Friday, October 13, 2023

10/13 Links Pt1: Why Hamas' Brutality Must Be Shown; Israelis Rush to Volunteer after Hamas Attacks; Israeli diplomat attacked in Beijing as Hamas calls for global ‘mobilization’

From Ian:

There Can Be No Palestinian State under the Rule of Hamas—or of the PLO
What are the effects of this war on the viability of some kind of Palestinian sovereignty? Yesterday, Evelyn Gordon argued in Mosaic that the Jewish state’s best safeguard against terrorism is occupying territory. Efraim Karsh takes this argument one step further:

Hamas’s latest aggression may well have driven the final nail in the coffin of the two-state solution. For one thing, while most Israelis have been disabused of the idea by Yasir Arafat’s war of terror and the subsequent confrontations with Hamas, Saturday’s horrendous massacres may convince other international players of the mortal dangers that would follow if Israel withdraws from key West Bank areas (which would be needed for a viable Palestinian state to exist).

After all, were such an invasion to ensue from a West Bank state, hordes of terrorists would be able to roam the more populous streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in no time. What do two-state solution campaigners believe would happen then? What sovereign state could possibly allow a situation that would arise in which their citizens could be indiscriminately slaughtered on its streets?

What’s more, the grim brutality of Hamas’s recent atrocities may also draw international attention to the corrupt and oppressive nature of its regime. And just as the creation of free and democratic societies in Germany and Japan after World War II necessitated a comprehensive sociopolitical and educational transformation, so long as the West Bank and Gaza continue to be governed by Hamas’s (and the PLO’s) rule of the jungle, no Palestinian civil society, let alone a viable state, can possibly develop there.
Dennis Ross: What Israel Must Do: Disarming Hamas Will Be Costly but Essential for Peace
In launching its unprovoked, heinous attack on Israelis on Oct. 7, Hamas created the bloodiest day that Israel has seen in more than five decades. This unprecedented assault has left Israel in a state of shock but also with the resolve to end Hamas' ability to threaten Israel again. In setting off what will by necessity be an overwhelming onslaught on Gaza, Hamas has brought to a new level the punishment of Palestinians that it has inflicted over and over for nearly two decades.

Hamas' priority is destroying Israel, not building Gaza. Its main agenda for Gaza is building its own military infrastructure and arsenal. It has constructed dozens of miles of underground tunnels to protect its own fighters and weapons.

Israel can no longer be satisfied with a punishing response, followed by a return to the status quo. The assumption that Israel could live with Hamas and manage periodic conflicts with it has been shattered. It is determined that Hamas will never again be able to threaten the Israeli people. Israelis across the political spectrum now believe that Hamas must be destroyed as a military power and that Gaza must be demilitarized. Israel will no longer accept a truce with Hamas.

Hamas is not a partner for peace; it is an agent of war and destruction. If there were any doubts about Hamas' intentions in the past, its attack has permanently laid them to rest. But Hamas has gravely miscalculated this time. Israel's leaders are now contemplating options that they have not been prepared to consider since the withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.

As the toll in Gaza mounts, some Western and Arab leaders will likely argue that Israeli military action is disproportionate. But if Hamas retains any ability to threaten Israel, it will present itself as the victor, and that will be a tremendous boost to radical and destabilizing forces across the region.

Western and Arab leaders have a responsibility to support Israel's campaign against Hamas even as they frame essential objectives: unconditional release of the hostages and an end to Hamas rockets, mortars, and weapons- and bomb-making facilities. Aid for reconstruction of Gaza must be tied to its demilitarization. For Israel this is the minimum. Israel's endgame is making sure that Hamas cannot threaten it again.
Steve Israel: How Not to Let Hamas Win
We hear and are heartened by statements that Israel has the "right" to defend itself. But a right confers optionality: One can choose whether or not to exercise it. Israel has not the right but the paramount responsibility to defend its citizens from invasion, abduction, annihilation, and beheadings. Any nation that abdicates that responsibility might as well not exist.

The fundamental issue that drives today's conflict in Israel and Gaza is Israel's existence. It's not about the so-called occupation (after Israel unilaterally and unconditionally left the Gaza Strip in 2005). It's about a hateful worldview that Jews have no right to govern their historic lands.

Hamas is counting on Israel's responsibility to retaliate. Hamas is betting that the resulting images on social media and television will incite the Arab street, weakening the Abraham Accords and triggering Hamas' allies in Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere to join the conflagration. Have we not been here before? The world expresses its revulsion when terrorists strike Israel, then turns against Israel when it responds.

It will take strength, imagination and the gritty tolerance of risk to deny Hamas that victory. First, America must continue to support Israel as it dismantles Hamas once and for all. Let Israel do the world, including the Arab world, a favor. Second, rather than allowing Hamas to undermine the Abraham Accords, we must double down on them.

The time will come for a new coalition of Middle East nations to rebuild Gaza. Gaza must be rebuilt not as a terrorist training base, but as a fit place for innocent Palestinians to live.


Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch: Frequently Asked Questions about the 2023 War with Hamas
As Israel responds to the Hamas atrocities, several basic principles of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) are essential to recall. The principle of distinction requires that all attacks be focused on military targets instead of purely civilian targets. The principle of military necessity dictates that the warring sides must avoid wounding or permanently injuring combatants except as part of the fight. The principle of unnecessary suffering prohibits the warring sides from using weaponry that causes superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering.

The principle of proportionality refers to a situation in which a military target is attacked, and that attack causes incidental or collateral damage. Attacks of this nature are legitimate so long as the loss of life and damage to property incidental to the attack are not excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage expected to be gained. As the value of the military target grows, so too does the extent of permitted incidental damage.

When Hamas deliberately locates its operational headquarters in high-rise buildings, no provision of IHL would prevent attacking that target, even if it means destroying the entire building. Medical facilities and places of worship enjoy specific safeguards and should not be attacked as a general rule. However, when the enemy uses these sites to facilitate military operations - including using them as command centers or warehouses and storage areas to stockpile ammunition and weapons - the installations become legitimate military targets. Moreover, those wearing civilian clothes who directly participate in hostilities are considered combatants and legitimate military targets.

The electricity provided by Israel to Gaza is essential for the terrorist war effort. Limiting the flow of electricity into Gaza from Israel would substantially impair the enemy's military capabilities. No provision in IHL requires Israel to provide the enemy, which slaughtered 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands of others, and kidnapped scores more, with a resource essential to further its homicidal terrorist goals. Cutting the flow of electricity from Israel does not meet the definition of collective punishment under IHL.

IHL takes into account that civilians, including children, will be killed during an attack on a legitimate military target. In as much as Israeli forces do not knowingly and intentionally target a child who was not participating in the hostilities, the incidental death of a child during the fighting would certainly not constitute a crime of any nature.
US defense secretary: This is no time for neutrality, false equivalence
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at IDF military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Friday, stating in reference to Hamas's assault on southern Israel and the IDF’s counterattack, “this is no time for neutrality or false equivalence.”

Making the point that Hamas is an evil group which Israel and the IDF should never be compared to when responding in self-defense, he said, "I know ISIS very well, and it's worse than what I've seen with ISIS."

Further, Austin said that Hamas has “nothing to offer but zealotry, bigotry, and death,” noting this past Saturday was “the bloodiest since the Holocaust” for Jews worldwide.

"I came here to make something clear: American support for Israel is ironclad," said the secretary of defense.

Next, he said, "For anyone thinking about trying to take advantage of this atrocity, to try to widen the conflict or to spill more blood, we have just one word: don't. The world is watching and so are we, and we aren't going anywhere."

Austin stressed that the US is powerful enough to support both Ukraine and Israel, saying "the US can walk and chew gum at the same time."

He referenced that the US had already sent the US Gerald Ford strike force with the world’s largest aircraft carrier into the region and augmented US air power throughout the Middle East” to deter Iran and others from risking more conflict.


U.S. Reaches "Quiet Understanding" with Qatar Not to Release $6 Billion in Iranian Oil Revenues
The U.S. has reached a "quiet understanding" with Qatar not to release any of the $6 billion in Iranian oil revenues that was unfrozen as part of the prisoner swap last month, a source told CBS News. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo informed House Democrats on Thursday that the $6 billion "isn't going anywhere anytime soon."

