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Thursday, December 07, 2023

12/07 Links Pt1: Israel: UN chief’s tenure ‘danger to world peace’; CAIR executive director ‘happy to see’ Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack; Terrorists fire rockets from humanitarian zone in Gaza

From Ian:

UN chief ‘endorsing Hamas terror’ by invoking Article 99 - Israel
Diplomats said the UAE aims to put the text to a vote on Friday when the council is due to be briefed by Guterres on Gaza. To be adopted, a resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the five permanent members - the United States, Russia, China, France, or Britain.

Deputy US Ambassador to the United Nations, Robert Wood, said the United States does not support any further action by the Security Council.

"However, we remain focused on the difficult and sensitive diplomacy geared to getting more hostages released, more aid flowing into Gaza, and better protection of civilians," Wood told Reuters.

Guterres in his letter to the UNSC warned, “I expect public order to completely break down soon [in Gaza] due to the desperate conditions, rendering even limited humanitarian assistance impossible” as a result of the war.

“We are facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system. The situation is fast deteriorating into a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole and for peace and security in the region. Such an outcome must be avoided at all costs,” he wrote.

In his letter, Guterres condemned Hamas’ October 7 infiltration of southern Israel, in which the terror group killed over 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages.

Some 110 of those hostages have been freed and Guterres in his letter called for the release of the remaining captives.

“Accounts of sexual violence during the attacks are appalling,” he added.

Guterres in his letter spoke of the at least 15,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza due to war-related violence, in a way that implied that all of them were civilians. Israel has said that some 5,000 of those are Hamas terrorists.

The Security Council has passed only one resolution since the start of the war, in which it has called for a pause in the fighting and it has yet to condemn Hamas.

Israel has argued that a sustained military campaign led to the release of 105 hostages last month, 81 Israelis and 24 foreign nationals. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week that its military campaign to oust Hamas from Gaza was the only step that would ensure a second hostage deal.

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan said that Guterres had fallen to a “new moral low” through the use of Article 99 against Israel, charged that it was yet one more proof of his “distorted bias” against Israel.

His call for a “ceasefire is a call to keep Hamas's reign of terror in Gaza” when he should have been insisting that Hamas lay down its arms and return to the captives to end the war, Erdan stated.

Instead, he is “continue playing into Hamas' hands” by calling for a measure that would only prolong the fighting by giving Hamas hope that if it holds out long enough the international community would force an end to the war.

The United States and its ally Israel oppose a ceasefire because they believe it would only benefit Hamas. Washington instead supports pauses to protect civilians and allow for the release of hostages taken by Hamas in a deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour said Arab ministers would discuss the draft Security Council resolution with US officials during a visit to Washington this week.

"On top of the agenda is this war has to stop," he told reporters as Arab UN ambassadors stood with him. "A ceasefire has to take place and it has to take place immediately.”
Israel: UN chief’s tenure ‘danger to world peace’
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Wednesday accused U.N. chief Antonio Guterres of supporting Hamas and called his tenure a global threat.

“Guterres’ tenure is a danger to world peace. His request to activate Article 99 and the call for a ceasefire in Gaza constitutes support of the Hamas terrorist organization and an endorsement of the murder of the elderly, the abduction of babies and the rape of women,” said Cohen.

“Anyone who supports world peace must support the liberation of Gaza from Hamas,” he added.

The comments came after Guterres, who has repeatedly called for an end to the war against Hamas, wrote a letter to the Security Council on Wednesday under Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, which allows the secretary-general to bring to the council’s attention issues that he perceives as a threat to international security.

It was the first time he had invoked the clause since assuming his position in 2017, and the first time any U.N. chief has done so since 1989.

Calling for a “humanitarian cease fire,” Guterres wrote that conditions in Gaza were “fast deteriorating into a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole.”

He added: “The international community has a responsibility to use all its influence to prevent further escalation and end this crisis.”

