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Thursday, March 13, 2025

03/13 Links Pt1: Phillips: The West is facing an Islamic holy war; Navi Pillay’s antisemitic commission of infamy; The International Red Cross: Exposed.

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: The West is facing an Islamic holy war
The Palestinian cause is being used as a wedge issue to weaponize Western antisemitism against Israel and the Jews, whose destruction is viewed as an essential front in the wider war against the West, Christianity and the entire non-Islamic world.

In the West itself, this war is being waged by the Muslim Brotherhood—a covert, Sunni Muslim group aiming at global Islamic domination. The Brotherhood shrewdly calibrates its activities to vary between terrorist violence and the subversion of Western societies through immigration and a high birthrate, political entryism and intimidation.

A report published in 2020 by the British think tank Policy Exchange noted that the Brotherhood’s goal is “to capture power in order to make governance more Islamic” and to “seek to mobilize Muslims behind an agenda of communalism, sustained by a narrative of grievance and victimhood, in the service of an ideology that at its heart contests the legitimate foundations of the modern Western state.”

Shia Iran is also intent on Islamizing the rest of the world. In Britain, alarm by the security service over potentially violent Iranian infiltration has reached such heights that all organizations connected to the regime in Tehran are now required to register with British authorities.

Yet even now, the British government refuses to ban the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or the Muslim Brotherhood. Across the West, governments and the public alike persist in a state of lethal timidity and denial.

There have been no massive street demonstrations against the Syrian atrocities. There have been no protests at the massacres of Christians, not even by the church itself. The war to destroy Christianity across Africa and Asia is never even mentioned. The only outrage is against Israel for defending itself against these horrors.

Why is this? In part, it’s through ignorance about the Middle East and Jewish history. In part, it’s antisemitism. In part, it’s the pernicious belief that people with brown or black skins can never be criticized—even when they are slaughtering others with brown or black skins. In part, it’s through simple fear and funk.

It’s also because it busts the narrative about Israeli “colonization” and reveals instead that there is a massive worldwide problem with Islam.

The West won’t accept that it’s facing an Islamic holy war because it believes it can’t win against the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims. So it’s giving up without even putting up a fight, sheltering instead behind the comforting fiction that if Israel behaved differently everything would be absolutely fine.

It needs instead to take off its blinders, join up the dots and fight like Israel to survive.
Ruthie Blum: Navi Pillay’s antisemitic commission of infamy
A report issued on Thursday by the “U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel” is the world body’s latest assault on the Jewish state. And boy is it ever a brutal one.

No surprise there, given that the chairwoman of the pro-Hamas farce is former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. The 83-year-old South African—who hails from Durban, home of two antisemitic “world conferences on racism”—was appointed to her current post nearly four years ago. That was when the commission was established by the U.N. Human Rights Council for the purpose of concocting a report to demonize Israel.

This aim, though transparent, wasn’t spelled out in Resolution S-30/1, adopted at the UNHRC “emergency special session” on May 27, 2021. But the gist was obvious.

The U.N.’s excuse at the time was “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” Israel’s 11-day campaign that month to defend its citizens and cities against the thousands of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad rockets launched from Gaza. Experts at distorting reality, Pillay and her team came up with the usual lies about Israeli “violations” of international law and “inherently discriminatory features that made the pursuit of justice for Palestinian victims extremely difficult.”

In sum, the Pillay dossier noted the “strength of prima facie credible evidence available that convincingly indicates that Israel has no intention of ending the occupation, has clear policies for ensuring complete control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and is acting to alter the demography through the maintenance of a repressive environment for Palestinians and a favorable environment for Israeli settlers.”

There’s a mendacious mouthful for you. On the other hand, it’s an honest rendition of what the commission has been about since its inception: siding with those whose raison d’être is killing Jews and annihilating the only democracy in the Middle East—one that constantly seeks peace with its Arab neighbors.

It doesn’t take a jihadist rocket scientist to realize this. After all, Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023—with thousands of terrorists and Gazan “civilians” committing the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust—didn’t put a dent in U.N. hostility to the Jewish state.

On the contrary, the mass rape, murder and abduction perpetrated by Islamist barbarians on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah served only to enhance the antisemitism of people like Pillay. The neat trick she came up with to invert reality was to charge Israeli security forces with committing widespread sexual crimes against Palestinians throughout the ongoing war.

According to the commission’s Orwellian inversion, “Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities.”


Daniel Pomerantz: The International Red Cross: Exposed.
In a groundbreaking new report, RealityCheck has uncovered specific evidence that the International Committee of the Red Cross (the “ICRC”) habitually violates its duty of neutrality, as well as its obligations under international law: putting Israelis, and the world at large, in danger.

The ICRC is a supposedly neutral, humanitarian body, tasked with protecting civilians in conflict zones. Yet Israelis have long been disturbed by a general sense that the neutral humanitarian body is neither neutral nor humanitarian, especially after its failure to visit Israeli hostages held in Gaza, and its participation in Hamas’s cruel “hostage release ceremonies.” The ICRC vigorously denies the allegations, stating that it has no choice or control over certain situations, and that it fulfills its duty of neutrality throughout. RealityCheck has, for the first time, proven the ICRC’s claims to be incorrect, with specific examples.

In our exclusive report, which is based on specialized OSINT (open source intelligence) and dark web research, we uncovered examples of ICRC officials discussing strategy and communications with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, speaking about the IDF and the Israeli government as an enemy, and prioritizing Palestinians (including terrorists) over Israeli civilians. The following are several notable examples.

Officially, the ICRC meets with armed non-state actors (including terror organizations) for the purpose of visiting captives and providing aid to civilians. The ICRC violated these standards in a meeting on February 18, 2020, when Gilan Devorn, Director of the ICRC in Gaza, his deputy Fayez Al-Aqraa, and ICRC Public Relations and Media Officer Youssef Al-Yaziji, met with senior leaders of the internationally designated terror organization, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Specifically, the meeting included senior terror operatives Hajj Abu Wasim Al-Wadiyyah, Sheikh Khader Habib, Hajj Abu Hazem Badr, and Sheikh Omar Foura.

