Thursday, October 19, 2023

10/19 Links Pt2: The West’s fifth columnists; 250 More Bodies Discovered in Israel’s South; How CRT leads to justifying Hamas' terrorism

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: The West’s fifth columnists
So, the BBC won’t describe genocidal Hamas butchery as terrorism, but referring to an “Israeli strike” merely on the basis of claims by that genocidal group is not “taking sides.”

Simpson provoked further fury in the Jewish community by drawing an inappropriate and offensive analogy with BBC broadcasters not calling the Nazis “evil or wicked” during World War II.

The BBC is now “urgently investigating” claims that a number of reporters at BBC Arabic shared comments hailing the Hamas pogrom as a “morning of hope” and portraying Hamas as freedom fighters.

Following this, a report revealed that Ahmed Hussain, the head of the BBC’s Asian Network—a radio station listened to by thousands of young British Asians—retweeted a post calling Israel’s retaliation in Gaza over the Hamas attacks “genocide.”

The BBC has responded to this by merely stating that its guidance sets out the need for impartiality, that any breaches of the guidance are “taken seriously” and that it has “spoken to Ahmed and reminded him of these responsibilities. The retweets have been removed.”

The BBC’s feeble response showed yet again that the broadcaster simply refuses to face up to the implications of its Israel-hating staff. Small wonder that the normally soft-spoken Israeli President Isaac Herzog called the BBC’s reporting “atrocious.”

It’s been atrocious for years. The BBC is the single most important media conduit in the world for disseminating, laundering and legitimizing Palestinian lies and incitement against Israel and the Jewish people.

Like other outlets, the BBC is the voice of the left-wing intelligentsia, for whom the lie that Israel is a “colonialist” occupier and the Palestinian Arabs its displaced and oppressed victims is an article of faith.

The Hamas pogrom has upset this narrative. The BBC and other media seized upon the Gaza hospital lie because they can’t wait to get the narrative back on track.

It’s not enough to view this as political ideology or even antisemitism. This is a profound moral sickness poisoning the West.

Such misreporting is more than irresponsible. These media outlets are the West’s fifth columnists, acting as enablers of the enemies of civilization in a time of war.
Nazism 2.0
Hamas’s ideology echoes classic European antisemitism and Nazi ideology, which incited the genocide of the European Jews. The Hamas terrorists are modern day torchbearers of Nazism.

The common bond of their ideologies is the idea of “purifying” humanity of any Jewish presence. Nazi ideology spoke of “redemptive antisemitism,” a form of antisemitism that promises to “redeem” the world by exterminating the Jews. Hamas, with its “hour of judgment,” embraces exactly the same demented apocalypticism.

The export of redemptive antisemitism from Nazi Germany to parts of the Arab world during and after World War II is not merely a supplementary feature of modern radical Islamism, but its ideological core. All Islamist groups, including Hamas, embrace it, with results that we saw in full on Oct. 7.

The connection between the Palestinians and the Nazi regime is direct. A key player was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who personally met with Hitler, as well as representatives of the Nazi SS intelligence arm during the late 1930s. Not coincidentally, he also consulted with Adolf Eichmann, one of the major directors of the Holocaust. The late Yasser Arafat, whose PLO was as dedicated to murdering Jews as Hamas, was Husseini’s nephew.

What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews. The PLO practically invented airplane hijacking. So, today, at every airport in every country in the world, we now line up for security checks. This is only a small example of the global danger of dismissing the axis of Jew-hatred composed of Hamas, the Iranian regime, Qatar and the P.A, among others.

Jews around the world, make no mistake. What transpired on Oct. 7 is not only a conflict, not only a war, but part of our historical struggle against those who wish to annihilate the Jewish people.
Sickening Anti-Israel Bias in the West
We have just been subjected to a grotesque masterclass in misinformation, moral inversion, anti-Semitic hate-mongering and hypocrisy. Within minutes of Hamas claiming, with zero proof, that Israel had bombed a hospital, the world erupted into instant, unequivocal condemnation of the Jewish state.