In late October, Guterres told the U.N. Security Council that “it is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,” adding that “the Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”

He went on to say that “they have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced; and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”
Arsen Ostrovsky: The Red Cross Has Become a Glorified Uber Driver
The fact that the Red Cross is dealing with a ruthless enemy that does not abide by any rules or norms of international law is not an excuse and does absolve them of their mandate to provide “humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict.” Nor is it enough to merely politely ‘call’ for their release.

The Red Cross still has nothing to show as Hamas have been cruelly holding the bodies of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, taken captive during a humanitarian ceasefire in the 2014 war with Israel.

It has nothing to show as Avner Mengistu, a 37-year-old Israeli civilian with mental health issues, has been held hostage by Hamas also since 2014, or Hisham al-Sayed, a Bedouin Israeli, who is seriously ill and has been held hostage in Gaza since 2015.

And the Red Cross had nothing to show the entire time IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, was held captive in Gaza for almost 6 years, until finally his release in 2011.

The reality is, when it comes to Israeli lives, the Red Cross has embarrasingly little to show, full stop.

Of the 240 hostages Hamas took captive, following the October 7th massacre, at least ten are believed to have been also American nationals.

The United States is by far the single largest state donor to the Red Cross, in 2022, contributing almost $700 million.

Perhaps Congress ought to be asking where that tax money is going, why the Red Cross been unable to see even a single hostage, or, for that matter, why they ignored the irrefutable evidence right under their noses that Hamas was using Shifa hospital in Gaza as their terrorist headquarters.

Almost eight weeks after the October atrocity, they are unable to even provide proof of life of the youngest of the hostages, 10-month-old Kfir Bibas.

The Red Cross prides itself on being unwaveringly neutral, but when it comes to Israeli lives, the Red Cross are unwaveringly absent.


The IDF is still the most moral army on earth
International audiences have every right to demand evidence the terrorists are actually using the hospitals. That’s fine. What’s not fine is refusing to assess that evidence fairly and rejecting even the most credible documentation. Nor is it fine for major international humanitarian agencies and UN bureaucracies to remain silent and cowardly, as they have, about terrorists committing war crimes by misusing these hospitals.

Israel is meeting international demands for evidence, providing more and more documentation that terrorists have infiltrated hospitals to hide fighters, weapons, and command centers. US intelligence services have independently reached the same verdict, concluding Hamas is using the hospitals for a variety of military purposes.

Israel has also taken extraordinary steps to prove to skeptical audiences that it is not fabricating the evidence. The IDF often takes Western reporters along, for example, as it uncovers tunnels and weapons caches in and around hospitals. When the IDF records these raids, it takes continuous shots to prove the video has not been edited.

That hasn’t stopped Hamas’ shouts of “Fake! Fake!” It hasn’t stopped similar yelps from its supporters in the West and the Muslim world. They routinely accuse the IDF of faking the material or vastly exaggerating its importance. The goal of these rejectionists is not rational discussion, debate, or evidence. It is the extermination of what they consider an alien presence in the Middle East: the Jews and the state they have built.

Although these rejectionists stress their humanitarian concerns, the deeper reason they hate Israel’s fight against the terrorists is because they hate a permanent Jewish state in the Middle East. The progressives who join these demonstrations say they are committed to “social justice.” They have somehow convinced themselves that loathing Israel is part of that mission. In doing so, they have mindlessly reversed the slogan “Might makes right.” Ethical conduct and political power are fundamentally different matters.

This focus on hospitals doesn’t mean they are the only civilian structures occupied by terrorists. They also use schools and mosques as hiding places, command centers, and weapons-storage facilities. Those sites are more than convenient buildings. Like hospitals, they become propaganda tools when Israel attacks terrorists within them. Bombing schools seems cruel punishment of innocent children, even though Israel tries to make sure only Hamas fighters are present.

The hospitals are part of a war terrorists are fighting on all fronts. If innocent Palestinians die in the fighting, Hamas uses them to win international support for their cause and smear Israel. We in the West cannot lose sight of this reality: the IDF’s terrorist opponents are willing to place their own people in harm’s way. So why is it so difficult to believe they’re also willing to lie?
Seth Mandel: Memo to Biden: The President Is Relevant
The pro-Palestinian protesters, meanwhile, don’t just follow Biden around. They have been disrupting public ceremonies across the country, sparring with police, and assaulting counter-protesters. “If the protests endure or escalate, they will draw more attention to problems that this White House — any White House — is ill-powered to fix,” presidential historian Russell Riley told the Post.

