2025 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Israel informed Doha of the imminent strike on Hamas officials?

Israel notified both the US and Qatari authorities before carrying out an airstrike on the Hamas headquarters in Doha in an attempt to eliminate senior leaders of the terrorist organization, Israel Hayom has learned. The notification was given in line with a commitment made by Jerusalem to Washington and Doha, a pledge that has been reaffirmed several times during the war. Alongside the advance notice, it is highly likely that the US also gave its approval for the strike.

Huh? Israel told Doha about an upcoming attack so they could tell Hamas leaders to get out?

Unless this was communicated seconds before the attack, I simply do not understand.

Hamas claims that none of its leadership was killed. It can easily be a lie, but why would Israel give Qatar a chance to warn Hamas?

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Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism, writes in Haaretz:

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is charming, attractive, bright and a natural politician. Energetic, enormously talented and only thirty-three years old, in the Democratic primary he ran a brilliant campaign.

Is Mamdani too good to be true? Unfortunately, he is.

Despite his many virtues, this attractive, articulate man, with the popular touch and Trumpian feel for politics, is a virulent, relentless anti-Zionist.

There is a huge difference between Greek-style virtues and Jewish-style values. Yoffie is dazzled by the former and seems uninterested in the latter.

In Greek thought, aretē means excellence - personal charm, beauty, eloquence, or skill - and these virtues have become considered moral in themselves in Western thought.

Look at Yoffie's list of Mamdani's virtues - he is charming, attractive, bright, energetic. These correspond to Aristotelian personal virtues like rhetorical skill, aesthetic grace and friendship.

But virtues aren't values. Values are reflected in what a person does, not in personality traits. Values transform reality towards the good; virtues are window dressing.

Awful people can have charisma. Greek virtues like courage, intelligence and eloquence can be used for moral or immoral purposes.

Jewish ethics knows this. While Maimonides discusses Aristotelian virtues in detail, he positions them as a prerequisite to getting close to God and to do mitzvot properly - they are a means, not an end.

A better article would have examined Mamdani's claimed values. Mamdani says he wants to help the poor and oppressed, yet his implementation of such programs is classically socialist. He wants to redistribute wealth, dividing New Yorkers into "oppressed" and "oppressors," and fostering hate instead of unity. Socialists like Mamdani promulgate a simplistic view of the world that sound attractive but are unjust.

We know from history that Jews end up always being categorized and stereotyped as the oppressors, not the oppressed, in socialist circles.

Yet Yoffie doesn't even engage in that discussion of the shortcomings of Mamdani's intended policies and how they are likely to affect Jews. He doesn't even consider what Mamdani would do to the economy and safety of the city as a whole. Instead, he praises virtues as if they are values on their own. He correctly calls Mamdani an Israel-hater, but that is only the beginning of the objections to his policies, even for Jewish liberals.

When people cannot distinguish between virtues and values, they lose all perspective of morality. For a rabbi to do this so enthusiastically shows that Jews themselves need to relearn the basics of Jewish values and how to act according to them.

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British antisemites are overwhelmingly from the Left

British Leftists are now far more likely to admit to classic antisemitic attitudes than those on the Right, according to a new YouGov poll.

There used to be an interesting anomaly in polling about antisemitism. Since Leftists regard themselves as being against all forms of bigotry, it was much harder to get them to answer questions that were clearly meant to measure blatant antisemitic attitudes because they wouldn't want to admit bigotry. One poll from 2021 managed to figure out how to measure double standards against Jews and found that antisemitism was correlated with higher education levels - the exact opposite of the conventional wisdom.

This new poll shows that the reluctance of the Left to express classic antisemitic attitudes is disappearing. They are now more willing to openly endorse classic antisemitic stereotypes.

Researchers used these six questions as indicators of classic antisemitic attitudes, three framed positively and three negatively:

Can Jews be trusted just as much as other British people in business?

Are Jews just as loyal to Britain as other British people?

Are you just as open to having Jewish friends as you are to having friends from other sections of British society?

Compared to other groups, do Jews have too much power in the media?

Do Jews talk about the Holocaust just to further their political agenda?

Do Jews chase money more than other people do?

There are also six questions about Israel, but for determining antisemitism, these questions were the guide.

21% of people in Britain answered the antisemitic way on at least four of these questions, double the number in 2021.

But the political leanings of the antisemites is really the story here:

The only two political groups that exceeded the 21% general adult antisemitic numbers were voters for the Green Party (44%) and Labour (25%.)

When you factor in that many leftist antisemites still would not want to be considered antisemitic, chances are the real numbers are even worse!

Yes, right-wing antisemitism is a real problem - no one denies it. Bu tright-wing antisemitism in Britain tends to be fringe and extremist, while Left-wing antisemitism is seeping into the mainstream, reshaping political culture itself.

Other findings:

Among Green Party voters, 15 per cent believe that the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct 7 2023 was justified, higher than any other major party’s voters.

29 per cent of Labour voters believe that Israel can get away with anything because its supporters control the media.

This is proof positive that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are two sides of the same coin. For years, the Left has been insisting that they aren't antisemitic at all - but this poll proves otherwise.

The threat to Jews in England comes from the Left more than from the Right.

