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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

10/24 Links Pt2: Why Do So Many Young People Support Hamas?; How the Democrats betrayed the Jews; Why Jewish lives don’t matter to BLM

From Ian:

Noah Rothman: Why Do So Many Young People Support Hamas?
“Fitting Israel into the intersectional framework has always been difficult, because its Jewish citizens are both historically oppressed—the survivors of an attempt to wipe them out entirely—and currently in a dominant position over the Palestinians, as demonstrated by the Netanyahu government’s decision to restrict power and water supplies to Gaza,” Lewis wrote. Intersectionality is, indeed, the “framework” on display here. It started out as little more than a thought experiment, but it has since transmogrified into a way of life.

Pioneered by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, theoretical intersectionality asks its adherents to conceive of their fellow citizens not as unique individuals but as stereotypical cutouts representing their respective demographic traits. It presupposes that everyone in the American melting pot owns a variety of immutable traits, some of which are subject to more discrimination than others. African Americans endure some prejudices, women endure others, while gays and lesbians experience an entirely distinct level of prejudice. Some of these prejudices “intersect,” so, for example, a gay black woman will experience a host of bigotries that someone who can only lay claim to one or two of these minority identities will not.

In practice, the framework reduces humans to their various demographic signifiers, and it does so in a particularly chauvinistic way. The stereotypes that intersectionality requires its adherents to marinate in are uniquely American. So, the descendants of American slaves are owed no more deference than recent African or Caribbean migrants because the cliched racist will not draw those distinctions. Now, apply this framework to American Jews. In the antisemitic imagination, American Jews are comfortable, powerful, and well connected. They enjoy influence and success disproportionate to their numbers. It’s a bigoted conception, but that is the point of intersectionality — to think in bigoted terms if only to understand and navigate what intersectional theorists believe is the fundamentally bigoted American landscape.

But once you subscribe to this philosophy, you’ve just internalized plain-old antisemitism. Through this framework, people are reduced to statistics, and their tormentors become automatons responding predictably to a set of historical incentives. Intersectionality is, in that regard, no different from the framework of Marxism, which asks its adherents to view the workings of history through the prism of class and capital distribution. Individuals are robbed of their agency through the application of this theory, and events are boiled down to root causes that have almost nothing to do with their perpetrators. Intersectionality is distinct only insofar as it substitutes class and capital with race and ethnicity.
David Mamet: How the Democrats betrayed the Jews
I grew up in a tiny Jewish enclave on Chicago’s South Side. When I first saw New York, in the Sixties, I was awed as by no subsequent marvel of nature: stretching north from Columbus Circle, up the West Side, was a Jewish metropolis.

New York, in my lifetime, had always been a Jewish city: the rhythms, the accent, the humour always felt to me like home. Because they were home. The populace, of whatever ethnicity, was formed or noodged by Yiddishkeit, much as the Chicago of my youth was by the culture of the Irish and the Poles. Like what you’re reading? Get the free UnHerd daily email

The New York Times and The New Yorker were run by Jews; they were both our Rialto and our Bible. New York Theatre, in my lifetime, had always been Jewish. The playwrights were Miller, Odets, Elmer Rice, Ben Hecht, Sidney Kingsley; and, later, Arthur Laurents, Lillian Hellman, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Wallace Shawn, and myself.

We New York Jews have always voted for the Democrats, as their policies appealed to the immigrants and the first generation (my parents). A Fair Shake, a safety net, and unionism were manna to the newly arrived — in spite of (in both their and my lifetime) quotas and antisemitic discrimination. The immigrant Jews did well here, and voted for Franklin Roosevelt. And we are voting for him still.

His Advisor on Jewish Affairs (jude-suss, or “house-Jew”) was Rabbi Stephen Wise, the “dean” of the American Rabbinate. He referred to FDR as “Boss”, and brought home to his community Roosevelt’s assurance of aid to the dying Jews of Europe. Yet Roosevelt’s aid stopped with his assurances, and tens of thousands of Jews died because of his restrictive immigration policies, and millions in Europe because of his refusal to interdict the Holocaust.

Still, today, Jews vote Democratic: electing Presidents who refused to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister (Obama and Biden) in times of “peace”, who gave and give aid to the terrorist state of Iran in exchange for some semi-specified “deal”. American “Aid” to Iran pays for the equipment and ordnance, which is, at this moment, eradicating Jews.

Why do Jews vote Democratic? Partly from tradition — conservatives have heard a Liberal Jew, when asked to defend or explain various absurd or inconsistent Democratic positions, shrug and joke: “I’m a Congenital Democrat.” I understand, for I was one, too.