The utter certainty with which the allegations were repeated on the broadcast media, the uncritical acceptance of the vilest propaganda from terrorists, the willingness to attribute the worst possible motives to a tiny democracy fighting for its survival: it was a chilling spectacle - the successful whipping-up of a global lynch-mob.

Millions of people in Britain, Europe, America and the Middle East knew - they just knew - that Israel must have bombed the hospital, that Hamas' claims must be true. The extreme, irrational demonization of Israel is the new blood libel of our times. This allergic reaction to Israel is so acute it can only be explained as the current iteration of the world's oldest hatred - antisemitism.

The same people who spent days claiming that the massacre and incineration of babies by Hamas was "unverified," who conveniently ignored the fact the murderers had live-streamed their atrocities - these very same people all immediately jumped to judgment. Hamas' word was enough. No proof was needed. The bias, the lack of objectivity, point to an abhorrent, endemic culture of anti-Semitism among swathes of the West's cultural elites.

Anybody who understands anything about Israel, about the Israel Defense Forces' legal apparatus, about the values of its people, knows that it is more committed to a clean war than almost any other democracy, let alone all the tyrants and fanatics that surround it.

There is such a thing as a just war, one conducted for the purposes of self-defense, even one that requires invading another country and fighting street by street until total victory is assured. It is what happened in the Second World War, when the Allies liberated Europe, and in myriad other conflicts, though Israel would be far more restrained than most Western armies ever were.


Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik: The Law of War Hosted by John Yoo, Richard Epstein & Troy Senik
It’s a jam-packed session in the faculty lounge as Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo go around the horn for a comprehensive look at the issues of the day: What does “international law” mean in the context of the war in Gaza? Should student activists be punished for their support of Hamas? Will the Supreme Court rule on whether Donald Trump can be on the 2024 ballot? What upcoming SCOTUS case inspired the first (non-podcast) Epstein and Yoo collaboration? And should the Supreme Court knuckle under to pressure to adopt a code of ethics? All that, plus we debate the finer points of ancient latin and do a quick tour of archaic American currency.


Daniel Pipes: A Decent Outcome Is Possible in Gaza
Everyone seems to agree that no good outcome is possible in Gaza. They're wrong. It's possible for a decent Gaza-led administration to emerge, which could make autonomy and even statehood possible.

Gazans stand by a destroyed building in Deir el-Balah on Oct. 15.

That might seem unlikely, given the deep and longstanding anti-Zionism in Gaza. In 1967, Gazan school books taught arithmetic with problems like, "You have five Israelis. You kill three of them. How many Israelis are left to be killed?"

But over the past 15 years, Gazans have endured something monstrous and possibly unique in human experience: exploitation by their rulers as cannon fodder for public relations. ...

Israel failed to find decent partners during its previous occupation, when it made no effort to cultivate friendly relations with Gazans and handed the territory to Yasser Arafat. Hamas has now done Israel's work. Where is Gaza's Konrad Adenauer?
How CRT leads to justifying Hamas' terrorism
Two stand out. First, is the source of human evil. The Judeo-Christian tradition places it in each individual. "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9 reads. But CRT divides people into arbitrary racial groups – Black and white or Palestinian and Israeli. Those in the victim group are innocent, based on their "oppressed" status and regardless of their actions. Evil stems from the power structures imposed by the dominant group.

This is why the students blame Israel. Their CRT worldview doesn't give them the capacity to blame Palestinian terrorists – even for raping girls and killing babies.

The second assumption is how people are saved from that evil. For Christians, salvation comes from believing that Jesus Christ died to pay the penalty for one's sins and calling on the name of the Lord. In CRT, salvation comes from tearing down the power structures, systems, and institutions that trap those in the victim group in oppression. In this view, Hamas is doing only what is required to help those in Gaza escape supposed "Israeli violence."

It's a racially tinged version of the class revolution sought by Karl Marx. As a reminder, the global death toll from communism is estimated to be more than 90 million.