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09/08 Links Pt2: Our house is on fire, and the cavalry isn’t coming; The slow death of the genocide lie; Albanese Sued Over Legal Campaign Against Pro-Israel NGO's

From Ian:

Our house is on fire, and the cavalry isn’t coming

The failure of the Jewish establishment—the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Community Relations Councils and Jewish Federations—to protect and defend the Jewish community against the decades-long build-up and the current surge of hatred in the United States has become a subject of public concern and analysis. The organizations that have claimed to speak for us and guard us against antisemitism have proven unwilling or unable to meet the challenge.

The Jewish Leadership Project, along with others across the country, for years has sought to persuade, pressure, and, when necessary, shame establishment leaders into prioritizing the defense of our community. We believed that if they could be made to see the growing danger with clarity, they would recalibrate and lead. But they have not, even after the explosion of antisemitism following the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023, and even as their supposed progressive allies turned on us.

Our leaders have refused to pivot. I believe that they will not and cannot.

Many resist this conclusion. It is far easier to cling to the hope that our old structures still work—that the powerful organizations of the past can still deliver security and stability. Abandoning that means accepting that the responsibility to protect our families and future now rests on us all. And the sooner we face this truth, the better.

But first, the community needs to understand why the Jewish establishment won’t change. Effective leadership of any enterprise requires a sober recognition of errors and a concerted effort to analyze why the leadership’s assumptions failed and the courage to chart a new course. It is human nature to resist acknowledging catastrophic mistakes, especially when you have raised hundreds of millions of dollars promoting yourselves as the most competent to do the work. Jewish leaders fear that when the enormity of their errors becomes broadly known, their community support might collapse, their (often) lucrative jobs will be at risk, and they will feel public shame.

Leadership is about knowing the territory so you can develop effective paths forward. Jewish leaders, however, have failed to grasp the obvious tectonic shifts in the American political culture. They assumed—and then placed all our bets on—the notion that classical liberalism, which had for so long protected Jews, would endure.

But classical liberalism—with its respect for pluralism, civil rights and the rule of law—has been eclipsed by a radical progressivism that paints Jews as privileged “white oppressors” and portrays Israel as the world’s villain. Even as it gained ascendancy, Jewish organizations deluded themselves by assuming that woke ideology was an exuberance of youth when it was, in fact, brilliantly organized, paid for and operated by nations like Russia, China and Qatar, and wealthy antisemites; and supported by the social justice-NGO complex. It’s not going to fade.

Brendan O'Neill: The slow death of the genocide lie

Most damning of all is the actual content of the resolution. It is about as far from judicious analysis as you can get. The opening paragraph says Israel ‘has killed more than 59,000 adults and children’ in Gaza. It is a flagrant abandonment of a scholar’s prime duty – to pursue truth – to talk about the dead in Gaza without mentioning that a very significant percentage of them are Hamas fighters. The resolution accuses Israel of carrying out ‘deliberate attacks’ on ‘hospitals, homes, commercial buildings’. Again, Hamas is invisibilised – no mention is made of the hard-proven fact that Hamas operates in such buildings. It is a profound inversion of truth to accuse Israel of turning civilian infrastructure into warzones when it was Hamas that did that.

Perhaps ‘the experts’ neglected to mention that many of the dead are Hamas militants because to do so would be to admit this is war. Not a new holocaust, but war. War between an army of anti-Semites and the democratic state they so savagely attacked on 7 October 2023. It is a lie of omission to erase the Jew-hating militia from the tragic story of Gaza. When inconvenient facts are buried to stitch someone up in a court of law, we call it a miscarriage of justice. So what should we call this travesty of a resolution?

Also last week, the alternative experts at the Scholars for Truth About Genocide made a highly convincing case that what’s happening in Gaza is war. The IAGS, they said, failed to mention one simple fact: that this tragedy would end ‘if Hamas were to release all the hostages… and lay down their weapons’. To leave out such info is an outrage, they said, because it wilfully obscures the truth that Israel’s intention in Gaza is not to destroy the Palestinian people but to secure the return of its own people and fortify its territory against further attacks from the neo-fascists of Hamas. These are war aims, not plans for extermination, and so they are casually, cynically redacted by the ‘genocide’ obsessives.

Two alternative experts, writing in the Jerusalem Post, have reminded us of another truth overlooked by the IAGS – that Israel has ‘facilitated a large volume of humanitarian assistance’ for Gaza. It has ‘helped [to] vaccinate children in Gaza’ as well as delivering medical equipment and fuel for hospitals. People can debate, if they like, whether Israel has done this stuff well or not. But the idea that a ‘genocidal’ state would try to attend to the food and health needs of the people it is genociding is so absurd that it deserves nothing but the most savage ridicule.

The events of last week confirmed that misinformation is the rotten soil in which the genocide lie has taken root. Will it die off now? Not right away. Too many people now accrue their thin sense of virtue through propagating this nonsense so that they might pose as warriors ‘on the right side of history’. Indeed, falsely accusing the Jewish nation of genocide is fast becoming the most conformist cry of the cultural establishment, so much so that they will unceremoniously cast you out as a ‘denier’ if you dare to demur from their ideological loathing for the Jewish nation that they have the gall to doll up as ‘scholarship’ or ‘activism’. But the lie has certainly taken a beating. The truth is crying out for a fair hearing. Let’s listen.

