Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who was murdered on Sunday, made a film covering his son Nick’s struggles with addiction and other issues a decade before he was accused of murdering his parents. Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested Monday in connection with his parents’ deaths and is currently being held at the Parker Center Jail in downtown Los Angeles, as The Daily Wire previously reported. His bail is set at $4 million. The 2016 drama “Being Charlie” is loosely based on the Reiner family drama. It was co-written by Nick and a friend he met in rehab, with his father serving as director. Cary Elwes played the character meant to represent Rob, while Nick Robinson portrayed the son in the film. “Being Charlie” follows Charlie Mills, an 18-year-old addict whose father, David, is running for governor. Charlie is unhappy that his father and mother take a tough love approach to his substance abuse by forcing him to go to rehab.  The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.  “When Nick would tell us that it wasn’t working for him, we wouldn’t listen. We were desperate and because the people had diplomas on their wall, we listened to them when we should have been listening to our son,” Rob Reiner told the Los Angeles Times while promoting the film in 2016. “We were so influenced by these people. They would tell us he’s a liar, that he was trying to manipulate us. And we believed them,” Rob’s wife, Michele, who was also murdered on Sunday, said at the time.  Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships Nick was sober at the time of the interview and also contributed to the conversation. “I got sick of it. I got sick of doing that sh*t. I come from a nice family. I’m not supposed to be out there on the streets and in homeless shelters doing all these f*cked-up things.”  After a screening of the film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rob said it was “cathartic” and “therapeutic” for the family, despite that not being the intention when making it. Nick said it was “overwhelming” to make it, per The Hollywood Reporter.

On Sunday, the worst shooting attack in modern Australian history happened. It was a terror attack against the Jewish community in Sydney. Two gunmen killed at least 15 people during a Hanukkah event on Sunday at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Officials acknowledged it was a terrorist attack on Australia’s Jewish community, the country’s worst mass shooting in almost 30 years. The suspects were a father and a son who legally owned six guns, despite the incredibly restrictive firearm laws in Australia. The two shooters were reportedly radical Muslims. They attacked the “Chanukah by the Sea” celebration, where local Jews gathered to light the first candle of the eight nights of Hanukkah. The killers were armed with shotguns and a bolt-action rifle. They killed at least 15 people. The shooting went on for at least 20 minutes while the police did very little. When you see the tape, what you see is people legitimately ignoring their job. You see the police cowering in fear. Perhaps it was out of fear, perhaps incompetence. But when you have a continuous mass shooting happening, and you have apparently at least four police officers present doing nothing, you do have to ask some questions about the system in which this is existing. One of the people killed was a Holocaust survivor, Alex Kleytman, who was killed while shielding his wife in the middle of the attack. He had traveled to Bondi Beach with his wife of 57 years for the Hanukkah event. He was shot and killed as he lay on the ground on top of his wife, saving his wife in his final act. Eyewitness Arslan Ostrovsky, who was grazed by a shot in the head but survived, recalled: I was with my family. It was a Hanukkah celebration. There were hundreds of people. There were children. There were elderly families enjoying themselves. Children, kids at a festival, playing. And then all of a sudden, it’s absolute chaos. There’s guns, fire everywhere, people ducking. It was absolute chaos. We didn’t know what was happening, where the gunfire was coming from us, some blood gushing in front of me.  I saw people hit, some people fall to the ground. My only concern was “Where are my kids. Where are my kids? Where’s my family?” I survived October 7. I lived in Israel the last 13 years. We came here only two weeks ago to go to work for the Jewish community, to fight antisemitism, to fight this bloodthirsty, ravaging hatred. … We’ve lived through this. We’re going to get through this, and we’re going to get the bastards that did this. …  I saw, I saw at least one gunman firing; it looked like a shotgun, firing randomly in all directions. I saw children falling to the floor. Elderly, I saw invalids … It was an absolute bloodbath. Blood gushing everywhere. October 7. That’s the last time I saw this. I never thought I would see this in Australia. Not in my lifetime. On Bondi Beach, of