According to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Red Cross officials met with the terror leaders to discuss “the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross in pressuring the Israeli occupation” and “efforts to expose the crimes of the Israeli occupation.” The content of this meeting violates ICRC’s standards for appropriate interactions with non-state armed groups.

Another violation of the ICRC’s principles occurred on February 2, 2014, when its spokespeople Masada Saif and Youssef Al-Yaziji met with senior leadership of the internationally designated terror organization, Hamas. The meeting included Hamas’s Director of Public Relations and Government Media Office Ihab Al-Ghusain, who also served with the Hamas Ministry of Interior and National Security. Reportedly, the purpose of the meeting was to coordinate messaging, enhance cooperation, and provide training for journalists. None of these priorities fit the ICRC’s mission of meeting armed groups to further humanitarian goals, provide aid to civilians, or visit captives.


Seth Mandel: What Trump’s Tough-Guy Diplomacy Means for Israel
Israelis may be relieved that U.S. envoy Adam Boehler has been sidelined from Hamas talks after his disastrous foray into hostage diplomacy, but they should remember that it is ultimately President Trump who sets the agenda. A new profile of the president’s main negotiator, Steve Witkoff, contains some insight into what Trump likes about Witkoff, what he expects of him, and what that means for anyone sitting across the table from him.

The Telegraph reports that Witkoff’s initial success in getting a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas raised his stature enough to earn a shot at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. He has replaced Keith Kellogg, the retired general and national security adviser, as the administration’s top mediator for that conflict as well.

Kellogg’s initial appointment for the position cheered national-security minded conservatives and hinted that the White House would be less hostile to Ukraine, and less solicitous of Moscow, than was expected. That clearly isn’t the path being taken by the Trump team now, and one administration official told Politico that “Kellogg’s role is very much in question. It’s not clear why the president won’t make a final call on this. There are already too many principals, plus Witkoff, trying to play the hero on ending the war.”

The answer to that question is almost certainly that Trump likes having his senior advisers compete amongst themselves for his favor. The president is wholly results-oriented and doesn’t care much for process norms. That is why Boehler got a shot in the first place, despite the president’s obvious confidence in Witkoff.

The cease-fire deal that Witkoff helped finalize in January was immensely important to the president. But the method of Witkoff’s success only added to Trump’s satisfaction. And therein lies a warning.
Seth Frantzman: Trump’s Gaza plan in limbo, where does it leave Israel?
US President Donald Trump appeared to walk back some of his Gaza plan in a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin this week. At the White House meeting, Trump told Martin that “no one is expelling anyone from Gaza.”

This leaves questions about what comes next for Trump’s plan regarding Gaza. When he was inaugurated, he had said it was a demolition site. Later, he appeared to develop his views of Gaza as a place that was unlivable after the Hamas-Israel War.

He said in early February, according to CNN, “I think that it’s a big mistake to allow people – the Palestinians, or the people living in Gaza – to go back yet another time, and we don’t want Hamas going back. And think of it as a big real estate site, and the United States is going to own it, and we’ll slowly – very slowly, we’re in no rush – develop it.”

Later in February, Trump described the possibilities in Gaza. He said it could be the “Riviera of the Middle East.” However, this also involved re-settling many of the two million people who live in Gaza. There was talk of Egypt or Jordan accepting the people. “You’re going to see that they’re all going to want to leave,” the AP reported Trump saying. On February 19, this became, “It’s a war-torn area. We’re going to take it. We’re going to hold it. We’re going to cherish it.”

Another comment indicated that Israel would need to deal with Gaza and then hand it over to the US. Trump also indicated that Israel could do what it wanted in Gaza. He also said Israel could let “hell break loose.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians have appeared to embrace the Trump plan.

Speaking to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on February 16, Netanyahu noted, “I have to say that President Trump has presented a bold new vision and the only plan that I think can work to enable a different future for the people of Gaza, for the people of Israel, for the surrounding areas.”


Witkoff proposes new hostage release outline involving 50 day ceasefire
Following US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff's visit to Qatar, a new outline for an updated hostage-ceasefire proposal is on the table, a source familiar with the details told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

As part of the proposed outline, Hamas would release around five living hostages as well as the bodies of nine dead hostages. In exchange, Israel would allow a 50-day ceasefire, starting from March 1.

During this 50-day period - which would end on April 20 - discussions would be carried out regarding the continuation of the deal.

The source told the Post that they are "optimistic that agreements can be reached" and the "fact that the teams stayed in Qatar is a good sign."

"It means that they are talking and that there is some progress."

Commitment to hostage release
Sources who spoke to Witkoff told Ynet that he is "deeply committed to the hostages, it comes from a spiritual place, from a Jewish place."

The sources added that Witkoff "wants a comprehensive deal, not a partial one; he wants all the hostages home. Trump is talking about it too."
US hostage envoy removed from Israel role after calling Hamas ‘nice guys’
The Trump administration has reportedly removed Adam Boehler, the U.S. special envoy for hostage affairs, from further hostage negotiations with the Hamas terror group in Gaza, with some GOP officials calling for him to be sidelined entirely, Jewish Insider reported.

This move comes after a media blitz in which Boehler referred to Hamas as “nice guys” and said he didn’t “really care about” the concerns of Ron Dermer, Israel’s strategic affairs minister. He also stated that the United States was “not an agent of Israel.”

After immediate backlash, he clarified his remarks on social media, claiming that people “misinterpreted” them.

“Hamas is a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of innocent people,” he wrote. “They are, by definition, bad people.”

A senior U.S. official said Boehler will work on other Mideast-related matters with Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East.
Trump admin withdraws intelligence job offer to anti-Israel commentator
The Trump administration rescinded a job offer to anti-Israel commentator Daniel Davis to be deputy director of national intelligence for mission integration following Jewish Insider’s reporting on his anti-Israel views, and amid growing criticism of the selection from both sides of the aisle.