This explains the paradox of universities cracking down on "microaggressions" but ignoring students who defend Hamas' barbarism. It's worse than mere hypocrisy. These universities are indoctrinating students with these ideas when they push CRT, "diversity, equity and inclusion" and decolonization. It's even in many K-12 schools.

Most people don't think about the assumptions beneath their worldview, but they should. Ideas have consequences. As what's happening on college campuses reveals, the ideas underpinning CRT are deeply immoral, wrong, and dangerous.
The Commentary Magazine Podcast: Blowing the Wrong End of the Shofar Hosted by Abe Greenwald, Christine Rosen, John Podhoretz & Matthew Continetti
Today’s podcast looks askance at, and is horrified by, and laughs at, the protest at the Capitol yesterday by “Jewish organizations” working as propagandists for Jew-killing organizations. And then we take apart, word by word, the New York Times’s effort to exculpate itself for responsibility for the violence in the wake of its false reporting of the hospital rocket strike.
IDF Battalion Commander: "We've Spent 15 Years Preparing"
Lt.-Col. Tomer Greenberg's Golani Brigade battalion held the Nahal Oz sector, was taken by surprise, but recovered and eliminated dozens of terrorists. "I was given a situation picture that's every battalion commander's nightmare - that there are terrorists in all the localities in my sector...that we had sustained many wounded and many killed."

In Kfar Aza, soldiers detected a house where there were two babies whose parents had been killed. "We reached the place and burst in, and I saw the mother in the living room. She'd been shot. I reached the children's room and saw their father prostrate with a bullet in the head. I identified the father: he was a former Golani officer; once I'd had the occasion to work with him. And I saw two sweet babies, blue-eyed, maybe two years old, just sitting quietly in their crib."

Greenberg's battalion kept fighting the next day. It eliminated dozens of terrorists, patched holes in the Gaza fence with Leopard APCs and tanks, and fired at every terrorist who tried to break through or return to Gaza. The battalion paid a painful price in blood: 41 dead and 91 wounded. Explaining the high casualty toll, Greenberg notes that his battalion was deployed over a large number of locations and under inferior conditions in each. Now the battalion is preparing feverishly for the next stage. Golani will be the spearhead, as always. Motivation is at its peak.

"We've spent fifteen years preparing for [this battle]. Now let's see who's better prepared. It's clear to everyone what we're fighting for....It's not revenge. It's the twins; they didn't even cry when we took them away in the Leopard. I thought about my 3 1/2-year-old daughter. It's for them."
250 More Bodies Discovered in Israel’s South: Report
The bodies of at least 250 more Israelis have been found near communities along the Gaza border, according to the Kann news channel.

A military officer in charge of finding and removing bodies of Israelis told journalist Hadas Grinberg that the new victims were discovered after an Israeli Air Force plane flew over the area and provided the location of the dead to medical and security teams.

The bodies, the report says, have not yet been evacuated. Israeli medical and security forces are currently responding.

Separately, Israeli officials announced Thursday that more than 200 people are confirmed to be hostages in Gaza, while between 100-200 more remain missing.

While many of the hostages are in hands of Hamas, others were likely kidnapped by private citizens who “identify with Hamas,” according to Kann.

Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack against Israel left more than 1,400 dead.
Israel equips tanks with anti-drone cages ahead of Gaza invasion - report
Israeli tanks amassing outside Gaza ahead of a potential ground invasion have been equipped with anti-drone "cages", similar to those used in the Russia-Ukraine War, according to analysis from The Washington Post.

The Post shared images showing Israeli vehicles with modified coverings whose purpose is to protect soldiers inside from any explosives dropped from drones.

“My assumption is that the Hamas attacks gave Israel the impetus to install the cages more widely,” Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies told the Post. “It was probably something they had been thinking about before since everyone is watching the war in Ukraine closely.”

