Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Douglas Murray: Was Hamas’ brutal raid on Israel the day liberals realised their delusions about Islamic extremism were dead?
And reality hit the people of Israel very hard indeed on October 7.Anne Bayefsky: Stand up to the terrorists at the United Nations
Many of the people massacred in their homes by Hamas were themselves “peaceniks”, people who worked towards greater harmony and cooperation with the people of Gaza.
The hundreds of young people gunned down at the music festival near the Israeli side of the Gaza border were attending a “peace rave”.
Did it matter to their killers, rapists and abductors that many of them would have been liberals? Not at all. All that the monsters of Hamas cared was that they were Jews and Infidels.
That, now, is for the people of Israel to address.
But what has been alarming for so many people here at home is the attitude that has been allowed to grow in our society. The sheer cruelty and callousness of so many people.
The cruelty of the BBC moving straight on from the actual massacre to parroting Hamas propaganda that an Israeli rocket hit a Gaza hospital.
According to US and UK intelligence, the hospital car park was in fact hit by a Palestinian rocket misfire.
But it is in the cruelty on the streets that so many liberal dreams are being shattered.
Smears and lies
It has been in watching the young Muslim women in London tear down posters put up to draw attention to the Israeli children who have been kidnapped.
Of people claiming they are “queer” aligning themselves with people who support the ethnic cleansing of Jews in their historic homeland.
In the smears and lies pumped out by MPs such as Jeremy Corbyn and his old ally Chris Williamson.
In the students at Cambridge University who have failed to condemn the Hamas massacre but instead called for a “mass uprising” to destroy the Jewish state.
I’m sure this has all come as a shock to a lot of old liberals. They dreamed impossible dreams. They did indeed turn out to be delusions.
At least there are a few more people who now see things as they are. Perhaps they can now join decent people of all political types in not just facing up to these horrors — but in defeating them.
These remarks were delivered outside the United Nations building in New York City on Oct. 24, 2023.Saudi crown prince indicates Israel normalization can resume after war – White House
Israel is fighting an existential war. People and nations of good will recognize that Israel’s fight is their fight. A fight of good against evil. Of light against darkness. Of decency against barbarity.
But across the street at the United Nations, the forces of evil, of darkness and of barbarism are in control. Across the street, the Palestinian Authority is the willing diplomatic representative of Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations. Across the street, Islamic nations have prevented the U.N. from even adopting a definition of terrorism, because they insist on an exemption clause for killing Israeli Jews.
Why does the U.N. matter in Israel’s hour of need? Because the institution and its major actors from the secretary-general on down are at this very moment attempting to tie Israel’s hands behind its back—to deny the Jewish state (a full and equal member of the U.N.) its right of self-defense under the U.N. Charter. What Hamas did to Jews in their homes, cars and beds, the U.N. is trying to do to Israel in the corridors of power and in the global media apparatus literally embedded in its halls
Make no mistake: This is a two-front war. On the battlefield and at the U.N. The U.N. is where terrorists come for excuses, justifications, whataboutism, inverting victim and perpetrator, and a green light for killing Israelis. This is where humanity’s moral compass is smashed and human rights become human wrongs.
It is an obscenity that the U.N. Security Council—created specifically to protect international peace and security—has never condemned Hamas. Never. That as recently as this morning, the Council remains unable and unwilling to affirm Israel’s right to defend itself against attempted genocide.
It is an obscenity that, instead of moral clarity in the face of mass murder, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres doesn’t know the difference between Palestinian terrorists who target civilians and an Israeli military that targets terrorists. This is not a cycle of violence, not what the secretary-general called—as early as Oct. 9!—a “vicious circle of bloodshed, hatred.” This is the familiar cycle of terrorists opposed to a Jewish state, steeped in antisemitism, finding the U.N. has their back.
US President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman agreed to eventually “build on” the US-brokered negotiations that had been underway to normalize ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia before the outbreak of the Gaza war, the White House said after the two leaders spoke on Tuesday.
Biden and bin Salman “affirmed the importance of working toward a sustainable peace between Israelis and Palestinians as soon as the crisis subsides, building on the work that was already underway between Saudi Arabia and the United States over recent months,” said a readout from the White House.
Biden administration officials have acknowledged that the normalization effort is no longer the most immediate priority for the US and Israel, as they work to respond to the October 7 Hamas onslaught. However, the White House insists that it is still committed to the goal and has suggested that one of the reasons for the Hamas massacre was to try and thwart the effort.
Biden, but more notably bin Salman as well, “welcomed ongoing efforts to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas and called for their immediate release,” according to the readout.
The two leaders also welcomed the recent delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza while recognizing the need for additional assistance.
Biden hailed “the Gulf Cooperation Council’s contribution of $100 million to support these humanitarian efforts, and discussed the disbursement of $100 million from the United States to support the response.”
“The two leaders agreed on pursuing broader diplomatic efforts to maintain stability across the region and prevent the conflict from expanding,” the White House said, adding that Biden had affirmed US support for the defense of its allies in the region from terror attacks.
Melanie Phillips: The "humanitarian" fallacy
The issue of allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza has become yet another stick with which western “liberals” and their media mouthpieces are choosing — sickeningly — to beat up the target of genocidal attack, the State of Israel. The premise upon which their criticism is based is, as ever from these usual suspects, ignorant and shallow. By refusing to allow in humanitarian aid, they scold, Israel is in breach of international law. For a magisterial take-down of this charge, watch this interview with British international lawyer Natasha Hausdorff. With calm politeness, she schooled the BBC’s Katya Adler in what the law actually requires in these circumstances, how Israel is observing this law to the letter and the singular perversity of Adler’s BBC mindset. It was a master class in telling truth to moral idiocy. In the Wall Street Journal, law professor Eugene Kontorovich similarly pointed out that international law permits a siege as long as it isn’t intended to deny sustenance to the civilian population. As West Point law professor Sean Watts put it in 2022:'Israel is fighting for civilisation' says Melanie Phillips
Siege — or encirclement as military doctrine refers to it — is an essential aspect of modern military operations… Only starvation directed specifically at civilians is prohibited. In a war, care should be taken to avoid civilian casualties as far as possible. But it has never been expected that the fate of civilians should be allowed to undermine and weaken those waging a just war and consequently enable a barbarous tyranny to survive. “Humanitarian aid” may in fact aid a tyrannical enemy. That’s exactly what happens in Gaza. The notion that, in such a place, the aid sent by a compassionate world relieves the suffering of the civilian population is naive to the point of imbecility. Gaza is ruled by Hamas. Hamas is not some benign civil authority. It is despotic, oppressive and corrupt. Nothing happens in Gaza that is not under its tyrannical thumb. That goes for aid supplies.