As part of the deal to release five Americans who had been wrongfully detained in Iran, the Biden administration included the transfer of Iranian oil assets from South Korea to Qatar. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that "the regime was never going to see a dime of that money."
Israel Transforms Itself for War
On the road outside the military base, hundreds of cars were pulled onto the shoulders for a half-mile in either direction. It was a pop-up parking lot for military reservists, hurrying into the base as civilians and leaving as soldiers. No one knows when they will be back to their civilian lives. 360,000 people are back in uniform in one of the largest mobilizations in the country's history.

Schools are closed. Shopping malls are empty, with almost every shop closed. Ashdod Port, the country's largest, with more than 8% of its staff departed for the army, is calling in retirees to keep the cargo moving. "We're working under fire now, but we have no choice," said Shaul Schneider, executive chairman of the port, where crane operators 200 feet above the ground have to hope for the best when Hamas rockets scream overhead, sometimes 10 times a day.

Construction sites are silent, and the Palestinian laborers who normally work at them have been prohibited from crossing over from the West Bank since Saturday. Apartment buildings instructed residents to remove bikes and personal items from safe rooms and stock them with emergency provisions.

Ofek Iyzem, 22, was a university student last week. Daniel Blum, 30, was a counselor for troubled teens. Ron Dahan worked for a tech company and was on holiday in Vietnam when he got the call. "It's a big change, but for us very natural," Dahan said. "When you live in Israel, you always know that you'll be back in the army."
Seth Frantzman: How did Israel fail to stop Hamas' October 7 attack?
HOW WERE Israel’s defenses hollowed out? Where was the air force, which is supposed to respond quickly? Why weren’t commandos sent to the border to stop the terrorists from bringing women, children, and the elderly back to Gaza? How were 200 soldiers killed by Hamas, an organization that was supposed to be inferior to our IDF? How come the high command and intelligence services didn’t know about the planned attack? Why wasn’t the Hannibal Directive ordered to stop the kidnappings of 100 citizens? Why weren’t tanks sent directly to the border? Why did it take a day or two just to secure the area?

These are all questions that need to be answered. The collapse Israel faced on October 7 was worse than 1973, worse than the surprise the US felt at the Tet Offensive, and worse than many other military blunders in history. It is worse because Israel wasn’t merely facing a military defeat, but, rather, the massacre of civilians. Hamas’s goals were not just to destroy military bases, but specifically to commit mass murder against civilians, going house to house to kill them all. When a terrorist group is on the border and it has goals to exterminate everyone, it would be good to have forces on the ground to prevent a massacre. However, Israel treated Hamas like a known quantity, one that receives backing from Qatar and Turkey, two US allies, and one that can be reasoned with.

Many voices warned over the years that Israel’s ground forces had become too invested in special forces and technology. They were also focusing on the West Bank and the North. Yet the threat to Israeli civilians from the West Bank is less. West Bank settlements are on alert for attacks, and many people have weapons.

The communities on the Gaza border were left defenseless. They expected the IDF to arrive within minutes, not within hours; they expected air force assets overhead immediately. They expected that no one would ever be kidnapped to Gaza. The shocked look on the Israelis being carted off to Gaza says it all. Israel promised them “never again,” and we were told that here we have a strong state; we are not like the people who were rounded up by Nazis. But the 60,000 Israelis who live near Gaza were left to be rounded up. Women were left to be carted off like a prize. They were failed by everyone.

The state owes the citizen protection, as the most basic promise. On October 7 that protection disappeared. While many forces fought heroically and many soldiers and police died, it was not enough to prevent disaster.
Astonishing moment IDF elite force retakes military post overrun by Hamas, rescuing 250 hostages, killing 60 terrorists and capturing top Palestinian leader
Israel's armed forces have released dramatic footage of the moment elite troops retook control of a checkpoint overrun by Hamas, and freed 250 hostages.

Video from body cameras worn by members of the Flotilla 13 elite unit was released on Thursday evening. The naval commando unit - the equivalent of the U.S. Navy SEALS - is specialized in counter terrorism.

Bodies are seen on the floor of one darkened room. It is not known if they were hostages or terrorists.

In another room, a group of people are seen standing as the troops entered - presumably hostages.

'Shayetet, Shayetet, stay in the bunker, we're coming,' one of the officers shouts - using the Hebrew name for their unit. The identities and nationalities of those rescued has not been disclosed, with around 20 Americans abducted still unaccounted for.

Hours after the remarkable footage was released, Israel's military directed residents of Gaza City to evacuate 'for their own safety and protection,' ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive.


'Discarded Hamas raid plans reveal they assessed the threat posed by Kibbutz civilians, IDF response times and assigned tasks to individual gunmen such as cutting fences or taking hostages'
Hamas assessed the threat posed by Kibbutz civilians, Israeli Defence Force response times and assigned tasks to individual gunmen, alleged discarded raid plans have revealed.

An Israeli emergency responder unit, in a Telegram channel, said the alleged 14-page operational plan was found in an field unit that was inspecting Hamas bodies found in a pickup truck.

The 'top secret' document, dated October last year, includes a raid plan on Mefalsim, a Kibbutz with '1,000 civilians', of which 20 are part of a rapid response team.

The plan involved the use of 'artillery' and instructed a team member to 'open a hole' in a fence. The plan also indicated that Hamas forces should 'take prisoner soldiers, residents, and take hostages for negotiations,' the responder unit posted.

It comes as, nearly a week after Hamas militants crossed through Israel's heavily fortified separation fence and killed over 1,200 Israelis in a brutal rampage, Israel is preparing for a possible ground invasion of Gaza for the first time in nearly a decade.

A page in the plan, with the Israeli emergency responder unit branded as the 'most important page', laid out 'tasks' of what is designated as the 'basic force'. The tasks allegedly included taking hostages.

The battle plan also detailed that the attack would consist of a commander and two squads of five people.

Hamas warned that an attack on Mefalsim could see additional Israeli forces arrive from the Nahal Oz area 'within three to five minutes'. The plan suggests these forces would arrive in two to three Jeeps along a specific road.


IDF Spokesperson addresses Israeli citizens

Israel's war with Hamas enters 6th day

Israel tells UN to evacuate northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours



Reading the Names of Israel's Fallen Soldiers (IDF)
It took us over 13 minutes to read the names of all Israel's fallen soldiers. 220 names.

Each name is an entire life. May their memory be a blessing. We will never forget.

(Since this video was filmed, them number fallen has risen to 254)


Michal Rahav recounts the moments terrorists infiltrated their kibbutz
'No matter what comes through the doors, fight. Fight for your life, don't give up'. This is what Michal Rahav told her children the moment they realized Hamas terrorists had infiltrated their kibbutz. She tells about the miraculous story of how they survived as their home came under violent attack


Why Hamas' Brutality Must Be Shown
After airing a report on the death and destruction in Kfar Aza on Saturday, which included grisly pictures of gutted homes and reports of desecrated bodies, Channel 12 anchor Danny Kushmaro explained on Wednesday why those images were shown.

"We are showing these pictures to demonstrate what is happening here on the ground, in order to show how strong Israel's reaction needs to be."

"This is not to hurt morale, but rather to encourage the morale [and show] that there is a need to respond to the atrocities that took place here."

As the IDF continues to hit targets in Gaza, it is only a matter of time before calls arise for Israel to act "proportionally."

This is why grisly footage is unfortunately necessary - to remind the world of what Israel is up against and why it must use all its power to eradicate Hamas.
MEMRI: Special Announcement: The Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center (HADC)
MEMRI has launched the Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center (HADC), which will provide historical documentation for the years to come, for academic and educational purposes.

Since we cannot post these horrific graphics and videos on Meta platforms, we will provide verbal descriptions of them, and make the videos available for viewing on the MEMRI Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center Report account on Telegram.

Issue No. 1 includes summaries of the videos. Again, this content can be viewed here.

