Jason Bedrick

Senior Research Fellow at @Heritage / @HeritageOnEd. White House Religious Liberty Commission Advisory Board member. Stiff-Necked Jew

[Jason Bedrick @JasonBedrick]

@25YearsAgoLive @joelpollak Depraved culture

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Mass celebrations break out in the West Bank and Gaza, and Palestinians cheer, dance, and distribute free sweets.

Palestine is the only known place on earth to see overwhelming popular celebration of yesterday’s attacks, although Yasser Arafat condemned the attacks and denied responsibility yesterday.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 UPDATE: This Palestine Islamist man is now WAKING UP THOUSANDS of Americans after he stormed Yankee Stadium field on 9/11 at 9:11PM ET, then got pelted with beer cans

THIS IS WHO THEY ARE

And it’s BACKFIRING. The stadium erupted in “USA” chants 🇺🇸

They come here and spit on our country, and expect us to give them everything. It’s not gonna happen.

They can’t be allowed into positions of power, they need to be DEPORTED!

[Jason Bedrick @JasonBedrick]

@HeidiBachram Depraved

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The Muslim Brotherhood-linked Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who has appeared publicly with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, celebrated predictions that tens of thousands of churches across America will close, telling an audience that “100,000 churches in America will close.”

Wahhaj has also faced scrutiny over his historical connections to figures prosecuted for Islamist terrorism. He hosted radical Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” at his Brooklyn mosque and later appeared as a defense witness at the federal terrorism conspiracy trial in which Abdel-Rahman and others were convicted.

Wahhaj was also photographed with Mamdani at Brooklyn’s Masjid At-Taqwa in 2025.

Siraj Wahhaj has longstanding ties to organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood’s historical U.S. network. He served as vice president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and on the advisory board of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), both of which appeared on a 1991 internal Muslim Brotherhood document listing Brotherhood organizations and “the organizations of our friends” in North America. Wahhaj has also appeared at events connected to the Muslim American Society (MAS), an organization whose founders have been described as having Brotherhood roots.

[Jason Bedrick @JasonBedrick]

@EliLebowicz Who keeps sharing all our secrets?

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

In 24 years of watching 9/11 memorials and the reading of the names of the dead, I have never heard applause.

This morning the crowd did — because one brave widow, @TerrySStrada, looked at the leaders in front of her and refused to let the day pass in silence.
She called out Saudi Arabia’s role, the broken promises, and a string of administrations that protected the Kingdom instead of helping to deliver justice for the families.

A stunning, must-watch minute. Stand with the families.

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 One of the All-Time Great Socialism Conference Moments: Biden-Appointed Science Adviser Says Non-Binary People Have an Edge in Understanding Quantum Mechanics

The Socialism Conference is basically my Super Bowl, and clips like this are why.

If you’ve been enjoying our @CityJournal coverage from Socialism 2026, go read the full article too. But first, enjoy this all-time classic from 2025.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a University of New Hampshire physics professor and Biden appointee to a federal high-energy physics advisory panel, offered this explanation of wave-particle duality.

“There are good arguments for why, for example, non-binary people find wave-particle duality very straightforward. Yes, you can be both at the same time.”

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

25 years ago today, humanity mourned.

Palestine cheered.

Savages.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

Islam is a religion; Islamism is a radical political ideology asserting that Islam should guide and shape political and public life, legal frameworks, and systems of government.

A Muslim is not necessarily an Islamist, and criticism of Islamism is not inherently criticism of Muslims or Islam as a religion.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

One of the 9/11 hijackers was listed in the San Diego phone book. Under his real name. And that is the least damning fact in this story.

January 5, 2000. Al-Qaeda holds a planning summit in Kuala Lumpur. The CIA knows about it, watches it, and photographs the men walking in. Two of them are Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. The agency has a photocopy of Mihdhar's passport. Stamped inside is a valid multiple-entry visa for the United States.

That same morning, an FBI agent detailed to the CIA's bin Laden unit named Doug Miller drafts a cable to FBI headquarters saying exactly that. A CIA supervisor tells him to put it on hold. A week later Miller follows up in writing: "Is this a no go or should I remake it in some way." He never gets an answer. The cable sits in draft until after the towers fall. The Justice Department's inspector general later went looking for someone who could explain why. Nobody could.

January 15, 2000. Hazmi and Mihdhar fly United into Los Angeles. In March, CIA officers in Bangkok confirm in a cable that Hazmi boarded that flight to LA. The FBI is still not told.

By February they are in San Diego, and they make no effort to hide. Real names on the apartment. Real names on the California driver's licenses, the bank accounts, the credit cards, the used car. They buy phone service and let the company print Hazmi in the local directory. In May they rent a room from a man they met at their mosque. He is an active FBI informant. His handler never learns who is sleeping down the hall.

They try flight school that spring and wash out. Their English is too poor to follow the instructor.