Which is all the more reason for Biden to ensure U.S. allies Israel and Ukraine win the wars they are fighting, rather than imperiling aid and angering immigration voters with unwise standoffs with Republicans.

And while Daley’s resort to force backfired, the president does need his local allies to step up. Where are the pro-Biden demonstrators that should also be following the president wherever he goes? Philadelphia and New York are Democratic-run cities; why, heading into a presidential election year, would they give hostile mobs the run of the place? Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, meanwhile, won his election with the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America, a key pro-Palestinian organizing force early in the current conflict. What kind of help can Biden expect up to and during the Windy City’s nominating convention?

Biden is doing himself no favors, and his party behaves as if Democrats don’t even control the White House. The last thing Biden needs heading into 2024 is to have voters asking: Is the president still relevant here? But he’s increasingly giving them reason to wonder.
Michael Oren: The Day After
This war doesn’t end with an iconic photo of desert fighters gathered around a makeshift flagpole in Eilat and hoisting a hand-painted Israeli pennant. This war doesn’t end with paratroopers gazing heavenward at the Kotel, or with their commander announcing, “The Temple Mount is in our hands.” This war doesn’t end in black and white but in lurid color as hollow-eyed reservists return home to their families, their careers, and their enduring nightmares. It ends with parents, siblings, wives, and lovers weeping, and with the shouts of bitter reckoning in the streets. And finally, hopefully, the Israel-Hamas war ends with something resembling peace.

That outcome is far from guaranteed. After more than a month in combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are far from realizing their objective of destroying Hamas. Much of Gaza has yet to be cleared of the terrorists, some 25,000 of whom are reportedly still alive and battle-ready. Beneath the Strip, an estimated 300 miles of tunnels — booby-trapped and mined — wait.

Meanwhile, multiple clocks are running. There is the clock of ammunition, certain stocks of which are already depleted, and the need to preserve sufficient reserves for a possible second front with Hezbollah. There is the humanitarian-disaster clock of the more than 1 million Palestinian refugees who, at Israel’s urging, fled to the southern part of Gaza, who are now exposed to the privations of winter and serving as shields for the terrorists hiding among them. There is the clock of a White House laboring under mounting pressure to mediate further cease-fires and hostage exchanges and that, in turn, pressures Israeli leaders to accept them. There is the financial clock of an Israeli economy: shorn of tourism and almost all foreign investment, it cannot keep hundreds of thousands of some of its most productive citizens indefinitely mobilized.

The IDF can beat those clocks by advancing swiftly yet surgically while reducing as much as possible the casualties on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides. Israel can ultimately achieve its goal. The process, however, is likely to stretch over many months, perhaps even a year. And while the world will press its demands, what, if anything, is Israel’s endgame?

The same question is being posed by many Israelis, few of whom want to reoccupy Gaza permanently. They, too, want to know how, apart from defeating Hamas, Israel defines victory. What, they ask, does the day after look like?

That day begins, first, with Gaza’s demilitarization. No more rockets, rocket factories, or underground arsenals. All the weaponry in the hands of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad must be confiscated and destroyed. The entire tunnel system, all 300 miles of it, must be sealed, cracked, and buried. Gaza must never again serve as a launching pad for any projectile of any caliber at the people of Israel.

Concurrently with demilitarization, Gaza must also be separated from Israel by a cordon sanitaire of between one and two kilometers in depth. Apart from IDF patrols, no one will be allowed to enter this no-man’s-land. No one, certainly, will be able to approach the border.
Gideon Sa’ar: ‘No practical value’ in push for PA to control Gaza
Just a few months ago, Gideon Sa’ar was a prominent right-wing critic of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset.

For years, Sa’ar was considered the front-runner to be Likud’s next leader. Yet, after he ran against Netanyahu in a party primary in 2019 – after Netanyahu failed to form a coalition twice in one year – the rupture between them widened. Sa’ar left with four other Likud lawmakers to form his own party that got into the Knesset in 2021, running a year later as part of Benny Gantz’s National Unity list.