“An interesting question is whether these structures will become standard for armored vehicles in conflict,” Cancian stated. “The United States has not equipped its tanks with cages, but this may be a lesson armies need to learn the hard way.”
Gaza fence was not designed to prevent mass assault on its own, builder said in 2018
The Gaza-Israel border fence was not designed, on its own, to withstand the kind of assault carried out by Hamas on October 7, when large contingents of terrorists attacked and burst through it in multiple locations and went on to massacre over 1,400 people in Israel.

This was made plain by the former CEO of the defense firm responsible for constructing and maintaining the barrier, in a 2018 interview.

“It would take about 30 seconds to cross,” Saar Koursh told Bloomberg in April 2018, at a time when Hamas was organizing mass “March of Return” riots at the border and vowing to galvanize 100,000 Gazans to storm the fence. Koursh stressed that the barrier “wasn’t built to stop riots” but rather “to give real-time indication if somebody is trying to cross the border.”

The IDF said at the time that it was bolstering border protection with tanks, drones, snipers and other crowd-dispersal techniques.

Magal Security Systems Ltd. was first contracted to construct a barrier between Israel and Gaza in 2002. The barrier was further fortified after 2005, following the complete withdrawal of Israel from the Gaza Strip, and subsequently upgraded multiple times.

Then Magal began the development of a new and improved “smart fence.” The project, dubbed the Iron Wall, took three and a half years to complete and was finished in December 2021. The project featured new sensors, radar and detection equipment, as well as a new underground wall and maritime barrier.
US Navy warship intercepts Houthi missile launched at Israel
A US Navy warship traveling near Yemen intercepted multiple projectiles, a US official told Reuters on Thursday. The missiles, according to Israeli media citing the Pentagon, were launched at Israel.

Washington is on heightened alert for activity by Iran-backed groups as regional tensions soar during the Israel-Hamas war.

The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said there were no injuries and a number of projectiles, including drones, were brought down near the destroyer USS Carney.

It was unclear what the missiles were specifically targeting.
To Help Israel, the U.S. Should Extradite Hamas’s Leaders

This is the drug Hamas terrorists took to help them slaughter Israelis

Hamas’s Brutality Challenges the Worldview of Western Leftists, While Fables of Israeli Cruelty Restore Their Faith
Since yesterday morning, it has been clear that almost nothing about the reports that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital on Tuesday was true. The explosion was caused by a rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad; the projectile hit a parking lot and not the hospital; and it likely killed dozens rather than 500. Yet the story—concocted by Hamas—was disseminated by the BBC, the New York Times, and other prestige outlets, and eagerly believed by countless Westerners. Indeed some cling to it still. Einat Wilf explains this credulity:

For eleven days now, pillars of the global left from the “Squad” to [Jeremy] Corbyn to many in the media had to deal with the collapse of their entire theology, which placed unique Israeli Zionist evil at the core of their worldview. Without this one certainty of their political lives they do not know how to be in this world. It is the one idea that gives sense and order to who they are.

But the glee with which Hamas terrorists and “ordinary Palestinians” . . . proceeded to engage in the greatest possible atrocities against families and people of all ages from babies to grandparents was to them first and foremost a massacre of their entire theology. They did not know who they were anymore without “Evil Israel.” They especially could not handle the terrifying possibility that evil lies on the Palestinian side—the people whom they have elevated to Jesus like sacrificial and saintly status.

And so the lie handed to them by Hamas that included all the elements they needed—Israeli evil, innocent Palestinian victims—allowed them to restore their theology. All was right with the world again. Israel/Zionism/Jews were thereby restored to their proper place in their theology as the epitomes of unique evil.
JPost Editorial: What lessons can we learn from the Gaza hospital blast?
There are several lessons here for our media colleagues.

The first is that no information released by the Gaza Health Ministry should be presumed true; in fact, it should be regarded as highly suspect. That’s because that ministry – like every other government agency in Gaza – is controlled entirely by Hamas and is utilized to advance its murderous agenda. In this case, Israeli officials say, Hamas knew immediately that it was a Palestinian rocket that had hit the hospital but it nevertheless fabricated an Israeli airstrike in order to smear Israel.

