Friday, December 20, 2024

12/20 Links Pt2: The cult of the keffiyeh; Welcome to ‘Paddystine’; Tucker Carlson, Superspreader; Toronto Jewish girls' school shot at for third time

From Ian:

Brendan O'Neill: The cult of the keffiyeh
The keffiyeh classes, in contrast, are attracted to the Palestinian people not for their dynamism, but for their wretchedness. Not for their vim but for their victimisation. Where the elite posturing that Wolfe so mercilessly ribbed was ‘vicarious radicalism’, the cult of the keffiyeh is something far more unpleasant: vicarious victimhood. The keffiyeh classes seem keen to ‘appropriate’ not only the clothing of the Palestinians, but their suffering, too. Witness the organisers of the Gaza encampment at Columbia University in New York City mimicking both Palestinian style and Palestinian privation. One student leader said she and her comrades were going hungry and required ‘humanitarian aid’. Do you want us to die of dehydration and starvation?, she asked university bosses. In a viral clip, a group of keffiyeh-wearing students was seen receiving ‘humanitarian aid’ through the college gates. I say humanitarian aid – it was probably a Starbucks order and blueberry muffins from a nearby bodega. Here we had privileged youths on an Ivy League campus cosplaying as victims of a humanitarian crisis; comfortably off Ivy Leaguers masquerading as the wretched of the Earth.

It provided a grim insight into the true nature of ‘Palestine solidarity’. It shone a light on why so many of our young chant, ‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians’. This is a new and unsettling form of activism. It is not 1960s-style solidarity with foreign struggles or even radical chic, that old politics as fashion. No, it is a coveting of suffering. The keffiyeh classes, it seems to me, crave the moral rush of oppression, the thrill of persecution. They pull on the garb of a beleaguered people in order to escape, however fleetingly, the pampered reality of their own lives. In order to taste that most prized of social assets in the woke era: victimhood. In draping the keffiyeh around their shoulders, they get to be someone else for a while. Someone less bourgeois, less white. Someone a little more exotic, a little more interesting. It’s less politics than therapy. They seek to wash away the ‘sin’ of their privilege through mimicking what they consider to be the least privileged people on Earth. That’s what the keffiyeh has become: the cloth with which the rich seek to scrub away their white guilt.

If the keffiyeh is the uniform of this Palestine politics of victimhood, then its currency is images of Palestinian suffering. Where yesteryear’s purveyors of radical chic revelled in images of revolting minorities, today’s followers of the cult of the keffiyeh savour images of Palestinian destitution. They trade in photos of Palestinian pain, meaning that social media has become ‘oversaturated with traumatic imagery’, as one writer describes it. Log on and you’ll be instantly exposed to a ‘kaleidoscopic view of human suffering without respite’. Not content with commodifying Palestinian attire, they commodify Palestinian trauma, too. They make a spectacle of Palestinian agony. Not to assist Palestinians in any meaningful way – how could it? – but rather to inflame their own satisfying feelings of collective moral revulsion.

Even requests from Palestinians to stop sharing horrific images from their wars have not been enough to slow this grim trade. A few years ago, Palestinian psychiatrist Samah Jabr counselled Westerners against sharing ‘shocking content’ showing ‘shattered people’ in the Palestinian territories, on the basis that such ‘pictures of pain’ violate ‘the privacy and dignity of the subjects’ and can ‘create terror’ among Palestinians who might fear suffering the same fate. These images might ‘provide thrills’ to outside observers, and nurture ‘more “likes” and “shares”’ online, but they can be devastating to ‘public morale’ in the Palestinian territories, Jabr wrote. It was a fruitless plea. Imagery of Palestinian suffering is too valuable to the keffiyeh classes to be sacrificed to trifling concerns about Palestinian dignity. Your pain is ours now, just like your headwear.

The elites’ vicarious victimhood through the Palestine drama is a dangerous game. It seems undeniable now that the more the cultural powers of the West crave and collect depictions of Palestinian distress, the more the ideologues of Hamas will be willing to supply such depictions. Witness Yahya Sinwar’s insistence, in the summarising words of CNN, that the ‘spiralling civilian death toll in Gaza’ will likely ‘work in [Hamas’s] favour’. Sinwar, the then military leader of Hamas in Gaza, callously described the deaths of Palestinians as ‘necessary sacrifices’ to get the Israelis ‘right where we want them’.

Hamas clearly recognises that when the cultural establishments of global capitalism treat every image of Palestinian death as an indictment of Israeli evil, when the West’s activist class, media elites and online influencers hold up every picture of a broken Palestinian as proof of the Jewish State’s ‘uniquely murderous nature’, then it is in Hamas’s interests to prolong the war and allow more such suffering to occur. Having made Palestinian agony the currency of their activism, the activist class cannot now feign surprise at Hamas’s willingness to let this disastrous war continue. Hamas’s intransigence in the face of its far more powerful foe is a direct consequence of the keffiyeh classes’ commodification of Palestinian pain as a testament to both Israeli malfeasance and Western indifference.

The cult of victimhood’s greatest offence is to reduce everything to a simplistic clash between the oppressed and the oppressor, good and evil, light and dark. This movement requires not only victims it might ostentatiously empathise with, but also the opposite: victimisers, the monsters of persecution, who must be noisily raged at. As Professor Joshua Berman writes, the ‘Palestinian ideology of victimhood… constructs a struggle between a victim-hero in opposition to a scapegoat’. And this can lead to a ‘revelling in caricatured depictions of the oppressor’, he says. So where Palestinian radicals ‘traffic in classic hook-nose anti-Semitic tropes’, their Western supporters traffic in the insistence that the Jewish State is uniquely murderous, given to bloodletting, obsessed with murdering children, and so on. This is the thin line between pity and hate. Pity for Palestinians morphs with frightening ease into hatred for the world’s only Jewish nation, courtesy of the morally infantile narrative the cultural establishment has weaved around this most fraught of conflicts.

The end result? Protesters in keffiyehs telling Jews in New York City to ‘go back to Poland’. Activists in keffiyehs shouting on the New York subway: ‘Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist.’ Britons in keffiyehs marching alongside radical Islamists who long for further pogroms against the Jewish State. The aftermath of 7 October is a painful reminder that the facile moral binaries of identity politics are far more likely to resuscitate racism than tackle it.
Seth Mandel: Tucker Carlson, Superspreader
Carlson begins his interview of Sachs by asking about the big news of the day: the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s monstrous dictator. The crimes of Assad and his father, who ruled Syria before Bashar, pockmark the earth: mass graves and torture prisons dot the face of the Levant. A rebellion against Assad that began during the Arab Spring finally succeeded. The story is gruesome but simple: A butcher was overthrown by his subjects.

In the clip that opens the show, Sachs has another explanation: the Jews. “It’s part of a 30-year effort. This is [Benjamin] Netanyahu’s war to remake the Middle East.”

Just after Sept. 11, 2001, Sachs preaches, Gen. Wesley Clark was brought in to the Pentagon and “told that the neocons and the Israelis are going to remake the Middle East.” It would require war with seven countries, and “we’ve been at war in six of them now. And I mean we, the United States on behalf of Israel… So what happened in Syria last week was the culmination of a long-term effort by Israel to reshape the Middle East in its image.”

Sachs refers to the “Israel lobby” as the agents of nefarious foreign interests in America, and he describes Jewish control as so airtight that it “doesn’t really matter who’s president. This is long-term deep-state policy.” Indeed, says Sachs, “Obama ordered the CIA to overthrow Assad.”

Why would Obama do that, asks Carlson. “Because Israel has run American foreign policy in the Middle East for 30 years,” Sachs responds. “That’s how it works.”

Sachs gives us a ballpark figure of the human cost of this supposed Jewish control: 1 million people are dead today who would otherwise have been alive if not for Israel’s supposed bloodlust. That places a lot of blood on Jewish hands. But as noted earlier, that’s a story that never gets old.

The second characteristic of anti-Semitism that keeps it so potent is the way information moves. It travels on a populist current because “the powers that be” are compromised and cannot be trusted. Tucker Carlson has an audience primed to imbibe all the information “They” supposedly don’t want you to know. Carlson can’t just repeat it all himself every single night because that would get boring, so he brings on guests to help out.

People like Carlson and Sachs rely on the network-contagion effect, in which information moves through social networks after being introduced by a trusted source, to spread their poison. Typical followers of Jeffrey Sachs aren’t relying on Tucker Carlson for their information. So Carlson hands it off to Sachs, who is essentially playing the role of ideological drug mule.

Elon Musk, the owner of X/Twitter and an adviser to president-elect Trump, reposted the interview himself online. Musk didn’t say anything specifically about the Israel portion, but a Musk post gives a superboost to anything looking for more networks to spread to.