UK Foreign Office: Israel not committing genocide in Gaza

David Lammy has said an assessment carried out by the Foreign Office has concluded Israel’s actions in Gaza did not constitute “genocide.”

The former Foreign Secretary wrote to the chair of the International Development Committee last week when he was still in the post.

He said:”“As per the Genocide Convention, the crime of genocide occurs only where there is specific ‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’. The government has not concluded that Israel is acting with that intent.”

Committee chair Sarah Champion had written to Lammy repeating claims that the UK’s policy of continuing to supply parts for F-35 fighter jets that have indirectly been sent to Israel was aiding genocide in Gaza.

The Times reports that Lammy said the government had “carefully considered” the question of genocide.

While it could not conclude Israel was guilty of this, he described the war in Gaza as “utterly appalling” and added far too many women and children had been killed.

09/08 Links Pt1: At least six murdered in Jerusalem terror shooting, 21 wounded; The West’s Bloody Bargain: Paying Abbas to Kill Jews; Four IDF troops killed in northern Gaza

From Ian:

At least six murdered in Jerusalem terror shooting, 21 wounded

At least six people were murdered and dozens were wounded after terrorists opened fire on civilians at Ramot Junction in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem on Monday morning.

Yaakov Pinto, 25, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Pash, Israel Mentzer, 28, and Yosef David, 43, were identified as four of those killed in the attack.

Pinto immigrated from Spain and was recently married. Pash taught at a Jerusalem yeshiva. Mentzer and David were residents of the Ramot neighborhood.

Two additional wounded people were later declared dead, including Sarah Mendelson, 60, and Rabbi Mordechai Steinsteg, 79, who had been brought to Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

At least 21 were wounded at the scene and were transported to three different medical centers, including Shaare Zedek and Hadassah-University Medical Centers at Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus. Upwards of 26 individuals at the scene were treated for anxiety.

The terrorists boarded the Line 62 bus in Jerusalem, which operates across the city, and began shooting at passengers.

In response to the attack, a soldier and several civilians at the bus stop engaged the attackers and returned fire. The terrorists were killed at the scene. The terrorists were in their twenties, from towns on the outskirts of Ramallah, El-Kubeiba, and Katanna. Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas praised the attack.

Additionally, the Shin Bet arrested an east Jerusalem resident on suspicion of driving the terrorists to the bus station.

Security forces have encircled several villages outside of Ramallah to reinforce defensive efforts along the West Bank border. They are conducting interrogations and searches in the area.

The IDF dispatched four companies to the scene and to the Ramallah area as part of the manhunt for accomplices.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducted a situation assessment with the heads of the security establishment following the attack and arrived at the scene, along with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

The West’s Bloody Bargain: Paying Abbas to Kill Jews

October 7: Terror Live-Streamed
Let’s not whitewash who they’re dealing with. Hamas isn’t a misunderstood resistance group. These are the men who butchered 1,200 Israelis and foreigners on October 7, raping, burning, and looting their way through southern Israel while shouting “Allahu Akbar” like they were playing a championship match. They phoned their parents to brag about body counts, live-streamed murders on their victims’ own accounts, and turned mass rape into a TikTok highlight reel. For Palestinians, they became instant gods. For the rest of us, they are the devil with Wi-Fi.

And yet Western governments, so refined, so civilized, so endlessly smug about “human rights”, are preparing to reward this death cult. Let’s be clear: Hamas isn’t only sworn to exterminate Jews. Their founding charter, drafted under the Muslim Brotherhood, openly calls for the annihilation of Christians, secular Muslims, and anyone who refuses submission to Islam, globally, not just in the Middle East. That’s who Europe, Canada, and Australia want to crown with legitimacy.

Demographics Don’t Lie
And maybe that’s the point. Look at the demographic math. Europe’s native birthrates are plummeting, while Islamist communities in London, Paris, and Berlin are out-breeding their hosts at a rate of four to one. Gulf states like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the literal cradle of Islam, wouldn’t touch these Islamist migrants, but Europe rolled out the red carpet.

Afghan radicals, Pakistani Islamists, men steeped in values utterly incompatible with the Judeo-Christian principles that once built the West, these are the populations Western leaders import by the millions. At this rate, Sharia law in Europe isn’t a paranoid fantasy; it’s a pending policy shift. Why wait until the Muslim majority arrives? Macron and Starmer seem content to start rehearsals now.

The Hypocrisy of Western Leaders
Not one of these leaders, Starmer, Macron, Carney, Albanese, has had the decency to mention Palestinian terrorism in their declarations of support for Abbas’s would-be state. Apparently, “human rights” now includes the right to incentivize murder.

And here’s the irony: by handing Abbas the prestige of statehood, these leaders aren’t just endangering Israel. They’re setting fire to their own backyards. Every Islamist radical in London, Paris, Sydney, or Toronto will see this for what it is: Western approval of murder as political currency. If it’s legitimate in Jerusalem, why not in Birmingham, Marseille, or Montreal? After all, if the Palestinian Authority can pay terrorists in Gaza, what’s to stop them from paying “martyrs” abroad once the cash starts flowing from UN-approved aid pipelines?

