to knock the United States off its perch. Now, fast forward to Jared Kushner.

I have criticized Jared Kushner in the past. I don’t think that people who are negotiating or dealing with foreign policy issues should have any financial investments in them whatsoever. If it’s not a conflict of interest, it’s the appearance of a conflict of interest, and it shouldn’t be happening. But the knives are out to get Jared Kushner, and wouldn’t you know it’s coming from Russia?

Vanity Fair just published an article attacking Kushner for taking all this money through secret channels. Kushner has responded and rightly pointed out—well, first of all, the article’s source is Russian spies. Secondly, the article in Vanity Fair has zero receipts.

They put his face on the cover and accused him of very, very serious things, with zero receipts. Now, this too is a means of attacking and delegitimizing President Trump, suggesting that the dirty deals allegedly going down are driving the presidency.

The problem is they can’t prove the dirty deals. So what we are facing when we talk about Israel in the public discourse… you ask yourself, why are we talking about Israel so much? We’re Americans. Because Israel provides a critical reinforcement layer of defense so that we do not have to deal with what just happened in Israel this morning in Hebron.

You have Palestinians shooting their way through the town, a 20-minute firefight, and seven people victims of that. We really have to get much, much smarter about the way we think about national security and not be patsies. And you know, I will tell you one other thing… well, two things.

I wrote about how Hamas really took over the civilian infrastructure in Gaza, and some guy left a comment praising Hamas on October 7th. His profile icon featured the paragliders or whatever they used to attack Israel. I tagged the FBI in a reply, and he disappeared.

Another person—I said that forcing women to cover their hair and taking away their freedom is bad. And this person is a feminist. I asked, “How can a feminist support this?” And she replied, “Oh, so you’re against Islam then?” I thought, What planet are you on? Seriously, what planet are you on?

James O’Keefe just revealed that Abdul El-Sayed is taking money he’s not supposed to take from overseas, and one of the caveats is support for Hamas—that he can’t speak out against Hamas.

Folks, what’s going on? This isn’t America. This isn’t normal political discourse. We are watching terrorists in action. Please wake up. Please spread the word. Please look into all this for yourselves.