Leaked emails show how Act for Israel, U.S.-based pro-Israel advocacy outfit founded by Israeli-American actor Noa Tishby secretly coordinated with Israel’s government to shape U.S. media coverage, likely violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, @connor_echols reports. The documents show the group arranged interviews for IDF delegations, placed pro-Israel content in major American outlets, and ran media junkets that required participants to publish pro-Israel articles. Advisers like Joshua Trevino also appear to have done undeclared PR work. The leak offers a closer look at how pro-Israel activists quietly advanced Israeli government narratives in the U.S. while publicly posing as independent advocates, raising new questions about undisclosed foreign influence. Full story in @RStatecraft is linked below.

🔴 BREAKING: WH Confirms Second Strike on “Drug Boat” Was Deliberate The Pete Hegseth-led U.S. counter-narcotics campaign in the Caribbean and Pacific, Operation Southern Spear, included a strike on a boat on September 2, 2025, alleged to be smuggling drugs. According to The Washington Post, the initial strike left survivors clinging to the wreckage. The White House has now confirmed that a second, targeted strike was carried out on the boat, ordered by Admiral Frank M. Bradley, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. That second strike, per the Post’s reporting, killed the remaining crew. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Bradley’s decision, saying he acted “well within his authority and the law… to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States was eliminated.”

▪️ JUST IN: Trump praises Syria’s new president on Truth Social and urges Israel to tread carefully “It is very important that Israel maintain a strong and true dialogue with Syria, and that nothing takes place that will interfere with Syria’s evolution into a prosperous State. The new President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is working diligently to make sure good things happen, and that both Syria and Israel will have a long and prosperous relationship together.” On November 28, Israeli troops raided the Beit Jinn village in southern Syria killing at least 13 people, including children and an entire family of five.