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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

11/21 Links Pt2: Troops in Gaza during ceasefire: Dangers, opportunities; Why can’t ‘intersectional feminists’ condemn Hamas’s misogyny?

From Ian:

Seth Frantzman: Troops in Gaza during ceasefire: Dangers, opportunities
A ceasefire in Gaza could provide both Israel and Hamas an opportunity to pause fighting and size up the situation. Israel has been fighting on the ground for three weeks. Israel’s soldiers have made major progress. They have degraded 10 Hamas battalions of terrorists.

Hamas cannot replace the terrorists it lost easily. It doesn’t have a pool to recruit from in northern Gaza, because most Palestinians have fled Gaza City to the south. Hamas is also surrounded in Gaza City. The IDF 36th division is pressing in from south of the city, moving into the Zaytun neighborhood.

IDF troops from the north are also pushing into Jabalya and moving in from the coast. Hamas has much less room to maneuver. A pause in fighting will give Hamas units a chance to regroup.

Hamas has short internal lines now, because it is surrounded. It can reposition its forces, move what weapons stocks it has to the front and prepare ambushes and also potentially try to exploit the calm to enter tunnels and try to infiltrate the IDF lines.

Hamas will also have time in the south to reposition forces. While it can’t bring forces north, it could move them toward staging areas such as Bureij or Nuseirat, near the frontline with the IDF controlling an area across Gaza north of these areas.

Hamas could also begin to restock its rocket arsenal and set up new rocket barrages. Over the last week its ability to fire rockets has been reduced. Hamas could also use the time to set up explosives along roads where the IDF might advance.

These types of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) might adopt Iranian practice, such as in making EFPs (explosively formed penetrators) a special type of shaped charge designed to penetrate armor.

Overall, Hamas appears to be running low on missiles. In addition, the IDF has overrun many rocket-firing positions.

Hamas also suffered losses in its anti-tank forces and air defense array. It has lost numerous battalion commanders. It can’t easily replace them, but it could try to recruit a few thousand more volunteers and use an extended ceasefire to train some recruits.
Live Updates: Israel-Hamas hostage deal nearly complete; Women, children to be released
The government was expected to approve late Tuesday night a partial hostage deal that could include a pause in the Gaza war in exchange for a release of up to 80 out of over 239 people seized by terrorists during Hamas’ infiltration of southern Israel on October 7.

“We have a difficult decision before us tonight, but it is a correct decision,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting.

Opponents of the deal have warned that it will harm Israel’s ability to secure the release of all the hostages and complicate Israel’s military campaign to oust Hamas from Gaza. They have also warned that it will be difficult to resume the war once it has been temporarily halted.

Netanyahu dismissed those charges explaining that the IDF planned to resume the war once the deal was executed.

“I want to clarify. We are at war and will continue to be at war until we obtain all our objectives, to destroy Hamas and to return all our captives and missing persons,” he said.

“We will also ensure that there won’t be any entity in Gaza that will threaten Israel,” Netanyahu stated.

He recalled how he and the war cabinet had met with the families of the hostages the previous night.

"I told them that the return of the hostages is a sacred and primary mission that I swore to complete,” Netanyahu said.

“This war has phases and so does the return of the hostages,” he said.

The entire security establishment fully backs this deal, he said. This agreement will allow the IDF to better prepare for the rest of the war, Netanyahu said, adding that neither the lives of the soldiers nor the intelligence gathering apparatus would be harmed in that period.

Netanyahu said he had spoken with US President Joe Biden. As a result of that talk, Biden had intervened and secured better terms for the deal, Netanyahu explained.

The deal, mediated by Qatar, would create the first long-term pause in the fighting since Israel embarked on its military campaign to oust Hamas from Gaza. It comes amid increased international pressure for a ceasefire.

Under the broad contours of the deal, 50 hostages would be released, within the first four days in exchange for a pause in the fighting during those 96 hours.

Some 40 children and 13 mothers are held hostage. It’s expected that some, but not all, would be part of that first batch of hostages.