But there is no more cosy mystery in the antisemitism of the Democratic Party; Representatives are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists and pro-Palestinians, calling for the end of the state of Israel — that is, for the death of the Jews. And Democrat Representatives repeat and refuse to retract the libel that Israel bombed a hospital, in spite of absolute proof to the contrary, and will not call out the unutterable atrocities of Hamas. The writing is on the wall. In blood.
The World is Freaking Out Because Its Favorite Victims Suddenly Became Human Butchers
What do you do when a cause you deeply cherish betrays you?

What do you do when you spend a lifetime fighting for the Palestinian cause, and then, overnight, it becomes associated with the butchering, beheading, raping and mutilating of 1400 people, including infants, babies, women, rave dancers, families and the elderly?

How do you spin that?

You might try to deny and downplay, but with all the graphic and gruesome videos out there, that’s not easy. And as much as you’d love to erase the word Palestinian next to the word Hamas, you know the connection is a fact.

No, the only real option is to make so much noise that you drown out the horrible news about the mass murder of Jews.

That’s why immediately after October 7, we saw global protests against Israel and in support of Palestinians. This was before Israel launched its counterattacks. And naturally, when Israel did go after Hamas, the attacks against Jews have only accelerated. On streets around the world and across college campuses, Jew haters are now out in full force. The slaughtering of 1400 Jews is all but forgotten; now it’s all about Israel’s reaction to the massacres.

Whether it’s the media jumping to (falsely) blame Israel for the bombing of a Gaza hospital, or the global cries for a “ceasefire” before Israel has even entered Gaza to eliminate the terrorists and deter future attacks, the world is doing all it can to downplay the narrative of “Palestinians as butchers.”

The world’s most popular victims, after all, cannot be allowed to be butchers.

For half a century, Palestinians have managed to charm the global elite with the seductive narrative of glorious, helpless victimhood. In a world that worships the oppressed, especially if they’re not white or western, Palestinians became the forever oppressed.

The influential Palestinian scholar-activist Edward Said’s 1978 book, “Orientalism,” which portrayed the West’s view of the East as demeaning and ignorant, helped shape and popularize the Palestinian narrative. As a revisionist movement began to associate the West strictly with the sins of colonialism, imperialism, racism and capitalist abuse, Palestinians became the Swiss army knife of causes for the virtue signaling set. Accurate or not, they had it all.


Victor Davis Hanson: Israel vs. a Death Cult
During peace and on a holiday, between 1,500 and 2,500 gunmen of the Hamas death squads entered Israel in a long-planned hit operation to murder civilians and take captives, focusing specifically on butchering the most vulnerable and in the most grotesque fashion imaginable.

Gaza is not anyone's "colony." It has been autonomous since 2006-7. No free Israeli Arab Muslim citizen would willingly emigrate there to live under the dictatorship of Hamas. Gaza has been the recipient of billions in cash from the Gulf monarchies, Europe, the U.S., and the UN. The more money came in, the less Hamas had any intention of using it to serve its people. Most of the gifted funds were used to build the world's largest subterranean city of death, to buy drones and rockets, and to pay gunmen to kill Jews.

Essentially, Hamas is an enormous mafia-like, shakedown and hostage-taking operation that threatens the general peace, the moderate Arab nations, the Western democracies, and Israel with terrorist operations and kidnapping unless sufficiently bribed to behave.

Only Hamas is deliberately targeting civilians. Hamas fires its rockets at Israeli civilians from hospitals, schools, UN facilities, and mosques. Hamas assumes that Israel fights wars more humanely than Hamas itself does, and so will try to avoid Hamas' Palestinian human shields.
Gil Troy: Civilization is not a suicide pact
Predictably, world sympathy for Israel is ebbing already. The recent Big Lie that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital only accelerated this sadly familiar process, even as it proved how quick the media is to blame Israel first. Admittedly, the Gaza situation is messy in both moral and military terms, but liberal democrats worldwide must wake up and grow up. If the Constitution is not a suicide pact, civilization cannot be a suicide pact either.

Don’t compare those who harm innocents and delight in their suffering with those who unintentionally harm them, especially when your enemy hides behind civilians. Don’t confuse totalitarians who start a war with their democratic victims, who must then defend themselves or die. Israel tried restraint and lost 1,400 lives and counting. Every death, every casualty, in fact, all the harm radiating from Oct. 7, is Hamas’s fault.

What else can Israel do? In 2014, when a reporter interviewed Israel’s legendary leftist Amos Oz about Israel’s Hobson’s choice regarding a ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza, Oz chose to interview the interviewer. Oz said, “Question 1: What would you do if your neighbor across the street sat down on the balcony, put his little boy on his lap and started shooting machine-gun fire into your nursery? Question 2: What would you do if your neighbor across the street dug a tunnel from his nursery to your nursery in order to blow up your home or in order to kidnap your family?”