So, yes, Carlson matters here. He is a superspreader of the brain mold that makes our politics and culture sicker, gloomier, angrier, and more extreme at a time when there is an eager market for it.
Antisemitism backfires on the perpetrators: Will the church ever learn?
Will the church ever learn? When it comes to Israel, it is debatable. First, the soon to stand-down-Archbishop of Canterbury effectively urged member states of the United Nations to back the call of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for Israel to withdraw from Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem, the heart of their territory.

Now the Pope is calling for a genocide investigation about Israel’s military actions in Gaza. But is the investigation justified? Leading American and British military men think otherwise. (Ret.) Col Richard Kemp (UK) and Prof Geoffrey Corn (USA) are just some who after fact-finding missions to Gaza have publicly exonerated Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor.

Why this fixation on Israel? Not for the first time Jewish people have asked why the church is largely silent regarding the murder of Africa’s Christians, for instance. At the heart of the problem is the chosenness of Israel.

“The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors…” (Deuteronomy 7:6-9 NIV) The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob chose the Jewish people, and the rest of the nations apparently have difficulty accepting this.

“If there were no chosen people, there would be no war in the Middle East,” claimed a Canadian lecturer. Hitler has been credited with saying there was no room for two chosen peoples.

Chosenness, though, comes with a price. So does antisemitism. It backfires on the perpetrators. A case in point is the recent resignation of former Archbishop of Canterbury, albeit for a completely unrelated issue – the cover-up of the abuse scandal. Could this be in part the outworking of Scripture? “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse…” (Genesis 12:3 NIV)


King Charles forced to distance himself from ‘anti-racism’ event after outcry from Jewish groups
The King and Queen have been forced to distance themselves from an event in Walthamstow celebrating an “anti-racism” protest last August which had descended into antisemitism.

King Charles and Queen Camilla attended the event today on the invitation of the leader of Waltham Forest Council, Cllr Grace Williams, “to celebrate the cohesion of the borough’s community following a peaceful anti-racism protest in August 2024, where thousands of Waltham Forest residents came together to demonstrate the true community spirit of the borough.”

However, the protest – one of many held around the country in the wake of the Southport murders – had been characterised by hateful rhetoric that many Jews saw as antisemitic.

Alongside calls for “intifada” and chants labelling Israel a “terrorist state”, numerous speakers at the event – hosted by the SWP affiliated "Stand Up To Racism" – made highly inflammatory statements.

Most notable was Kent Labour councillor Ricky Jones, who was later suspended and arrested after calling for people to “cut the throats” of “Nazi fascists”.

Another speaker described how “inspiring” it was to see Bangladeshi students overthrow their government, before leading chants of “there is only one solution, intifada revolution.”

After being alerted to the matter by the JC, a Palace spokesman said: “It is not the case that Their Majesties are in any way endorsing any element of antisemitic protest. Quite the opposite; the purpose of this visit is to celebrate and encourage inter-community harmony.”
Mike Huckabee: Israel will 'never be alone again' in 'fight for freedom'
Mike Huckabee, President-elect Donald Trump's nominated US ambassador to Israel, reaffirmed America's commitment to Israel, stating that the Jewish state would never stand alone during a speech at the One Israel Fund's 30th anniversary gala.

"I want to say you will never be alone again in your fight for freedom and to preserve the country and the land and the heritage that God gave you," Huckabee said.

During the event, Huckabee also met the head of the Binyamin Council and the chairman of the Yesha Council, Israel Gantz. The two discussed what is expected in the new era under President Trump.

Future of the West Bank
Gantz also met senior US officials to promote the future of the West Bank.

"The meetings with the senior US officials are very important, and he heard that they exude a spirit that has not been present in the White House for years," Gantz told The Jerusalem Post.

The Binyamin Council head added that "they are true partners of the State of Israel and the settlement, and a large number of them have visited us in Binyamin in recent years. They are capable of promoting a policy based on truth in which the Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel and the axis of evil must be completely eradicated wherever it is."
Hen Mazzig: When people claim Jesus was Palestinian, they’re not just wrong, they’re erasing Jewish history
Every December, I — a Jew — find myself explaining to atheists, Christians, and Muslims that Jesus was, quite simply, a Jewish man. Not a Palestinian. Not an icon of modern political movements. A Jewish man, born in the land of Israel, which at the time was under Roman occupation. You don’t have to take my word for it—just open a history book, or better yet, open the Bible.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, circumcised according to Jewish law (Luke 2:21), attended synagogue on Shabbat (Luke 4:16), and celebrated Passover in Jerusalem (John 2:13). The cross’s inscription, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews” (John 19:19), leaves no ambiguity.

The term “Palestine” did not exist during Jesus’ lifetime. It’s a Roman invention. When Emperor Hadrian crushed the Jewish revolt in 135 CE — a century after Jesus’ crucifixion — he renamed Judea as “Syria-Palaestina” to punish Jews and erase Jewish sovereignty. Before that, the region was Judea, the homeland of the Jewish people. No creative licence can place someone in a place or identity that didn’t exist in their lifetime.

This erasure is deliberate. The goal isn’t historical accuracy or sociological analysis — it’s to delegitimise Jewish connection to the land of Israel. If Jews never had a homeland there, then Jewish claims to it become tenuous. This strategy isn’t new. Antisemitism shifts form to suit the political moment. Once we were “Christ-killers.” Now Jesus is branded as a Palestinian, so who other than the Jewish nation is responsible for killing him? Same scapegoating — new branding.

These narratives aren’t just false — they’re calculated. Simple lies spread further than layered truths. “Jesus was Palestinian” is more repeatable than explanations of Jewish history, Roman imperialism, and geopolitics. Branding Jews as “colonisers” or “settlers” in our ancestral home is winning two for the price of one.

This isn’t just an academic issue. History shapes the present. When people claim Jesus wasn’t Jewish, they’re not simply mistaken — they’re erasing Jewish history. And that fuels delegitimisation of Israel. This revisionism doesn’t promote peace — it deepens division.
'Jesus lived and died as a Jew': Chikli slams pope for Vatican keffiyeh nativity
Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister, has accused Pope Francis of perpetuating “dangerous blood libel” against Israel and distorting history in a strongly worded letter sent on Thursday.

Chikli’s criticism focused on two recent Vatican actions: the Pope’s comments suggesting that allegations of genocide in Gaza “should be carefully investigated” and a nativity display portraying Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh, a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.

“Two weeks ago, you took part in a display that echoes the Palestinian narrative, portraying Jesus as a Palestinian Arab,” Chikli wrote. “Had this been a one-time matter, I would not have written. However, in a more severe expression, you recently insinuated that the State of Israel ‘might be’ committing genocide in Gaza.”

He slammed the use of the term genocide, writing: “As a nation that lost six million of its sons and daughters in the Holocaust, we are especially sensitive to the trivialization of the term ‘genocide’—a trivialization that is dangerously close to Holocaust denial.”

A nativity scene featuring baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh was unveiled in St. Peter’s Square as part of the Vatican's Christmas display more than a week ago, designed by Bethlehem artists Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi. Pope Francis, at the event, called for peace, condemning war and the arms industry, stating, “Enough with wars, enough of violence!” The artwork, “Nativity of Bethlehem 2024,” was created with olive wood, mother-of-pearl, and other materials, showcasing Palestinian symbolism. This display follows Pope Francis’ recent controversial comments suggesting that Israel’s actions in Gaza might constitute genocide.


The explosion that changed everything | EP 22 Sarri Singer
Welcome to the 22st episode of "Here I Am with Shai Davidai," a podcast that delves into the rising tide of antisemitism through insightful discussions with top Jewish advocates.

In this powerful episode, Shai Davidai sits down with Sarri Singer, the founder and director of Strength to Strength, an organization dedicated to supporting victims of terrorism worldwide. Sarri shares her incredible journey from surviving a terrorist attack in Jerusalem to becoming a global advocate for victims of terrorism.

Key Highlights:
Personal Journey: Sarri recounts her experiences on September 11, 2001, and the pivotal decision to move to Israel, where she became deeply involved in supporting victims of terrorism.

Surviving a Terrorist Attack: Sarri provides a harrowing account of surviving a suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus in 2003, detailing the immediate aftermath and her path to recovery.

Advocacy and Support: Discover how Sarri transformed her trauma into a mission to help others, founding Strength to Strength to connect and support victims globally.

Global Impact: Sarri discusses the ongoing challenges faced by victims of terrorism and the importance of peer support and community in healing.

Resilience and Hope: Despite the trauma, Sarri emphasizes the power of resilience, love, and kindness in overcoming hate and building a supportive community.


Welcome to ‘Paddystine’
The other day, during a discussion with a colleague about the wave of pro-Hamas, antisemitic hysteria sweeping the Republic of Ireland, I unthinkingly quipped that the people of Eire should rename themselves “Paddystinians.” I immediately regretted doing so because the term “Paddy” is an aging pejorative, conjuring up images of Irish drunkenness, the supposed Irish proclivity for casual brawling, and ingrained Irish idiocy—stereotypes any decent person should reject.