A source familiar with the situation confirmed to JI that Davis — who had been offered and accepted a role and was undergoing a background check — would no longer be joining the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The New York Times reported that DNI Tulsi Gabbard “opted not to name” Davis to the position, and an associate of Davis confirmed in a post that Davis had been “informed there would be no job.”

The White House did not respond to inquiries from JI about the appointment. ODNI spokesperson Alexa Henning denied on X that Davis had been considered for the role.

Davis’ past comments on Israel and Iran had prompted bipartisan alarm on Wednesday. He suggested that Israel bears some of the responsibility for the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, called U.S. backing for Israel’s operations in Gaza a “strategic and moral mistake” and said that Iran does not pose a threat to the United States.

“I am absolutely shocked by these comments,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) told JI earlier in the day, before Davis’ job offer was withdrawn. “President Trump is the most pro-Israel president in our nation’s history, and I fully expect every member of the administration to enact his agenda and stand strong with our great ally, Israel.”

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told JI he had not seen the reporting on Davis, but that his past comments, as described by JI, would be cause for concern.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, expressed particular concern about Davis’ comments about the Oct. 7 attack.

“Daniel Davis blamed Israel for being attacked by terrorists on October 7, when more than 1200 innocent Israeli civilians died at the hands of Hamas. He called it, quote, ‘convenient’ for Israel,” Warner said in a statement to JI. “On the basis of those statements alone, he is utterly unqualified for any role in intelligence analysis, particularly one as important as Deputy DNI.”
Education Dept. layoffs cut half the staff investigating campus antisemitism
Mass layoffs at the Education Department included steep cuts to the office responsible for investigating civil rights abuses at American schools and universities, including allegations of antisemitism.

The Office for Civil Rights, which has opened more than 100 investigations into antisemitism at educational institutions since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks, will close seven of its 12 regional offices, ProPublica reported. The affected offices include those in New York, Boston and San Francisco, cities that are home to some of the worst allegations of antisemitic discrimination in K-12 schools and on college campuses. More than half of the investigative staff members at OCR, which had about 550 employees, lost their jobs on Wednesday.

Prior to the layoffs, Education Department officials in the Biden administration and Jewish advocacy organizations said the existing staff was too small to sufficiently deal with the number of investigations into antisemitism and other forms of bias, including racism and discrimination against people with disabilities.

Last June, a coalition of 23 Jewish groups — ranging from the right-wing Zionist Organization of America to the more liberal National Council of Jewish Women — urged Congress to increase funding for OCR. Republicans have long been skeptical of funding increases for the office, saying it needed to do a better job of prioritizing the cases it already opened. Open investigations often take years to reach a resolution.

Ken Marcus, who oversaw OCR in the first Trump administration, argued that President Donald Trump has made antisemitism a priority, so he expects those cases to continue to get attention, even with a smaller staff.

“The administration can, if they choose, focus on the antisemitism cases and address them vigorously and forcefully, even with the significantly diminished numbers,” Marcus, the founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, told Jewish Insider. “The real question is going to be how they deal with everything else.”
Meeting canceled between Jewish leaders and Irish prime minister in Washington
Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin was welcomed to the White House on Wednesday by President Donald Trump.

But among Jewish leaders, the prime minister’s annual St. Patrick’s Day trip, which comes at an already tense time between Ireland and Israel over the war in Gaza, stirred controversy — including a canceled meeting and accusations from an Israeli government official that the taoiseach is an “antisemite” who has promoted “a blood libel towards the State of Israel.”

A meeting scheduled for Friday between the Irish leader and four Jewish groups — the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, B’nai Brith International and AIPAC — was canceled earlier this week. While the reasons for the cancellation have not been publicly disclosed, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter told Jewish Insider that “if any Jewish leader canceled the meeting, they should be commended.”

“It would show leadership. The battle for antisemitism starts with shunning antisemites,” Leiter said.

Following the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel, Ireland emerged as one of the Jewish state’s harshest critics — which eventually resulted in Israel shuttering its embassy in Dublin in December 2024. Leiter pointed to Ireland’s backing of South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice in January, accusing Israel of genocide, calling it “a calamity that has to be erased.”

“You can’t fight antisemitism if [you claim] the No. 1 Jew in the world is a war criminal,” Leiter said, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for whom an arrest warrant was issued by the ICC. “The Irish prime minister called my children war criminals,” said the ambassador, whose son was killed in combat in Gaza in November 2023. “He’s an antisemite who should be shunned by anyone with a moral conscience. This is a blood libel towards the State of Israel.”

Martin’s visit also comes against the backdrop of growing antisemitism in Ireland, which is home to some 2,700 Jews. But Ireland’s new, more moderate governing coalition, which entered office in January, promised to roll back some of the previous government’s anti-Israel policies and work to combat antisemitism. In its “draft programme for government 2025,” the government said it will “give effect to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance ‘Working Definition of Antisemitism’ and implement the EU declaration on ‘Fostering Jewish Life in Europe.’”

Martin announced in January that the government had adopted both, without detailing how they would be implemented. Following the condemnation of the move by activists, Martin emphasized in a post on X that they would not be legally binding.
Bomb threat targets Amy Coney Barrett’s sister
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett‘s sister Amanda Coney Williams received a bomb threat Monday, which came with the message, “Free Palestine.”

Barrett is the most recent Republican-appointed justice on the Supreme Court, nominated by President Donald Trump during his first term. Since her nomination, the court has ruled against federal abortion protections, affirmative action, and the Chevron doctrine, all of which Barrett was in the majority.

Williams is a lawyer in South Carolina. Police responded to an email reading, “I’ve constructed a pipe bomb which I recently placed in Amy Coney Barrett’s sister’s mailbox at her home. The device’s detonation will be triggered as soon as the mailbox is next opened. Free Palestine!” Officers did not find a bomb in Williams’s mailbox.

No one has been arrested in connection with the threat.
Bernie Sanders introduces more resolutions opposing Israel aid, plans to seek votes
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced an additional set of four resolutions to cut off various weapons sales to Israel this week, in addition to the four he already introduced earlier this year.