Back then, although obvious to some of us, the Hamas threat was theoretical. Fourteen hundred murders and countless abominations later, the questions are more pointed. The dilemmas remain painful, but the two-pronged moral case that justified Allied actions in World War II justifies Israel’s actions now.

Both cases posed a “supreme emergency” against a supremely evil foe. In Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer explains the philosopher’s “sliding scale” that holds “the more justice, the more right.” I would add “and the more might it is moral to unleash.”
Bari Weiss: On Double Standards and Deafening Silence
The headline was untrue on every level. The bomb was not Israeli, but a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket aimed at Israel that misfired. The bomb didn’t hit the hospital, but the hospital parking lot. Hamas claimed that 500 people were killed, but a senior European intelligence source told AFP he thought the death toll was under 50; U.S. intelligence estimates that the number stands between 100 and 300. And it wasn’t Palestinians that said as much to the Times, but the Gaza Health Ministry—which is run by Hamas.

There was no uproar at the Times in response to this journalistic malpractice—at least not in public. Perhaps some expressed their concerns privately, for fear of reprisal.

In the meantime, riots broke out across the world accusing Israel of genocide. Members of Congress, including Rashida Tlaib, broadcast this misinformation.

On Monday, six days after the fact, the Times finally published an editor’s note, saying “Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.” I doubt that message reached the rioters in Tunisia who burned the Al Hammah synagogue to the ground.

Rep. Tlaib still hasn’t taken down her X post, which has 37.6 million views as of press time. Indeed, she is standing by it: the congresswoman said in an interview on Monday that “I cannot uncritically accept Israel’s denials of responsibility as fact.” (Astonishing that a sitting congresswoman takes the word of Hamas over the White House and Israel.)

Go back to Cotton. In the case of Cotton, there was not a single correctable error in the piece. Yet in the course of 48 hours, jobs were lost, and people were smeared and demoted simply for doing their jobs. (In fact, the piece, which argued for the legality of the deployment of national guardsmen to restore order in American cities, held up better than I would have thought—especially in light of the use of national guardsmen to quell the violent rioting in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.) In this case—publishing Hamas PR—has led the paper to issue a soft non-apology, lamenting that the story should have been presented more carefully.

How about maybe not at all until the facts are clear? How about not relying on Hamas propaganda? We think this story is so important because it’s become so familiar. The real question, as the war continues, is if news organizations like the Times will continue to take the word of Hamas uncritically.

Voices from Gaza
One of the biggest challenges for journalists covering this war is Hamas’s media blockade on Gaza. The regime controls on speech, and intolerance of dissenting voices, make it hard to get a proper sense of what ordinary Palestinians in Gaza really think. That’s why we’ve partnered with the Center for Peace Communications, an organization that has built a human network inside Gaza that can deliver honest testimony from ordinary Palestinians while protecting their identities.

In the first video in the series, we asked Gazan civilians what happens to international aid once it arrives in Gaza.

In the latest release, we ask Gazans for their opinions on the hospital blast last week that Hamas blamed on Israel but that subsequent evidence has shown was caused by a rocket fired from within Gaza.
Why We Must Prevent the Enemy from Rising Again
Israel is now facing growing criticism from the global community over questions of the humanitarian toll on the enemy. Such criticism demands that we re-explore the notion of a "just war" and strengthen our resolve for why this campaign is both necessary and ethical from the perspective of Jewish tradition.

For centuries, a long history of victimhood largely placed the Jews on the losing end of battles and the very question of Jewish just wars from a position of any military supremacy had no practical application.

A milchemet mitzvah is a war that is mandated as just and necessary by both Jewish law and most advanced perspectives in our modern world. As described by Maimonides, it is "a war fought to assist Israel from an enemy which attacks them."

Apart from the most virulently anti-Israel critics, there is almost absolute consensus that the current war that Israel is fighting with Hamas fits into this category, and every Jew - and civilized human - is justified in supporting and participating in it.

The current war is by every estimation just and demands the full and unwavering moral and practical support of our entire nation and all peoples who believe in a world defined by goodness and ethical practice.

We are dealing with an enemy who has made it clear that their intent is on our complete destruction, and we are therefore permitted and commanded to do everything necessary to achieve our military objective and completely prevent the enemy from being able to rise again.
It's Time to Take a Stand for Civilization
Over the past few days, with a small group of friends and colleagues, I have helped set up British Friends of Israel and gathered support for The October Declaration. Signatories include members of the House of Lords, MPs, celebrated historians, professors and journalists like me.