The 50 hostages would be freed in smaller groups during those days and not all at once.

Israel would in exchange release some 150 Palestinian women and minors held in its jails on security related offenses, but none of them would those directly involved in terror attacks with fatalities.

There is a possibility for the release of an additional 30 hostages held in Gaza should the pause in the fighting be extended for up to another four days.

All those slated for release are alive and have Israeli citizenship.
Israel accepts clause of Hamas's Sinwar: No UAV intel gathering for hostages
Israel has agreed to a condition laid out by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to halt Israeli UAVs in the Gaza airspace for six hours on each day of the ceasefire in exchange for the release of some of the hostages under Hamas's captivity, according to a Tuesday report by Walla.

The condition's implementation was addressed by an Israeli official who cited statements made by the IDF and Shin Bet, stating that they have intelligence-gathering capabilities even during the ceasefire days. "We will not be blind and we'll know what's happening on the ground," the official said.

The deal for the hostages' release that will be submitted to the government for approval includes the release of 50 Israeli children and women during a four-day ceasefire and includes the possibility of it being extended if Hamas locates additional women and children, with ten freed for each additional day of the ceasefire. Total number of hostages freed may reach up to 80

It is estimated that the total of those freed may reach 70-80 women and children if Hamas does locate the hostages, as they claimed they do not know some of their locations.

"Hamas, as far as we are concerned, needs to bring the people back, including from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other elements," said the official, also saying that Hamas should also release additional hostages with foreign citizenship, but not as part of the outline for the release of Israeli women and children.


IDF Spokesperson gives briefing amid developments regarding a hostage deal

Why can’t ‘intersectional feminists’ condemn Hamas’s misogyny?
To dismiss Hamas’s sexual atrocities as an ‘unverified accusation’ is a wilful act of denialism. There have been numerous witness accounts from survivors of 7 October who saw women being gang-raped and then murdered. Some women are reported to have had their genitals mutilated or shot at. And there is photographic evidence of half-naked women being paraded around by Hamas fighters. (Pearson was duly sacked by the university for bringing the Sexual Assault Centre into disrepute.)

Yet, despite all the evidence, many Western women’s groups have remained silent on these horrific assaults. Earlier this month, journalist Hadley Freeman asked why Sisters Uncut, a British feminist group, had helped to organise a pro-Palestine sit-in in London, but had not condemned Hamas’s violence against Israeli women. Sisters Uncut responded by complaining about ‘the Islamophobic and racist weaponisation of sexual violence that presents it as an Arab, as opposed to a global, problem’. The implication here is that it would be wrong to condemn Hamas specifically, despite the appalling scale and brutality of its crimes. For the intersectional left, it seems, standing against Israel comes ahead of standing with women.

You cannot credibly claim to be a feminist if you are in any way excusing or downplaying such shocking acts of sexual violence. Nor is it really credible to pose as a feminist while having little to say against Islamism more broadly. After all, it isn’t just Israeli women that Hamas has oppressed. The women living under its rule in Gaza are subjected to deeply misogynistic and draconian laws. Women are even forbidden from travelling around Gaza without the permission of a male guardian.

It is surely possible to express opposition to Israel’s military action in Gaza without whitewashing Hamas’s crimes. But in recent weeks it has been disturbing to learn just how many people are willing to deny Hamas’s atrocities, or to view its sadistic violence as a legitimate form of ‘resistance’.

When self-declared feminists join in with this apologism, they make clear that they do not see all women as worthy of the same moral consideration. The woke belief in an ‘intersectional’ hierarchy of oppression, which paints Palestinians as eternal victims and Jews as oppressors, seems to have blinded them to the brutal violence that so many Israeli women were subjected to six weeks ago. Their rigid ideology will not let them see Hamas’s mass rape of women for the atrocity that it is.

