Thursday, December 21, 2023

12/21 Links Pt1: Biden Has No Choice But To Stop the Houthis; Biden needs to sober up about the Palestinians; Hamas rejects ceasefire negotiations

From Ian:

Seth Fratnzman: Israel-Hamas war: Will Iran escalate or manage the Gaza war?
Iran has already keyed most of them in, so the question for Tehran is what to do next. Hezbollah has lost more than 115 of its members since October 7. Hamas has lost thousands of its terrorist fighters. The Houthis are unscathed. The Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria are unscathed. Palestinian Islamic Jihad has suffered some losses, in the West Bank and in Gaza, but it was never a very large organization to begin with.

For Tehran, there are questions to be asked about their next phase. Iranian pro-regime media may reflect some of this thinking. They have toned down their coverage of Gaza. This could indicate a calm before the next storm. It could also indicate a very real decision to move away from too much coverage as Iran senses that it won’t get much more success in Gaza.

Tehran and Hamas may be suffering from diminishing returns. Iran will be asking itself who benefits from a war of attrition. I think that Hamas will benefit, the way Hezbollah benefited from the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It thinks Hamas can benefit from a ceasefire and international pressure on Israel. Then, Hamas will leverage its claims of “winning” in Gaza to achieve influence in the West Bank and prepare for the next phase. Towards this end, the Iranian regime media accuses Israel of prolonging the conflict and not accepting a ceasefire.

The fact that Iran’s Fars News, which is close to the IRGC, had a main headline on December 21 about the president of Iran “solving problems, fixing the holes” would appear to mean Iran is focused a lot on domestic issues. It has distracted the region and the world by backing Hamas and creating war around the region. Now with the world distracted, Iran can focus domestically. Of course, that could be media reporting that is just for domestic consumption, while Iran prepares another surprise for the region. The only issue facing Tehran in this regard is that it has already tried to use its proxies to do their worst and they haven’t succeeded.
Seth Mandel: Biden Has No Choice But To Stop the Houthis
Some decisions are simple, which can be both a blessing (you know what to do) and a curse (you don’t have much excuse for not doing it). The Biden administration faces just such a situation at the moment: It must put a stop to the Houthi attacks on cargo ships traversing the Red Sea.

The Houthis are Iran’s proxy in Yemen. They have been firing upon merchant ships that pass through the Suez Canal, sometimes via drone. Attacks have increased since Israel’s latest war with Hamas began in October. The U.S. announced this week it is sending a multinational naval force to accompany ships through the troubled waters. That is a start but it won’t be enough: Naval escorts will likely slow the flow of commerce through the waterway and therefore aren’t a long-term solution to the market disruption. Biden & Co. have to be prepared to do more.

One reason the West’s hand is forced here is economics. One-fifth of all global container trade, as the Wall Street Journal reports, passes through the canal. Oil giant BP has for now stopped sending its ships through that route; others have started to follow suit. According to the New York Times, crude oil has already risen 8 percent since mid-December.

Other costs also get passed on to consumers: The alternate route for these ships runs around Africa, adding time and fuel to every trip. If the problem persists, the Times says, economic forecasters expect the price of oil to increase by as much as $4 a barrel. Insurance rates will also rise with either the increased danger of the normal trip or the extended time frame of the alternate route.

The other reason to act is that the Houthis, and by extension Iran, are gaining at the expense of the U.S. and our allies. “At the end of the day, what they really want is a bigger stake in Yemen, and perhaps they want to do that through becoming a global problem,” Yoel Guzansky, a senior research fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, told the Times. The Houthis are negotiating with Saudi Arabia for recognition in part of Yemen, so this display of strength only improves their hand.
Jonathan Tobin: Biden needs to sober up about the Palestinians
What Israelis understand, and Biden and most Americans refuse to accept, is that a diplomatic solution that would place Gaza under the role of the Palestinian Authority will simply be a formula for more terrorism. Even worse, should the Americans and the international community succeed in forcing the Israelis to accept a two-state deal removing Israeli forces from Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), that would just repeat Sharon’s catastrophic Gaza experiment on a much larger scale.

As the most recent polls conducted by Palestinian analysts show, more than three-quarters of Palestinians support the Oct. 7 attacks. That is shocking but it is easier to understand when you remember that the majority—as well as their supposedly “moderate” leaders—have always rejected peace and an independent state if it meant accepting the legitimacy of a Jewish state, irrespective of its borders.

They share Hamas’s goal of destroying Israel and slaughtering its people because their national identity is inextricably tied up with their century-old war on Zionism.