But wartime politics make for strange bedfellows, and Sa’ar is in a position that was once familiar to him: a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet. Now, he says that the differences between him and the other members of the coalition do not eclipse the need for national unity, “an important element of our power during this war,” Sa’ar told Jewish Insider this week.

A former cabinet member from Likud’s right flank, Sa’ar, who was behind some of the right’s early judicial reform efforts, had years earlier resigned as party whip over the 2005 Gaza disengagement.

Now, as part of the emergency government formed after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Sa’ar has kept up his conservative positions, and repeatedly told Jewish Insider that Israel needs to see the world as it is, not as it or its allies like the U.S. want it to be.

“The most important thing is first of all to understand what stands before us, and not be fooled by delusions. That is the condition for acting in the way we need to act,” Sa’ar said, applying his reasoning to Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Authority, Iran – and even Russia.
CAIR executive director ‘happy to see’ Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack
The co-founder and executive director of a major American Muslim civil rights organization characterized Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel in which more than 1,200 were killed as Gazans “break[ing] the siege, the walls of the concentration camp.”

“Yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their land that they were not allowed to walk in,” Council on American-Islamic Relations Executive Director Nihad Awad said at a November conference hosted by American Muslims for Palestine. Audience members cheered Awad’s remarks.

Awad characterized the Oct. 7 attack as “self-defense,” which he said Palestinians have a right to — while Israelis do not.

“Yes, the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, had the right to defend themselves,” said Awad. “Yes, Israel as an occupying power does not have that right to self-defense.” Awad did not mention Hamas in his speech; he did not differentiate between “the people of Gaza” and the perpetrators of the Oct. 7 attack.

“Gaza became the liberation source, the inspiration for so many people,” said Awad. “The Gazans were victorious.”

“No power on earth will break them or defeat them,” Awad said. “The Israeli enterprise — aided, abetted, financed, armed and excused by the United States and the hypocritical Muslim powers — they could not even come very close to the sense of pride and confidence that the people of Gaza have.”

He employed an antisemitic trope to explain American support for Israel.

“They have paid millions of dollars for corrupt members of Congress not to condemn its atrocities against Gaza,” he said. “AIPAC and its affiliates have been controlling the United States government and the United States Congress … Unless we free Congress, we will not be able to free Palestine.”

Awad ended his speech with a call to action, urging the audience to contact their elected officials: “We have to free so many people from the shackles of AIPAC and its affiliates who have sold the soul of America,” said Awad.


Terrorists fire rockets from humanitarian zone in Gaza

Israel to open Kerem Shalom to inspect aid trucks

IDF continues to push into Khan Yunis, Jabalia

US asks Israel not to respond to Houthi attacks

Anti-tank missile kills Israeli on Lebanon border

The North remembers: The long-term Hezbollah challenge

Israel-Hamas war: IDF drone downs RPG-carrying terrorist in Gaza tunnel

IDF kills two senior terrorists in Hamas intelligence unit, destroys tunnels and weapons Hamas terrorists in Gaza surrender en masse - report

Gaza woman tells Al Jazeera reporter Hamas steals aid

American-Israeli Child Tells What It’s Like To Have Father Fighting Hamas, Seeing Other Kids Taken Hostage
Nine-year-old Emma Katzor was in disbelief when she first saw hostage posters with Israeli children on them, and rushed back home to her mother to ask if they were real.

“I asked my mom, is that even allowed?” Emma recounted to The Daily Wire. “Are they, like, really catching children? She said, yes, and I felt very, very scared.”

Emma’s mother, Elana Katzor, grew up in Massachusetts, but moved to Israel to raise her kids. Her husband has been away serving as a reservist in the Israeli Defense Forces since Hamas’ brutal October 7 attack, leaving her home alone with her three young children, while pregnant.

She said the war has thrown her philosophy on parenting for a whirlwind when she had to decide what information to share with her children.