Israel was fighting for civilisation in a “seismic event” that would change both it and Jewish people in the diaspora, the journalist and author Melanie Phillips argued in London this week.
“Israel will survive this. It will have changed,” she said in a panel discussion at JW3 on Monday night that featured leading JC columnists and was chaired by the newspaper’s editor, Jake Wallis Simons.
But she added: “We cannot possibly say how it will have changed.”
What Israel had been experiencing since the “terrible day” of Hamas’ attack was an example “of a sickness in the world that has infected[…] the West”, she said.
“Israel is fighting for its survival. It is fighting for the life of its people. It is fighting for itself, but it is fighting an evil that has consumed much of the world.”
What people should realise was that Israel was “fighting for everybody [… ]We, the Jewish people, gave civilisation to the world and now civilisation is turning on itself and turning on the people who gave it civilisation,” she said.
Having flown in earlier in the week from Jerusalem, where she lives, on the way to fulfil speaking engagements in the USA, she spoke of the shock, trauma and grief among Israelis who had been going to “funeral after funeral after funeral”.
But she also highlighted the “indescribable” national spirit that had immediately brought Israel together and was buoying up its people.
“This is Jewish destiny unfolding. Whatever is going to happen, this is the latest seismic chapter in our extraordinary history. I feel my place is there,” she told a packed audience at the centre, in addition to hundreds following online.
The Jewish Chronicle: Being Jewish in Britain at a time of crisis JC Editor Jake Wallis Simons is joined by star panelists Tanya Gold, Jonathan Freedland, Melanie Phillips and Howard Jacobson about what it's like being Jewish during this time of crisis in Israel.
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Melanie Phillips
10:27 Howard Jacobson
15:56 Tanya Gold
24:14 The Guardian coverage of the war
31:36 Jonathan Freedland
41:04 What can British Jews do?
JNS: Melanie Phillips: The Murderous Consequences of Western Diplomacy | Top Story
Is Western 'peacemaking' in the Middle East perpetuating the Arab-Israeli conflict? Has the refusal by the West to see the evil of Hamas backfired?
This week, Jonathan is joined by author and journalist Melanie Phillips.
They discuss
- the eruption of antisemitism in Europe and the US
- how the West's misconceptions of the Middle East fuel the conflict
- what Israel needs to do in order to put an end to the endless circle of violence.
Spiked: The real jihad-chant scandal
Misgendering someone. Retweeting an anti-woke meme. Saying a cop resembles your lesbian grandmother. Brits have been arrested, some even prosecuted, for these supposed speech crimes and many more in recent years. And yet, last Saturday, pro-Hamas protesters were allowed to call for jihad on the streets of London. Here, Tom Slater exposes the grotesque double standards of the speech police, while arguing that we need more free speech, not less, to defeat the scourge of Islamist anti-Semitism.
Alan Baker: The False and Deceitful Charges Against Israel
The charges that Israel's military actions against terrorists in Gaza are inhumane and violate international humanitarian law have no basis. They emanate from observers who are totally ignorant of, and unfamiliar with, the international law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law, or who deliberately and knowingly choose to mislead and lie to the international community.JPost Editorial: Hamas manipulating world with foreign hostages
Since the military capability of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad is intended solely to destroy Israel, then Israel has the proportionate prerogative and strategic duty under the international law of armed conflict to destroy that military capability.
According to international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, "military targets" include "civilian objects that by their nature, purpose, location, or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose destruction offers a definite military advantage."
As is widely known, Hamas places its military infrastructure within the heart of the civilian population in Gaza, including in residential houses, schools, mosques, and businesses. Accordingly, these civilian sites lose their civilian protection and international law permits the direct targeting of such sites as legitimate military targets due to their military use.
According to law professor Alan Dershowitz, "Israel is entitled, by any fair reading of international law, to do to Gaza City what the U.S. did to Berlin and Tokyo in 1945. It has warned civilians to leave. The collateral deaths of Palestinian civilians, caused directly by the Hamas decision to use them as human shields, would be the moral, political, and legal responsibility of Hamas."
The taking by Hamas of multiple civilian hostages is an inexcusable and flagrant violation of international law as well as of humanitarian norms. The 1979 International Convention against the Taking of Hostages has criminalized the taking of hostages. Since Qatar is party to the convention, it is incumbent on the international community to ensure that Qatar extradites the terrorist leaders whom it now hosts.
To many Jews and many Israelis, the notion that Israeli Jews would be treated differently than other hostages carries echoes of dark moments in Jewish history. During the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane to Entebbe, for example, the hijackers separated the Jewish and non-Jewish hostages, releasing the non-Jews while keeping the Jews in captivity until they were freed by Israeli forces.
It is imperative that all people and nations of conscience unite against this strategy.
Every hostage must be released, particularly children and the elderly, without delay. That must be a precondition for any further concessions or gestures on Israel’s part and on the part of its allies. There simply is no moral or legal justification to hold infants and grandparents hostage.
The world must vehemently condemn Hamas for its crimes against humanity and genocidal actions. This terrorist group has consistently employed antisemitic and Nazi-inspired rhetoric to underpin its policies. Regrettably, some nations, such as Qatar and Turkey, have hosted Hamas, with misguided hopes of moderation.
We are well aware of Hamas’s true nature, rooted in a history of bloody terror attacks and the prolonged holding of Israeli hostages such as Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, as well as of the remains of Israeli soldiers Lt. Hadar Goldin and St. Sgt. Oron Shaul. Hamas has consistently displayed wanton and callous disregard for human life and a knack for manipulating world opinion to garner support and maintain its grip on power.