As it turns out, I needn’t have worried.

A couple of days after that exchange, I discovered that the hashtag “#Paddystinian” was being eagerly adopted on social media by Irish supporters of Hamas. The accompanying posts were variously obnoxious or downright stupid, with many of those mocking the assertion that their country is antisemitic seemingly unaware of the immortal line spoken by a character in James Joyce’s Ulysses that Ireland “has the honor of being the only country which never persecuted the jews (sic)” because “she never let them in.” (There has, in fact, been a minuscule Jewish presence in Ireland for centuries, numbering the current president of Israel among its offspring, and there have been several episodes of antisemitism during that time, including the present, but Ireland is more or less an instance of the “antisemitism without Jews” phenomenon.)

One might say that Ireland is little different from the rest of Europe when it comes to the volume and the venom of its antisemitism: France, Germany and the United Kingdom, among others, are current examples of a similar trend. But Ireland stands out because of the role of its government in stoking these poisonous sentiments, as well as the fact that antisemitic depictions of Israel sit comfortably in its major political parties across the spectrum. That perhaps explains why Israel has closed its embassy in Dublin.

To my mind, the most grotesque offender in this regard is the Irish president, Michael Higgins. An 83-year-old poet who has carefully cultivated an avuncular image with his three-piece tweed suits and swept back, thinning white hair, Higgins’ high-handed manner is at its most infuriating when he articulates—as he has done on a few occasions since the Hamas atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023—conspiracy theories about Israel that lean heavily on the theme of shadowy, unaccountable Jewish power. Earlier this year, for example, he blamed a covert Israeli intelligence operation for leaking his fawning letter of congratulations to the Iranian regime’s newly installed President Masoud Pezeshkian and was subsequently too pompous to issue an apology when it was pointed out that the Iranians themselves had publicized his message first. Then, last week, as he accepted the credentials of the new Palestinian ambassador in Dublin, he waxed lyrically about Israeli assaults on the sovereignty of three of its neighbors: Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, where the Israelis apparently “would like, in fact, actually to have a settlement.”

In Egypt? Given that Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, not even the most seasoned supporter of Hamas could find actual material evidence that this is Israel’s intention. Higgins had met with his Egyptian counterpart, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, earlier that week, and it’s quite possible that el-Sisi told him something along these lines or had referred to the dispute between Jerusalem and Cairo over the Philadelphi Corridor that runs along the border between Egypt and Gaza. Whatever the content of their conversation, what is absolutely clear is that Higgins has a disposition to believe the most outlandish lies about Israel and that he will respond to any criticism by saying that opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies is not the same as antisemitism—encouraging his audience to think that his beef is with Israel’s leadership and not the Jewish state itself.

But as Dana Erlich, Israel’s ambassador to Ireland, pointed out in a recent interview with an Irish broadcaster, Dublin’s goal has been to undermine Israel’s ability to defend itself by launching lawfare against the Jewish state to chip steadily away at its sovereign rights. Ireland is supporting South Africa’s false claim of Israeli genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to the point of seeking a redefinition of the term “genocide” in which to shoehorn Israel’s actions against the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah, and their Iranian backers. It has promoted anti-Israel measures both domestically and within the European Union. And it has either ignored or mocked the concern that its actions are encouraging the spread of antisemitism in Ireland, including the revival of racial tropes reminiscent of the Nazis.
From criticism to closure: How did Irish-Israeli relations get to this point?
Over a decade ago, Michael D Higgins, then still future president of the Republic of Ireland, visited the town of Sderot with a delegation of Irish officials.

During their excursion to the municipality building for a meeting with Sderot’s mayor, the delegation members were informed that should the siren go off. They would have 17 seconds to get to the stairwell in lieu of a lower-floor bomb shelter.

Sure enough, a few minutes into the mayoral welcome, Islamist terrorists from the Gaza Strip fired a missile at Sderot and the siren sounded. As both hosts and guests made their way to the stairwell, Higgins was left rather flustered as he struggled to make his way to safety.

It would seem that Higgins learned little of the realities of life for Israel’s southern citizens. Since that visit, he has gone on to become president of the republic and a vicious critic of the Jewish state and its actions toward its Palestinian neighbors.

This week, Higgins dismissed Israeli accusations of ingrained antisemitism in Ireland as “deep slander” and accused the Jewish state of seeking to build settlements in Egypt, according to statements he made to the press on Tuesday.

Higgins was responding to the Foreign Ministry’s decision to close Israel’s Embassy in Ireland in light of the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced the decision on Sunday. The ministry announcement also noted that, in the past, Israel’s ambassador to Dublin was recalled following Ireland’s unilateral decision to recognize a Palestinian state.
Irish bookshop sells out of Sinwar book, hailing him a ‘king’ fighting ‘Zionist scum’
A Dublin bookshop has pledged to restock sold-out copies of a novel by former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, describing him as a “King in a Chair” facing off against “Zionist scum”.

Connolly Books, self-described as “Ireland’s oldest radical bookshop,” posted on Facebook about The Thorn and the Carnation, a novel written by the architect of the 7 October massacre during his incarceration in Israeli prisons for the murder of 12 Palestinians.

The post labelled the book as “a vital piece of literature” and praised it for offering insight into “the resilience and ethos of a man who played a pivotal role in shaping the discourse of resistance within the Palestinian context.”

It also lauded the book for detailing the planning of the 7 October 2023 “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation.

In response to inquiries from Jewish News, a spokesperson for the bookshop confirmed that the initial order sold out quickly and promised restocks. When pressed about its support for promoting a book by a former leader of a designated terrorist organisation, the spokesperson doubled down with inflammatory language, hailing Sinwar’s actions and condemning Israeli forces in provocative terms.

The book, published by Lulu.com in April 2024, is available on the platform’s website.

In a statement to Jewish News, Lulu emphasised its status as a self-publishing platform, asserting that content is the sole responsibility of individual account holders and can be reported for guideline violations.


Third shooting in months at Toronto Jewish school
A shooting at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School early on Friday morning marks the third time that shots have been fired at the Chabad girls’ school in Toronto in recent months.

There was a shooting at the school on May 25 and another, on Oct. 12 on Yom Kippur, which Canadian parliamentarian Kevin Vuong, who represents Toronto, referred to at the time as “domestic terrorism.”

The Toronto Police Service stated on Friday that there was “evidence of firearm discharge” at the school, where no injuries were reported. It added that the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force and the Hate Crime Unit were investigating.

“Imagine having to explain to your child why there are bullet holes in their school. In Canada, every child should be able to go to school without facing these kinds of violent threats,” stated Michelle Stock, vice president of the Ontario branch of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs, an agency of the Jewish Federations of Canada.

“Government officials have to understand that the time for thoughts and prayers is over. This is the third time this school has been targeted—this is completely unacceptable. We need action,” Stock stated. “There are concrete, common sense steps that can be taken to protect our community and country.”

“This begins with ensuring that there are real consequences for those who are targeting our community and threatening the fabric of Canadian society,” she added. “The lack of serious consequences sends the message to Canadians that the safety of children is less important than the freedom of criminals and extremists.”

At press time, Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, had yet to comment. (Trudeau spoke yesterday with Israeli President Isaac Herzog about Jew-hatred after an attack on a Montreal synagogue.)

Pierre Poilievre, the Canadian opposition leader and head of the Conservative Party, stated that the shooting was “another horrific act of antisemitic violence at a Toronto elementary school for Jewish girls.”

“After nine years of New Democratic Party-Liberals, our people are living in fear, hate and violence are on the rise, and Trudeau does nothing,” he added. “Step up and protect our people.”


Tikvah Podcast: Terry Glavin on Anti-Semitism in Canada: How progressivism turned a polite, liberal country into a bastion of anti-Jewish hatred
About 120,000 Jews live in Toronto, a city of about three million residents. Eight out of every ten hate crimes in this city involve what local officials call an “anti-Jewish occurrence.” Then there is Montreal, with its 90,000 Jews and its total population of about 1.8 million. There, in the three months following October 7, 132 hate crimes were directed at Jews, which is ten times the number of total reported hate crimes as during the entire year of 2022. In fact, there has been, across Canada, a 670-percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents since October 7. This is in a nation of about 40 million, of which just 350,000 are Jewish. These data come from a blockbuster article by Terry Glavin, published last week. In Canada, hardly a week goes by, it seems, where synagogues are not vandalized, burned, or shot at. Moreover, the conventions that predominate elite institutions, government, media, and NGOs all hold as an orthodoxy that Israel is a unique evil, guilty of every modern sin. How did liberal, polite Canada become such a menacing place for its Jewish citizens?

