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Italy shuts down effort linked to Gaza flotilla group to track Jewish, Israeli tourists
Italian authorities shut down an anonymous online effort that asked the public to report the locations of Israeli tourists, Italian Jews and businesses believed to have ties to Zionism, drawing condemnation from senior government officials and Jewish leaders who compared the initiative to fascist-era persecution.
"I think we’re going back to the 1930s, to hunting Jews," Walker Meghnagi, president of the Jewish Community of Milan, said after the Google form began circulating on social media and messaging platforms.
The questionnaire said it was intended to "map Zionist tourism," property purchases and what it described as "Zionist neo-colonization" in Italy, according to reports. It asked users to identify Jews, Israelis and people believed to be connected to Zionism at hotels, vacation rentals, businesses and other public places.
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"The online mapping of so-called 'Zionist tourism,' rightly denounced by the president of the Jewish Community of Milan, Walker Meghnagi, is an aberrant initiative, in direct violation of fundamental human rights and the constitutional principles on which our nation is founded," Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa wrote in a statement, as translated to English.
"No form of cataloguing of persons on the basis of their religious belief or their connection with Israel is acceptable or justifiable. Behind all this lies a profound anti-Semitism that must be unanimously, firmly, and determinedly rejected," he added. "We cannot remain motionless in the face of such serious facts that recall the ghosts of the past. To the Jewish Community all my closeness."
The form was removed following the intervention of Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto, Italy’s national coordinator for the fight against antisemitism, according to Italian and Israeli media reports.
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"This form is intended to record cases of Zionist tourism, property purchases, and, more generally, Zionist neo-colonization in Italy," the questionnaire stated.
It said the information collected would be received by the Global Sumud Movement, an activist network associated with flotilla efforts to reach the Gaza Strip, and would remain confidential. Respondents were asked to provide sources so the reports could be verified and used to coordinate unspecified "initiatives."
The Global Sumud Movement denied commissioning the form or knowing about it before the controversy erupted, according to The Jerusalem Post.
"Zionism is one of the issues we work on, but we do not hunt Jews, and we know nothing about this questionnaire," the group told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. "We did not commission it and had not even seen it before it was taken offline."
The organization said it learned about the questionnaire through news reports and reserved the right to take further action, including issuing a formal statement.
According to La Repubblica, later sections of the form asked respondents to name locations where Jewish or Israeli visitors had been seen and to indicate whether local organizations or activist groups were already "managing the phenomenon."
Meghnagi warned that collecting and circulating such information could encourage extremists to target Jews and Israelis.
"What is happening today shows that there are unbalanced individuals out there, and if this kind of message spreads widely enough, you are certain to find someone willing to act on it," he said. "For this reason, mapping where Jews are is extremely serious."
Alessandro Morelli, an Italian deputy secretary of state, ripped the form as "abhorrent" and said those responsible should not go unpunished.
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Mamdani sets internet ablaze with video explaining cave on plan to arrest Netanyahu: 'What a joke'
New York City socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani was widely mocked by conservatives on social media Tuesday after announcing that one of his campaign platforms, arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, isn’t a tool he has at his disposal.
In a video post on X that was viewed over 36 million times, Mamdani called Netanyahu a "war criminal" while conceding that New York City could not enforce the International Criminal Court's warrant for the Israeli leader’s arrest on its own, despite the mayor saying he had looked at exploring avenues to do so.
Mamdani has often said on the campaign trail and as mayor that he wanted to arrest Netanyahu over what the mayor calls a "genocide" in Gaza.
While Mamdani’s post was well received by many on the political left, conservatives on social media quickly mocked the mayor over the situation while taking issue with his determination to enforce the ICC warrant, which the United States government does not recognize.
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"Trying to find where Mamdani called for the arrest of the Hamas terrorists who plotted the October 7th attacks," Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders posted on X. "Disgusting and Disgraceful. "
"This may be the most horrific package of lies against the State of Israel ever promoted by a government official," former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman posted on X. "Even Hamas does not lie to this extent! It is despicable and entirely unbecoming a mayor of New York City. To those who voted for this Jew-hater, shame on you. "
"Zohran Mamdani calling Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal is utterly ridiculous," Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., posted on X. "The same crowd that rushes to condemn Israel never has much to say about the terrorists who started the war, massacred civilians, raped women, kidnapped children, and still hide behind their own people. Mamdani wants the headline that comes from attacking Netanyahu, not the consistency that comes with confronting Hamas."