Condemning Hamas’s violence against women really shouldn’t be difficult. It is a very peculiar kind of feminism that insists otherwise.
Dr. Miriam Adelson: Those Who Celebrated the Hamas Massacre Are Not Our Critics, They Are Our Enemies
As Hamas' machine-gunning, stabbing, dismembering, burning, torturing, raping and kidnapping of Israeli civilians on the Gaza periphery was still proceeding, pro-Palestinian advocates were already surfacing in Western cities to chant their support. The media described these displays as "protests," but that was false. Israel had yet to repel the terrorists, let alone retaliate, so there was nothing to "protest" against. No, those ghastly gatherings were celebrations, hallelujahs to the horrors.

For Israelis, for Jews, and for our many supporters in the world, this should have been the final unmasking of the "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free" mobs. They do not yearn for Palestinian liberation or advancement. They yearn only to see the end of the world's sole Jewish state and they are willing to countenance an Israeli bloodbath in achieving that goal. These people are not our critics. They are our enemies.

The stakes in Israel's war of survival have never been so clear. We need no longer engage those who condemn Hamas and then add a "but" followed by condemnation of Israel; or those who thunder at the tactics of Israel's counter-offensive, without ever having taken an interest in far bloodier campaigns waged from Afghanistan to Iraq to Mali; or those who are more outraged by posters of kidnapped Israeli kids than about the fact that they were kidnapped in a vile crime against humanity.
Israel Will Never Apologize for Being More Powerful than Its Enemies
Israel will never apologize for being more powerful than the failed states and terror groups that seek to destroy it. Nor should any reasonable person ever expect it to. To paraphrase Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: If Jews have a choice between being dead and pitied or alive with a "bad" image, then they will always choose the second option. A powerful state is the best insurance policy for ensuring their survival.

The world's Jewish population still hasn't recovered from the Holocaust three generations later. "Never again" is now, and it means that Jews will fight to defend themselves or die trying. Forged by adversity, the days when the Jewish people were weak, stateless, and bullied are over.

Israel is aware that segments of the international community will side with the underdog, even if the underdog is a morally bankrupt terror group like Hamas. Israel knows that it can't rely on thoughts, prayers, empty words, biased global opinion, or failed institutions like the UN to keep its citizens safe. Israel will never apologize for being strong enough to prevent Hamas, or any other failed state and terror group that seek its destruction, from succeeding.


NGO Monitor: Denying the Undeniable: NGOs Erase Hamas’ Exploitation of Hospitals
The evidence is overwhelming and incriminating. Hamas systematically exploited Al-Shifa Hospital and other medical centers in Gaza for command and control centers, terror tunnels, weapons storage, hiding kidnapped hostages, and murdering kidnapped hostages.

The newly released videos are disturbing, but they are not surprising. For nearly fifteen years, Israeli and American officials have publicly acknowledged the existence of Hamas’ headquarters under Al-Shifa Hospital, and the international media has reported on the active presence of Hamas in hospitals, including during rounds of armed conflict.

However, there is one network that has constantly denied Hamas’ exploitation of Al-Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza — the influential community of ostensible human rights NGOs, humanitarian aid organizations, and their UN agency partners. Many of these groups have been actively complicit in covering up the diversion of aid by Hamas. Some of them employ Hamas and other terror operatives. At the same time, these groups have disseminated disinformation regarding Israeli operations and have likely lied to government donors in auditing and oversight processes. As documented below, the NGO strategy of denial and extensive obfuscation has continued and increased during the current Gaza conflict, despite the evidence.

Most troubling, as suggested by the videos of Hamas terrorists openly bringing hostages and captured military vehicles into Al-Shifa’s grounds, it seems likely that NGO officials – particularly those connected to self-declared humanitarian NGOs – had firsthand knowledge of Hamas’ illegal use of Al-Shifa, but remained silent. If this is proven, the NGOs bear responsibility for failing to report on these blatant violations of international law, human rights norms, and medical ethics. Any medical staff involved in covering up these activities could also face civil and criminal liability in both domestic and international courts. Donor governments to these NGOs and UN agencies must launch immediate investigations.