The choice is security or Hamas
It’s hard for those, who believe in the two-state solution as something akin to a religion rather than a policy proposal, to accept that aspect of the Palestinian national identity.

It’s equally difficult to accept for politicians like Biden, who has spent his career advocating for a two-state solution. But if he is now in a minority in his own party about Israel, it’s because the “progressives,” who advocate for the woke diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) catechism, are likelier to support the Palestinians than Israel.

The further he goes to appease them, the more it strengthens the will of the Palestinians to continue their quest for Israel’s destruction. As with every previous attempt to impose a peace process on Israel, the only thing that will be achieved will be more terrorism and more Israeli blood shed.

After Oct. 7, it’s time for even liberal American Jews to say “enough” to this farce.

Those who purport to be friends of the Jewish state must speak up and support not so much Netanyahu or the members of his unity coalition but the Israeli people’s will. It’s important for those in the pro-Israel community to not just respect the opinion of the overwhelming majority of Israelis but to back it up with political advocacy—even if it’s not what Biden wants.

The choice isn’t between Netanyahu and peace. It’s between Israeli security and Hamas’s vision of endless war, in which most Palestinians believe.

Anyone with a shred of sense, or even the most minimal knowledge of Palestinian politics, knows that another two-state push will fail. But if you care about preventing more Oct. 7 slaughter, you need to respect the sensible desire of the Israelis to defend themselves and give up on fantasies about the Palestinians choosing peace.

The only way Palestinians will ever come to their senses will be after the complete defeat of Hamas. It will also require the Arab and Muslim worlds and the international community to cease propping up a national movement—whether it is led by Hamas or Fatah “moderates”—whose ultimate aim is wiping out the one Jewish state on the planet and killing its people. That is exactly what a return to two-state diplomacy won’t do.

Most Americans continue to support Israel. But supporters of Israel must not betray that stand by advocating for two-state diplomacy that Israelis deem to be not merely ill-advised but insane. Like the Israelis, Americans must draw conclusions from Oct. 7 and oppose giving the Palestinians the chance to do it again.


Don't listen to the doubters, history shows Hamas CAN be defeated
“Hamas is an idea.” And you cannot kill an idea.

This is an increasingly popular argument from opponents of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, such as Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.

It is also wrong.

As the Egyptian government demonstrated in its effort to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood, the group that gave rise to Hamas a generation ago, ideas wither without organizations to pursue them.

The Egyptian case has special importance because of the ties between Hamas and the Brotherhood, but there’s no shortage of ideas that lost their appeal because their advocates were defeated.

The influence of communism faded quickly after the Soviet Union’s fall.

The Islamic State attracted tens of thousands of young men to its cause, yet its popularity never recovered from the caliphate’s fall at the hands of an American-led coalition.

The Egyptian president and former general, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has spent his decade in office working to crush the Brotherhood.

His methods are rough and have resulted in sharp condemnation from American progressives.

Yet today the Brotherhood no longer exists in any meaningful form beyond a web page and a few little-known figures claiming to be leaders while living abroad.

Sisi’s thorough decapitation of the group had little to do with winning a war of ideas.

The government arrested Brotherhood leaders and forced some into exile.

It used extensive force against the group’s militant offshoots.

Perhaps most important, it waged a relentless campaign against the Brotherhood’s domestic recruitment sources by shutting down its educational institutions, intercepting funding from abroad and working through state-controlled media to criminalize Brotherhood ideology.

No question, there are still Egyptians who believe in that ideology.

The group spent decades building and indoctrinating a committed base.

But as Cairo squeezed harder and harder, infighting between the Brotherhood’s leaders in the diaspora caused it to splinter.

Israel is fighting the same enemy.
Hamas says no hostage negotiations unless fighting in Gaza stops; Israel: No chance
Israel on Thursday firmly rejected a Hamas demand to permanently halt fighting before releasing any more hostages being held by terrorists in Gaza, as talks in Cairo for a truce deal appeared to make little progress.

A Hamas official told AFP that “a total ceasefire and a retreat of the Israeli occupation army from the Gaza Strip are a precondition for any serious negotiation” on a hostage-prisoner swap.

Israel has repeatedly rejected any such proposition, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated on Thursday the longstanding position in no uncertain terms: “We are fighting until victory. We will not stop the war until we achieve all its goals — completing the destruction of Hamas, and releasing all of our hostages.”