We must actively and resolutely oppose Hamas’s manipulative tactics. This involves closely monitoring shifts in its rhetoric and efforts to alter its image through regional channels in Doha or Ankara. It is essential that Israel and its allies sustain pressure on Hamas in this complex conflict, which also revolves around narratives, media, and global attention. Prioritizing the confrontation of Hamas in the realm of public opinion and addressing its manipulation regarding the hostages is not just a choice, but a moral obligation.
We owe the hostages – of all backgrounds and nationalities – the universal human rights that all people deserve.
Denial of Hamas’s Crimes Reflects a Belief in Jewish Deceitfulness
Why is Israel being blamed for the Hamas massacre?
The ‘humanitarian situation in Gaza’ is code for killing Jews
UN chief doubles down on Hamas remarks, decries ‘misrepresentations’
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday rejected “misrepresentations” of his remarks a day earlier that Hamas’s October 7 massacre “didn’t happen in a vacuum,” decried by Israel as justifying terror.Israel to refuse visas for UN officials as 'blood libel' outrage grows
“I am shocked by misrepresentations by some of my statement yesterday in the Security Council — as if I was justifying acts of terror by Hamas,” Guterres told reporters, without naming Israel.
Addressing a Security Council session on Tuesday, the UN chief, again without naming Israel, had denounced “the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza.”
In remarks that especially outraged Israel, he had said it was important to “recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum” as the Palestinians have been “subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”
Guterres said Wednesday it was “necessary to set the record straight, especially out of respect for the victims and their families.”
“I spoke of the grievances of the Palestinian people. And in doing so, I also clearly stated, and I quote: ‘But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas.'”
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan rejected the explanation and reiterated his call for Guterres to resign.
“The secretary-general once again distorts and twists reality. He clearly said yesterday that the massacre and murder spree by Hamas ‘did not happen in a vacuum.’ Every person understands and understood very well that the meaning of his words is: That Israel is guilty for the actions of Hamas or, at the very least, a demonstration of understanding and justification by the secretary-general for the massacre,” Erdan said in a statement.
“A secretary-general who does not understand that the murder of innocents can have no justification and no ‘background’ cannot be secretary-general,” he added.
Yes, you did say, “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas.”
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 25, 2023
But you also said, “The attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum...”
You tried to have it both ways. Why can't you have the moral clarity to simply condemn terrorism?
My interview with @laura_i24 @i24NEWS_EN: “For the U.N. chief Guterres to say that Hamas' mass murder, rape, mutilation & torture of more than 1300 men, women and children, young and old, ‘did not happen in a vacuum’—his attempt to contextualize and justify Hamas—is inexcusable.” pic.twitter.com/vKiZVkcnLZ
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 25, 2023
Hamas, its supporters and prevarications about international law
Following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the atrocities the terror group committed, U.S. President Joe Biden was unequivocal.
“Terrorism is never justified. Israel has a right to defend itself and its people, full stop,” he said.
Importantly, he asserted that “statements from members of Congress calling for a ceasefire in Israel instead of issuing their full support for the country following the surprise attack by Hamas, are wrong and disgraceful.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, when asked about statements by anti-Israel members of Congress who did not back the administration’s call for support for Israel, responded, “We believe they’re wrong. We believe they’re repugnant and we believe they’re disgraceful. … Our condemnation belongs squarely with terrorists who have brutally murdered, raped, kidnapped, hundreds, hundreds of Israelis.” She added, “There can be no equivocation about that. There are not two sides here.”
One of these repugnant figures was Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who tried to justify Hamas’s war crimes by characterizing them as resistance to a specious “occupation,” even though Gaza is not occupied by Israel in any way.
The foundational definition of the term “occupation” under international law is embodied in the Hague Convention. It provides that a territory is only considered occupied when it is placed under the authority of a hostile army. As a threshold matter, the military forces of the conquered territory must have surrendered, been defeated or withdrawn.
The definition also requires (1) a military presence in the occupied territory and (2) exercising governmental authority over the area conquered to the exclusion of the established civil government.
“Proportionality does not mean that the defensive force has to be equal to the attack. It means you can use force proportionate to the defensive objective—to stop, repel & prevent further attacks. Israel's war aims are consistent with proportionality in the law of self-defence.” https://t.co/j3F4kWzWgO pic.twitter.com/v6EwIqaW0T
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 25, 2023
Alan Dershowitz: Blood Libel against Jews: Back with a Vengeance
The current reaction to the events in Gaza cannot be understood without taking into account the long history of blood libels and Jew-hatred. The current focus is on Gaza, but the goal of Hamas supporters is what Hamas itself proclaims in its charter: the obliteration of any nation state for the Jewish people in any part of Israel.Anti-Israel Progressives Are Handing Liberal Jews an Impossible Decision, Just Like in 1967
This conflict is not about occupation or settlements. The chants of anti-Israel protesters, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," means that the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea -- all of Israel -- must be free of Jews.
Antisemitism has always been based on lies. No amount of evidence, regardless of how strong, can persuade fervent Jew-haters to accept the truth.
In the weeks to come, Israeli strikes will accidentally kill civilians in Gaza, because Hamas deliberately uses Palestinian children, women, the elderly and disabled as human shields. Some are willing shields; others are pressured or forced to risk their lives to protect Hamas killers. The international law of "proportionality" allows Israel to destroy important military targets — such as Hamas leaders or rocket launchers — even though they know that a certain number of civilians may be killed or injured. The only requirement is that the military value of the target be proportional to the number of anticipated collateral deaths and injuries among civilians. The rule of "proportionality" does not mean that Israel is permitted to kill the same number of civilians as those killed by Hamas. The rule of proportionality also depends on how "civilian" these "civilians" actually are. Israel legally has more leeway in endangering the lives of civilians who volunteer to be shields, or who are in other ways complicit with Hamas, than they would be with regard to young children or others who are completely innocent.
Do not expect, however, the blood-libeling liars of Hamas or their cheerleaders to consider these and other legal and moral distinctions. For them, every death of a Palestinian is automatically the fault of Israel, even if they are killed by an errant terrorist rocket, or while being used by Hamas as a human shield. The truth does not matter to bigots.
