Oh... I agree President Trump... you absolutely should respond to a country that fires at you! Only a stupid country doesn't respond when fired upon... and we are not a stupid country!
I feel vindicated! Like I said... Iran is NOT in good faith and it is stupid to continue pushing for a deal they are only using as a way to continue attacking. When I said this about Israel attacking back (hezbollah and Iran)... it seemed crazy... but now I wonder if people agree now
Two Years. Three Hostages. Still Tax-Exempt.
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Two years ago today, Israeli special forces stormed a home in Nuseirat and rescued three young Israeli hostages. The man holding them, Abdullah Al-Jamal, was a "journalist" for the Palestine Chronicle and a former spokesman for the Hamas Ministry of Labor. He was killed in the operation.
The Palestine Chronicle still operates. It is still maintains US 501(c)(3) status. And in the twenty-four months since one of its journalists was found holding three young men in his living room, the public record on this outlet has only gotten worse.
The hostages sued. Their amended complaint alleges that Al-Jamal told them directly that Hamas was coordinating with its allies in American media and on college campuses. The Chronicle moved to dismiss. A federal judge denied that motion in May 2025. The case is now in discovery.
Al-Jamal was not even the only Chronicle journalist with a problem. Mahmoud Ajjour, the Chronicle's correspondent in Gaza, posted tutorials on how to stab Israelis.
Then there's the editor-in-chief himself, Ramzy Baroud, who explicitly acknowledges that his cousin, Ehab Al-Badrasawi, was the head of Hamas's northern command in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Ehab died in Gaza carrying out a suicide attack.
Baroud has also spent years sharing podiums with senior Hamas officials. At one seminar focused on shaping Western coverage of the next intifada, Baroud appeared alongside Yousef Rezqa, a senior Hamas official, with Salama Marouf, the head of Hamas's Media Office, in the room. Baroud closed his remarks by praying for the success of the coming intifada and told the audience that "this intifada is OUR intifada."
In 2017, he appeared at another seminar alongside Hamas leader Basem Naim to discuss how to advance BDS internationally. None of this is contested. He said it all himself.
Congress has not been silent. In July 2024, the chairs of three House committees called on the Department of Justice to investigate the Chronicle and its parent nonprofit, the People Media Project, for possible violations of US terrorism and tax laws. Nothing has come of it.
In spite of all this, the Palestine Chronicle is still a tax-exempt American charity, registered in a sleepy Washington state suburb, collecting tax-deductible donations as if none of this ever happened.
This is not really a story about one outlet anymore. It is a story about a regulatory system that has managed to do absolutely nothing in the face of the Chronicle's actions. The IRS has tools for this. The DOJ has tools for this. The choice not to use them is, quite frankly, nothing short of scandalous.
Two years ago today, three young men came home. The man who held them was on the masthead of an American 501(c)(3). The outlet that published him is still tax-deductible.
What exactly are the American authorities waiting for?