Netanyahu added that he was giving Hamas a “very simple choice: surrender or die. They do not have and will not have any other option.”

He added that “after we destroy Hamas, I will work with all my power to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel” — an apparent indication that he does not intend to step down or publicly take responsibility for the failures that enabled Hamas’s October 7 massacres.

A senior Israeli official told reporters Thursday that there are currently no active negotiations for a new hostage release agreement with Hamas, but noted that Israeli officials have met twice this week with Qatari officials to discuss a new framework for such a deal.

“We made clear to everyone in Israel and outside of Israel that it’s time to renew the shaping up of a new hostages [release] structure,” the official said during an off-record press briefing. He said a previous hostage deal — in which 105 hostages were released during a week-long ceasefire that saw Israel free 240 Palestinian security prisoners — worked well, and that Israel was now ready to discuss new stages for hostage releases in order to return the remaining 129 to Israel. Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, October 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A senior Hamas official told Al Jazeera later Thursday that the terror group is not interested in freeing hostages in exchange for even weeks-long pauses in the fighting, because Israel would continue the war afterward.


Gaza will be controlled by a peaceful Palestinian gov't, Israeli spokesperson says
Israel wants a "peaceful Palestinian government" to take control of Gaza following the destruction of Hamas in the Strip, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Arabic-language Yalla show on Tuesday.

When asked about who will take responsibility for Gaza the day after Operation Swords of Iron, Ofir Gendelman stated that Israel is seeking, "for the first time, a peaceful Palestinian government that wants to live alongside Israel.

"And this is possible," Gendelman added.

The spokesperson's comments came amid comments by Netanyahu and other Israeli officials against the return of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip following the war's conclusion.

"I can tell you who will not take responsibility [for the Gaza Strip]: Of course Hamas..and the Palestinian Authority.

"Many people say why? Because the Palestinian Authority is based in the West Bank.

"But in the West Bank," Gendelman explained, "the PA has established a hostile entity, an entity that supports terrorism, funds terrorism, incentivizes terrorism."
Netanyahu again says PA will not rule Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister on Thursday appeared to maintain his position of recent weeks that the Palestinian Authority will not be allowed to rule Gaza after Hamas is defeated.

“We fight until victory. We will not stop the war until we complete all its goals—the completion of the elimination of Hamas, and the release of all our hostages,” he said.

“The choice I offer to Hamas is very simple: surrender or die. They don’t have and won’t have any other choice.

“And after we eliminate Hamas, I will work with all my might to ensure that Gaza no longer poses any threat to Israel. Neither Hamastan nor Fatahstan,” the premier said.

Members of the P.A.’s ruling party, Fatah, headed by P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas, have refused to condemn the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 persons in Israel. Indeed, Fatah’s terrorist wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, boasted that it took part in the attack, distributing images of Gazan terrorists on Oct. 7 wearing Fatah’s yellow headband.

Netanyahu’s video remarks were published after earlier in the day National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi wrote of the possibility of a “moderate Palestinian governing body” running the coastal enclave, echoing White House calls for a “revitalized” P.A. to take over a post-Hamas Gaza Strip.

“Israel is aware of the desire of the international community and the countries of the region to integrate the Palestinian Authority the day after Hamas,” Hanegbi wrote in the London-based Arabic-language Elaph online daily, in an op-ed titled “The Iron Swords War and the Day That Follows.”

The P.A. would require “a fundamental reform,” he said, and would need to raise a generation “on the values of moderation and tolerance, without incitement to violence against Israel.” (The P.A. is notorious for its anti-Israel and anti-Jewish curriculum.)
Hanegbi’s words ‘misunderstood,’ PA can’t rule post-war Gaza — senior Israeli official

Israel's Eilat Port sees 85% drop in activity amid Red Sea Houthi attacks

Hamas Claims to Make Sniper Rifles in Gaza - Are They Really?
Hamas - or rather its specific military wing the Al Qassam Brigade - posted a video on Twitter / X yesterday purporting to show the manufacture of .50 caliber sniper rifles in Gaza. I was curious to have a look at it, as I've seen a lot of rifle factories and done some of this sort of work myself, so let's see what the video actually shows when we look carefully...


Vast Hamas Tunnel Network Found Running From Homes of Terror Group’s Leaders, Near College and School for Deaf Children

Hamas fires massive rocket salvo at central Israel

Israel Plans to Change Nature of Gaza Warfare within a Month
Among Israel's political and military leadership, there is a growing understanding that the war in Gaza will be transitioning to its next stage over the course of the next month.

