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Friday, December 01, 2023

12/01 Links Pt1: Israelis will not feel safe until Hamas is eradicated; IDF resumes combat in Gaza after Hamas violates ceasefire; Israeli hostages recount beatings, death threats

From Ian:

JPost Editorial: Israelis will not feel safe until Hamas is eradicated
Three people were savagely murdered and five others were wounded in a shooting attack in Jerusalem on Thursday morning.

The terrorists, two residents of east Jerusalem, came carrying an M16 rifle and a handgun to the Givat Shaul junction at the entrance to the capital, where they opened fire at people gathered at a bus stop. They were shot and killed at the scene by security forces and a civilian.

Hours later, Hamas took credit for the attack.

The man murdered in the attack was 73-year-old Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, who served as a rabbinical judge in Ashdod.

One of the women murdered in the attack was 67-year-old Chana Ifergan, the principal of a Beis Yaakov school in Beit Shemesh.

Livia Dickman, 24, a resident of Har Nof, was named as the third fatality.

On October 7, there was a rush to move away from locations where terrorist attacks might occur as a continuation of the massacre. This, at the time, included Jerusalem, which was targeted by some rockets but remained relatively calm. Israelis feared that they, too, would be targeted, and their families victimized.

But it was the northern and southern borders that bore the brunt of the attack, and the Tel Aviv area that has seen the heaviest rocket barrages, while the Jerusalem area has remained comparatively calm.

Terror attack incites fear throughout the city
After yesterday’s attack, however, Jerusalem social media groups were aflame with people afraid to leave their homes, scared to catch a bus, and fearful of getting in their cars. At that moment, Jerusalemites knew what it feels like to live along the Gaza or Lebanon borders at this time and were reminded of previous waves of terrorism.

Gaza border communities and Lebanon border towns were ordered to evacuate the day after the war broke out, in concern over possible additional attacks.

Some residents have since been told that they may return home, but many are concerned and angry.

During the current pause in hostilities, relative peace has been maintained on the northern border. With the exception of a few minor attacks, the northern front has been relatively quiet.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, upon completing a situation assessment in the area last week, said that the successes of the IDF along the border will be “translated” into a situation that will allow the gradual return of northern residents.
Israeli who helped thwart J’lem terror attack dies of wounds
An Israeli civilian who fired on two Palestinian terrorists during a Thursday morning shooting attack died of his injuries.

Yuval Doron Castleman, a 37-year-old attorney was at a bus stop at the entrance to Jerusalem when two Palestinians arrived in a vehicle and began shooting at rush-hour commuters.

Castleman, who was armed with his personal weapon, and two off-duty soldiers engaged and killed the terrorists, but the attorney was wounded. The soldiers apparently mistook Castleman for a terrorist.

His death brings the death toll from the attack to four.

Also killed were 73-year-old Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, who was a judge in the rabbinical court in Ashdod; Hanna Ifergan, a 67-year-old principal of a girl’s school in Beit Shemesh; and 24-year-old Livia Dickman of Jerusalem. Five other victims are hospitalized.

The two terrorists, both in their 30s, were identified as Murad Nemer and his brother, Ibrahim, of eastern Jerusalem. The brothers were associated with Hamas, and had previously been imprisoned for terror activities. The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said that Murad was jailed from 2010 to 2020 for planning attacks under the direction of terror commanders in Gaza.

Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on Telegram.

Police officials said on Friday morning that the Nemers’ home had been mapped out for demolition. Police added that they are increasing patrols in the city with the renewal of fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Minister-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz, a member of the War Cabinet, said that the attack strengthened Israel’s resolve to continue waging war against Hamas in Gaza.

“This terror attack is further proof of our obligation to continue to fight with strength and determination against murderous terrorism, which threatens our citizens. In Jerusalem, Gaza, in Judea and Samaria, and everywhere,” said Gantz.
IDF resumes combat in Gaza after Hamas violates ceasefire
The Israel Defense Forces resumed combat operations in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning after Hamas broke a week-long ceasefire by firing rockets at the Jewish state.