Terry Glavin, a columnist with the National Post and a senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, joins Mosaic’s editor Jonathan Silver to discuss his recent article in the Free Press, “The Explosion of Jew-Hate in Trudeau’s Canada.” This article tells the story of how a liberal country collapsed into progressive ideological commitments, which, when applied to immigration policy, and laced with the intersectional logic of a racialized social doctrine, lost the capacity to resist institutional capture by the activists who most hate the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Toronto Jewish girls' school shot at for third time — how long will this go on?
Ezra Levant reports from outside the Bais Chaya Mushka Girls Elementary School, a Toronto Jewish girls' school that was shot at for a third time since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack against Israel.




David Collier: The Owen Jones BBC bias story is pure junk
Last night I slowly digested the new Owen Jones report, that claims (unbelievably) that there is a pro-Israel bias at the BBC. And as a result here is something I never thought I would ever say – that we should perhaps thank Owen Jones for writing what he did. His report on BBC bias may be utter junk, but it inadvertently highlights that identifiable Jews inside the BBC are being bullied and targeted by other BBC staff who hate Israel.

Let me explain.

The Owen Jones death spiral
Ever since the October 7 atrocities, Owen Jones has been falling deeper and deeper into his rabbit hole. As a journalist who started out as a Jeremy Corbyn fanboy, OJ’s standing was badly shaken by the Labour party antisemitism crisis and never truly recovered. Since 2019 he has tried to recreate himself numerous times yet found that the only people willing to listen to him were those that didn’t think that Labour had an antisemitism crisis in the first place. That particular bubble has a habit of forcing participants into a self-radicalisation spiral, and post October 7, Owen Jones became almost completely lost in an anti-Israel conspiratorial world. Dan Hodges recently went as far as describing Owen Jones as ‘being stuck in his death spiral’.

So Owen Jones just wrote an attack piece on the BBC claiming it is full of pro-Israel bias. His attack on the BBC is not new. Back in January, Owen Jones was referencing BBC bias in this conflict, highlighting research by two ‘data specialists’ Dana Najjar and Jan Lietava to show it.

These are the same two data specialists he has utilised for his latest work. Najjar is from Lebanon, a nation involved in the conflict with Israel. You also have to wonder if the ‘researcher’ Jan Lietava is the same person as the ‘photographer’ Jan Lietava who signed an ‘artists for Palestine’ petition in December last year. And the work of those two was merely continuing the argument put together by an academic activist named Holly Jackson. Jackson’s thesis at Columbia was on the ‘Israel lobby’. It seems Owen Jones only has concern for bias if it leans in a particular way.

The Owen Jones hit piece
The Owen Jones report is over 9200 words long. It is split into only four key points.

- The first section is about 13 journalists connected to the BBC who seem to think the BBC should be more pro-Hamas. Jones refers to them as ‘whistleblowers’. They remain anonymous but they are almost certainly BBC Arabic types or other BBC journos who began their careers working for Al Jazeera or stationed in Cairo or Beirut. This covers about 1000 words.
- Then the report focuses on Raffi Berg. A Jewish editor who works on the Middle East pages. Raffi Berg is mentioned 63 times in the report. In the 35 or so paragraphs in which Raffi Berg is explicitly mentioned there are over 3090 words. And that does not include the paragraphs around these mentions which are still all about him. Which means this report is obsessively focused on attacking a Jewish editor.
- A third section uses the death of a man with Downs Syndrome as a case study to highlight bias. More about this later. Contained about 1300 words.
- A final section presents a (very skewed) data analysis of BBC output. Approximately 1900 words.

First things first
The Owen Jones report is junk. Do not for a second think otherwise. If you want to be certain of its ‘junk’ status, consider this. The central thesis of his report is pro-Israel bias at the BBC. And yet he must have been aware that at least two major reports have recently been published (both serious studies -involving large teams and research spanning months -from Trevor Asserson and Danny Cohen) that argued the very opposite. Yet Owen Jones does not even mention them.

It would have been the first port of call for anyone considering a serious counter argument – the need to explain what was flawed in two large reports that argue the exact opposite of what you are claiming yourself. But Owen Jones ignored them completely, as if they do not exist. And this provides absolute proof that Owen Jones had no interest in truth or balance. He has turned up to spin a story. His has created an amateurish hit piece – with one central target – and it is no surprise to find the central target is a Jewish one.


‘Doctors are facing anti-Semitism from their colleagues – will the NHS protect them?’
In November last year, a London doctor was coming to the end of a meeting with his colleagues about a patient. As they left the room, a fellow medic turned to him. “Isn’t it a disgrace, disgusting what is happening in Gaza?” he said. “Yet again, it’s being done by the Jews.”

The doctor, who is not Israeli, but was wearing a kippah (a religious Jewish head-covering), was forced to listen to this colleague reminding him about the destruction of Gaza as they walked back to the ward.

Then there is Deborah*, an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse who last year reported a colleague who she says posted an anti-Semitic trope about Jews “drinking blood” on her social media page. “My colleague repeated the mantra ‘I have done nothing wrong’ and the case was dropped,” she says. The colleague now leaves the room every time Deborah enters.

Meanwhile, at one hospital in north-west England, Jewish junior doctors find themselves having to use an office computer with a screensaver of the Al Ahli hospital – the one that was hit by an by Islamic Jihad missile in October last year, rather than the Israeli air forces as the BBC originally claimed. “Stop Israeli Nazism!” is imposed on the image.

“In the last five days I have been told by a nurse that they thought I might be Jewish because of my nose and an Egyptian colleague that there is no Israel, and it’s called Palestine,” says Laura*, a trainee hospital doctor.

As these interviews reveal, from the loftiest consultant to the most junior auxiliary nurse, Jewish medics in the NHS are witnessing a creeping anti-Semitism that shows no signs of abating.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism includes: accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis, and holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

Dr David Katz is Emeritus Professor of Immunopathology at University College London, and executive chairman of the Jewish Medical Association. “It was there before October 7, but since then, the situation has changed considerably for the worse,” he says.

“There have been several episodes where unacceptable behaviour – both verbal and online – has been inflicted on Jewish junior doctors and medical students. But will their hospitals and medical schools protect them?”
British Medical Association investigates its own president over ‘antisemitic’ reposts
The British Medical Association, the union which effectively represents 190,000 doctors, is investigating its own president after complaints that she reposted numerous messages from antisemitic social media accounts.

The investigation against Dr Mary McCarthy, a Shropshire GP, has been announced in the wake of a meeting convened last week between the Jewish Medical Association and the medical regulatory body, the General Medical Council. It is understood that the Jewish medics expressed serious concerns about the rising level of antisemitism in the health services, made much worse and more public since the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023.

The BMA investigation, however, comes not as a result of complaints from doctors, but from Labour Against Anti-Semitism (LAAS), whose co-director, Alex Hearn, reported Dr McCarthy’s often controversial social media activism.

He told the BMA: “The function of the BMA is to represent British doctors, but instead your president appears more interested in a conflict thousands of miles away.”

She had, he said, “quoted an antisemitic account” and had also posted “someone’s description of the [Gaza] war as a ‘Holocaust’.”

Analysis of McCarthy’s Twitter/X account shows that she reposted a tweet by Susan Abulhawa (who took part in last month’s Oxford Union debate proposing the motion that Israel was an apartheid state which had committed genocide), which said: “We need teams of lawyers now to go after complicit world leaders and… corporations and ‘non-profits’ profiting from this Holocaust.”

LAAS also alleged that McCarthy had also retweeted “incendiary”posts by Sarah Wilkinson, an activist for Palestine Action.

One doctor who asked to remain anonymous told Jewish News: “The BMA is fixated on issues in Israel and Gaza instead of fulfilling its role as a UK doctors’ union concerned with UK healthcare matters.

“Hatred of Jews, often in the guise of the demonisation of the state of Israel which drives growing antisemitism, is increasingly endemic and blatantly expressed in healthcare settings and by key health stakeholders across the UK. The authorities, including the police and the General Medical Council, have been slow to act and in most cases inactive on this type of racism, and this inaction deepens inequalities against Jews in this country.

“Dr McCarthy is not only a prominent healthcare leader, but also a registered doctor and as such is caring for vulnerable patients who need to be protected from her racist ideology. We need transparency regarding numbers of concerns raised against doctors alleged to be displaying hate against Jews and how many cases have led to police/ GMC actions. The police and the GMC need to take urgent action against those doctors who pose a risk to patients and the general public. [Health Secretary] Wes Streeting has called for action against these doctors, and the government now needs proactively to drive and monitor this action”.
House Republicans call on Congress to cut off federal funding to universities that boycott Israel
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and top House Republicans called on Congress to cut off federal funding to universities that target Israel in an after-action report detailing the findings of their seven-month investigation into the surge of domestic antisemitism.

One of the 11 policy recommendations made to Congress, the White House and the universities themselves in the report, released on Tuesday, states that the House and Senate “should pass legislation removing Title IV eligibility from any university that boycotts or divests from Israel.”

Such legislation would ban any university that boycotts Israel from receiving federal funding.

Another recommendation calls on universities to “recognize that discrimination against ‘Zionists’ is an unacceptable antisemitic civil rights violation.”

