Obamas empty Omar defense, settler violence shames Israel and other commentary

President Barack Obama is “not just backing radical leftists,” observes The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman, but “making fact-free assertions that investigating a particular radical member of Congress is an abuse of power.” Obama charges Team Trump with “selectively” targeting Rep.Ilhan Omar for her “political beliefs,” when he can’t “know what evidence exists” to prompt that investigation.

How did the feds “persuade a judge to sign a warrant,” especially since the judge is a Democrat? Calling Obama a hypocrite is “fair,” given how his administration “poisoned our politics” and abused its power with the Russia collusion hoax.Or maybe he assumes “the bar for investigating political adversaries is just as low” as during his administration.“In the first six months of 2026, 660 settler attacks killed six Palestinians,” frets Yardena Schwartz at The Free Press.

Yet the “most pressing problem” is “the Israeli government’s apparent disinterest in stopping them.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he won’t stand for “vigilantism,” but then “why are Jewish extremists permitted to carry out repeated attacks against unarmed Palestinians” with “near-total impunity?” Yes, “widespread Palestinian violence, both in the West Bank and Gaza, is ongoing.But Israel is responsible for maintaining law and order wherever it is violated, regardless of the perpetrators’ nationality.” If it “continues to stand by” and allow Jewish attacks, the violence “risks becoming a stain on the very people and history they claim to be fighting for.”“When the BBC announced last week it was making a two-part documentary series about J.K.

Rowling,” grumbles Malcolm Clark at Spiked, trans activists reacted as if “the Beeb was part of a giant, right-wing conspiracy.” Yet the release “describes Rowling as ‘one of Britain’s most polarising public figures’ ” merely because “she defends the factua...