Tuesday, December 19, 2023

12/19 Links Pt2: How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism; Hamas Sees Peace as Weakness; Jerry Seinfeld meets with freed hostages, families of abductees

From Ian:

Natan Sharansky: Our False Partners
In the early decades of the 20th century, a number of social democrats who were committed to liberal values thought that Soviet communism shared their basic goals. Some believed this so fervently that, when they traveled in the USSR during the darkest moments of Stalin’s terror, they came back full of glowing reports. They were so desperate to believe in the communist utopia that they failed to see its millions of victims.

Today, the ideological blinders of many progressives make them as insensible to Hamas’ atrocities as those naive liberals were to Stalin’s.

It is time for liberal Jews to accept that neo-Marxist social movements only appear to be our allies. They speak of equality but perpetuate discrimination. They speak of freedom but seek to subjugate the “privileged.” They speak of justice but will use any means necessary to promote their warped ends.

Some people believe that as we fight against antisemitism, our goal should be to prove to progressives that Jews belong in the ranks of the oppressed, that not all of us are white and privileged. But why should we accept the premises of a corrupt and corrupting ideology that stands against the most basic liberal values?

We need not push ourselves into organizations whose ideology denies our equal rights and moral worth. And we must not abandon our Zionism or deny our identity in order to fight for a better future, because this so-called better future will then be rotten from the core.

Instead, we should carry on our own traditions with pride. Jews have a noble history of fighting against racism and injustice. In continuing to do so, without compromising who we are, we will find our true allies.

Now more than ever, Jews must both embrace our unique mission and reaffirm core liberal values. Without the former, we have lost our compass, our reason to carry on as a people. Without the latter, no one—not only Jews, but all individuals and minority groups—will be safe from the destructive effects of totalizing ideologies and the wishful thinkers who support them.
Jewish Voices for Hate
However, the rabbis and Jewish organizations who at best stood silent and at worst gave a platform for people calling for the destruction of Israel also bear partial responsibility for today’s explosion of vile antisemitism. The same holds true for Jewish institutions that refused to recognize anti-Zionism as antisemitism.

Numerous Jewish organizations partnered with groups such as Black Lives Matter, which from its earliest days perpetuated the falsehood that Israel is an apartheid state. Others, like J Street, consistently hosted anti-Zionist speakers who advocated for boycotting Israel; last week, the organization “demanded” that Israel change its conduct in the war against Hamas.

If all Jewish organizations, rabbis, and community leaders had taken a stronger stand against the delegitimization of Israel—by condemning groups like JVP, IfNotNow, Bend the Arc, and other organizations that claim to be “Jewish” yet ignore history and promote anti-Israel vitriol—then perhaps such lies and disinformation would not have spread among some in our community, let alone in our country.

Today, the chickens have come home to roost. Young people are aligning with Hamas, and even Jewish students are comparing Hamas’ murderous attacks to the Jewish freedom fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto. Holocaust survivors, whose tormentors I helped to track down, have tragically lived to see young people, including their own descendants, tweeting—from the safety of some coffee shop in Brooklyn—Hamas propaganda against Israel. These young people didn’t simply absorb these dangerous ideas from the ether. In addition to hearing it at their universities and in the general interest media, some heard it in their synagogues and in their Jewish community centers and from Jewish organizations—so eager to appear fashionable and progressive that they legitimized people calling for their own destruction.

To reverse the growing movement to destroy the one and only Jewish state, the rabbis and Jewish leaders who allowed BDS and anti-Israelism into the “Jewish tent” must take responsibility for this misjudgment, and change course—with conviction and principle. We could not afford to make this mistake last time. We certainly cannot afford to do it again.
How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism
Ever since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, pro-Palestinian protests have swept U.S. colleges, leading to charges of Jew-hatred and a disastrous congressional hearing where three college presidents failed to offer a clear moral condemnation of rising antisemitism.

But the ideology fueling these demonstrations isn’t limited to the college campus. It now begins in public high schools and even elementary schools as early as pre-K, according to more than 30 public school teachers, administrators, and parents across four states who spoke to The Free Press.

American youths aren’t just encountering the views on TikTok; they’re learning them from teachers and, in some cases, from the mandatory public school curriculum itself. Take California, where a 10th grade history course, approved by the Santa Ana Unified School District, includes readings that call Israel an “extremist illegal Jewish settler population” and accuses the country of “ethnic cleansing.” Or the Jefferson Union High School District near San Francisco, which teaches about the “Palestinian dispossession of lands/identity/culture through Zionist settler colonialism.”

The root of these lessons stems from California’s new “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum” (ESMC), which passed in 2021 and mandates lessons on the marginalization of black, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American peoples, emphasizing how they are oppressed by a white oppressor, says Brandy Shufutinsky, the director of education and community engagement for the Jewish Institute of Liberal Values.

“It’s a Trojan horse to institutionalize antisemitism in California schools,” Shufutinsky said.

Meanwhile, more than one million secondary school students in all 50 states are learning about history and the Middle East from the Brown University Choices Program, which openly accepts funding from Qatar, the wealthy Arab state now harboring leaders of Hamas. A strong pro-Palestinian bias shines through in Brown’s teaching materials. Israel, according to multiple lessons, is a “Zionist enterprise in Palestine,” an “apartheid state,” a “settler colony,” and “a military occupier.”

These ideas have profound consequences. A Harvard Harris poll from this month found that 67 percent of people aged 18 to 24 believe that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors,” compared to 44 percent of people aged 25 to 34; 24 percent of those aged 45 to 54; 15 percent of those 55 to 64; and 9 percent over 65 years who say the same.

In the New York City public school system, which educates more than one million students, the indoctrination began as far back as 2018, when it was codified in a new curriculum called the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework (CRSE), sources said. The CRSE seeks to mold students into citizens who “have a critical lens through which they challenge inequitable systems of access, power, and privilege.”

While New York City’s CRSE does not explicitly refer to Jews or antisemitism, its teachings have led to a belief that “Jews have to be categorized as white and oppressors,” said Shufutinsky.

According to the oppressor vs. oppressed narrative, “the only reason Jews as a minority could be overrepresented in positions of prestige is because they must have oppressed somebody,” Shufutinsky said. “And if you accept that people who’ve achieved success only got it through ill gain, then of course, it’s going to fuel Jew-hatred.”

That hatred was on full display in the hallways of Hillcrest High School in Queens on the morning of November 20.


WSJ: Hamas Sees Peace as Weakness
I was 12 and living in Gaza City on March 27, 2002, when a Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up in a hotel in Netanya, Israel, on Passover, killing 30 Israelis and injuring 140 others. I vividly remember the glee with which Hamas leaders, supporters, religious clerics and enthusiasts in Gaza celebrated this horrendous attack. The group's propaganda, which I experienced firsthand in Gaza, glorified its terrorism and demonized the word "peace," claiming it was equivalent to betrayal, weakness, surrender and the embrace of Jews.

