Israeli leaders paid tribute to the longtime supporter of the Jewish state following his death.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Online commentators mocked the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, Fox News reported, while President Donald Trump, American politicians and Israeli leaders praised the senator’s commitment to U.S. foreign policy and support for Israel.

Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks on the left and Nick Fuentes on the far-right each posted “good riddance” following news of Graham’s sudden death.

The Young Turks co-creator Cenk Uygur also ridiculed Graham’s foreign policy positions by imagining him continuing to advocate military action in the afterlife.

“Lindsey Graham has moved on to the next step in his journey, trying to convince Hades to attack Zeus and Poseidon,” Uygur said. “He says it’ll only take a couple of weeks and won’t require any ground troops. And there’s no way Poseidon can close the Strait.”

Former MSNBC analyst and Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt described Graham as a “lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention” in a Substack post Sunday.

Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker responded “lmao” to a tribute highlighting Graham’s relationship with Israel.

Others remembered Graham for his work on American foreign policy, diligence and dry wit.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that Graham “was always working” and described the South Carolina senator as “a true American Patriot.”

“Lindsey will be greatly missed!!!” Trump wrote. “So sad!”

Graham spent the final week of his life discussing a plan to encourage normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia by November.

Israeli leaders paid tribute to the longtime supporter of the Jewish state following his death.

“Israel has lost one of its greatest friends. America has lost a great patriot. I have lost a beloved friend,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, adding that Graham viewed the security of Israel and the United States as inseparable.

President Isaac Herzog remembered Graham as a true friend who consistently supported Israel during its darkest and most complex hours.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said Graham’s repeated visits to Israel following the October 7 invasion represented an “extraordinary demonstration of solidarity and unwavering friendship.”

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Young Turks executive and anti-Israel activist Ana Kasparian was seen wearing a keffiyeh-themed dress at the OC MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) Festival in California.

Queen @AnaKasparian y’all pic.twitter.com/aor3oFFdC7

— Abier (@abierkhatib) July 6, 2026

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Clearly, the accusation that Washington is Israel’s perennially pliable puppet is logically ludicrous and factually false. 

By Martin Sherman

A dark cloud is spreading across America, casting an ominous shadow of malice and mendacity, and threatening to split open perilous fault lines in the rich tapestry of the nation’s socio-political fabric.

High-profile vitriol

One of the most disruptive figures driving this detrimental trend is media personality Ana Kasparian, a well-known public figure of Armenian origin (which she regularly invokes) and a frequent participant in popular talk-shows. A comely blonde, she is co-host of the TV program The Young Turks, an incongruous career choice, as originally, the term “Young Turks” is widely associated with the 1915 Armenian Genocide, particularly as she frequently raises this tragic event publicly.

Recently, Kasparian has adopted an acutely acrimonious attitude towards Israel—and is often afforded high-profile platforms to spew her vitriol.

For example, in a recent podcast of well-known political comedian/satirist Bill Maher, she demonstrated the malevolence, ignorance, and double standards that underlie antisemitism, in general, and its current post-2023 manifestation, in particular.

Thus, Kasparian attempted to belittle the perils Israelis face from Palestinian stone-throwing, ignoring that over a dozen Israelis, including toddlers, perished as a result of Palestinian rock-throwers. Astonishingly, Kasparian suggested that, because of its purported nuclear capabilities, Israel has little to fear from Palestinian stones—apparently implying that Israel could always “nuke” the stone-throwers. Curiously, she dismissed the prospect of Palestinians ever using nuclear weapons if they ever possessed them, since this would make the land, they allegedly love, “unlivable”—raising the question of why that would not hold equally for Israelis.

“…if we had a nuke, we’d use it this morning…”

Interestingly, when Maher interjected that while Israel never used its nuclear capability, if the Palestinians had it, they would use it in a matter of seconds, Kasparian protested that he had no way of knowing that. In response, Maher pointed out that the “obliteration” of Israel is the express goal of Hamas—articulated in the opening clause of the organization’s Charter. Indeed, this genocidal intent is not confined to Hamas. Thus, Jibril Rajoub, a high-ranking Fatah member, publicly pledged that if Palestinians “had a nuke, we’d have used it this very morning (sic).”

Further in her self-contradictory rant, Kasparian, under pressure from Maher, was forced to concede that, rather than live in any one of Israel’s numerous pro-Palestinian adversaries, she would prefer to reside in Israel, admitting she: “would probably feel the most comfortable in Tel Aviv.” Go figure.