On X, formerly known as Twitter, prominent journalists and political activists casually accuse Israel of “genocide,” “war crimes” and “ethnic cleansing” — words that cease to have real meaning if they’re applied to every single action that Israel takes to defend its citizens, but not to Hamas and its Iranian patrons.StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein addresses the UN's moral dissonance at a press conference in New York
As in 1967, many liberal Jews feel the pain of erasure — of not being seen or heard. Non-Jews on the left strike them as blissfully unaware of, even disdainful of, the experience of American Jews viewing imagery of fellow Jews being hunted house-to-house, carted away on trucks, shot, sexually assaulted and murdered. For American Jews, whose synagogues have been under armed guard for several years, at least since the massacre at the Tree of Life congregation in Pittsburgh — many of whom are the children and grandchildren of Holocaust victims — this act of erasure isn’t just a form of disappointment. It’s enraging.
Jen Bluestein, a veteran Democratic operative who served until recently as a top strategist at NARAL Pro-Choice America, gave voice to this sentiment last week when she tweeted: “On every single social media platform I’m on, I’m experiencing anti-semitism by totally well-intentioned people who probably share many of my values. It is exhausting to be Jewish right now. It’s also heartbreaking & infuriating what’s happening in Gaza. But if your feelings about Gaza lead you say things that your Jewish friends and colleagues hear as deeply anti-Semitic, you may want to listen and learn more than you talk.”
As in 1967, it’s improbable that Jews will swing to the Republican party, a political organization thoroughly in the thrall of white Christian nationalists whom many Jews view as a much more immediate threat to their communities. But the tragedy of Oct. 7, 2023, was something very different from the triumph of the Six-Day War.
While in the 1970s Jews maintained a reasonably steady, if sometimes tense, alliance with the left end of the Democratic party, it’s hard to imagine that the broad center of American Jewish politics will continue to make common cause with self-styled “progressives” after the dust settles. Jews will continue to be ardent supporters of Joe Biden’s and Hakeem Jeffries’ Democratic Party — a party whose leaders have stood firmly with Israel, even as they continue to advocate a two-state solution and a just outcome for Palestinians. But watch how they vote in primaries, where they send their political and philanthropic dollars, which causes they rally to and which they do not, which people they continue to work with — and which they do not. Unlike the 1970s, when the far left represented a fringe element in Democratic politics, today, “progressives” enjoy a significant presence at the local and national levels. They have alienated many American Jews, a core constituency in the liberal coalition. That tension will be difficult to contain.
American Jews will still struggle with Hillel’s age-old quandary: “If I am not for myself, who will be? … If I am only for myself, what am I?” But this time, they’ll face that question somewhat more alone, absent the company of many people who should have been allies, but weren’t.
"[The horror of Hamas' atrocities] is clear to most people in the world, but not so much to certain people at the UN...They have demonstrated their antisemitism by whitewashing clear, heinous acts against Jewish civilians and refusing to call them what they are, to call Hamas what it is: Terrorists." Today (October 24), StandWithUs CEO and Co-Founder Roz Rothstein addressed the UN's moral dissonance at a press conference in New York and urged its representatives to recognize and support Israel's right to self-defense. We say, with a unified voice: Am Yisrael Chai. 🇮🇱
NGO Montior: Demonization and Tokenism: Human Rights Watch’s Agenda following the Hamas Pogrom
Human Rights Watch ‘Demonizing’ Israel in Wake of Hamas Terror Onslaught: NGO Report
An aerial view shows the bodies of victims of an attack following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip lying on the ground in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, Oct. 10, 2023.PreOccupiedTerritory: NGOs To ‘Contextualize’ Nazi War Crimes Next (satire)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has been engaged in a campaign of “demonization and tokenism” against Israel in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of the Jewish state and massacre of civilians, according to a new analysis published on Wednesday.
NGO Monitor, an independent, Jerusalem-based research institute that tracks anti-Israel bias among nongovernmental organizations, tracked how HRW has overwhelmingly devoted its resources to condemning Israel in the wake of the largest single-day killing of Jews since the Holocaust.
“Since the brutal October 7 Hamas pogrom, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has hyperactively published statements and condemnations, primarily demonizing Israel,” the report says. “As of October 23, they had made 7 public statements, 2 ‘Q&As,’ a letter to the [International Criminal Court (ICC)] Prosecutor, more than 20 opinion essays and media appearances, and well over 100 tweets by officials who frequently deal with Israel.”
An analysis of this output, according to NGO Monitor, “demonstrates HRW’s long-standing hostility towards Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people; lack of credibility on all issues related to Israel and Jews; tokenism with respect to Israeli victims of brutality, including hostages, in a transparent attempt to deflect the evidence of antisemitism; and inflated claims to expertise and relevance in the realms of human rights and international law.”
Critics have long accused HRW of having an anti-Israel and even antisemitic bias. In 2021 the group published a report accusing Israel of being an “apartheid” state, a claim that HRW employees have frequently repeated in their writings on the war against Hamas.
“For decades the US has ignored apartheid by Israeli authorities against Palestinians, sending weapons, giving visa deals to Israeli tourists and brokering normalization with Arab dictators,” HRW program director Sarah Bashi posted on X/Twitter on Oct. 7 while the massacre was still ongoing. “If only this war would persuade the US to address the abuses that are feeding the violence.”
HRW’s first public statement issued on Oct. 9 likewise overwhelmingly focused on the alleged “crimes” of Israel while only briefly noting that Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group, “apparently shot civilians en masse.”
“Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) have recently faced perhaps unprecedented repression,” the statement says. “During the first nine months of 2023, Israeli authorities killed more Palestinians in the West Bank in 2023 than in any year since the United Nations began systematically recording fatalities in 2005 … Israel’s unlawful closure of Gaza, including its generalized ban on the travel of Palestinian residents who live in this 40-by-11 kilometer (25-by-7 mile) strip of land, with few exceptions, recently entered its 17th year.”
At Brandeis U, founded as a nonsectarian Jewish university, resolution to condemn Hamas fails student senate
Jews are leaving empty spaces at their shabbat tables because the absence of 200 Israelis, being held hostage in Gaza, weighs heavily.