The military said it was conducting a wave of airstrikes across the coastal enclave.

“Hamas violated the operational pause, and in addition, fired toward Israeli territory. The IDF has resumed combat against the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza,” the military said.

Terrorists fired a rocket from Gaza at about 6 a.m., which was intercepted by the Iron Dome air-defense system.

An hour later, several projectiles were again fired at the Jewish state, setting off sirens in Kibbutz Holit. The rockets landed in open areas, causing no injuries or damages.

Alarms continued to blare across southern Israel throughout the morning.

Five IDF soldiers were wounded by a mortar that struck near the southern community of Nirim, according to Israeli media. Three of the soldiers were in moderate condition, while the others were lightly hurt.

Another rocket launched from Gaza caused property damage in Kibbutz Mefalsim, local authorities said. There were no injuries reported.

Communities along the Gaza border have largely been evacuated due to the conflict.

The IDF on Friday published a map splitting Gaza into scores of small areas, which will be used to notify Palestinian civilians of active combat zones.

“The IDF is operating forcefully against terror organizations, while making great efforts to protect civilians,” the military said in a message to Gaza residents.

“The people of Gaza are not our enemies. For this reason, the IDF is leading controlled and specific evacuations in order to remove them as much as possible from areas of combat,” it added.


Hamas exercised 'the perfect deception' before Oct. 7 - defense official
Security sources estimate that Hamas leaders Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar were aware of the close surveillance by the Israeli intelligence community and used covert methods to communicate messages.

"No one understood this, not Aman (Military Intelligence), not the Shin Bet, nor the Mossad," admitted a security official. "Otherwise, they wouldn't have left the border unguarded, with no basic response from the ground or air."

Deif and Sinwar, under surveillance by Israeli intelligence, operated to convey messages covertly, security sources believe. According to assessments, Hamas conducted a meticulous preparation for an incursion on October 7, described by a senior security system official as "a perfect deception exercise."

An Israeli security official explained the tactics used by the Hamas military commanders for message transmission. "It's likely that the confidential details, instructions, and overall sentiment were reserved for face-to-face conversations or other means," he admitted. "In retrospect, the intelligence community didn't grasp this. Not the Intelligence Corps, not the Shin Bet, nor the Mossad. No one took it into account; otherwise, an alternative system would have been prepared in anticipation of a sudden escalation with the Gaza Strip. Otherwise, they wouldn't have left the border unguarded at the last stage of the holidays, with no basic response from the ground or air." Hamas decoded IDF methods

According to reports, in the 2018 "Tropical Fruit" operation, IDF teams installed tapping devices in Hamas strongholds. The terror organization uncovered the attributed force in Khan Yunis. Some infrastructures remained in the area and were bombed, but others survived and fell into Hamas' hands, and likely with Iranian assistance, they managed to decode IDF methods.

"The operation's failure blinded the IDF in many respects," said a security official. "It set us back in terms of initiative and understanding of the bigger picture." In hindsight, the failure appears to have been strategic. While the IDF thought they had a clear picture, they saw almost nothing but weak signals that they struggled to connect."
IDF responds to claims that Israel had prior knowledge of Hamas' attack plans
IDF spokesperson Doron Spielman has responded to The New York Times’ report, which claims that Israel had the blueprints for Hamas’ attack on October 7, a year before it took place.

A document code-named ‘Jericho Wall’ called for a barrage of rocket attacks followed by a disabling of border security cameras and finally an invasion by Hamas soldiers on paragliders and motorcycles, according to the report in The New York Times.

“This is still very early hours, and we do not yet have confirmation,” he told Sky News Australia.

“This is going to be an ongoing investigation that will take place when this war is over.

“I respect that there was a report in The New York Times, but we’re going to do a very thorough report when it can be used to improve ourselves for the future.”