“I don’t lie to my children — I am of the belief that information doesn’t scare children, but the lack of information scares children,” Katzor said. “I didn’t mention the kidnappings because they didn’t ask me. And then all of a sudden the posters started showing up.”

Emma said she can’t help but think of what it would be like if she herself was taken hostage, and whether children held by Hamas were being cared for.

“Do they have diapers, shampoo? Do they have clothes? Do they have supplies? Do they have a house?” she asked. “It’s just very scary.”

Being alone with her three young children has been difficult for Katzor. She believes Hamas rocket launch times — which occur often at seven, eight, and nine at night — are part of psychological warfare against children.


'Lady in red' seen around the world in iconic image from Nova festival terror attack reveals astonishing story of her survival, seeing her friends killed and how her daughter 'foresaw danger'... as she dons famous shawl again for the first time
She became known as the lady in red and was one of the most hauntingly iconic images from the October 7 massacre.

A young woman, running for her life, fear etched on her face as twisted Hamas gunmen targeted the Nova rave festival in the early hours slaughtering at least 340 and taking 40 people hostage.

The last time she was seen, she wore a red shawl over her shoulders, and was surrounded by dozens of other terrified festival goers frantically running across a desert for safety, before climbing into the back of a car.

For weeks the world has wondered if she made it, whether she was alive or dead.

Now MailOnline has found her and, for the first time, Vlada Patapov - a 25-year-old Ukrainian-born mother of one - tells her story.
Former hostage developed 'serious heart condition' due to Hamas's

Bibas family cousin pleads to meet with world leaders

Caroline Glick: Nobody is Decrying Jewish Genocide
University heads won't condemn the call for Jewish genocide unless it is "put into action", the US adopts Visa restrictions on Israelis who "undermine peace", and the Biden administration pushes Israel to surrender to Hezbollah.


Ben Shapiro: The Jew-Hating Universities
Congressional Republicans humiliate college presidents over anti-Semitism on campus; Congress battles over anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism; and Democrats in Congress – and Nikki Haley – get controversial on transgender issues.


Megyn Kelly: Brat White House Interns Call For "Immediate Ceasefire" in Gaza, with Stu Burguiere and Dave Marcus
Megyn Kelly is joined by Stu Burguiere, host of BlazeTV's "Stu Does America," and Dave Marcus, Daily Mail columnist, to discuss the whiny White House interns calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the lawsuit filed against the University of Pennsylvania from Jewish students who feel unprotected, the way young people are drifting toward anti-Semitism, and more.




The Israel Guys: Harvard President Says Threats of Genocide against Jews is Not Hate Speech
Presidents of four major universities in the US have zero good answers for the rampant antisemitism that has exploded on their campuses since October 7. Members of Congress grilled them for hours on anti-Israel student groups and foreign funding and the answers they received, were, to say the least, pathetic.

The IDF is making major gains in Gaza, moving into what Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi announced is the “third phase” of Israel’s ground operation.

Israel has systems in place to flood Hamas tunnels with seawater, and there’s speculation they have begun to do so.

And news came out that Hamas drugged freed hostages in order to make them appear calm and happy after all the other horrible things Hamas did to them.


The Libertarian PodCast: It Can Happen Here: The Ivy League and “Context Dependent” Antisemitism
Richard Epstein reacts to the appalling congressional testimony from presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn regarding antisemitism on their campuses.


‘Hamas to blame for humanitarian crisis in Gaza’: UK Israeli ambassador
Israeli Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely says Hamas needs to be blamed for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The Israeli Ambassador previously denied there was any humanitarian crisis in the strip.

“There is no doubt there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but Hamas needs to be blamed for that,” she told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.

“Just today we saw Hamas taking over humanitarian aid trucks, taking food from the people of Gaza…This is Hamas behaviour that is preventing the people of Israel to receive this humanitarian aid.

“We still see Hamas as the main barrier to give the people of Gaza the humanitarian aid that Israel allows.”

Ms Hotovely’s comments come as the United Nations Secretary-General unprecedently invoked Article 99, forcing the security council to address the Israel - Hamas war as he “expects” public order will soon break down in Gaza.