The second is that, in the fog of war, journalists must take extraordinary care in how they report events on the ground. What appears to be the story often is not, and misreporting an event as consequential as the deaths of a large number of civilians at a hospital exposes reporters to charges of journalistic malpractice. But perhaps the most important lesson here is that Israel and Hamas are not on equal moral footing.

Israel is a liberal democracy governed by the rule of law; Hamas is an Islamist terrorist organization with an openly antisemitic and genocidal agenda. Israel protects civilians and considers the loss of civilian life on either side to be an operational failure; Hamas targets civilians and considers the loss of civilian life on either side to be an operational success. Israel takes seriously its commitment to report the truth and is held accountable by a vibrant and free press; Hamas openly and brazenly lies and tightly controls the flow of information from Gaza.

Journalists and media organizations wield enormous power in the global conversation and they bear tremendous responsibility to get the story right. Many have egg on their faces because of how they reported the incident at the Gaza hospital. They should have the integrity to apologize to their readers – and commit to doing better.
‘It Wasn’t An Airstrike’: Forthright Critic of Israeli Military Says IDF Not Responsible for Gaza Hospital Explosion
A former Human Rights Watch (HRW) official with a long record of harsh criticism of Israeli military conduct has added his voice to the controversy around the explosion on Tuesday near the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City — saying clearly that an Israeli air strike was not responsible.

“Whatever hit the hospital in Gaza, it wasn’t an airstrike,” Marc Garlasco — a former US Defense Department and UN official who previously served as a senior military expert with Human Rights Watch — stated in a post on X/Twitter.

“Even the smallest JDAM [Joint Direct Action Munition, a guided air-to-surface weapon] leaves a 3m crater,” Garlasco added, alongside a photograph of the impact crater in the car park adjacent to the hospital that, according to Israeli and US intelligence, was struck by a misfired missile launched against Israel by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.

“Widespread surface damage and total lack of cratering inconsistent with an airstrike,” Garlasco noted.

During his career at HRW from 2003-2010, Garlasco authored three highly critical reports of Israel’s military, focusing on the use of white phosphorous in Gaza, cluster munitions in Lebanon, and the demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. In 2006, Garlasco was directly challenged by Maj. Gen. Meir Klifi of the IDF over his assertion that eight members of a Palestinian family had been killed at a Gaza beach by artillery shells fired by Israeli forces. After meeting with Klifi, Garlasco revised his conclusion, saying that the deaths were more likely caused by unexploded Israeli ordinance.

Garlasco left HRW under a cloud in 2010, following revelations the previous year that he was an avid collector of Nazi military memorabilia. He subsequently went on to become a civilian protection specialist, serving with the UN’s aid mission in Afghanistan.
Yospeh Haddad and media during wartime

America Stands With Israel Now. But What About a Month From Now?
In other words: Among the Americans whose votes Biden might get next November (Democrats and independents), support for the two sides in this conflict is about evenly split, with just a modest edge to the Israelis.

Even in that CNN poll, taken at a time of maximum sympathy for Israel, there are some numbers that show the limits of Americans’ sympathy. On the “fully justified” question, the overall level of support there was 50 percent, but that was fueled mainly by Republicans (68 percent), while only pluralities of independents (45 percent) and Democrats (38 percent) went along with “fully justified.”

So as this wears on, Biden won’t be able to just defend Israel and leave it at that. Moderate and liberal Americans know that what Hamas did is unspeakable. But they also know that the occupation is a horror, that Netanyahu is corrupt, and that the current Israeli government is extreme and anti-democratic. Biden must defend Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself without being seen as also defending all that. (Biden may receive an avenue for moderation from Netanyahu himself, who is under serious attack at home, where Israelis in large numbers are protesting his rule and blaming him for the assault.)