Already Funding Murder
Western taxpayers are already underwriting this blood money. Billions in aid to the PA vanish into Swiss accounts, Hamas tunnels, and yes, Pay-to-Slay salaries. Recognition of a Palestinian state simply formalizes the arrangement: you kill Jews, we’ll pay your family. Europe cuts the check, Abbas hands it out. Congratulations, Western liberal democracies, your foreign policy has officially become a terror-financing operation.

The Coming Farce
Nothing anyone writes, not me, not you, not a thousand editorials, will stop what’s coming at the UN General Assembly later this month. The world is about to rubber-stamp the creation of a “state” that is defined by its obsession with killing Jews. Let’s drop the diplomatic niceties. This is not about peace, not about two states, not about justice.

It is about the West giving formal approval to a political culture that treats Jewish blood as currency.

Call it what it is: a diplomatic endorsement of murder. Or, to put it in terms even Abbas would understand, a promotion in the Pay-to-Slay program.

Ruthie Blum: To jihadists, ‘never again’ means ‘again and again and again’

When Hamas invaded southern Israel and committed the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust, one might have expected a transnational realization that this was a manifestation of the same jihadism responsible for 9/11—and that different, often rival, Islamist groups, have a shared goal. Since the perpetrators of all such assaults are open about this aim, it shouldn’t be difficult to grasp.

Alas, 10/7—proportionately 12 times the toll of 9/11—had the opposite effect. Instead of constituting a wakeup call to the West, it unleashed the kind of antisemitism not witnessed since the rise of the Third Reich.

Worse, it opened the floodgates of Jew-hatred in the United States, of all places—from the halls of Harvard to the pages of mainstream publications and beyond. The phenomenon isn’t merely disgusting; it’s self-defeating.

As the late British historian Paul Johnson wrote in Commentary magazine in 2005, “[Antisemitism] is an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.”

Furthermore, he stated, “In the whole of history, it is hard to point to a single occasion when a wave of antisemitism was provoked by a real Jewish threat (as opposed to an imaginary one).”

Nor, he added, is it “confined to weak, feeble or commonplace intellects; … its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts. Like all mental diseases, it is damaging to reason and sometimes fatal.”

Well, it’s certainly fatal for Jews—though in the process, it eats away at societies that succumb to it. The same goes for jihadism. Once it takes hold in the countries that its adherents seek to subjugate, it metastasizes.

This is particularly true in the West, where there is a dangerously low birthrate—other than among immigrants—as well as vociferous fellow travelers whose influence far outweighs their numbers. These are the useful idiots whose progressive politics and behavior are antithetical to the jihadist ideology they abet, whether out of ignorance or malice.

The latest excuse for ganging up on Israel and the Jews is the war against Hamas and subsequent/simultaneous battles with additional Iranian proxies, as well as with the Islamic Republic itself. The moral vertigo on the part of people who will be next in line if the jihadists have their way is astounding.

If not for the current administration in Washington, the only real relevant player in the international arena, Israel would be forced to face its mortal enemies, and counter the gaslighting by its ostensible friends, on its own.

Thankfully, U.S. President Donald Trump understands that the Jewish state, the “small Satan,” is on the front lines not only of the war against the “great Satan,” America, but against all the Judeo-Christian values that both hold dear. It’s precisely why he’s urging Israel to get on with the business of winning it already.

Ahead of this pair of interconnected anniversaries, it behooves us to stop bemoaning the hollowness of the post-Holocaust slogan “never again,” and remember Hamas’s vow, endorsed by jihadists everywhere, to repeat the abominations of Oct. 7 “again and again and again.”

Think about all of the crimes that Israel is accused of - apartheid, genocide, racism, infanticide, starvation as a weapon - all of it.

Now imagine what would happen if the people making these accusations thought of Jews as decent people - people who perhaps make mistakes but who do the best they can given the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves in.

Poof! All the accusations go away.

Because if you give Jews the same benefit of the doubt you give, say, Europeans - or Qataris, or Palestinians - you would consider that there are other factors in play, like Hamas' war strategy of maximizing civilian deaths (why are there extensive tunnels in Gaza but no bomb shelters again?) Or that the Jews live in a world where at any moment a Palestinian terrorist might pop up and start shooting or exploding a bomb belt. Or that Jews consider themselves a family, and even one death is one too many and something must be done to ensure it doesn't happen again.

There are explanations for every "proof" of Israeli evil that fit the facts much, much better than assumptions of "Jewish supremacy" or "anti-Palestinian racism." They aren't difficult to find - they are published in Zionist media daily.

But the "anti-Zionist" crowd doesn't want to think that Jews are decent human beings - and they don't want the world to consider that idea, either. So they not only ignore all counter-evidence, but they do everything they can to ridicule or ignore the many proofs that they have their facts wrong. And they want to make sure that you never compare Israeli actions with those of anyone else who have ever been in remotely similar circumstances.

If you think of Jews as normal human beings, everything looks different - and that's why "anti-Zionists" don't want you to think of Jews as human.

Anti-Zionism only works if Jews are cast as uniquely evil. Treat Jews as human, and the entire edifice collapses.

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By Daled Amos

Last weekend brought another strike in the propaganda war against Israel—this time from an association of genocide scholars accusing Israel of the ultimate crime.