“Across the nation, Jewish Americans have been harassed, assaulted, intimidated, and subjected to hostile environments — violations that stand in stark contrast to America’s fundamental values, including a foundational commitment to religious freedom for all,” the report reads.

“The Committees’ findings are alarming. For instance, some of our most prominent American universities refused to crack down on antisemitism,” it adds. “In fact, many colleges handed down disparate disciplinary actions for Jewish students versus their antagonists—the students who engaged in antisemitic behavior, encampments, and intimidating tactics such as campus checkpoints and tax-exempt organizations that enabled and funded violent campus protests, among other troubling findings.”

The claims about universities refusing to address antisemitism on campus are in line with what the House Education and Workforce Committee alleged in its report on antisemitism in higher education in October.

The joint committee investigation also looked into antisemitism in federal agencies and programs, such as the foreign student visa program or the tax loopholes provided to nonprofit organizations and universities. In addition to Education and Workforce, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Judiciary Committee, Oversight Committee, Veterans’ Affairs Committee and Ways and Means Committee took part in the probe.
Philadelphia school district reaches agreement after Title VI investigation
The School District of Philadelphia, the largest school district in Pennsylvania, has resolved a federal investigation into allegations of Jew-hatred by choosing to comply with numerous directives from the federal government.

On Dec. 19, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that the district had accepted a resolution agreement to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The investigation into the school district was initiated by complaints of antisemitic incidents, including Nazi salutes; swastikas drawn on doors and boards; threats to “kill the Jews”; students dressing in Nazi attire; and allegations of district staff engaging in social-media harassment.

According to the Education Department, the district failed to maintain records on the incidents or to fulfill its legal obligation to determine whether a hostile environment existed and take action in response.

The investigation also found that district staff members appear to have retaliated against parents involved in filing the Title VI complaint and other complaints of shared Jewish ancestry harassment.

To resolve the complaint, the district agreed to such measures as issuing an anti-harassment statement; reviewing discrimination policies; training staff annually; providing age-appropriate training for students between sixth and 12th grades; and reviewing responses to discrimination reports from the previous two school years.

“The Philadelphia School District has committed to taking essential steps to redress any hostile environment in its schools so that Jewish students, like all students, can learn in an environment free from discriminatory harassment,” said Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights for the Department of Education.
Estonian government rebukes university for cutting ties with Israeli institution
An Estonian university has cut ties with an Israeli university, setting off a chain of rebukes from the government, and pressure from its board.

The rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts, or EKA, now says the decision to cut ties will be reviewed. The rector, Mart Kalm, also said critics of the decision had misinterpreted a “technical matter” for an ideological one.

“I should apologize for my imprecise wording, which has upset people, taken on a life of its own, and allowed misunderstandings to arise,” Kalm said on an Estonian news show.

The firestorm erupted after EKA canceled a design anthropology workshop with a visiting Israeli professor last week. The workshop with Jonathan Ventura, a professor at Shenkar College in Tel Aviv, was slated for February.

EKA also said it now has no partnerships with Israeli or Palestinian universities, citing “difficult international and in-house sentiments” surrounding Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. In a statement on Tuesday, the university said that it “sympathizes with all those who are suffering in the current war.”

The statement added, “EKA wants to provide a safe study, work and creative environment for its members, students and staff, regardless of generation, religion or worldview.”

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal rebuffed the move in a press conference, saying, “I believe the academy should reconsider this decision.”


I’m an Ivy League undergrad — here’s why my campus sides with Luigi Mangione
I’ve seen this phenomenon firsthand in my role as president of Princeton’s premier pro-Israel student organization.

Antisemitism has deeply interwoven itself among both students and faculty — and clearly, Jews were only the first targets of the pervasive moral rot.

Just last week, the Daily Princetonian published an article exploring the campus dialogue surrounding Israel, or the lack of it.

I told the paper I’d certainly be willing to sit down and have a conversation with a student supporter of the Palestinian cause.

After all, isn’t college supposed to be a place where you challenge yourself intellectually, engage with diverse perspectives and attempt to share your ideas on critical issues with those around you?

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Apparently not.

“You don’t go around asking oppressed people why they don’t have conversations with their oppressors,” a pro-Palestinian senior scolded the paper.

Of course it’s ludicrous to suggest that pro-Israel students at Princeton are the “oppressors” of anyone, much less of our anti-Israel counterparts.

If anything, the evidence suggests the contrary: Jewish students were attacked and told they “don’t deserve to live” at Columbia, blocked from going to class at UCLA and harassed on campuses nationwide, including mine.

And while this oppressor-oppressed dynamic is not new, the extent of its application absolutely is.

Throughout the West, anti-Israel protesters have chanted for the past year that “All resistance is justified.” In New York City, posters and stickers have declared that “Rape is resistance.”

Now the same rationale is being applied to justify Brian Thompson’s murder.

In the current climate, many people my age see Mangione as a resister, something of a martyr, while capitalist CEOs like Thompson are framed as the unquestionable oppressors.

Just as my fellow Princeton student dismissed the notion of conversing with someone like me, Brian Thompson, as a member of the class of oppression, was not entitled to a conversation.

Instead, he was condemned without trial, his murder rationalized as resistance by a privileged young person with two Ivy League degrees.

That so many students and other young people are failing this basic moral test is a searing indictment of our education system and “elite” institutions.

The students who are celebrated as our nation’s most brilliant are often adopting the most morally perverse positions.

This is not just a campus problem, but one with far-reaching consequences.

The institutions tasked with educating our (supposedly) brightest minds have instead become breeding grounds for moral equivocation.

Universities that once championed critical thinking and open inquiry are now dominated by ideological conformity and simplistic binaries — and we risk raising a generation that cannot distinguish right from wrong.

The reckoning, from elementary school on up, must begin now, before my generation’s morally confused graduates take the helm as your governors, senators and presidents, dragging their dangerous ideas into the halls of power.


Is This DC-Area University Becoming a Hotbed of Terrorist Supporters?
Is the Northern Virginia campus of George Mason University cultivating a nest of anti-Israel and antisemitic terrorist supporters a half-hour’s drive from the nation’s capital? News reports that three of its students, all of Middle Eastern origin, have had recent run-ins with the police over weapons and pro-terror material are troubling, to say the least.

Two of the students are Palestinian American sisters and leaders in the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, one of the main organizers of the protests, riots, and encampments at George Mason, Columbia, and other universities over the past year. The raid of their home, which turned up guns, ammunition, and antisemitic and anti-American “hate” material, has been reported on for a few days, though the legacy media has been downplaying the story.

But it has also emerged overnight that another George Mason University student, an Egyptian national named Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, was arrested in December for, according to the charging papers, “distribution of information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction in furtherance of the commission of a federal crime of violence” to an FBI informant.

He was arraigned for also planning “a mass casualty attack at the Consulate General of Israel [in New York City] using an explosive device and rifle.” He chose the consulate because it was “a building that represented the ‘Yahud,’” which is Arabic for “Jew.”

The charging papers said that Hassan was communicating with the FBI informant through X, which revealed that two X accounts “were both accessed via an IP address associated with a university campus in Northern Virginia, within the Eastern District of Virginia. On that same day, the FBI observed Hassan on that university campus.”

The university confirmed to us that Hassan “is enrolled at Mason.” The university was asked when university President Gregory Washington knew about Hassan’s arrest and whether he is also a U.S. citizen.

“More information will be forthcoming in a message from President Washington,” likely Wednesday, Rose Pascarell, the school’s vice president for university life, said in an email.


Rutgers Faculty Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Against Israel
Faculty unions at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey have passed a resolution calling for the adoption of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

According to an announcement issued by the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) 58 percent of faculty “voted” yes to divest from corporations linked to Israel and suspend all programs with Tel Aviv University, while 38 percent “voted no.” A similar resolution was approved by the university’s chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which represents adjunct professors, with 62 percent voting yes.

“Our unions have many fights ahead of us,” said a joint statement issued by the two groups last Friday. “We will need to work together to resist the Rutgers administration’s ongoing attempts to undermine our contract victories. We will face the consequences at Rutgers of the incoming Trump administration’s looming assault on all of higher education.”

It continued, “In confronting the challenges that 2025 will bring, we will be stronger if we are united across union, rank, department, school, and campus — as were during our victorious strike in 2023. Together we fight! Together we win!”

Launched in 2005, the BDS campaign opposes Zionism — a movement supporting the Jewish people’s right to self-determination — and rejects Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish nation-state. It seeks to isolate the country with economic, political, and cultural boycotts. Official guidelines issued for the campaign’s academic boycott state that “projects with all Israeli academic institutions should come to an end,” and delineate specific restrictions that its adherents should abide by — for instance, denying letters of recommendation to students applying to study abroad in Israel.