Washington's recommendation is that the change include the establishment of a buffer zone on the Gaza border.

The U.S has no reservations about Israel's desire to expand the Khan Yunis offensive.

In a recent battle, the IDF captured a Hamas company commander and learned that he had no idea his battalion commander had been killed in an Israeli bombing.

The more junior officer continued to fight, in part out of fear of his commander. Had he known that his superior was dead, he would have surrendered.
Israel killed four senior Hamas brigade commanders, three left - IDF

Yoseph Haddad met Captain M. the IDF's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) Pilot
Let's get to know the IDF's unmanned aerial vehicles and how they fight with an incredible combination of power and morality!




IDF destroys Hamas's Palestine Square tunnels, takes over Gaza's Shejaia

Under the heart of Gaza City, IDF digs up a vast hive of lairs where Hamas’s elite hid

IDF special forces take over Gaza tunnel shaft, seen through helmet cam

Hezbollah rockets wound two Israelis, IDF strikes Lebanon terror targets

Protesters try to stop aid trucks entering Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday prevented a group of protesters from blocking humanitarian aid trucks preparing to enter the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom Crossing.

Dozens of demonstrators arrived in the area of the crossing near the Egyptian and Gaza borders in what organizers said was an attempt to stop “Hamas trucks” and “Nazi trucks” from entering the coastal enclave ruled by the Hamas terrorist group responsible for the Oct. 7 murder of 1,200 persons in Israel.

While Israel recently opened the Kerem Shalom Crossing for the transfer of goods after being pressured by the United States, Hamas is stealing much of the aid intended for Gazan civilians and redirecting it to terrorists hiding in tunnels.

Israel has been in a war to eliminate Hamas in Gaza following the Oct. 7 massacre.

The demonstration was organized by Torat IDF, a group working to strengthen the Jewish identity of Israel’s fighting personnel, and the Mothers’ March, representing parents of IDF soldiers fighting in Gaza.


UN rewrites Middle East map as Jordan borders Gaza in social media post

Those We Have Lost
Stories of civilians and soldiers killed since Hamas's onslaught on Israel on October 7, 2023


Hamas releases video of three Gaza hostages killed in captivity

Bari Weiss: Miracle in Hell: The Baby Twins Who Survived a Massacre
On October 7, Hamas terrorists stormed into the home of Hadar and Itay Berdichevsky in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the Israeli communities along the Gaza border. Hadar and Itay— both 30 years old—were butchered in their own home.

Miraculously, their 10-month-old twins survived. The babies were found—rescued by the IDF—14 hours later, crying in their cots. Their parents’ bodies lie in pools of blood around them.

Today on Honestly with Bari Weiss, we’re talking with the twins’ aunt and uncle, Maya and Dvir Rosenfeld, who are now helping raise their orphaned twin nephews.

There are so many stories from October 7 that need to be told. We’ve told some of them on this show. And still, we’ve barely scratched the surface of what happened that day, of the thousands upon thousands of stories—individual, human stories of horror and tragedy—each one deserving of being shared with the world.

Today, this one represents a little light in a sea of darkness. These innocent babies—who will not remember the terror of October 7—represent both senseless tragedy and unbelievable bravery. Both pain and hope. Both ultimate despair and miracle beyond belief. Both death. . . and life.




California town unveils world's largest mural for Gaza hostages


Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner visit decimated Kibbutz in Israel's South

Hillary Clinton: Gaza hostages' families must push for Christmas deal

‘Heartbreaking’: Mother of Hamas hostage launched a ‘desperate plea’
Sky News host Rita Panahi says the mother of Hamas hostage, Naama Levy, has launched a “desperate plea” to have her daughter released.

Ms Panahi said Naama’s mother told CNN, that her daughter's time is “running out”.

“It’s just heartbreaking.

“You just wonder what happened to that girl.

“If it’s done so much to people’s emotions who don’t even know her, you can hardly fathom how her mother’s coping.”




Nikki Haley to 'Post': Israel's singled out for things every country does

Hamas thanks Canada for backing ceasefire in Gaza: 'We welcome these developments'

Eugene Kontorovich vs Cornel West
Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by presidential hopeful Dr. Cornel West as well as legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich to debate the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Palestine and whether Israel have committed war crimes and genocide in the region with the growing civilian casualties.

Eugene believes that Hamas are to blame for the mass civilian casualties because they are using the Palestinians as human shields as they hide in underground tunnels.