The following are the descriptions of the content posted for Issue No. 1
At the entrance to Kibbutz Beeri, the remains of a car full of civilians trying to escape the Hamas invasion and massacre. They were caught and burned alive.
Israeli babies shot and burned to death by Hamas operatives
More Israeli babies shot and burned to death by Hamas operatives
An Israeli family held hostage by Hamas terrorists who took control of their home inside Israel and killed a sister.
An Israeli family held hostage by Hamas terrorists who took control of their home. The father is shot and wounded; a boy is forced at gunpoint to go to other families in the village and tell them to leave their homes.
Hamas shoots into a shelter room full of murdered civilians
Beheaded Israeli soldiers
A kidnapped 85-year-old woman
A murdered girl in her car
A kidnapped Israeli couple from a party is abducted to Gaza


The Commentary Magazine Podcast: Can We Bear to Listen to the Testimonies? Explicit
Noam Blum of Tablet joins us to discuss Tablet’s effort to collect the testimonies relating to the massacre of Jews on October 7. Can we bear to listen? Can we bear not to?


The HORRIFIC EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT of Hamas torture
VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED — Yossi Landau, the commander of ZAKA in the southern region, recounts horrifying details of Hamas cruelty and torture on innocent civilians, including pregnant women and children.




The Sacred Task of Burying the Dead
I will conclude today’s newsletter with an item that might be no less unsettling, but is decidedly more gruesome. Yet, like the story of the young Israel policeman, it contains an element of heroism—and more importantly, an element of holiness. Dovid Efune explains the special requirements that Jewish law imposes on the burial of those who have died “for the sanctification of God’s name.” That is, those who have died because they are Jews:

Burial of the dead is a meticulous process in the Jewish tradition. Bodies are thoroughly cleaned, groomed, and nails are cut. Then, in a ritual known as “taharah,” or “purification,” the body is immersed in a pool of cold water known as a mikveh. Not so for the more than 1,300 victims of Saturday’s assault on southern Israel. They are considered to have the unique status of “k’doshim” (holy ones), or martyrs, in Jewish law.

“When it comes to someone who was killed [for the sanctification of God’s name], Jewish law dictates that we don’t touch anything,” explains Rabbi Elyada Goldwicht. “The way the person is found is the way that he’s buried. He is buried with his clothing, with his shoes, with his pants, with everything that’s on.” The deceased martyr doesn’t need purification because he or she has have already attained the pinnacle of holiness due to the nature of their death, explains Rabbi Goldwicht.

There are few men who have come into contact with the bodies of as many martyrs as Rabbi Goldwicht has. As a reservist in an Israel Defense Forces search and rescue unit, he’s been working since the weekend in twelve-hour shifts at the IDF rabbinate’s Shura base, near Ramle in central Israel, to identify and prepare hundreds of bodies for burial.

Showing utmost respect in the handling of the bodies is also fundamental, Rabbi Goldwicht says. Bodies are never thrown or dropped. “We ask for forgiveness” if a body is moved. Stepping over a body is also forbidden. “If a drop of blood comes out, we collect it and wipe it off the floor so that it can be buried” with the deceased.
Seth Frantzman: Israel struggles to identify victims of Hamas mass murder attack
As the fist week of the war following Hamas’s massacre of communities in the South comes to a close, and Israelis prepare for Shabbat, authorities are continuing to identify the bodies of victims.

By Thursday afternoon, the bodies of 854 citizens had been collected and were brought to an identification point, with 361 identified and 264 buried.

Overall estimates continue to indicate that more than 1,300 were killed in the attack, mostly civilians, at the Nova music festival and 20 communities along the Gaza border, with the death toll at Kibbutz Be’eri and Kfar Aza bearing the highest brunt, with reports of 100 victims in each town.

A total of 222 soldiers have been confirmed killed, and their families have been notified. By Thursday, 138 have been buried. Although not all the victims are Jewish, generally in Jewish custom it is typical to bury people as quickly as possible. Families now await notification and also want to know if their loved ones are missing.

The great challenge faced by authorities is unlike anything Israel has ever dealt with. With the bodies of more than 1,200 to be collected, one of the greater struggles remains that some are difficult to identify, some reports showing bodies that some were burned or disfigured.

Crossreferenced with database
Israel has a database of its civilians. For instance, when soldiers are recruited, they provide DNA, fingerprints and photographs of teeth for identification purposes. In this situation, it is critical that all identification be done to its fullest extent, and that no mistakes are made. This is why authorities are working systematically and as fast as possible; but this takes time.

The projected time-frame was to have all the identifications done by Shabbat, but it may extend further. The identifications are being conducted by a mix of IDF, Israel Police, and other organizations and government bodies, with the purpose of having a systematic process and also informing families correctly, not have families find out in other ways – such as through social media – and be traumatized more.
Scenes from a war: The baby an Israeli EMT can’t forget
Emergency medical technician Shalom Avitan, 22, will never forget the way a terrified baby clung to him outside a southern Israeli community overrun with Hamas terrorists.

The religious United Hatzalah volunteer from Jerusalem had jumped in his car and headed south on Saturday morning upon learning of the deadly surprise attacks in the “Gaza envelope” region.

On the way, he joined up with another UH volunteer driving an intensive care ambulance.

“We were in touch with army officers who told us where they needed our help, and we went to kibbutzim where the army was fighting with terrorists,” Avitan tells ISRAEL21c.

“They started bringing out loads of injured civilians and soldiers. There were terrible injuries — people without hands or legs. We worked nonstop to stabilize them and take them to military helicopters because we couldn’t wait to evacuate them by ambulance.”

This grim work continued throughout that tragic day, October 7.

Safe in my hands
“At around 7pm, a team of special-forces soldiers came out of a kibbutz and handed us two babies,” Avitan relates.

“They told us the parents couldn’t be found; we don’t know if they were captured or killed. The babies, no more than a year old, were screaming and crying. They were dehydrated but otherwise physically unharmed,” says Avitan.

He and his friend each took a child in their arms and gave them water. The thirsty babies quickly drained the bottles.

“The baby must have felt safe in my hands because she didn’t want to let go,” says Avitan.

Once the infants were stabilized, the EMTs gave them back to soldiers, who took them to Soroka University Medical Center. There, Avitan was told later, social workers took care of them.
‘They burned them’: Artist recounts collecting bodies following Hamas’ brutal attacks
Israeli Artist Tomer Peretz, one of the many volunteers helping collect bodies, says Hamas “burned” the bodies of parents and children.

Mr Peretz sat with Sky News host Erin Molan to discuss his experiences recovering the bodies of many Israeli victims following Hamas’ brutal attacks.

“They burned them, they burned the bodies,” he told Ms Molan.

“They threw grenades and they shot RPGs on people inside houses.

“They cut people’s parts, we know that, we saw, we saw.”

Warning – this video contains distressing content.


First pilot to arrive in south after Hamas invasion recalls fateful morning
Lt.-Col. (res.) A., a helicopter pilot, was on call when the infiltration by Hamas began on Saturday and was the first to arrive at the scene.

"At the border fence, I saw that it had been breached, and rivers of people were flowing into the country. It seemed unfathomable. First, you think, What is this? Where are they coming from? In such quantities! They came in cars and bulldozers."

"Our weapon is a hellfire missile. I needed to choose where to hit best. I fire until the armament runs out, pretty quickly, within an hour. We flew to a nearby base to arm ourselves again, and shortly after, I was in the battle zone again."

"The investigations will show the truth - how fast the response was. Obviously, when it comes to such swarms, it is much more complex."
Israeli recounts final call with daughter presumed dead after being captured by Hamas
Meirav Leshem Gonen, mother of 23-year-old Romi Gonen, recounted the horrifying details of the final phone call she had with her daughter who is now presumed dead after being captured by Hamas.




Dad of Israeli-American woman, 24, murdered by Hamas at music festival used 'find my iPhone' to track down her remains in bullet-strewn car
The dad of an Israeli-American festival goer tracked his daughter's iPhone to discover how and where she met her harrowing death at the hands of Hamas gunmen.

Danielle Waldman, 24, and her boyfriend Noam Shai, who had met in the military and planned to get married, were missing in the days after the horrific attacks at the Israeli Supernova music festival.