I remember signing up for a summer camp in 2002, though I hadn't realized this camp was organized by Hamas propagandists who proselytized the virtues of armed resistance. I told my mom that I wouldn't be attending the rest of the camp. Even as a child I saw through its cheap propaganda. Through its indoctrination and Islamization of Gaza's youth, Hamas was breeding future generations of radicalized Palestinians.

Hamas has been a disaster to Palestinian aspirations for freedom and self-determination. It must be ruthlessly criticized and rejected. Weakening Hamas begins with normalizing criticisms of its ideology, its violent agenda and its subjugation of the Palestinian people.
The Hamas plots to kill European Jews
Although Hamas’s main target is Jewish people, it has also assassinated many of its political opponents. Back in 2007, after it won the most seats in Gaza’s only democratic election, it brutally purged its nationalist rivals, including Fatah, the largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

There should be little doubt that Hamas, like Islamism in general, is an anti-Semitic, totalitarian movement. It brooks no opposition to its rule, curtails women’s rights, criminalises homosexuality and persecutes Christians. And it deems those standing in its way to be fit for slaughter.

Yet, despite all this, too many in the West seem intent on presenting Israel and Hamas as morally equivalent. Some even seem to think that Israel, a democratic state at war with a terrorist group, is in fact the greater evil. This is a morally perverse perspective.

As the exposure of this terror plot in Europe surely shows, Hamas is a cruel, bloodthirsty movement. It is fuelled, above all, by a hatred of Jews. To take its side against Israel, is to take the side of barbarism.
Hamas did what Netanyahu couldn’t, Egyptian Christian tells ‘Post’
The Hamas terrorist organization did what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not: Unite Israel – according to human rights activist Majed El Shafie.

Sitting in the lounge at the David InterContinental Hotel, the Egyptian refugee who converted from Islam to Christianity and now lives in Canada told The Jerusalem Post on Monday morning that he would like to thank Hamas for “showing the world the ugly face of extremism” and “for displaying the rise of antisemitism in Western countries – no one was aware of how bad it was.

“And, I would like to thank them for uniting the Jewish people and activating them.”

He said that Hamas “was able to remind [the Jews] of their Jewish soul. So, that’s my message to the families that lost their children: You are not alone. The story here is not what happened on October 7; the story here is what has happened after October 7.”

El Shafie is in the country for the second time since the Hamas massacre. He is scheduled to hold meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he will present a report by his One Free World International (OWFI) human rights organization: “Anatomy of an Attack: The Truth Behind October 7th.” He will also meet with security officials, massacre survivors, and the families of hostages.

He told the Post that while he does not believe that division within Israeli society caused the October 7 attack – because Hamas had been working with multiple terrorist organizations and Iran to plan the attack for two years – but “since there was division, that’s when your enemy chose that it was the right time to attack you.
Black Israelis mobilized for their country, as soldiers, volunteers and social media warriors
Kalkidan Tegin wanted to get a few things straight in a recent TikTok video.

Yes, there are Black people who support Israel, the 20-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli says emphatically to the camera. Yes, Black Jews like her exist. No, she’s not a convert or an adoptee.

She then responds to critics who claim that Israel mistreats its Black citizens.

“When my grandparents lived all the way in Ethiopia, they were literally hunted and chased and hated just because they were Jews, just because of their religion,” she says. “I lived here in Israel my whole life and I never felt hated. I never felt hunted just because I’m Black.”

In a mock American accent, she adds, “It’s insane, right?”

Tegin, who has more than 25,000 TikTok followers, is part of a group of Black Israelis in their 20s and early 30s who have been vigorously defending Israel online — and in English — since its war with Hamas began on Oct. 7. They are an informal but increasingly visible part of Israel’s public diplomacy, known as hasbara, which seeks to defend Israel from criticism and burnish the country’s image overseas, and kicks into high gear during wartime. (TikTok, especially, has become a major online battleground, with a recent analysis showing that pro-Palestinian hashtags are massively outperforming pro-Israel hashtags on the platform.)

In social media posts and TV appearances, they have shared stories about how they and other Black Israelis have been affected by the war. They have called out African-American critics of Israel, including those aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement. They have also pushed back against race-based, anti-Israel narratives spread by pro-Palestinian activists, such as that Israelis are white, European colonizers of land belonging to indigenous Palestinians.
Jonathan Tobin: Going woke has endangered American Jews
The notion that America is an irremediably racist nation is itself a slander aimed at tearing down U.S. institutions that are themselves dedicated to advancing the cause of liberty and equality. In their place, the newly ascendant leftist establishment offers a woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). That new faith opposes diversity of opinion, demands equity or equal outcomes determined by race as opposed to equal opportunity, and includes only certain approved minorities—but not Jews.

Foolishly, for some in the Jewish community, including the Anti-Defamation League, the answer to this problem is to get the Jews included in DEI. More of this racial division is bad for America in general. But it also won’t work because the intersectional mindset is based on Marxist ideas that demonize Israel and the Jews. Advocates for this ideology have already conquered academia, and are now doing the same in the corporate world and even the government due to the Biden administration’s embrace of DEI.

This is why so many people who consider themselves “progressives” and claim to oppose hate are chanting for Israel’s destruction (“from the river to the sea”) and the genocide of the Jews (“globalize the intifada”). It also explains why feminists refuse to condemn the rapes of Israeli women and girls (and in some instances, men) by Palestinians, and others tear down posters of Israeli kidnapping victims. They consider any attention diverted from the plight of Palestinians to be pro-Israel “propaganda,” dismissing or denying the atrocities that took place on Oct. 7.

This is outrageous in and of itself, as well as deeply troubling for American Jews, including those who weren’t previously particularly concerned about defending the security of Israel. But what even many who have focused on particular elements of this problem—whether feminist hypocrisy or the willingness of university administrators to either justify or refuse to oppose actions that endanger Jewish students—are missing is that it points to an even bigger problem.

Exceptionalism in peril
American Jews have prospered specifically because this country was not like any other place on earth, including the democracies of Western Europe. That was based not just on a constitutional system that prohibited discrimination on the basis of religion but on a value system that prioritized the rights of the individual and equal opportunity. And it is those specific values that are considered obsolete by the true believers in DEI and the intersectional left. If they succeed—and their long march through U.S. institutions has already been largely successful—then American exceptionalism is finished.

It’s not just that a generation of Americans is being exposed to these toxic concepts in schools that have been taken over by adherents of these ideologies, and therefore naturally more inclined to think ill of Israel and the Jews. It’s that their influence over U.S. culture and discourse will make the country a less friendly place for Jewish life. An America that is no longer different from the rest of the world simply cannot continue to be the freest and best place for Jews in the history of the Diaspora.