all places. This iconic place with your children. I would be lying if I said that Jews around the world don’t expect this sort of thing to happen, especially in the aftermath of the radical increase in Islamic antisemitism and its presence all over the globe, and the increase in generalized antisemitism all over the globe. When you’re talking about the presence of radical Muslims, you can’t just talk about antisemitic terror attacks. There’ve been a wide variety of terror attacks by radicalized Muslims all over the world, including in the United States. Whether you’re talking about the Pulse nightclub shooting or whether you are talking about the attack on two National Guard members just a couple of weeks ago, or you’re talking about radical Muslims who decide to drive trucks into Christmas markets in Europe, this has become a regular feature of Western life: attacks on people who are non-Muslim on the basis of their religion. There have been warnings going out from the Australian Jewish community for two years about the radical increase in antisemitic attacks, including the firebombing of a synagogue. There have been questions about the policies that have been promoted by the Australian government to import radical Muslims into the country and to make excuses for their violent actions. Questions asked about why hundreds of thousands of people in places like Australia marched in support of the terrorist group Hamas, or why, in the immediate aftermath of October 7, there were rallies at the Sydney Opera House in which people were shouting “Gas the Jews!” When there’s a country that imports and tolerates this sort of stuff, are we supposed to be shocked when some of these people are flying ISIS flags? It turns out that they are perfectly happy to commit acts of terrorism. Should we be shocked by that? Australia’s Muslim population right now is around 813,000 people, representing about 3.2% of the total Australian population. It has increased 450% from 1991 to 2021, and the Muslim population of Sydney represents 6.3% of the total population, which is pretty significant. Thus, it should not be a shock that, according to a report published Tuesday by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the country saw 1654 antisemitic incidents during the 12-month period from October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025. That’s about five times the annual average recorded in the decade prior to the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack. It is not a shock that this has been happening with increasing frequency, especially given the fact that the government of Australia, a very left-wing Labor government, has decided to normalize and mainstream this sort of stuff. Linda Bennett Menasha, the president of the National Council of Jewish Women in Australia, told The Times of Israel, “I’m horrified and devastated that this happened, but not shocked. Over the past two years, antisemitism has been rising by the month, and the government has not listened to our pleas. When there is no visible consequence to incitement, violence always ensues.” There have been escalating antisemitic incidents in Australia for years. Miranda Devine wrote in the New York Post:  It is all so sickeningly predictable. Unchecked antisemitism, cowardly appeasement, lax policing and foolish immigration decisions half a century in gestation have coalesced in multicultural southwestern Sydney, an hour’s drive from Bondi. … In the two years since the Hamas attack on Israel, synagogues in Sydney have been firebombed, kosher restaurants vandalized, cars outside Jewish homes torched and rancid antisemitic graffiti have become ubiquitous along the Bondi promenade: “Kill Jews” is the mantra. Every weekend for at least two years, downtown Sydney has been shut down by Palestinian protests. This is what “globalize the intifada” looks like. Intifada is violent action, violent resistance. When you globalize it, you mean this: kill Jews. No one has made more room for antisemitism in Australia than Anthony Albanese and his terrible government. As the gifted writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali noted: One truth must be spoken without hesitation. Islamist extremism isn’t merely another grievance-driven movement. It is an existential threat to Western society and to the values that sustain it. It rejects pluralism, despises freedom of conscience, and targets Jews and Christians precisely because those traditions stand for limits on power and the dignity of the individual. History shows this pattern clearly. Where such extremism is tolerated, minorities suffer first, and the wider society follows. Correct. And pretending that you are hiding behind the guise of anti-Zionism in order to attack Jews as a conspiratorial force in the West, manipulating the systems in order to commit genocide, and promoting every lie issued by Hamas, is going to lead to violence. Pretending otherwise is blind or stupid or evil — or all three.