The latest resolutions, a Sanders spokesperson told Jewish Insider, relate to a series of sales announced by the Trump administration on Feb. 28 of bombs, armored bulldozers and bomb guidance kits, totaling around $4 billion.

Sanders previously introduced resolutions to block separate shipments and transfers of around $8.56 billion in arms.

The Sanders spokesperson confirmed that he plans to demand full Senate votes on the resolutions, but that he hasn’t yet decided when he will call those votes. The resolutions are privileged, meaning that he can largely force votes on them at will, without backing from Senate leadership on either side of the aisle.

A group of progressive House members introduced companion legislation to the first four resolutions that Sanders introduced last month.


Israel rejects UN report accusing it of genocidal acts, sexual violence in Gaza
Israel has rejected a U.N. report accusing it of committing “genocidal acts” in Gaza, including the destruction of women’s health-care facilities and the use of sexual violence as a war strategy.

Jerusalem’s permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva called the allegations unfounded, biased and lacking credibility.

The U.N. commission claimed that Israel’s actions led to a surge in maternity deaths and amounted to the crime of extermination, Reuters reported on Thursday.

It also accused Israeli forces of employing forced public stripping and sexual assault, mirroring crimes that Hamas and Palestinian terrorists perpetrated in Jewish communities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Israel forcefully denied these accusations.

The Israel Defense Forces has “concrete directives” and “policies which unequivocally prohibit such misconduct,” stated Israel’s U.N. mission, emphasizing that its internal review processes align with international standards.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the U.N.’s Human Rights Council as an “antisemitic, corrupt, terrorist-supporting and irrelevant body,” emphasizing that Israel’s withdrawal from the council was deliberate.

He accused the United Nations of deflecting from Hamas’s war crimes and instead making false accusations against Israel, particularly highlighting the baseless claims of sexual violence. As such, Netanyahu proclaimed, “This is not the Human Rights Council. This is the Council of Blood Rights.”
"More than a Human Can Bear:" The UN’s Never-Ending Crusade Against Israel
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) continues to single out Israel as the only country in the world subject to a dedicated standing agenda item, Item 7 and a permanent commission of inquiry (The Pillay Commission). While conflicts rage globally and human rights abuses proliferate—from China’s repression of Uyghurs to Iran’s violent crackdown on dissidents—the UNHRC remains fixated on condemning the only democracy in the Middle East. The latest report from its Commission of Inquiry (COI) is just another chapter in this farcical campaign, systematically ignoring Hamas’ atrocities while weaponizing human rights rhetoric against Israel.

“Every session of the UN Human Rights Council features a standing agenda item targeting Israel. No other country in the world—not Iran, Russia or North Korea—is singled out in this fashion.” - UNWatch

The UNHRC’s latest report from the Commission of Inquiry (COI), titled "More than a Human Can Bear," accuses Israel of committing severe gender-based violence, reproductive harm, and other abuses during its operations in Gaza. This includes allegations of sexual violence, with the COI claiming Israeli forces deliberately obstructed Palestinian women’s reproductive rights by preventing them from giving birth.

The claim in the COI report that Israel’s civilian evacuations were “aimed at preventing women from giving birth” is one of the most outrageous elements of the report. Multiple reports from organizations, including Save The Children, Rescue.org, UNRWA, UNICEF.

Even local media in Gaza, highlight the stark contrast to these accusations. According to these sources, Gaza's birth rate has actually boomed, with over 68,000 births since October 7th.

The CIA estimates the population increasing by over 2% despite the ongoing conflict and casualties since October 7th. These findings demonstrates a clear disconnect between the report’s narrative and the reality on the ground. Critics have argued that such an unsupported accusation not only misrepresents the situation but also serves to promote a misleading agenda that fails to acknowledge the actual circumstances of Gaza's civilian population during the conflict.

The report is politically motivated, fixed from the start and lacks transparency. It fails to address the sexual violence and human rights violations committed by Hamas, particularly during their October 7 attack on Israeli civilians, where rape, forced marriages, and other abuses were rampant.

Problems with the Methodology
The methodology behind the COI's latest report has raised significant concerns, particularly regarding its lack of transparency. The report relies heavily on anonymous testimony and unverifiable sources, with little to no forensic evidence to back up its claims. This has prompted strong condemnation from Avi Abraham Benlolo, Founder and CEO of the Abraham Global Peace Initiative, who criticized the UN for attempting to draw a false moral equivalence, particularly in relation to the horrific rapes carried out by Hamas on October 7.

Israeli officials have described the accusations—particularly those suggesting genocidal acts against women—as some of the most damaging cases of "blood libel" in recent memory. Ilan Zalayat, a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, took issue with the report’s assertion that civilian evacuations were meant to prevent women from giving birth, calling it a form of "blood libel."

Additionally, Israeli Minister for Social Equality May Golan condemned the UN for its selective blindness to the suffering of women and children in the region, accusing the organization of turning a blind eye to the oppression faced by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim individuals under terrorist regimes.
Netanyahu slams 'terrorist-supporting' UN council that accused Israel of committing sexual crimes
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is facing intense backlash from Israel over its report accusing Israel of employing sexual violence against Palestinians since October 2023. The report, entitled "’More than a human can bear’: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023" contains serious allegations against the Jewish state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement on the report, calling the UNHRC "an antisemitic, corrupt, terrorist-supporting and irrelevant body."

"Instead of focusing on crimes against humanity and the war crimes committed by the Hamas terrorist organization during the worst massacre against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, the UN once again chooses to attack the State of Israel with false accusations, including outrageous and baseless allegations of sexual violence. This is not a Human Rights Council – it is a Blood Rights Council," Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a statement.

Multiple Israeli officials said the report constituted a "blood libel" and said it ignored the acts of sexual violence on Oct. 7.

US Ambassador Designate to the United Nations Elise Stefanik also condemned the "baseless report" as "antisemitic and anti-Israel slander."

"The so-called ‘Human Rights Council’ has failed to condemn the barbaric atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against Israel including the brutal slaughter, torture, kidnapping of thousands of innocent civilians, and Hamas’ horrific use of rape and sexual violence against Israeli women and girls, yet disgracefully attacks Israel with unfounded smears," Stefanik said in a statement.