On August 31, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) passed a three-page resolution condemning Israel for genocide:

Recognising that, since the horrific Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023, which itself constitutes international crimes, the government of Israel has engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilians and civilian infrastructure (hospitals, homes, commercial buildings, etc.) of Gaza, which, according to official UN estimates, at the date of this resolution, has killed more than 59,000 adults and children in Gaza;

The media ran with it. The Washington Post declared: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, Leading Scholars’ Association Says The Guardian proclaimed Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say, and the BBC echoed the same line with Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say. ABC News featured IAGS president Melanie O’Brien, who proudly claimed that 90% of those voting supported the resolution.

Elder of Ziyon was among the first to expose the resolution's flaws. (The "Genocide Scholars" Who Cannot Define Genocide). He noted IAGS's lack of scholarship:

o IAGS offered no original, independent analysis of its own. Instead, they "outsourced their scholarship on the very subject that they claim to own."

o They did no fact-checking, accepting Hamas's number for casualties at face value, even though the number does not distinguish between terrorists and civilians.
o They gave no recognition to serious scholars from the other side of the issue who dismissed the genocide allegations.

Meanwhile, the only IAGS brief addressing Hamas’s own genocidal attack, Hamas's Genocidal Violence by Sara E. Brown, came with a disclaimer: “The views expressed herein are the authors’ alone and do not represent the views of IAGS.” Apparently, condemning Hamas required distance—unlike condemning Israel.

Then came a bombshell. Writing in The Forward (In the rush to vilify Israel, genocide scholars ignored the truth), Sara Brown revealed how the resolution was rammed through: of 500 members, only 129 voted. Just 108 supported it. That’s 28% of the membership—barely meeting the group’s minimal quorum of 20% plus one.

Compare these lackluster numbers with O'Brien's public boast:

This resolution declaring what is happening in Gaza as genocide passed by an overwhelming majority far beyond the two thirds majority required. Our membership is global. We also have members who are from survivor communities, so this is a really representative opinion of people who work as experts in the field of genocide studies.

The @GenocideStudies president claims a resolution that Israel is committing genocide "passed by an overwhelming majority" and is a "really representative opinion" of experts.

It's not. Only 28% of the membership actually voted.

Melanie O'Brien, your resolution is a sham. pic.twitter.com/LL33WH6HcV
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 2, 2025

Really? Twenty-eight percent of members voted. That’s not overwhelming—that’s embarrassing. No wonder The Guardian needed to hedge their article with the sub-headline: "International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted."

Brown also exposed the secrecy: no transparency, no debate, no town hall. Leadership even refused to name the resolution’s authors. Meanwhile, IAGS amplified headlines suggesting a massive consensus. This wasn’t scholarship; it was spin. The deliberate blockage of criticism is just one more indication of the lack of real scholarship and professionalism plaguing IAGS.

Why such sloppy work? Maybe because IAGS isn’t just scholars. As Jewish Insider notes, anyone can join—artists, activists, “others interested in genocide.” In other words: not exactly a panel of legal experts.

This is why the resolution contains a blatant error on international law:

Acknowledging that the International Court of Justice found in three provisional measures order in the case of South Africa v. Israel — January, March, and May 2024 — that it is plausible that Israel is committing genocide in its attack in Gaza and ordered Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement of genocide and to ensure the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza;

The president of the ICJ has already publicly debunked that claim:

[The ICJ] did not decide--and this is something where I'm correcting what's often said in the media--it didn't decide that the claim of genocide was plausible. It did emphasize in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide, but the shorthand that often appears, which is that there's a plausible case of genocide, isn't what the court decided.

The International Association of Genocide Scholars wants the world to believe its resolution reflects a united, scholarly consensus. It doesn’t. The vote was driven by a small, activist minority relying on Hamas-supplied numbers and misrepresenting international law. When an academic body trades rigor for politics, it doesn’t just fail—it erodes trust in the entire field.

And the backlash has already begun. Scholars for Truth about Genocide issued a public letter condemning IAGS and demanding a retraction of what they call a “resolution accusing Israel of genocide amid a clear misapplication of law and history.”

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The "Israeli settlers swim while Palestinians are thirsty" trope

Al Jazeera has an article quoting Ha-Makom, a left-wing Israeli site, saying that Israeli settlers are taking water from Palestinians in various ways.

I have no idea how bad the problem really is. My guess is that in at least some places they are stopping the illegal theft of water in unrecognized Arab communities in Area C, which I had once seen myself. And springs that the article refers to are probably disputed. There may indeed be some abuses.

But the Al Jazeera headline says "Palestinians in the West Bank bathe with bottled water, while Israelis fill swimming pools."

This is an old trope. The water sources for Palestinians and Israelis are separate. The amounts of water allocated are under an existing agreement.

But Palestinians have swimming pools as well. Palestine Guide lists 74 pools and water parks.

Where are the articles about how heartless Palestinians in Nablus, Ramallah and Jericho are swimming while their neighbors are parched?

Nah, that meme won't fly. Only Jews are that evil.

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"Doctors Against Genocide" is a Muslim organization created in November 2023 by a Michigan doctor who calls for murder of Zionists

On November 6, 2023, the Internet domain "Doctors Against Genocide" was registered.

That's less than one month after October 7.

The "genocide" libel was always there, and just waiting for an excuse to crawl out from under a rock.

This specific organization is interesting. Its address is the office of a Nidal Jboor, MD, in Dearborn Heights, MI, and I cannot find any other doctor who is named as a member.