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Even a year later, it’s hard to wrap your head around the upside-down world of the Biden administration: The White House celebrated transgender ideology on Easter Sunday, your tax dollars funded the settlement of immigrants who broke the law to come here, and authorities turned to an Antifa-linked group whose “hate map” inspired an act of terror for advice on combatting domestic terrorism. I want to dwell on that last point, because I am testifying in Congress about it Tuesday, and I think it highlights the threats conservatives still face from an organization too many Democrats continue to trust. Among the many left-wing NGOs that called the shots in the Biden administration, the Southern Poverty Law Center stands out. This organization claims to monitor “hate” yet fosters animus against conservative Christians. It claims to support “inclusive education,” but demonizes moms and dads who want a say in what their children learn. It claims to oppose “extremism” yet refuses to condemn Antifa, even though agitators loosely connected with that movement caused the most destructive riots in U.S. history in 2020, riots that led to the deaths of at least 26 Americans. The SPLC sued Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy but today, it puts mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits on a “hate map” with Klan chapters, claiming to reveal the “infrastructure upholding white supremacy.” The SPLC uses the “hate map” for two goals: to scare donors into ponying up cash and to demonize its political opponents, narrowing the parameters of socially acceptable debate. If you oppose the SPLC’s agenda, you might just find yourself on the map. Do you support the enforcement of immigration law? You might be an “anti-immigrant hate group,” even if you have legal immigrants on your board. Do you oppose the grotesque medical interventions euphemistically described as “gender-affirming care?” You might be an “anti-LGBTQ hate group,” even if your organization consists of doctors. Do you oppose “drag queen story hour?” You might just be an “anti-LGBTQ hate group,” even if your membership is gay and lesbian. Inspiring… Well, Terrorism Of course, not everyone who sees the “hate map” knows it’s a fundraising ploy or a political weapon. In 2012, an LGBTQ activist saw the conservative Christian organization Family Research Council on the “hate map,” and decided he’d shoot everyone in the building. The building manager foiled his plan, and he’s now a convicted terrorist serving 25 years in prison. Earlier this year, the SPLC added Turning Point USA—the largest conservative youth grassroots organization in the country—to the “hate map.” The assassination of TPUSA Founder Charlie Kirk followed months later. The SPLC condemned both attacks—but has yet to remove either group from the “hate map.” Antifa While the SPLC’s former president condemned Antifa once in 2017, the group has repeatedly carried water for the violent movement. The “hate map,” for instance, includes the parental rights group Moms For Liberty as an “antigovernment extremist group,” but fails to include Antifa agitators, who have hurled Molotov cocktails at government buildings. The SPLC has minimized Antifa violence as “skirmishes and property crimes.” In 2023, authorities arrested an SPLC lawyer, charging him with domestic terrorism for his alleged role in an Antifa riot. The SPLC also hired a woman who had been described as “antifa’s secret weapon against far-right extremists.” According to researcher Jennica Pounds, better known as Data Republican, an internal Antifa document praises the SPLC as a “great resource” for tracking “fascists.” Domestic Terrorism Advice Yet when President Joe Biden took office, federal agencies reached out to the SPLC “to solicit” expertise “to help shape the policies” to “counter the domestic terrorism threat,” then-SPLC President Margaret Huang said in a 2021 donor meeting. The Biden White House hosted SPLC leaders and staff at least 18 times. The FBI cited the SPLC in its notorious memo on “radical-traditional Catholics.” Biden nominated SPLC attorney Nancy Abudu to a federal judgeship, and the White House touted the SPLC in its strategy to combat antisemitism. SPLC leaders also had close ties with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, taking part in “quarterly meetings.” An SPLC staffer even spoke at a symposium for prosecutors, briefing them on the “anti-LGBTQ movement.” An Abiding Threat Conservatives often scoff at the SPLC, and a recent YouGov survey shows that the center has a negative 19% favorability rating among self-identified Republicans. Yet that same survey finds that 39% of Democrats view the group favorably, and the SPLC enjoys 8% favorability among U.S. adults. In other words, Biden is no longer president, and the Trump administration is excising the SPLC’s influence, but that doesn’t mean a future left-leaning administration won’t go right back to using the SPLC. The fact that our own government worked with a group that compares mainstream conservatives to the Klan just for the sin of disagreeing