If DEI is not rolled back in the universities, the secondary schools and everywhere it has been implanted—a daunting but not impossible task—then it isn’t going too far to say that Jewish life in the United States will never be the same. The Harvard/Harris poll results about young Americans believing in antisemitic tropes about Jewish oppressors are just a hint at what’s to come if the task of defeating the intersectional left isn’t prioritized. It is a reminder that the litmus test indicating whether someone is willing to stand up against antisemitism is now their attitude towards woke ideology.
Phyllis Chesler: There is no ‘humiliated Israeli masculinity’
My esteemed colleague, American feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan, was wrong about girls and women being more moral, more compassionate and more sociable than boys and men—and she’s wrong now about the IDF’s motives for entering Gaza.

Yael Hallak interviewed Gilligan in the pages of Haaretz on Dec. 15. Unbelievably, the interview was titled “What Happened on October 7 Humiliated Israeli Masculinity. The Response is Violence.”

What the IDF is doing in Gaza has nothing to do with “humiliated Israeli masculinity.” It has everything to do with Israel’s determination to rescue Israeli hostages and to finally destroy Hamas: The sadistic, Jew-hating death cult funded by Iran that flourishes in a labyrinth of underground tunnels only a quarter of a mile away from southern Israel and has vowed to cleanse the entire region of Jews.

Israel is not a shame-and-honor society, but Arab and Muslim society is. In this society, women are honor-killed for allegedly shaming family “honor.” Perhaps Gilligan is unfamiliar with the practices of Islamic gender apartheid.

Like the rest of us, Gilligan is not perfect, but to her credit, she reveals what the larger world misinterprets or simplifies in terms of her findings. Thus, little girls go along to get along, they “lose voice”; not because of the “patriarchy” or because boys are bullying them, but because they are afraid of offending other little “mean” girls by disagreeing with the party line. Girls are terrified of being cut off, ostracized by their female intimates. Therefore, they give up thinking independently. They do their dirty, non-compassionate, rather immoral gossiping behind others’ backs.

Gilligan asks of Oct. 7: “How is it possible to live alongside the people who planned and did this? I also ask: What brings people to a point where they act this way?”

Oct. 7 was not a form of heroic “resistance” to being “occupied” or trapped in an “open-air prison” or a Warsaw-like “ghetto,” as Masha Gessen outrageously suggested in the pages of The New Yorker. The only group that is “occupying” Gaza is Hamas. Israel left in 2005.

(My God! How many times must one point this out? And to no avail?)
Meet the Mainstream Media’s Go-To Human Rights Experts. Spoiler Alert: They Hate Israel.
The Washington Post recently tapped two human rights experts, Omar Shakir and Raji Sourani, to lambast Israel over viral photographs of Palestinian prisoners clad in their underwear. In that story, headlined, "Hungry, Thirsty, and Humiliated: Israel’s Mass Arrest Campaign Sows Fear in Northern Gaza," Shakir called for an international investigation of the Jewish state. Sourani condemned Israel for littering Gaza with "corpses all over the place."

Both men are also routinely cited in the New York Times, where Shakir in particular is a mainstay. The Times quoted Shakir in a Dec. 13 story headlined, "Under Rules of War, 'Proportionality' in Gaza Is Not About Evening the Score," in which the activist raised "‘serious questions’ about whether Israel has committed war crimes."

Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, and Sourani, who bills himself as a human rights lawyer in Gaza, are hardly even-handed human rights experts. Both blamed Hamas's terrorist rampage on Israeli conduct, and Shakir called for the dismantling of Israel’s so-called apartheid state even before Israel began its retaliatory attacks.

The elevation of Shakir and Sourani in the Times and Post reflects the mainstream media's effort to put the democratic state of Israel and the terrorist group Hamas on the same moral playing field.

In his first tweet after Oct. 7, Shakir blamed the violence on Israeli "apartheid," writing in a tweet on Oct. 9: "So long as there's impunity, Gaza remains an open-air prison and Israel's apartheid isn't dismantled, bloodshed and repression will continue."

Sourani responded to Hamas's slaughtering of Israeli civilians in a similar manner. In his first tweet after the attack, he accused Israel of launching "the boldest and most cruel unprecedented attack" in "the heart of Gaza." He went on to blast Israel for the bombing of a hospital carried out by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, parroting talking points used by Hamas: "The bombing of the Paptist [sic] hospital in the heart of Gaza the boldest and most cruel unprecedented attack which resulted almost 500 killings, is the first of its scale," he wrote. "Israel criminal."
The useful idiots trotted out to bash Israel
The New York Times’ 2000 review of Finkelstein’s book, The Holocaust Industry, described its premise as a “novel variation” of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the archetypal Jewish conspiracy theory that Jews are plotting to seize control of the world. In his book, Finkelstein describes Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel as the Holocaust industry’s “resident clown,” charging him with promoting “a meaningless version of the Nazi Holocaust.”

In a 2009 interview with the Tehran Times, Finkelstein called Israel an “insane state,” a “lunatic state,” and a “terrorist state.” Oh, also a “satanic state” from “the boils of hell,” which is “committing a holocaust in Gaza” (in 2009, Israel was long gone from Gaza). At an event in support of former antisemitic UK Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, Finkelstein described infamous — and finally, in Austria — jailed Holocaust denier David Irving (“fairy tales gas chambers”) as “a very good historian.”

Following Hamas’s pogrom on Oct. 7 — after the Toronto libray’s invitation had been issued, to be sure, but very much in character with much else due diligence would have provided — here is what Norman Finkelstein posted on his substack: “For the past 20 years the people of Gaza, half of whom are children, have been immured in a concentration camp. Today they breached the camp’s walls. If we honor John Brown’s armed resistance to slavery; if we honor the Jews who revolted in the Warsaw Ghetto — then moral consistency commands that we honor the heroic resistance in Gaza. I, for one, will never begrudge — on the contrary, it warms every fiber of my soul — the scenes of Gaza’s smiling children as their arrogant Jewish supremacist oppressors have, finally, been humbled. The stars above in heaven are looking kindly down. Glory, glory, hallelujah. The souls of Gaza go marching on!” It’s still there.

All reasonable people uphold freedom of intellectual inquiry. But while hateful speech should remain legal, elite venues are under no obligation to confer social respectability on its speakers. Specifically, no tax-funded cultural institution should give a moral pass to abhorrent speech simply because the speaker is himself a member of the hate-targeted group.

In 2019, speaking at Oberlin College, Finkelstein called Israelis “biped bloodhounds drinking the blood of one million (Palestinian) children.” That’s not criticism couched in a colourful metaphor. That’s a blood libel.

‘Nuff said? Next time, Toronto Public Library, do better.