Her anxious father, Eyal Waldman, had been holding onto the hope that his young daughter had only been held captive by the terror group and was not killed. On Wednesday he received the heartbreaking news that she and her boyfriend were amongst the 260 other innocent festival goers that were killed by the terrorists.

Danielle's dad, who is the founder of Mellanox - an Israeli-American supplier of computer networking products, used 'find my iPhone' to track his daughter's devices after learning of her death.

He discovered her wrecked car where it had been stranded after Danielle and her boyfriend along with several other festival goers had tried to escape the atrocious Hamas attacks.

Eyal Waldman spoke to CNN about the death of his 24-year-old daughter, who was murdered alongside her boyfriend of six years at the Nova Festival during the Hamas attacks.

After tracking his daughter's iPhone and Apple watch he went down south with his friend, which is where they found the car that his daughter was in as she tried to make her escape from the terror group.

They discovered that his daughter and her boyfriend along with a few others attempted to flee the attacks in a white Toyota hatchback, but that they were allegedly cornered by terrorists and executed with AK assault rifles.

Waldman said: 'I have seen exactly how she was murdered from two directions by at least three to five people that had attacked it.

'From the shells that we have found, there were at least three guns that were shooting at the car.'


Israelis Rush to Volunteer after Hamas Attacks
In the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks Saturday that left 1,300 dead, Israel's citizens are pouring their anxious energy into raising funds and collecting goods for those in need: soldiers; survivors of the atrocities; hospitals treating the thousands of wounded; and people whose loved ones were killed, are still missing or are being held hostage in Gaza. Thousands of grass-roots initiatives have sprung up across the country, many organized on social media.

Mothers were donating breast milk for orphaned infants. Dozens of florists and event designers are making hundreds of funeral wreaths and bouquets for hospitals. Large nurseries have been donating the flowers. With many weddings canceled, a Jerusalem wedding hall was turning out thousands of meals a day for soldiers.

Hadas Duchan, 34, an artist whose two brothers are among the reservists recently mobilized, spent Wednesday distributing food and medicine to families in Ofakim, that was infiltrated by the gunmen. "I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone who was there and who was hurt or killed or kidnapped," she said.
"Emergency Breast Milk Campaign Sends 6,000 LB of Donated Milk to Bereaved Babies in Israel"
An emergency campaign urging Jewish nursing women to donate breast milk to Israel resulted in a massive response to the request by a Brooklyn-based Syrian Jewish initiative publicized by the “SY Alerts” chat group.

“Lo Aleinu, we’re gathering frozen breast milk for donation to Israeli babies who have lost their mothers,” organizers wrote Thursday, with three weeping emojis alongside. “If you’d like to contribute, please drop of your donations by 5 pm sharp.”

Information on where to drop off the milk in the Midwood section of Brooklyn and in Midtown Manhattan was provided, together with a request for a suggested donation of $5 for transportation.

Within three hours, hundreds of women had donated more than 1,000 lbs of milk in packages of filled plastic milk storage bags, tied neatly in plastic shopping bags, many already frozen.
Tears for their troops: Jewish families break down at the gate at JFK airport as they proudly wave off young IDF reservists on the way to war with Hamas - as flights from Big Apple to Israel sell out for the next TEN days
Emotions ran high at JFK Airport as Jewish families broke down at the gate as they proudly watched young IDF reservists head off to wage war on Hamas terrorists.

Parents flooded terminal four to show unwavering support to all those going to the warzone - whether to fight, deliver equipment or return home to their families.

Politicians and supporters joined crowds that were dancing, singing and embracing, before the troops boarded their EL AL flight, which many spent days trying to secure due to it being the only airline still flying in and out of Israel.

Volunteers waved flags, brought food and cheered on the young soldiers, united in their support for the country during its dark days. Parents hugged their sons and daughters tightly, not knowing the next time they would see them again.

Noah Nierenberg, a 22-year-old orthodox young man from New York, stood smiling sweetly on Wednesday night while preparing to return to serve in the IDF, backed by the support of his entire family - including his parents, grandfather and sister.


Booker: Qatar Is Letting the Leader of a Hamas Group Bent on Destroying Peace, Killing Jews Live in Its Country
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) criticized Qatar for allowing Hamas’ leader to live in the country and denounced Hamas as an organization that murders Israelis every time there’s meaningful progress towards peace for Palestinians and whose recent attacks were “the most heinous attempt to upend human rights, security, and dignity of Israelis and Palestinians.”

Booker said, “Look, the Qataris, who are playing a constructive role, they have to self-examine. There are Hamas leaders living in Qatar. There are a lot that we have to get to the bottom of. But there should be no confusion in the United States of America. There should be no equivocation. This is an organization, Hamas, that is focused on destroying pathways to peace, killing civilians, and perpetrating hate.”
Israeli diplomat attacked in Beijing as Hamas calls for global ‘mobilization’
An Israeli embassy official was attacked on Friday in Beijing as Hamas called for a day of global “mobilization” against the Jewish people.

The attack did not occur inside the embassy compound, and the diplomat was in stable condition after being evacuated to the hospital, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

A motive for the attack was being probed.

Hamas has called for a “Friday of the Al-Aqsa Flood” on Oct. 13, with the terror organization seeking reinforcements from “our Palestinian people, the masses of the Arab and Islamic world, and free people worldwide” in its “declaration of mobilization.”

The Qatar-based Khaled Mashal, who led Hamas from 2014 to 2017, called for Muslims to “take to the streets” on Friday in a day of global protest against Israel. “To all scholars who teach jihad,” he said, “to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application [of jihad].”

Overnight on Thursday, Israel urged more than 1 million Palestinians to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip, ahead of an anticipated ground offensive to destroy Hamas’s terror capabilities.


Ben Shapiro: How Hamas Fooled The World
A senior Hamas official explains just how the terror group pulled off one of the worst terror attacks in history; the Israelis form a unity government to wipe Hamas from the map; and the legacy media begin to blame Israel for the massacre.


The Spectator: Douglas Murray on Hamas & the politics of multiculturalism – The Week in 60 Minutes
This week, Hamas terrorists committed the most deadly attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. Douglas Murray and Paul Wood discuss what could happen to the Middle East as conflict escalates, and how Britain should react. Also on the show, Matt Goodwin explains why the ‘luxury belief class’ have taken over politics, Stuart Roden on why he intervened in the pro-Palestine protests, and Cara User-Smith and Mary Wakefield discuss whether social media is more damaging for children than smoking.

00:00 Welcome from Freddy Gray
02:07 Can war ever be 'proportionate'? With Douglas Murray & Paul Wood
29:14 Why I spoke out against pro-Palestine protestors. With Stuart Roden
41:13 The rise of the 'luxury belief class'? With Matthew Goodwin
57:18 Is social media more dangerous to children than cigarettes? With Mary Wakefield & Cara Usher-Smit


The Fifth Column Podcast: The Nightmare Scenario (w/ Oren Kessler)
A few weeks before the Hamas pogrom, Moynihan was reading Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by the brilliant Israeli-American journalist and historian Oren Kessler. So he called him to talk through the current conflict, its historical antecedents, and how Hamas’s murder spree has effected his family.

* RIP Tomer Shoham
* The nightmare scenario
* “This is good for Hamas”
* The “I don’t support it, but you have to understand…” argument
* The “occupation” is Tel Aviv and Haifa
* Nowhere to go / hostage trading
* On the media coverage
* The Arab Revolt of 1936
* The beginning of Arab nationalism, Jewish terrorism
* Writing while angry
* The Jewish Agency Fund
'Hamas is a death cult': Worst massacre of Jews 'since the Holocaust'
The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says the terror attacks from Hamas towards Israel are the worst massacre of Jews “since the Holocaust”.

Mr Sheridan joined Sky News Australia host Peta Credlin to discuss the “bloody and bitter business” unfolding between Israel and Hamas terrorists around the Gaza Strip.

“Hamas really is a kind of Arab-Nazi movement – it’s a death cult,” he said.

“I think the Israelis will have to mount a ground invasion fairly soon.

“And their objective will be to destroy Hamas.”


