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US Strikes Qeshm Island, Nuclear Strike Claims Emerge · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today ongoing war report, I'm Noah Levi.
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  Speaker 1: The United States conducted defensive strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island
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  Speaker 1: this week, according to the Wall Street Journal. The attack
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  Speaker 1: was reportedly a response to surface-to-air missiles being fired at
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  Speaker 1: an American aircraft. In parallel, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson claimed
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  Speaker 1: on X, formerly Twitter, that that the Trump administration may
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  Speaker 1: be on the verge of launching a nuclear strike against Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Carlson alleged that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pressuring
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  Speaker 1: the US for such an action, with the supposed target
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  Speaker 1: being Pickaxe Mountain, a heavily fortified nuclear site near Iran's
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  Speaker 1: Natanz facility. He asserted that conventional weapons cannot penetrate the
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  Speaker 1: site's defences, making a nuclear strike the only military option.
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  Speaker 1: Carlson also suggested that Netanyahu is cornered and desperate and
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  Speaker 1: needs this war, claiming the Israeli prime minister pressures his
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  Speaker 1: US allies daily. Former President Trump has previously spoken about
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  Speaker 1: Pickaxe Mountain as a potential target, though he has also
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  Speaker 1: stated the Moab bomb, mentioned in discussions, is non-nuclear. Carlson
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  Speaker 1: warned that a nuclear strike could lead to global depression
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  Speaker 1: and mass death. In Brooklyn, four school buses serving Jewish
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  Speaker 1: religious schools in the Williamsburg neighbourhood were vandalised with swastikas
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  Speaker 1: and anti-Semitic graffiti on Monday morning. Slogans included F Israel,
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  Speaker 1: Free Palestine, and USA First, alongside Nazi symbols. The New
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  Speaker 1: York Police Department's Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident.
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  Speaker 1: New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 1: condemned the attack, with Governor Hochul stating, No Jewish child
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  Speaker 1: or family should have to endure this kind of fear
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  Speaker 1: and intimidation. New York Attorney General Letitia James called the vandalism, despicable.
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  Speaker 1: City Council Member Lincoln Ressler noted a decade-long rise in
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  Speaker 1: anti-Semitic incidents, and local reports indicate Jewish New Yorkers were
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  Speaker 1: the target in over 53% of the city's confirmed hate
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  Speaker 1: crimes in the first nine months of 2026. Meanwhile, political
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  Speaker 1: discourse reflects these tensions. In Michigan, Democratic Representative Haley Stevens
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  Speaker 1: endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, citing concerns about anti-Semitism
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  Speaker 1: and the associations of her party's candidate, Abdul El-Sayed. This
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  Speaker 1: highlights a growing partisan divide over Israel's role in American politics,
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  Speaker 1: with Pew Research Center data showing a significant increase in
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  Speaker 1: unfavorable views toward Israel among Democrats. In New York, Republican
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  Speaker 1: challenger Saritha Kometaidi accused incumbent Attorney General Letitia James of
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  Speaker 1: being ineffective in stopping anti-Semitic hate crimes. In a different development,
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  Speaker 1: a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education,
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  Speaker 1: or CURE, is distributing yard signs reading, Blacks and Jews
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  Speaker 1: standing together, and billboards with messages like, self-defence is not genocide,
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  Speaker 1: and many Black evangelicals agree that Israel has a right
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  Speaker 1: to exist, across Michigan. The initiative aims to remind Black
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  Speaker 1: Christian voters of reasons to support Israel, particularly as a
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  Speaker 1: contentious US Senate race unfolds. For continuing coverage of antisemitism
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  Speaker 1: around the world, listen to Antisemitism, watch from Clockwork Media.
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  Speaker 1: Find it at clockwickmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank
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