Radicalized in universities, 'journalists' seek more bias against Israel
The Jews, of course, have been labelled as colonial oppressors by the progressive left, despite how ridiculous this claim is to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of history. The Jewish people built their kingdom in the Land of Israel 3,000 years ago, with Jerusalem as its capital. Since then, they have been met with constant persecution and oppression.

They were conquered by the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks and the ultimate colonial power of the ancient world, the Romans, who exiled most of the Jews from their homeland. After that, they were persecuted and killed almost everywhere they went, culminating in Hitler’s Holocaust, in which six-million Jews were slaughtered on an industrial scale.

The Arabs, in contrast, did not colonize the Land of Israel until the seventh century AD. Shortly thereafter, they built the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the site of the Jewish temple that the Romans destroyed, as a slap in the face to the Jews and an attempt to paper over their historic claim to the land.

When European Jews began seeking refuge in their historic homeland following the Holocaust, their Arab neighbours rejected the United Nations’ plan to divide the region into a Jewish and Arab state, and instead tried to exterminate the Jews.

None of this history apparently matters to a generation that has been taught that the victims of oppression who found refuge in their homeland are actually the oppressors. As a result, we have seen the re-normalization of one of the oldest forms of hatred. It is no longer taboo to blame Jews for society’s ills, to boycott their businesses or to shun their holidays.

The reason this happened is because there were no adults — in government, business and other institutions — who were willing to stand up to those looking to impose their woke worldview on the rest of society. This needs to change.

Reputable news organizations must not allow themselves to be bullied by those who seek less objectivity in journalism. And university administrators must finally take a stand against instructors and departments intent on radicalizing their students, instead of teaching them the skills they need to become productive members of society.
The Unconscientious Objectors
My fellow millennials and subsequent generations have become conscientious objectors on steroids, proselytizing pacifists—no one should fight!—who type “taking life is never justified” on Instagram from gentrified neighborhoods separated from war zones by large oceans. This stance, that no one should fight to defend themselves and protect a democratic way of life, turns a blind eye to all of human history.

Freedom always comes at a cost. It just hasn’t been our cost, not even intellectually—as is clear from all those recent Instagram videos, in which current college students can’t even answer who attacked us on 9/11. We are not required to serve. We are not even required to volunteer and clean up some national park. Only 40 percent of Democrats said that they would stay and fight a Ukraine-style Russian invasion on American soil.

Why did our parents pay enormous sums of money for us to learn that “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”? For the type of childhood education that leads directly to my former classmate’s philosophy of “I will never support violence in the name of self-defense”?

I was sent to this school because of its reputation in the arts. I’m grateful for the opportunities I had to learn and write music at a young age, which laid the foundation for my career now as a composer for film and television. But even back then, my parents and I had the sense that something was going sideways educationally in these spaces. “Acceptance” began to apply to antisemitic opinions. Schools invited speakers who supported BDS, claiming they were just trying to “present both sides.” (No boycotts of any other countries were ever discussed.) We now have a direct line drawn from our educators remaining silent while students demanded the removal of hummus from the campus store to the cries of “globalize the intifada” at our university’s gates.

On my school’s website, they write: “Our vision: To awaken courage and intellect and peacefully transform the world.” Awaken courage and intellect? How about teaching right from wrong? “Imagine there are no countries”? I will not. I will not imagine, or hope for, a world with less meaning, less purpose, less morality, less humanity.

Instead, I’d like for all of us—especially parents with school-age children—to imagine, and demand, a world where teachers are not afraid to correct misinformation. A world where we acknowledge that the freedoms we enjoy have come from the great sacrifices of others. A world where the brandishing of slogans like “community of belonging” and “we go further” do not cover up for the absence of clearly stated ethics. Where we do not let so-called educators justify rape, murder, and kidnapping babies. Where we allow the entirely sensible argument to be made that calling for a cease-fire may very well not lead to peace, but rather—as in the case of jihadi terrorists—even more violence and bloodshed. A world where these lessons need not be discovered from podcasts, but where the unspoken morals that frame our daily lives are taught, protected, and celebrated openly.

To my pacifist former classmates, to the 48 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds who don’t condemn Hamas, and to everyone else: we Jews are not asking you to fight. We’re just asking you to stop trying to inhibit those who are. Those who are trying, bravely, to protect your right to dance at Coachella without having to worry about paragliders with machine guns. Those trying to protect the right of women to dance at all. Those protecting Jews’ right to exist.
Facebook hosts adverts with anti-Semitic phrase ‘from the river to the sea’

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), an Accomplice of Hamas?
The public statements since October 7 of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) and its employees, on the ground in Gaza, show a systematic bias in favor of Hamas and hostility to Israel. MSF has failed in its humanitarian purpose and violated its own charter, which proclaims "assistance... irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions."

MSF has been present in the Gaza Strip since 1989. It now plays a leading role there, with at least 300 staff members, and works closely with local hospitals on a number of projects, either directly or indirectly with the Hamas "Ministry of Health".

MSF is often quoted by the international media and is seen by public opinion as an objective, neutral and independent observer of the conflict in the region. Because of the history of the organization, which in 1999 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the French and international media have blind faith in MSF when it comes to reporting what it states.

However, a new investigative report on the social media posts of MSF and its employees has seriously called this reputation into question. The tweets and the Facebook posts of MSF and around 100 of its employees in Gaza were scrutinized.

Despite being subject to the MSF Charter, a significant proportion of its staff seem to share the Hamas point of view and support the terrorist attacks of October 7. For example, from October 7:
- "Always remember that Gaza has done what all Arab armies have not done... !! It dug tunnels with its own hands. It built its weapons with its own hands...!! She sacrificed her sons, her women, her youth, her elderly, her homes and her mosques for the dignity of this land...!!" — MSF nurse (see Appendix 1).
- "oh my God, we love you" — MSF doctor (see Appendix 1).
Similar comments were made by doctors from Al-Shifa, who are not members of MSF but who work with MSF doctors on a daily basis (see Appendix 6).

Not once in its official statement has MSF mentioned the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. On the contrary, it sets out without proof -- based on testimonies of its local Palestinian employees -- to depict the events in order to accuse Israel of all the crimes, with phraseology designed to capture the imagination, but whose veracity is questionable. For example, the words "massacres", "annihilation", "sacrifice assumed and organised", "indiscriminate bombing campaign", as well as a serious accusation made -- without proof -- in the official MSF X (Twitter) account on November 13:
"There's also a sniper who attacked patients, they have gunshot wounds, we operated on three of them."
If I Must Die …
In contrast, poets of Gaza are voices of Israel-hatred by choice, and channels of antisemitism by default. I would love to see some evidence to suggest otherwise or at least to complicate this judgment. While the poets of Gaza may not have joined the Hamas battalions, they did not resist the rule of Hamas or condemn it, and in many cases they also sang from the song sheets of Hamas propaganda. While it’s probably too much to expect that poets living in a society ruled by such extreme totalitarianism would resist, I think it’s not too much to ask that the poets of Gaza acknowledge their predicament and blame not Israel but their own fanatical regime.