Caroline Glick: Inside the Insane Intelligence Failure of Oct. 7
The Israeli government is going to have to make some changes in the IDF General Staff if we want to win this war. And the West is going to have to make some changes in the way that it does things if it wants to survive.


‘Just look at 9/11’: Israel suspected of having ‘warning signs’ from Hamas
ASPI senior analyst Malcolm Davis claims reports circulating that Israel had prior knowledge of the Hamas October 7 attacks are only intelligence mistakes made by the IDF.

“Mistakes are often made in terms of intelligence assessment,” Mr Davis told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“You just need to look at 9/11 where we should have seen the warning signs and we didn’t.

“This is a similar sort of situation where clearly intelligence indicators and warnings were picked up, were assessed, then put up the line to the senior leaders and they were dismissed for whatever reason.

“The assumption being I think on this occasion was that Hamas didn’t have the military capability to do such a massive attack – and that was wrong.”




Seth Mandel: Biden Loses His Nerve
In response to a question about civilian casualties, Blinken wouldn’t go into details but insisted Israel would still be able to ensure that Hamas “can’t represent the threat that it posed on October 7.” In response to a question about why the U.S. and Israel appear to have different timelines for the war, the secretary of state said the U.S. “will continue to support Israel’s efforts to do everything possible to ensure that Hamas cannot repeat the horrors of October 7. And that means, among other things, that Hamas cannot remain responsible for governance in Gaza and it cannot retain the capacity to repeat those attacks.” And in response to a question about the administration’s supposed plan to “revitalize” the Palestinian Authority, Blinken insisted that “what we need to see happen in Gaza [is] to make sure that there is governance that is different from what it has right now, which is Hamas.”

Message received! Blinken did allow for one moment of levity, however, when he made the laughable assertion that “How Israel does it, those are decisions for Israel to make.”

This was laughable because every word of the remarks that didn’t spew the preprogrammed ChatGPT lines about Hamas was dedicated to ruling out-of-bounds any Israeli tactic shy of hypnotizing Yahya Sinwar.

Blinked announced America’s intention to, after the pause in hostilities, “continue to surge humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” which usually requires some pause in hostilities. Israel must, he said, “clearly and precisely” designate safe zones for Gazan civilians to be displaced to during battle, while also avoiding “enduring internal displacement.” It’s a riddle.

The U.S. expects Israel to avoid “damage to life-critical infrastructure, like hospitals,” while acknowledging that Hamas “embeds itself … within and below hospitals.” The IDF will figure it out; it’s “sophisticated,” says the secretary of state.

The obvious question here is: Who is the intended audience for this speech? A Biden reversal won’t placate the angry left, because they want him to stop the war entirely and they blame him for the fact that it’s going on at all. Throwing our ally under the bus—on a day when, it should be said, a Hamas terror attack in Jerusalem caused the deaths of four Israelis and its rockets breached the ceasefire agreement—will open him up to criticism that he is betraying his own repeatedly stated principles. And that criticism will be true.

The administration had a rare opportunity to disincentivize terrorism and the sponsorship of terrorism by setting boundaries and sanctioning the destruction of those who crossed them. It could have gotten its important Saudi diplomacy back on track. And it could have empowered the Palestinian governing faction that didn’t slaughter and rape its way through southern Israel at the expense of the faction that did. All it had to do was stand by our longtime loyal ally. Which was apparently too much to ask.
Blinken questions Israel’s war plans, suggests clock running out

The Commentary Magazine Podcast: Israel Goes In, Blinken Goes Wobbly
Hosted by Abe Greenwald, Christine Rosen, John Podhoretz & Matthew Continetti

Today’s podcast is a hybrid. The first part, about the appalling rhetoric used by Antony Blinken about Israel and its conduct of the war that has now restarted, was recorded Friday morning, December 1. The second half, about the passing of Henry Kissinger and my trip to the massacre site in Israel, was recorded Thursday afternoon, November 30.