So the plot brings in a pilot. Hani Hanjour arrives in December 2000. In January and February 2001 his flight school in Phoenix calls the FAA three separate times because something is wrong with him. The manager, Peggy Chevrette, put it plainly: "I couldn't believe he had a commercial license of any kind with the skills that he had." An FAA inspector comes out, verifies the license is genuine, and closes it. Eight months later Hanjour flies American 77 into the Pentagon.

July 4, 2001. Mihdhar walks back into the country at JFK. Nobody stops him, because nobody ever put him on a list.

July 10. An FBI agent in Phoenix writes a memo warning that bin Laden may be sending men to American flight schools. It dies in the building.

August 6. The President's Daily Brief carries the title "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US."

August 16. Zacarias Moussaoui is arrested in Minnesota. Agents there beg headquarters for a warrant to open his laptop and are refused.

August 23. The CIA finally watchlists Hazmi and Mihdhar. Nineteen days left.

August 27. A headquarters agent accuses the Minneapolis supervisor of writing his request to get people "spun up." The supervisor answers that yes, he was trying to keep someone from taking a plane and crashing it into the World Trade Center. Headquarters tells him that is not going to happen.

Days later, Steve Bongardt, the New York agent running the USS Cole investigation, is told he cannot join the hunt for Mihdhar because his case is criminal and the lead is intelligence. He writes back: someday someone will die, and wall or not, the public will not understand why we were not more effective.

The hunt for Mihdhar goes to a new agent on his first counterterrorism case, filed at routine precedence, which gave the office thirty days to respond. He is still checking New York hotel records on the morning of the eleventh.

And that morning the system touched them one last time. At Dulles, the screening software flagged Hanjour, Mihdhar, and Moqed. A ticket agent pulled both Hazmi brothers aside because one had no photo ID and could not understand English. The only consequence of being flagged in 2001 was that your checked bag was held until you boarded the plane. They boarded. The bags went with them.

Here is the part people get wrong. The Commission found no plot to let it happen, and I have seen nothing that changes that. What it found was worse in a way, because it is so ordinary. A wall between two agencies. A cable left in draft. A lead marked routine. A hundred people each doing the narrow job in front of them, correctly, and nobody holding the whole picture.

We know it could be done, because it had been done. In December 1999 a customs inspector in Port Angeles named Diana Dean thought a man coming off the ferry looked nervous. She asked him a few more questions. The trunk was full of explosives meant for LAX.

That is the whole answer. Stopping it never required a secret nobody had. It required one person with the standing to be believed.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Palestinians celebrate the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States

After the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. froze $500M in Hamas-linked accounts. The crackdown made it more difficult for American Palestinians to fundraise for militant causes in Palestine compared to for Palestinians in Europe.

[Jason Bedrick @JasonBedrick]

@neontaster @MichaelWatsonDC It’s a warning to the next jurors. The media’s point is “jurors should do we say or we’ll expose all the messy details of their private lives.”

[Kosher @koshercockney]

A Muslim man screams “Allahu Akbar” at the 9/11 25th anniversary memorial.

From this video you can see that the same hate that caused that terrorist attack is still alive today in New York City.

[National Guard @USNationalGuard]

Twenty-five years ago, National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from across the country proved that “Always Ready, Always There” is more than a motto as they answered the call to respond to the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. We will never forget.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Contempt. The word you’re looking for is contempt. They are flaunting their contempt for our country.

[Jason Bedrick @JasonBedrick]

They hate America.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Mamdani and AOC are spotted laughing with each other as people cry while the names of those who died are read during the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Palestinians celebrated 9/11 as if it were the best day of their lives.

I feel sick watching this.

Never forget.

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

Tour de force from @Ayaan, must read for its moral clarity, which is so missing today seemingly everywhere.

“Yet for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith that provided him with a lens through which his actions seemed both sensible and necessary. After 9/11, intellectuals and policymakers asked “what went wrong?” as though the source of Atta’s animus toward the West was shrouded in some deep mystery. In the Western experience, men had not killed other men over religious questions en masse since the end of the great religious wars of the 17th century. Culture, a term that was once understood to encompass a great many facets of human identity, experience, and belonging—religion included—had also been ruled out. Saying that cultural differences exist and should be respected was a foundation of the multicultural order; the idea that some cultures might lead people to murder each other, for reasons that do not appear in the Western rationalist list of sane causes, struck many Western liberals as too close to racism to bother arguing the point.
Since then, each time the West collided with Islam, much of the Western intellectual class reached for explanations that made sense within its own secular humanist categories: grievance, humiliation, underdevelopment, alienation, foreign policy frustration, or the failure of Western states to properly integrate men like Atta, who were, or must be, inherently no different than immigrants of similar age, class, and educational attainments from Vietnam or Poland, or anyplace else. Since all conflicts are material in origin, it was assumed that they could be settled though material means.”