We all stand in support of British Jews and their right to live their lives in this country without fear. We unequivocally condemn the horrifying terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel on 7 October and the suffering Hamas has brought on the Palestinian people. We deplore the subsequent increase in antisemitism. We ask the media, members of all political parties and the general public to call Hamas what it is - a terrorist organization - and we demand that the police use the full force of the Terrorism Act against its supporters.

As TV presenter Rachel Riley said: "What has been so hurtful here at home has been the denial of the atrocities, the tearing down of posters of the abducted children, and the willingness of so many to side with Hamas....We are seeing how little some people care about Jewish lives."

The destruction in Gaza is horrible, undoubtedly, but it is not in the same league of depravity as going into a kibbutz, tying the hands of children behind their backs, throwing them on a pile and setting fire to them.

Hamas apologists were given airtime in which they explained that the group had "not killed any civilians." Israelis contended that the denial of the Oct. 7 massacre, its rapid downplaying by the media, amounted to "Holocaust denial in real time."
UN secretary-general Hamas comments 'disgusting and disqualifies him from leading': Haley
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley lambasted U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for claiming that the Oct. 7 Hamas surprise attacks on Israel “did not happen in a vacuum" during a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Tuesday.

"The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation," Guterres said, according to reporting from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. "But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas."

"And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” Guterres continued.

Haley, a former U.N. ambassador for the United States, was unequivocal in denouncing Guterres's comments on Tuesday. "The Secretary General of the UN should know nothing justifies beheading babies, burning people alive, and raping young girls. He owes the people of Israel an apology," Haley said. "This is disgusting and disqualifies him from leading the UN."

Haley echoed Israel's U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan, who called for Guterres "to resign immediately."

"The shocking speech by the @UN Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner," Erdan said.

"His statement that, 'the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,' expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder," Erdan continued. "It’s really unfathomable. It’s truly sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views. A tragedy!"
Israeli FM: Meeting with UN head canceled after defending Hamas
Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen accused UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of justifying Hamas’ October 7 attack and canceled his meeting with him.

“I will not meet with the UN secretary-general. After October 7, there is no room for a balanced approach. Hamas must be erased from the world!” Cohen stated.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan called for him to resign.

Guterres “who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN,” Erdan said.

“There is no justification or point in talking to those who show compassion for the most terrible atrocities committed against the citizens of Israel and the Jewish people. There are simply no words,” he added.

He spoke after Guterres condemned both the IDF aerial bombing of Gaza and Hamas’ infiltration into Southern Israel in which over 1,400 civilians and soldiers were killed in a brutal manner that included burning victims alive, dismembering them and raping them.
Eli Cohen at the UN: "Hamas are the new Nazis"

Why Don’t Israeli Women Count for ‘UN Women’?
In October 2000, the UN Security Council passed resolution #1325 on women peace and security. The resolution has three key pillars: participation, protection, and prevention. Participation calls for the inclusion of women in conflict alleviation and resolution, protection calls for safeguarding women from violence – and specifically gender-based violence – perpetrated during wartime. Preventions stands for working to de-escalate further violence.

Israeli feminist and women’s groups – often in collaboration with Palestinian women – have advocated tirelessly for the implementation of the principles of UNSC 1325 resolution, based on our shared knowledge of how women are negatively affected by war, and the assets and diverse perspectives they bring to the negotiations table.

In a letter sent today, 23 October, signed by dozens of women’s groups from Israel and around the world, openly criticizing the failure of UN Women, we wrote: ‘It is unthinkable that a UN agency responsible for women’s rights ignores the abduction of women, babies, girls, children and men from their homes, committing war crimes against women and children, and the murder of over a thousand innocent civilians.’

The letter continues:
UN Resolution 1325 “calls on all parties to armed conflict to take special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual abuse, and all other forms of violence in situations of armed conflict. We, women’s rights organizations that have operated in Israel in the past decades, as well as women’s rights organizations around the world, cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of innocent women and children wherever they are and the blatant disregard of the atrocities held by Hamas to Israeli citizens and the decision to ignore the hostage situation by UN WOMEN

We strongly implore UN Women – and all other human rights agencies – to gravely condemn the brutal attack and atrocities committed by Hamas to Israeli citizens as well as the abduction of innocent hostages, to urgently act to protect the special humanitarian rights of women and children, and to do everything in their power to expose and recognize these atrocious and horrific acts of violence against women and girls and to bring the release of all hostages immediately.

It is not too late for UN Women to do the right thing.

Please read and sign the open letter by women’s and human rights groups.