Relevant International Law
Contrary to the claims of many NGOs, hospitals and other medical facilities lose their civilian status if “they are used by a party to the conflict to commit, outside their humanitarian functions, an ‘act harmful to the enemy’.” Examples provided by the International Committee for the Red Cross include “a hospital [] used as a base from which to launch an attack; as an observation post to transmit information of military value; as a weapons depot; as a center for liaison with fighting troops; or as a shelter for able-bodied combatants.”
NGO Monitor: NGO Monitor Response to Swiss Political Campaign on NGO Funding Review

Seth Mandel: Lies, Damned Lies, and UN Statistics
Antonio Guterres ought to get out more. He is the secretary general of the United Nations, which counts 193 member states. Theoretically, Guterres’s mandate far eclipses the Roman Empire at its peak. But Guterres only has eyes for one state. You can probably guess what it is.

Like The Truman Show’s titular character demanding to see Fiji and only Fiji, Guterres doesn’t seem to grasp that there’s a whole wide world out there.

“We are witnessing a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict since I have been Secretary General,” Guterres says in a video on Israel’s operation in Gaza that has been pinned to the top of one of the UN’s Twitter pages. The tweet has gotten what we call “community noted,” a citizen fact-checking process that has been surprisingly effective, in which readers add clearly sourced context to tweets: “Secretary Guterres took office in 2017, considered to be deadliest year for civilians in Syria, with over 10,000 killed. Although the Yemen War began before Guterres took office, its death toll reached 377,000 in both direct and indirect deaths during his tenure.”

Rep. Brad Sherman helpfully informed the Secretary of the Whole World that “unfortunately, the violence in Israel and Gaza is not unparalleled. Not even close. Secretary General Guterres must have a short memory — over 500,000 have died in the conflict in #Tigray and Northern Ethiopia since 2020, the vast majority of which have been civilians.”

In the video, Guterres attempts to further inflame global fury against the Jewish state by painting it as uniquely effective at child killing, and he says something interesting: “Now, without entering into discussing the accuracy of the numbers that were published by the de facto authorities in Gaza, what is clear is…”

Let me stop you right there. What he means by “de facto authorities in Gaza” is Hamas. When he says he refuses to interrogate the accuracy of the numbers being fed to him by Hamas, he is admitting that he is not a spokesman for the global community of nations but rather a witting propagandist for a terrorist organization.

With that out of the way, we can ask: Why? Why is the UN secretary general using numbers he knows aren’t accurate? After all, the truth will come out eventually and even the UN itself is likely to publish more accurate reports.


Israeli Expert: Gazans Are Saying to Hamas, "Look What You've Done to Us"
Shlomi Eldar has been covering the Palestinians in Gaza for Israeli media since 1991 and has interviewed Hamas leaders.

Yet since the Oct. 7 attack, he no longer sees them as a group that can be reasoned with.

"I followed Hamas for over 30 years. I've never imagined to myself they become monsters," he said, adding that he never previously compared any of the group's behavior to the Nazis and the Holocaust.

But Eldar said seeing images of burned bodies from the attacks was not something he could shake off. "Butchering, burning bodies, children, rapes, kidnappings. They kidnapped a baby, nine months old, to Gaza."

Eldar said the attack cost Hamas a lot of support in Gaza.

"People in Gaza know what Hamas brings them....They took them 20 or 25 years back - even more."

"I heard voices in Gaza now, talking freely, [look] 'what you've made for us, what you've done to us,' they said."

He thinks the exceptional cruelty of the Oct. 7 attack was made possible because of a combination of several factors - one of them is Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza.

"He is a cruel man. I've heard many, many stories. He was arrested in 1989 because he butchered Palestinians. He suspected they were collaborating with Israel, and he just tortured them and killed them."

The second factor, Eldar said, is the education of children in Gaza toward violence.

"The new generation, the young people - they were born, or they were children when Hamas took power in Gaza."

"They grew up with incitement all the time. And they've been taught that the Israelis are not human beings."

