The Rational Dispatch

The Islamic Republic of Iran attacked Jordan today, marking the 4th attack by Iran on the Hashemite-ruled kingdom this week, resulting in several killed and injured.

Video from last night of an Iranian attack against Kurds in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. Sulaymaniyah is often referred to as the cultural and intellectual capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, with a population of over 1.5 million people.

Palestinian film production team staging fake "war crimes" to solicit international donations and manufacture disinformation to demonize Israel:

Zohran Mamdani makes excuses for rapists, July 2026.

Rather than investing in infrastructure to combat wildfires, Canada is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fund Islamic terrorists and indoctrinate Palestinian children with violent antisemitism. Meanwhile, First Nations Canadians are languishing in poverty due to Canada's policies of systemic racism, and the crimes of the residential school system go uninvestigated. Young Canadians are going into debt to pay for exorbitant university tuition fees and skyrocketing housing rental prices, and Canada's opioid addiction epidemic rages out of control, but the government "can't afford" to address those issues.

The Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel. This is not a political statement. It is an anthropological one.

The article "The Delicious Accusation of Genocide," argues the missing variable is Schadenfreude — Richard Landes decade-old term for a Western appetite, rooted in real guilt over real complicity in the Holocaust, for pretending to discover that the survivors turned out to be no better than the people who nearly finished them off. It's not just that the accusation is false. It's that it's enjoyable — which is why it fills city squares and op-ed pages, and why no amount of counter-evidence ever gets it retracted."

If radical anti-Israel protests look like coordinated efforts, that’s because they are. One of the organizers, founder of Samidoun, a sham "charity" that raised funds for terrorist organizations, is involved in numerous antisemitic organizations that incite violence.

New York Times shareholders are demanding access to the company's internal records to investigate whether its board failed in its oversight responsibilities in light of rampant anti-Israel bias in the paper's coverage. If the Times doesn't comply by July 21st, a lawsuit will be filed.

“Hamas has turned hospitals into interrogation and torture centers and kill our people” says Gazan on Fatah TV. Arabs who dare to criticize Hamas are tortured or murdered... or both.

Years of government incompetence and forestry mismanagement by the Mark Carney/Justin Trudeau administrations have now culminated in hundreds of massive wildfires raging across Canada, causing extreme air pollution throughout the entire continent of North America. Video footage of rail workers caught in a wildfire.

Young men in Gaza playing with flour and eggs, July 2026.

The Islamic Republic of Iran continues attacking civilian infrastructure in multiple Arab countries across the Middle East, in violation of international law. This is a video from last night of an Iranian Shahed-136 suicide UAV striking an oil storage facility in Kuwait.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) hosted an antisemitic communist conference which celebrated terrorism, called on its members to support Iran’s "axis of resistance", and commit violence, including sabotaging American ports.

Jewish sovereignty in Israel is not foreign colonialism, but the restoration of an indigenous people to its ancestral homeland after centuries of conquest and persecution.