Jboor speaks at anti-Israel events. Just last week he said that US and Israeli politicians must be killed: “We all know who they are, whether they are in Israel, Tel Aviv, in Washington, in Germany, in Europe. They need to be locked up. They need to be taken out. They need to be neutralized to save children, to save humanity,”

Yes, this "doctor against genocide" advocates mass murder in the name of human rights.

"Doctors Against Genocide" claims to be against all genocides, but of course it only has Israel in its sights.

And it has an allergy to the truth, claiming that over 300,000 were killed in Gaza, for example.

The same statement refers to a "medical definition of genocide." Imagine my surprise to learn that this "definition" was created by....Doctors Against Genocide itself! No doctors' names attached to this "definition," of course. It was made up just for Israel.

The organization managed to get tax-exempt status quite quickly, by March 2024. Before that it accepted donations through a different Muslim organization, JET-PAC, which "seeks to build a strong American Muslim political infrastructure and increase our community’s influence and engagement."

It seems to be very easy for anyone to create an anti-Israel "charity." Even people who advocate murder.

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09/07 Links: Trump promises Gaza deal ‘very soon,’; With friends like these pushing to dismantle Trump's Middle East peace deal, who needs enemies?; One-fifth of British population antisemitic

From Ian:

Anne Bayefsky: With friends like these pushing to dismantle Trump's Middle East peace deal, who needs enemies?

America’s so-called allies – Britain, France, Canada, Australia and others – are about to stab President Donald Trump in the back. The goal is to lay waste to the president’s signature foreign policy success – the Abraham Accords.

The Abraham Accords denied violent Palestinian rejectionists a veto over the normalization of relations between Arab states and Israel. Now Palestinians and their band of useful idiots have launched a coup. The scheme opens by overthrowing the fundamental principle of a negotiated settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict. United Arab Emirates officials have speciously started blaming Israel for the Accords’ demise.

The staging ground for this "Et tu, Brute?" moment is the United Nations. French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Sept. 3, 2025, that he, and his Saudi counterpart, have called upon world leaders to assemble at the United Nations in New York City on Sept. 22 and endorse this agenda. Formally, the substance has been committed to paper in what they are outlandishly calling "The New York Declaration."

Trump and Macron
This means that by the time President Trump addresses the General Assembly on the following day, he will have been reduced to the guy with the broom bringing up the rear. His hopes and plans for peace in the Middle East will have already been rejected by virtually every head of state or government in attendance.

The New York Declaration first appeared at the conclusion of a confab, chaired by the French and the Saudis, at the U.N. in July of this year. The United States and Israel stayed away. The vast majority of states ignored State Department pleas to do the same.

The document weighs in at 30 pages of anti-Israel venom and attacks on American foreign affairs. It twists the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023 – when more than 1,400 Jews (and others in Israel) were murdered, raped, tortured and kidnapped – into a political win for Palestinians.

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Here are just some of the Declaration’s extraordinarily dangerous demands:
A "State of Palestine" before "mutual recognition" of the Jewish state.
A Palestinian "right of return" that would flood Israel with millions of Palestinians from the river to the sea – thus ending the Jewish state.
A fully armed Palestinian state (called a "one state, one gun policy") and an indefensible Jewish state.
An arms embargo on Israel ("ceasing the provision or transfer of Arms") cutting off the country’s ability to defend itself.
A global pogrom to arrest and prosecute Israelis in national and international courts the world over.

Abandoning the hostages and rewarding the kidnappers by conditioning their release on Israel freeing convicted Palestinian criminals and fully withdrawing from Gaza.

And here is what the Declaration does not mention: Jews. Judaism. The Jewish state. Antisemitism – the actual driver of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Even Jerusalem is only discussed in terms of Islamic and Christian rights. Jewish history is nowhere.

The Declaration represents multilateral bullying at its worst. But the United States is not powerless.

US-backed Gaza aid group slams Doctors Without Borders, accuses it of spreading 'false' claims

Following unrelenting criticism from the United Nations, the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is once again being targeted by NGOs, even as it delivered its 155 millionth meal to Gazans on Saturday.

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, has launched ads criticizing GHF. Meta’s Ad Library shows that in August it ran several Facebook ads targeting the foundation. One ad read, "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." Another said, "In MSF’s 54 years, rarely have we seen such levels of systemized violence."

Both allegations are taken from an Aug. 6 article on MSF’s website in which General Director Raquel Ayora describes accounts received from patients reportedly injured around GHF sites. Ayora says aid seekers claimed to have witnessed "children shot in the chest while reaching for food. People crushed or suffocated in stampedes. Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points."

GHF spokesperson Chapin Fay called MSF's accusations, "false and disgraceful," saying that it is "amplifying a disinformation campaign orchestrated by the Hamas-linked Gaza Health Ministry. They know better. By repeating these lies, they’re not aiding civilians, they’re aiding Hamas."

"No civilians have ever been shot at any of our distribution sites," Fay told Fox News Digital.

Fay said, "Nearly every day, Nasser Hospital issues false reports to the media of civilians killed near our sites, based solely on testimony from others. Not a single MSF doctor has ever witnessed an incident near our sites. Any conflict between Israel and Hamas, sometimes several kilometers away, the Gaza Health Ministry falsely links to GHF."