"When they invaded Israel, they didn't see the Israelis as human beings, just something that they can kill."
The US should immediately prosecute culpable Hamas leaders

Mike Pompeo: Ending Hamas Best Way to Protect Gaza

The Re-Education with Eli Lake: Ep. 84: The Hard Bigotry of High Expectations
In this episode, Eli interviews Sol Stern about his recent essay in Commentary on the history of Palestinian pogroms against Jews. https://www.commentary.org/articles/sol-stern/century-of-palestinian-jew-hatred/ His monologue examines why Israel's response to a genocidal act of terror is being slandered as a genocide.

Time Stamps:
00:22 Monologue
16:56 Interview with Sol Stern


The State Department Should Quash, Not Coddle, Those Rebelling against the Administration’s Israel Policy
In the past few weeks, there have been several reports about memos and letters sent by government employees—at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), at the State Department, and at other agencies—criticizing the administration’s support for the Jewish state. These missives claimed to have specific numbers of “signatories,” but these individuals notably chose to remain anonymous. Elliott Abrams comments on how Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to whom two of these letters were directed, should respond. (Subscription required.)

The proper reaction would have been to squash the mutiny. Those who called for a ceasefire in week one were essentially saying Israel had no duty or right to protect itself after Hamas’s brutal attack on its civilians. Mr. Blinken should have told these government workers that he and the president reject their views as entirely wrong and contrary to U.S. national interests. Instead of encouraging the dissenters to offer more “feedback and ideas,” [as he did], he should be wondering if he can count on such people to offer any sound advice on foreign policy—or even to implement a policy that he sets.

Instead of coddling the staff with listening sessions, he should have reminded them who sets the policy—and even challenged those protesting to re-examine their hostile attitudes toward the Jewish state.

The problem of having staff members who think they know best and should determine policy is an old one. . . . Harry S. Truman noted that too many bureaucrats “look upon the elected officials as just temporary occupants.” Mr. Blinken should have had the rebellious staffers read Truman’s words: “The civil servant, the general or admiral, the foreign-service officer has no authority to make policy. They act only as servants of the government, and therefore they must remain in line with the government policy that is established by those who have been chosen by the people to set that policy.”
‘A complete misunderstanding of how this job works’: Jewish Hill staffers push back on staff-level cease-fire protests

Support for Israel Is Essential Element of German Policy, Interior Minister Tells Muslim Leaders in Berlin

Czech MPs seek global recognition for Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Fewer than one-sixth of Congressional Dems calling for cease-fire

Jewish lawmaker leaves Progressive Caucus over Israel rift

Maryland hate crimes commission member under fire for pro-Hamas posts

Sen. Julia Salazar fires aide after anti-Israel tweets

Texas Billionaire Tim Dunn Spends Big To Oust 'Sellout Republicans.' But Who's He Backing To Replace Them?

George Galloway’s Agent and Tory Donor’s Son Demand All Councillors Denounce Israel
Every councillor in the UK has been sent an email from two Kingston councillors demanding they sign a letter accusing Israel of “war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing“. James Giles and Jamal Chahan have organised the effort, giving their 19,102 fellow UK councillors until Friday this week to sign on. Otherwise, they will publish “the names of those who have been invited to sign but choose not to, in the interest of accountability”. Councillors across the country are reacting pretty angrily to the threatening letter…

Guido readers may be interested to hear James Giles is a longtime agent and collaborator of George Galloway, running various campaigns for him including Batley & Spen’s by-election in 2021. Giles previously hosted Galloway’s programme for Russia-owned SputnikTV and Galloway’s The Mother of All Talk Shows when it was aired by the now-banned RT. He also ran his grandmother’s campaign in a by-election for the same council, which the LibDems and Conservatives denounced as “dirty” for attacking their LibDem rival for being an Ahmadiyya Muslim. A pleasant character no doubt…

Meanwhile, Conservative councillor Jamal Chahan is the son of Tory donor and PPE provider Ashraf Chohan. Guido hears he’s on his way through the candidate process to become a Tory PCC. Guido wonders what local Conservative associations will make of that…

UPDATE: A CCHQ source tells Guido:
“The councillor in question has now been kicked out of the Tory group. He’s also not a party member, so any applications from him won’t be going very far….“

Swift action from the new chairman. Not seeing the same from Sir Keir with his own elected MPs…

UPDATE II: The Local Government Association has expelled the pair and sacked them from all positions.