The unions’ passing a resolution which calls for BDS comes amid new scrutiny of the role faculty — specifically the group Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) — have played in fostering campus unrest, extremism, and antisemitism — a problem which drew fresh attention this week when it was announced that Columbia University is allowing a professor who cheered Hamas’s atrocities against Israelis last Oct. 7 to teach a course on Zionism. At Rutgers, for example, this month’s resolution was heavily promoted by FJP, which accused the university of supporting genocide in over a dozen social media posts it published to promote it.


Allegation: Carnegie Mellon Prof to Jewish Student: Time on Jewish-Related Project "Would Have Been Better Spent" Exploring "What Jews Do To Make Themselves Such a Hated Group"
Some excerpts from Canaan v. Carnegie Mellon Univ., decided Tuesday by Judge Scott Hardy (W.D. Pa.); the opinion is 15,000 words, so this can only give a flavor of the matter. First, the allegations from plaintiff's Complaint (which, at this stage of the case, the court assumes to be factually accurate in determining whether the plaintiff has a legal basis for her claim):

Ms. Canaan was taking one of her required studio classes where students receive hands-on, practical instruction in architectural design, making models and applying lessons learned in their other classes. These studio classes typically involve small groups, open discussions, and one-on-one meetings with professors. Students receive critically important feedback individually as well as in small group and class-wide settings. On May 5, 2022, Ms. Canaan had the final review for her semester-long studio class project, which was a model she designed depicting the conversion of a public space in a New York City neighborhood into a private space through an eruv (i.e., an integral feature of neighborhoods with large devout Jewish populations). {Plaintiff's Complaint describes an eruv as a "small wire boundary that symbolically extends the private domain of devoutly religious Jewish households into public areas, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath."}

In response to questions, Ms. Canaan was explaining the concept of an eruv to Mary-Lou Arscott, Professor and Associate Head for Design Fundamentals at the School of Architecture …, when Professor Arscott cut Ms. Canaan off and told her that "the wall in the model looked like the wall Israelis use to barricade Palestinians out of Israel," and that the time Ms. Canaan had used to prepare her project "would have been better spent if [Ms. Canaan] had instead explored 'what Jews do to make themselves such a hated group.'" …


Media Celebrate Images by Photographers With Unethical Ties to Hamas
Hamas couldn’t have asked for better coverage. The terror group’s yearslong investment in relations with Gaza journalists who work for the foreign media has paid off once again.

The annual end-of-year photo galleries of Reuters, the Associated Press, CNN, Time Magazine, and The New York Times, featured heart-wrenching images by photographers who were previously exposed by HonestReporting for having unethical ties to Hamas.

Reuters’ Mohammed Salem, AP’s Fatima Shbair, and The New York Times’ Samar Abu Elouf — all had been honored by Hamas or taken an active part in its “Loyalty Day” events. But it didn’t stop their outlets from presenting their tainted work as a pinnacle of journalistic achievement.

Reuters’ Questionable Standards
Reuters news agency praised a photo by Mohammed Jadallah Salem, showing a surreal Gaza scene: Wedding dresses “for sale” displayed on mannequins amid debris, as displaced Palestinians walk by.

So surreal, in fact, that one wonders whether the picture was deliberately staged. But that’s beside the point: Any junior photo editor in the once-respected news agency should have spiked photos taken by Salem, by virtue of HonestReporting’s exposé of his cozy relationship with Hamas.

The same applies to CNN, which also included photos by Salem in its 2024 gallery.

In 2017, Salem — who recently won the Pulitzer prize and the World Press Photo award — received an award from Hamas on behalf of his brother Suhaib, the head of Reuters visuals in Gaza. Two senior Hamas officials granted the commendation: Khalil al-Hayya and Mushir al-Masri.

Al-Hayya has publicly called for a fight against Israel as “the head of the serpent,” and al-Masri has vowed to “uproot the Zionists with our axes, knives, guns.”

Such a relationship between a journalist and those he should be objectively covering is inherently flawed. Based on Reuters’ code of ethics, his work is compromised. It should be discarded, not celebrated.
Stand With Us: Urge the Pittsburgh City Paper to Rescind Award to Campus Hate Group
In a twisted turn of events, the Pittsburgh City Paper has granted Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Pittsburgh the 2024 People of the Year Award in the activism category for "bringing the Gaza crisis to Pittsburgh." Email the paper letting them know that SJP is a hate group that deserves condemnation, not an award.

On various individual campuses and nationally, SJP promoted bigotry and sown discord. For example, there have been numerous reports on how SJP chapters across North America have threatened and glorified violence against Jewish students and others who support Israel’s existence, including by harassing and even assaulting student leaders and others. Immediately after the October 7th massacre, National SJP called the murder, torture, rape, and kidnapping of innocent people, including US citizens, a “historic win.” Furthermore, the "activism" of SJP at the University of Pittsburgh has included:
- Condemning the US' designation of Samidoun as a terrorist organization. Samidoun was originally founded as a charitable organization whose stated purpose is raising funds and awareness for Palestinian "political prisoners." In reality, many of these political prisoners are members of a designated terrorist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Recently, the US sanctioned Samidoun and referred to it as a "sham charity that operates as a funding organ for a terrorist organization..."

- Hosting a fundraiser for Islamic Relief USA, an affiliate of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). The US State Department cut ties with IRW, due to repeated antisemitism exhibited by its leadership and the German government ended projects with the group due to its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

- Calling for the immediate termination of Hillel Jewish University Center (JUC) of Pittsburgh, the center for Jewish life on campus, and the Student Coalition for Israel at Pitt (SCIP) because they support Zionism. Zionism is the belief that Jews have a right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland, and is an important part of Jewish identity for the vast majority of Jews.

This decision undermines the integrity and credibility of the Pittsburgh City Paper, which is owned by Block Communications. It is unacceptable for an American news outlet to honor an organization that supports violence and terrorism, and has a history of antisemitic behavior on campus.


Starmer pledges to support hostages and combat antisemitism at first Chanukah reception as PM
Keir Starmer hosted his first Chanukah reception at Downing Street on Tuesday, pledging to do "everything I can" to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza and to end the suffering for their families.

The event was attended by a broad range of Jewish community leaders, including Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, representatives from the Charedi and Progressive Jewish communities, as well as other prominent figures.

In his speech, the Prime Minister expressed admiration for the Jewish community's resilience, describing how it continues to "shine a light" on wider society, especially during difficult times.

Starmer told the guests: “You have every right to be here,” adding that Downing Street is a place for everyone, including the Jewish community, which, he said, played a vital role in British society.

Starmer also acknowledged the challenges faced by the Jewish community this year, highlighting the rise in antisemitism and the ongoing hostage crisis in Gaza.

"I am absolutely acutely aware of just how difficult the year has been on so many levels," Starmer said. “We will do everything we can so the Jewish community stands tall and proud and safe and secure, stamping out intimidation wherever we find it.”

The Prime Minister spoke movingly about his recent meetings with families of the hostages.

"We spoke at length, very personally," Starmer shared, recalling moments where they sat in silence, struggling to find words due to the emotional weight of the situation.

He added: "I've felt [their] torture – and I do genuinely think it's torture that the families are going through in relation to the awful situation of the hostages.”

The Prime Minister met Mandy Damari, mother of Emily Damari, the only British-Israeli citizen who is still in Gaza 440 days after her abduction by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy ‘shocked’ after hearing evidence of antisemitism in the arts
Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport said that “Antisemitism is as unacceptable in the arts as it is anywhere else in society” after hearing testimony about Jew-hatred in the arts and civil society on Wednesday.

Nandy met with a delegation led by the Board of Deputies and included Jewish cultural sector leaders and leading performers like actor Tracy-Ann Oberman, presenter Rachel Riley, BAFTA-nominated film-maker Benjamin Till, UK Jewish Film Festival CEO Michael Etherton and JW3 CEO Raymond Simonson, to share experiences and discuss solutions.

Concerns were raised about venues who refused to host Jewish performers, funding cuts for Jewish cultural programmes that have traditionally enjoyed support, and the growing feeling that Jews are being frozen out of the arts.

The group, which included representatives from CST, the JLC, Maccabi GB and the Jewish Museum, also raised the issue of vexatious complaints against Jewish charities, apparently weaponised by some anti-Israel groups.

The delegation spoke about the need for additional safeguards against these malicious acts.

Following the meeting, facilitated by Lord Mann – the government’s independent antisemitism advisor – Nandy said she was: “Shocked and very concerned by the scale and extent of their experiences.”

She added: “Antisemitism is as unacceptable in the arts as it is anywhere else in society. I gave my firm commitment that I will continue to work with the community so that we root out the unacceptable prejudice that they have faced.

Nandy went on to say that: “Art and culture are a powerful medium for bringing communities together. It is vital that we celebrate the enormous contribution made by our Jewish community, and that Jewish artists and institutions are free from abuse or discrimination as they carry out their work.”


US Justice Department charges IRGC captain in murder of US citizen
The U.S. Department of Justice announced murder charges against an Iranian captain in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday for the 2022 murder of a U.S. citizen in Iraq.