with the SPLC’s agenda, and that seems happy to look the other way on leftist street violence, should send a shiver down our spines. This group is contributing to the distrust and polarization of America, and it should be radioactive to both conservatives and liberals alike. The post UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD: Biden Admin Sought Domestic Terrorism Guidance From Leftist Group Linked to Antifa appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Friday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS, simulcast on CNN International, alleged feminist and host Christiane Amanpour condemned a UK women’s group fighting for the rights of women to be safe in their own country from migrants who come from Islamic cultures where women are often not treated with respect. She claimed the “cheerful branding” of the Pink Ladies concealed a “much harsher message.” Amanpour skipped the problems of migrant rape in Europe, most notoriously the “grooming gang” scandal -- the underage sex trafficking scandals involving men of Pakistani origin in the United Kingdom. Mentioning that is "harsh"? CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: From the United States to France to the U.K., there's no denying this is a time of rising tensions over the issue of immigration. And here in England, one anti-migrant group seems to be building a base. It's called the Pink Ladies. But behind the cheerful branding is a much harsher message. Correspondent Jomana Karadsheh went to one of their rallies…. JOMANA KARADSHEH: Meet the Pink Ladies, a new face of Britain's growing anti-immigration movement. We went to one of their Pink protests just outside London to try and understand what this is all about. ORLA MINIHANE, ORGANIZER, THE PINK LADIES: We've got our own scumbags, our own predators and our own sex pests. We do not need to bring in more every day. Men from cultures that do not think like we do. Who treat women like third class citizens. And who think it's acceptable to marry eight- and nine-year-old girls. When there are no reasonable arguments to offer, the press can always try guilt by association with the “far right” to intimidate opponents into silence. KARADSHEH: This is not racism, they say. And they're not the far-right. But a lot of what we heard sounded an awful lot like the far-right's narrative. Does that label automatically disqualify their argument? Karadsheh seems to hope so. She also apparently had a quota to abuse the “far-right” epithet, employing it five times in the sub-four-minute segment, plus one “right-wing.” In contrast, the words "Muslim" or "Islamic" were absent. Their opponents were unlabeled "advocacy groups." KARADSHEH: Advocacy groups say exploiting the issue of violence against women and genuine safety concerns is a common far-right tactic. The Pink Ladies say they're grassroots. Women concerned about mass migration and what it means for their safety and the future of their country. Putting out catchy tunes like this one that market their agenda. This so far small group emerged a few months ago. At a time of rising tensions over migration, with the far-right seizing on that. KARADSHEH: A lot of people looking at what's happening in the U.K. from the outside. They might say that a lot of the things that you are saying are the talking points of the far-right. MINIHANE: What is far-right? Far-right is extremists. Far-left is extremism. How am I extremist? I'm just a mom who's worked her whole life. Who's bringing up three children. Who lives in suburbia. I don't want my daughter to be sexually assaulted by men that have come over to this country that we've got no background checks on. If that makes me a far-right, then there's something very concerning with the rhetoric, right? KARADSHEH (voice-over): That's Orla Minihane. She's a local candidate for the right-wing populist party Reform U.K. Amid this show of pink solidarity.... After letting the Pink Ladies have their say -- to a point -- Karadsheh unleashed one of the most pathetic media “gotchas” in recent memory, a level of flyspecking scrutiny that journalists would never apply to even the most audacious left-wing claims but which she called "twisted facts that go unchecked." KARADSHEH: The government doesn't publish detailed figures on crimes committed by asylum seekers, but there have been some high-profile cases that have put women and girls on edge. On top of that, there are the twisted facts that go unchecked. MINIHANE: These five women have died. Have been murdered at the hands of an illegal migrant catastrophe that this government is letting happen -- KARADSHEH: Except two of the suspects in these five horrific murder cases are British nationals. But for Laura and others what they heard here was enough for them to make up their minds. Those two "British nationals" were left unidentified, so their actual immigration background and status remains unknown. In any case, what a perverse terrain on which to defend the innocence of migrants. According to her CNN bio, Karadsheh grew up in Amman, Jordan and studied at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.