Tuesday, June 03, 2025

06/03 Links: ‘Free Palestine’ Terrorism; Why Humanitarian Organizations hate the GHF; BBC have become the gold standard for fake news in support of Hamas.

From Ian:

John Spencer and Arsen Ostrovsky: The US-Israel Gaza aid plan is working — which is why Hamas is spreading lies about it
The GHF threatens to dismantle that system by delivering directly to civilians, bypassing the terror group that has used starvation as a strategy.

So Hamas has turned to a two-pronged response.

First, disruption on the ground: sending armed operatives to provoke chaos at aid sites, firing on civilians attempting to access food and deliberately manufacturing volatility.

Second, disinformation: flooding social media and compliant news outlets with false casualty counts, doctored images and fabricated narratives — all to paint Israel as the aggressor and itself as the victim.

This isn’t theory.

It’s strategy.

It’s textbook Hamas.

And more than 600 days into a war they began, too much of the world’s media still parrots its talking points without question.

That’s not journalism — it’s complicity.

Yes, the suffering in Gaza is real.

But its cause is not Israel’s military operations or efforts to rescue the hostages Hamas still holds; it’s Hamas’ own strategy of exploitation and terror.

Meantime, the international community, led by UNRWA, had been the primary source of humanitarian assistance in Gaza and for years willfully turned a blind eye to Hamas’ exploitation of aid — failing to enforce meaningful oversight, even employing Hamas members (many who took part in the Oct. 7 attacks) as local staff and using its facilities to hoard aid for terror operations.

Now, UNRWA would seemingly rather see the GHF fail, and the people of Gaza actually starve, so it can continue using the Jewish state as its forever-scapegoat.

Israel has taken unprecedented steps to minimize civilian harm, facing an enemy that embeds in civilian areas, hoards humanitarian aid and sacrifices its own people to gain global sympathy.

Humanitarian aid must never be a bargaining chip for terrorists.

But by insisting on a system that leaves aid in Hamas’ hands, much of the international community has allowed exactly that.

Hamas would rather starve its own people than lose control over them.

Those who truly care about the welfare of Palestinian civilians must support a system that bypasses Hamas altogether.

That system is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

The GHF is delivering what countless international actors have failed to provide: direct, accountable, large-scale humanitarian assistance that does not empower a terrorist group.

It breaks Hamas’ monopoly over aid and strips it of one of its most dangerous tools — using food as a means of control.

That’s why Hamas is trying to sabotage this initiative.

Supporting the GHF means more than feeding the hungry.

It means breaking Hamas’ grip on Gaza’s civilians.

It means dismantling the group’s strategy of domination through deprivation.

And it means backing a bold US-Israeli initiative that delivers not only food — but hope.
Why Humanitarian Organizations hate the GHF
Neutrality
Critics assert that Israel’s military oversight of GHF distribution centers, including securing perimeters for U.S. contractors, violates neutrality (aid must not align with a belligerent) and independence (aid must be free from military control). This criticism is baseless. No modern war has been fought without Western armies being responsible for humanitarian supplies.

For example:
In Iraq (2003–2011), the U.S. established Civil-Military Operations Centers (CMOCs) to coordinate aid with NGOs, directly delivering supplies in secure areas to prevent insurgent theft (U.S. Department of Defense, 2004). USAID funded independent groups like Mercy Corps, but U.S. military involvement was significant.

In Afghanistan (2001–2021), the U.S. conducted airdrops of 2.4 million humanitarian rations and escorted UN convoys, ensuring civilian access while securing routes (WFP, 2002).

These actions, far more intrusive than Israel’s role in the GHF, faced no comparable IHL objections. Israel’s measures—screening aid and securing distribution—are permitted under Article 23(c) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which allows controls to prevent aid from benefiting the enemy. GHF is not operated by Israel but by private contractors with the IDF only guarding the perimeter.

Impartiality
Critics claim that directing aid to southern Gaza while restricting northern deliveries violates impartiality, as aid must be distributed based on need without discrimination (Article 70, Additional Protocol I). However, Hamas is the one controlling aid now, diverting supplies to its fighters and selling them for profit. Israel’s restrictions aim to prevent this, as allowed under Article 23(c), which permits measures to ensure aid reaches civilians, not combatants.

The fact that one of the warring parties, Hamas, had been effectively controlling the aid did not seem to bother the same “humanitarian” organization that alleges that the IDF’s involvement in securing the distribution centers is a violation of the impartiality principle.

Moreover, IHL permits effective sieges to isolate combatants, provided civilian harm is proportionate (Article 54, Additional Protocol I). Allegations of Weaponization

Humanitarian organizations allege that Israel uses the GHF to pressure Hamas or manipulate civilian movements, violating Article 49 (forcible transfer). These claims are exaggerated and echo Hamas’s propaganda. Hamas actively sabotages GHF centers, spreading misinformation to deter civilians. The GHF’s targeted delivery is a practical response to Hamas’s diversion, not a violation of IHL. Hamas had been the one using the control of the aid as a weapon of war by using the Gazans as pawns in its media war against Israel.

Weaponizing IHL
The humanitarian community’s criticisms reflect a double standard in interpreting IHL that prevents Israel from dismantling Hamas’s last lever of power—control over aid. The double standard that is applied to Israel comes directly from the symbiotic relationship that UN organization in Gaza gave established with Hamas.

These organizations use IHL and the language of human rights to parrot Hamas propaganda by creating a standard of IHL that is impossible to follow. The goal post keeps on changing in such a way that would prevent Israel from effectively achieving a victory over Hamas, the ruling government of Gaza.

Hamas is on the brink of collapse, with Gazans storming its warehouses and defying its. The GHF is the final step to break this control, and this is why it is the final nail in Hamas’s coffin. Precisely, for these, the “humanitarian” organization has thrown everything but the kitchen sink at the GHF to prevent the final collapse of the Hamas government.

True concern for Gaza’s humanitarian situation requires allowing Israel to finish the war against Hamas. Defeating Hamas will end its tyranny and the immense suffering Hamas has inflicted on its own population.
Eli Lake: Who Profits From Gaza’s Desperation?
In other words, Hamas wants to sabotage Israel’s plans to cut out the terrorist group from one of its remaining sources of control and leverage in Gaza: distribution of food and aid. That is an important piece of context missing from nearly all of the first-day stories on the alleged massacres. It also may explain why on Tuesday morning, the world awoke to more reports of Palestinians being shot as they awaited food deliveries. At a bare minimum it’s reasonable to conclude that Hamas is instigating confrontations with the IDF in order to provoke the shootings of hungry aid recipients.

This, however, does not eliminate the possibility that Israeli soldiers have in some cases fired in the direction of Palestinians awaiting aid. Israel is attempting to deliver food in the middle of a war zone. Even the most professional armies make mistakes. If the accounts of these shootings are accurate, then the Israelis have fired warning shots as crowds approached a site before the aid distribution was ready. That’s a tragedy, but not a massacre.

“I believe Hamas has every interest in sabotaging the aid mechanism because they cannot control it or loot it to finance their existence,” Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, the director of Realign For Palestine and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told The Free Press. “What little evidence I have been able to see thus far suggests [the recent reports of shootings] may have been an excessive case of crowd control by the Israeli military gone wrong.”

Alkhatib has taken the responsible approach. There is still scant evidence of what actually happened on Sunday at Rafah. A video shared by an Al Jazeera journalist, for example, showed footage of an aid distribution point in Khan Younis, not in Rafah where the alleged massacre took place. When the BBC checked its facts, it issued a clarification pointing to these discrepancies.

“The circumstances of this strike are unclear,” the BBC said. Well, that’s an understatement.

Even if Israel is to blame for the alleged shootings in Rafah, it would be a triumph for Hamas if these reported incidents scuttled the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s work. If Israel and its allies—more than a year and a half into the war—have found a way to sever aid distribution from Hamas’s grip, there is a real chance that finally these fanatics will be driven from power by the very people they have misruled for nearly two decades. That is how to end the war.

Alkhatib agrees. He recommended the new aid approach be expanded so that Palestinians can receive aid without walking miles and being forced to wait for hours on end in the unforgiving sun and heat.

Nonetheless, he said, “It has shown an immense potential for many who are desperate to access food without having to pay massively inflated prices for aid that is supposed to be free in the first place.” Alkhatib added that the exorbitant prices Gazans must pay for food that is supposed to be free of charge is a scandal. “That’s not on Israel,” he said. “That is on Hamas, the international NGO community, and the United Nations.”


Jeffrey Herf: ‘Free Palestine’ Terrorism
To be sure, students who came of age in the 1960s who followed academic careers in the humanities and social sciences pushed the professoriat to the left. They adopted varieties of leftist criticisms of American capitalism, but they put their energies into teaching, research, and gaining tenure, especially in the humanities and social sciences. The romance with terror did not fit well with seeking tenure in major universities and colleges. In the United States, in contrast to the aftermath of the New Left in “post-fascist” West Germany, Italy, and Japan, during which leftist terrorist organizations engaged in political murders even into the 1980s, the Weathermen had faded from political significance by the early 1970s.

But what didn’t fade was the strain of radicalism on the left that demonized Zionists and Israel. By 1969, in the wake of Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, both the Black Panther Party and SDS had turned decisively against Israel and celebrated terror, which they recast as “the armed struggle” of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Those ideas entered the subdiscipline of Middle East Studies and recast the history of Israel as one of racism and colonialism, and as part of the global system of imperialism that the New Left of the 1960s had denounced. By the 1990s, an anti-Zionist faculty had gained tenure at major universities, most importantly in history, English, and area studies departments. These professors supported Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) initiatives, and echoed Hamas propaganda during the wars Hamas launched after seizing power in Gaza in 2007. Their canonical works, such as Edward Said’s 1978 work Orientalism, brought the PLO’s version of Israeli history as one of colonialism and racism into the American academy and onto many course syllabi.

It was during these years that anti-Zionist passion and the delegitimation of Israel acquired academic respectability in American universities.