The best things Biden can do are to stand for universal values, insist that even in war there are rules, push for the release of all hostages, and try to persuade Israel, privately and publicly, to refrain from engaging in the kind of excessive response that Hamas wants it to waltz into. Israel was the victim here of a heinous mass murder, and Americans understand that this has made the world worse and are broadly unsympathetic to the perpetrators.

Their sympathy for Israel is high at the moment. But that won’t last forever. Maybe Israel will surprise us all and find a way to decimate Hamas with a brief incursion that results in fewer casualties than feared. But if, in a month’s time, Israel is seen as overreacting? Well, the reservoir of goodwill for Israel in the United States is not nearly as deep as it was 20 or 10 or, as the Gallup numbers show, even three years ago. All politics is local, and Biden, who will need young Democratic voters to flock to him next year, will stick his neck out here as far as domestic political considerations dictate.
Biden Admin Tells Embassies They Can Lower Flag To Mourn Gaza Hospital Blast: Report
The Biden administration told U.S. embassies around the world they can lower the American flag in mourning of a hospital blast in Gaza, an incident likely caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket.

All diplomatic and consular posts across the globe received a memo from Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they can move the flag to half-staff "to observe national periods of mourning following an official proclamation by the host government with respect to the loss of innocent lives at the Al Ahli hospital blast on October 18," the Times of Israel reported.

Blinken told U.S. diplomats in the memo to consider whether refusing to lower the flag "would expose the US Mission to added security risk and/or isolate the US Mission vis-à-vis like-minded embassies."

The State Department did not issue guidance on lowering flags in the aftermath of Hamas's Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, according to the Times of Israel.
Jonathan Tobin: Public neutrality about Hamas and Israel is complicity

Who are the Gaza civilians?



Prime Minister Netanyahu and British PM Sunak give statements

Iranian human rights activist attacked over his support of Israel
Iranian human rights activist attacked over his support of Israel Vahid Beheshti joins to share his story.


The Spectator: Why don’t Palestinians want peace? With Benny Morris
Ben Lazarus speaks to Benny Morris, one of Israel's most eminent historians. They both take a look at yesterday's attack on the hospital in Gaza; how the extreme voices on both sides have become too loud; why the Palestinians never accepted any form of a solution with Israel.


Dear Jew Haters: Thank You for Uniting the Jews

Muslim Americans Against Hamas
With a group of fellow Muslims, I established the Muslim American Leadership Alliance in 2015 to celebrate Muslim American heritage and promote individual freedom and diversity.

For years we've been successful. Last week, however, our progress came to a standstill as Muslim leaders failed to respond adequately to Hamas' massacre in Israel.

American Muslims should have followed President Biden's lead by denouncing the terror group's attacks as an affront to the sanctity of human life, according to our faith.

The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations refused to condemn Hamas. The only two Muslim women in Congress, Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, were so equivocal about Hamas and hostile toward Israel that the White House press secretary felt compelled to call their comments "repugnant."

When my organization posted on Instagram expressing solidarity with our Jewish and Israeli friends, the post received few likes, and most people who commented expressed solidarity with Palestinians.

A few things led Muslims to fail in this critical moment. The first was an irrational ideological fixation on Zionism, which has no effect on most Muslims. The second was an activist-fueled dehumanization of Israelis.

Americans are horrified by Hamas and see many Muslims respond either by saying nothing or by blaming Jews for the rape, beheading and kidnapping of their people.

In a single weekend, extremists have taken our identity hostage, tarnished our reputations and endangered our families. It will take years to restore our good name.


How to save Gazan lives

Iran's dangerous role in the Middle East crisis

Dozens of Alden-owned newspapers run editorial urging media to call Hamas a terrorist group



The Left is for equality — between good and evil

Time to Throw the Intersectional Left Under the Bus!

Do Israel’s critics understand Evil?