MEMRI: Article In Saudi Daily: The Hamas Attack Was A Suicide Operation Against Innocent Women And Children, Aimed At Thwarting The Plans For Regional Peace And Development



Why Jewish lives don’t matter to BLM
Essentially, BLMers have not endorsed Hamas’s attacks because of any real alignment between the struggles of black Americans and Palestinians or Hamas, nor of anything related to ‘black lives’ at all. No, they have excused Hamas and flirted with anti-Semitism because the BLM ideology embraces the mind-numbing oppressor / oppressed categories that all identitarian left organisations today deploy. Under the twisted logic of this mindset, Jews are the oppressors who are always to blame, while Hamas represent the oppressed who can do no wrong. It leads to a sick morality where Hamas’s killings, torturing and kidnapping of babies and grandmothers come to be seen as acceptable – as blows for the oppressed against the oppressors.

It is good that BLM is finally being exposed for the morally degenerate movement it has become. But it still has much influence in the US and internationally, and can still do much harm. Not least when BLM activists serve as useful idiots for Hamas. Indeed, Hamas welcomes comparisons with BLM. In a 2021 interview, Yahya Sinwar, a Hamas leader in Gaza, made an explicit link, arguing that ‘the same type of racism that killed George Floyd is being used by [Israel] against the Palestinians’. Of course, the murder of Floyd, or the struggles of black Americans generally, in no way justify Hamas’s terrorism.

It should have been evident years ago that BLM was nothing like Martin Luther King or the 1960s civil rights movement. To his credit, New York mayor Eric Adams recently harkened back to that movement in a speech condemning Hamas’s attack on Israel. Adams noted that, since New York has ‘the largest Jewish population outside of Israel’, it bears a special responsibility to be ‘the place that our voices must raise and cascade throughout the entire country’. He then said:

‘Your fight is my fight. That swastika not only displays the pain of anti-Semitism, it [also] displays the pain of racism among African Americans. 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.’

In a time when BLM and the identitarian left are embracing the anti-Semitic death cult that is Hamas, King’s universalist, humanist tradition – which Adams so movingly brought to life in his speech – is one we urgently need to restore.
The Re-Education with Eli Lake: Ep. 80: The Wretched of the Campus
In this show Eli examines why so many professors and intellectuals have expressed solidarity with the fanatic butchers of Hamas and the thinker who made radical violence cool, Frantz Fanon. His guest is Leon Wieseltier, the founder and editor of Liberties.
Time Stamps:
00:27 Monologue
23:13 Interview with Leon Wieseltier


My Fellow Conservatives: We, Too, Have an Antisemitism Problem



Americans' Support for Israel Is Growing amid War with Hamas
After Hamas' recent attack on Israel, nearly half (48%) of U.S. adult citizens say they are more sympathetic toward the Israelis in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, compared to just 10% who are more sympathetic toward the Palestinians, according to the latest Economist-YouGov survey conducted Oct. 14-17, 2023.

It's also significantly above the 31% who backed Israel in March 2023.

The increased support for Israel is driven by people coming off the fence about the conflict. Since March, the share who sympathize about equally with both sides has fallen from 27% to 23%, and the share who aren't sure which side they back has dropped from 30% to 19%.

The share of Americans who say Israel is either a friend or an ally is up 10 percentage points since July, to 74%.

75% of Democrats now see Israel as a friend or an ally, up 18 percentage points from 57% in July.


The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and BDS

Poll: Young US voters likelier to blame Israel, tend to trend pro-Hamas



Anti-Semitism has become ‘increasingly intolerable’ in American universities
Newsweek Senior Editor-At-Large Josh Hammer says anti-Semitism has become “increasingly totally intolerable” in American universities.

“Jew hatred on the American university campus is not exactly a new phenomenon," he said.

“What is new is just how bad it has gotten.”

“Look at the response to the Hamas war on Israel from the past two weeks – at Harvard of course you had 31 student groups sign this repulsive disgusting letter saying that Israel bore the entire blame for the massacre.”

Mr Hammer said it's not just the professor but also "students themselves".

“We’ve seen at least 30 ... students for justice in Palestine, student chapters all across America, who unequivocally said they stand with Gaza, they stand with Hamas because this is justified resistance.”




‘I’m Sorry for Undermining the Pro-Palestinian Movement,’ Says Norwegian Student Who Shocked World With Antisemitic Sign



Wollongong mayor Gordon Bradbery condemned by Jewish groups over Hamas comments in pro-Palestinian speech



Committee To Protect Journalists Lists Hamas Members on List of Journalists Killed in Gaza



Left-leaning media ‘happy to accommodate' Hamas propaganda
Verve Communications Director Prue MacSween has slammed left-leaning media outlets which are “happy to accommodate” Hamas’ propaganda.

Selected journalists have been shown a compilation of raw footage of Hamas’ October 7th terror attacks.

Ms MacSween called for the images to be shared more widely to counter the “left-wing bias”.