Additionally, Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon called the report "another vile and distorted document from the UN."

"This report is not even worth the paper it was printed on. Anyone who supported this false publication is complicit in whitewashing Hamas' war crimes and trampling on the truth," Danon said in a statement. "The UN is busy looking for ways to blame Israel instead of facing reality. History will judge you."

Israeli Permanent Member to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during a session of the Security Council at the New York City headquarters. (Israel United Nations mission)

UNWatch Executive Director Hillel Neuer told Fox News Digital, "the U.N. inquiry is as objective as a Stalinist show trial, and that’s why they completely twisted the facts to falsely accuse Israel of the crimes that Hamas actually committed."


UN has no authority over commission accusing Israel of genocide, Guterres
The office of U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told JNS that the global body head has no oversight over a U.N. commission accusing Israel of “genocidal acts.”

“The Independent International Commission of Inquiry is an independent body mandated by the Human Rights Council, over which the secretary-general has no authority,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman to Guterres, told JNS.

The U.N. secretary-general has drawn ire from critics for refusing to label Israel’s prosecution of the war a “genocide.” His office has said repeatedly that “genocide” is a legal term and not an opinion for Guterres to express.

Israel has rejected the commission’s report, which also accused Israel of destroying women’s health-care facilities and using sexual violence as a war strategy.

“The secretary-general has spoken out repeatedly at the horrors we have seen in this conflict,” Dujarric said. “He continues to be deeply alarmed by the humanitarian situation in Gaza and reiterates his call for all parties to respect international humanitarian law and international human rights law. He underlines that there needs to be accountability.”

Jerusalem’s permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva called the allegations by the commission unfounded, biased and lacking credibility.


UN Judge, Onetime Columbia University Human Rights Fellow, Found Guilty of Slavery
A United Nations judge was convicted on Thursday of trafficking a young woman to the United Kingdom and forcing her to work as a slave.

Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, "exploited and abused" the victim, prosecutors said, forcing her to work as an unpaid maid and caregiver while barring her from seeking other employment. A jury found Mugambe guilty of multiple offenses, including facilitating illegal immigration, forced labor, and witness intimidation, the Independent reported.

Mugambe was a fellow housed within Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights, whose fellows work to "address some aspect of a history of gross human rights violations in their society, country, and/or region," in 2017.

Columbia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mugambe became a judge on the U.N. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in May 2023, even though police had been called to her home in Oxfordshire three months earlier, according to the Independent. Mugambe was studying for a law Ph.D. at Oxford at the time.

A jury agreed with the prosecution's case that Mugambe, who also serves as a judge on Uganda's High Court, conspired with Ugandan diplomat John Leonard Mugerwa in a "very dishonest" quid pro quo. Mugerwa, the prosecutors said, arranged for the Ugandan embassy to sponsor the victim's entry into the United Kingdom under false pretenses, while Mugambe attempted to influence a judge overseeing a case in which Mugerwa was involved.

Mugambe denied the charges, insisting she always treated the young woman with "love, care, and patience," the BBC reported.
‘Over 2,000 attempted terror attacks in past year’
The Israel Defense Forces’ “Operation Iron Wall,” an extensive and ongoing counterterrorism effort in Judea and Samaria launched on Jan. 21, is seeing the Israeli military take a new, decisive and sustained approach.

“Iron Wall,” which is particularly focused on the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur al-Shams camps, has involved elite units, armored vehicles (tanks and Eitan armored personnel carriers) and a prolonged Israeli ground presence, reflecting a shift in Israel’s approach to counterterrorism in this sector.

The failed mass bombing in Bat Yam and Holon on Feb. 20 is a vivid reminder of the ongoing lethal terror threat to Israeli cities emanating from Samaria in particular. On Monday, a terrorist hurled rocks at an Israeli vehicle traveling on a civilian road near Odala, south of Nablus, injuring an Israeli baby. The infant was treated by medical staff at the scene.

On Tuesday, elite forces operating under Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) intelligence guidance eliminated multiple armed terrorists in Jenin and nearby Qabatiya, and arrested a senior terror suspect. The Israeli forces encountered several armed terrorists who had barricaded themselves inside a building in Jenin. After an exchange of fire, two of the terrorists were eliminated and another wounded, according to the IDF.

The IDF further stated that security forces had identified and destroyed two vehicles in Jenin loaded with weapons and explosives intended for terrorist attacks.

A military source highlighted the growing threat in Judea and Samaria, telling JNS that, “In the past year alone, there have been over 2,000 attempted terrorist attacks. Some we managed to prevent, others we did not. We have seen attacks carried out, and we launched this operation because we continue to see the intent, motivation and capability to carry out terror attacks.”

The source confirmed that “a small number of tanks have been used in the operation,” noting that “this is not something we have seen in this area for a long time.” The IDF is “using all available tools to combat terror while minimizing harm to civilians,” the source added.
Israeli civilian moderately wounded in West Bank shooting attack
An Israeli civilian was wounded Wednesday evening in a shooting attack near the northern West Bank settlement of Ariel, prompting an IDF manhunt.

The shooting victim, 18, was taken to Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva for treatment. Magen David Adom said he was in moderate and stable condition after being shot in the arm while driving.

It was not immediately clear where exactly the shooting took place, the Israel Defense Forces said. The victim reached Ariel’s industrial park after coming under fire, where he met up with security forces and medics.

Troops were blocking roads and using aerial surveillance amid the searches for the assailant, the military added.

Police were also assisting in the searches, with district commander Moshe Pinchi visiting the scene of the shooting.

According to the Kan public broadcaster, the victim said in his initial testimony that the shooter used a laser to temporarily blind him before opening fire.

Earlier Wednesday, the IDF said that soldiers demolished the home of a Palestinian terrorist in Qalqilya who killed an Israeli man in the West Bank city last summer.