‘Assume hostages are in tunnels’: Ami Horowitz's unique insight on Hamas’ warfare
It breaks my heart to say, but I am not sure a single one of the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during the terror attack will survive, says filmmaker Ami Horowitz.

Mr Horowitz joined Sky News host Andrew Bolt to discuss where Hamas’ Israeli hostages could be and if they had any chance of surviving.

“Israel has spent much time and resources trying to find these tunnels and destroy them and they have had very little success,” he said.

“This is why we would all assume the hostages are in these tunnels – I don’t hold out any hope.

“I say that with a very heavy heart.”


The Rubin Report: Exposing Shocking Anti-Israel Posts from Major Journalist | Megyn Kelly
Dave Rubin of the ”The Rubin Report” talks to Megyn Kelly about if Joe Biden can handle the increasingly dire global issues; how global conflicts might have been different under Donald Trump; the benefits of Democrat extremists like “The Squad” continuing to share their hideous views on the attacks on Israel; the benefits of following people outside of your echo chamber; and how the attacks on Israel have exposed the rotten worldviews of journalists at major media outlets like the Washington Post.




NYC Mayor Eric Adams: "Hamas Must Be Disbanded and Destroyed Immediately"
Mayor Eric Adams told the "New York Stands with Israel" rally on October 10, 2023: "We are not all right when we see young girls pulled from their home and dragged through the streets. We are not all right when we see grandmothers being pulled away from their homes and children shot in front of their families. We are not all right when right here in the City of New York you have those who celebrate at the same time....Everything is not fine. Israel has a right to defend itself, and that's the right that we know."

"We will not be all right until every person responsible for this act is held accountable. And we don't have to pretend....This was intentional. This was bitter. This was nasty. This was something that shows Hamas must be disbanded and destroyed immediately."

"I'm your brother. Your fight is my fight....You marched with us with Dr. King. You stood with us with all the fights we have. And I'm saying we're going to stand with you and stand united together. And we don't have to be all right. We should be angry at what we saw."


Nearly 50 UK Muslim groups, scholars, activists deny Palestinian terror
Forty-five British Muslim organizations, scholars and activists voiced unequivocal support for “the Palestinian right to self-defense and resistance against Israel’s illegal occupation and brutal violence.”

The statement came just days after Hamas murdered more than 1,300 Israelis in a surprise incursion over the border on Oct. 7. Many others were injured, and many remain hostages in the Gaza Strip.

The UK advocacy group Cage, which was criticized in 2013 over antisemitic materials on its site, including the suggestion that a Jew had planned to destroy the World Trade Center in Manhattan, published the letter from the 45 organizations. In 2015, the research director of the group, who also co-signed this week’s letter, called the ISIS terrorist known as Jihadi John as a “beautiful young man.”

The new statement calls for “the rejection of the term ‘terrorism’ when describing acts of Palestinian resistance and an end to the criminalization of acts of solidarity with Palestine by the UK government.”

It also calls for Palestinian prisoners to be released immediately and the “apartheid state” dismantled completely.
Jewish schools close for 'safety'
Two North London Jewish schools have told parents they are closing their doors until Monday out of safety concerns for their children.

According to Sky News, Torah Vodaas Primary School and Ateres Beis Yaakov Primary School have both informed parents about the closure this evening saying they were making the decision "in the interests of the safety of our precious children".

The headteacher of Torah Vodaas, Rabbi Feldman said that while there was no 'specific threat' to the school, that it was "not a decision that has been taken lightly".

The news comes amid reports of a tripling of antisemitic hate crimes by CST, who Rishi Sunak has pledged to give an additional £3m of funding.

From Saturday, October 7 to Tuesday, October 10, the CST recorded at least 89 antisemitic incidents across the UK. In comparison, they recorded 21 antisemitic incidents over the same four days in 2022.

Earlier this week, JFS headteacher Dr David Moody allowed students to not wear their blazers on the way to school. In a note to parents, he said: “The most important thing is to ensure the safe passage of students between home and school and to make sure that this school is set up to care for our children during the school day."
Four Jewish schools in London CLOSE until Monday amid fears for pupils' safety
Six Jewish schools in London are closed today amid fears for pupils' safety following a surge in antisemitic attacks - as Suella Braverman warned 'medieval anti-Semitism' by Hamas was no excuse to target Jews in Britain.

Torah Vodaas Primary School, Ateres Beis Yaakov Primary School and Menorah High School told parents last night they would not reopen until Monday. A further three schools have also temporarily closed, reports Jewish News.

The Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that supports British Jewish people, said antisemitic hate crimes had tripled in the four days after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel.

In a video address last night, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said Hamas was 'the equal to ISIS' and displayed 'medieval antisemitism'.

She said: 'Hamas terrorism is not just an attack on Israel, it is an attack on all of us with decent British values. The values are also rightly aghast at what many perceive as incidents of support for Hamas's actions on British streets and online.

'Sadly, whenever Israel is attacked, Islamists, racists and elements of the hard left use legitimate Israeli defensive measures as an excuse to stir up hatred against Jews.

'To anyone engaged in the glorification of terror, the harassment of Jewish people or public disorder at protest I have a simple message: we will track you down and you can expect to face the full force of the law.'
Organizers of Anti-Semitic Times Square Protest Have No Regrets
The organizers of Sunday’s pro-Hamas demonstration in Times Square have no regrets.

In a lengthy statement to the Washington Free Beacon, six of the groups behind the All Out for Palestine rally—including American Muslims for Palestine New Jersey, Al-Awda, and the Palestinian Youth Movement—said Hamas’s attacks "shattered the myth of Israeli military invulnerability" and "demonstrated that the status quo ... is fundamentally untenable." The statement went on to say "the challenge now, for all people of conscience, is to meet the current moment with moral clarity."

Left-wing groups’ reactions to the atrocities in Israel have drawn outrage and condemnations from Republicans and Democrats alike. More than 1,200 people have died since Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel Saturday, the worst in the Jewish state’s history. At least 27 Americans are dead, and an undetermined number of Americans are feared to have been taken hostage by Hamas.

Protesters at the Times Square rally chanted various anti-Semitic slogans and applauded Hamas’s attacks. One attendee waved a picture of a Nazi flag on his cellphone.

But such imagery gave its organizers no pause. In their statement, they said "we defend [Hamas’s] fundamental right to resist an illegal occupation, break out of their concentration camp, and defy the cruelty of the sixteen-year Zionist blockade."

"Sunday’s rally, alongside similar protests across the world, are expressions of an interna-tional [sic] spirit of solidarity that unites us across our differences," the groups said.
NYPD Orders Entire Force on Duty Ahead of Pro-Hamas Rallies
The New York Police Department ordered its entire force on duty ahead of a call from a former leader of Hamas for rallies worldwide in support of the terrorist group.

"All uniformed members of the service in every rank, will perform duty in the uniform of the day and be prepared for deployment," a Wednesday memo to every NYPD member read, the New York Post reported.

The notice is in place "until further notice" and comes as the force beefs up its presence in all 77 police precincts across the city.

The move comes after the former head of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, called for global protests on Friday in support of Palestinians.

"[We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday," Meshaal said in a recorded statement. "To all scholars who teach jihad … to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application [of jihad]."
Lifelong peace activist among those kidnapped by Hamas in wave of terror
Among the missing hostages kidnapped by Hamas was a lifelong peace activist in his eighties, who used to drive sick Palestinians from the Erez border crossing into Gaza to appointments at Jerusalem hospitals at least once a week.

Sharone Lifschitz, 52, a London-based filmmaker and artist, said her parents, who were both abducted by the terrorists last Saturday from the home where she grew up in Kibbutz Nir Oz, were members of Another Voice, a grassroots organisation based in Israeli towns and villages close to the Gaza Strip.

But now, she went on, they had been taken as part of an “an act of such barbarity that it is coaxing us into hate, into rage, into wanting to destroy”. Nevertheless, she said, people must “see the human within each of us. We now need to act together to fight that hatred with love.”