“These horrific images shown to selected journalists really need to be shown more broadly, because we are only hearing one side of the story,” she told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

Over 5,000 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war to date.


‘They have to do better’: ABC slammed for bias coverage of Israel-Hamas conflict
Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes has slammed the ABC on its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East saying, “they seem to have one view of the world”.

“This is just an ongoing theme with the ABC; they seem to just have one view of the world,” Ms Hughes told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“Until it can be proven completely the other way, they refuse to back down, they refuse to correct the record and they automatically assume that their position is the right one.

"This is the publicly funded broadcaster; they have to do better.

"This isn’t the first time issues have been raised with them yet it just seems to be getting continually worse whilst we’re seeing Mr Anderson's salary package now almost double that of the Prime Minister.”


LinkedIn threatens legal action against website exposing Hamas-supporting users

Wall Street Journal Contributor Has History of Bias Against Israel

ITV apologises for interview with reporter who had called Hamas attack a ‘homecoming’

Tom Gross: The BBC will never forgive Israel for NOT bombing a hospital (& the media stirs up hate)
Tom Gross: Many in media seem to want Israel to behave badly so they can delegitimize it.




Are Our Journalists Idiots?

New York Times Apologizes for Gaza Hospital Coverage
On Oct. 17, the New York Times published news of an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City, leading its coverage with claims by Hamas government officials that an Israeli airstrike was the cause and that hundreds of people were dead or injured.

American and other international officials have said their evidence indicates that the rocket came from Palestinian fighter positions.

The early versions of the coverage - and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels - relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified. The report left readers with an incorrect impression.

Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.


AP ‘FACT CHECK’ PUSHES DEBUNKED ‘WE JUST DON’T KNOW’ NARRATIVE ON HAMAS’ AL AHLI HOSPITAL LIE

AFTER HAMAS’S ANTISEMITIC MASSACRE, THE GUARDIAN HATES ISRAEL MORE

BBC ARABIC’S RECORD OF OMISSION ON THE TARGETING OF ISRAELI CIVILIANS



LA TIMES’ UNFULFILLED PROMISES: ACCURACY, FAIRNESS, JOURNALISTIC RIGOR, COMPASSION



Biden: Goods not entering Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fast enough
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that goods were not entering the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fast enough.

Asked when leaving a White House event if the Palestinian enclave was being replenished sufficiently, Biden responded: “Not fast enough.”

Earlier Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel should consider “humanitarian pauses” in the war against Hamas to enable goods to enter Gaza.

“Israel must take all possible precautions to avoid harm to civilians. It means food, water, medicine and other essential humanitarian assistance must be able to flow into Gaza and to the people who need it. It means civilians must be able to get out of harm’s way. It means humanitarian pauses must be considered for these purposes,” said Blinken at a U.N. Security Council meeting.

During the White House press briefing on Tuesday, John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, drew a distinction between a “humanitarian pause” and a “ceasefire.”

“We want to see all measure of protection for civilians. And pauses in operation is a tool and a tactic that can do that for temporary periods of time,” Kirby said. “That is not the same as saying a ‘ceasefire.’ Again, right now we believe a ceasefire benefits Hamas. A general ceasefire.”

Asked to clarify the difference between the two terms, Kirby said it is “a question of duration and scope and size and that kind of thing.”
Martha's Vineyard Resident Blogs About Hamas
Crucial context: The island-dwelling multimillionaire, best known for his efforts to anoint Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2016, has ties to some of America's most prominent anti-Semites.

• Obama spearheaded the controversial nuclear deal with Iran, the leaders of which routinely call for the destruction of Israel and are the chief sponsors of Hamas.

• The blogger has close ties to Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi, so-called academics who specialized in anti-colonialism and anti-Israel studies.

Khalidi, a former freelance public relations flack for the Palestine Liberation Organization, has made dozens of media appearances since the October 7 attack by Hamas, in which he has sought to put the terrorist atrocities into "context," arguing that Israel's "settler colonialism" and "apartheid" regime was to blame for the murder of innocent civilians.

• Obama has also palled around with Louis Farrakhan, the virulently anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam who has described Jews as "termites" and praised Adolf Hitler as a "very great man."

• Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's longtime pastor, is a notorious anti-Semite. Alas, they are no longer in touch because, according to Wright, "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me."


Progressives fume at Fetterman's office over email response to Israel ceasefire letter
Progressives are criticizing Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-PA) office over its reaction to a letter anonymously signed by 411 congressional staffers urging their bosses to promote a ceasefire in Gaza.

Fetterman chief of staff Adam Jentleson sent a team email on Friday, one day after the letter was published, reminding staff of the office’s media relations policy. The rule, Jentleson pointed out, prohibits staffers from making public statements on social media or otherwise.