In order to unravel the internal conflicts and external tensions that fueled the poetic engines of Refaat Alareer, I examined his recent discursive public statements. More disturbing—and also more symptomatic—is Alareer’s assessment of the Hamas attack, in the aforementioned BBC interview, as “legitimate and moral.” On Oct. 29, responding to reports that on Oct. 7, an Israeli baby was found baked in an oven, Alareer tweeted the following horrendously cruel joke: “With or without baking powder?” I imagine Holocaust-deniers trading such jokes in their dark chatrooms.

On Nov. 29, Alareer tweeted: “When Israel ran out of lies, it regurgitated the rape and sexual violence lie. The first to get the Zionist marching orders is this UN racist Antonio Guterres. ALL the rape/sexual violence allegations are lies. Israel uses them as smokescreens to justify the Gaza genocide.” A few days later, he tweeted: “We could die this dawn. I wish I were a freedom fighter so I die fighting back those invading Israeli genocidal maniacs invading my neighborhood and city.”

It is quite impossible to separate what Alareer said in public statements, in his state of rage and distress and in anticipation of death, from what Alareer the poet put in verse. Impossible, not only because he speaks as a Hamas fighter who has not (yet) put on a uniform, but also because his two sides, discursive and poetic, are so synchronized.

I imagine it is no easier—at least for the younger crowd in the West now lionizing Alareer—to make these distinctions. A recent survey of college students by the political scientist Ron E. Hassner revealed deep ignorance about the basics of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The current wave of anti-Israel activism betrays a romantic notion of Hamas as an anti-colonial resistance force rooted in the traditions of the international socialist movement. Nothing could be further from truth, and yet this embellished, poeticized perception of the mission and methods of Hamas obscures much of what goes on in Gaza and what emerges from Gaza, including poetry.

Perhaps what Alareer’s death conjured up for me most powerfully was Roman Jakobson’s mournful essay, “On a Generation that Squandered Its Poets,” written in response to the suicide of Vladimir Mayakovsky, a peerless voice of the revolutionary avant-garde. On April 14, 1930, Mayakovsky committed suicide, no longer capable of bearing his own complicity and compromise with the Soviet—Stalinist—state. I thought of Jakobson’s essay not because Alareer, a conventional nationalist “poet under fire,” was anything like the cosmopolitan genius Mayakovsky. Rather, I remembered Jakobson’s essay because it articulated with ruthless precision how a poet’s death betokens not only his disappearance from a cultural generation but also what’s wrong with the generation itself: “Sheer grief at his absence has overshadowed the absent one. Now it is more painful but still easier, to write not about the one we have lost but rather about our own loss and those of us who have suffered it.”

Poets dwell in a state of acute intimacy with language. Yet some poets choose to live in a state of denial that this acute intimacy with language also makes them, whether they like it or not, instruments of violence and intolerance. I’m saddened by the death of a poet, any poet, but I also know that some poets choose to die as agents of intifada, not prophets of art’s healing powers. And I also know that the Hamas regime would rather see its poets murdered and martyrized than evacuated and saved. Such was the short, turbulent life of Refaat Alareer, teacher of Shakespeare’s sonnets, poet from Gaza whom his own society sacrificed on the altar of Israel-hate. May he rest in peace, when peace reigns again in Gaza.
Daniel Greenfield: Kamala’s Jihad
In December 2015, after a husband and wife pair of Islamic terrorists shot up a Christmas party in San Bernardino, Kamala Harris, then the Attorney General of California, convened a session on “Islamophobia” that included the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Muslim Student Association: all of which had defended Islamic terrorists.

With 130 dead in France and 13 murdered in her own state, Kamala gathered a group that included Islamic terror supporters to argue that even after “the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino”, it was wrong “to stoke fear and cast aspersions against an entire faith and the millions of law-abiding American Muslims”.

After the Islamic mass murders of over 1,000 Israelis, Kamala returned to pushing “Islamophobia”. In the speech that he delivered three days after the massacres, she urged Biden to include a line about “Islamophobia” because of the way that Muslims had supposedly ‘suffered’ from it after the Islamic terrorist attacks killed thousands on September 11.

Next month in November, she unveiled a push to fight “Islamophobia”, not antisemitism. It was Kamala who pressed Biden to be more open to Islamist groups and their complaints, driving him to profusely apologize for questioning the civilian casualty numbers coming out of Hamas.

And it was she who voiced the highest level criticisms of Israel’s war on Hamas.

In Dubai, Kamala claimed that, “too many innocent Palestinians have been killed. Frankly, the scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are devastating.”

This was the rhetoric that Biden would shortly adopt.
Pa. Gov. Shapiro_ Israel has ‘responsibility’ to ‘defeat Hamas’
Since taking office earlier this year, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has focused more on state policy than on foreign affairs.

But since an antisemitic incident at a kosher Israeli restaurant in Philadelphia earlier this month brought the Israel-Hamas war to his home turf, the Democrat has become increasingly outspoken about the war in Gaza. Last week, the popular swing-state governor offered his most detailed comments yet on the war that was sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel.

“Israel not only has a right to defend itself, I think Israel has a responsibility to combat Hamas head-on and to defeat Hamas,” Shapiro said at a Dec. 13 virtual event hosted by the Jewish Democratic Council of America. He began his remarks with a caveat: “I’m a state actor, not a federal actor. I don’t get a vote in the Congress in terms of what happens. I do have strong feelings.”

His strong support for Israel’s stated mission of eradicating Hamas came as Biden administration officials have begun to make a concerted effort to pressure Israel to transition away from that goal, to a more constrained mission of going after Hamas’ senior leaders.

“Hamas is a designated terrorist organization. It’s designated by the United States of America. We would not tolerate a similarly destructive force living on our border in the United States,” Shapiro said. “Think about it. If they were in Canada or Mexico, we would certainly never tolerate that. And so I think Israel not only has a right, they have a responsibility to rid the region of Hamas and the terror that Hamas can perpetrate.”

While pledging his support for Israel’s war effort and the Israeli people, Shapiro commended President Joe Biden for his handling of the war and his continued advocacy for a two-state solution — and for the pressure Biden has put on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has in recent days expressed sharp opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state.
Bowser starts singing after being shouted down by anti-Israel protesters
Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., began singing Monday after she was met with jeers and shouts from anti-Israel protesters at a local holiday celebration.

Bowser was addressing the crowd at the John A. Wilson Building Holiday Celebration when protesters started shouting her down and demanding a ceasefire.

"Thank you, everybody. Thank you," the mayor told the protesters. "These are our D.C. values. We respect one another. We love one another, and we stand side by side with each other."