Lifschitz was speaking at a press conference together with her childhood friend Noam Sagi, 53, who works in Britain as a psychotherapist. His mother Ada Sagi, who was equally committed to working in peace with Palestinians, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz last weekend.
Shocking moment London women tear down posters of children kidnapped by Hamas while one shouts 'This is for Palestine': Jews in city say they're too scared to wear religious clothing in public
Shocking video shows the moment two women tear down posters of innocent Israeli children who were taken hostage by Hamas - with one saying 'this is for Palestine!'

The British-Israeli woman who filmed the encounter has revealed how she received verbal abuse from other members of the public while putting the fliers up in north London.

Neta Fibeesh, who knows someone who was abducted by Hamas, told MailOnline that she was sworn at and intimidated by members of the public as she put the fliers out to 'advocate for human rights'.

The 23-year-old said some of her Jewish friends have been 'scared' on the streets of Britain since the conflict broke out, being sworn at and even trying to hide their religion to avoid abuse.

The PhD student came back to the UK on one of British Airways' final flights out of Tel Aviv this week, and said things have been 'unpleasant' and 'upsetting' since she returned.


Triggernometry: BLM Stands With Hamas???
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster react to the pro-Palestine BLM tweet on The Adam Corolla Show. Link to full episode below 👇🏼


Corporate America, Outspoken on Black Lives Matter and Ukraine, Offers Muted Response to Terror in Israel
Companies across the Western world were quick to issue statements condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the killing of George Floyd. As Israel reels from the worst terrorist attack in its history, many of those same companies are less outspoken.

Deutsche Bank—which helped Hitler expropriate Jewish business during the Holocaust—condemned Russian president Vladimir Putin's assault the day his tanks rolled into Ukraine. It took five days and an inquiry from the Washington Free Beacon, though, for the German bank to condemn Hamas's rampage, which killed over 1,000 people and set the stage for a multi-front war between Israel and its neighbors.

"There can be no justification for such brutal acts and loss of life," the bank said in an email. As of this writing, the statement does not appear to be posted anywhere on the company's website, which promotes a panoply of diversity initiatives announced in the wake of George Floyd's death. Nor does it specify the actor responsible for the "brutal acts," or the victims of its crimes—Hamas and the Israelis it targeted, respectively.

Disney, meanwhile, decried "Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine," condemned "lethal attacks" on black Americans, and opposed a law banning Florida public schools from teaching third-grade students about gender identity. The company had yet to issue a public statement on the weekend's atrocities, which include the decapitation of children, as of Thursday evening and did not respond to a request for comment. Late Thursday, it issued a statement condemning the attacks and pledging $2 million in humanitarian relief.

It is now commonplace for big businesses to weigh in on current events and signal their support for social justice, often at the demand of employees. But with Israel fending off the worst surprise attack on its soil since the Yom Kippur War, many corporate communications teams are tight-lipped. The silence underscores the extent to which left-wing corporate diversity initiatives are tied up with the so-called Palestinian cause—embracing a view of the world in which Palestinians are equated with racial minorities in the United States and Israelis with white oppressors. Google, for example, was forced to reassign its diversity chief after the Free Beacon revealed his anti-Semitic blog posts.


Men accused of committing a vile act outside Sydney Jewish Museum in the wake of Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel cover their faces after being charged
Three men who allegedly performed Nazi salutes outside the Sydney Jewish Museum have been charged by police.

It's understood the trio - aged 30, 31, and 40 - allegedly intoxicated, were doing Nazi salutes outside the museum Darlinghurst shortly after midday on Friday.

The three have each been charged with behave in offensive manner in/near public place/school, and knowingly display by public act Nazi symbol without excuse.

All three have been granted bail and Daily Mail Australia was on the scene as two of the men walked free from Kings Cross police station about 6.30pm Friday.

One of the men covered his face with his t-shirt while the other, wearing hi-vis, used a cap to shield his face from cameras.

The trio's alleged act follows 'appalling' protests held on the steps of Sydney Opera House on Monday evening in which a section of the crowd was filmed chanting anti-Jewish slogans and attempting to burn a Star of David flag.

Both incidents come amid rising tensions over the Israel-Palestine conflict which has this week erupted after terrorist group Hamas sent hundreds of its members across the border from Gaza to commit a surprise attack against Israelis.

The Israeli death toll from the attack stands at about 1,300 with President Netanyahu warning 1.1 million Palestinians to evacuate as he amasses 'hundreds of thousands' of soldiers on the Gaza border in preparation for a ground assault.
Three people arrested at Sydney Jewish Museum

Paris police turn water cannons and tear gas on pro-Palestine demonstrators as French minister says there is 'no place' for such demonstrations following Hamas terror atrocities
Water cannon and tear gas were used to disperse a banned pro-Palestine rally in Paris tonight as French police moved to arrest its organisers.

It followed the country's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin saying there was 'no place' for such protests against the Gaza War following Saturday's terrorist atrocities.

Crowds built up around Republic square in the French capital on Thursday, chanting 'Free Palestine', 'End the Siege of Gaza', 'Israel murderer' and 'Macron accomplice' - in reference to the French President's backing of Israel.

Hundreds gathered brandishing Palestinian flags, and other symbols showing their support for one side in the Arab-Israeli conflict, which erupted when Hamas terrorists launched a violent attack on Israeli civilians on Saturday.

Soon after 8pm a water cannon soaked many of those in the crowd of around 2,000, sending them running for cover. Tear gas was then unleashed, as CRS riot patrols moved in to clear the area.

'Our orders are to prevent the protest continuing,' said a police chief at the scene. 'People are asked to leave the area.'

The French police have routinely banned any demonstrations in favour of Palestine since the Israel-Gaza War of 2014.
French school murder: Emmanuel Macron reveals cops foiled a SECOND attack as killer who yelled 'Allahu Akbar' during 'day of jihad' rampage is named as 'ISIS supporter, 19'
An alleged ISIS supporter who stabbed a teacher to death at a school in northern France before seriously wounding two others committed and act of 'barbaric Islamist terrorism', President Emmanuel Macron said today.

Mohamed Mogouchkov, a Chechen refugee aged 20, is said to have murdered Dominique Bernard, a French literature teacher in his 40s at the Gambetta high school in Arras at 11am local time.

At least two other people were wounded, including a security agent who was stabbed multiple times and a teacher who is in a less serious condition, a source added. No pupil at the school was hurt.

The attack comes on the day leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group behind ruthless attacks in Israel, called on Muslims across the world to demonstrate on the 'day of Jihad'.

The attack was the result of 'barbaric Islamist terrorism,' President Macron told reporters at the scene on Friday, but added that police had helped avoid another attempted attack elsewhere in France.

'The teacher who was killed had come forward to protect others and had without doubt saved many lives,' said Macron.

Both Mogouchkov and his brother, who was also taken into custody, were known to the authorities and were on the national security watchlist, police said.

Mogouchkov's brother is said to have spent 18 months in prison for distributing ISIS propaganda online, and Mogouchkov was also a known ISIS sympathiser, sources said.


The Rubin Report: Watch This Free Palestine Rally In America & Be Afraid
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of frightening footage of Amer Zahr speaking at a Free Palestine Rally in Dearborn, Michigan.




Mark Spiro details NSW Police removing him from Sydney pro-Palestine rally

Meet Rashida Tlaib’s Rogue’s Gallery of Israel-Hating, Terrorist-Loving Friends
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) says her critics are "bigoted" for suggesting she supports Hamas. But the Squad member has a long history of cozying up to the terrorist group behind the largest attack in Israel’s history—one of many anti-Israel, pro-terrorist groups she’s embraced.

Speaking to the Detroit Free Press Wednesday, Tlaib offered a qualified criticism of Hamas, saying that the terrorist group's attacks on innocent Israeli's "were war crimes," but also claiming Israel's response "is a war crime." Tlaib on Wednesday also called her critics "bigoted" for suggesting that she supports the murder of civilians, "whether in Israel or Palestine."

But while Tlaib has repeatedly denounced Israel as an "apartheid state" engaged in genocide, she has made no specific condemnation of Hamas or Hezbollah. The Gaza-based group Hamas slaughtered more than 1,000 Israelis and two dozen Americans in an invasion last weekend, and has taken dozens of women and children hostage. Hezbollah has joined the fighting with a series of rocket launches from Lebanon, raising concern because of the group’s large military arsenal and alliance with Iran.