In parallel, an activist dimension emerged with the formation of Students for Justice in Palestine organization in Berkeley in 1993. This group established itself as a national organization in 2010, and by 2024 it claimed to have 275 chapters at universities and colleges. These chapters supported the BDS efforts and some advocated “armed struggle as the only way to liberate Palestine.” After October 7, others endorsed the Hamas attacks, and many called for “dismantling” Zionism on American campuses.

During the 2023–2024 academic year, academics at 120 universities and colleges formed Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP), which coordinates with SJP. FJP asserts that Israel has conducted a “violent, repressive occupation” of Palestinian territory and that this occupation is related to “interlocking systems of oppression underpinned by global white supremacy and racial capitalism.” FJP’s website refrains from criticism of Hamas and the Islamist religious war it has waged against Israel. Instead, it speaks in the secular language of the Western left when it states that it is “firmly committed to combating any form of racism, including anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy.” FJP does not advocate political violence, but it lends the prestige of the faculty, such as it is, to efforts to attack Israel’s moral and political legitimacy, and offer a distorted version of its history.

Elias Rodriguez and others who came of political age in the resulting ideological climate came to view the state of Israel as uniquely evil. The “question of Palestine” came to assume a central aspect to leftist politics and ideas. Support for the state of Israel became incompatible with other leftist causes. With the formation of Faculty for Justice in Palestine, that antagonism became not only a ubiquitous form of leftist student activism but has also attained academic respectability in the universities. As Cary Nelson has pointed out, as a recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Rodriguez would likely have been exposed both to a curriculum and to activism saturated with such views.
Dave Rich: Left Terror for Palestine
Left wing terrorism historically was the preserve of Cold War-era groups like Baader-Meinhof in Germany or the Red Brigades in Italy: Marxist-Leninist, often with links to Communist states, and tightly organised around cells and secret structures. This is different, and more similar to the extreme right wing terrorism of recent years, where individuals act alone but do so against the backdrop of a global (and largely online) community that is supportive of their aims and means. Each attack inspires the next, with manifestos, slogans and livestreams posted and shared to glorify each attacker and encourage future atrocities. You don’t need an organisation to build a terrorist movement today: just a collective worldview and a network of social media accounts to spread the message. It is telling that Rodriguez wrote a manifesto explaining his motivation for what he termed an “armed demonstration” and encouraging others to follow his lead, under the slogan “Escalate for Gaza - Bring the War Home”, which he posted on X shortly before the attack. It’s the same methodology used by numerous far right terrorists in recent years. And it is just as telling, and predictable, that many in the pro-Palestinian world have shared this manifesto, adopted Rodriguez’s slogan, and celebrated, justified or excused his act.

What this means for Jews around the world is obvious: even more security, more fear, and the need for greater resilience and determination to continue living our lives in defiance of this threat. What it should mean for a pro-Palestinian movement that has made calls for “resistance” and “intifada” the centrepiece of its rhetoric is a period of introspection as to how this movement has produced its own brand of terrorism in the West. But that won’t happen.

This is how a terrorist movement is not just born, but how it grows. Individuals act alone, but they are not truly lone actors: they emerge from a political subculture that is steeped in violent discourse and imagery, and that justifies terrorism when it is in pursuit of an approved cause. This is a movement that responded to the horrors of October 7 with acts of celebration and demonstrations of support, and has only become more extreme since. The main surprise is that it has taken this long for this kind of terrorism to emerge in the West. The fear, after the Washington D.C. shooting, was that it would inspire more attacks: once one person from within the pro-Palestinian world had stepped over that line, others would follow. Now there are two, and it is inevitable there will be more.
Brendan O'Neill: The media’s dangerous lies about Israel
For the BBC to now say it was ‘incorrect’ is the worst case of ‘too little, too late’ I’ve ever seen. The reports of a food-trap massacre were not just ‘incorrect’ – they were absurd, hysterical and dangerous. The BBC itself played a key role in fomenting them. All day on Sunday its website led with ‘live’ coverage of the reported hellish event. The Guardian, too, made it its top story. Innocents were ‘gunned down while trying to reach food-aid site’, its headline cried. Journalists spread the story across social media. ‘The Israeli army massacred Palestinians queuing for food’, Owen Jones told his million followers on X. Proof, he said, that Israel’s aid initiative is really just ‘another stage in [its] genocide against the Palestinian people’.

NGOs joined the chorus. Amnesty International’s Middle East wing declared that Israeli forces had ‘shot at starved Palestinians’. The words of an Australian doctor in Gaza went viral: poor Palestinians were ‘instructed to collect food’ and were then shot, he said. Dystopic tales of evil Israel dangling grub to lure innocents to their death went viral. They were further stirred up by Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, who said Israeli aid distribution ‘has become a death trap’.

Will these people, like the BBC, admit that their feverish claims were ‘incorrect’? In a sense, it doesn’t matter. The damage is done. And no number of corrections will undo it. The untruth is in the wild now, titillating the world’s anti-Semites. Yet the rest of us, those of us who still believe truth matters, have a responsibility to reckon with the events of the past three days. To my mind, this is the most reckless reportage we have seen of this war. It speaks to the almost complete untethering of the West’s coverage from the principles of objectivity and truth, and its drift into a neo-imperial crusade whose aim is nothing less than to single Israel out as the savage in the family of nations.

The magnitude of 1 June and its fallout cannot be overstated. Our media classes lapped up the lies of Hamas. They made themselves its Lord Haw-Haws, uncritically repeating a horror story that worked to the benefit of that army of anti-Semites while further isolating the Jewish nation it dreams of destroying. The untruths have piled up this past fortnight. We were told 14,000 Gazan babies would die in 48 hours – not true. We were told Hamas does not hide in hospitals – not true. And we were told the IDF picked off the starving – not true. We are being lied to about Israel on an industrial scale – day in, day out. I have never seen anything like it.

It’s long been clear that those of an Israelophobic bent care little for the impact their misinformation might have on Jewish people and their security. Yet now we know they don’t care about Palestinians, either. Their demented fearmongering over Israel’s aid centres being ‘death traps’ could very well scare some Palestinians into staying away. These people told us Gaza was suffering the world’s worst famine – now they tell Palestinians they’ll die if they go for Israeli aid. Their Israelophobia has become so all-consuming and delirious that they would prefer to see Palestinians starve than be fed by the Jewish State. Like all of history’s eruptions of this particular bigotry, there’s madness here.
Brendan O'Neill: The Jew-burning in Colorado speaks to the West’s fascistic turn
It feels like we are living through something even worse than a resurgence of the oldest racism – it’s as if there has been a fascistic turn in the West. Consider some of the horrors of the last fortnight alone. A Jewish woman in DC slain as she desperately tried to crawl away from the man pumping bullets into her. Three synagogues and a Holocaust memorial vandalised in Paris. A Jewish schoolkid taken to hospital following a violent attack on the London Tube. A Jewish-owned business wrecked by vandals in London’s Stamford Hill. And now Jews ‘set on fire’. And throughout, that constant noise: the sound of armies of activists denouncing the Jewish nation as the wickedest nation, the spiller of babies’ blood, the nefarious controller of world affairs. The medieval echo grows louder. The darkness spreads.

Some of these grim acts involved the cry of ‘Free Palestine!’. Some said it, others spraypainted it. Isn’t it remarkable that so much of what is done in the supposed name of ‘freeing Palestine’ has the distinctive whiff of fascist hatred to it? The broken glass of Jewish businesses, the desecration of synagogues, the murder of Jews, Jews on fire. These assaulters and activists can cry ‘Free Palestine’ as much as they like – to some of us, if it looks like fascism and quacks like fascism, maybe it’s fucking fascism.

It is so clear now that ‘Free Palestine’ has nothing to do with Palestinians. That this slogan was the last thing Sarah Milgrim heard as she forlornly crawled from her assassin in DC, that it rang in the ears of a Holocaust refugee in Boulder as she was set on fire, confirms that it is a cry of venomous hatred wrapped in a seemingly progressive demand. It seems to me that the plight of Palestinians has been entirely hijacked by the West’s self-loathing activist class, who hide their violent rejection of reason and the Enlightenment behind a keffiyeh, to make medieval hysteria seem edgy and leftish. An ideology of inhumanity stalks the modern West, and its echoes of humanity’s darkest history can no longer be ignored.

‘Where they burn books, in the end they will also burn people’, said Heinrich Heine. We might now say that where they violently deface expressions of solidarity for Jewish hostages, they will also violently assault the people who offer that support. The violent actors are responsible for what they do. The rest of us are responsible for how we respond. And if we fail to respond to a literal Jew-burning with the righteous fury such a sick crime calls for, then we risk compounding the original horror. Humanity’s conscience has slept long enough.
Huckabee slams US media for ‘reckless reporting’ on Gaza aid incident
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee issued a scathing rebuke of several major American news outlets on Monday, accusing them of spreading false, Hamas-sourced narratives.

In a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, Huckabee directly blamed “reckless and irresponsible reporting” by the New York Times, CNN and the Associated Press for fueling antisemitic violence in the United States—specifically referencing last month’s deadly shooting of two Israelis in Washington, D.C., and Sunday’s firebombing of a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado.

“These reports were FALSE,” Huckabee wrote, referring to claims that Israeli forces shot civilians waiting for aid in the Gaza Strip. “Drone video and first-hand accounts clearly showed that there were no injuries, no fatalities, no shooting, no chaos.”

The only source for the story, he continued, was “Hamas and its collaborators,” accusing the press of relying exclusively on a terror organization’s narrative. “Media sources who willingly parrot these libelous allegations should recant their fake news stories, apologize, and pledge to practice actual reporting of fact,” wrote Huckabee.

The incident in question reportedly occurred near the Gaza coast on Saturday, when civilians gathered near a U.S.-funded Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution site. The IDF categorically denied that any shots were fired by Israeli soldiers. A review of aerial surveillance footage revealed no Israeli fire, casualties, or unrest—contrary to many media reports.