He noted that staffers are permitted to sign letters or petitions anonymously that go against the first-term senator’s views.

The policy is in step with how most Capitol Hill offices operate. Staffers would be hard-pressed to find a lawmaker willing to employ someone who publicly criticizes his or her boss’s positions rather than address disputes internally, regardless of ideology.

Jentleson discussed this in the email, writing, “As staffers, it is important for us to remember that while we all feel passionately about a lot of issues, we are here to serve John and the people of Pennsylvania."

“As the saying goes, our names are not on the door,” he continued. “In this line of work, it is great to find a member who aligns with your values, however it is rare if not impossible to find one that aligns 100%.”


‘Daily Wire’ investigation leads to DHS suspending antisemitic employee
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security official in charge of determining asylum decisions has received administrative leave after revelations of her previous employment with the PLO and a huge collection of bigoted social-media postings.

Nejwa Ali has worked at the Department of Homeland Security since July 2019, transferring into a position as Adjudication Officer for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) in January. In an article on the Daily Wire published on Oct. 18, Luke Rosiak, the publication’s investigative reporter, presented a broad range of Ali’s social-media opinions, ranging from overt antisemitism and militant anti-Zionism to open support for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

In response to the infiltration into southern Israel on Oct. 7 by Hamas terrorists, who murdered 1,400 people, wounded more than 4,000 and took some 200 hostages, Ali shared an image of a terrorist parachuting into Israel and wrote, “F*** Israel and any Jew who supports Israel.” She also shared antisemitic images, including of a Jewish nose.

The Daily Wire cited Ali’s anti-Zionism as a potential cause of bias in her work for DHS, given her comments that “Israeli, American privilege is disgusting. When Israelis acknowledge the government and military are solely responsible for the attack. Period,” and “I hold every Israeli accountable for their governments [sic] actions, IF they do not speak against Israel.”

From 2014 through 2015, before her positions with the PLO and DHS, Ali also worked as an intern for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the organization that has long come under fire for its Hamas ties and recent scrutiny for receiving $75 million in U.S. funds four days before the attack.


IDF kills at least 10 Hamas terrorists in attempted maritime infiltration

The Israel Guys: Miracle Near Gaza When Israeli Soldier’s "BROKEN" Rifle Saves Hundreds of People
The United States is sending over more US troops to the middle east prompting Israel to delay their ground invasion of the Gaza Strip once again. The Israeli Air Force has been bombing hundreds of Hamas targets every single day in Gaza in preparation for their ground forces.

Two American hostages were released by Hamas in a PR stunt meant to make themselves look semi-human.

Stay tuned for an unbelievable MIRACLE story from an IDF soldier who was sent in to fight terrorists near Gaza. And the terrorist propaganda “news” channel, Al Jazeera, is about to be shut down in Israel.




CBP Warns of Hamas and Hezbollah Fighters on Southwest Border

‘Palestinian’ Refugee Busted in Texas for Weapons Training, “Radical” Contacts

Gazans Aren't Innocent, They Are the Water Hamas Swims In -
One of the most persistent myths of the Arab-Israeli conflict is that residents of Gaza are held captive by Hamas. This is light-years removed from reality. The time for pretending there's any daylight between Hamas and the people of Gaza is over.

Hamas recruits are drawn from the local populace. Like other Palestinians, Gazans are born and bred to hate Jews. For them, antisemitism is mother's milk. It saturates their media. It's taught in their schools and preached in their mosques. Palestinian textbooks call for the total destruction of Israel and the annihilation of Jews. Maps show Palestine encompassing all of Israel.

Texts describe Jews as the enemies of Muslims dating back to Muhammad. Zionists are charged with planning the mass murder of Palestinians, a classic case of Freudian projection. The murderers of Israeli women and children are described as heroes and martyrs.

The civilian population of Gaza is the water Hamas swims in. Civilians who support butchers brought the Gaza war on themselves. Israelis understand that their survival depends on the outcome of this conflict.


PMW: Ignoring evidence, PA repeats libel that Israel bombed Gazan hospital



PreOccupiedTerritory: Israel To Ship Gazans To Syria Where Assad Can Slaughter Them Without International Trouble (satire)



Mississauga Re/Max Realtor Praises Hamas Terrorism, Saying October 7 Attack Was “Best News I’ve Ever Heard In My Life”

Catholics Against Antisemitism: Now More Than Ever



Dr. Miriam Adelson: Our history does not bind us
We are "Am HaNetzach", the Eternal People. That means not only an age-old bond with the Creator but also a constant reckoning with those who seek to destroy us in the most painful ways possible.