A look at Tlaib's allies and fundraisers further call into question the congresswoman's stance on the terrorist groups.

Tlaib has ties to a pro-Palestine activist who praised Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group, for attacking "Shitsreal," a derisive term he used for the Jewish state. Tlaib has met repeatedly with a Michigan-based newspaper publisher who claims Hezbollah has made Lebanon "safer." Two of Tlaib’s campaign bundlers have pushed anti-Israel and pro-terrorist views. One is alleged to have raised money for a Hamas front group in the 1990s. Another Tlaib ally who has hosted two fundraisers for the Democrat this year has promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Tlaib’s allies have praised both terrorist groups, according to their social media accounts.

There’s Abbas Hamideh, the founder of Al-Awda, a pro-Palestine group in Ohio. Hamideh last year cheered that "Hezbollah slaughtered Shitsreal." Hamideh, who wrote "may Hezbollah keep kicking ass," attended Tlaib’s swearing-in ceremony in 2019 and met with her during her 2018 congressional campaign.
WATCH: Nevada Dem Chair Offers Moment of Silence for 'Upheaval in the World,' Fails To Mention Israel
The chairwoman of the Nevada Democratic Party opened a legislative hearing with a moment of silence for the "actions over the weekend causing even more upheaval in the world that we all live in," a statement that failed to mention Israel.

Daniele Monroe-Moreno—who in addition to her party chair role serves as a state legislator—on Wednesday began an Interim Finance Committee hearing with a call for a "moment of silence" after Hamas's gruesome weekend attacks on Israel, which saw the terrorist group slaughter and kidnap women and children. Hearing attendees and viewers wouldn't have known that information from Monroe-Moreno's speech, however, as it avoided mention of Israel and Hamas altogether.

"For the last year there's been upheaval in different areas of the globe, and there were actions over the weekend causing even more upheaval in the world that we all live in," Monroe-Moreno said. "So I'm going to ask that we have just a moment of silence knowing that although the fighting isn't going on in our community, it does affect all communities."

Monroe-Moreno is not the only prominent Democrat to make a statement on the terrorist attacks that omitted Israel. Democratic Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, for example, on Saturday said she had "been in touch with communities impacted by what's happening in the region," adding that her "heart is with all those impacted."

That statement drew condemnation from Aryeh Lightstone, who served as senior adviser to former U.S. ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman. For Lightstone, Whitmer's "fraudulent" response disqualified her from office.

"She watched this happen in real time," Lightstone said. "And to watch women and children be kidnapped and raped and murdered, and to not be able to say something? She should resign immediately."

The Nevada Democratic Party did not return a request for comment. A spokeswoman for Monroe-Moreno's office did not answer questions on why Monroe-Moreno failed to mention Israel during the hearing, instead pointing to a Tuesday social media post in which the state lawmaker condemned "the acts of terrorism perpetrated by Hamas against Israel."
AOC-backed Starbucks union representing 9,000 baristas sparks fury by tweeting 'solidarity with Palestine!' after Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis

SPLC Won’t Say Whether It Plans To Designate Left-Wing Groups Supporting Slaughter In Israel As Hate Groups

Jewish Anti-Israel Leftists Struggle With Left’s Support for Hamas Murder and Rape
While most decent people responded with horror to the Hamas atrocities, the fringes responded with enthusiasm or defenses of the atrocities. The trouble though is that the Left stopped being a fringe and replaced liberalism as the driving ideological force of the Democratic Party. And the Hard Left became the driving force of the Left.

And the Hard Left supports Hamas. That’s uncomfortable for liberals and even leftists to deal with, but now even anti-Israel leftists are having trouble coping with the fact that their movement supports the rape and murder of Jews.

Now by anti-Israel Left, I don’t mean merely leftists that are critical of Israel. I mean leftists who built their careers on hating Israel and justifying the terrorists. Now that Hamas invaded a music festival, kidnapped, killed and raped women, and kidnapped an elderly “peace activist”, and massacred people like them on kibbutzim, they’re shocked that their ideological allies and friends are good with it.

Joshua Leifer, the editor of Jewish Currently, a violently anti-Israel publication which had its most infamous moment defending the rape and murder of Jews in Hebron back when it was part of the Communist Party, expressed discomfort.

Turned on my phone after the holiday and was overwhelmed by the images of death and horror. My partner and I frantically text friends and loved ones to make sure they’re okay. Everyone seems to have lost someone or knows someone who has. The loss, the tragedy—incomprehensible.

There’s also a deep sense that the left abroad has lost the values it was supposed to stand for. I thought we were leftists because we wanted a world without war, torture, the killing of families & children in their beds

I thought we were leftists because we abhor cruelty, detest violence, and believe in the inherent, even divine, worth of all human life. I thought we were leftists because our struggle was for all people to be able to live with freedom and dignity.

Are these not the values that led us to oppose the cruel siege on Gaza? To resist the brutalities of the occupation? To oppose apartheid? Where are these values when Israeli children are held hostage, families wiped out, corpses violated before cheering crowds?

Did Leifer really not understand that this was ‘Palestinianism’ from the very beginning? This is what he was fighting for.

What else have the so-called ‘Palestinians’ that he bled for ever done other than this? Built a state, created a functional society, music and art? No they hated Jews and ached to kill them in the most brutal and grotesque ways.

And they’ve done it with the support of leftists like Leifer.

Naomi Klein at the Guardian, like Leifer, also knows people who lost someone. Unlike many Hamas attacks which targeted ‘settlers’, these struck kibbutzim and people who had connections to members of the anti-Israel Left. That, frankly, is one reason why this touches them where the previous murder of women and children by Hamas did not.

“I spent the evening in candlelight and tears with a dear friend who just learned that a close family member was among those massacred in Israel. I won’t name the kibbutz to protect her privacy but yes, it was unequivocally a massacre,” she writes.
International Federation for Human Rights Blames Israel for Hamas’ Atrocities
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) claims that it “defends all human rights: civil, political, economic, social and cultural, as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” That is a total lie, coming from an organization that deserves to be renamed “the International Federation for the Defense of Evil.”

Like other anti-Semitic organizations of its ilk, the FIDH spewed its perverted notion of “human rights” by claiming that Hamas’s horrific massacre of innocent Israeli civilians, including the beheading of scores of babies, was Israel’s fault. FIDH referred to the Palestinian terrorists’ slaughter in cold blood of the most Jewish civilians in one day since the Holocaust as simply “the recent Hamas offensive in Israel.”

FIDH joins other groups, such as a collection of pro-Palestinian student groups at Harvard, that are condemning Israel for responding with military force to ensure that Hamas’s savage attacks on Israeli civilians can never happen again.

Parroting the propaganda of the Palestinian terrorists and their enablers, FIDH declared, “This cycle of violence is a sadly predictable and expected result of Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid regime that has lasted too long, despite calls and warnings from human rights organizations and justice mechanisms.”

No, this “cycle” of violence was initiated by Hamas in its quest to fulfill the genocidal mission set out in its founding document, the “Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement.” That mission, expressed in religious terms, is the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel and the killing of as many Jews as possible.
Swarthmore College Banned Fraternities, Won’t Ban Hamas-Supporting ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’
There are people and organizations who can credibly take an absolutist position on free speech. Modern colleges where wearing a sombrero on Halloween or being a Republican is a hate crime are not among them.

Any normal student who defended a racist group’s murder of minorities would be off campus in three seconds flat. A KKK chapter would never be allowed to exist on any college campus. And yet Students for Justice in Palestine and its chapters can openly support Hamas and the murder of Jews. And college administrators make excuses for them.

Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine’s statement declared that it “enshrines the right of the Palestinian people to resist the Zionist regime by any means necessary and honors the martyrs who have sacrificed their lives for liberation.” The “martyrs” are the Hamas terrorists.

It added that “every settler is an aggressive occupier even as they sit comfortably in their stolen homes” and that “there exists only a colonizer and a colonized, an oppressed and an oppressor” meaning that all Jews and non-Muslims in Israel were legitimate targets for mass murder.