Huckabee praised the GHF effort, noting it had provided over five million meals to civilians “without incident,” and warned that false reporting “feeds and incites violence against innocent people in the United States.”

“For the New York Times, AP, and CNN to be part of a Hamas-fed false narrative is reprehensible,” he wrote. “It represents more than mere sloppy journalism. It’s feeding and inciting violence.”

Huckabee concluded his statement by demanding “an immediate retraction of the lies,” and urged news organizations to “act with objective professionalism … instead of being a partner of terrorism by blindly following Hamas news releases.”


Sen. Fetterman warns pro-Israel Democrats have ‘lost the argument in parts of my party’
Sen. John Fetterman acknowledged Monday that “parts” of the Democratic Party’s base have turned their backs on Israel, an issue he described as one of “moral clarity” for him.

Fetterman (D-Pa.) argued during a bipartisan “The Senate Project” event with Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) that those who lament the “tragedy in Gaza” should blame Hamas and its benefactor, Iran.

“The Jewish community must feel constantly under assault,” said Fetterman, 55, during the event, which was streamed on Fox Nation and moderated by “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream.

“I visited Penn, and I said hello with 300 [Jewish] students, and they were all just, it’s like they’re exhausted, and were constantly living under this kind of constant kinds of criticism, and having that there in their face.

“That’s not free speech, building tent cities on a campus and terrorizing and intimidating Jewish students, that’s not free speech,” he added. “And now we really lost, we’ve lost the argument in parts of my party, and for me, that moral clarity, it’s really firmly on Israel.”

Fetterman has been a staunch public supporter of Israel since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack that killed an estimated 1,200 people in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

The senator’s outspokenness has prompted lefty agitators to target him at political events and even his home.

“Of course, we can all agree [there’s a] tragedy in Gaza. Nobody wants that. But who does want that — and that’s Hamas,” Fetterman added. “I think we should blame Iran and Hamas.

“I refuse to allow [to] try to turn Israel into a pariah state, and now it’s right in the middle of that,” he added, noting his agreement with McCormick.


‘The fire spread on their clothes’: Survivor recounts Colorado attack
On Sunday afternoon, what began as a peaceful rally in downtown Boulder, Colorado, part of the global “Run for Their Lives” campaign calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas, descended into violence. A terrorist armed with fire bombs had been waiting for the marchers, and hurled a flaming bottle that hit one of the participants directly and wounded several others.

“I had just gathered the group and started speaking when the terrorist threw the Molotov cocktail,” said Shahar, who resides in Boulder and has been leading weekly marches there and in nearby Denver.

He explained that the “Run for Their Lives” initiative originated in California in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel. “The idea was to raise awareness for the hostages. A few people decided to run together, and it grew rapidly,” he said.

“There are now about 230 groups worldwide, even in places we’ve never heard of. Some have just a few people, others draw 200. It varies.”

‘The terrorist was waiting’

In Colorado, the initiative has taken root in the Jewish community. “Since November 2023, we’ve marched every Sunday in Boulder and Denver, rain, snow or shine,” said Shahar.

On the day of the attack, the group had completed their usual route along Boulder’s main Pearl Street and was gathering near city hall when the assailant struck.

“He had clearly planned it in advance,” said Shahar. “He came with pre-prepared Molotov cocktails and even carried a canister of fuel. As I stood and spoke to the group, he threw the first bottle, it hit their legs and the flames spread quickly across their clothes. The eldest among us, an 88-year-old woman, immediately collapsed.”

Shahar and another participant initially tried to confront the attacker. “But when I got closer and saw he had a box full of more bottles; we realized we couldn’t risk it. We pulled back and tried to get people away and tend to the wounded. Others stepped in, trying to shield the group.”

The assault lasted about 10 minutes before police arrived. In the meantime, the marchers acted as first responders. “It took time for the police to get there,” said Shahar. “The people on the ground were the ones who extinguished the flames, helped others walk, and moved them out of danger. It was incredibly disturbing.”


Suspect in Colorado Anti-Semitic Terror Attack Says He Wanted To 'Kill All Zionist People'
The suspect in Colorado's anti-Semitic terror attack said Monday that he had planned the attack for a year, telling federal investigators that he "wanted to kill all Zionist people" and "would do it again."

Mohamed Soliman, a 45-year-old illegal immigrant from Egypt, admitted during a police interview that he specifically targeted the Jewish group that gathered Sunday to raise awareness for Hamas's hostages, according to an affidavit filed Monday.

The Justice Department on Monday charged Soliman with a federal hate crime. Soliman is also facing state charges of 384 years for 16 counts of attempted murder, 48 years for 2 counts of using an incendiary device, and 192 years for 16 counts of attempted use of an incendiary device, according to Boulder district attorney Michael Dougherty.

Terror charges have not been ruled out, according to acting U.S. attorney J. Bishop Grewell.

Soliman threw Molotov cocktails and used what the New York Times called a "makeshift flamethrower" on peaceful Boulder, Colo., demonstrators, injuring 12 victims, including a Holocaust survivor.

Investigators also found a black container nearby with 14 more Molotov cocktails.

The terror attack came just weeks after anti-Israel terrorist Elias Rodriguez murdered two Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, as the young couple left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.


Family of Colorado Anti-Semitic Terror Suspect Arrested, Facing Deportation: DHS
The family of the suspect in the Boulder, Colo., anti-Semitic terror attack has been arrested by federal immigration authorities, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced Tuesday.

"Today, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colo., terrorist and illegal alien Mohamed Soliman into ICE custody," Noem said in a video posted on X. "Now, Mohamed's despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but we're also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific attack—if they had any knowledge of it or if they provided support to it."

Fox News's Bill Melugin reported the news earlier that afternoon, writing that senior sources within the department said authorities are processing Soliman's family for "expedited removal."

The news comes as the Trump administration has ramped up deportations of illegal immigrants. Under border czar Tom Homan, ICE has arrested more than 158,000 illegal aliens, around 75 percent of whom have criminal convictions or pending charges, according to the DHS.

Soliman, a 45-year-old illegal immigrant from Egypt, on Sunday threw Molotov cocktails and used a makeshift flamethrower on peaceful Boulder, Colo., demonstrators—injuring 12 victims, including a Holocaust survivor.
Israel-hating elites stoked the flames that led to the Boulder firebombing
Publicly denying the Jewish right to self-defense dehumanizes Jews and Zionists and justifies further recriminations against them.

And hurling unfounded accusations of systematic war crimes, as the International Criminal Court and assorted world leaders have done, feeds into the worst stereotypes associated with the antisemitic sickness, especially when other tragedies, wars and actual war crimes across the world go unremarked upon.

Is it any surprise that the use of the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s defensive actions has whipped up people — including, presumably, the Egyptian national accused of carrying out the Boulder attack — into an antisemitic frenzy?

Of course not.

After all, why shouldn’t the country’s conspiracy theorists, kooks and vicious bigots take up arms to carry out their own personal pogroms when the American upper crust itself has identified Israel (of all places) as the locus of evil in the world?

It’s an obvious question that few are asking — for obvious reasons.

The wealthy, famous and influential cohort in control of the country’s most powerful institutions are unwilling to take responsibility for creating the dangerous atmosphere in which Jews are being maimed and murdered.

Hence the “shock” that a Holocaust survivor could be injured in Boulder and a young, happy couple could be sent to their graves in the middle of the nation’s capital.

Their professed surprise at the horrors unfolding across the country is not just an indictment of their naivete, but an admission of complicity in them.


'Terrible tragedy' Trump’s blistering takedown of ‘Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy’ after Colorado terror attack
President Trump blamed what he called “Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy” for Sunday’s brutal terror attack in Boulder, Colo., insisting suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman “must go out under ‘TRUMP’ Policy.”

“Yesterday’s horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in the United States of America. He came in through Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly. He must go out under ‘TRUMP’ Policy,” the president wrote on Truth Social in his first remarks about Sunday’s attack, which left eight people injured.

Soliman, 45, arrived in the US from Egypt in August 2022 on a tourist visa that permitted him to stay in the country until February 2023. He then filed for work authorization that granted him legal status until March 28 of this year meaning he was in the country illegally for two months.


Congress Nears Move To Designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization
Momentum has built for the U.S. government to formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in the weeks since President Donald Trump’s Middle East trip, lawmakers and other sources familiar with the effort tell the Washington Free Beacon.

While the parties involved iron out the final details, sources working on the effort said that lawmakers have multiple avenues to financially cripple the Muslim Brotherhood, a global Islamist organization that preaches terrorism against Israel, the United States, and Western governments.

The recent push began building steam last month, when the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) held a closed-door briefing for congressional staff that "focused on developing strategies to ban the growing threat of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States," the group said in a press release.

The Muslim Brotherhood is already designated as a terror outfit in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Syria, and Bahrain. But the United States has failed to follow suit, even though Congress attempted multiple times in the past. During Trump’s first term in office, officials in both the White House and Congress began laying the groundwork to sanction the Muslim Brotherhood’s global affiliates, but a formal designation never materialized.

With Trump back in office and the GOP holding slim majorities in Congress, insiders say a fresh push to designate the Muslim Brotherhood would likely draw broad Republican support. It also has the important backing of key Arab allies that already identify the Brotherhood as a purveyor of violent extremism and discussed the issue during Trump's visit to the Gulf states.

"There are several ways the U.S. designates groups as terrorists, and they do different things so Congress may have to choose between options, but momentum is building," said one senior GOP congressional source who works on Middle East and counterterrorism issues. "President Trump went to the Middle East and had an amazingly successful trip, in which he heard from our allies about their concerns—and most of those allies consider the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization."

An Arab official agreed, saying many Arab states would like to see the United States take action against the Muslim Brotherhood.


Rep. Randy Fine: To stop antisemitic attacks, declare CAIR a terrorist group
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), the newest Jewish Republican member of Congress, argued on Monday, following an antisemitic attack on a group marching in support of the hostages in Gaza in Boulder, Colo., that the federal government should take aggressive action against groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations whose executive director said he was “happy to see” the Oct. 7 terror attack.