Seth Frantzman: How Israel’s shift to CENTCOM is paying off during Gaza conflict
During a media roundtable this morning, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official was asked about the Defense Department’s assistance for Israel. And while material concerns and reports of a potential ceasefire were touched on, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks also pointed to the importance of an inside baseball change to Israel’s relations to the US.

“We are seeing some of the benefits of having [US Central Command] CENTCOM looking both at defense of Israel issues and the overall picture in the region,” Hicks said at a Defense Writers Group breakfast in Washington. “So much of what we do in and around Middle East security is about working with our Arab partners and CENTCOM … bringing in the Israelis to that structure, I think has helped to broaden the picture.”

“In this crisis, at this time, I think that has been opportune: CENTCOM can help advise on the range of what is happening in the region,” she later added.

For those outside the defense community, the mention of Israel being in CENTCOM may not mean much. But analysts tell Breaking Defense that the relatively new status quo is an important move that has paid real geopolitical dividends for Israel in this moment of crisis.

For years, Israel fell under the operational purview of US European Command (EUCOM) while the rest of its neighbors fell under CENTCOM. It never made sense when looking at a map, but was reflective of geopolitical realities, with a number of key CENTCOM allies in ongoing rhetorical conflict with Israel’s existence. Having the CENTCOM commander able to talk to the Gulf nations without having to bring Israel in made everyone’s lives easier, even as backchannels between the sides existed.

But in the waning hours of the Trump administration, the decision was made to shift Israel over to CENTCOM as tensions between Israel and some of its neighbors began thawing and concerns rose about a potential violent conflict between Israel and Iran. By September 2021, the Biden administration followed through with implementation, even as resources for CENTCOM were pared back in favor of first the Indo-Pacific region and then the conflict in Ukraine.

Whether that shift was simply a good bit of housekeeping, or if it came with real-world implications, had been hard to see from the outside given the relative stability of the region. Now, the impact of the change can be clearly seen, experts both in the US and Israel say.
IDF orders evacuation of suspected Sinwar hideout as ceasefire ends
The IDF ordered civilians in Khan Yunis, the city where Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is believed to be hiding, to evacuate on Friday morning as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended, warning "the city of Khan Yunis is a dangerous combat zone," according to Palestinian reports.

On Friday morning, Hamas renewed rocket fire toward southern Israel and failed to provide an adequate list of hostages to release to extend the ceasefire deal, with Israel announcing that this stood in violation of the ceasefire agreement and that the war was resuming.

Over an hour before the ceasefire was set to end at 7 a.m., a rocket was fired from Gaza toward southern Israel, with a second round of rocket fire reported a few minutes before the end of the ceasefire. The rocket fire continued throughout the day, with over 45 rockets fired into Israel as of Thursday afternoon.

Three IDF soldiers were moderately wounded and two others were lightly wounded after a mortar fell near them near Nirim on Friday morning as the ceasefire ended. Rockets fell in a number of locations in southern Israel, hitting a vehicle in Meflasim and damaging a number of homes in a town in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council.

After the ceasefire ended, intense clashes were reported in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City in northern Gaza, with Palestinian media reporting Israeli airstrikes throughout Gaza as well. The clashes expanded to additional areas in northern and central Gaza and Israeli airstrikes continued throughout the Strip.


Return of hostages by Hamas has played out like a dark psychological thriller

Israeli hostages recount beatings, death threats

137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity as fighting renewed

As its leverage dwindles, Hamas wants to have its cake and eat it too
Strategically speaking, Hamas is hoping to add more and more days to the pause currently in effect, setting a new reality in stone, one which will convince the United States to get Israel to end the war. At the same time, they still have most of the hostages hidden in every underground crevice they could find, and hope to exchange those with as many Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners currently in Israeli prisons, planning on “revitalizing” their terrorist inclinations to even the odds against the seemingly unstoppable Israeli war machine.