In response to questions about whether MSF employees have witnessed injuries or deaths at GHF sites firsthand, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital that, "MSF has documented the impacts of violence and chaos at GHF sites in Gaza, based on firsthand accounts of our personnel and patients at two clinical sites, as well as a body of medical data."

MSF declined to respond to questions about how much money it has spent on ads targeting GHF, or whether it has advocated for medical care for Israeli hostages taken by Hamas.

The MSF spokesperson added, "For the past 22 months, humanitarian organizations working in Gaza and the West Bank have consistently faced baseless and inaccurate smear campaigns."

Though there is growing outcry about purported violence near GHF sites, reporting from the United Nations indicates that there were twice as many deaths surrounding humanitarian aid convoys (576) as there were deaths around GHF sites (259) between July 21 and Aug. 18.

Ben-Dror Yemini: As Pro-Palestinian Flotilla Heads to Gaza, Israel Should Counter by Sending Survivors, Hostage Families and Border Residents

Greetings to all those sailing on the flotilla to Gaza. We are convinced that if you truly knew the reality, the honest among you would join protests against the Islamo-Nazism that threatens you just as much as it threatens us. Hamas broadcasts have aired explicit calls "to kill all Jews and Christians to the last one."

On Hamas's children's television programs, they repeatedly teach - sometimes through a Mickey Mouse lookalike - that their ultimate vision is "the extermination of all Jews." Israel is not committing genocide; Israel is trying to prevent the genocide Hamas openly declares.

Fathi Hammad, a senior Hamas leader, admitted: "We use women and children as human shields." Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's former leader, said: "We need the blood of women, children and the elderly." These are Hamas's stated policies. Israel regrets deeply that civilians are harmed - but they are harmed because of Hamas, not Israel.

Hamas and other jihadist groups represent Islamist imperialism that murders primarily Muslims who refuse to submit to its rule. Their vision is to impose strict sharia-based laws, which allow the total erasure of basic human rights. They themselves say, "raise the flag of Islam over the Vatican" while destroying Christianity and Christians worldwide. Is that truly the cause you want to help?

Survivors of the Nova music festival massacre, residents from Gaza border communities, families of hostages, and freed hostages should board Israeli boats to meet the flotilla, armed with their personal stories.

Muslims crying "Islamophobia on TV shows" - but they have to go back 19 years to find a supposed example

Back in the 1980s, the TV comedy Barney Miller had an episode where Hasidic Jews rioted and trashed a police station to protest not enough protection.

It was based on a real incident from 1978 when Jews in Boro Park rioted at a police station there.

The episode was hardly complimentary to the Jews. But it was a real situation and I didn't think of it as antisemitic at all. As far as I know, no Jewish groups protested the episode.

Muslims don't seem so charitable. They are convinced that every TV show that doesn't show Muslims in a positive light is creating hate.

A Muslim organization called the Institute for Social Policy ad Understanding (ISPU) mounts surveys and research that is meant to advocate for equal rights for Muslims, but for special rights. They recently issued a report on media bias:

The objective of the current study is to understand the impact of positive and negative portrayals of Muslims in entertainment television. Specifically, we examined the effects of exposure to depictions of Muslims in television shows on people’s support for policies that are broadly undemocratic or specifically anti Muslim, attitudes toward Muslims, and perceptions of Muslims.

The research team ran an experiment in which participants were randomly assigned to watch either a positive or negative depiction of Muslims in entertainment media to assess effects on support for various policies, intergroup attitudes toward, and perceptions of Muslims.

An episode of 9-1-1: Lone Star (season 1, episode 3) was selected for the positive depiction of Muslims. The episode featured a Muslim woman firefighter who helps save a man trapped in a grain silo and interacts with colleagues and community members to whom she describes her connection to faith and reasoning for wearing hijab. An episode of Criminal Minds (season 2, episode 10) was selected for the negative depiction of Muslims. The episode featured FBI profilers discussing Islam as violent and focuses on a Muslim suspect who is portrayed as being resistant to the FBI profilers and trying to radicalize other prisoners toward militant jihad.

It is unsurprising that people who are exposed to positive messaging end up being more sympathetic in an immediate interview and those who are exposed to negative messaging do the opposite.

What is interesting is that in order to find an appropriate "anti-Muslim" TV episode, they had to go back to 2006, when the "Criminal Minds" episode was aired.

Keep in mind that this was only five years after 9/11.

Discussing jihadists on a TV crime show is hardly inappropriate in that (or any other) time - it is a real problem. And from what I can tell, the episode did not generalize the jihadists to all Muslims, and the main investigator told the terrorist " You have perverted your faith to justify killing millions of people."

Should TV reflect the truth, or should it bend over backwards to not offend? The Barney Miller episode was respectful but truthful, and the Criminal Minds episode seems to have been the same way (with the stakes much higher.)

Nevertheless, the fact that the ISPU study couldn't find a more contemporary example of negative portrayal of Muslims on mainstream American TV shows that there is no problem at all. Not that they would admit that - they don't. The entire study implies that negative portrayals of Muslims are prevalent on TV and needs to be fixed.

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The New York Times promotes a terrorist family, implies Israel lies about October 7, and more

Today, the New York Times is featuring the Abu Samra family from Deir al Balah in Gaza as tragic victims of Israeli aggression, tearfully afraid that they are living through another "nakba" and being forced to leave their homes.