Fine added that the federal government also should be deporting all undocumented immigrants and take a strong hand toward college campuses in order to fight rising antisemitism..

“I’m angry that we’ve allowed this to get there, I’m angry that we’ve allowed Muslim terror to operate unfettered in this country,” Fine said in an interview with Jewish Insider on Monday. “Make no mistake, the Palestinian cause is fundamentally a broken, evil philosophy … It’s time to realize there is evil in this world and we have to fight it.”

He said that institutions tied to that ideology, including CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and Students for Justice in Palestine, should not be allowed to operate in the United States, and should be designated as terrorist organizations, “because that’s what they are.”

He noted that the executive director of CAIR had celebrated the Oct. 7 attack, and remains in his position. Nihad Awad had in November 2023 said he “was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their land that they were not allowed to walk in.”


NYT Omitted Suspect's Nationality, Illegal Status in Initial Coverage of Anti-Semitic Terror Attack in Colorado
The left-leaning New York Times's initial coverage of Colorado's anti-Semitic terror attack, in which the attacker used a "makeshift flamethrower," left out that the suspect is an illegal immigrant from Egypt, instead identifying him as "of Colorado Springs."

In its "Who is the suspect?" section, updated at 5:52 a.m., the Times left out any reference to Mohamed Soliman's nationality or illegal status, Omri Ceren noted on X. Fox News's Bill Melugin reported that information around 9 p.m. on Sunday.

"Nothing on: nationality, immigration status, how he got into the country, when he got into the country, etc," Ceren, Sen. Ted Cruz's (R., Texas) legislative director, wrote. "To the extent that his origin is gestured toward at all, he's described as 'of Colorado Springs.'"

Another left-leaning news source, MSNBC, inaccurately described the suspect as a "white male" in its initial coverage.

Soliman on Sunday threw Molotov cocktails and used what the Times called a "makeshift flamethrower" on peaceful Boulder, Colo., demonstrators raising awareness for Hamas's hostages. Videos posted online show that he yelled, "We have to end Zionists."
NBC Says 'Lone Wolf' DC, Boulder Attacks 'Highlight the Difficulties in Securing Public Spaces,' Not Anti-Semitism
NBC News on Monday framed the terror attacks in Washington, D.C., and Boulder, Colo., as security failures rather than anti-Semitic hate crimes.

One day after the Boulder attack, NBC headlined an article "Lone Wolf Attacks in Boulder and D.C. Highlight the Difficulties in Securing Public Spaces." While the network mentioned in a subheading that both instances of terrorism were "hate-fueled attacks on Jewish Americans," the article focuses not on the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States but rather on supposed lapses in public safety.

Both assailants shouted anti-Semitic slogans, with Colorado attacker Mohamed Soliman even admitting to investigators on Monday that he "wanted to kill all Zionist people" and "would do it again." D.C. attacker Elias Rodriguez, meanwhile, murdered a couple walking out of a Jewish museum as he shouted, "Free, free Palestine," and later told police, "I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza."

The network's decision to downplay anti-Semitic motives comes as the United States has seen rampant anti-Semitism following Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. President Donald Trump has cracked down on anti-Semitism, revoking visas of foreign nationals linked to anti-Semitic activity and withholding billions in federal funding from universities that fail to protect Jewish students on campus.

NBC is not the only left-leaning news outlet to mischaracterize the Colorado anti-Semitic attack. The New York Times in its initial coverage omitted Soliman's nationality and illegal status, while MSNBC's initial coverage inaccurately described him as a "white male."


CNN ripped after trashing FBI as ‘juvenile’ for branding hate-fueled Colorado firebomb attack as terrorism
CNN has been blasted after one of the lefty outlet’s commentators trashed the FBI as “juvenile” for quickly branding the hate-fueled Colorado firebomb attack as terrorism.

Juliette Kayyem, one of the network’s national security analysts, came under fire after challenging FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino when they declared Sunday’s violence at a pro-Israel rally in Boulder a “targeted terror attack.”

“It makes law enforcement look disorganized and it makes the FBI look so juvenile, like why are you getting ahead of the police chief who says ‘I don’t know what this is,'” Kayyem said on air late Sunday in the wake of the incident.

“We’re going to take a step back, not be responsive to tweets by two heads of the FBI who don’t have a long history in law enforcement,” she continued.

“And we will wait and hope it isn’t what we all worry it is — and if it is, then there’ll be an investigation.”

Kayyem, a former Department of Homeland Security official under President Barack Obama and current Harvard professor, added that if the probe found the violence was spurred by terrorism, she’d be the first to say it’s a “hate crime.”

“But until we do, we all need to, to not follow the FBI’s tweets,” she said.


Boulder city council member refuses to sign statement condemning firebombing, since it doesn’t say ‘anti-Zionist’
A member of the Boulder, Colorado, city council refuses to sign onto a statement condemning the firebombing attack against a rally for Israeli hostages because it calls the attack antisemitic, and not anti-Zionist.

“I could not sign into the joint letter because my request to add the anti-Zionist to the antisemitism attack sentence or the word anywhere in the document was denied,” council member Taishya Adams writes on Facebook.

“I cannot sign a letter that equates the calls for a ‘Free Palestine’ with antisemitism. Without the anti-Zionist part, the reader will fail to understand a key driver of this terrible attack,” she writes. “Also, the perpetrator, whose actions I condemn fully and that resulted in harm to our community members, was explicit about ending Zionism.”

The US city’s statement calls the firebombing a “targeted, antisemitic attack.”

“We cannot – and will not – allow antisemitism to become normalized here,” the statement says.

Adams is the “sister city liaison” between Boulder and the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus.

A member of the hostages’ advocacy group in Boulder has previously accused Adams of anti-Jewish discrimination, including by blocking the hostages’ group on her official Instagram account.


Dem Heavyweights, Including Laurene Powell Jobs, Bankroll 'Black Liberation' Activist Who Called Jewish Museum Shooting 'Morally Righteous'
Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs, Google founder Eric Schmidt, and the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation are among the Democratic heavyweights bankrolling the anti-Israel charity of activist Kamau Franklin, who called Elias Rodriguez’s alleged assassination of two Israeli diplomats in Washington, D.C., a "morally righteous" act.

Franklin runs Community Movement Builders, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that promotes "liberation" ideology for black Americans, Palestinians, and other groups. The organization embraces radical rhetoric in support of those causes, referring to police as "pigs" and calling the state of Israel "the result of a war crime."

Last week, Franklin signed an open letter defending Rodriguez’s assassination of Israeli diplomats Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky at the Capital Jewish Museum. The letter, which Franklin touted on his social media feeds, called Rodriguez’s actions "fully justified," "eminently defensible," and "morally righteous." And in a thinly veiled threat, the letter says Rodriguez’s shooting will "teach a lesson and set an example" for supporters of Israel. Community Movement Builders, which Franklin formed in 2015, also expressed support on social media for Unity of Fields, an anti-Israel organization that published the open letter.

The group’s radical rhetoric could raise concerns for its roster of deep-pocketed donors, while showing that violent, anti-Israel sentiments are closer to the Democratic Party mainstream than they would like to admit. Of the $2.9 million that Community Movement Builders raised in 2023, the most recent year for which tax information is available, nearly $2 million came through large donations from the charities of several Democratic donors, liberal philanthropies, and groups in the Arabella network, a Democratic dark money juggernaut.
Ex-Red Sox Slugger Kevin Youkilis Blasts AOC for ‘Virtue Signaling’ over Colorado Terror Attack
Boston Red Sox star and two-time World Series champ Kevin Youkilis is blasting New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her public pontifications about the terror attack on Jewish rally goers in Colorado.

Ocasio-Cortez had taken to her X account to claim that she was “horrified” by the attempted murder of Jews in Boulder, Colorado, according to the New York Post.

“My heart is with the victims and our Jewish communities across the country,” AOC wrote, adding, “Antisemitism is on the rise here at home, and we have a moral responsibility to confront and stop it everywhere it exists.”

Youkilis, though, apparently didn’t believe a word of AOC’s social media post.

“Jews are targeted with violence, and it’s the same virtue signal post time and time again,” Youkilis wrote to AOC on his own X account.

He then accused her of actually doing nothing at all to prevent future attacks.

“What have you done to confront those calling for intifadas in NYC? Until you create a plan of action, your repeated virtue signaling after the violence occurs holds no weight,” he continued.

“Confront the radical mobs chanting for intifadas in NYC,” he said. “That would be brave leadership, but we know politicians, on both sides of the aisle, shy away in fear of losing votes and power.”


After attack, Boulder pro-hostage march set to resume ‘undeterred’ next week
Following Sunday’s attack on a group of pro-hostage demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, the group’s weekly demonstrations will continue next Sunday with greater strength, organizers told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.

“We will not be deterred or stopped by this kind of action,” said Bruce Shaffer, co-lead for the Boulder chapter of Run For Their Lives, a global initiative with 230 groups around the world promoting awareness of the plight of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. “Canceling the march is exactly what these people want us to do.”

Shortly after the attack Sunday, in which the suspect wounded 12 people with a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, the global Run For Their Lives organization canceled all upcoming events for fear of copycat attacks, said Rachel Amaru, head of the Boulder chapter. However, the group updated its guidance Monday, saying it will allow each chapter to make its own decisions in cooperation with local authorities.

The upcoming march along Boulder’s central Pearl Street pedestrian mall will have a heavy police presence, and a large crowd is expected to attend, Amaru said. Israel’s Hostages and Missing Families Forum is expected to send representatives to speak and show solidarity at the event, she said.

The Boulder community is experiencing tremendous pain, anger and fear following the attack, said Shaffer, who had two family members set on fire during the attack. “There is a lot of pain and trauma, and the victims need their privacy right now,” he said.