Cornel believes that blaming Hamas for the bombing of civilian children is a weak justification for the IDF's approach and actions within this war and in his opinion, genocide.




‘Shocking’: Global rise of anti-Semitism ‘beyond our wildest expectations’
The global rise of anti-Semitism is “shocking”, says Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council Dr Colin Rubenstein.

Dr Rubenstein sat with Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss how Australia’s Jewish community is coping with the escalating anti-Semitic reports.

“The anti-Semitism we’ve seen in the last couple of months is beyond our wildest expectations,” he said.

“It’s shocking, it’s extreme, it’s global.

“Unfortunately, as we know too well, it’s in this country.”


It is ‘embarrassing’ that Australia is not sending Navy warship to Red Sea
Strategic Analysis Australia Founder and Director Michael Shoebridge says it is “embarrassing” that Australia is not sending a Navy warship to the Red Sea.

Mr Shoebridge told Sky News Australia that it tells you “how weak” the Australian military has become.

“Despite us spending $52 billion dollars a year on that military.

“The heavy lifting that needs to be done right now is keeping that key global shipping channel that joins our region, the Indo-Pacific, with Europe.

“Keeping that open and dealing with the clear and present threat from the Houthis.”


Australia voting in UN ceasefire motion for Gaza ‘diminishes us’
Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie says Australia voting in the UN ceasefire motion for Gaza “diminishes us”.

Mr Hastie sat with Sky News Australia to discuss the government’s decision to support the ceasefire motion despite it not condemning Hamas for its crimes against Israeli people.

“The United Kingdom at least had the decency to abstain from the vote, whereas we backed a vote calling for a ceasefire that didn’t even condemn Hamas,” he said.

“Papua New Guineans, they voted against it – there are a number of countries that either abstained or voted against it, Australia should have been amongst those countries.

“I disagree fundamentally with Richard Marles’ assessment of that, I think it diminishes us and what we really need is moral clarity – when a motion doesn’t have the moral clarity to condemn Hamas, I question why we’d support it.”




The Israel Guys: New SHOCKING Evidence Comes Out About Hamas’s War Crimes
Evidence continues to mount regarding Hamas’s use of hospitals as bases of operation and screens for their terrorist activities. In recent days, the IDF released a video of an interrogation of a Gaza hospital director in which he admits to being recruited as a Hamas commander to turn the Al Adwa hospital into military facilities. He explained how Hamas would prioritize their missions over the welfare of patients at the hospital, that they would rather murder Jews than save Palestinian lives.

And as Israel says its war in Gaza will take months to complete, there are signs that another temporary truce to free hostages may be in the works.




Communities divided as more Melbourne councils pass ceasefire motions
Hundreds of pro-Palestine supporters have rallied with flags and chants outside two local government meetings as three Melbourne councils passed Israel-Hamas ceasefire motions in 24 hours.

The peak body for councils is defending local government as the appropriate forum for discussion of complex geopolitical matters in the face of criticism from Jewish groups and dissenting councillors. Seven Melbourne councils have so far passed motions calling for a ceasefire.

Wyndham council, in Melbourne’s outer west, passed motions on Tuesday night, following Darebin and Hume City councils in Melbourne’s north on Monday night. A similar motion was debated at Monash council on Tuesday but was ultimately voted down.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian supporters attended rallies outside the council chambers before some of the meetings, where fiery scenes also unfolded, with chanting, cheering and yelling from the public galleries.

At Monday’s meeting in Darebin, the mayor adjourned the meeting for 20 minutes due to ongoing interruption from activists, while a similar group at Monash’s meeting was warned about causing disorder in the chamber.

Labor councillor Geoff Lake, in voting against the Monash motion, said it was “divisive” and not an appropriate matter for the council to debate as it was not core to the running of local affairs.

“There are some in our community who support the motion that’s been presented tonight. I know there are some who strongly oppose it,” he said.

“What I also noted though, is that the great majority of our community … I have no doubt are of the view that this is not a matter that their council, the city of Monash, [should comment on].”

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Monash Council had passed a debated ceasefire motion. The vote on the motion was unsuccessful.


‘Ignorant’: Rita Panahi slams ‘Queers for Palestine’ movement
Sky News host Rita Panahi has slammed the Queers for Palestine movement for being so “ignorant and self-involved” while the activist group participates in protests across the world.

One member of the group, who identified as a trans non-binary person, said there are queer people who live in Palestine.

“People are trying to tell queer people they can’t be part of what is going on Palestine and I just want to be here for queer Palestinians and every Palestinian,” she said in an interview posted to the Red_Wave_Republicans Instagram page.

