News Roundup for November 14, 2025
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The Shift: ADL Faces More Mainstream Backlash, Mondoweiss
“‘We urge organizations such as the A.D.L. to lead with consistency and integrity, not selective outrage,’ said liberal Zionist group J Street.”
Settlers Torch West Bank Mosque, Scrawl Hateful Messages After IDF Leaders’ Reproach, Times of Israel
“One wall and at least three copies of the Quran and some of the carpeting at the mosque in the Palestinian town of Deir Istiya had been torched when an AP reporter visited on Thursday.”
Israel Confirms Identity of Hostage Body Returned by Hamas as Meny Godard, BBC
“The Israeli prime minister’s office said forensic testing confirmed the body belonged to Godard, who was killed along with his wife, Ayelet, during Hamas’s raid on kibbutz Be’eri on 7 October 2023.”
US Intel Revealed Israeli Officials Discussing Use of Human Shields in Gaza, Sources Say, Reuters
“The U.S. gathered intelligence last year of Israeli officials discussing how their soldiers had sent Palestinians into Gaza tunnels the Israelis believed were potentially lined with explosives, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter.”
UN Gaza Resolution Draft Mentions Palestinian State for First Time, Jerusalem Post
“Notably, this is the same language as is used in the US-backed Gaza plan. However, this is the first time a Palestinian state was mentioned in the main body of the resolution and not in the annex.”
Israel Detains 50 Members of Hamas Network in West Bank Said to Be Planning Attacks, Times of Israel
“The Shin Bet said the arrests of the Hamas operatives ‘prevented major shooting and bombing attacks that could have resulted in significant [casualties] among troops and civilians.'”
Iranian Forces Reportedly Seize Tanker in Strait of Hormuz in First Such Attack on Shipping in Months, CBS News
“Iran did not immediately acknowledge the seizure, though it comes as Tehran has been increasingly warning it can strike back after facing a 12-day war in June with Israel that saw the U.S. strike Iranian nuclear sites.”
Indonesia Says It Has Trained 20,000 Troops for Gaza Peacekeeping Force, Times of Israel
“‘We’ve prepared a maximum of 20,000 troops, but the specifications will revolve around health and construction,’ Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin told reporters. ‘We are waiting for further decisions on Gaza peace action.'”
Amos Harel writes, “The violence, in some cases to the point of killing, is designed to instill fear among the Palestinians, shrink their living space and forcibly evict them from their land, on which new settler farms and outposts would be established.”Trump Has Degraded American Democracy. Now He’s Aiming for Israel, The Forward
Sruli Fruchter writes, “President Donald Trump is trying to persuade Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In doing so, he is asking Israel to become an illiberal state, rather than a democratic one — the same change he is working to bring to his own country.”