Chances are that if pressured to do so by Qatar and Egypt, they will release men over 60 with the same “three-for-one” deal they’ve had in place so far, but when Israeli soldiers are all they have left to exchange, they are unlikely to extend the arrangement, instead insisting that for every IDF soldier released, thousands of their people would be set free.

In one of his last speeches prior to October 7, the Gaza-based Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar said, “remember the number one, one, one, one.” While he did not elaborate, it is believed he meant he wants 1,111 Hamas terrorists held in Israel released for every Israeli soldier, and those words came out of his mouth before he could even believe he would be able to abduct Israelis in the hundreds. This added leverage is likely to get him to aim for the release for all prisoners from Israeli facilities, not just some or even most.


Nir Oz says 3 residents abducted in Oct. 7 onslaught died in Hamas captivity

Latest Hamas Propaganda Video Shows Captors Telling Yarden Bibas His Family is Dead

Mia Schem's aunt: 'She was operated on in Gaza by a veterinarian'

Media ‘fooled’ by ‘staged narrative’ about Israeli hostages being treated well
Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton says some in the media have been “fooled” by the “staged narrative” that the Israeli hostages were being treated well.

“One British reporter – Dominic Waghorn – fell for the propaganda,” Mr Houghton said.

Mr Waghorn reported that the hostages released by Hamas from Gaza were held in “reasonable conditions” though those held above ground lived with the “fear of being killed in Israel’s bombardment”.

“His tweet has been condemned by Jewish leaders,” Mr Houghton said.

“Why is the media spinning the release of hostages?”




‘Incredibly emotional scenes’ of Israeli mother reunited with her two daughters
Sky News host Erin Molan says there were “incredibly emotional scenes” after an Israeli mother was reunited with her two daughters who were taken hostage by Hamas.

As part of a deal between Israel and Hamas, some hostages were released over a few days while fighting was paused, including Maayan Zin's two daughters.

A picture shared earlier this week depicted Maayan Zin embracing her young daughters, Dafna and Ela, who were released from Gaza after 50 days in captivity.

“Thank God they’re home, but can you imagine the road ahead for these two young girls,” Ms Molan said.

“Recovery – if achieved at all – will be long, complex and painful.”




ICC prosecutor to visit Israel at request of Oct. 7 Hamas attack victims

ARI HOFFMAN AFTER VIEWING THE OCT 7 MASSACRE FOOTAGE: 'We cannot share a planet with these creatures, these barbarians...'




UN commission to investigate Hamas sexual violence, appeal for evidence

Whatever your view of the Israel-Hamas war, rape is rape. To trivialise it is to diminish ourselves

Israel Blasts ‘Perverse Exploitation of Innocent Lives’ After Story About Babies Found Dead in Gaza Hospital Circulates

United Nations Officials Complicit in Hamas’s Atrocities, Lawmaker Says

Blue State Blues: Palestinian Intellectuals Continue to Justify Terror Against Civilians

Rashid Khalidi: Israel Had No Right to Respond Militarily to October 7 Terror Attack

Ben Shapiro: Musk Is Right: Kill DEI To Fight Anti-Semitism
The ADL tries to push Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs as a way to fight anti-Semitism, while Elon Musk pushes back; international humanitarian groups show how awful they are in the Israel-Hamas war; and Henry Kissinger is dead at 100.


'Son of Hamas' Tackles University Antisemitism, Exposes Hamas 'Holy War' to Wipe Out Jews
The son of a co-founder of Hamas is speaking out against the Palestinian terrorist group once again, this time to a pro-Israel, anti-disinformation group on the campus of the University of Michigan on Tuesday night.

As CBN News has reported, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, defected from the terrorist group in the late '90s and secretly worked with Israel's security services to expose and prevent several Hamas terrorist attacks. He later gave his life to Christ and wrote a 2010 autobiography titled Son of Hamas.


