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Sunday, October 29, 2023

10/29 Links: How Oct 7 Has Reignited Jewish Peoplehood; Czech DM calls to exit UN for supporting Hamas, warns Holocaust is back

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David Suissa: How October 7 Has Reignited Jewish Peoplehood
This existential anxiety has also touched and united the Jews of the Diaspora. We’re seeing the faces of the haters, ripping down posters of hostages and brazenly calling for the end of the Jewish state. We’re seeing the triumphant body language. We’re seeing how these haters and Hamas supporters also smell blood.

It’s not only disgust, then, that is uniting Diaspora Jewry—it’s also an existential dread. It’s a realization that the weakness Israel showed on October 7 has triggered a dangerous, long-dormant dream among our enemies that “maybe now we can get them.”

If this kind of shared menace doesn’t unite Jews, nothing will.

In all the darkness, though, there is an upside to this unity– it is the rekindling of Jewish peoplehood.

Jewish identity has always been multi-faceted. Judaism is a religion, a culture, a nation, a civilization, a people. By bringing Jews of all stripes together, the existential crisis coming out of October 7 has reminded us that we are, above all, a people.

Yes, we seem to always wait for danger to unite us. But so what? We’re only human. This is how humans react.

Perhaps because of the unprecedented horrors of October 7, the solidarity this time may be more sticky. We can only hope that our renewed sense of peoplehood will outlast this most painful of moments in our modern history. It would certainly make us stronger and less vulnerable.

If our enemy treats us as one, who are we to disagree?
Jeff Jacoby: Why they rip down the ‘Kidnapped from Israel’ fliers
A core principle of antisemites in all times and places is that Jews are not fully human and are never innocent. A thousand years ago, Jews were slaughtered by Crusaders for being satanic Christ-killers who consumed the blood of children; a century ago Hitler preached that they were subhumans who polluted the racial purity of Aryan Europe. Today the Jewish state is accused of committing the demonic crimes of genocide and apartheid. The poison never changes, only the vial it comes in.

The “Kidnapped” fliers are intolerable to the haters because they so urgently challenge the antisemitic paradigm. They make it vividly clear that in the war between barbarism and civilization, between oppressor and oppressed, it is Jews who are under attack. That infuriates those whose worldview revolves around the certainty that Israel and its supporters are the victimizers. The outpouring of sympathy for Jews kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists — and the moral force of that sympathy — is anathema to them.

That explains as well why the atrocities committed on Oct. 7 immediately triggered so many vehement public demonstrations in support of the Palestinians. Precisely because the massacre and abductions had been so unspeakably horrific, it was necessary to reinforce the narrative of Jewish villainy. At times, denunciations of Israel gave way to naked antisemitsm. At a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney, a chorus of voices chanted “Gas the Jews! F*** the Jews!” Others expressed their hatred by rejoicing in the slaughter of Israelis. A professor at Cornell, for example, told a crowd he was “exhilarated” by what Hamas had done.

In the wake of terrible mass shootings like the one that took at least 18 lives and convulsed Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, grieving family and friends often display pictures of their loved ones. It is a way of reinforcing the humanity of the victims and of evoking compassion from passersby. Who, seeing such a display, would destroy or vandalize it? Some norms are so ingrained as to be all but inviolable. When someone puts up an image of a missing or murdered child, no decent person rips it down.

But antisemitism has the power to override every norm and decent impulse.

On Reddit last week, a commenter explained that coming across a “Kidnapped” flier made him feel not empathy with the hostage, but “the exact opposite.” It filled him with “white hot rage,” he wrote, and he decided that “ripping it down and tearing it to shreds is the only thing I can do.”

The ripped-up fliers are one more indication of the rising tide of antisemitism in America and the West. A “white hot rage” is building. I, for one, cannot shake the conviction that Jews are at graver risk than they have been in decades, and not only in southern Israel.
Jon Gabriel: On Israel and ‘Root Causes’
According to today’s Hamasophiles, Gaza’s leadership is justified in their terror attacks against Israel because “Zionists stole their land.” Before that, the British “stole their land,” which they seem to forget.

Of course, the Brits stole the land from the Ottoman Empire in the first world war. Well, kind of. The sultan decided the region wasn’t populated enough, so he imported Arab Muslims from other regions, such as Yemen and Syria, creating many of today’s “Palestinians.” In other words, Gaza’s ancestors stole it from the Arabs, Jews, and Christians who already lived in the region.