Swarthmore’s President Val Smith condemned Hamas, but claimed that as a “liberal arts institution, we embrace the free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives. That means sometimes engaging with views we may find, if not abhorrent. But let me be clear: Hateful rhetoric and calls for violence have no place at Swarthmore.”

Clarity would have been addressing the SJP defense of Hamas and clarifying whether he thinks it’s an exchange of diverse ideas or hateful rhetoric and violence. Instead, Smith laid out a general view with no specific relevance to what’s going on at his college.

In 2019, Swarthmore banned fraternities and sororities. It won’t however ban an organization of Hamas supporters.


DAVID MARCUS: Vile Ivy league students and far-left politicians call conservatives Nazis - but don't condemn Hamas, killers of Jews. How sickeningly low can they go?
If you thought the idiotic bile, the bizarre rationalizations, the inane whataboutism from the Left over the Hamas slaughter of Israelis had run its course – think again.

None other than Democratic Socialist hero Senator Bernie Sanders has joined the chat.

In a dizzying statement full of equivocation and gross omissions on Wednesday, Sanders demanded that Israel’s response to the terrorist massacre be reigned in.

He accuses the Jewish State of a ‘war crime’ and ‘serious violation of international law’ by cutting off its supply of food, water and power to Gaza. ‘Children and innocent people do not deserve to be punished,’ he writes.

Of course, they don’t, Senator. And neither does Israel target civilians.

But what’s so strange about his statement is that he doesn’t say much about the Israelis indiscriminately killed.

There’s nothing of the credible reports of children beheaded by Hamas savages, women raped and burned to death, threats to execute hostages, including defenseless elderly, young festival-goers and the disabled.
Israeli billionaire and his wife QUIT board of Harvard's famed Kennedy School of business after slamming college's woke president Claudine Gay's 'shocking and insensitive' response to Hamas massacre
An Israeli billionaire says he and his wife are quitting the board of Harvard University's famous Kennedy School of Business over the school's president's response to the surprise Hamas attacks in Israel.

Idan Ofer is the founder of Eastern Pacific Shipping reportedly worth over $14billion, according to Forbes. His wife Batia is an art collector and the descendant of Holocaust survivors.

Batia Ofer told the Hebrew-language outlet TheMarker that she and her husband are both quitting the school's executive board over President Claudine Gay's response to 31 Harvard organizations signing a letter placed the blame on Israel for Hamas' brutal attacks that have killed over 1,500.

Their actions are 'in protest of the shocking and insensitive response by the president of the university, who did not condemn the letter by student organizations who blamed Israel for the massacres.'

'We write to you today heartbroken by the death and destruction unleashed by the attack by Hamas that targeted citizens in Israel this weekend, and by the war in Israel and Gaza now underway,' Harvard administrators wrote in the statement from Monday, credited to Gay.


‘Doxxing truck’ drives around Harvard showing names, photos of students who blamed Israel for Hamas attacks
A “doxxing truck” is driving around the campus of Harvard University with digital billboards that display the names and photos of students who allegedly signed a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ violent attack that killed more than 1,200 people over the weekend.

Giant video screens hung on the sides and back of the truck display the words “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites” in gothic script over a slideshow of Ivy Leaguers’ headshots and names in bold, red block letters, according to photos on social media.

Nonprofit news watchdog Accuracy in Media was behind the truck, which showed the students involved in the 34 student groups that signed a letter saying Israel is “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ deadly attack on Saturday.

The truck’s surprise appearance around campus on Wednesday “was the first day [of a] multi-day, multi-pronged campaign involving multiple billboards and a variety of other tactics,” Accuracy in Media president Adam Guillette told The Post.

The group deployed the truck because it’s “incredibly important to know who the hateful antisemites are in our society. And it’s important for people to know that their actions have consequences,” Guillette said in an interview with The Post.

“Our mobile billboards will be at Harvard for the foreseeable future,” he said, noting that Accuracy in Media “never violates any laws.”

Photos of the truck shared on social media blocked out the names and photos of the students.

A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack

The vehicle also displayed the website HarvardHatesJews.com, which leads to a forum that encourages users to send an email to members of Harvard’s board of trustees.

“Tell them to take action against these despicable, hateful students,” the website says.


Petition to fire Yale professor who called for SOLIDARITY with Hamas murderers who slaughtered Israelis hits 35,000 signatures
A petition to remove a Yale professor from her position after she sent out a number of tweets backing and celebrating the Hamas terror attacks in Israel, has garnered 35,000 signatures.

The petition, titled 'Remove Zareena Grewal from the Yale Faculty for Promoting LIES and VIOLENCE,' refers to a series of tweets sent by Grewal, an Ethnicity, Race, and Migration professor in the wake of the barbaric attacks in Israel over the weekend.

On October 7, Grewal wrote: 'My heart is in my throat. Prayers for Palestinians. Israeli [sic] is a murderous, genocidal settler state and Palestinians have every right to resist through armed struggle, solidarity. #FreePalestine.'

Several days later, as the depravity of the Hamas attacks became clear, Grewal wrote in response to a tweet from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: 'No government on earth is as genocidal as this settler colonial state.'

She has also, in recent days, retweeted posts that claim Israel has a 'mad bloodlust' and that those who support the Jewish state would have 'been posting 'I stand with slave owners' during rebellions.'

On October 8, Grewal retweeted a video of a news report about the brutal Hamas attacks with the caption: 'It's been such an extraordinary day!'

In a student-written article for the Yale Daily News, the school defended Grewal's right to exercise free speech.

A spokesperson for the Ivy League institution said: 'Yale is committed to freedom of expression, and the comments posted on Professor Grewal’s personal accounts represent her own views.'

It is not clear whether Yale will take action or conduct a review of Grewal's messages.

The school's Jewish Chaplain, Jason Rubenstein, told the outlet that he 'would like the Yale administration, while not compromising on freedom of expression and academic freedom, to also respond to these statements as what they are: fundamental challenges to the ethos of belonging at Yale.'

'We would like this professor - and everyone at Yale - to state what should be obvious: that she cherishes and would protect every member of the Yale community, including Jews alongside everyone else,' he said.
'Mission Accomplished': UC Santa Cruz gave DEI fellowship to pro-Hamas scholar who 'liked' terrorist attacks
Cinthya Martinez is a UC Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Santa Cruz.

A researcher in the abolition of national borders and prisons, Martinez has been an X kick since Saturday relishing the Hamas terrorists who broke down the fence separating Gaza and southern Israel to launch a terror attack that resulted in approximately 1,200 deaths, rapes, mutilations, headchoppings, and kidnappings.

”When I say ‘no walls, no prisons, no cages’ this is what I mean. #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSeaPalestineWillBeFree #PalestinaLibre,” Martinez posted on X earlier this week above a picture of the Hamas terrorists storming into Israel on their way to rape women, slaughter babies, and take elderly Holocaust survivors prisoner.

She also liked an X post with a glider emoji to commemorate the Hamas terrorists that dropped into southern Israel to rape women, kill families, torture children, and behead babies.

In 2022, UC Santa Cruz awarded her the fellowship, which the website states is for “exceptional scholars who advance the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of California.”
University of Washington and Georgetown students spark outrage with events 'honoring' the 'MARTYRS' of Palestine who slaughtered 1,300 in Israel - leaving distraught Jewish student sobbing
Students at the University of Washington and across the country at Georgetown University gathered to praise the Hamas terrorists who butchered 1,300 Israelis over the weekend, launching the region into a bloody war.

At the University of Washington, video footage captured several Jewish students in tears as they pleaded with an administrator to put a stop to the pro-Palestinian rally, at which students condoned violence against Israel and the Jewish people.

'They want our people dead. They want us killed,' sobs one student to an administrator who appears to be listening, but indicating that there is noting he can do.

'How are you allowing this? Why aren't you putting a stop to this?' she asked through uncontrollable tears. 'Please end it. Please,' she begged.

The event at the campus' red square had been advertised by a radical student group who said their goal was to 'uplift the just Palestinian resistance' and 'condemn the settler colonial state of Israel.'

Flyers for the event featured a drawing of a paraglider similar to the ones that militant Hamas terrorists used last Saturday to fly into southern Israel and massacre scores of innocent concert-goers.




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