Article 99 is widely considered the most powerful diplomatic tool at the UN Secretary-General’s disposal.

It is the first time the Mr Guterres has used the article since he took office in 2017.


'Going into battle': Israeli Major Officer recounts fighting against 30 Hamas terrorists
Israeli Major Officer Nimrod Palmach has given a first-hand account of the October 7 attack, including coming across a group of 30 Hamas terrorists.

“I stopped aside to say goodbye to my kids – I realised I’m about to die,” he told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“I had 20 seconds to say goodbye to my kids, which is one of the hardest things I had to do and from that moment on, I put my phone in my pocket, and I decided I’m going into battle.”

Mr Palmach said he armed himself after taking the weapon from a dead soldier and engaged in a fight with the Hamas terrorists.

“I’m realising there is a Holocaust around me,” he said.


Zionist Federation President details horrific survivor stories after visiting kibbutzim in Israel
Zionist Federation President Jeremy Leibler detailed the horrific stories from survivors after visiting one of the kibbutzim in Israel following the October 7 attack from Hamas.

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

“First thing to realise is that these kibbutzim really consist of very secular, left-wing peace-loving Israelis,” he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“On the 7th of October when we met with survivors from that kibbutz who still had family being held hostage in Gaza, they explained to us on the 7th of October was Kite Day.

“It was a Jewish holiday, and every year they would fly kites with messages of peace and love which they would hope would fly into Gaza.”


‘Absolutely disgusting’: Holocaust survivor speaks on anti-Semitism in Australia
Holocaust Survivor Eddy Boas has described the rise in anti-Semitism in Australia as “shocking”.

He said he is “absolutely disgusted” with it.

Mr Boas was a child when Nazis invaded the Netherlands, where his family was rounded up and sent to Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.

Both he and his family unit survived and emigrated to Australia.

“There wasn’t a lot of anti-Semitism I came across over the years in Australia until all this happened,” he said.


‘Double standard’: Australian Jews feel ‘let down’ by institutions meant to protect them
Sky News host Peta Credlin has called out the “appalling double standard” from the Human Rights Commission and NSW Police amid fears of anti-Semitism within the Australian Jewish community.

According to The Australian, the NSW Police have dropped further investigations into the Sydney cleric Abu Ousayd who called on all the Muslims in the Middle East to spit on Israel, "so the Jews would drown".

"The NSW Police Force understands that it does not meet the threshold of any offence,” a spokesperson said.

Ms Credlin questioned why the comments did not breach section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act – which is a law against speech that "offends, insults, humiliates or intimidates" on the grounds of race.

“How is it that we have these well-funded and well-staffed organisations that are meant to police racism, but it it's only some forms of racism they're against and not all,” she said.

“It's an appalling double standard and it's no wonder that so many Australian Jews suddenly feel let down, particularly by their government and the institutions that are meant to protect them.”


Outrage as cops drop probes into alleged 'hate speech' calling for jihad against Jews by Islamic preachers

‘Anti-Semitic incitement’: Police drop investigation into Western Sydney sermons
State and federal police have dropped their investigations into a series of hate-filled anti-Semitic sermons in Western Sydney.

Sky News host Peta Credlin says, “the cleric calls for Jihad and a whole lot of stuff in relation to Jews and Israel”.

“Well they don’t meet the criminality threshold,” Ms Credlin said.

“I don’t know how this sort of anti-Semitic incitement does not meet the threshold.”

Ms Credlin is joined by The Australian’s NSW political reporter Alexi Demetriadi to discuss the investigations.


‘Bloodthirsty’: Hamas trying to ensure continued ‘chaos’ in Middle East
Sky News host Chris Kenny warns Hamas is not interested in a two-state solution as he condemns the “bloodthirsty” terrorist organisation.

Approximately 1,200 Israelis were killed and about 240 taken hostage during Hamas’ attack on October 7.

“This was a deliberate attempt to inspire Islamist extremism and Jew hatred everywhere and to ensure bloodshed and chaos continues in the Middle East,” Mr Kenny said.

The Israeli Defence Force announced it was beginning to target Hamas throughout the southern regions of Gaza.