The Ottomans stole it from the Egyptian Mamluks, who inherited it from Egypt’s Ayyubids, who had stolen it from Frankish Crusaders. Those short-lived Christian rulers had stolen it from Fatimid Caliphate, which was preceded by several other caliphates. Which had stolen it from the Byzantine/Roman Empire.

Before that, Rome stole it from the Jews, who stole it from the Greeks, who stole it from the Jews, who were given it by the Neo-Babylonians, who had stolen it from the Assyrians, who had stolen it from the Jews.

People who rely on root causes always stop the historiography the second they discover a group they don’t like. Funny how that works.
Honestly with Bari Weiss: How Hamas Executed a Massacre, and How One Israeli with Nine Bullets Fought Back
It’s been almost three weeks since Hamas attacked Israel. And there are three questions that, despite having reported on it so much over the last 20 days, many people are still asking. The first is what exactly happened that day, minute by minute, and what were the battles across the south of Israel like? There are so many accounts of civilians waiting in safe-rooms for hours on end for the IDF to arrive—what happened? The second is how did it happen? How did thousands of terrorists cross a border wall that cost more than a billion dollars to carry out the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust? And the third question is what comes next in this already horrific war?

Over the next two episodes of Honestly, we will answer those three questions by talking to three different people. You’ll first hear from Nimrod, a special forces reservist, who fought Hamas at several locations in the south of Israel on the morning of October 7—not because he was called by his unit to go there (he wasn't), but because he knew he needed to go save innocent civilians. His account helps paint a picture of what happened that day in Israel along the Gaza border, from a person who saw it up close and took the brutal fighting into his own hands before the army even arrived.

Then you’ll hear from Avi Issacharoff, a prominent Israeli journalist who’s also one of the creators of the hit TV series Fauda, which is based on his own experience as a member of an elite undercover counterterrorism unit of the IDF. My conversation with Avi helps explain how the most fortified and militarily sophisticated country in the world could have been overtaken in the most horrific way by thousands of Hamas terrorists.


Czech DM calls to exit UN for supporting Hamas, warns Holocaust is back
One must not stand silent in the face of a second Holocaust, the Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová said as she called on her country to withdraw from the United Nations to protest its failure to condemn Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.

“The Holocaust is back, and we must not be silent again,” she said, in a statement she posted on X.

She spoke of her outrage one day after the UN General Assembly voted 120-14 for a ceasefire for the Gaza War, which focused primarily on the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza.

The UNGA resolution which also had 45 abstentions, did not mention or clearly call for the release of the 230 hostages the terror group took captive on that day.

"I am ashamed of the UN. In my opinion - the Czech Republic has nothing to expect in an organization that supports terrorists and does not respect the basic right to self-defense. Let's get out.”

“Exactly three weeks ago, Hamas murdered more than 1,400 Israelis, which is more victims per their population than the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda murdered on 9/11/2001 in the USA.

“And only 14 countries, including ours, stood up against the unprecedented terrorist attack committed by Hamas terrorists, clearly and comprehensible!” she stated.

Only three other European Union countries voted against the resolution outside of the Czech Republic; Austria, Croatia, and Hungary.


Austria’s Nehammer says pro-Hamas chants will become criminal offense
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer met with opposition leader Yair Lapid on Wednesday, where he told him that chants supporting Hamas, including calls like “from the river to the sea,” will become a criminal offense in Austria.

Lapid in turn thanked Nehammer for his support and show of solidarity with Israel.


Borrell slammed for condemning Israel, appearing to call for ceasefire

Niall Ferguson: Israel—and America—Have No Choice but to Act

Do Not Hold Israel Hostage

‘We Need to Respond to Their Attacks with Force’

Victor Rosenthal: The Day After

Phyllis Chesler: Anti-Zionism = Antisemitism

Gil Hoffman: Here's how you can join Israel's fight against Hamas



'Systematic extermination': Hamas' attack has the hallmarks of a 'crime against humanity'
Independent Women’s Forum fellow Dr Qanta Ahmed has described Hamas’ Israel attack as a “systematic extermination lethal eliminationist anti-Semitism”.

“Which is at the centre of the charter of Hamas – this is at the centre of what drives Islamist Jihadism,” she told Sky News Australia.

“This has all the hallmarks of a crime against humanity.

“There are enormous amounts of evidence that that was the intention.

“They clearly came with the intention for systematic extermination and to document that – that indicates premeditation of genocide.”




Attacks on Israel have 'not stopped' since Hamas' terrorist attacks
Israeli author and activist Noa Tishby says Hamas' attacks on Israel have not stopped since its first terrorist attack on October 7.