Daniel Greenfield: The Myth That Israel/Netanyahu Created/Funded Hamas

Leaders of groups behind London pro-Palestinian march have links to Hamas



Cornell Condemns Prof Who Called Hamas Terror Attack “Exhilarating”

Pro-Palestinian Protests in UK "Stirred Up by Iranian and Hamas Network"
Pro-Palestinian protests in the UK have been stirred up by a "sophisticated" Iranian and Hamas network operating within Britain, Robin Simcox, the head of the Commission for Countering Extremism at the Home Office, will warn on Thursday.

He will warn that the thousands of protesters who have come out onto the streets following the Hamas terror attacks on Israel did not appear out of nowhere.

There is a Hamas and Iran support network in Britain that is more "sophisticated, well-backed and capable" than many realize.

Iran, the key financier and military backer of Hamas, has the capacity not only to carry out or incite acts of violence on Britain's streets but also to spread extremist views through regime-linked clerics, charities and educational institutes.

Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, is known to believe Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the biggest threat to the UK's national security.

But her calls within Government for it to be proscribed have been resisted by the Foreign Office.


Dennis Prager calls antisemitic backlash an awakening to university 'moral cesspool'

Are these Jewish organizations still supporting Black Lives Matter?

Inside Black Lives Matter's Long History With Hamas-Friendly Activists

Former Miss Israel, who is black, slams Black Lives Matter as bigots

Stephen L. Miller: The media accuracy crisis around Israel mirrors how it got BLM wrong

Ivy League among top recipients of $8.5 billion Arab funding

Are you pro-Hamas on LinkedIn? This Israeli team will expose you

The AFL-CIO Needs to Wake Up

Huda Beauty faces boycott calls after founder Huda Kattan spurns ‘blood money’ from Israeli customers

The Writing Is on the Wall for Jewish Students

Catholic College Says Students Facing Anti-Semitism at Other Schools Can Immediately Transfer



Jewish student denounces anti-Israel protests: 'Supposed to be a safe place'
A panel of college students spoke with FOX News' Lawrence Jones about the anti-Semitism they have faced since the Israel-Hamas war began.




New York Times Rehires Hitler-Praising Hamas Propagandist for Gaza Hospital Coverage



SKY NEWS’S SHAMEFUL COVERAGE OF GAZA HOSPITAL BLAST

CNN’S MEA CULPA ON AL-AHLI HOSPITAL COVERAGE ISN’T ENOUGH

ON X, LA TIMES MANAGING EDITOR SARA YASIN EMBRACES HAMAS NARRATIVE

CBC News Implicitly Suggests Israeli Settlements Caused Hamas To Massacre Civilians



CBC Radio Interviews Two Guests Who Accuse Israel of Oppressing Palestinians

Vox Blames Israel for Hamas Massacre in Sickening Masterclass in Victim-Blaming



CNN & NBC Give Airtime to Woman Who Celebrated Hamas Massacre & Wished Hitler Had Finished the Job



DAILY MAIL COMMENT: BBC's masterpiece in terrorist propaganda

A Few Suggestions for Social Media Giants Struggling to Handle the Hamas Assault on Israeli Civilians, Part I

Hamilton Spectator Editorial Cartoon Makes Moral Equivalence Between Israel & Hamas & Portrays Palestinian Children Inside Cage



Israel war: Who is Israel ambassador nominee Jack Lew
Where does Lew stand on Israel-Hamas war:
The former secretary has been supportive of Israel amid its war with Hamas, including its right to defend itself against a terrorist attack. Lew claimed that the safety of Israel is "paramount" on Wednesday.

“There's no greater mission than to work to strengthen the ties between the U.S. and Israel,” Lew said in his opening statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The Biden administration has been supportive of Israel, a U.S. ally, throughout the war, which began Oct. 7.

Why Republicans oppose Lew:
Republicans have accused Lew of being an Iran "sympathizer" and "lying" to Congress. The alleged lies come from a 2018 report by GOP senators who claim Lew and other Obama administrators lied to Congress about granting Iran access to America's financial system as part of the Iran nuclear deal.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who sits on the foreign relations committee, has criticized the former treasury secretary for Obama's decision to abstain from voting on a 2016 United Nations Security Council resolution that halted Israeli settlements.