Later in her litany of lies, Kasparian labeled IDF operations in Gaza as “random slaughter” of civilians, ignoring that the high toll of civilian casualties was largely because (a) Hamas used them as “human shields”; (b) Egypt refused to allow Gazans to flee the war zone, as is the case in every other military conflict, from Syria to Ukraine. Moreover, Kasparian’s allegations are totally at odds with assessments of objective professional observers such as Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, who remarked that no other army has exercised such care in avoiding civilian casualties, attaining the lowest ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths ever in urban warfare.

Similarly, John Spencer, chairman of urban warfare studies at West Point, described Israel’s minimizing collateral casualties as “unprecedented,” asserting that it was setting the “gold standard” for avoiding civilian casualties.

Characterizing Khamenei as ‘courageous’?

In a later appearance, on the Piers Morgan Uncensored show, Kasparian shied away from condemning the theocratic Iranian regime for the reported slaughter of Iranian demonstrators. Hotly contesting the validity of the widely-cited number of 30,000, she was, however, unable to provide any alternative estimate and unwilling to indicate exactly how many dead protesters would be “acceptable”.

Apparently willing to whitewash all of Israel’s adversaries, no matter how barbarous, if this serves to cast aspersions on the Jewish state, Kasparian balked at condemning her co-host on The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, for characterizing the brutal tyrant, Ali Khamenei, as “courageous”. She interjected: “…well, he never capitulated to the Israelis and we live under a government [that], regardless of which party is in power, is on its knees on behalf of Israel. So, I understand what he’s talking about. He didn’t embarrass his people by getting down on his knees to…Israel, as our leaders in the United States…[Many] Americans are embarrassed by the fact that our leadership …seems to prioritize the best interests of Israel.”

Clearly, this astounding premise seems to imply the Germans should laud Hitler because he avoided “embarrassment” by choosing to commit suicide, rather than surrender.

Portraying America as a subservient lackey of Jews?

Of course, while all this is reminiscent of the antisemitic trope that “Jews control the world,” it leaves one to ponder how the diminutive Israel could somehow impose its will on the most powerful nation on the planet. Indeed, this portrayal of the US as a subservient lackey of the Jews should be deeply offensive to America—and the American electorate.

Kasparian and some of her like-minded conspiratorial Judeo-phobic kinfolk (e.g., Alex Galitsky, Policy Director of ANCA, and the boorish Dan Bilzerian (who dubbed murderous Yahya Sinwar a “hero”) have accused Israel of dragging the US into numerous armed conflicts—including the present campaign against Iran.

Apart from the prima facie absurdity of the allegation, it also runs counter to Trump’s enumeration of US imperatives for the war, invoking “menacing [Iranian] activities [that] directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies…”

Indeed, they run starkly counter to Trump’s later White House address concerning the reasons for American involvement in the war. In response to a question as to whether Netanyahu “pull[ed] the United States into this war, Trump’s riposte was “… if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand.”

Antisemitic and un-American

Clearly, the accusation that Washington is Israel’s perennially pliable puppet is logically ludicrous and factually false. Indeed, over recent decades, both Democratic and Republican administrations have passed resolutions which Israel opposed—often bitterly.

Even a brief review of presidential decisions, from Eisenhower through Bush to Biden, should suffice to repudiate any allegations that America is in the iron grip of some diabolical Judaic cult, compelling it to sacrifice US interests (and lives) for those of Israel.

Indeed, the accusation that the US is Israel’s perennially pliable puppet is both logically ludicrous and factually false. After all, over recent decades, both Democratic and Republican administrations have passed resolutions which Israel opposed—often bitterly. A few notable examples include:

– Eisenhower’s 1956 decision to force an Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula;

– The 1991 decision of the Bush White House to withhold promised loan guarantees to aid the absorption of refugees from the former USSR;

– The 2015 decision by Obama to enter into the fatally flawed JCPOA nuclear agreement;

– The Biden administration’s partial—but damaging–embargo on munitions during the Iron Swords Operation in Gaza.

This brief, and far from exhaustive list, should suffice to repudiate any allegations that the US is in the iron grip of some diabolical Judaic cult, compelling it to sacrifice American interests (and lives) for those of the Jewish state.

Martin Sherman is the founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.

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Kasparian accused Israel of portraying itself as a victim while engaging in widespread violence.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Ana Kasparian, executive producer and host of the left-wing online program The Young Turks, engaged aggressively on X Thursday with critics who characterized her commentary on Israel as antisemitic.

She had blamed potential military confrontation with between the US and Iran on Israel.

Kasparian also praised conservative media figure Tucker Carlson for opposing US military action against Iran that she said would be carried out on Israel’s behalf.