On October 7, Israel declared war on the Palestinian terrorist group after Hamas fired thousands of rockets as far north as Tel Aviv.

“It was a military that attacked Israel on that day but it hadn’t stopped since,” Ms Tishby told Sky News host James Morrow.

"So there were eight terrorists that tried to penetrate Israel last night from the water, there’s still reports on terrorists that are coming up from the north, they’re still, Hamas is still launching rockets at Israel.

“It’s very curious that Hamas is running out of everything except rockets in Gaza.”


IDF needs to go and ‘demilitarise Gaza completely’
Bar-Ilan University Professor of Politics Gerald Steinberg says the IDF need to “demilitarise Gaza completely” to end the Israel-Hamas war.

On October 7 Israel declared war on the Palestinian terrorist group after Hamas fired thousands of rockets as far north as Tel Aviv.

“I’m not sure what’s the delay,” he told Saturday Herald Sun columnist Steve Price.

“The complexities are very clear and there are lots of different factors involved.

“Two and a half weeks ago, almost three weeks ago we had this terrible massacre catching along the border, catching Israelis by surprise and Israel needs to do this right.”


‘Dangerous’: Israeli forces could have battles on three different fronts
The Israel Defence Force is in a dangerous scenario where they could potentially have battles on three different fronts, according to former foreign minister Alexander Downer.

His remarks come after Israel declared war on the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas following their attacks on Israel on October 7.

“But to the north there’s the danger of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist organisation, raining more missiles onto Israel and attacking Israel through the south of Lebanon,” Mr Downer told Sky News contributor Steve Price.

He said another risk is an uprising occurring in the West Bank to the east of Israel.

“So the Israeli Defence Force could have battles on three different fronts.

“That will stretch them very substantially, and in that environment, they might have to get the Americans to support them, and this may encourage Iran itself to become more actively involved.”


RECAP: Two and a half weeks of telling the other side of the story in Israel
On last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Rebel News chief Australia correspondent Avi Yemini joined Ezra to recap his reporting of the aftermath of the terror group Hamas' attacks in southern Israel.


Survivor of music festival in Israel recounts horrific details of Hamas attack
A survivor of Hamas’ attack on a music festival in Israel sat with Sky News host Erin Molan and recounted the horrific details of the incident which killed hundreds of people.

On October 7, Israel declared war on Hamas after the Palestinian terrorist group fired thousands of rockets as far north as Tel Aviv.

“I got to the music festival with three friends, at around 6:30am, one of the girls from our campsite had come to wake us up and alert us that some rockets had been intercepted overhead,” Natalie Sanadaji told Sky News host Erin Molan.

“After a few minutes we started to realise that this wasn’t just any other ordinary situation of just a few rockets – the rockets kept coming, one after the other; a few minutes later the festival security had shut off the music and requested that everybody please evacuate to their cars.

“I went to the restrooms by the exit of the festival and a few days ago a video had surfaced of the Hamas terrorists coming to those exact bathrooms and shooting at every bathroom stall trying to kill anyone inside; if I was in those bathrooms moments later, I probably wouldn’t be here today.”


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IDF deep in Gaza: 'Intensive fire not seen since Yom Kippur War'

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IDF strikes Lebanon as rockets pummel central Israel

Israel strikes Iranian assets in Syrian Golan Heights

Arab, Western officials agree Hamas is keeping Gaza food, fuel for itself – NY Times



FDD: Hamas Exploits Suffering in Gaza

Musk says his Starlink will connect UN and aid organizations in Gaza to Internet

Ron DeSantis vows to strip U.S. funding after the United Nations demanded a ceasefire in Israel – and calls for General Secretary to be FIRED for saying Hamas attacks 'did not happen in a vacuum'



Hussain Abdul-Hussain: What Happens to Gaza If Hamas Is Actually Defeated?



Ben Debunks Pro-Hamas TikToks



GERALD M. STEINBERG: Saying no to UNICEF’s hypocrisy and hate



Jordan's situation ‘extraordinarily intense’: Horowitz speaks on encounter at Israel’s border
Filmmaker Ami Horowitz says the situation in Jordan is “extraordinarily intense” as he recounted his meeting with border officials when crossing over to Israel.

Ms Horowitz sat down with Sky News host Andrew Bolt to discuss the increasingly tense situation with other Middle Eastern countries following Israel’s declaration of war on Hamas.

