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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 28, 2026, 01 PM Eastern · 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: UK counter-terrorism policing announced that five suspects arrested in connection
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  Speaker 1: with a foiled bomb plot targeting the RAF Fairford airbase
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  Speaker 1: have been released on bail. Head of UK counter-terrorism, policing
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor, stated that while the men remain under investigation,
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  Speaker 1: authorities are exploring the possibility of geopolitical motivations, and foreign
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  Speaker 1: state involvement. Iran's embassy in London has denied any links
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  Speaker 1: to the plot, labelling accusations as Iranophobia propaganda. This follows
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  Speaker 1: previous threats by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against British airbases.
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  Speaker 1: In diplomatic news, Israel's foreign ministry has called a new
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  Speaker 1: Dutch measure banning the entry of products from the West Bank,
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  Speaker 1: East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights into the Netherlands, outrageous
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  Speaker 1: and offensive. Political director Gilad Cohen stated the law singles
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  Speaker 1: out Israelis and leads to invasive luggage checks, with potential
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  Speaker 1: penalties including up to six years in prison. In response,
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  Speaker 1: Israel has revoked the diplomatic status of Dutch diplomats based
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  Speaker 1: in Ramallah. The Netherlands summoned Israel's ambassador to protest this move,
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  Speaker 1: which Israel maintains is a response to Dutch sanctions targeting
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  Speaker 1: Israeli settlements. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused unspecified Arab
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  Speaker 1: states and left-wing media of orchestrating a false blood libel
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  Speaker 1: and a vile and false campaign aimed at toppling his
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  Speaker 1: right-wing government. He dismissed reports that Egypt and the UAE
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  Speaker 1: had warned him about the October 7th attacks, claiming these
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  Speaker 1: reports are false and designed to install a left-wing government
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  Speaker 1: that would withdraw from territories and establish a Palestinian state.
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  Speaker 1: In analysis of Hezbollah's standing, Dr Moran Levanoni, a researcher
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  Speaker 1: at the Institute for National Security Studies, suggested that a
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  Speaker 1: recent large commemoration for Hassan Nasrallah exposed the group's loss
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  Speaker 1: of strength and declining standing in Lebanon. Levononi noted the
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  Speaker 1: absence of many high-ranking Lebanese officials at the event, indicating
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  Speaker 1: Hezbollah is facing political challenges. The IDF previously uncovered extensive
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  Speaker 1: Iranian-made weapons and infrastructure in southern Lebanon. A US official
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  Speaker 1: has indicated that President Trump is prepared to offer Iran
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  Speaker 1: sanctions relief, and the release of frozen funds in exchange
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  Speaker 1: for concrete progress on its nuclear programme. The official described
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  Speaker 1: indirect negotiations as positive, provided they address nuclear concerns. Turning
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  Speaker 1: to antisemitism, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has retracted a
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  Speaker 1: statement where she misapplied the term muselman from Nazi camps,
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  Speaker 1: suggesting antisemitism originally meant hatred of all Semitic peoples. Following
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  Speaker 1: clarifications from Yad Vashem and the IHRA, Albanese apologised, stating
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  Speaker 1: she had misread the term and that antisemitism was coined
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  Speaker 1: specifically to denote hatred of Jews. In Austria, an incident
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  Speaker 1: has drawn condemnation after an Israeli family was reportedly denied
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  Speaker 1: service at a restaurant in Bad Hofgastien because they identified
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  Speaker 1: as Jewish. The Israeli embassy in Austria called the discrimination unacceptable.
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  Speaker 1: And Eli Rosen, head of the Jewish community in Austria,
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  Speaker 1: stated that antisemitism is getting worse every day. A new
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  Speaker 1: academic study published on SSRN by Philippe Karp and Gunter,
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  Speaker 1: Jikely concludes that accusations of apartheid and genocide against Israel
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  Speaker 1: are not established. The study also found the term settler
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  Speaker 1: colonialism to be an inadequate classification for the situation. Israeli
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  Speaker 1: police have arrested an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man suspected of pepper-spraying
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  Speaker 1: a nine-year-old Christian boy near Jerusalem's Old City on Yom Kippur.
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  Speaker 1: George Deke, Israel's special envoy to the Christian world, stated
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  Speaker 1: that Israel takes violence against Christians seriously, and thanked the
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  Speaker 1: police for their swift action. Domestically, the Supreme Court is
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  Speaker 1: set to hear arguments regarding the disqualification of Balad Chairman
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  Speaker 1: Sami Abu Shehadeh, MK Ofer Kasif, and the joint list
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  Speaker 1: from upcoming elections. Speakers at a briefing warned that the
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  Speaker 1: surrounding political rhetoric could intimidate Arab voters. The Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: has opposed the disqualification of Kasif and the joint list.
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  Speaker 1: In a security matter, The Shin Bet, with backing from
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister's office, has filed a complaint with the
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  Speaker 1: chief military censor against Channel 12. The complaint alleges a
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  Speaker 1: serious censorship violation for publishing details of the Prime Minister's
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  Speaker 1: visit to Abu Dhabi, which the Shin Bet claims endangered
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister, the operation, and exposed security service methods.
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  Speaker 1: For continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world, listen to
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  Speaker 1: Antisemitism Watch from Clockwork Media. Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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