Bowser's attempt at a kind-hearted sentiment did not appear to be welcomed by the crowd.

"Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now!" they chanted back.

"We would like our guests to respect the D.C. residents who are here," Bowser said before inviting several religious leaders to join her. "We are in a world, certainly, with difficult times."

Nothing Bowser said could appear to stop the angry chants, so she switched tactics and began singing "This Little Light Of Mine."

After she began singing, the song began to drown out the chants.


Singapore’s first ambassador to Israel presents credentials

Explosives charges laid against Ottawa minor accused of terrorism
An Ottawa youth charged with terrorism-related offences for allegedly targeting Jewish people last week faces three more charges, including two for being in possession or control of explosives.

The RCMP said in a news release Monday its Federal Policing Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) executed a search warrant on the youth's residence, which uncovered materials used in creating explosive substances.

Previously, RCMP said the youth had been charged with "facilitation of a terrorist activity by communicating instructional material related to an explosive substance and having instructed someone, directly or indirectly, to carry out a terrorist activity against "Jewish persons."

Three additional charges were added Monday when the youth appeared in court: a second count of facilitating a terrorist activity and two charges relating to either making or possessing an explosive substance, specifically acetone, a highly flammable liquid.

The Mounties said the accused was arrested on Friday and their age prevents any further release of information.

The youth is next expected in court on Wednesday.
Nearly half of British Jews considered leaving UK due to antisemitism - POLL
Nearly half of British Jews have considered leaving the UK since October 7 due to antisemitism, according to polling data collected by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. Four out of five Jews surveyed identified as Zionists.

The polling was conducted from November 12-17 among 3,744 respondents.

Based on the CAA survey data, 69% of UK Jews agree (40% of them strongly) that they were less likely than they were before the October 7 massacre to show visible signs of their Jewishness, such as wearing a Star of David or kippah. Another 15% disagreed, and the rest did not say.

Also, since the Hamas massacre in southern Israel, almost half (48%) of respondents, including 17% who strongly agreed, affirmed that they had considered leaving the UK due to antisemitism. Just over a third (34%) disagreed.

Next, polling subjects were asked if they, or someone they knew, had experienced or witnessed an antisemitic incident since October 7.

The majority, 61%, responded in the affirmative.

Regarding with the statement, “Antisemitic hate crime is treated by the police in the same way as other forms of hate crime,” two-thirds disagreed, almost a third strongly; 16% agreed; and 18% neither agreed nor disagreed.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANTISEMITISM CALL FOR SUSPENSION OF CALDERDALE LABOUR COUNCILLORS
Campaign Against Antisemitism has called for Starmer to investigate and suspend Calderdale Labour Councillors “without delay” following their attendance at an event on December 14th organised by the controversial “Halifax Friends for Palestine” group. The main speaker at the event, Musheir El-Farra, who previously called a senior Hamas Leader “a friend“, delivered an impassioned speech accusing Israel of distorting the truth of the Hamas attacks on October 7, going so far as to claim that they were “spicing up” the narrative with “lies” such as allegations of “rape.” A speech delivered to an audience of Labour councillors…

A spokesperson from Campaign Against Antisemitism told Guido:
“It beggars belief that Labour councillors are attending events where speakers openly deny the October 7 Hamas terrorist atrocities. Dangerous conspiratorial thinking that Israel exaggerated the attacks and grotesquely casting doubt on the rapes that took place against Israeli women only fosters further animosity towards Jews at a time of rising antisemitism.

“Given that the Labour Party was found by the Equality and Human Rights Commission to have engaged in unlawful discrimination and harassment of Jews, this news comes as utterly dismaying. Sir Keir Starmer will want to investigate this immediately and see that these councillors are suspended without delay.”

On the panel was Councillor Jenny Lynn, the Labour Cabinet Member for Public Services and Communities standing next to El-Farra. Councillor Lynn has faced previous accusations of antisemitism for organising a pro-Palestine rally in August 2021, featuring a placard bearing swastikas and demonstrators chanting a Hamas rallying cry. And Starmer claims Labour has a “zero-tolerance” approach to antisemitism…




Israel Razes Home of PA Arab Terrorist Who Murdered Jewish Father and Son

‘You wouldn’t sit and wait’: Family mourns Yotam Haim, hostage mistakenly slain by IDF
Yotam Haim, 28, one of three Israeli hostages who were accidentally killed by the IDF in Gaza on Friday, was laid to rest Monday in Kibbutz Gvulot in the south.

Haim, a drummer for the heavy metal band Persephore, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7. After 70 days of captivity, he was shot dead alongside Alon Shamriz, 26, and Samar Fouad Talalka, 24, in northern Gaza’s Shejaiya neighborhood, after the three were mistakenly identified as a threat by IDF troops.

At a funeral imbued with musical tributes, Haim’s loved ones recalled his lifelong struggles with mental health, the joy that drumming had brought him and the painful final weeks of his life.

His mother, Iris, spoke about the mental health issues and depression that had plagued him since childhood.

“Sometimes I felt like you came from an alternate universe, and life here on Earth was not taken for granted,” she said. “We had so many conversations about your coping, your bravery, about your choice to get up every day and to keep living alongside the suffering that was so hard on you.”

“You wanted to be famous, to be a drummer that everybody knew,” she recalled. “You spoke about a better world, you wanted a world that would be better, without evil and revenge.”
Neta Barzilai performs a song in memory of Yotam Haim at the funeral now

AP, Reuters & AFP Recycle Tedious ‘Israel Ruined Christmas’ Narrative
For example, AP notes that Israel has restricted access to Bethlehem and other Palestinian towns following the Hamas attacks on October 7, which it says has resulted in long lines of motorists waiting at checkpoints.

The agency goes on to observe how Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations have “long been a barometer of Israeli-Palestinian relations,” and references how “celebrations were grim in 2000 at the start of the second intifada… when Israeli forces locked down parts of the West Bank in response to Palestinians carrying out scores of suicide bombings and other attacks that killed Israeli civilians.”

Without being stated directly, the insinuation is clear: Israel is to blame for responding to Palestinian terrorism — and not the Palestinian terrorists whose murderous actions necessitated a response in the first place.

As Israel battles Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip who launched the horrifying terror attack on October 7, the emphasis by the world’s leading news agencies is on how Israel’s prolonging the war has disrupted festive celebrations — and not the fact that Hamas is ultimately responsible having launched the unprovoked attack on innocent civilians in the first place and that it continues to indiscriminately fire rockets at Israeli towns and cities.

It is lazy and, sadly, predictable journalism: the recycling of the same angle as previous years with the distortion of facts to fit that skewed narrative.

A “humbug” — as popularized by the Charles Dickens classic ‘A Christmas Carol’ — refers to someone who is deceptive or likely to mislead.

Bah humbug indeed!