“I’ve always found the border crossing guards to be very friendly to me; we’ve shared a coffee, we had to wait a little bit,” he told Mr Bolt.

“As I was crossing over they asked me ‘where are you going’, of course I said ‘I’m going to Israel’ and they said ‘I don’t know what that is, if you want to go you can go to Palestine, I ne dot hear you say you want to go to Palestine’.

“At first I thought he was joking – to which point I said ‘I don’t think you know who you’re messing with; I’d rather sit here all day and not cross over than say I’m going to Palestine; I’m not going to play your game’.”




Turkey ‘cannot possibly afford’ to intervene in Israel-Hamas conflict



Now the world knows 'why Hitler killed the Jews,' Pakistani senator writes



Daniel Greenfield: The Mask Isn’t Just Off the ‘Palestinians’, but the Pro-Palestinian Movement



Thousands march in support of Israel ahead of pro-Palestine rallies in major Australian cities

Jewish protesters at Grand Central Station were ‘definitely an outlier’: Ami Horowitz
Filmmaker Ami Horowitz says the Jewish protesters at Grand Central Station in the US were “definitely an outlier”.

Mr Horowitz told Sky News Australia the NYPD is “very pro-Israel”.

“I’ve been to these protests for many, many years … I could not find a single protester who said, ‘I condemn Hamas, but stand with the Palestinians in Gaza’,” he said.

“That’s not what’s happening here.

“These are people who are supporting Hamas and thereby supporting the atrocities.

“That’s the problem.”




London jihad demo leader is NHS doctor: Islamic extremist's double life as a suburban GP is exposed

Michael Gove orders restrictions to counter anti-Jewish hate amid rocketing cases of anti-Semitism following Hamas' attack on Israel - as Met Police arrest nine pro-Palestine protesters for 'hate crimes'

Fury on the streets of NYC: Pro-Palestine protestors storm Union Square and climb on George Washington statue chanting 'long live Hamas' - after shutting down Brooklyn Bridge and plastering 'Zionism is Terrorism' stickers over local Starbucks



'This is pure hate': Gigi Hadid's father Mohamed is blasted after comparing Israel to NAZIS in vile Instagram post - amid reports supermodel and her family have received death threats over Palestine support

Muslim NYC Street Vendors Express ‘Near Universal’ Support for Hamas

Columbia University Professors Call Hamas Massacre ‘Military Action’

Kassy Dillon: Lecturer dodges on condemning terrorism in tense debate at UMass Amherst: ‘It’s not a yes or no question’

BEASTMODE: Columbia Donor Slams 'Sh—t for Brains' Students Who Protest for Hamas
Billionaire Leon Cooperman, who's donated millions to Columbia University, had some choice words after students and professors at his alma mater rallied in support of Hamas.

"I think these kids at the colleges have shit for brains," Cooperman said Wednesday on Fox Business. The billionaire investor said he will suspend his donations to Columbia after the university refused to fire Professor Joseph Massad, who supported the rally and called Hamas's terrorist attack this month "awesome."


NPR RUNS INTERFERENCE FOR PALESTINIAN TERRORIST REGIME

Vox Hit Job Whitewashes Terrorism & Misinforms on Israeli History

Media Rush To Defend Hamas Ministry Providing Skewed Data on Gaza Casualties

REVIEWING BBC VERIFY REPORTING ON THE AL AHLI HOSPITAL INCIDENT

‘Ignorant’ journalists allowed Hamas terrorists to ‘write their headlines’
Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton says certain news organisations are still attributing unverifiable death toll figures in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Mr Houghton said it was "increasingly important" to attribute information correctly as the war between Israel and terror group Hamas intensifies.

“If you have a terrorist organisation which is holding hundreds of hostages, you cannot rely solely on any information its leadership releases,” Mr Houghton said.

“One week on from that failure and news bulletins are still being led with unverifiable death tolls figures which entirely come from this terror group.”

Mr Houghton's remarks come after certain newsrooms quickly blamed Israel for the death of hundreds of people following an explosion at a Gaza hospital.

“When you consider that the hospital bombing allegations make up 500 of that figure, you start to see how wildly inflated these figures could be,” he said.

"No doubt there have been civilian casualties, but the figures coming out of Hamas are completely unverifiable.

"We now know the hospital itself was not bombed, but instead, it was a car park, and many military experts say the damage of the car park is more consistent with a death toll of 50, rather than 500."