— LCSCA (@centre_as) October 24, 2023
Put this on a seat in your lecture, your dept meeting, seminar. Anywhere. To remember that times are not "normal" until they are home in Israel. pic.twitter.com/v8oPEgiVmc
The Ford Foundation Carries on the Legacy of Its Namesake
The Coming Reckoning
I now believe that in the years ahead we will see a reaction to the activist students who pissed off institutional donors, alienated older liberals, riled regents, and have thrown presidents’ careers into jeopardy. That reaction will not take the form of banner headlines. It will occur more quietly.The DEI Complex Will Never Protect Jews
Here’s what I predict will happen.
1. The downsizing of the humanities will accelerate.
The humanities—now viewed as a primary contributor to campus radicalism—are an easy target. There’s also a sense that humanities students have been at the forefront of campus unionization efforts.
Although programs in Black Studies, Latino/a Studies and Women’s Studies will survive—because they have their own constituencies—other programs, like American Studies, will shrink drastically or their faculty will be folded into existing departments. Those “studies” programs that remain will gravitate away from the humanities and toward the social sciences.
The traditional humanities departments, too, will shrivel, as more and more high school students acquire early college/dual degree credits and as 4-year institutions (including my own) become more willing to accept credit for gen ed classes taken elsewhere. At UT, it’s already the case that over two-thirds of the undergraduates take freshman composition elsewhere, drastically reducing the number of doctoral students in English.
Already, humanities Ph.D. programs are contracting, partly due to the awful academic job market in the foreign languages, history, literature and philosophy.
2. Even more emphasis will be placed on STEM and business and economics.
These departments not only bring in grant dollars, but are regarded as safer and less contentious.
But is this true? Maybe not. We only need to look at the example of Sam Bankman-Fried, an MIT-grad, a 100 percent STEM major, and a self-described skeptic of book reading. As he put it:
“I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.”
But one glance at him should make campuses realize that they might be chasing the wrong demons. The damage that a really smart STEM or business major may cause—aided by artificial intelligence, crypto currency and an utter lack of ethics (under the guise of effective altruism) is utterly astonishing.
No philosophy or history major could ever have that level of impact or damage.
As I have written before, however, without integrating a real ethics education, the emphasis on STEM, business and economics might simply delay campus controversies or, going back to Maher, produce an even larger class of graduates who are amoral as there’s “there is a special magic that links Harvard types and being utterly face-punchable.”
3. Development of donor- or legislature-funded programs designed to bring more conservative faculty to campus.
Texas might offer an example. The state legislature funded what is now called the Civitas Institute to examine “the ideas and institutions that create flourishing societies” and “facilitate inquiry about individual rights and civic virtue, constitutionalism and the rule of law, and free enterprise and markets.”
Donors also provided substantial support to the Thomas Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas to engage students “in a direct, respectful, but probing and critical study of major creative and theoretical works that have shaped human thought and history” and provide “a safe zone for the vigorous discussion of unsafe ideas.”
Sending your kids to elite schools because they can “make connections” is like sending your daughter to a brothel because she might meet powerful men.@DavidMamet https://t.co/Fovav074J2
— Suzy Shofar (@suzylebo) October 25, 2023
Eli Lake: Qatar’s War for Young American Minds
Full link to the letter (it's been archived)https://t.co/TcwDrtYTLE
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) October 24, 2023
what if i told you there was a colonizer state with international imperial ambitions of domination that holds a population of native muslims in prison camps on their own land, subjugating them through forced labor, sterilization, and imprisonment? pic.twitter.com/s76BsM0XZu
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) October 24, 2023
Yeah listen. Maybe next time we shouldn't hand over our medical institutions to people who use phrases like "the long march through the institutions." https://t.co/cgio0Bp8cd
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) October 25, 2023
Oy vey pic.twitter.com/u2wbFE48kY
— GnasherJew®גנאשר #IStandWithIsrael (@GnasherJew) October 25, 2023
This statement from the Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign is appalling.
— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) October 25, 2023
And certainly one for the authorities.
It is right there on their website: https://t.co/PWZLSsKaeO
"The brave fighters gave us all a glimpse of a liberated Palestine"@PSCupdates @ManchesterPSC pic.twitter.com/SgSnlNeYab
Pearl: Pro-Hamas Protests Show How Deep the Roots of Antisemitism Are
Notice that capital is already beginning to shift: Donors are forcing changes at Ivy League universities and rerouting hundreds of millions of dollars in philanthropic support. The organized Right must accelerate this process and capture some of the largesse.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 24, 2023
Fury as Cambridge University's opera cancels Handel's Saul over 'striking parallels' with the ongoing Middle East crisis and 'unfortunate escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza'And the radical Left, after tasting blood during the Summer of George Floyd, is desperate to get another fix: thousands of academics justifying Hamas terror; mobs assembling under a foreign flag; establishment liberals too scared to condemn them. Disaster.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 24, 2023
Israel’s “decades of violent oppression” for the current conflict and mentions that “only a mass uprising on both sides of the green line and across the Middle East can free the Palestinian people”. A student (called here student 2) advocated for the motion. When asked>
— Elad Simchayoff (@Elad_Si) October 25, 2023
Cambridge University debate descends into farce after motion calling for solidarity with Palestine was stopped amid concerns it risked 'inciting violence'
Why is Google protecting Harvard defenders of Hamas terrorism?
New Canary Mission @Harvard profilees Amari Butler & Kojo Acheampong double down on their support for Hamas' massacre of Israeli civilianshttps://t.co/Xc48bOB5gPhttps://t.co/fTZjhhdpJ2
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) October 24, 2023
WATCH pic.twitter.com/HEPuWJAApI
.@penn professor Robert Vitalis endorsed the Hamas military wing on Facebook. The same Hamas who butchered, raped and beheaded 1400 Jews. He then stated "A quick and easy way to reduce my friends list"
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) October 24, 2023
His Canary Mission Profile: https://t.co/DGDIXD73BU pic.twitter.com/GY3bq54Dds
Brandeis University student senate votes not to denounce Hamas
Jewish community accuses Guardian of 'new lows' with 'crass' Israel-Holocaust article
How Penn's Anti-Semitism Controversy Could Make It Harder To Fire a Controversial Professor
Florida Atlantic University Gender Studies Professor Arrested at Pro-Hamas Protest
'This Is Not Leadership': Open Letter Skewers Harvard For Failing To Protect Jewish Students
Israel war: NYC school union head justifies Hamas attack in 'private' email to teachers
More pro-Hamas support at @UCBerkeley: TA Alan Moore has canceled class in support of @NationalSJP's "walkout" against Israel and is encouraging students to attend.