Israel condemns UN chief for calling Gaza aid distribution model ‘unacceptable’
Israel’s Foreign Ministry denounced United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday over his X post calling Israel’s current aid distribution model in Gaza “unacceptable” while failing to mention the Hamas terrorist group.

On Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces rejected accusations that its troops had fired at civilians in Khan Yunis, and released drone footage showing masked gunmen firing at civilians in Khan Yunis during what the military said was the time of the incident.

In his June 2 post, Guterres said he was “appalled” by reports of Gazans killed on Sunday, and called for “an immediate and independent investigation.” Israel, he wrote, “has clear obligations under international humanitarian law to agree to and facilitate humanitarian aid.”

Guterres took aim at Israel’s current aid distribution model, which bypasses the United Nations.

“The unimpeded entry of assistance at scale to meet the enormous needs in Gaza must be restored immediately. The U.N. must be allowed to work in safety and security under conditions of full respect of humanitarian principles,” he wrote.

It was “unacceptable that Palestinians are risking their lives for food,” he added.


Exclusive: Inside Israel’s Three-Phase Plan To End the Gaza War
Israel is in the midst of the second phase of a three-phase Gaza war plan that ends with the military in full control of the strip, according to current and former officials with knowledge of the planning. The sources provided previously undisclosed details about the structure, timeline, and goals of the plan.

Phase Two began last week, and like Phase One before it, is intended to last about two months. During this time, the military aims to further degrade Hamas’s leadership and infrastructure, take control of about 75 percent of Gaza, move all civilians into three areas in the remaining 25 percent, and work with an American organization to control the entry and distribution of humanitarian aid in the strip.

Four aid distribution sites secured by Israeli troops and run by the U.S. group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, began operating last week in southern and central Gaza, according to the military.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced at a May 21 press conference that Israel’s next step in the war will be to create a "sterile zone" in the Mawasi area of southern Gaza and enable the distribution of a full spectrum of aid there. In the other two civilian areas, to be built in central Gaza, only food aid will be provided, not fuel and other supplies, the sources confirmed. Netanyahu did not commit to ending international groups’ provision of aid in Gaza, which the government allowed to resume last month after an 80-day blockade of the strip.

By the end of Phase Two, Hamas should be largely cut off from nonfood aid as well as weapons that are smuggled into Gaza on aid trucks, according to the sources. But the military does not plan to clear Hamas from the two civilian areas in central Gaza until the final phase of the war. Hamas will therefore remain embedded among the population in those areas and continue diverting food aid for now, though likely with greater difficulty under the new controls.

"As long as you have Hamas alongside the population, you cannot really put a siege on them," said Amir Avivi, a former deputy commander of the Gaza Division with close ties to the military and government. "Only in areas you conquer you can make sure that nothing goes in."

The phased Gaza war plan reflects belated acceptance by Israel’s leaders that they will have to wrest control of aid, territory, and the population from Hamas in order to win the war—but also continued caution, if not reluctance, to do so.
Thank God: Hamas Rejects Witkoff’s Proposal Israel Was Cornered into Accepting
A senior Hamas official told the BBC early Friday morning that the terrorist group will reject the latest U.S. proposal for a new ceasefire and hostage release agreement in Gaza. The Hamas official said the proposal failed to meet the group’s core demands, including a complete end to the war.

The Israeli government did not issue an official comment, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told families of the hostages on Thursday that he accepted Witkoff’s plan.

Yesterday, I wrote (Witkoff Offers Major Concessions to Hamas, Leaves Half the Hostages Behind) that this is an atrocious deal, reversing all of Israel’s gains over the past two and a half months of fighting and reviving the fast-declining Hamas. An online survey in Hebrew by blogger Abu Ali Express indicated that 69% of the 28,500 votes oppose the deal (77% oppose it when you exclude those without an opinion).

On Thursday night, the White House stated that while Israel had accepted the new proposal, Hamas had yet to respond. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said negotiations were still underway and any agreement, if reached, would be announced by the United States.
Three soldiers KIA in Gaza, bringing IDF wartime toll to 861
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday morning that three Israeli soldiers had been killed in action in the Gaza Strip.

They were identified as Staff Sgt. Lior Steinberg, 20, from Petah Tikva; Staff Sgt. Ofek Barhana, 20, from Yavne; and Staff Sgt. Omer Van Gelder, 22, from Ma’ale Adumim. All three served in the Givati Brigade.

The soldiers’ vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Hebrew media reports.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended condolences to the families of the fallen soldiers, describing them as “heroic” and vowing that their courage would never be forgotten.

Speaking on behalf of all Israelis, Netanyahu said, “Our hearts ache with the families at their most terrible moment,” and pledged that the memory of Steinberg, Barhana, and Van Gelder would be “cherished in the heart of the nation.”

On Thursday, a civilian contractor working for the Israeli Defense Ministry was killed in an IED explosion during an operation to destroy terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.

David Libi, 19, from the Malachei Hashalom outpost in the Binyamin region of southern Samaria, was deployed to Gaza with the IDF’s Combat Engineering Corps as an excavator operator.


IDF: Terrorists used tunnel under Gaza building to kill soldiers; these buildings are military targets
Palestinian terror operatives who planted roadside bombs used in a deadly attack on troops yesterday in northern Gaza’s Jabalia set out from a tunnel hidden inside a partially demolished building, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin says in a press conference.

Three soldiers were killed in the attack.

“The terrorists set out from a tunnel shaft in a building and planted the explosive devices. This is an active tunnel that is used for terror,” he says.

“The entrance to the tunnel is located inside a destroyed building, close to a route. Therefore, it is important to emphasize, this building is a military target, like tens of thousands of other buildings in Gaza that are used for terror,” Defrin says.

“Nearly every other building is booby-trapped and contains a tunnel entrance. We are demolishing these homes, not for the sake of destruction. Every building that is destroyed poses an operational threat and could harm our forces,” he adds.
IDF strikes key Hamas sites in Khan Yunis, Deir al-Balah
The Israel Defense Forces expanded “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” in Gaza on Monday, targeting Hamas infrastructure and terrorists in Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah.

Israeli forces located and dismantled a weapons storage facility in Khan Yunis containing over 100 rocket components and other military equipment, according to the IDF. Dozens of terrorists were killed during the operation, and additional terrorist infrastructure and military sites were destroyed.

Earlier in Deir al-Balah, the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) carried out a precision strike on a Hamas command and control center used to coordinate attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, according to the military. Multiple terrorists were killed in the strike. The IDF said precautions were taken to minimize harm to civilians.

Throughout the day, the IDF and Israeli Air Force struck dozens of targets across Gaza, including terrorist cells, tunnels, weapons depots and military compounds. Ground operations continue across the Strip as part of the broader campaign. Israel has stated that the goal of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” is to dismantle Hamas’s military capabilities, take control of key areas and secure the release of hostages.

On Tuesday, IDF troops continued operational activity throughout the Gaza Strip, eliminating several terrorists and dismantling weapons storage sites, tunnel shafts and additional terrorist infrastructure. These actions were based on IDF and Shin Bet intelligence. According to the military, a Hamas terrorist was struck inside a structure adjacent to a weapons depot, resulting in secondary explosions that confirmed the presence of munitions.

The Golani Brigade reported the dismantling of booby-trapped tunnel shafts and underground terror routes in southern Khan Yunis. The unit has been active in eliminating terrorists and destroying dozens of Hamas infrastructure sites.

The IDF said it is continuing to operate in the Gaza Strip in order to protect Israeli civilians and neutralize threats posed by underground and surface-level terror networks.


Radical Anti-Israel Reporters, Activists Spread Debunked IDF Shooting Video
A slew of anti-Israel reporters, media figures, and activists continue to promote a since-debunked video purporting to show the Israeli Defense Forces massacring Palestinians at a humanitarian aid site—more than a day after the footage was proven to be a hoax.

"More footage of the massacre that the IDF claims did not happen," Drop Site News reporter Ryan Grim tweeted on Sunday, above Arabic-language footage of the alleged attack on Gazan civilians.

The original video—which amassed nearly 400,000 views on X—was posted by a Palestinian who works for the Qatar-funded Al Jazeera news network, which is known to fabricate anti-Israel narratives. The BBC found on Monday that the video, which does not depict a single IDF soldier, was filmed nearly three miles from the nearest aid distribution site at an hour of day that does not align with the timing of the purported massacre. It is now believed the attack was carried out by Hamas.

Grim’s tweet, which is still live after both the BBC and IDF debunked its contents, has drawn more than 133,000 views and promotion from a network of prominent anti-Israel agitators. The group includes former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft scholar Annelle Sheline, and Raed Jarrar, a policy analyst with the anti-Israel advocacy group Democracy for the Arab World Now.

The false story also gained widespread traction in the mainstream media, with the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, BBC, and others relying on Hamas officials to claim that Israel gunned down over 30 civilians. Many of these outlets, including the BBC, subsequently walked back their initial reports, but not before they had spread across social media and fomented another public relations nightmare for Israel.

Grim and his Drop Site News outlet are the original purveyors of false claims that a White House National Security Council staffer previously worked for the Israeli government, an allegation that generated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and was quickly disproven by the Trump administration.


BBC PROMOTION OF THE RAFAH INCIDENT THAT WASN’T
An hour after the IDF’s statement was made public, including on the BBC News website’s live page, BBC Radio 4’s ‘Six O’Clock News’ (from 02:59 here) was still promoting the claim that “at least 31 people have been killed by Israeli fire” accompanied by the excuse “the BBC is not able to report freely in Gaza.”

The same item included a report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Lucy Williamson who told listeners of “hungry people, shot near Rafah as they waited for an Israeli-backed distribution site to open.” Williamson inaccurately told listeners that “this is just the latest deadly incident” at one of the new aid distribution sites and promoted the claim that “Israel’s critics say it’s using hunger as a weapon of war” – a claim she repeated in a report for BBC television’s News at Ten later in the evening.