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"The mayor of New York is just straight up promoting antisemitic blood libel courtesy of Hamas propaganda from an official government social media account tonight," New York City Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino posted on X.
"As I was saying… he doesn’t have the authority," US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz posted on X. "More political theater."
"I had a dead homeless body in front of my apartment, but the mayor’s focused on playing Model UN," Sam Raus, David Boaz Resident Writing Fellow at Young Voices, posted on X. "What a joke."
"Zohran Mamdani admitted tonight that he has zero legal right to arrest Netanyahu," political commentator Eyal Yakoby posted on X. "Like everything that he does, it was all just an act for clicks on social media."
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment.
Although Mamdani acknowledged he could not arrest Netanyahu as mayor, he called on the federal government to execute an International Criminal Court's arrest warrant if the Israeli leader visits New York.
"I want to be equally clear: Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large," he said.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report.
Phillies star JT Realmuto makes inexplicable base-running blunder to end the game, leaves manager dumbfounded
Every once in a while, a big leaguer looks like a little leaguer on the diamond.
Unfortunately for the Philadelphia Phillies, star catcher J.T. Realmuto’s Little League-esque blunder ended the game.
In the bottom of the ninth inning of the Phillies’ 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday at Citizens Bank Park, the Phillies had runners on second and third with one out.
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Justin Crawford, who pinch-ran for Alec Bohm, was on third base, while Realmuto was on second base. Right fielder Brandon Marsh was up against closer Tanner Scott.
Marsh hit a weak ground ball to third base, and Crawford started to go home but stopped after a few steps.
Interim Phillies manager Don Mattingly said postgame the contact play was on, which means Crawford was supposed to run home no matter what. However, Crawford said the contact play was on unless the ball was hit to third base.
So Crawford, now caught between third base and home plate, got in a rundown. Realmuto ran to third base but inexplicably turned around to go back to second base when he saw Crawford run back to third base.
Mookie Betts tagged Crawford out and then whirled and fired to second baseman Tommy Edman to nab Realmuto going back to second, completing a chaotic 5-2-6-4 double play to end the game.
Phillies announcer John Kruk was in disbelief after seeing Realmuto run back toward second base.
"Oh no, JT! Oh no," Kruk said.
Realmuto said postgame it was a bad baserunning play.
"Just a bad baserunning play, really," Realmuto told reporters postgame. "We were going on seeing it through there, and once (Crawford) gets in the rundown and I'm on third base, there’s no reason for me to go back to second. Just a lack of judgment. You can't make two outs on that play. I’ve just got to stay in scoring position."
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"Just a lapse in judgment. I thought Crawford could get out of the rundown for some reason. The chances of that are so small, you just can't take that chance there of making two outs on one play."
Realmuto said he should have played it through in his head before it happened and been more proactive in his preparation. Mattingly said he wasn’t sure what his star catcher was thinking.
"I don’t know what JT was thinking there, honestly, because he got to third," Mattingly told reporters postgame.
"With contact on," Mattingly said, "just hoping (Crawford) stays in (the rundown) long enough to get Marsh to second, and you end up in the same spot."
"I’m not quite sure what he’s thinking. I don’t know if he thought that (Crawford) was going to get back or they were going to let him get back. It’s something we’ll talk about."
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The baserunning blunder comes in the midst of a down season for Realmuto. The three-time All-Star catcher is hitting just .215 with seven home runs, which well below his career batting average of .268.
The Phillies (56-46) will look to bounce back from the tough loss and take the third game of the three-game set against the Dodgers (64-38) on Wednesday at 6:40 p.m. ET.
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IndyCar teams come to terms on the series' first-ever charter sale, which shakes up the grid for 2027
The NTT IndyCar grid is going to look a little different in 2027 with news that the first sale of an IndyCar charter has been completed, and it will bring a new team to the grid.
Albeit one that fans are very familiar with.
On Wednesday, it was announced that Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing had agreed to sell one of its three charters to Drewy & Reinbold Racing, with the transaction subject to IndyCar approval.
It's the first sale since the charter system was introduced in 2024, and it will see RLL dropping from a three-car operation down to a two-car operation, and DRR rejoining the egrid full-time with a single car.