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 25, 2023
How long will it take for Berkeley to take a stand against support for terrorism on its campus?! pic.twitter.com/mjbIkTS7mo
@Princeton your students are literally demanding the mass murder of Jews. Will you do something? pic.twitter.com/PhvQd0Aywe
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 25, 2023
NYU happening now - students are spotted holding up a Nazi era antisemitic signs wanting to rid the world of the Jews.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 25, 2023
We have no words. pic.twitter.com/Asg9PKGCrE
Kudos to these @HarvardAlumni who are taking a stand against @Harvard's silence while Jew-hatred floods its campus.
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 25, 2023
Jewish students are afraid for their safety, and Harvard hasn't said or done a single thing about it.https://t.co/dnSRaLfX9y
In this video from May 2021, Haatim clarifies what the calls for "jihad" mean..."Their downfall will be by force!" pic.twitter.com/HM6nVYOQCw
— Harry's Place (@hurryupharry) October 25, 2023
California public school denies imposing gag order on students told: ‘Israelis, Jews should be killed’
The Royal College of Arts Union released a statement on the Hamas-Israel war that calls for the release of the terrorists that butchered their way through Israel.
— Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) October 24, 2023
The left has gone *truly* mad. @RcaUcu @RCA pic.twitter.com/BqSJbgIrP2
Daniel Greenfield: Southern Poverty Law Center Union Endorses Hamas
Hollywood Writers Union Condemns Hamas Attacks in Israel, Apologizes for ‘Tremendous Pain’ Caused by Weeks of Silence
Major New York Center Pauses Literary Series After Backlash for Pulling Event With Author Who Slammed Israel
What you see from faculty exhilarated by murder or who require all teaching be antiracist & decolonial is a feature not a bug. It's the fruit of hiring in ideological fields that normalize & prize radicalism. They're outliers, but they're doing just what they've been paid to do. pic.twitter.com/KiUIuo6sY6
— David Decosimo (@DavidDecosimo) October 24, 2023
Well, well, well… https://t.co/AVFlZ5Hxqy pic.twitter.com/oafx30tbnr
— Huey (@HAv2RtrnVdeoTps) October 24, 2023
Also note Heydrich, Goebbels, Eichmann, Heidegger. https://t.co/rQnv2ME6PR
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) October 24, 2023
PreOccupiedTerritory: Universities To Prevent Violence Vs. Jews On Campus By Banning Jews (satire)
2,000-plus reporters descend on Israel to cover war with Hamas
Fox News’ Trey Yingst on Trying to Get the Israel-Hamas Story Right: “There Is No Room for the Fog of War”
The Hamas-UN-LA Times Echo Chamber
Important insight from Bret Stephens on reporting from Israel & the Palestinian territories:
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 25, 2023
"Western audiences will never grasp the nature of the current conflict until they internalize one central fact. In Israel, as in every other democracy, political and military officials… https://t.co/b8CfAhxgS6
CNN Distorts History To Absolve Hamas and Blame Israel For Oct. 7 Massacre
U.S. Details Intelligence It Says Clears Israel in Gaza Hospital Blast
U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday they have determined with "high confidence" that Israel was not responsible for the huge explosion at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City that killed scores of people last week.
The intelligence community reached its conclusion after examining multiple videos and using geolocation techniques to trace the Oct. 17 blast to a rocket launched inside Gaza that suffered a mechanical failure midflight before crashing into the hospital, three officials said.
The damage from the strike was consistent with a rocket, and not an Israeli munition, such as a bomb or an artillery round, which would have caused significant structural damage to the hospital building and left a large crater. Videos and images show "only light structural damage."
Analysts were able to track the trajectory of the rocket based on videos shot from four locations.
Moreover, no Palestinians have come forward with any debris at the site that might tie the projectile to Israel.
Only a day after its "apology" for failing to report the Gaza hospital blast accurately, @nytimes attempts to muddy the waters further with an "analysis" that can't even come to any real conclusions.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 25, 2023
The Times is obsessed with trying to pin it on Israel.… pic.twitter.com/4XjJIIGePu
Your desperation @OwenJones84 to pin it on Israel is really quite sad.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 25, 2023
1. The hospital wasn't destroyed. There was an explosion in the car park.
2. Did you actually read the NYT article? It didn't conclusively debunk anything.
Now go back to your kindergarten. https://t.co/rasC58mU8t
CNN Deceptively Attributes Hamas Casualty Figures to “Aid Group”
At all, including many children. That's verifiable. What is not verifiable are the numbers that emerge throughout the day from Gaza of new death tolls -- 700 killed in the last 24 hours, 500 killed in the Ahli hospital car park blast, 5,000 killed since Oct. 8th, etc., etc.
— Luke Baker (@BakerLuke) October 24, 2023
Says the BDS supporter who denies Israel's right to exist, smears the Jewish state at every opportunity, & whose own research consists of poring over known anti-Israel sources without doing independent investigative work.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 25, 2023
No wonder @OmarSShakir trusts the Hamas health ministry.… pic.twitter.com/oQzP38u2da
Inside the Dumpster Fire That Is VICE News Reporting on Israel-Hamas War
Wall Street Journal Contributor Has History of Bias Against Israel
Examples include this where Hamdi expresses his excitement that Palestinians have taken over "settlements" (which are actually located within Israel's internationally recognized borders). pic.twitter.com/N12xVqAkzr
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 25, 2023
"Hamas has not provided any documentation of Israeli involvement... But the initial account by Hamas took hold..."