Williamson’s radio and TV reports also included recordings of a medic named as Ahmed Abu Sweid (and also as Abu Sued) whom she describes as working with “Rahma Worldwide” – apparently the same person who appeared in an entry on the BBC News website’s live page:

None of the BBC’s reporting quoting Dr Ahmed Abu Sweid – also Abou Sweid – informs BBC audiences of his relevant documented political activities in Australia or the terror-linked record of the charity with which he works. As readers may recall, the other doctor mentioned in that entry – Tom Potokar – has previously volunteered with the anti-Israel NGO ‘Medical Aid for Palestinians, as has the above-mentioned British surgeon Victoria Rose.
WaPo Releases Belated Statement on Stealth-Edited Story That Cited Hamas Officials: 'Fell Short of Post Standards'
The Washington Post released a belated statement addressing its Sunday story that cited Hamas officials to blame Israel for the killing of "over 30" Gazans near a humanitarian aid site. The Post said the story, which it first updated without explanation, did not meet its standards.

"Early versions of the article on Sunday stated that Israeli troops had killed more than 30 people near a U.S. aid site, with the headline attributing the action to ‘health officials,’" the Post tweeted in a "correction" note that is also affixed to the bottom of its piece.

"The article failed to make clear if attributing the deaths to Israel was the position of the Gaza health ministry or a fact verified by the Post. The article and headline were updated on Sunday evening making it clear that there was no consensus about who was responsible for the shooting and that there was a dispute over that question."

The Post’s editors also addressed the paper’s reliance on Hamas sources rather than Israeli officials.

"While statements from Israel that it was unaware of injuries and that an initial inquiry indicated its soldiers didn’t fire at civilians near the site were included in all versions of the article, The Post didn’t give proper weight to Israel’s denial and gave improper certitude about what was known about any Israeli role in the shootings. The early versions fell short of Post standards of fairness and should not have been published in that form."


Terrorists in Syria fire two rockets at Israel
Terrorists in southern Syria launched two rockets at the Israeli Golan Heights on Tuesday night, the military confirmed.

Both projectiles struck open areas, according to the IDF, causing no injuries or damage.

The attack triggered air-raid sirens in Haspin and Ramat Magshimim, sending civilians rushing to shelter just after 10 p.m. local time.

It marks the first rocket attack from Syria since May 2024, according to Israeli media.

The IDF said that it was responding with artillery fire into Syria.

On Friday, the Israeli military struck surface-to-air missiles and weapon storage facilities in the Latakia Governorate in Syria, the IDF said.

These weapons “posed a threat to international and Israeli maritime freedom of navigation,” according to the military.


France, UK and Canada betray Israel with false and cowardly statements
Logically, which is not always an applicable method of reasoning in Middle Eastern matters, the solution has always been a division of the territory into two parts, one for each of the parties to which the territory had been promised. Israel has been in principle disposed to such a solution for more than 25 years. The root of the continuing problem is the refusal of the most influential Arabs in what is that part of the old Palestine Mandate not governed by Israel, to refuse to recognise the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. This attitude persists even though it was as a Jewish state that Israel was specifically created out of the old League of Nations mandate, with total legitimacy, by the United Nations in 1948 on the joint motion of the Soviet Union and the United States, and this motion was ratified in the Security Council and the General Assembly. The five permanent members of the Security Council officially founded the United Nations, and the other initial members were co-founders, and scores of other countries have joined since, but only Israel was created by the United Nations itself specifically from its continuing authority as the successor to the League of Nations as a state which it consecrated and recognized at its founding. Though it was not part of the original declaration of the existence of the State of Israel, it was known to the whole world and a sentiment shared by most of the world that this was the least the world could do for the Jews after half of the entire worldwide population of that creative and distinguished people had been massacred in the preceding decade on the most barbarous scale and in the most hideous circumstances in all of human history.

As eminent British military historian Andrew Roberts has pointed out, despite a deafening counter-propaganda which has been credulously accepted by most of the Western media, the Israeli Defense Forces have conducted operations in Gaza in a way that has produced one of the lowest ratios in reliably recorded history in urban counter-guerrilla warfare of civilian to military casualties. The world is accustomed to propagandistic appeasement of terrorists and particularly to craven hypocrisy and moral relativism about anti-Semitism masquerading as unbiased criticism of the conduct of the state of Israel. But for these three countries, long formally the closest allies of the United States in support of democratic and civil rights in the world and at least philosophical opposition to terrorism, effectively to side with the most odious and murderous ragtag of terrorists anywhere against a democratic state that is the continuator of the ancient and very often tragic struggle for survival and security of the Jewish people, is a disgrace.

Shame on the United Kingdom, on France, and on Canada.
Canada probes war crimes in Israel-Hamas conflict
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed this week that it has been conducting an investigation since early 2024 into potential war crimes connected to the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization.

The RCMP described the probe as a “structural investigation” under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program, a federal initiative tasked with identifying and addressing serious international offenses. While details remain limited, the national police force stated that it evaluates all allegations with impartiality and will not comment further on the ongoing matter.

The war in Gaza began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists launched an unprecedented cross-border invasion of southern Israel. In a coordinated assault, more than 3,000 armed terrorists stormed Israeli communities, slaughtering approximately 1,200 people—mostly civilians—and abducting 251 others, including women, children and the elderly. The atrocities committed that day were among the worst acts of anti-Jewish violence since the Holocaust.

Hamas has repeatedly declared its intent to carry out additional Oct. 7-style massacres, openly vowing to attack Israel again and again until its stated goal—the destruction of the Jewish state—is achieved.

Israel’s response has centered on three key goals: defeating Hamas militarily, dismantling its terrorist infrastructure in Gaza and bringing home all the hostages.

Canada’s investigation comes at a time of heightened scrutiny over the war, and as Israel faces a growing wave of international criticism. Still, Jerusalem maintains that its actions are a legitimate exercise of self-defense against a genocidal terrorist organization that uses civilian areas as cover for its operations.
Madrid spikes purchase of Israeli anti-tank missile
Spain’s Ministry of Defense has suspended (though not yet revoked according to JNS sources) a government contract for the purchase of Israeli-developed Spike LR2 anti-tank missiles, a deal valued at 287.4 million euros ($327.4 million).

The contract stipulated that the purchase, to be paid out by 2026, would equip Spanish army and marine corps units, which already employed an earlier generation of the Spike LR.

The contract with Spanish defense firm Pap Tecnos, acquired by Rafael in 2010, involved the supply of 168 Spike LR2 launchers and 1,680 Spike LR2 anti-tank missiles.

The deal was finalized on Oct. 3, 2023, just four days before the Hamas invasion of southern Israel, and sealed on Nov. 23, 2023, after the Israel Defense Forces began its ground invasion, according to Spanish radio station Cadena SER.
‘Profound concern’ about Chile’s behavior toward Jews, Israel
Gabriel Boric, the president of Chile, and his administration have taken a “series of harmful moves” toward Jews in the country and Israel, the American Jewish Committee stated on Thursday, expressing “profound concern.”

The Chilean government has revealed “clear anti-Israel bias and blatant disregard for the safety of Chile’s Jewish population,” the AJC said, noting that Santiago recalled three military attachés in Israel and is reportedly considering breaking all ties with the Jewish state soon.

“Since coming into office, Boric has refused to meet with the local Jewish community or address its growing sense of vulnerability stemming from virulent anti-Israel and antisemitic voices in the political, academic and media spheres,” the AJC stated.

“President Boric and his government must immediately cease all actions that could be interpreted as endorsing or implicitly condoning further harassment and violence against the Jewish community,” Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, stated.

“Any move toward severing diplomatic ties with Israel in the coming days would be a dangerous and damaging precedent, putting Chile’s moral standing and the well-being of the Chilean Jewish community in jeopardy,” he added.
An in-depth look at the state of the Middle East & US policy/ w Tom Gross, interview for AlHurra TV

Commentary PodCast: The Intifada Is Here in America
The firebombing of Jews in Colorado, following the firebombing of the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania and the murder of two Israeli embassy officials in DC, makes it unambiguously clear that the new motive force on the radical left and among radical Islamists is direct violent attack against Jews. What are we going to do about it?


Media LIES about Gaza aid: Here’s what you need to know | The Quad
“The Quad” tackles the global fallout from a dangerous media misinformation campaign surrounding humanitarian aid in Gaza. As Israel faces increasing scrutiny over alleged civilian casualties, the hosts unpack how false reports—amplified by major outlets like CNN and The New York Times—have fueled global antisemitism, inspired attacks against Jews in the West and distorted the public understanding of Israel’s war efforts against Hamas.

Hosted by Israel innovation envoy Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, today’s panel includes Shoshana Keats Jaskoll, Daniel-Ryan Spaulding and former IDF sergeant and Israeli government spokesperson Raquela Karamson. Together, they examine the media’s role in spreading disinformation about a new U.S.-Israel aid delivery mechanism designed to bypass Hamas—highlighting how outlets falsely reported a massacre by the IDF, when in reality, Hamas gunmen opened fire on Gazans accessing food.

The panel explores how Qatar’s deep financial ties to Western media—particularly CNN—have shaped anti-Israel coverage, while raising concerns about unchecked incitement leading directly to violent attacks on Jews, including the recent Molotov cocktail assault in Colorado. They also reflect on the resilience of Israelis like Hananel Gez, whose pregnant wife and newborn were murdered in a terror attack, and praise American Ambassador Mike Huckabee for his outspoken defense of Israel and denunciation of French President Emmanuel Macron’s two-state push.

From media bias and cultural subversion to the stakes for Western values, this episode is a passionate, unfiltered call to confront lies, defend truth and stand against rising Jew-hatred.