Washington Post, AP Interview Gaza ‘Journalist’ and Hamas Collaborator Who Snitched on Palestinian Peace Activists

Stephen Pollard: Shame on you, Sadiq Khan

Paul Keating declines to sign former Prime Ministers' joint statement supporting Israel and condemning Hamas

‘Weak display of leadership’: Australia abstains from United Nations vote
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Australia “should’ve been” standing with long-standing allies, including the United States, in supporting Israel.

Mr Dutton’s comments come after the United Nations General Assembly held a vote for a humanitarian truce between Israel and Gaza.

120 nations voted in favour, with 14 against, including the United States and Israel.

Australia and the United Kingdom abstained from voting.

“The Prime Minister had an opportunity here in the United Nations to send a clear message about our values and where we stand, and he failed that test,” Mr Dutton told Sky News Australia.

“It was a fragile display of leadership from the Prime Minister.”


Simon Birmingham slams Greens for labelling Israel's actions in Gaza as a war crime
Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham has backed Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong's pushback against the Greens on labelling Israel's siege on Gaza as a war crime.

"The stance taken by the Greens and others is disgraceful," he told Sky News Australia.

"We are dealing with a situation where the most appalling and atrocious terrorist attack was undertaken.

"And while every innocent life matters, and we grieve rightly for all, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, or others who have been caught up in this saga.

“We cannot create circumstances where some sort of false moral equivalence is drawn between the actions of Hamas, who launched a targeted deliberate assault against innocent civilians.

“And Israel, who in defence of their nation are trying to disable Hamas from being a terrorist threat in the future."


Palestine flags held up in Melbourne CBD sparks outrage
Crowds have gathered in Melbourne’s city to mourn Palestinians killed in the Middle East conflict but many people in the community are criticising the decision to hoist up Palestine's flag.

Nine Palestinian flags were held up at Federation Square on Friday night which enraged Melbourne’s Jewish community and other Pro Israel groups.

The Australian Jewish Association went so far as to compare it to flying the flag of the Taliban after 9/11.

The Pro Palestine organisers hit back, saying the flags were booked 12 months in advance and were originally meant to commemorate Palestine’s national day.

500 people gathered for the vigil to mourn the thousands of lives lost in Gaza.


Canterbury Bankstown Council is ‘incredibly ignorant’ for flying Palestinian flag
Sky News host Liz Storer says the Canterbury Bankstown Council is “incredibly ignorant” for flying the Palestinian flag as tensions continue to increase between Israel and Hamas.

On October 7 Israel declared war on the Palestinian terrorist group after Hamas fired thousands of rockets as far north as Tel Aviv.

“This idea is this is all about social conditioning, people see that flag, they go ‘oh wait, whose side are we on?’ – it’s that powerful visual and that’s what gets me so worked up despite the fact that you have to be incredibly ignorant to fly that flag at a time like this,” she told Sky News host James Macpherson.

“Let’s be clear we can’t fly the Israeli flag or light it up on Town Hall or on our Opera House because we know pro-Palestinians will riot in the streets if we do that.

“But these guys know that they can fly the Palestinian flag because they know with 110 per cent certainty that Israelis, Jewish people will not respond in kind.”


‘Shame on you’: Michael Kroger slams Tony Burke over support to fly Palestinian flag
Former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger has slammed Tony Burke over his backing of the Canterbury-Bankstown council's decision to raise the Palestinian flag until a ceasefire was declared.

“I mean shame on you Tony Burke, shame on you,” Mr Kroger told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“Someone ought to point out that this flag, the Palestinian flag, is actually the flag of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

“This is the PLO flag that the Palestinian people adopted later on, but this is a flag of an organisation which was born in terrorism in the early 1960s.

“This is a flag that was founded by a terrorist organisation.

“And shame on you Tony Burke.”




Fruits of power: While most of Gaza live hand to mouth, Hamas makes 6-figure incomes



MEMRI: Syrian Opposition Members On Syrian Regime Hypocrisy: It Massacred Palestinians In Syria, But Weeps Crocodile Tears Over Palestinians In Gaza

MEMRI: Article in Qatari Daily 'Al-Watan': The War In Gaza Is A War To End The Zionist State; Israel Is Attempting To Delay The Elimination Of The Jews, But Allah's Servants Will Be Victorious

Jonathan Tobin: Five years after Pittsburgh, mass murder has a new meaning



Walmart condemns 'inhuman and horrific' Hamas attack, pledges $1m. to Magen David Adom

Belgian Member of European Parliament, Burkino Faso-born Assita Kanko asks where is Europe’ humanity





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