It doesn't mention that this family has been associated with terrorism for decades.

The article, written by rabidly anti-Israel reporter Raja Abdulrahim, starts off with her typical bias where any facts that might make a reader sympathize with Israel is treated as suspect.

Here is its framing of the events of October 7:

Hamas waged its surprise attack on Israel, storming across the border on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people — most of them civilians, according to the Israeli government — and seizing about 250 others as hostages. Israel then launched its war in Gaza, killing tens of thousands and leaving generations of Palestinians to experience displacement and hunger, and the fear that they would never see their homes again.

The majority of victims of October 7 were civilians - but only if you believe the Israeli government. The New York Times isn't quite sure, you see.

But it is certain who launched the war: Israel. Before that was merely a "surprise attack," completely independent of anything else. There is no "according to Hamas' health ministry" for the "killing tens of thousands" to parallel the caveat for Israeli victims.

The centerpiece of the article, however, is the Abu Samra family of Deir al Balah. Abdulrahim describes how they were fearful when the war began, and many fled to Egypt, paying huge amounts of money to escape. Yet their patriarch, 87-year old Abdallah Abu Samra, was not able to leave, because of some capricious Israeli decision: according to the family, Israel placed a "security block" on him. So he is left in Gaza, homeless with only a few family members, just like he was in 1948.

Awful, isn't it?

Here's a photo of the Abu Samra family home in Deir al Balah from before the war.

This is a five -story mansion.

Such houses are often seen in the West Bank, but in Gaza, where land is at a premium, almost no one lives in such a house.

Unless they have connections.

What Raja Abdulrahim doesn't mention is that the Abu Samra clan of Deir al Balah has been associated with Hamas and other terror groups for years, which would explain how they could live in such an opulent home.

Meet Qassam Brigades commander Mahmoud Ahmed Abu Samra from Deir al Balah:

Palestine Remembered describes his family as a "good, generous and blessed family that loved resistance." Mahmoud himself participated in a suicide car bomb attack on the humanitarian aid site at Kerem Shalom in April 2008, which injured 13 IDF soldiers.

In 2015, on the eighth anniversary of the attack, Hamas organized a march from a mosque to the Abu Samra home to pay tribute to their "martyr." Here are masked members of the Qassam Brigades together with the Abu Samra children in what is almost certainly the same palatial house that the New York Times showed:

Also from Deir al Balah is Awda Mahmoud Abu Samra, a leader of the Nasser Salah Din Brigades:

He was responsible for a number of rocket attacks on Sderot as well as other attacks, listed here. He was "martyred" in 2005, and his obituary notes that his father was also a terrorist who spent time in Israeli prisons.

But Abu Samra's family association with Hamas didn't end years ago. Asharq al Awsat notes an incident this year where a Hamas policeman shot and killed a child of the Abu Samra family, and they publicly executed the policeman. The article mentions that Israel "killed at least 20 members of the Abu Samra clan during the current war, including activists affiliated with Hamas."

This terrorist family is who the New York Times is framing as tragic victims of another Nakba.

There is no way that Raja Abdulrahim is not aware of the history of the Abu Samra clan. But she sure doesn't want the readers of the New York Times to know any of this.

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Harpers magazine - trash pretending to be intellectual

I don't remember why I started getting Harpers in the mail, but it is an astoundingly bad magazine. And of course it is doctrinally anti-Israel.

In the current issue there are three articles that feature Israel of Jews.

The first employs a typical Harpers trick, usually seen in its "Harpers Index" section: take a bunch of facts and position them, out of context, to create a narrative.

The impression they want to give is Bibi has been lying about Iran's nuclear program for decades. It doesn't bother mentioning that the IAEA, US and European intelligence as well as records seized by Israel show that Iran has been acting completely consistently with an offensive nuclear program non-stop.

Then they use initial leaked intel to pretend that the US strikes on Iran did little damage, had no purpose, and in fact makes Iran more dangerous:

The fact is that no one knows yet how much damage occurred. But it is several months later and we are not seeing indications that Iran is rushing to enrich lots more uranium so quick.

The third article was a review of a book about antisemitism, written by an editor of the far-left Jewish Currents. Its last paragraph suggests that the real victims of antisemitism nowadays are Arabs, while the rest of the article claims that Zionists are weaponizing the claim - exactly how Hamas looks at antisemitism.

But even the rest of the magazine is pseudo-intellectual. A long article about owning cats, a condescending article about Christian schools, another long piece about naked women talking in a sauna. This is all pretending that these self-centered readers are expanding their horizons by pruriently gazing at parts of the world that they want no part of but that they want to pretend to show interest in. To Harpers, the world is a series of museum exhibits of strange peoples under glass and then the viewers can call themselves cultured for even knowing they exist.

The Harpers Index and the similar last page "Findings" give a series of random-sounding facts that are in fact highly curated to ensure that the magazine's readers are not exposed to any facts that might make them uncomfortable - anything conservative is positioned as Neanderthal if it is mentioned at all.

I don't care so much about today's intellectuals acting condescending - they always have. But Harpers represents how people who pretend to be elite are just as ignorant, just as prone to conspiracy theories and just as closed-minded as the people they despise.

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