Chapters
00:00 The Media's Role in the Gaza Conflict
03:04 Public Perception and Political Divisions
06:01 The Impact of Misinformation
08:57 Accountability in Journalism
12:00 The Historical Context of Jewish Identity
15:04 The Fight for Values and Identity
18:05 The Scapegoating of Israel
20:54 Incitement and Violence Against Jews
26:06 Youth Arrests and Media Narratives
28:11 Piers Morgan's Controversial Interviews
31:41 Political Scumbags: Macron and Media Influence
36:03 Courage Amidst Tragedy: A Father's Story
42:09 Celebrating Everyday Heroes
46:50 Voices of Reason in a Chaotic World


‘Heartbroken and angry’: Sharri Markson reacts to anti-Israeli terror attack in Colorado
Sky News host Sharri Markson the devastating terror attack on a rally to free Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado.

“It's true that the terror attacks, the violence, even the murder of Jews in America and other Western countries, are being excused by left-wing activists,”

“This is the reality of globalising the Intifada. We're seeing violence against Jews excused. The world, I am sorry to say, is in a dark place right now.

“The left can't pretend this is different, they can't turn violence into justifiable acts on account of it being anti-Zionism ... this is antisemitism and we can’t let them get away with it.”


‘The story you don’t see’: Chris Kenny tours Israel after October 7 massacre
Sky News host Chris Kenny visited Israel to uncover the horrors of October 7 and reflect on life in Israel during the war.

“So, here I am now at the Western Wall, and it is just a reminder of the obvious point about this great city of Jerusalem,” Mr Kenny said.

“It is such a holy city to the three great faiths of Judaism, Islam and Christianity.”




Hamas Kills Gazans, Blames Israel — And the Media Goes Along
Another day, another blood libel. The headlines scream: “Israel kills dozens near Gaza aid site.” But the truth? Hamas opened fire on its own people — again.

This video breaks down how the media covers for Hamas, silences dissent, and turns lies into headlines. No spin. Just facts.




‘Should Be In The HAGUE’ Ehud Olmert on Netanyahu | Plus Cenk Uygur vs Jonathan Conricus
The IDF has fiercely denied Hamas reports that its forces opened fire on crowds of Palestinians as they made their way to an aid centre in southern Gaza.

What neither side can deny at this point is that the scale of death and suffering is intolerable. Jewish people have been very recently killed in hate-fuelled attacks in the US - and it goes without saying that the mass killing of innocent Palestinians by Netanyahu’s forces is doing nothing but grave harm to the Israeli cause.

Nineteen months into this war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert joins Piers Morgan to tell him “enough is enough” and why he thinks the President should be jailed for war crimes.

Then, Uncensored is joined by retired Lt Col and former IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus and founder and CEO of ‘The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur.

00:00 Introduction and monologue
02:14 Ehud Olmert interview begins
09:38 AD: Tax Network USA
10:38 Ehud Olmert interview continues
15:45 Should Benjamin Netanyahu resign?
19:00 Piers to Conricus: “Can you defend what’s happening in Gaza?”
20:56 AD: Jacked Up Fitness
21:49 Conricus vs Uygur continues
28:47 AD: Beam
29:49 Conricus vs Uygur continues
35:00 Conricus on Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s comments
39:50 “He’s obviously trying to defend the terrorism of Israel!”
45:00 “The IDF will indeed conquer and hold the Gaza Strip”




Former Australian of the Year’s partnership with Nike at risk after anti-Israel content
Institute of Public Affairs Daniel Wild discusses former Australian of the Year Grace Tame coming under fire for posting anti-Israel social media content.

Ms Tame’s posting has put her partnership with Nike at risk, as Ms Tame endorsed that the Washington shooting was not an anti-semitic attack.

“Good on Nike for doing this,” Mr Wild told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“It’s a shame for Grace Tame.

“For her to go down the road of political activism, I think, has really let down the important work that she did.”




Brendan O'Neill: Sanctimony on the High Seas
Bored with saving the planet, Greta Thunberg, Sweden's prophetess of doom, now wants to save Gaza. She and a gaggle of self-righteous pals have set sail from Sicily, their boat a riot of keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, hoping to dock in Gaza in a week's time to "break the Israeli blockade."

Of all the smug stunts of the faux-virtuous activist class, this is surely the most preposterous. What does Ms. Thunberg plan to do when she gets there? Bellow: "HOW DARE YOU" at a column of IDF soldiers? Such daft antics might work on the political elites of the West who love nothing more than being told off by eco-pompous children. But it won't wash with the army of the Jewish state that is in hot pursuit of the antisemitic terrorists that butchered more than a thousand Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023.

If Gaza's two million inhabitants really are being "systematically starved" - they aren't - then how on earth will a small boat carrying little more than boxes of spare keffiyehs and smug activists help them? The most hilarious part of this watery clown show is that as these narcissists wail "Feed Gaza!," that's exactly what Israel is doing. Israel has handed out millions of meals over the past week through its Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

As they take selfies of themselves sobbing into their keffiyehs over what a uniquely barbarous nation Israel is, Israel is literally saving Palestinian lives. They do moral pantomime, for likes and clicks - Israel does actual aid, with very little thanks. All that these boat people have to offer to Gaza is cheap slogans and lame platitudes. I can't be the only person who finds it chilling that the world's only Jewish nation has become the target of rich, bored Westerners' fashionable rage.
“What Is She Going To Do There?” Thunberg & 11 Activists Set Sail For Gaza To ‘Break Israel’s Siege'
Jeremy Kyle and freelance journalist Nicole Lampert discuss Greta Thunberg’s journey to Gaza to ‘break Israel’s siege'.

The pair criticise the 22-year-old’s actions as misguided and potentially harmful, highlighting the complexity of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Lampert argues that Thunberg’s activism is driven by misinformation and a lack of understanding.




Anti-Israel trio Kneecap’s Glastonbury appearance confirmed despite terror charge
Anti-Israel rap trio Kneecap’s appearance at the Glastonbury Festival later this month has been confirmed, despite one of its members facing a terror charge.

Communal organisations including the Board of Deputies have called for Glastonbury chiefs to cancel their appearance after footage emerged of them saying “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”.

The group’s Liam Óg was later charged with a terrorism offence, with the Metropolitan Police saying he aroused “reasonable suspicion that he is a supporter of a proscribed organisation”. He is due to appear in court on 18 June.

House of Commons leader and cabinet minister Lucy Powell has alsol said in parliament: “I’m sure that no-one in this House would want to see them playing at Glastonbury”.

But announcing the full line-up on Tuesday, Glastonbury confirmed Kneecap would appear on the West Holts stage at 4pm on the Saturday of the festival.


The PSC scandal hiding in plain sight: ex-Chair Kamel Hawwash’s social media record exposed
I write this article as someone who stands in solidarity with Palestinians and recognises that the devastation in Gaza has generated legitimate rage and despair. Yet even in the face of catastrophe, words matter. Moral clarity matters. And nowhere more so than when it comes to the leading figures in our movement.

This article is about Professor Kamel Hawwash – a respected British-Palestinian retired engineering academic, formerly of the University of Birmingham, and a long-serving figure in the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), where he sat on the Executive Committee from January 2013 until February 2024, when he stood down as Chair. He went on to contest the constituency of Birmingham Selly Oak at the July 2024 General Election as an independent candidate, where he won 7.4% of the vote. For many years he has been much sought-after for his expert opinion on Palestine matters by parts of the media.

Despite his prominence, his public output on X (formerly Twitter) has consistently crossed ethical lines, repeatedly and unapologetically, and seemingly without meaningful challenge from those around him.

This is not the first time Hawwash’s rhetoric has drawn concern. In 2017, Jewish News reported that he had referred to Mohammad Halabi – a Palestinian who, in 2015, fatally stabbed Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Banita in Jerusalem’s Old City – as a “martyr”. Halabi also wounded Banita’s wife, Adele, and their two-year-old son, Matan.


Two pro-Palestine activists found guilty of harassing UK government minister
Two pro-Palestinian activists who accused a Government minister of supporting genocide have been convicted of harassment.

Ayeshah Behit, 31, and Hiba Ahmed, 26, were found guilty of the charge against Alex Davies-Jones, the Labour MP for Pontypridd, following a trial at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

They had filmed a confrontation with Davies-Jones, a justice minister, who had been campaigning in the village of Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, in the lead-up to the general election, on June 26 last year.

Davies-Jones has regularly spoken out on the rise of antisemitism and was given a standing ovation in March when she appeared at a Jewish Women’s Aid event and denounced women’s organisations for their silence on Hamas’ sexual violence against Israelis on 7 October.

At Monday’s trial Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring found both defendants guilty of harassment and sentenced them to a conditional discharge and fine.

Giving evidence during the trial, Davies-Jones told the court she was “terrified” after being confronted by the two activists.

As she made her way to the campaign meeting place, she saw Behit and Ahmed with leaflets describing her as a “full-blown supporter of this genocide” – referring to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Davies-Jones said: “They asked me about the ceasefire and why I had abstained. I clarified I hadn’t abstained, I wasn’t in the country, I was paired in that vote.

“It was escalating in terms of passion and intensity. We walked off in the opposite direction. We felt scared and intimidated, and we wanted to leave the situation. I had a number of young members with me. They already felt uncomfortable, I didn’t want them to feel more at risk.

“They began to follow us. They were shouting and bellowing down the street at us – ‘why do you support genocide, why are you murdering babies, Alex Davies-Jones, do you support genocide?’”


New York Times Lets Harvard Professor Whitewash University’s Jew-Hate
“Harvard Derangement Syndrome” is the headline that the New York Times put over a 4,000-word article by Steven Pinker that it recently published. Pinker’s point is that “the invective now being aimed at Harvard has become unhinged.”

Yet if anyone has “become unhinged,” it is Pinker and his editors at the Times, who look silly in their eagerness to minimize Harvard’s antisemitism problem. Pinker calls it Harvard’s “alleged antisemitism,” which gives you a flavor of just how detached from reality the overall article is.

Don’t take my word for it. Here is a White House Memo in the Times from Maggie Haberman: “On substance, there are several Republicans and Democrats who share Mr. Trump’s view that Harvard and other major colleges are long overdue in addressing cultural issues. They welcome a focus on the antisemitism that was on display at some of the campus protests against Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack.” Haberman writes “antisemitism,” not “alleged antisemitism.”