Dreyer & Reinbold last competed in IndyCar full-time back in 2012 and has become a regular fixture in the Indianapolis 500. They had two cars in this year's field, which were driven by Conor Daly and Jack Harvey.
This news comes just weeks after the death of DRR founder and owner Dennis Reinbold on June 13.
"I want to thank Bobby Rahal, Mike Lanigan, David Letterman and Jay Frye for the way they approached this from our very first conversation," DRR CEO Derek Reinbold said in a statement. "They treated this as a partnership between two organizations that want to see each other succeed, and this announcement today reflects that.
The teams did not name any drivers or which of RLL's three cars' charters will head to DRR.
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RLL currently fields the No. 15 Honda driven by Graham Rahal, the No. 35 Honda driven by Louis Foster, and the No. 47 driven by rookie Mick Schumacher.
According to FOX Sports' Bob Pockrass, both Rahal and Foster are under contract for next season, while Schumacher is not.
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That has led to speculation that Schumacher is the odd man out. He is, however, coming off a season-best finish at Nashville.
After the race, he told Pockrass that he feels there's a high chance he will be on the grid in 2027.
We'll see how it shakes out, because this has already been one of the crazier IndyCar silly seasons in recent memory, with even the likes of Christian Lundgaard — who has two wins on the year and his fifth in the standings — hunting for a new ride for 2027.
Memphis pizza shop says business is booming after refusing service to National Guard troops
A Memphis pizza restaurant that drew national attention after refusing to serve National Guard members says business is booming instead of busting, with supporters flocking to the restaurant in what some have dubbed a "buy-cott" after conservative activists called for a boycott.
Miles Tamboli, owner of Tamboli's Pasta & Pizza, said he refused to serve the Guardsmen on July 11 because he opposes the federally led Memphis Safe Task Force, arguing the use of National Guard troops in local law enforcement has made the city less safe rather than more secure.
The company faced severe backlash online after refusing service to four uniformed members of the Memphis Safe Task Force. Tamboli told Fox News Digital July 15, "I stand behind that decision completely." The Guardian reported Tuesday that the response locally has been supportive.
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"The Italian 'junt' (in Memphis parlance) opened with a full house and had a line waiting by 5.30pm," The Guardian reported. "Waitstaff said the shop was never that crowded that early; extra crew was brought in to help. Business is up ‘a great amount,’ Tamboli said. The packed house on Friday was evidence."
One customer, Sarah Jones, said, "While I do not blame the National Guard for being in Memphis since it was not their choice, I stand by businesses refusing service as a form of resistance and protest."
Another customer, Carol Bigam, a retired FedEx worker, said, "If you have a business — a small family-owned business — that says, ‘You know what, I’m sorry, I can’t serve you, I just don’t believe you should be here,’ it really should be OK. Is he not allowed free speech? He was very professional about it. Give me a break, man."
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Tamboli told Fox News Digital July 15 that he opposes the Memphis Safe Task Force, a federally led initiative established in September 2025 by President Donald Trump to stop violent crime in the city.
The task force combines local police with agents from various federal agencies, the Tennessee National Guard and state troopers to enforce public safety laws.
"What the Task Force has actually done is make this city harder to live in," Tamboli said. "Its own records show that the overwhelming majority of its arrests began with routine traffic stops, not violent crime. Families in this city are now afraid to drive to work, afraid to take their kids to school, afraid to be seen. Our own schools reported that fear drove children to stop showing up to class.
"And this month, a 20-year-old Memphian named Tyrin Johnson was shot and killed by National Guard troops during a foot chase, with no body camera footage and no answers for his family," he continued. "None of that makes us safer. It makes us less safe, and it does the most damage to the people who were already struggling."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Tamboli said, "Business the week after roughly doubled our normal volume. It was the busiest stretch we've had in this building, with a line out front before we opened most nights. I hear the real question in yours, whether this is a blip, and it isn't. The support hasn't slowed down, I expect it to last, and I'm running my business like the lasting increase it is. The records exist, and I stand behind every word of this, and I'm not going to turn my private sales reports into a public document."
He said he does not believe conservative customers have stopped coming to his restaurant.
"I see every message, every email and every phone call that reaches this place, and I have not heard from a single regular customer telling me they won't be back," Tambolia said. "Not one. I don't track anyone's politics and my register doesn't record it, and I serve every guest who walks through my door the way I always have. The one exception is the uniformed deployment, and that was the entire point.