The NY Times Does Its Best to Downplay What Happened at Cooper Union (But Readers Aren't Buying It)
In any case, the Times doesn’t dispute that the Jewish students were frightened by what happened, but it does try to minimize what the pro-Palestinian group was chanting.

The student who shot the six-second video, Taylor Roslyn Lent, was interviewed on Fox News. She said that while she wasn’t typically threatened by pro-Palestinian protests, she had felt threatened “when there were chants calling for the murder of Jews being chanted at me from my fellow students.”

(During the protest outside the school, students chanted various slogans, including the disputed phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” but they denied they were calling for violence.)

The Times is also framing this as part of a PR war led by “right leaning” organizations but fails to mention that both the Mayor of NYC and Governor of New York expressed concern about the situation. So this wasn’t just circulating in right-wing spaces.

In any case, commenters don’t seem to be going along with the idea that all of this was overblown. Here’s the top comment.
This article manages to whitewash, at length, an episode where a large group of students broke off from an outdoor rally, went into a building they were told was not for protesting, roamed the halls and decided to scream slogans outside of a library.

Coordinated yelling outside of a library is an intimidation tactic. A library is an acknowledged quiet zone for reading and studying.

The screamers can claim all they want about what their intended message was. But the way they delivered their message was violent and disruptive, and was perceived that way by the students inside the library.

The psychology of microaggressions has been widely studied and disseminated on campus. Even a quiet question can be perceived as aggressive. By definition, a large group of people yelling can even more readily be perceived as aggressive.

Yet this article paints them as harmless. A whitewash.

A commenter from California asks people to imagine if something similar had happened during the summer of 2020 and it was black students stuck inside the library with white nationalists pounding on the windows. No media outlet would have been downplaying that.
I just don’t understand the double standard on the hypocrisy of those on the left who are now protecting free speech when they know full well that if three years ago during the George Floyd protests It had been an angry mob of white nationalist banging on the door of the library, and there were black students inside that the actions would’ve been universally condemned, and any article, trying to minimize it or put it in “context” would have been shouted down and canceled. Does no one else see the hypocrisy?
Christopher F. Rufo: Claudine Gay’s DEI Empire

Students rejecting early Harvard acceptance as antisemitism stigma plagues Ivy League institution

MIT President Also Had an Antisemitism Problem at Duke

Berkeley Disinvites Oakland City Council Member Who Criticized Hamas

Med students’ antisemitic comments after Oct. 7 roil two prominent DC universities

Doppelganger Real AP News Report on Blacks Americans, Palestinians Mimics Fake News
A global influence campaign linked to Russia uses spoofed versions of legitimate news websites to misinform the public about the war between Hamas and Israel. According to a report in Haaretz, this “Doppelgänger campaign” spreads disinformation using “replicas of websites of respected legacy media outlets across the world,” including the French newspapers Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Le Parisien; Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt and Bild in German; the Israeli sites Mako and Liberal in Hebrew; and the English-language Jewish Journal, a prominent Jewish American outlet.

The Dec. 17 Associated Press article, “Black American solidarity with Palestinians is rising and testing longstanding ties to Jewish allies,” left this CAMERA researcher wondering whether the storied AP had also fallen victim to the Doppelgänger campaign.

But a careful examination of the link, along with the fact that the article appears on the Lexis-Nexis news database, confirms that the piece’s provenance is authentically AP. The piece’s reporting, on the other hand, is as detached as could be from AP’s vaunted journalistic standards. Inverting the Doppelgänger campaign, this real AP story masquerades as fake news.

Indeed, a second CAMERA researcher reacted after reading the piece: “Is this an Op-Ed? Does AP publish Op-Eds? Because it reads like one. A really terrible one.”

Intent on shoehorning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, into the struggle of Black Americans against racism, it’s no wonder that AP video journalist Noreen Nasir and race and ethnicity editor Aaron Morrison ignore the shocking video of the final terrifying moments of the life of Joshua Mollel. Mollel was a Black, Tanzanian agricultural intern who came to Israel in September to study farming. Hamas terrorists brutally murdered him, gleefully capturing the barbaric attack on video, and kidnapped his mutilated body to the Gaza Strip. (Warning: the difficult, very graphic video of Mollel’s murder is available here.) Mollel was not Hamas’ only Tanzanian victim. Clemence Felix Mtenga, also a cohort in the agricultural internship, was also murdered by Hamas.

The video showing a Black man brutally slaughtered for the crime of studying in Israel fails to conform to the baseless narrative promoted by those who “see the Palestinian struggle in the West Bank and Gaza reflected in their own fight for racial equality and civil rights,” a narrative which the AP writers platform without challenge. Freely editorializing as if they are Op-Ed as opposed to news writers, Nasir and Morrison continue: “The recent rise of protest movements against police brutality in the U.S., where structural racism plagues nearly every facet of life, has connected Black and Palestinian activists under a common cause.”

But what common cause does Palestinian brutality, which did not spare the life of even non-Israeli Africans, have with American Blacks’ fight for racial equality and civil rights?


Meta Oversight Board declares Israel-Hamas videos should not have been taken down
Meta's content moderation "Supreme Court" said that the company's decision to remove two videos featuring violent footage in the Israel-Hamas war was in error.

The Meta Oversight Board ruled on Tuesday that the company's decision to remove two videos featuring hostages and injured people in Gaza was wrong. The footage was valuable because it helped illustrate the human suffering in the conflict, the board ruled.

The decision stands in contrast with increased interest in moderating misinformation arising from Hamas's conflict with Israel, including pressure from the European Union to crack down. The decision was the first time that the board had examined a case at an expedited rate.

One of the removed videos featured "an Israeli woman begging her kidnappers not to kill her as she is taken hostage during the terrorist raids on Israel on October 7," the board stated, while the second dealt with "the aftermath of a strike on or near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City during Israel's ground offensive in the north of the Gaza Strip" and featured injured and killed Palestinians.
LA Times Reaches Moral Bankruptcy in Editorial on Israel-Hamas War

Washington Post Columnist Lambastes US for Supporting Israel’s War Against Hamas

Palestinians say IDF treated them ‘like cattle’ during mass arrests in northern Gaza
Palestinians who were among the hundreds arrested by the IDF in northern Gaza in scenes that went viral earlier this month said they grossly mistreated by the soldiers.

Palestinians detained in the shattered town of Beit Lahiya, the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya and neighborhoods of Gaza City said they were bound, blindfolded and bundled into the backs of trucks. Some said they were taken to the camp at an undisclosed location, nearly naked and with little water.

“We were treated like cattle, they even wrote numbers on our hands,” said Ibrahim Lubbad, a 30-year-old computer engineer arrested in Beit Lahiya on December 7 with a dozen other family members and held overnight. “We could feel their hatred.”