“The loudest calls now should be for Hamas to release all hostages immediately,” Mr Kenny added.

“Until Hamas hands back every hostage and stops firing rockets and bullets at Israel, it cannot rationally portray Israel as the aggressor.”




Sky News host Andrew Bolt labels Australia Post suspension of deliveries to Israel a 'moral' reflection of federal government
Australia’s federal government-owned courier company has stopped making deliveries to Israel amidst the ongoing war in the Middle East, despite other international carriers running the service as per usual.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt revealed on Wednesday that while Australia Post had turned down shipping to the war-torn region citing “ongoing safety concerns” in October, major logistics provider Pack & Send had continued deliveries through the period of Israel’s armed conflict with Hamas.

Bolt said he was made aware of the issue by a teacher at a local school who went to an Australia Post office trying to send through several letters but was turned down by the mail provider.

He then checked with a Pack & Send outlet in Balmain if deliveries had been disrupted across companies, only to be advised “to send a letter to Tel Aviv, Israel, is acceptable”.

“Now, this is weird, because we checked. Pack & Send told us they could send things for us to Israel. DHL (its parent company) says no worries. Flights are still going in and out of Ben Gurion airport,” Bolt said.

“Australia Post says it can get mail to another war zone – to Ukraine. But not to Israel, Not to Israel.”

The Sky News host also argued the issue was not simply about logistics, but more about the Australian government’s “moral” approach to the war, as he equated cutting off shipping services to Israel to a “racist boycott” movement.

In addition to safety concerns, Australia Post said limited flight capacity into the country was also a reason for the temporary suspension of courier deliveries.


Brit hit in the eye with a hammer by Islamist fanatic was a grandfather, 65, visiting his daughter and grandchildren in Paris

Liverpool ejected Israeli fan for holding up banner of friend kidnapped by Hamas

'From the river to the sea' - Students chant but don't know which river or sea
In a recent survey of 250 college students across the US, some 86% supported the Palestinian chant “From the river to the sea,” — but only slightly more than half of them (47%) were able to name the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as the boundaries that the slogan is talking about.

Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates rivers, the Dead Sea—and even the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Less than a quarter of these students knew who Yasser Arafat was or what the Oslo Accords were.

After learning a handful of basic facts about the Middle East, two-thirds of the surveyed students went from supporting "from the river to the sea" to rejecting it.

When 80 of the students were shown on regional map that a new Palestinian state would stretch from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea—leaving no room for Israel—three-fourths if them changed their support to "probably not."

An art student from a liberal arts college in New England "probably" supported the slogan, believing that "Palestinians and Israelis should live together in one state." When informed of recent polls in which most Palestinians and Israelis rejected the one-state solution, this student lost his enthusiasm, one of 41% in that group who did.

Another group claimed the chant calls for a Palestinian state to replace Israel. Of these students, 60% reduced their support for the slogan when they learned it would entail the subjugation, expulsion, or annihilation of seven million Jewish and two million Arab Israelis. Only 14% of students reconsidered their stance when they read that many American Jews considered the chant to be racist and threatening.
At Philly's Goldie, Gov. Shapiro condemns Penn president's ‘shameful' remarks to Congress
After calling a pro-Palestinian protest outside of Goldie, a Jewish-owned restaurant in Center City Philadelphia, a “blatant act of antisemitism," Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro visited the eatery on Wednesday.

"Got some great falafel and tahini shakes here, which I'm looking forward to having on my way back to the Capitol," the first-term Democrat said. "I think this is a moment where the good people of Philadelphia should come together and not only support restaurants like this, but need to stand up against hate and antisemitism in all forms."

And, during the visit, the governor took a moment to bash remarks that University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill made before Congress during a Tuesday hearing about on-campus antisemitism.

"That was an unacceptable statement from the president of Penn," he said on Magill's inability to condemn calls for genocide against Jewish people when prompted by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY. "Frankly, I thought her comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn genocide."

Shapiro was in town following weekend protests outside Goldie, where those in attendance demanded a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War and chanted "Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.”