Perhaps Hamas knew this when they launched their attack. Perhaps – despite their official policy of Holocaust denial – they studied the methods of the Nazis, and then replicated them, on-camera, for instant mass-promotion. Perhaps they believed that, like the Nazis, they would succeed in driving away those Jews they did not manage to murder.

But this new foe failed to understand the new Jew of Israel, of our ancient homeland, reborn and never again to be abandoned.

Israelis did not rush to board departing flights. Instead, extra planes had to be made available to accommodate all of the IDF reservists coming back home to fight.

Unlike in the Holocaust, when our people disappeared as ash in the wind, we now locate and identify all final remains of every last victim, to ensure they are buried in dignity with names known for eternity.

And unlike in the Holocaust, when we were adrift and alone in an indifferent world, today's world leaders are lining up to make solidarity visits, despite the threat of rocket barrages, and to wish us victory.

And victorious we shall be.

Given the astonishing waves of volunteerism and mobilization, from every corner of the world and to attend to every need of this nation's lovely citizenry, there can be no other conclusion. As a long-time philanthropist, I find myself moved more than ever before by how much can be given, even by those who have so little.

Because while we are products of our history, we are not bound by it. The Start-Up Nation will now rise up. And though our weapons are modern, though our warriors are blessed with all of the education and values of the 21st century, not to mention iPhones and AC, they will take with them the High Priest's benediction from the Book of Deuteronomy:

"Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."
An Indigenous Zionist Speaks Out
I am a Native woman from Peru and my opinion about what is happening in Israel right now is that people have a double standard because people love dead Jews.

When Hamas kills its own civilians, you don’t see anyone on the street saying anything. When Israel attacks Gaza, everyone takes to the streets to chant “Free Palestine,” regardless of whether Israel ordered the evacuation of civilians or whether Hamas forced civilians to stay in their homes, in order to blame Israel for a higher death toll.

When Hamas kills, rapes, beheads babies, and burns Israeli civilians alive, supporters of Palestine celebrate. It’s horrendous.

Jews deserve to live free in their ancestral homeland. And whether individual Israeli Jews are Indigenous to a particular part of the land or not, they do not deserve to be dehumanized. It is heartbreaking to see Hamas atrocities on social media every day.

I think people in general don’t have critical thinking skills. They react impulsively, according to their prejudices, so it’s easy for the Gaza terrorists to make people think that Jews are evil and that we need to get rid of them. This is how the Holocaust started. What begins with words ends in validation by deeds.

What people have to understand is that this war is not about Israel vs. Palestine or Jews vs. Muslims. It is a terrorist group against humanity, not only against Israelis and Palestinians. Israel is fighting for all mankind – including Indigenous people like me.

The reactions I have received for being openly Zionist and Native confirm the nature of the enemy in this fight, and the nature of the people who sympathize with them. I have received repeated death threats and gang rape threats. I have been called a “Zionist pig,” “Zio-Kike,” “fake Native,” “White Spanish colonizer,” “potato face,” etc. The mentality of these people is expressed in the language that they use.

I have also lost friends or people I thought were my friends because I saw them celebrating the mass murder of Jews. Even many Natives (my own people) support Jewish genocide, although Hamas also wants to wipe us off the face of the earth. I have also gained new friends and a lot of support from Zionist Jews and non-Jews. I have received many messages of gratitude and Shabbat dinner invites.

I greatly admire the Jewish people, the resilience and unity they have. I admire that Jews are an Indigenous people who achieved the impossible: they decolonized their homeland and revived their native language, Hebrew. They built a modern high-tech state with a strong army by which they can defend themselves. They are an example to Indigenous people everywhere that our dreams can become reality.
Over 300 celebrities pen letter to Biden about release of Israeli hostages
An open letter signed by hundreds of celebrities, including actors, directors, and music artists, urged President Joe Biden to continue his work on freeing the Israeli and U.S. citizens taken hostage by the Hamas terrorist group.

The letter, which was shared online, stated that its signees were relieved that four people who were held hostage by Hamas, two of whom are from the United States and two from Israel, have been released from captivity. However, they informed the president that they still have "overwhelming concern" for the 220 hostages, 30 of whom are children.

"We all want the same thing: Freedom for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace," the letter read. "Freedom from the brutal violence spread by Hamas. And most urgently, in this moment, freedom for the hostages."

The letter also thanked Biden for his support for both Jewish people and Palestinians, both of whom have been "terrorized" by Hamas. Additionally, the signees have asked "everyone" to remain adamant about the release of the hostages, as "no hostage can be left behind."

Among the letter's signees are actors Bradley Cooper, Billy Crystal, Gal Gadot, and Jack Black, as well as directors Eli Roth, Zack Snyder, and David Lowery. Musicians Lana Del Rey, Katy Perry, and Madonna were also among the signees.




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