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) October 25, 2023
but: "Israel’s relentless artillery & bombing campaign in response has killed 5,700 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gazan Health Ministry."@NYTimes. pic.twitter.com/xwd4VGSt8L
CBS and CNN Give Sympathetic Air Time to a Murderous Jew-Hating Gazan
The Guardian continues to kick Jews while they're down
The article is even more disgusting than the headline. https://t.co/ivZBOnIQlW pic.twitter.com/Eeh7qUQ8fC
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) October 25, 2023
On the Guardian's publishing of a piece titled "Israel must stop weaponising the Holocaust": pic.twitter.com/9xGqr3Hsx3
— Board of Deputies of British Jews (@BoardofDeputies) October 25, 2023
Our media and foreign policy elites. I just don't know. pic.twitter.com/wUOA8LYuuo
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) October 25, 2023
Look at how Islamophobia is worse than antisemitism… smh https://t.co/EkyruEDnd1
— Ahmed Al Asliken 🕋☪️✈️ (@assliken) October 25, 2023
You misgender someone and you’re blacklisted. Rape a Jewish woman and behead her baby, and CNN will discuss how you provided her with AC. https://t.co/Uv0s5rWb2d
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) October 25, 2023
.@ABC, @CBS, and @NBCNews have given ZERO seconds of coverage to the radical left Squad’s pro-Hamas comments. https://t.co/RXk1C0qgQk
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) October 24, 2023
And if anyone was in doubt this is what she said on her Instagram on Oct 7 (the day of the massacres that left more than 1,400 dead and over 200 kidnapped)@mailplus https://t.co/ei1nIgPXG0 pic.twitter.com/NlHqTiXYrr
— Sabrina Miller (@SabriSun_Miller) October 24, 2023
Obama’s Mindset Still Drives U.S. Mideast Policy
Biden Israel Ambassador Nom Pledges U.S. Funding for Anti-Semitic U.N. Group Tied to Hamas
Biden's Deep State: Pentagon Employee Calls for Israeli Ceasefire on Social Media, Undercutting Admin's Support for Jewish State
Democrat Jared Moskowitz calls for 'everyone' to consider supporting censure of Rashida Tlaib
Too Many Democrats Stick With Rashida Tlaib
Good reminder: "Democrats had the opportunity to throttle the rising antisemitic sentiments in their coalition in their infancy when Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib made it easy. Their routine contraventions of basic standards of decency were condemnable, and they… https://t.co/B1EZU9PEbZ
— Peter Cook (@_Peter_Cook) October 25, 2023
Perhaps it was a bad idea for our media to glorify a group of Democratic Party anti-Semites and parade them all over magazine covers.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 25, 2023
Biden Admin Official Responsible for Prosecuting Anti-Semitic Attacks Has Praised Anti-Semitic Activists
Democratic NY Lawmakers Arrested at Anti-Semitic Rally
Czech prime minister: I’ll express ‘strong support’ for Israel to EU
Hungarian foreign minister: Israel ‘can definitely count on us’
Germany seeks to bar antisemites from gaining citizenship amid spike in incidents
Hamas Pogrom in Israel Fuels Row Among German Politicians Over Islamist Ban, Antisemitism Prevention
Spanish Government Intensifies Diplomatic Campaign to Restrain Israeli Response to Hamas Atrocities
Palestinian arrested in Brussels for talk about planning a suicide bombing
The Queen of Jordan — a Palestinian 'refugee' — attempts to cover for Hamas' terrorism. This interview was yesterday. At this point, there is NO QUESTION over what happened on October 7th in southern Israel. pic.twitter.com/nZ191sUyNf
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 25, 2023
MEMRI: Senior Saudi Journalist Tariq Al-Homayed In Message To Yahyah Sinwar: 'Would You Leave Gaza To Prevent Further Bloodshed[?]'
MEMRI: At Colorado Muslims Community Center In Aurora, Imam Teaches Children: The Jews 'Lie And Break Their Covenant' – 'Should You Trust These People Today?'; Allah Turned Jewish Fishermen Into Monkeys; They Killed Their Prophets, Tried To Kill Jesus, And 'Keep Tricking Us To Trust Them'; The Israelis Are 'Comparing Our [Palestinian] Brothers And Sisters [Who Are] Being Murdered To Nazis'; 'It's Not Hate Speech For You To Be Aware Of These Things'
Colorado Imam Teaches Children at Mosque: Jews Cannot Be Trusted; Allah Turned Jewish Fishermen into Monkeys; The Jews Killed Their Prophets, Tried to Kill Jesus #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/uqUGrdr7SI
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 25, 2023
There will never be peace with an enemy that wants Jews exterminated #HamasWarCrimes pic.twitter.com/Iz9OGpRom6
— Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) October 25, 2023
Labour meltdown over backing for Israel: Keir Starmer will face anger of Muslim MPs at meeting today after mosque accused him of 'misrepresenting' visit and slew of councillors quit
Absolutely disgusting from Labour Muslim Network.
— David Collier (@mishtal) October 25, 2023
They write a whole letter attacking Starmer over Gaza - and they didn't even use the word 'Hamas' once.
What is it with the inability to criticise Hamas by name?https://t.co/38yehGhTAI
Sajjaad Khalil ends his Friday sermon at the Cheadle Mosque on 20 October with prayers for the humiliation of "polytheists", the destruction of the enemies of Islam, and victory for the "mujahideen" in Palestine.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) October 25, 2023
Hamas is strongly supported in mosques all over Britain. pic.twitter.com/QsomeE1tBF
The East London Mosque fuelling the fires.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) October 25, 2023
Media companies have “made our beloved brothers and sisters in Palestine seem as if they are the wrongdoers”.
“Call out these disingenuous groups who are purposely trying to manipulate the masses with baseless claims.” pic.twitter.com/TgQuaQuqUH
The Friday sermon at Chatham Hill Mosque in Kent, 20 October.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) October 25, 2023
"The Zionist media is trying to suppress all Palestinian content."
The aim is to "twist the narrative" to make Palestinians look "in the wrong".
Israel is a "rapist" that has only suffered a "scratch on his face". pic.twitter.com/WPsYmQJzWU
Earlier today in Ramallah, protestors burned the picture of visiting French President Macron, accusing him of being a partner of the occupation. pic.twitter.com/GjHmnxgUXx
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 24, 2023
Terrorists raised $130m in crypto since 2021; sought more via social media after attack
Concerns arise over crowdfunding website LaunchGood.com's alleged links to Hamas
Israel war: Civilian gun ownership could have stalled Hamas violence
Google Maps and Waze Suspend Live Traffic Updates in Israel and Gaza to Prevent Tracking Troop Movements
Google has stopped live traffic updates in Israel and Gaza at the request of the Israel Defense Forces, a change which impacts both Google Maps and Waze.PMW: Palestinians have chosen to side with the axis of terror: Russia, China, Hamas
"As we have done previously in conflict situations and in response to the evolving situation in the region, we have temporarily disabled the ability to see live traffic conditions and busyness information out of consideration for the safety of local communities," a Google spokesperson said.