On June 22, 2024, Ali Khalil and other members of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad cell opened fire on an Israeli car in Qalqilya, killing Amnon Muchtar, 67, of Petah Tikva.
IDF seizes large amount of bomb-making materials in northern Samaria raid
Israeli security forces seized a large amount of bomb-making material during a counter-terrorism raid in Qabatiya near Jenin in northern Samaria, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Wednesday.

During the operation in Qabatiya, IDF soldiers also confiscated “combat equipment used by terrorists,” as well as weapons, the military stated. In addition, 12 suspected Palestinian terrorists were arrested.

The detainees, along with their seized weapons, were transferred to the Israel Police and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) for further questioning and investigation, according to the IDF statement.

In a separate counter-terror raid in the Palestinian town of Al-Ram, in the Binyamin region of Samaria just northeast of Jerusalem, soldiers located a “significant weapons stockpile,” including an explosive device and a large quantity of ammunition, it added.

In a statement, the Yesha Council umbrella group, which represents the some 500,000 Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, urged the Israeli government to order the army to “enter the centers of Arab cities [in Judea and Samaria] and maintain permanent control there.

“As we warned in recent years, due to the policy of terror containment, the Palestinians have cultivated a massive terror operation throughout Judea and Samaria, with Iranian guidance and assistance, which includes knowledge and weaponry,” chairman Israel Ganz said.

“Recently, the IDF, at the orders of the political echelon, made a positive shift in security policy, and we call for increasing the level of activity,” he said, adding that only a permanent IDF military presence in Palestinian Authority-controlled cities could “prevent bus explosions in the streets and stamp out Palestinians who are organizing the next massacre.”
IDF deploying 'worm-sized' spy devices in Gaza to track hostages, future targets
Israel has recently intensified its intelligence operations, using drones to deploy espionage devices in various areas of the Gaza Strip and collect information on future targets, the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported, citing sources from Palestinian terror factions in Gaza.

The report also said that some of these drones are being used to gather intelligence on hostages still held in Gaza.

Other sources from Gaza-based terrorist organizations claimed that the newly deployed surveillance tools released by drones include cameras and other wiretapping devices as small as a worm. These devices, they alleged, are hidden in bags placed in remote areas, cemeteries, and sometimes even in densely populated neighborhoods.

The sources further stated that operatives from terrorist groups have identified and neutralized some of these espionage attempts.

According to the report, Gaza’s security forces have been monitoring these drop sites to determine whether Israeli operatives arrive to collect the devices.

This surveillance has reportedly led to the arrest of several Palestinians.
IDF strikes alleged Islamic Jihad nerve center in Damascus, said to be leader’s house
Israeli fighter jets on Thursday struck a residential building that the military said served as a Damascus headquarters for Palestinian Islamic Jihad to plan and carry out terror activities.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor of unclear funding, said the targeted building was located in the suburb of Dummar, northwest of the capital, and was inhabited by Palestinians. It said one person was killed.

“The IDF will not allow terrorist organizations to entrench themselves in Syrian territory and operate against the State of Israel, and will respond forcefully to any such entrenchment,” the Israel Defense Forces said. It released footage of the strikes.

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad member at the scene of the airstrike in Syria told The Associated Press that the apartment that was targeted was the home of the terrorist organization’s leader Ziad Nakhaleh.

It was not immediately clear where Nakhaleh was, but he is believed to spend his time between Lebanon, Iran and Syria.


Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October review: ‘highly recommended’
This documentary by film maker Norma Percy is proof that the BBC can make fair programmes about Israel when it wants to

If you don’t already know the names Norma Percy and Ken Burns, thank me later, after you’ve watched some of their programmes. The two great documentary makers are a byword for excellence. The latter’s The Civil War (the American version, not ours) is as gripping a nine-episode TV programme as any thriller. And his The Vietnam War (across ten episodes) is, I would argue, the greatest documentary ever made.

Norma Percy is in the same class. American born, she has lived here since studying at the LSE. Chances are you have seen one of her programmes, even if you’ve not realised it. She has a distinctive and deceptively simple style: she gets the people who made something happen to talk about it.

That’s especially rewarding when she covers something controversial; in that vein, her various series on the collapse of Yugoslavia and its aftermath have been as important as any written histories, with the likes of Slobodan Milošević and Radovan Karadžić as participants.

Getting the people who made something happen to talk about it is, of course, prone to all kinds of disaster if you’re not in Percy’s class as a film maker. The BBC’s Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone got the son of a Hamas minister to talk…and not only didn’t bother to say who he was, but actively went out of its way to present only that perspective.
Bibas family thanks Israelis for tribute on Purim
The Bibas family expressed heartfelt appreciation on Wednesday to Israelis across the country for their outpouring of support, including the tribute to their murdered kids in costumes on the Purim holiday.

“The heart missed a beat twice today,” read a post on a Facebook page managed by the family after images appeared on social media of classes of Israeli schoolchildren throughout the country, as well as adults, dressed as Batman, some carrying orange balloons or wearing orange masks, as a homage to 4-year-old Ariel Bibas and his love for the superhero. “Once, when we woke up to a morning without new photos of Ariel and Kfir dressed up for Purim, and the second time when we saw all the incredible gestures on the streets of Israel.

“Time after time during the last almost year and a half, and especially during the last few weeks, you have shown us that Ariel and Kfir will never leave us. They are in the heart of the nation and will always remain so. Those who were a symbol of Hamas’s cruelty, are now a symbol of unity and hope for the people of Israel.”

Ariel and his 9-month-old brother Kfir were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza along with their mother, Shiri, shortly after being abducted from their homes during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre.

The bereaved family members noted that they were also moved to see the tens of thousands of Israelis at the funeral procession and paying condolence calls last month.

“Just as we were so moved to see the costumes, we were equally moved to see you at the funeral procession, at the shivah and also when we saw you call to continue returning those hostages who remain in captivity,” they wrote. “Thank you, our dear people of Israel.”


Freed hostage held by Hamas Doron Katz-Asher gives birth to daughter
The entire nation rejoiced when Doron Katz-Asher, along with her daughters Raz and Aviv, were freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza. After some recovery time, the freed hostage became pregnant with her third child with her husband, Yoni, giving birth this week.