Mohammad Reza Nouri, 36, of Iran, is accused of orchestrating the murder of Stephen Troell, a Tennessee native who was working at an English language institute in Baghdad, as a response to the U.S. assassination of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020.

“Nouri is alleged to have gathered intelligence on Troell’s daily routine and whereabouts, procured weapons and vehicles and provided safe harbor to the operatives who carried out the sinister plot to brutally attack Troell in front of his wife,” stated Edward Kim, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

“As alleged, the Iranian regime is actively targeting U.S. citizens, such as Troell, living in countries around the world for kidnapping and execution both to repress and silence dissidents critical of the regime and to take vengeance for the death of Qasem Soleimani,” Kim added.

The Justice Department is charging Nouri with nine felony counts, including murder and provision of material support to a foreign terrorist organization resulting in death. Two of the charges are capital crimes. The rest carry maximum penalties of life in prison.

Nouri and a hit squad of about nine men stalked Troell’s movements and attacked and killed him as he drove home from work with his wife. They did so under the false belief that Troell was an American or Israeli intelligence officer, according to the Justice Department.

Nouri allegedly returned to Iran on the night of the murder and arranged housing in the city of Qom for the other members of the assassination team, who subsequently joined him in Iran.

“Nouri and another IRGC official addressed the operatives during their stay in Iran, offered their blessings to the hit squad and told them that Troell was purportedly a spy on behalf of America and Israel, that Troell threatened Islam by attracting Iraqi youths to the Jewish religion and spreading it in Iraq and that Troell therefore deserved to be murdered,” per the complaint.
Holocaust denier with weapons stash sentenced in Scotland after planning attack on LGBT
A high court in Glasgow, Scotland sentenced Alan Edward, 55, for terrorism and firearms-related offenses on Thursday after it was discovered that he promoted a banned neo-Nazi group, incited racial hatred, and police uncovered a weapons stash, Scotland’s Counter Terrorism Unit confirmed on Friday.

Edward was handed a 15-year extended sentence, with 10 years in jail and five years on license (parol) once released.

Officers noted that, in addition to promoting the banned neo-Nazi group, Edward incited Jew-hatred and Holocaust denial. It was while attending Edward’s address in Falkirk in September 2022 to discuss his online activities that police discovered a large number of weapons.

The weapons included a crossbow, 14 knives including some featuring Nazi insignia, a machete, a sword, a knuckleduster, a stun gun, and arrowheads, Jewish News reported citing prosecutors. Sky News reported he also had in his possession an air pistol, an SS-style skull mask, goggles, a respirator, fighting gloves with hardened knuckles, pellets, and ball bearings.

Discussing an attack on the local LGBT community
Over WhatsApp, Edwards had reportedly discussed carrying out an attack on a local LGBT group, Sky News reported.

"They have been pushing their luck for years, now they will pay in blood," Edwards reportedly wrote. "We should get masked up and go do a few of them in at their little gay club."

In total, the father of one was convicted of 14 offences, including four terrorism charges, Scottish media reported. Some of those offenses also related to an indoor Cannabis plantation.

The defense, Allan MacLeod, reportedly claimed that the 55-year-old had spent a lot of time “socializing” on the internet, and the stun gun didn’t work.

Detective Superintendent Stephen Clark, Head of Counter Terrorism Investigations at Police Scotland, said: “Edward shared extreme racist and homophobic content online with the aim of stirring up hatred and spreading fear and alarm. His complete disregard for the corrosive impact this could have on our communities heightened these dangerous actions.

“It is entirely unacceptable to promote terrorism or extremism, and this conviction displays how we will not hesitate to investigate online or offline behavior which breaches terrorism or other criminal legislation. Holding an array of weaponry posed a clear and significant risk to the public which underlines the importance of him being brought to justice.”
UK sentences 'idiot' Hamas supporter who sent threatening message to
Mohammed Nafees Ahmed, a 32-year-old father of two, was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to eight charges of supporting Hamas, West Midlands police confirmed on Friday.

Ahmed had published “ant[is]emitic, violent and threatening” material on social media, police confirmed. He shared support for Hamas and repeatedly celebrated reports and videos of Israeli soldiers being killed.

In addition to targeting Jews and Israelis in his posts, Ahmed reportedly targeted a number of UK figures - including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, according to international media reports.

Responding to Starmer’s Channukah post last year, Ahed sent a knife emoji and the text, “You Zionist, your time will come.”

Ahmed also targeted then-home secretary Suella Braverman in November, according to the Independent. After Braverman made a post complaining of the UK’s former leadership's handling of antisemitism, Ahmed responded, “You still alive, you witch.”

While working as an accountant, he also reportedly called for “Jihad” and antisemitic violence in the UK, according to media reports. In October 2023, he posted, “Wipe them off the map. Death to Israel and America.”

“Parish Juda” (death to Jews) Ahmed sent In November in response to an X post made by US President Joe Biden. Despite this, his defense lawyer claimed, “he does not see himself as being in any way antisemitic. That is his view when asked about it,” the Independent reported.
Teenagers sentenced for antisemitic rampage in Stamford Hill
Two teenagers who targeted Jewish women and girls in an antisemitic rampage in Stamford Hill have been sentenced.

The two teenagers, who cannot be named because of their age, targeted the victims in four separate incidents over the course of half an hour in December 2023 – including one attack which left a woman unconscious.

They were both found guilty of attempt robbery, religiously aggravated harassment and ABH after trial with one of the defendants also found guilty of attempted theft.

They were both sentenced to a Youth Rehabilitation Order for 18 months. They were also ordered to undertake a rehabilitation activity requirement for 30 and 45 hours and placed under curfew with an electronic tag for three months.

The Crown Prosecution Service successfully applied for a tougher sentence to be handed down to reflect the fact that the majority of attacks were motivated by hate.

In the first incident, the teenagers approached a woman on St. Ann’s Road and demanded money from her. One of the teenagers tried to hit the victim but missed, and she managed to escape.

Just 10 minutes later, the teenagers approached a 12-year-old girl near Holmdale Terrace, with one of them demanding money from her. It was only when it became apparent that the young victim did not have any money, that they let her go and walked off towards Stamford Hill Station.

Within five minutes, the teenagers started harassing a group of four 11-year-old girls, using antisemitic language and asking them for money. The young girls were clearly frightened and ran away from them as they crossed the High Road at a pedestrian crossing.
Brighton theatre doubles down on play inspired by poet who called Jews ‘evil’
A Brighton theatre has doubled down on a youth production of a play inspired by a Palestinian activist who described Jews as “evil” and defended the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel after prominent figures in the art world have come out to support it.

Arts leaders rallied behind the Brighton youth theatre group, which is set to open its production in Brighton Dome tomorrow. In an open letter, artists including writer Michael Rosen, playwright Caryl Churchill and actors Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter supported ThirdSpace children’s theatre’s controversial production Let it Be a Tale. The "Artists for Palestine" letter accused critics of attempting to “shut down conversation on crucial questions of justice, war and human rights”.

The youth theatre production of the new play sparked outrage among some members of the local Jewish community for its title – taken from the last line of the poem If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer, a well-known writer and academic.

Alareer, who was killed in Gaza on 6 December 2023, said in a BBC interview that Hamas’s October 7 attack was "legitimate and moral".

On an X accounted linked to him in 2012, he allegedly posted: “Are most jews evil? of course they are. After hearing a now-debunked claim that an Israeli baby had been found dead in an oven on October 7, he posted on X: “With or without baking powder?”

Some pro-Palestine activists view Alareer as a hero, and posters bearing his quotes and face can be seen at rallies.

In an interview with the play’s director, Tanushka Marah, Let it Be a Tale was described as exploring themes of “resistance”

Marah, a former pro-Palestine independent candidate, was criticised for stoking division during the 2024 election when she campaigned against politicians who had expressed support for Israel. The National Jewish Assembly (NJA) accused Marah of “inflammatory and unfounded” comments about Labour MPs. “Such rhetoric only serves to deepen divisions within the community and does nothing to foster a constructive dialogue on the complex and nuanced issues at hand,” NJA said.

Marah’s production in Brighton is funded by Arts Council England, the UK government and Brighton & Hove City Council and will run for five performances from December 20 at Brighton Dome. On the theatre’s website it says the play weaves “folk stories from Ukraine, North and West Africa, the Middle East, and beyond” and is “for brave children aged 8 to 108”.
Two men deny alleged terror plot to attack Jewish community in North West
Two men have appeared in court to deny plotting to carry out an Islamic State-inspired gun attack on the Jewish community in the North West.

Walid Saadaoui, 37, of Crankwood Road, Abram, Wigan, and Amar Hussein, 51, of no fixed abode, appeared at the Old Bailey in London via videolink on Friday afternoon (December 20).