"Here is what I'd rather you spend your ink on. Four people are dead at the hands of this task force since it came to Memphis, in a city where violent crime had already fallen to a 25-year low before they arrived. One of them, Tyrin Johnson, was 20 years old. Another, Jonah Neal, was in the middle of a mental health crisis when a federal agent killed him, and I'd bet most of your readers have never heard his name.
"If a president sent soldiers and federal agents into your town, and four of your neighbors ended up dead, you would not be asking a pizza owner about his Friday sales," Tambolia continued. "You would be asking why it happened, and you would be furious and you would be right to be. That is the outrage this deserves, and it is missing only because it is happening here and not somewhere the country is used to watching.
"A small business owner using his First Amendment right to run his place by his own conscience is about as American as it gets," he added. "The people trying to punish that speech, the ones review-bombing me and the ones cheering the government on, are the ones who walked away from the Constitution they claim to love. You do not get to wave the flag and boo free speech in the same breath."
Wisconsin woman's honeymoon ruined by diarrhea after she came down with Cyclosporiasis
We all have stuff that comes up in our lives that we file away in a keep-to-ourselves section of our brain. Having a horrible case of diarrhea that ruins your honeymoon isn't one of them.
That's a story you not only tell everyone, it's one that you run out and make sure the news is aware of. Otherwise, you're faking it through answering the question "how was your honeymoon?"
Nobody wants to put themselves in that situation. The moment you let it slip to one person that you had diarrhea so bad you ended up in the hospital, everyone is going to want to know about it.
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Getting the news involved makes that far less awkward of a situation. Now, instead of your friends and family being the only ones who know that your marriage got off to a crappy start, the whole world can learn about it.
It's some personal housekeeping mixed with a public service announcement. Newlywed Gretchen Pleuss is the hero most of us aren't brave enough to be.
She caught Cyclosporiasis during her honeymoon at Yellowstone National Park and a couple of days into the camping trip was glued to the toilet with a bad case of the runs.
"It was just like incessant diarrhea. It was watery and constant," she told 12 WISN. "I felt fine until we got out here, and a couple days into camping here, I started having symptoms."
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Pleuss' symptoms included stomach pain that got so bad it landed her in the hospital. That's where doctors confirmed that she had the Cyclospora parasite.
She wasn't about to let the incessant diarrhea keep her from trying to enjoy her honeymoon. Sure, it was ruined by constant trips to the bathroom and a visit to the hospital, but the couple was staying positive.
"It's still our honeymoon, so we're making the best of it," Pleuss said. "Our vows said in sickness and in health, so we're just getting an early start on that."
They're also getting an early start on having some stories to tell. For as long as they're married, they'll always remember their diarrhea-filled honeymoon, a marital test right out of the gate.
Charlie Woods' shot at the U.S. Junior Amateur ruined by clueless golf fan's phone: 'Really, dude?'
At least he didn't confiscate the phone like Rory.
Charlie Woods, the son of Tiger Woods, attempted to win the 2026 U.S. Junior Amateur ended on Wednesday during a 14-for-2 playoff at Saucon Valley Country Club. But a camera click on a fan's phone threw off Woods' concentration, causing him to chunk a shot out of the thick rough.
According to Golf Channel, the incident took place on the first hole of the playoff which was to determine the final two match-play participants. "Really, dude?" Charlie, 17, responded after hitting his third shot on the Par 5 from the deep stuff.
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Charlie was left with a 35-foot chip for birdie, but he finished with a bogey and his dream of winning the Junior Amateur was over after carding a +5 over two days.
If there's good news from this situation, it's that the Charlie Woods' detractors didn't get another f-bomb to use against him like they got on Tuesday when Tiger took a page out of his playbook by dropping a massive f-bomb on the par-3 11th hole.
"Oh, f–k you," Charlie responded to his tee shot. It's unclear what the problem was with the shot. He made par on the hole.
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As for the phone going off, the golf community seems to be split on how this played out. "Golfers are so lame. Guys can hit 95mph cut fast balls with 50,000 people screaming. A little noise doesn't impact your ability to swing a stupid golf club at a ball that isn't moving," one Twitter analyst observed.