Jailed Egyptian American Aya Hijazi who Trump boasted he freed from a Cairo prison is slammed for 'ungratefulness' to the country that rescued her after she lavished praise on Hamas and branded it 'morally abhorrent' to condemn them

Cuba Lights Up with Palestinian Flag at Pro-Hamas ‘Concert for Peace’

Israeli Arabs arrested in Turkey on terror charges

Soccer player could lose Israeli citizenship over Gaza tribute

Hitler Youth in Gaza

Is Crystal Meth The Next Syrian Narco-Weapon?

Yemen, a Poor and Drug-addicted Country, Finds Time to Attack Israel

Seth Mandel: Ignoring Iran Isn’t Working

WSJ$: Iran Pays No Price for Bad Behavior
While the world's attention is focused on Gaza, Hizbullah is firing antitank missiles and rockets into Israel every day. President Biden should give Iran a sharp and simple message: Pull Hizbullah away from the Israeli border, stop enriching uranium, order Yemen's Houthis to give back the cargo ship they seized in the Red Sea this weekend, and tell Hamas to release the 240 hostages it kidnapped from Israel on Oct. 7.

Iran has learned a dangerous lesson in the past six weeks. It has seen that there is no price to pay for arming its terrorist proxies and encouraging them to attack Israel. Iran's actions - including attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militias - are met not with reprisals but gifts, like the Biden administration's decision to issue a sanctions waiver and grant Iran access to $10 billion. This money will be used to fund even more terrorism.

Iran's leaders see no reason to stop funding Hizbullah, Hamas or the Houthis. No one is threatening to stop the ayatollahs in Tehran or warning them that they will pay a price. What is to keep Iran from creating new terrorist proxies, training them and giving them weapons to attack Israel, the U.S. or Europe? Letting Iran's bad behavior go unchallenged will ultimately extract a higher price. Iran won't stop supporting terrorist groups until it is made to.
The Curious Case of Rob Malley
More bad news for Malley emerged recently when a large cache of Iranian government correspondence and emails was revealed by Semafor and Iran International. In email exchanges between Iranian Foreign Ministry officials working under the supposedly moderate then President Hassan Rouhani, they congratulate each other for the public success of what they called the "Iran Experts Initiative (IEI)," a propaganda effort they created back in 2014, and reportedly "funded and directed by an IRGC official...

The IEI cultivated a network of sympathetic academics and intellectuals "with the aim of shaping political and public opinion as the Iranian government, then led by Hassan Rouhani, pursued a nuclear deal with the U.S."

Other former officials told the Daily Caller that Malley and a previous advisor of his, Ariane Tabatabai, who holds a senior, security clearance level job at the Defense Department, are "compromised" and had no place running Washington's Iran policy.

Tabatabai is still employed at the Pentagon where, noted the investigative reporter Lee Smith, "she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier... Tabatabai's emails show her enthusiastically submitting to the control of top Iranian officials, who then guided her efforts to propagandize and collect intelligence on U.S. and allied officials in order to advance the interests of the Islamic Republic."

"The contents of the emails," wrote Lee Smith, "are damning, showing a group of Iranian American academics being recruited by the Iranian regime, meeting together in foreign countries to receive instructions from top regime officials, and pledging their personal loyalty to the regime....

Tabatabai still has high-level security clearance and access to classified information. The FBI has reportedly "refused to remove her." So, while Israel fights for its existence, a genocidal Iran is using three of its proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen — Tabatabai, who according to Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), "had the mission of influencing U.S. policymakers to agree with what the Iranian government wanted," may be sending classified information about planned U.S. and Israeli military moves back to Iran.... What could possibly go wrong?

[The] use of the term "cosmopolitan" here hits on a core tenet of New Left ideology, where concern for one's own country is seen as jingoism, and the welfare of other nations, even those openly hostile to the US, occupies the highest priority.