Douglas Murray blasts 'strictly policed' Australia permitting 'gas the Jews' chants
Author Douglas Murray has taken aim at Australian authorities for failing to stop antisemitic protests in Sydney and Melbourne despite being a "strictly policed" country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The Australian authorities, government, police and others have to wonder whether or not they are the good guys or the bad guys in this scenario," he told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi.

"How is it the case that in a country as incredibly strictly policed as Australia actually has been in recent years, not least during the COVID years?

"How is it that Australia is one of the countries that now has a reputation inside Israel and out as being a place that is effectively unsafe for Jews?

"Why are they allowing this to happen? How are they permitting this?

"So I hope the police come down on people like this like a tonne of bricks."


‘This moment was always coming’: Israel- Hamas conflict resumes
The Israeli Defence Force has resumed conflict with the Hamas terrorist group after a rocket was fired at Israel from Gaza, says Australia’s former ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma.

“This moment was always coming,” Mr Sharma told Sky News host Erin Molan.

“It looks like Hamas is not willing to give up any more hostages.

“Today, of course, Hamas began firing rockets into Israel which is how this conflict started on October 7.

“What was a temporary pause in hostilities is going to remain just that and this conflict is resuming as we speak.”


The Israel Guys: BREAKING: The ALARMING Spread of Hamas Popularity Amongst Palestinians in the WEST BANK
The West is bent on continuing a pre-Oct 7th narrative. They are unwilling to come to grips with the brutal middle eastern Arab way: The party that is more brutal, gets more votes! The so-called “moderate” Palestinian Authority terrorist group has now lost public support amongst Palestinians as Hamas takes the lead in popularity! The question is: How much support does Hamas really have?




Activist journalists’ ‘extremely wild claims’ in open letter on Israel-Gaza coverage slammed
Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton has slammed the “extremely wild claims” made in an open letter signed by “activist journalists” about the coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.

Last week, hundreds of journalists signed an open letter which called for Australian newsrooms to undertake eight steps to report on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza in a way they believe is “ethical”.

In the letter, it said to: “Provide historical context when referencing the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. The conflict did not start on October 7, and it is the media’s responsibility to ensure audiences are fully informed.”

“That is a disgusting line which seeks to force journalists to actively justify the terror attack,” Mr Houghton said.

“It is not resistance. It is war crime, and every journalist who signed this list thinks this war crime has historical context.”


Sky News host slams ‘deeply troubling’ open letter on coverage of Israel-Hamas war
Sky News host Rita Panahi says more than 250 Australian journalists have signed a “shameful” open letter which seeks to equate Israel to a “mass murdering terrorist group” called Hamas.

Last week, several journalists signed an open letter which called for Australian newsrooms to undertake eight steps to report on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza in a way they believe is “ethical”.

“It’s hard to describe the document bearing the signatures of several high-profile journalists as anything other than deeply troubling and anti-Semitic,” Ms Panahi said.

“The media is full of activists masquerading as impartial journalists, but this is another low for a profession that is often lacking moral clarity and at war with the truth and reason.”

She said the journalists who signed the open letter should reflect on why they demand behaviours from the only Jewish state not expected of any other democratic nation.


Actress Julianna Margulies: ‘Entire Black Community’ Brainwashed to Hate Jews

Julia Rosas: Pro-Palestine Mob Targets Rockefeller Center Christmas-Tree Ceremony
Despite the cold temperatures, Wednesday saw massive crowds around Rockefeller Center for New York City’s annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. A few blocks away, a large crowd gathered in an attempt to disrupt the holiday tradition in solidarity with Gaza.

Organizers of the rally declared that there could be no celebrations in the United States while a “genocide” was taking place in Gaza, although the temporary cease-fire to facilitate the exchange of Israeli and foreign hostages was still in effect Wednesday night. The ensuing protest was the most chaotic and violent demonstration I have covered since Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.