The activist group also held up traffic on Manhattan Bridge in New York City last week as they expressed solidarity with Palestinians.

“Where were your protests when queer people in Palestine were fleeing to Israel to avoid brutal persecution?” Ms Panahi said.

“If you don’t understand that radical Islam has zero tolerance for your lifestyle then frankly you’re too dumb to be part of any discussion.”


BBC is urged to sack UK's Eurovision entrant Olly Alexander as it emerges he signed letter calling Israel an 'apartheid regime' and accusing Jewish state of 'genocide'
The BBC is being urged to drop singer Olly Alexander as its entrant for Eurovision after it emerged he signed a letter calling Israel an 'apartheid regime'.

The Years And Years frontman, 33, was unveiled as next year's candidate for the UK during the Strictly Come Dancing final, which aired on the BBC on Saturday.

But he now faces having that role stripped from him after he signed a letter from LGBT charity Voices4London which described Israel as an 'apartheid regime' which is trying to 'ethnically cleanse' Palestine.

The statement, which was published on October 20, almost two weeks after Hamas' October 7 attack, also says that Israel has 'terrorised' Palestinian people and there is now a 'genocide' taking place 'in real time'.

The Conservatives have accused the BBC of 'either a massive oversight or sheer brass neck' for selecting Alexander, while a Jewish charity has called for him to be replaced and for the broadcaster to cut ties with him.

The BBC is not planning on taking any action as the singer signed the letter weeks before he was unveiled as the UK's Eurovision act, the Telegraph reported.

The letter which was allegedly signed by Alexander, who is non-binary and uses he/him pronouns, said: 'We are watching a genocide take place in real time.

'Death overflows from our phone screens and into our hearts. And, as a queer community, we cannot sit idly by while the Israeli government continues to wipe out entire lineages of Palestinian families.

'We cannot untangle these recent tragedies from a violent history of occupation.

'Current events simply are an escalation of the state of Israel's apartheid regime, which acts to ethnically cleanse the land.

'Since the violent creation of the state 75 years ago, the Israeli military and Israeli settlers have continued to terrorise Palestinian people.'

'Queer and trans Palestinians have long highlighted that pinkwashing plays a significant role in Zionist propaganda.


Nailbiting moment cargo ship linked to Israel ignores Palestinian protesters in kayaks blocking its path at a major Australian port

Primary school is forced to close early after 'threats' made to staff as head slams 'malicious' lies on social media claiming Palestinian student, eight, was bullied by teachers
A primary school in east London has been forced to close early for Christmas after claiming 'malicious' lies on social media led to staff being threatened.

Barclay Primary School in Leyton, Waltham Forest, has been engulfed in a row after a TikTok video alleging that an eight-year-old pupil was bullied by teachers 'for being Palestinian' was viewed more than 250,000 times.

In a letter to parents, school chiefs said there was 'no evidence to support any allegations of bullying or misconduct' and that internal and external investigations found the claims to be 'false'.

It slammed the spread of 'misinformation', which had resulted in 'threatening and completely unacceptable conduct' from activists responding to allegations made on social media.

These included claims that the boy in question was reprimanded for wearing a Palestine badge on his coat and that he was 'denied playtime and lunchtime privileges' for refusing to remove it.

The school, responsible for the education of 1,293 children up to the age of 11, was due to break up for Christmas on Friday but education bosses took the decision to close two days early.

It came as protesters gathered outside the school this morning chanting 'Barclay, shame on you' and 'education is under attack'.


Pro-Palestine activists target ‘genocidal’ Israeli hummus in shops
Pro-Palestinian campaigners are labelling pots of Israeli hummus stocked in British supermarkets as “profiting from genocide”.

The anti-Israel BDS movement – which stands for boycott, divestment and sanctions – calls for activists not to buy Israeli products in order to put economic pressure on companies operating in the country.

It claims on its website that the hummus and dips brand Sabra previously supported the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) with donations.

The campaign’s website states: “Sabra hummus is a joint venture between PepsiCo and the Strauss Group, an Israeli food company that provides financial support to the Israeli army.” However, The Telegraph understands that BDS’s website refers to a Sabra brand sold in the US.

In the UK, Sabra Houmous, which is available in several major supermarkets, including Tesco and Sainsbury’s, is distributed by Osem, an Israeli food manufacturer with a base in Essex, which is owned by Nestle.

It is understood that while both Sabra brands are Israeli, they are not related and are separate companies.


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