Those in the area will still be able to use Google Maps and Waze to help with navigation.
Chinese TV Show Host Su Lin: The Israeli Embassy Posted a Photo of Jewish Prisoners in a Nazi Concentration Camp Warning Hamas Not to Repeat History - Clearly Indicating that Israel Is Now Like the Nazis #China #Hamas #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/KTHUTGQxHL
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 25, 2023
Abbas’ advisor repeats: Duty of Gazan civilians is to stay at home as human shields
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “From the first day of their (i.e., the Israelis’) aggression, they have said that the Palestinian people- that the residents of the Gaza Strip must go towards Egypt (i.e., leave the combat zone). That is the goal. They want a land without a people for a people without a land… We said: We will not go, and we will not leave our land. ‘And we completely refuse to leave our homes,’ said the Gaza residents. When they (i.e., Israel) dropped fliers on them calling on them to leave, they told them: ‘[Even] if you kill us, rip us to shreds, drown us in our blood, [even] if you kill me, rip me to shreds, drown me in my blood; you will not live on my land! You will not fly in my skies!’” [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Oct. 18, 2023]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Hamas Leaders Do Not Care If Gaza Is Erased; They Fled to Sinai in Ambulances (Archival) #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians pic.twitter.com/BcyYOmkJLy
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 25, 2023
“The Palestinians have been fighting by every means and way for the last 100 years”—the “moderate” Palestinian PM to @BBCNewsnight
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) October 25, 2023
This isn’t about Gaza. It’s not about the ‘67 lines. It’s about the Palestinians’ refusal to accept Israel in any borders. pic.twitter.com/uZy4Ae4qUJ
MEMRI: For Hamas Leadership, Beheading Is A Recommended Practice
Gaza Hamas Activist Maryam Abu Moussa: We Will Throw Jews into Ditches Like Hitler (archival) #Hamas #Gaza #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/QZZztvyLZh
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 25, 2023
#TerrorTips: Hamas’s Student Arm – the Islamic Bloc – Demonstrates How to Carry Out Vehicular Shooting Attacks #Hamas #Palestinians #terrorism pic.twitter.com/SWhID70qzt
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 25, 2023
— Imshin (@imshin) October 25, 2023
This is fresh footage of Hamas "journalist" Mohammed Fayq, by the way, who you will remember participated in #October7Massacre.https://t.co/Ah87rE12gQ pic.twitter.com/iLyBMCUfY8
— Imshin (@imshin) October 25, 2023
Former Grand Mufti of Egypt Shekh Ali Gomaa: The Zionist Entity Has Grown Old, the Time for Its Demise Has Come #Egypt #Israel #Palestinians #Hamas pic.twitter.com/e3xiWMVkck
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 25, 2023
Turkey-Based Hamas Official Talal Nassar: Hamas Captured Israeli Women Because They Were Fighting or Were Injured and Needed Treatment #Hamas #Palestinians #hostages pic.twitter.com/lMPSk8Ae5O
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 25, 2023
WSJ: Iran trained hundreds of Hamas fighters for attack
Iranian Influence Cell ‘Operating at the Biden Administration’s Highest Levels,’ Legal Watchdog Says
Israel does not target civilians. The painstaking means by which they try to avoid doing that are well documented.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 25, 2023
You know who does murder civilians in cold blood? The guy in the picture. https://t.co/ilaXEaG3R9
Remember the viral videos of Iranians protesting against the beating death of a young woman, #MahsaAmini by the “morality police”?
— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) October 24, 2023
It’s happened AGAIN, and the Iranians have had ENOUGH.
Have you heard of #ArmitaGaravand? https://t.co/Ial6onI0o4
Detroit police: ‘Several persons of interest’ in murder of synagogue president Sam Woll
The Detroit Police Department announced on Monday that it has identified “several persons of interest” in the murder of Samantha Woll, president of the egalitarian Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, over the weekend.
“The evening of Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, the victim, Samantha Woll, was at an event. She left that event and returned home at approximately 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning,” stated James E. White, chief of the Detroit police.
“She was discovered deceased outside her home at approximately 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning,” he added. “At this time, no evidence has surfaced suggesting that this crime was motivated by antisemitism.”
The Detroit police, which is working with the Michigan State Police and the FBI, added that it does not believe that there are risks to any groups or individuals.
Speaking at the funeral, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, on whose campaign Woll worked as political director, said that her deceased friend “may have been the nicest person that I have ever met or will ever meet in my lifetime.”
“Her killer will not rob us of the memory of her joy and warmth and kindness that she leaves behind in all of us and in all she’s done,” Nessel added.
Antisemitic incidents have spiked 388% across the US since Hamas's massacre of Israelis on October 7, according to the @ADL.
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 25, 2023
Hamas's goal isn't just to destroy Israel — it's to kill Jews. Its supporters are the same. pic.twitter.com/ECYZ0vSnRQ
I want to see how long it'll take @paulkrugman, who is VERY concerned about antisemitism, to tweet ANYTHING about the current war or wave of psychotic Jew hatred abroad and at home. Almost three weeks and not a word.
— Noam Blum 🚡 (@neontaster) October 25, 2023
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— Imshin (@imshin) October 25, 2023
About 20 Indians came to the Israeli embassy in Delhi, demanding to be given Israeli citizenship, army uniforms and weapons, so they can fight with Israel. https://t.co/9f9arOH6Oq
This is what we’re fighting for 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/TO02uXC06a
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 25, 2023
How unified is this nation? How strong is this nation? How supportive is this nation?
— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) October 25, 2023
Last Tuesday, the JFNA, Jewish Federations of North America held an emergency caucus to raise money for Israel…
$388 million in 90 minutes!!!!
“Donors flew into D.C. on short notice from… pic.twitter.com/gS7iNA1PVG
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