There seems to be a deep belief that Tiger needs to drill Charlie on how to battle through such nonsense. "Tiger's Dad would have berated Tiger if he let a camera click affect him...He used to do everything possible to piss Tiger off during a round to get him to focus," another fan noted.
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It's not like Tiger hasn't tried to rattle his son for moments like he faced Wednesday. Remember, Earl Woods famously used to throw golf balls and coins at his son to throw off his concentration. Charlie has faced similar warfare.
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However, after the way this Junior Amateur ended, Tiger needs to start snapping his iPhone camera in his son's backswing. It's back to the drawing board for the Woods' family.
Florida coach brings laughs, no filter and Lane Kiffin comparison rebuttal to first SEC media days
TAMPA, FL- While Lane Kiffin was contemplating his move to LSU from Ole Miss, Jon Sumrall was making a different decision on his coaching future beyond Tulane.
Sure, while they both were deciding whether to take a different job, the circumstances surrounding the moves were not on the same wavelength in terms of coaching in the SEC.
The conversation surrounding the coaching carousel will be discussed for decades, most likely being taught in business ethics classes on college campuses in the future.
For Kiffin, he had to decide on whether taking the LSU job was worthy enough for him not coaching Ole Miss through the college football playoff.
As for Jon Sumrall, he was making a decision on which opportunity in the SEC would be the better fit.
Was it going to be Auburn, or Florida? Obviously, we know how that part turned out, with Sumrall now entering his first season as the Gators' head coach. Taking to the podium on Wednesday morning in Tampa, the conversation about whether both Kiffin and Summrall were dealing with the same type of dilemma was spurned by a question about his decision to leave Tulane.
While Kiffin and Sumrall have discussed the situation numerous times since last December, there was one part of the process that the two coaches did not agree on.
They were not the same situations, at all.
"I'd say no two decisions are alike, right," Sumrall noted. "Lane and I are friends, and talked several times during the process in October and November about what it was looking like about how things were going to unfold.
"Lane said 'you and I are going through the same thing' and I'm like, 'No Lane, we're not. If you leave, you're leaving an SEC school to go to an SEC school'. I was leaving Tulane. But, it was challenging to do it, but I wouldn’t have done it any other way. I wanted to make sure I left Tulane the right way. If any university told me I couldn't coach in the playoff game I don't think I would've taken the job just because I couldn't leave the team I had coached all year."
No, he's not wrong, though I'm sure Kiffin will have a rebuttal on Thursday when he takes the podium as the LSU head coach.
If the incident that transpired during the Florida head coach's news conference had taken place during a team meeting, the reporter whose phone started playing an interesting choice of music would have been kicked out of the room in Gainesville.
Luckily, this hilarious moment took place during the third day of SEC news conferences, far away from the meeting rooms just up the road from Florida's campus.
Kentucky football coach channels Curt Cignetti, delivers SEC Media Days quote everyone will remember
While speaking on his decision to leave Tulane, it just so happened that a reporter was away from his computer, and could not make it in time during Sumrall's press conference to turn it off. This led to a funny exchange with the Gators head coach, while he was also poking fun at Lane Kiffin.
"You would be kicked out of our team meeting, I swear," Sumrall said to the room. "Like you're lucky I'm not going throw this podium right now. That drives me crazy. I would say who is that, but I'm not going to embarrass anybody."
There might not be a more authentic coach in the SEC, besides Pete Golding, then Jon Sumrall, as both of them make their conference debuts this season.
Also, if you thought either coach was going to get through a press conference without cussing at least once, you most certainly lost that bet on Wednesday in Tampa.
While speaking about Golding, the Gators head coach had nothing but praise for the Ole Miss ball coach, while also making light of Tulane being destroyed by the Rebels twice last season with two-different head coaches.
"Pete is going to be himself. He's not going to change," Sumrall mentioned about Pete Golding. "I have an appreciation for that. You have to be authentic. I think he's going to do a phenomenal job. Really do. Happy for his opportunity there.
"Watching him, those teams to me...you know, we played them the first time at Tulane and they beat the sh*t out of us. We played them the second time, different head coach, still beat the sh*t out of us."
I for one welcome the coaches who don't put a filter on their words. Give me an authentic coach, no matter the situation, and I'll show you a guy that will at least become a popular leader among fans.
We'll see what Golding has in store, but the SEC clearly forgot the dump button during their Media Days this week, thank goodness.