Gary Lineker endorses academic who described Israel's Gaza operation as 'textbook genocide'

HIAS and other groups ask Biden administration to extend protected status to Israelis in US

CAIR Defends Promotion of Bogus Anti-Palestinian Hate Crime

Disgraced Prof Says University Threw Her to the Wolves by Refusing To Defend Her 'Poetic' Post About Killing Jews

Columbia Administrators Stand By as Anti-Israel Protesters Overrun Law School and Disrupt Classes

Rep. Nadler Votes Against Ban on Funding College Antisemitism

McGill students vote in favour of pro-Palestinian policy

Brooklyn Museum Fair Sells Anti-Israel Prints Calling to ‘Globalize the Intifada’

Teachers Unions for Palestine

Vic government formally apologies to Jewish students subjected to anti-Semitic bullying
A Victorian Education Official has apologised in person today to five Jewish students who experienced a campaign of anti-Semitic bullying at Melbourne's Brighton College.

The Department of Education’s deputy secretary David Howes today issued a formal and public apology to those students who experienced anti-Semitic bullying.

Sky News reporter Holly Edwards-Smith says the apology was three and a half years in the making.

“Between 2015 and 2020, five students of Brighton Secondary College in Melbourne’s southeastern suburbs say they were subjected to anti-Semitic bullying,” Ms Edwards-Smith told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“This came in the form of jokes and taunts from other students.

“They took the school, the state, two teachers and the former principal Richard Minack to the federal court and earlier this year a Federal Court justice Debra Mortimer ruled in their favour saying that the former principal and the Victorian state had breached the racial discrimination act when they failed to properly and adequately address the bullying that these five students endured.

“All five of them left the school prematurely, four of them saying that was a direct result of the bullying that they experienced.”


Wake Forest University professor who resigned after saying she would be 'tempted to shoot' dance parties like Hamas after vile terror attacks in Israel now moans that the school threw her to the wolves

A TASTE OF THE BBC’S SHIFA-WASHING

SKY NEWS OMITS HAMAS AFFILIATION OF SLAIN PALESTINIAN TEEN

NBC News Cuts Ties With Journalist Arrested by Israel for Glorifying Hamas Terrorism

Malmo Sweden sees antisemitism in schools, Nazi books in Arabic

With China's Help, Antisemites of the World Unite
The massacre, abduction, rape, and torture of Jews has not only prompted an eruption of anti-Semitism at American universities, but also in China. Tuvia Gering writes that hatred of Jews has “surged . . . like never before” in the country:

As if on cue, Chinese voices have been working en masse to dehumanize Jews and demonize Israel in the propaganda equivalent of the Three Gorges Dam collapsing, inundating the minds of China with toxic waste. Authoritative Chinese voices set the tone for what is now reverberating throughout the People’s Republic echo chamber.

On [October 10, a] viral post by the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) read, “Jews, who account for 3 percent of the U.S. population, manipulate and control 70 percent of the country’s wealth.” It went on to describe U.S. presidential candidates’ obeisance to Jewish capital in an effort to explain the Biden administration’s unwavering support for Israel.

Chinese public-opinion leaders heard the dog whistle and sprang into action. “Hamas went too soft on Israel,” opined the award-winning online influencer Su Lin soon after. “Isn’t Israel today a Jewish version of the Nazis?” she asked rhetorically.

Racist cartoons, Hitler memes, swastikas, and quotes from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are now ubiquitous in comments sections. The anti-Semitic outburst is best illustrated by Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, which Chinese users review-bombed, causing its score on the video-sharing website BiliBili to drop from over 9 points to a low of 4.1 points. One user commented, “The victims have long since become the perpetrators.”


Alleged neo-Nazi, 15, built a firework launcher to attack a Jewish family and scare them from his village, court hears

‘Be on the front lines,’ former Canadian envoy Irwin Cotler advises young Jews

Soldier seriously wounded in Gaza plays Umm Kulthum song with Arab doctor who treated him



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