“My only crime is not having enough money to flee to the south,” said Abu Adnan al-Kahlout, an unemployed 45-year-old with diabetes and high blood pressure in Beit Lahiya. He was detained on December 8 and released after several hours when soldiers saw he was too faint and nauseated to be interrogated.

“Do you think Hamas are the ones waiting in their homes for the Israelis to come find them now?” he asked. “We stayed because we have nothing to do with Hamas.”
PreOccupiedTerritory: Israel Has Held Me As A POW For A Week But Provided No Women To Rape. This Is A WAR CRIME. by Jafar Masri, Hamas fighter, UNRWA employee (satire)
Temporary prison camp somewhere in the Negev, December 19 – My comrades and I in the Shuja’iyya Battalion surrendered on the twelfth of this month to IDF forces that had surrounded our position, surmising that we would fare better in IDF captivity than dying for no further purpose in a tunnel under a United Nations school. But since then, our sadistic captors have refused us our most basic rights as prisoners, such as frequent opportunity to violate Jewish women. The International Criminal Court in The Hague will hear of this!

During that first week of December, our unit lost contact with central command in Khan Yunis; we were running low on supplies; our tactics to hold off the Israeli military onslaught had produced meager results compared to the cost we paid in men and materiel. Some time as prisoners seemed a reasonable prospect, a livable alternative to the near-certain death we faced from being shot, blown up, buried alive, crushed, asphyxiated, or otherwise left to perish in our hideouts or positions, or just plain dealing with the constant dread of pain and sudden death.

But now, seven full days into the ordeal of steady, nourishing meals; serviceable plumbing; the wherewithal for hygiene; adequate clothing and heating for the late autumn weather; and a distinct lack of torture, the cruelty has become clear – not a single one of our hundred-fifty-strong unit that surrendered last week has been given so much as the promise of a woman to rape. This. Is. A. War. Crime.

October 7 was about asserting our rights as Palestinians, to long denied by the usurper Jews and their minions. The proper place for Jews in any society is begging for mercy as we gang rape them! Denying us, as Muslims – the right kind of Muslims, let’s not forget; those others are kuffar and deserve only subjugation and eternal torment – the opportunity to to continue asserting the proper dominant place in the world, especially where it involves violating Jewish women, is a crime against humanity, a war crime, and probably also some other moral offense. Where is the international community?


MEMRI: In Interview With Pro-Afghan Taliban Media, Secretary-General Of Qatar-Funded International Union Of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) Dr. Ali Al-Qaradaghi, Alleges Zionist Propaganda Against Muslims, Cites Quran To Argue That 'Allah Has Called Media Jihad As The Greatest Jihad'; 'We Should Not Neglect The Significance Of Effective [TV] Channels In Languages Like Pashtu, Farsi, And Urdu'

Jewish man assualted in ‘violent’ antisemitic attack in Finsbury Park
Police are looking for a man in connection with what is being described as “a completely unprovoked violent” antisemitic attack.

The victim, in his early 30s, was waiting at a bus stop in Finsbury Park, north London, on busy Blackstock Rd near the Centre for Lifelong Learning shortly before 6pm on Monday evening.

Asking the JC to use only his first name, Ari said: “I was chatting on my phone, so I wasn’t aware of what was going on around me, when I felt someone beating me on my shoulders and head and saying: ‘I’m going to kill you. Kill the Jew’.”

Ari, who is Israeli and was wearing a kippa, said that he “started running away” from the attacker “but he kept running after me for 30 to 50 metres. I ran onto a bus and got back home.”

He added: “I’m physically totally fine, but today, I’m wondering if I should go to the same area. When the attack was going on, I didn’t have enough time to feel fear, but afterwards I felt shaky.”

Ari said that no passers-by had intervened to help him.

A spokesperson from CST said: “This was a completely unprovoked violent assault, and the antisemitic threats made by the attacker leave no doubt that the victim was targeted because he was Jewish.
Ohio boy who planned synagogue attack ordered by judge to write book report
A 13-year-old Ohio boy who pleaded guilty on Friday to planning a mass shooting at a synagogue was sentenced to a year of probation and must write a book report about a World War II diplomat who saved Jews, according to court records.

The boy was arrested in September after creating a detailed plan to carry out an attack at the Temple Israel in Canton, just south of Akron, Ohio, according to a complaint from an official with the Stark County Sheriff's office.

On Friday, he entered "true" pleas to counts of "inducing panic" and "disorderly conduct" in Stark County Family Court, according to a record of the hearing. A pretrial hearing previously scheduled for Wednesday was canceled, the court confirmed.

Judge Jim James sentenced the boy to a year of probation and ordered that he submit a book report to the probation department about Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary from the Nazis during World War II, according to the record of Friday's hearing.

The judge also ordered that the boy have no unsupervised use of the Internet and continue with counseling through a licensed therapist.


Kanye West compares himself to Hitler and disses Jews in filmed tirade

In Israel, Jerry Seinfeld meets with freed hostages, families of abductees in Gaza
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld arrived in Israel this morning, and met tonight with families of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip as well as with hostages recently released from captivity since Hamas’s October 7 massacres in southern Israel.

Channel 13 reports that the meeting lasted two hours longer than scheduled, and Seinfeld was “sensitive” and “caring.”

Seinfeld, wearing a symbolic dog tag around his neck meant to draw attention to the plight of the hostages, waved to a camera as he got into a van following the meeting, but did not comment.

The channel says the Jewish-American entertainer plans to visit the southern border region and possibly meet with Israeli soldiers.


Sacha Baron Cohen supports new foundation honoring Ofir Libstein
Celebrated actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has lent his support to the Or Ofir Foundation, a newly launched organization in memory of Ofir Libstein, the slain head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. This initiative's mission is to commemorate Libstein's tragic killing during the events of October 7. Baron Cohen is an alum of the Habonim Dror youth movement in the UK, and therefore connected to this event, as Libstein was the chairman of the movement.

Inaugurated on Monday at Kibbutz Ein Carmel, the foundation, an initiative of the Habonim Dror youth movement and its CEO Shiri Madar, said it aimed to perpetuate Libstein's commitment to community building and leadership. Asif Izak, the head of the Hof Hacarmel Regional Council, will lead the foundation as chairman, taking forward Libstein's role in the Habonim Dror youth movement.

"The foundation we have established will allow us all to continue and march in Ofir's light, who was a leader in every sense," said Madar at the launch event.

The foundation's managing committee includes a notable assembly of public figures: Doron Libstein, Ofir's brother; former acting Prime Minister Tzipi Livni; Shiri Madar, CEO of Habonim Dror; Baron Cohen; Vered Libstein, Ofir's widow; and others. According to a statement, they are dedicated to advancing Libstein's mission of empowering communities and strengthening their ties to Israel.

Doron Libstein stated, "Ofir was a symbol of social and Zionist leadership, and this foundation is our commitment to continue his legacy."




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