They each pleaded not guilty to preparation of terrorist acts, namely that between December 13 2023 and May 9 2024, with the intention of committing acts of terrorism, they arranged for the purchase and delivery of firearms, conducted reconnaissance and made plans of attack.

A third co-defendant, Walid’s brother Bilel Saadaoui, 35, from Hindley, Wigan, pleaded not guilty to a single charge of failing to disclose acts of terrorism between the same dates. All three defendants appeared in court vie videolink.

The judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, adjourned the case until March 14 for a further pre-trial preparation hearing. The trial is scheduled for October next year.


Save a Child’s Heart delivers lifesaving heart surgeries to children in Zambia
An Israeli humanitarian organisation conducted a life-saving mission in Zambia this week.

An international team of medical professionals from Israel, Tanzania and Zambia from Save a Child’s Heart treated 25 children with congenital heart defects. The team comprises cardiologists, surgeons, anesthesiologists, ICU specialists, technicians and nurses.

In the groundbreaking collaboration, doctors from Israel’s Wolfson Medical Centre, Tanzania’s Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute and Zambia’s National Heart Hospital performed open heart surgery and catheterisation procedures.

Leading the efforts were Dr. Godwin Godfrey Sharau of Tanzania and Dr. Mudaniso Kumani Ziwa of Zambia, both trained by Save a Child’s Heart in Israel. They worked alongside Tanzanian and Zambian teams, many of whom have undergone specialised training in Israel through Save a Child’s Heart.

Dr. Lior Sasson, director of paediatric cardiac surgery at WMC, observed firsthand the collaboration of two generations of surgeons he has trained in Israel over the past 15 years, as they worked together to save the lives of 10 children.

In addition to the open-heart surgeries, the team visited Zambia to repair heart defects in children without the need for open-heart surgery.

To support the success of these sophisticated interventions, Save a Child’s Heart is donating essential medical supplies and a portable echocardiography machine.

Since 2017, Save a Child’s Heart has worked closely with Zambia’s Ministry of Health to strengthen pediatric cardiac care. This partnership has resulted in the treatment of more than 100 Zambian children and the training of medical professionals in advanced cardiac care techniques at Save a Child’s Heart in Israel, as well as 10 nurses trained in Tanzania.


Israeli Tech CEO, Shot in Chest in Gaza, Sells Company for $100M
Itamar ben Hemo, the CEO of an Israeli tech startup called Rivery, survived being shot in the chest while in combat in Gaza earlier this year and signed a $100 million deal with data management company Boomi in the U.S. this week.

The story is one of many similar ones in Israel — of men and women with jobs and families and lives who put everything on hold to fight for their country in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after the October 7, 2023, attack.

The Times of Israel reported:
On October 7, 2023, Israeli expat Ben Hemo was in Israel on a visit from the US, as his family had moved back to Israel after his daughter decided to join the IDF. Following the brutal onslaught on southern communities by Hamas terrorists that day — some 1,200 people were killed in southern Israel and 251 taken hostage in the Gaza Strip — there was no other thought for Ben Hemo other than to immediately check his military gear and volunteer for reserve duty in his paratrooper unit to join the fighting, he told The Times of Israel on Thursday.

For the next three months, the 49-year-old major, who previously served many years in a paratrooper division around Gaza, participated in military missions — including the evacuation of survivors of the Hamas massacre in the kibbutzim and rescue actions in Gaza — while using breaks in combat to conduct management meetings every couple of days, either from his car or nearby border communities, he said.

Ben Hemo was hit in the chest close to his heart by a bullet fired from a Kalashnikov assault rifle and suffered internal organ damage, and his commander was severely injured as well, he said.

After being injured in January, Ben Hemo spent three months recovering in the hospital, and slowly returned to his duties at work, aided by colleagues who kept the company going in the U.S. and in the United Kingdom.

Their hard work paid off, as Calcalist reported this week, with a massive, life-changing Silicon Valley acquisition:
Budapest, haunted by Holocaust, welcomes Israeli visitors
One chilly winter night in Budapest, from our hotel room overlooking the iconic Váci Street, we were taken by surprise to hear a group of young Israelis enthusiastically singing “Am Yisrael Chai!” (The People of Israel Live!).

But in hindsight, we shouldn’t have been so astounded. After all, we were in Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Hungary—a country that staunchly supports Israel at a time when much of Europe seems to be turning against the Jewish state.

Hungary’s stance—notably free of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment—marks a remarkable shift, especially considering the country’s horrific history. Eight decades ago, some 565,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.

As Israel continues to fight back against Iran and its regional terror proxies following the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, Hungary’s unwavering support stands out, embracing Israel while other nations have distanced themselves from the Jewish state.

Hungary’s welcoming atmosphere towards Israelis is no coincidence. Flights from Tel Aviv to Budapest are now packed, thanks to Orbán’s embrace of his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his firm stance against the wave of radical antisemitic migrants that have plagued Western Europe, terrorizing Jewish communities in cities like Amsterdam, Paris, and London. Hungary has avoided such issues through its tough border policies.

Just days after the Hamas assault on Israel, Orbán affirmed that “Israel has a right to defend itself” and made it clear that Hungary would not tolerate rallies or demonstrations supporting “terrorist organizations.” He also invited Netanyahu to Budapest last month despite the arrest warrant issued for him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which Orbán called “outrageously brazen” and “cynical.”
Jewish charity helps 83 Righteous Gentile Holocaust heroes celebrate holidays
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous is sending more than £254k to 83 Righteous Gentile rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust living in 10 different countries –the largest one-time seasonal award in the foundation’s history.

The JFR provides financial stipends for aged and needy Righteous Gentiles, helping to repay a debt of gratitude on behalf of the Jewish people for their heroism.

Since its founding, the foundation has provided more than £35 million to an estimated 3,600 rescuers in more than 34 countries.

As the years pass from the Holocaust, the number of living rescuers has dwindled. The remaining Righteous Gentiles who are receiving this year’s holiday awards live in Australia, Belarus, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden and Ukraine.

This year’s disbursements, totalling just over £4k per rescuer, includes around £3k to each of 83 rescuers along with their usual estimated £1,200 award for the September to December period.

The awards mark the largest individual holiday disbursement per rescuer that the JFR has sent in its 30-year history. The JFR disburses its ongoing awards to rescuers three times annually, the third and final in December ahead of the holidays.

JFR executive vice president Stanlee Stahl said: “Each of these Righteous Gentiles is a hero who confronted their mortality to save their Jewish neighbours from Nazi persecution during the Holocaust.
Hundreds of Jewish teens gather in Berlin to recite ‘Shema’
In a powerful display of Jewish pride and resilience, hundreds of Jewish youth from across Europe gathered at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate—once a symbol of Nazi power—to celebrate their identity, despite rising antisemitism throughout the continent.

The European Jewish Youth Congress, which took place from Dec. 13-15 and was organized by Chabad‘s global CTeen movement, brought together young Jewish leaders for a three-day conference focused on community building and cultural preservation in challenging times.

Standing where Hitler’s forces once marched, they joined together in declaring “Shema Yisrael” (“Hear, O Israel”), followed by a performance of the Israeli song “Tamid Ohev Oti” (“God Always Love Me”), more commonly known as “Od Yoter Tov.”

Over the three days, the youth engaged in a program addressing their pressing concerns, including discussions about the challenges facing Jewish communities and strategies for addressing them. The gathering was led by Berlin’s Chief Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal and attended by notable figures, including Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor.

My message is clear: if there is one thing the October 7 massacre taught us, it is that terror is closer than we want to believe and that its violence knows no boundaries.


Oldest surviving tablet of the Ten Commandments sells for almost £4m
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments, approximately 1,500 years old, was sold for just under £4 million at Sotheby’s New York.

The 115-pound marble artifact, dating to the Late Roman-Byzantine period (ca. 300–800 CE), is the only complete example of its kind from antiquity.

The rare tablet was sold to an anonymous buyer who plans to sell it to an Israeli institution. At auction, it surpassed its pre-sale estimate of £800,000 to £1,660,000.

It was unearthed in 1913 during railway excavations along the southern coast of Israel, near the sites of early synagogues, mosques, and churches.

The significance of the discovery went unrecognised for decades, and for thirty years it served as a paving stone at the entrance to a home, exposing the inscription to foot traffic.

The marble tablet, inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew script, was finally identified in 1943 by leading archaeologist Dr. Jacob Kaplan, as a rare Samaritan Decalogue.

It features nine Biblical commandments and a unique directive to worship on Mount Gerizim, central to Samaritan tradition.

In 1947, Kaplan published its significance in the Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, explaining its 1913 discovery.

Measuring approximately two feet in height, the tablet may have originally been displayed in a synagogue or a private dwelling. Its original location was likely to have been destroyed during either the Roman invasions of 400- 600 CE or the later Crusades of the 11th century.

Following Dr. Kaplan’s publication revealing the significance of the tablet in 1947, the historical object has been studied by leading scholars in the field and published in numerous scholarly articles and books.


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