Katz-Asher, who was taken hostage on October 7, 2023, while visiting family in Kibbutz Nir Oz, announced her pregnancy in October that she was expecting. This joyous revelation came less than a year after her release, following 49 days of captivity under Hamas. Her daughters, Raz (4) and Aviv (2), were also held with her. Tragically, Doron's mother, Efrat Katz, was killed during the attacks, and several other family members remain missing.

In an emotional Instagram post, Doron shared, “Bringing life into the world, a year after I almost lost my own, is the greatest gift we could ask for in the new year. My ray of light in the darkness.” The news has resonated deeply with many, symbolizing a remarkable journey of survival and resilience after such a traumatic ordeal.

However, since then, the freed hostage has separated from her husband, the couple announced in recent months. Prior to the war, she wanted to have another child, though her husband was not on the same page, she told Ynet in an interview in May.

In the same interview, she talked about how after her release, she had doubts about whether or not to conceive again. "When I returned from there, I doubted whether I wanted another child. Do I want to bring a child into a world like this or into a family with post-traumatic stress? After all, we've all been through an unimaginable experience here. Am I even capable of it?” she said. “Is it good for the family? My desire reared its head again a few months after I returned from captivity. I didn't expect it to come so relatively quickly. This is the pregnancy that came after a period of poor nutrition in captivity, drastic weight loss, stress, and grief. I'll be honest and say that I didn't even get my period for months,” responding to the interviewer's question on if she saw the pregnancy after extreme conditions a miracle.


Ask Haviv Anything: Episode 5: When your family is taken hostage
This is a podcast about history, but also about this moment in history.

Today's episode is a special one. Many of you asked about the hostages, about the activism of their families, about their shattering experiences on October 7 and how they have worked to piece their lives back together since.

I can think of no better way to begin to answer these questions than by posing them to our good friend Shaked Haran.

There's no one story of the hostage families. Their experiences vary, their opinions on the war differ. All their stories are powerful and excruciating, and often also unexpectedly inspiring; all are worth hearing.

And Shaked's voice stands out among them for its clarity and courage.

Shaked lost three family members in the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be'eri, including her beloved father Avshalom, or Avshal. Seven more family members, including sister Adi, brother-in-law Tal, three-year-old niece Yahel, eight-year-old nephew Naveh, and 12-year-old cousin Noam, were dragged into Gaza as hostages.

Just two weeks ago, the last family member still held by Hamas, Tal Shoham, was finally released, closing a long and painful chapter in the life of this extraordinary family.

We sat down to talk about that day, about what it feels like to search desperately for your family after a massacre, about finding the strength amid the pain and fear to launch a globe-spanning fight to rescue your loved ones. We looked at Israel's social fractures and at what holds us all together, about a morally confused world and an enemy territory that could still, she believes, flourish if it managed to come out from beneath the shadow of the murderers of her family.

Thank you to Joe and Shira Lieberman for sponsoring this episode in honor of those we lost on October 7th.


Pinsker Centre: Ep. 57 - Could France Broker Peace Between Lebanon and Israel?
In this episode, Pinsker Centre Policy Fellows Nadav, Sophia and Ava examine French influence in the Middle East today. They discuss the unique nature of the Franco-Lebanese relationship, and whether France are uniquely placed to broker peace between Lebanon and Israel.


Defeating The Muslim Brotherhood With Israel Amb. Yechiel Leiter
Gabe is joined by Israel Ambassador Yechiel Leiter in this week's episode of Standpoint to discuss the fire that fuels Hamas - the Muslim Brotherhood. Gabe and Leiter talk about Israel’s relationship with the United States and Gaza, and how we can move forward from this war. Gabe also has words for conservative commentary influencers like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens who sympathize and side with Iran and seemingly spew what could be seen as antisemitism on their platforms.


Hugh Hewitt: Israel and the U.S.: Haviv Rettig Gur joins Hugh to lay out the fundamental facts of the Middle East
Israel is the equal of, if not the most important strategic partner of the U.S. in the region if not the entire globe AND the four alliances that dominate the region have coalesced into a white hat axis and a black hat axis. The U.S. is part of the white hats and should speak and act as such.


Iran’s Proxy War Collapse | Why Israel is Stronger Than Ever
Why did Hamas attack Israel on October 7, and how did it backfire spectacularly - particularly for ‘puppet master’ Iran? Hamas launched its brutal invasion expecting to shatter Israel’s strength—but instead, it triggered a seismic shift in the region, unraveling Iran’s proxy strategy and redefining the balance of power in the Middle East.

In this episode of Israel: State of a Nation, Eylon Levy sits down with Saul Sadka, a sharp political analyst known for his no-nonsense breakdowns of the war. Together, they expose the ripple effects of Hamas' catastrophic miscalculation and what it means for Israel and the world.

🔹 How Hamas’ attack destroyed Iran’s "ring of fire" strategy
🔹 Why the media war is just as crucial as the military one
🔹 The role of Western appeasement in empowering Iran’s proxies
🔹 Israel’s new strategic position—and the path to lasting victory

This episode delivers blunt analysis you won’t hear anywhere else. Subscribe for more hard-hitting insights on Israel, global security, and the war beyond Gaza.

00:00 - Intro: Meet Saul Sadka
03:15 - Hamas’ Strategic Failure
09:05 - Iran’s Proxy Collapse
20:46 - How the West Empowered Hamas
34:39 - A Palestinian State = Chaos?
40:34 - Israel’s Path to Victory
48:18 - Conclusion




‘All fawning and softballs’: Douglas Murray slams interview with Syrian President
Author Douglas Murray reacts to the "softball" interview with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, conducted by Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell.

“If Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell had been interviewing somebody who voted for Brexit in 2016 or somebody who even voted for Trump in 2024, they would have thrown everything at them,” Mr Murray said.

“It would have been a fulminating rage of hostile questions and hostile framings of the interview subject.

“But you have a jihadist in front of you who's just overtaken Syria, and it's all fawning and softballs.