As users challenged her position in the replies, Kasparian responded with profanity and ethnically-charged language directed at her critics.

In one exchange, she wrote, “Hey, b****, the goyim are waking the f*** up. Deal with it.”

Several hours later, Kasparian published a longer follow-up post, which she pinned to her profile, stating she stood by her remarks and would not apologize.

In that message, she wrote: “Israel is evil, genocidal, and has destroyed our country.”

Kasparian argued that opposition to Israeli policy is routinely dismissed as bigotry.

Israel, she wrote, is “about to drag us into another war,” adding that critics are branded “ANTISEMITE” when they oppose what she called Israel’s agenda.

She also claimed that such accusations are used to suppress dissent. “They smear you to silence you and all the Jewish individuals who don’t subscribe to their disgusting behavior,” she wrote.

In additional posts, Kasparian wrote: “Israel loves to play victim as they bomb 7 countries, steal land, and openly air their genocidal intentions,” adding that US support for Israel is “a stain on our country.”

Kasparian concluded her thread by rejecting calls to walk back her statements. “Many have woken up to this reality,” she wrote. “Call me whatever you want. The truth matters, and I’ll never apologize for repeating it.”

The posts were made amid heightened debate in the United States over Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of military action in the Middle East, issues Kasparian referenced repeatedly in her comments.

Kasparian did not issue any clarification or additional statement beyond the X posts. Representatives for The Young Turks also did not publicly comment on the remarks or the reaction they generated.

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Bill Maher tore into Young Turks host Ana Kasparian over her anti-Israel claims, slamming the far left’s double standards while arguing that Israel had faced brutal enemies, impossible choices, and a moral clarity Hamas never came close to matching.

Ana Kasparian picks a fight with Bill Maher about Israel and Gaza—then all hell breaks loose.

ANA: “You wanna get exhilarated right now? I can exhilarate you.”

MAHER: “I know you’re gonna say genocide, and I’m gonna say, well, you don’t know what the word means… Hamas is the… pic.twitter.com/ZkXNIdz7tF

— Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) December 8, 2025

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Liberal comedian and pundit Bill Maher clashes with far-left Young Turks host Ana Kasparian over Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, as Maher accuses woke left of hypocrisy in denunciations of Israel.

By World Israel News Staff

Liberal comedian and commentator Bill Maher sparred with Ana Kasparian, the co-host of the far-left “The Young Turks” podcast, on Israel and the war in Gaza during the latest episode of Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.

During the one-hour-and-40-minute interview, which debuted on Monday, Maher chided Kasparian over her criticism of Israel and accused left-wing opponents of the Jewish state of hypocrisy for ignoring human rights violations in Arab and Muslim countries.

“The fact that you can’t see the moral difference between these two sides always amazes me,” Maher told Kasparian.

“If you social justice warriors…have any other issue besides gender apartheid in the world that is above that, you are just a joke.”

“If you hate oppression, there is one issue that should be above all because it affects more people – hundreds of millions of women who have basically no freedom in the Muslim world,” he said.

Kasparian accused Israel of engaging in the “slaughter” of Gazans, to which Maher responded that civilian casualties are inevitable in war, and he blamed Hamas for embedding its forces in civilian areas.

“Well, you should prosecute a war to end it. That does involve slaughter,” Maher said. “Especially when you hide behind them,” he added, referring to Hamas.

Citing reports based on alleged leaks of IDF data, Kasparian falsely claimed that the Israeli military estimates that 83% of casualties in Gaza during the war were civilians.

The figure is based on reports citing data purporting to show that Israel had identified 8,900 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist combatants killed during the war. That number does not include other terrorists or Hamas-linked individuals whom the IDF was not able to positively identify.

Maher responded by saying that Israel doesn’t “have a good choice. You have the bad choice and the even worse choice. Israel has been attacked by Hamas. First of all, the entire Arab world rejected them for 75 years. They kept trying to make a deal. They kept saying, ‘No, we want it all.’ That’s what ‘From the river to the sea’ means.”

Kasparian appeared to blame Israel for Hamas’ attacks, calling Israel’s sale of electricity to Gaza prior to October 7, 2023, as a form of “control” over the Strip, and she lamented the security blockade imposed after Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.

“You know what? We’re going to leave, but we’re going to control their electricity – what goes in, what comes out,” Kasparian said.

When Kasparian noted that Israel possessed nuclear weapons, Maher said that highlights the difference between Israel’s restraint and Hamas’ lack thereof.

“If Hamas had a nuclear weapon, how many seconds would it take before they used it on Israel?” Maher asked. “Three seconds.”

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