Here is a staff editorial in the New York Times: “Some universities have failed to stand up to antisemitism.” Not “alleged antisemitism.”

Here is an email to the Harvard community from Harvard’s own president, Alan Garber, about a cartoon posted to social media by student and faculty anti-Israel groups: “The Antisemitic Cartoon.” Not “allegedly antisemitic.” Garber called it “flagrantly antisemitic.” The image was of a hand with a star of David and a dollar sign holding nooses around the necks of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Muhammad Ali.

Pinker goes on to write, “Though the 300-page antisemitism report reviews every instance it could find in the past century, down to the last graffito and social media post, it cited no expressions of a goal to ‘destroy the Jews,’ let alone signs that it was the ‘dominant view on campus.'”


CUNY Labor School chairman resigns day after coming under fire for spreading ‘antisemitic conspiracy theories’ about Israel: ‘No place for hate’
The board chairman of CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies resigned Monday — after the public university’s chief demanded his ouster for spreading “antisemitic conspiracy theories” about Israel.

Arthur Cheliotes, 76, had posted theories and lies that Israel was in on or welcomed Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror massacre as a “pretext” to take over the Gaza strip, critics fumed to The Post.

He also posted an online thread that compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.

“CUNY has zero tolerance for any type of hate,’’ said a statement released by Chancellor Felix Matos-Rodriguez on Monday.

“The outrageous comments endorsed by Arthur Cheliotes, who leads an independent 501(c)3 organization that is not governed by the CUNY Administration, promote dangerous antisemitic conspiracies that have no place in CUNY or anywhere else,” the statement said.

“He needs to step down immediately.”

Cheliotes later said in a statement to The Post that he was stepping down.
Sydney University’s shameful slide into anti-Israel bigotry
At a meeting of Sydney University’s student council last month, a motion stating that it is ‘not anti-Semitic to call for the elimination of the apartheid state of Israel’ passed almost unanimously. The motion also called for the creation of a ‘single secular democratic state across all of historic Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea’.

Let’s be clear about what this motion really means. Realistically, the ‘elimination’ of Israel could only be achieved by the forced removal of a significant proportion of the seven million Jews who live there. You would need to be staggeringly naive to imagine that a Palestinian state might soon emerge as a ‘secular democratic’ nation where Jews would be safe to carry on living. Right now, Gaza is controlled by Hamas, an Islamist terrorist outfit, which has openly pledged to slaughter Israelis. It is only thanks to Israel’s willingness to defend itself that horrors like those of 7 October 2023 do not repeat themselves regularly.

This is why the Sydney students’ motion is so disgraceful. It betrays a total indifference towards the fate of almost half the world’s Jews. Yet so far, senior figures from the university have been reluctant to forcefully condemn it. The University of Sydney itself responded to say merely that it ‘does not endorse or condone’ the views expressed at last month’s meeting.

The pretext for the recent motion is as grim as the outcome of the vote. In February, Australian universities were forced to adopt a definition of anti-Semitism after a well-documented outbreak of bigotry targeting Jewish students and academics. At Sydney University, Australia’s oldest, there were months of anti-Israel protests last year. During this period, swastikas were spraypainted on university buildings and protesters called for an ‘intifada’ (that is, a violent uprising).

The new definition states that it is anti-Semitic to call ‘for the elimination of the state of Israel’. In their furious response to this, activists have only revealed their own intolerance and idiocy. At last month’s student-council meeting, members of the (outrageously misnamed) Students Against War group claimed that Israel’s ‘entire reason for existing’ is to ‘displace and massacre’ Palestinians. Apparently, it is therefore perfectly legitimate to call for the Jewish State to be – in that cold and dispassionate phrase – ‘eliminated’.
Sydney Uni spends $441,000 figuring out how to combat antisemitism
Sky News host James Macpherson discusses Sydney University spending $441,000 on reviewing their efforts to combat antisemitism.

“The university has spent $441,000 reviewing how they could do things differently,” Mr Macpherson said.

“To combat antisemitism.”




GUARDIAN MALICIOUSLY DEFAMES SLAIN ISRAELI SOLDIER
Master Sgt. (res.) Naftali Yonah Gordon, 32, a soldier in the 188th Armored Brigade’s 53rd Battalion, was killed in battle in Gaza on Dec. 7, 2023, exactly two months into the war which began when Hamas perpetrated the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust.

Gordon, who made Aliyah with his family from the US when he was a toddler, left behind a wife and two young daughters. His widow, Pesi, whose sister Malki Roth was among those murdered in the 2001 Sbarro massacre, said that he was a perfect husband and father.

Guardian columnist Ahmed Moor published an op-ed on May 29 titled “Why do so many Americans join the Israeli military?” which maliciously defamed the slain soldier as a perpetrator of “genocide”.

Here’s the relevant paragraph:


When you open the link, it takes you to the Washington Post article that clearly identifies the Israeli in question, who Ahmed so cruelly and dishonestly smears, as Naftali Yonah Gordon.

Further, it’s not just Gordon who Moor defames. In addition to characterising all Americans who make Aliyah and join the IDF as having been “radicalised”, he writes that of the American-Israelis that “now, with the genocide in Palestine, we’re faced with a reality in which tens of thousands of Americans are actively involved in war crimes…part of an army responsible for the murder of more than 20,000 children in Gaza“.

To place Moor’s unfathomable moral inversion in context, in a 2024 op-ed at the Guardian, he effectively defended Hamas terrorism, writing the following:
It remains the case that many Palestinians view the Islamist parties Hamas and Islamic Jihad as among the only actors committed to their right to self-defense. That right is self-evident to the Palestinians and their supporters, no matter their views of either party. As Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and former spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the 1991 Madrid peace conference, told me: “People under occupation have the right to defend themselves. It is enshrined under international law.”

Hamas’s assertion of Palestine’s right to self defense – in defiance of Israel, the United States, Britain and Germany – also acts as one of the few points of leverage available to the Palestinians after decades of a failed “peace process”.


The Palestinian Authority Just Honored a Baby Killer in an Official Ceremony
When the Palestinian Authority (PA) says that the murderer of a 9-month-old is a “symbol of the Palestinian people’s struggle,” can the PA be called anything other than a terror organization?

In yet another morally reprehensible display of terror support, Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub and other senior PA and Fatah officials held a public ceremony honoring convicted terrorist murderers — including a terrorist responsible for the murder of a 9-month-old Israeli infant.

The terrorists were released in January in exchange for Israeli hostages held by Hamas. The recent event in their honor was organized by PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement.

The ceremony, described as an “appreciation for the symbols of the Palestinian people’s struggle,” featured Rajoub personally presenting honorary plaques to released terrorist prisoners Yasser Abu Bakr and Nasser Al-Shawish, each of whom was convicted of murdering three people.

Abu Bakr threw a grenade from a rooftop in Hadera in 2002, killing 9-month-old Avia Malka and two other Israelis. Al-Shawish was involved in multiple terror attacks and murders, including targeting Israeli civilians.

Photos from Fatah’s event show Rajoub with the murderers, solidifying their status as celebrities and role models in Palestinian society. Other leaders present were Fatah Revolutionary Council member Akram Rajoub, PLO Youth and Sports Director-General Issam Al-Qaddumi, and representatives of the PA-funded Prisoners’ Club and PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs — highlighting the official endorsement of terrorism.


School in Lyon set on fire, sprayed with antisemitic and pro-Palestine graffiti
An elementary school in Lyon, France, was set on fire and sprayed with antisemitic and pro-Palestinian slogans and swastikas, the local prefecture reported.

The graffiti was found in three classrooms in the Nové-Josserand school, however the fire only affected the outdoor bathrooms.

Mohamed Chihi, deputy for tranquility, safety, and security at Lyon city hall said, “Antisemitic graffiti, swastikas, attempted arson: These acts target our school and, therefore, our republic.”

“The city condemns these actions in the strongest possible terms. It will file a complaint.”

Investigation opened into the antisemitic incident
He added that an investigation had been opened to determine the motivation behind the attack, given that the school had no established connections to the Jewish community.

Yonathan Arfi, head of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), wrote on X/Twitter that “The Palestinian cause is used as justification for burning down a school” and that the “Nazification of Israel serves as fuel for crass antisemitism.”

CRIF Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes “condemned this hateful attack in the strongest possible terms” and connected it to the vandalism of three synagogues, a restaurant, and the Shoah memorial in Paris on Friday. “In Paris, synagogues and the Shoah Memorial – desecrated. In Lyon – a school set on fire and defaced with swastikas.”


Israel’s Cohen clinches grand final glory for City
It was an unforgettable “pinch me” moment – not only for Israeli international Yonatan Cohen and his family, but for every Australian Jew – when he briefly wrapped an Israeli flag around his shoulders with pride, as Melbourne City’s goal-scoring hero, in their 1-0 A-League Men’s grand final triumph over cross-city rivals Melbourne Victory last Saturday night.

In front of 29,902 fans at AAMI Park – a record crowd for that venue for a match in any sport – the 28-year-old attacking winger scored what turned out to be the match-winner, in the 10th minute of the physical, and at times heated, contest.

Positioning himself perfectly, Cohen latched onto a shot by teammate Max Caputo that had struck the crossbar, and calmly seized the moment by slotting the ball diagonally along the ground into the left corner of the goal.

He almost scored twice in the second half – through a powerful curling strike that was brilliantly saved, and a header that missed its mark – and showcased his renowned creativity in the 74th minute, with a precision centring lob to Germán Ferreyra, whose header was a fraction too high.

Melbourne Victory threw everything into their attack in the closing stages – including seven tension-filled minutes of added time – but City’s commitment and resilience in defence answered each raid.

For Cohen – a former star player for Maccabi Tel Aviv who arrived in Australia last September on a one-year contract with Melbourne City – scoring the winning goal in the A-League decider was a dream come true, but one he knew he was capable of.




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