Jewish woman kicked out of cafe where staff back antisemitic graffiti
California coffee shop workers were filmed denying a Jewish customer access to the restroom after she complained it was filled with antisemitic graffiti — telling her “Free Palestine” and accusing her of wanting to use the facilities because “Israel loves taking private property and saying it’s their own.”

Three employees at Farley’s East in Oakland stood in front of the bathroom and told a distressed-sounding woman filming them that she had to leave.

“I want to go in the restroom,” the woman repeatedly implores the staffers, who tell her it’s private property even while confirming she was a customer who’d eaten there.

A male staffer then smiles as he tells her: “I know Israel loves taking private property and saying it’s their own, but we gotta have … ”

As the woman again says that she “was a patron here and I have a right to go into the restroom,” the man replies, “And we have a right to refuse service.”


‘Schools strikes for Gaza’ organiser glorified Hamas
One of the organisers of the “school strikes for Palestine” movement, which saw thousands of children bunking off school to join anti-Israel protests last month, posted messages on a WhatsApp group glorifying Hamas and justifying the killing of a British teenager, the JC can reveal.

As a result of our investigation, he has been reported to the police by the Department for Education.

The activist, who goes by the name of “Dean”, was exposed after this newspaper infiltrated a chat group set up to co-ordinate anti-Israel rallies attended by schoolchildren across the country, including the one due to take place this Thursday.

In one message shared in the group, Dean posted a message celebrating the detonation of a mine by Hamas terrorists “against eight Israeli foot soldiers”.

“Anyone who survived the mine blast was shot dead by Mujahideen [holy warrior] sniper,” it said.

The message, posted on Sunday, added that “perhaps the biggest achievement of the day” was an attack on an Israeli camp, where “many Israeli soldiers died”.

The post ended with emojis of a heart, a flexed bicep and the Palestinian flag.

On Monday, Dean posted a photo of Binyamin Needham, the 19-year-old from Edgware who was killed serving with the IDF on Sunday, saying he was a “British Zionist terrorist killed by Palestinian resistance forces… this Brit who opted to fight for a foreign, genocidal terrorist organisation survived less than 48 hours in the Gaza Strip.”

The Department for Education told the JC it was “extremely concerned” about the posts and confirmed on Wednesday that it had passed them on to the police and Home Office, asking them to investigate further.
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Md. hate crimes commissioner back on task force after suspension over antisemitism
Weeks after a Muslim activist was temporarily suspended from a Maryland hate crimes task force due to a series of antisemitic social media posts, Maryland’s attorney general reinstated her to the body on Wednesday.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown said the reappointment of Council on American-Islamic Relations Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry was due to a procedural matter: The 2023 legislation that created the body had allowed him to appoint commissioners to four-year terms, but it did not give him the power to remove them.

“Upon further review, it was determined that the law establishing the Commission directs the Attorney General to appoint members to a 4-year fixed term but does not provide the Attorney General the authority to remove a Commissioner before the expiration of their term nor the authority to suspend a Commissioner during their term of service,” Brown, a Democrat, said in a press release.

Chaudry came under fire from Jewish activists after Jewish Insider revealed that her Facebook posts after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel had expressed sympathy for Hamas, compared Israel to Nazi Germany and called Jewish Americans who supported Israel “genocide sympathizers.” Brown said in November that Chaudry’s “social media posts risk disrupting the work and mission of the Commission.”

Brown’s statement on Wednesday announcing the end of her suspension from the Commission on Hate Crime Prevention and Response did not mention whether he had discussed the Facebook posts with her, or whether he condemned them. A spokesperson for Brown declined to comment on the content of the posts.

Chaudry has not apologized for the posts. Speaking to a local TV station days after her temporary suspension was announced, she called the matter “a manufactured controversy that’s designed to distract from the very real atrocities and the horrific violence that’s being inflicted upon Palstinians in Gaza as we speak.” A petition from CAIR demanding Chaudry be reinstated garnered more than 5,500 signatures.
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Pro-Palestine activists who caused £157,000 damage to an arms factory with links to Israel during 27-hour rooftop protest are sentenced



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