“It's really indicative of where a significant portion, actually, of the sort of centrist political class still is and it's all about the usual thing, self-loathing, self-blame.”




Israeli media SCRAMBLES to undermine Bibi & the Right | Meira K Show
Buckle up—this week on The Meira K Show, we’re diving into the stories you won’t hear in the mainstream media. From border tensions to media bias, political chaos, and the biggest threats facing #israel , Meira breaks it all down with her signature unfiltered take.

🚨 What’s Inside This Episode?
🔹 Egyptian border crisis—Is Israel letting fear dictate policy?
🔹 Media manipulation—How left & right-wing outlets spin the same news differently 📢
🔹 The #gaza war & hostages—What’s next for Israel’s strategy?
🔹 Bedouin crime wave in the Negev—And why no one’s talking about it 🏜️
🔹 The Ultra-Orthodox draft debate—Culture clash or political distraction? 🏆
🔹 Iran’s nuclear escalation—Should Israel strike first? 💥
🔹 Hamas, Hezbollah & the Houthis—Terrorist threats on all sides, but what’s the real game plan?
🔹 Bibi under fire—Qatar funding rumors, Knesset chaos, and what really matters right now


Erin Molan: "Kidnapped": Meet Mahmoud Khalil the Lefties NEW Hero—it’s Bat Beep Crazy!
In Episode 8 of 'Bat Beep Crazy', Erin Molan unleashes her razor-sharp wit on the Left’s latest obsession: Mahmoud Khalil, dubbed “kidnapped” by his wife—ironic, given his Hamas idols’ hostage habits. She dives into Sen. Schumer’s baffling support, Trump’s “Palestinian” jab, and the Democrats’ new tearjerker rallying cry. Erin then flips the script, exposing Tesla protests and the Left’s sudden electric vehicle hate, while spotlighting Sec. Rubio’s no-nonsense stance on pro-terror visitors as the real Republican vibe. She torches “human rights” orgs for their Gaza aid hypocrisy, mocks “Gays for Gaza” amid Palestinian anti-LGBTQ reality, and rips into the London School of Economics’ “Understanding Hamas” nonsense—reminding them what Hamas really is. Sen. Slotkin’s Trump-voter brain jab gets a brutal takedown, UN Chief Guterres’ women’s rights tweets earn a scoff, and Erin salutes John Cleese’s Israel tour grit. Finally, she ties it all up with Tom Homan’s epic “Apple Walk,” stacking it against Pierre’s apple chat and Abbott’s onion chomp. Buckle up—it’s bat beep crazy!

Timestamps
0:00 - Mahmoud Khalil: The Left’s “Kidnapped” Hero
0:47 - Tesla protests against Elon Musk
1:20 - Democrats’ New platform for 2028
4:53 - Chuck Schumer vs. Trump calling him "Palestinian"
6:27 - Sec. Rubio comments about kicking out Pro-Terror Guests
8:26 - “Human Rights” Hypocrisy on Gaza Aid
10:07 - Gays for Gaza vs. Palestinian Reality
11:34 - London School of Economics’ Hamas Love Fest
2:30 - Sen. Slotkin’s Trump Voter Brain Bust
14:10 - UN Chief Guterres’ Women’s Rights Farce
16:12 - John Cleese’s Israel Tour: Erin’s Cheers
17:43 - Tom Homan’s Apple Walk vs. Pierre & Abbott




Police pressured by Albanese government to downplay caravan plot before election
The Albanese Government pressured police to publicly state that the caravan plot was not a terror-related incident, despite the risk of jeopardising the investigation, which was ongoing, with suspects still under surveillance by NSW Police and arrests yet to be made.

Multiple sources involved in the joint counter-terrorism investigation told Sky News there was a push from the Albanese Government to get the ‘caravan hoax’ narrative into the public domain ahead of the federal election - which was meant to be called on March 9th, but was postponed due to the impact from Cyclone Alfred.

A well-placed senior policing source said: “They’ve had a desire to call it out as not a terrorism incident for some time based on the fact they needed to de-escalate it prior to any election being called.”

Sky News has confirmed the Australian Federal Police wanted NSW Police to agree to release publicly that the caravan was a criminal con job for at least two weeks before the press conference on Monday March 10th.

But NSW Police pushed back, furious at what they saw as political interference in a delicate and difficult police investigation.

They had counter-surveillance operations running, were conducting coercive examinations and were still in the midst of their investigation, which included building a water-tight case against 14 suspects, who they arrested on Monday morning.

Law enforcement officials feared that going public prematurely could have risked compromising their ongoing investigation.


Police give up on hunt for pro-Palestine vandal who was filmed slashing Balfour painting
Cambridge Police has called off its search for the vandal who destroyed a portrait of Lord Balfour at the University of Cambridge last year.

An activist from Palestine Action – the direct action group notorious for vandalising private property – slashed the 1914 painting of Lord Arthur Balfour hanging in a stairwell of the library at Trinity College, Cambridge, on March 8 2024.

In a video posted to social media, an unnamed female activist can be seen spraying red paint onto the work before taking out a box cutter, slashing it and pulling apart the canvas.

Despite a CCTV camera in the entrance to the university library, the JC understands that Cambridgeshire Police was not able to identify the suspect, who was also visible in the clip shared by Palestine Action.


UKLFI: Parody Labour Party Ad on Tube accuses Netanyahu of war crimes
A parody of an advertisement for the Labour Party appeared on Jubilee Line trains yesterday, accusing Israel’s Prime Minister of war crimes.

The parody advert, which featured a picture of the UK’s Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, displayed the slogan “with Labour Britain is doing deals with war criminals”, along with the Labour logo and the tag #IsraelTradeDeal.

UKLFI has written to Transport for London (TFL) requesting them to remove these obviously fake adverts. Party political adverts are banned on TFL.

UKLFI also pointed out that Netanyahu has not been found to be a war criminal. He is innocent unless proven guilty. Every phrase of every sentence of the allegations made by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Netanya is false, as UKLFI has shown in its letter to the Prosecutor.




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