“I know Democrats are saying that we need to confirm Jack Lew quickly to show our support for Israel. I would say it’s the exact opposite," Cotton told Fox News on Sunday. "We need to defeat Jack Lew’s nomination to show that we have a new approach to Iran.”

If Lew does get confirmed as the next ambassador, the Biden administration said he would be sent to the region right away.


Congress Can End the Nonprofit Status of Pro-Hamas Groups

Veteran State Department official Josh Paul QUITS agency after Biden backs America sending military assistance to Israel amid war with Hamas

Biden DHS official placed on leave after pro-Palestinian ties revealed

DHS worker and former Palestinian Liberation spokeswoman Nejwa Ali is put on leave after praising Hamas terrorist attacks and saying 'F*** Israel...we are ready for your downfall'

PMW: West Bank Palestinians demonstrate in support of Hamas and its terror atrocities

PA TV libel: Israel lied about Hamas killing children

Gazan civilian says they support Hamas’ massacre of Israelis

PMW: Tomorrow's Fatah leaders: Students glorify Hamas' terror massacre on Israel



MEMRI: Urdu Dailies React To Israeli Response To Hamas Attack: 'After Being Beaten By Hamas, Israelis Have Become Bloodthirsty Like Wolves'; 'There Have Been Talks Of Establishing Diplomatic Relations For A Long Time; Where Do Pakistan And Israel Stand In This Regard?'

MEMRI: In Qatari Daily, Poem Of Praise For Hamas Attack: 'Falling In Battle As A Martyr Is Not Falling; It Is The Beginning Of Victory, And Exaltedness



Iran crows as West allows UN missile export ban to lapse



Biden Must Pull Security Clearances of Officials With ‘Sympathy’ for Iran, Pompeo and Other Ex-Trump Officials Say

Member of Iranian Influence Network To Keep Security Clearance After Pentagon Review



Polish-Canadian convicted for antisemitic projection onto Anne Frank House

Julianna Margulies Addresses ‘Insane’ Hollywood Industry Silence on Antisemitism Amid Israel-Hamas War

Debra Messing, Noa Kirel Help Post Signs Across Times Square About Israeli Hostages Taken by Hamas



‘Golda’ Director Guy Nattiv: ‘What Happened Now is 10 Times Worse’

Gil Troy: Israeli Civilians Heroically Fought Against Hamas
Story by story, post by post, and article by article, an extraordinary picture of against-all-odds heroism on October 7 is emerging. Citizens, police officers, and soldiers, at home and on base, scrambled, improvised, and fought back fiercely. These citizen commandos not only saved countless lives: These Israelis saved Israel.

Ben Mizrachi, 22, moved to Israel from Vancouver five years ago. He finished his IDF service as a combat medic. When Hamas terrorists swarmed the Supernova music festival, Ben's training - and courage - clicked in. He and his buddy reached their car, but they did not flee. They ferried people to safety - two, possibly three times. He started treating the wounded. And then he was murdered.

Ben's story and the thousands of other stories about fighting back that day returned Israel to its Zionist trajectory. October 7 became another chapter in the Zionist tale about the Jewish redemption of a land surrounded by cruel enemies, and how Israelis have learned to fight when necessary, but live, build, and rejoice always.

Some who lived elsewhere simply holstered their guns, jumped in their cars, and drove maniacally down to the area to save their kids, their grandkids, or mere strangers.

A police officer, Yisrael Zinger, used Google maps to find a backroad exit when terrorists blocked the two main exits from the Supernova concert. His convoy led 500 concert-goers to safety. He then joined with other officers and soldiers in the firefight of their lives.
THE EVERYDAY PEOPLE WHO BECAME HEROES



Bar Refaeli's makeup artist anti-Hamas video goes viral
Moran Stavitzki is a makeup artist for Israeli celebrity Bar Refaeli.




This Bedouin bus driver is credited with saving 30 people from the outdoor party massacre





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