As has become common in these demonstrations, ostensibly devoted to ending violence, members of the pro-Palestinian crowd quickly became confrontational with New York City police officers. The officers were telling the protesters to stay out of the road, but the protesters kept pushing back. A Black man in a kaffiyeh started heckling a Black NYPD officer: “Listen to that white man. … Get your dumb a** in the back!” Eventually the officers retreated to the perimeter, much to the enjoyment of protesters who saw that they had successfully forced the police out of “their” area.

The confrontations escalated from there. When some in the crowd started to move barricades again, the NYPD officers resisted and the crowd started to fight the officers. The brawl became massive as more in the crowd tried to help their comrades from being taken into custody. Spectators at the tree-lighting ceremony were caught on the crowded sidewalks, unable to easily get away from the brawls. One mother told me she was taking her daughter to see the Christmas tree for the first time. I told her to leave the area because it was not safe for either of them.

Large-scale fights broke out at least twice more before officers used pepper spray on the crowd and most of the protesters marched away. As the crowd roamed the streets, individual members with cans of spray paint broke off and vandalized buildings with pro-Palestinian graffiti. Others placed anti-Israel stickers on stores like Starbucks that they believed had conducted business in Israel. The pro-violence chants by the crowd ranged from “Long live the intifada” to “Resistance is justified when people are colonized.” The crowd was large enough to take up a whole street as they walked by, constantly blocking traffic in any direction they marched.

Confrontations between the NYPD and protesters were sparked again when the mob tried to stop officers from taking someone into custody. Once that person was secured, the crowd chased away an assistant chief and his outnumbered officers. Close to the end of the march, one protester started taunting officers who were blocking a road, praising occasions on which police officers had been killed or injured.

“Which one of y’all want to get Derek Chauvin’d?” he asked. “I’d give you that Chris Dorner treatment real quick!”

While there is no shortage of far-left groups who have put together protests for Gaza in the aftermath of Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel, one of the main organizers in New York City behind the protests here, like the one that took place Wednesday night, is Within Our Lifetime. Expertly using social media, WOL is the go-to group to check in with to find the next protest, big or small.

Originally called NYC SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine), WOL was co-founded in 2015 by Nerdeen Kiswani, an activist with a long history of making it clear that she does not want Israel to exist and wants Palestine to be free “within our lifetime,” hence the name of the organization. On March 3, 2017, Kiswani posted on Instagram, “Israel must be annihilated.”

Banners stating “Resistance By Any Means Necessary” are common, as Kiswani talks about how refugees will return to Palestine as liberators. At one last-minute rally outside the CUNY School of Law on Nov. 15, held to protest the school canceling an event featuring Kiswani, one speaker proudly explained why he is tearing down flyers featuring Israelis who were taken as hostages during the Oct. 7 attacks.
LONDON HAS FALLEN: Tensions rise as Pro-Palestine protesters continue to cause chaos
Since the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, pro-Palestine protests have swept across the world.

London has been home to many of these protests, with the historic streets marred by chaotic scenes.

Protesters have shown a lack of respect for historic monuments throughout London, using them as canvases for their political statements.

The city is at a crossroads regarding how to deal with these protests, which continue to cause chaos.

Sky News Digital Originals explores how London is handling these latest protests, and if the city can regain order.




‘Carnival of Jew-hatred’: Anti-Semitism at pro-Palestine rallies across the West
Spiked Online Editor Tom Slater says pro-Palestine rallies across London have become a “weekly feature”.

Mr Slater said the last time a protest occurred, there was another “carnival of Jew-hatred”.

“But what’s been positive is that we did have this huge march against anti-Semitism last weekend,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin

“I think the silent majority are beginning to find their voice.

“In terms of condemning the Jew-hatred they’re seeing on their streets.”


Anti-Israel protesters flock to opening plenary of JNF conference in Denver



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